Dear Parents and Carers

Last Wednesday's Primary Christmas Concert was amazing as always! The students were awesome! Thank you to the Christmas Concert Staff Team, Mr Leeder and all our amazing staff for their efforts in preparing the students. I was very humbled and appreciative of the special blessing song sung to me by all the students and staff at the end of the concert too. Very special!

On Wednesday we celebrated our Thanksgiving Mass with Fr Mark. During the Mass we thanked God for all our blessings this year at Salvado Catholic College. Thank you Mrs Munro for coordinating the Mass and to all the staff and students who were involved, as well as Mr Loh, Mr Leeder and Mario and Molly Leeder for the music. Congratulations to our 2023 House Captains that were announced at the end of Mass. They will be presented with their badges at the Opening College Mass at the beginning of next year.

This week we also had our Secondary Presentation evening and Primary Presentation afternoon. Congratulations to all our Award winners from Kindergarten to Year 8. You should be very proud of your efforts. Please refer to the section below for Award Recipients across the College for 2022.

Thank you to everyone who has been a part of Salvado Catholic College this year. Thank you to the parents and carers that have helped out in different ways. It is very much appreciated! We continue to strive to work together at Salvado Catholic College to promote our home/College partnership. As I once again mentioned in my Principal Addresses at the end of this year “It takes a village to raise a child”. I continue to encourage all our parents and carers to get involved around the College so that the community that we established back in 2016, continues to grow positively and together.

To all our students, thank you for your efforts and sharing your talents with us this year at the College. It has been wonderful to see you grow as individuals on your Learning Journey as the year has progressed. I encourage all students to grab a hold of the opportunities that the new year will bring! We congratulate and wish all our Year 6 students all the best as they commence their Secondary journey in 2023. I look forward to visiting the College in the future and seeing our students continuing to strive for excellence, and being confident, creative and successful learners.

We continue to be blessed to have such a committed and hard working staff at Salvado Catholic College. I sincerely thank once again all our Teachers, Education Assistants, Support Staff, Administration Staff and Leadership Team for all that you have done to contribute to the College and the students entrusted in our care. The success of Salvado Catholic College has a lot to do with the team that is the Staff of Salvado Catholic College. I continue to pray for all the amazing people that make up the team and am confident the campfire will continue to burn and keep you all warm together.

We wish our students and families leaving us at the end of this year all the best for the future and thank you for being a part of the SCC community. We also wish the staff leaving us all the best – Marissa Munro, Renae Lanternier, Juvy Arteta, Emma Ford, Alison Honter, Monique Munro, Katelyn McKay-Otway and Tamara Ellenbroek. I thank Marissa, Renae Juvy, Emma, Alison, Monique, Katelyn and Tamara for their contribution to Salvado Catholic College over their time with us and wish them all the best as they embark on new adventures and leave Salvado Catholic College at the end of the year.

I would like to make special mention of Mrs Marissa Munro who has journeyed with me as a Foundation Staff member. I would like to thank her one last time for simply being amazing! The whole community of Salvado Catholic College is very appreciative of all that you have done for the students, families and staff. You are an exceptional leader and I have been very honoured to lead the community of SCC with you.

In the new year, the College welcomes a number of new students, families and staff to the College as Salvado Catholic College will have over 700 students from Pre-Kindergarten to Year 9. The updated Staff List for 2023 can be found in the Staffing section of this final eNewsletter.

As I reflect on the last 8 years and the journey we have been on together, I stop and reflect on all that WE have accomplished. I think of Archbishop Oscar Romero's Prayer: A Step Along the Way – A Future Not Our Own.

I shared this prayer in 2016 with our Foundation Staff, and have shared it through the years as a reminder of what it is all about, and how I personally feel today.

A Step Along The Way - A Future Not Our Own

It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.

The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.

We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction

of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.

Nothing we do is complete,

which is a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.

No statement says all that could be said.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness.

No program accomplishes the Church's mission.

No set of goals and objectives includes everything.

This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow.

We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.

We lay foundations that will need further development.

We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realising that.

This enables us to do something, and to do it very well.

It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way,

an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference

between the master builder and the worker.

We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.

We are prophets of a future not our own.

Thank you sincerely for the best wishes from so many of our students and families over the last few weeks. I will also cherish my jar of comments that I received. I will enjoy getting through the 630 messages from our SCC students.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me on this journey. I have loved the opportunity and the experience has been immensely rewarding. I feel very blessed, privileged and humbled to have been chosen as the Foundation Principal of Salvado Catholic College and look forward to hearing about the successes of all the students and staff for many years to come. For all of you who have journeyed with me, you all know that we have always strived to make Salvado Catholic College a special place to come and work, play and pray! I will say it one last time, everything we have ever done, has always been for our students. Salvado Catholic College will forever hold a special place in my heart. I will always be a Foundation Salvado Staff member. My journey now continues, serving in another Catholic school community.

Peace & Happy Days Always!

Santino Giancono

Principal

Salvado Catholic College wish to acknowledge the Whadjuk people,

the Traditional Owners who have walked upon and cared for this land

for thousands of years.

We acknowledge the continued deep spiritual attachment and relationship

of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to this country and commit ourselves to the ongoing journey of Reconciliation.