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Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you have been able to enjoy our SABBATH Week and have managed to fit in time to do something together as a family without the pressure of homework.
Athletics and Swimming Carnival
A huge thank you to Mr Mitchell and Mrs Stumbles for organising our first two major carnivals over the last few weeks. We send a message of thanks and gratitude to all our volunteers who helped on the day. As well as being successful sporting events for the students they were fabulous community events.
We look forward to seeing you at the Cross Country to be held on the 23 April, the first Friday of Term 2. Please refer to the note sent out this week for details.
Harmony Week at SHPS
This week of celebrating diversity has been very busy. Thank you to all those families who were able to dress their children to celebrate their cultural background or found something orange to support Harmony in the world. Our thanks to Mrs Wode for organising this event.
St Patrick and St Joseph
We also recognised the Feasts of St Patrick and St Joseph this week. We saw a great deal of green on Wednesday as we celebrated the Patron Saint of Ireland. On Friday we will celebrate St Joseph as we join the Church in honoring the year of St Joseph. Father Richard has placed a beautiful banner in the Church depicting one the icons.
Pupil Free Day
Monday 19th April will be a pupil free day for all school in the Archdiocese of Canberra Goulburn as part of the CATALYST program. This is to give staff time to be engaged in professional learning to implement system wide approaches for improving outcomes for students in literacy and numeracy across all schools. This professional learning will continue the journey we began in January during stand down time.
Please remember SCHOOL PHOTOS Tuesday 20th April.
CLOSE the GAP Day 18 March
Australia's peak Indigenous and non-Indigenous health bodies, NGOs and human rights organisations are working together to achieve equality in health and life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Close the Gap Campaign aims to close the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation. The campaign is built on evidence that shows significant improvements in the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can be achieved by 2030.
A day to become aware of what is being done and a time to show support for this important campaign.
Take care and God bless,
