Principal News

Next week all students will enjoy a four day weekend. 

Friday June 5 is a staff development day (students do  not attend school) with a public holiday on Monday June 8 (King’s Birthday). Traditionally, the staff development day on June 5 is an opportunity for staff to reflect on faith formation and spirituality. The professional learning offered is accredited as part of the Diocesan accreditation to work, teach or lead in a Catholic school.

Full of Grace-Transformed by God’s Love

This year the professional learning and reflection offered to Marian staff is being provided by Marist Australia. The program explores the annual theme for Marist schools-Full of Grace. The program provided to our whole staff team on Friday June 5 will be led by Brother Tony Clarke and David Bobowski from Marist Schools Australia. 

Full of Grace reminds us of the need to be attentive of the presence of God’s love around us and the invitation to open our hearts and minds to the gift of Grace, with its blessings of compassion, hope and care, using these qualities to transform our own lives and to support those around us.

Our Marian heritage reminds us of the importance of actively developing Marist qualities and values of presence, simplicity, family, love of work and the way of Mary.

National Sorry Day and Reconciliation Week

National Sorry Day May 26: This day is to acknowledge the loss, grief and suffering

 experienced by the Stolen Generations. It is set on this date as it marks the 1997 presentation in parliament of the Bringing them home report. 

Reconciliation Week May 27-June 3rd: The purpose of this week is to commemorate important dates and events in the history of Australia for all Australians and most profoundly for all First Nations peoples in Australia. 

Dr Sandra Harvey (CEDWW Executive Director) has written that in line with the theme of “All in”, we are reminded that:

At the heart of Reconciliation Week is the Christian Belief expressed in Galatians 3:28: we are all one in Jesus Christ. This reminds us that every person is created with equal dignity and worth.

In this busy and everchanging world, may this upcoming mid term break for our students and families provide a period of grace, respite and reflection where we can experience simple moments of presence and joy in our relationships, in nature and through our hobbies. As Dr Harvey has recommended:

Give us the grace to be “All In”

Make our hearts sincere, our words gentle and our actions faithful: so that with your Son Jesus Christ, we may become a sign of unity and an instrument of your peace.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen