Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Term 3. Congratulations to staff and students on a successful start to the term. We wish Mrs Staines and Mr French a rest, as they take leave during Term 3. A number of existing staff members have varied their teaching roles this term. We welcome Mrs Shelley Salkze, Miss Rachel Pearson and Mrs Michelle Mangeruca to our staff. I have updated the staff list on the website. Please visit it to confirm staff changes. 

At mass last weekend, I am a member of Corpus Christi Parish, Fr James welcomed us saying “You are here to be strengthened for the next week – your weekly top up!” As I listened to the familiar gospel about Mary and Martha, the message that Mary took the best part by making time to feed her soul really settled with me. What was I going to do in the next week to feed my soul or to be where I was needed the most, rather than being caught up doing the busy stuff? A great focus for the start of term. I hope you have been able to support yourself or someone important to you this week by taking real time with them.

I visited each of the rooms this week to talk to the children about what they are looking forward to during Term 3. Along with some exciting learning inquiries, including poetry and energy, there are a number of special events we are all looking forward to. We ask families to add these dates to your calendar, keep an eye out for details closer to the date, and to join in the fun and celebrations during the term.

Many of these events have ways for families to contribute to or help to run. See our newsletters, notes and push notices via the website, szapp notices and email for all the details. All dates can be found on the school calendar. I’ve asked teachers to read the newsletter to students each Friday, so the students celebrate all that is happening too.

• Sport gala days - Yrs 3-6
• Kinder 100 days celebration
• School Survey to complete – a link will be emailed shortly
• Community Council Open Meeting 6.30pm Tuesday 30th July
• Working Bee – coming soon!
• Tournament of the Minds - Team from Yr 5-6. We represented ACT in Darwin last year. Can we win our way to Hobart this year?
• Book Week Display Week 5 - Westfield Woden, Centre Court, Monday 19th August - Sunday 25th of August.
• Book Week Character Parade Friday 23rd August.
• Be You Open Meeting – Wed 21^st More details next week
• Science, literacy and numeracy weeks activities – classroom activities
• Disco – Thursday 15th August 
• Father’s Day breakfast, Mass, Learning Journeys and Activity – Fri 30th August
• Camp Birrigai - Yrs 3-4
• FETE – Saturday 21st September 11am-3pm. See the Fete List Countdown to do list and the weekly newsletters. It takes a village to run a fete!
• Swimming Program Yrs K-2 – Week 10

It is going to be a fabulous, but busy term. Use the SZapp app, email and website to stay fully informed. Please remember that most of our communications can be translated using Google Translate to support numerous languages. The Be You Action Team have added a new section to the For Parents Tab on the website called ‘What to do if….?’ This contains a number of flowcharts for addressing needs parents may have. Please let us know how helpful this is.

I look forward to supporting you as your Acting Principal for the term.

Yours Faithfully,