Friday 3^rd September. Wear your favourite jersey or sporting clothes, have some fun and start a conversation about organ donation.

Jersey Day was inspired by the gift of life that Nathan Gremmo gave to six people when he became an organ donor at age 13. Has your family considered registering for organ donation? If you visit their website you can register to Donate Life and you can win money for a nominated charity or sporting club with their trickshot competition. https://www.jerseyday.com.au/

Thursday 9th September is ‘R U Ok? Day’. Wear yellow or a bright colour to our MS TEAMS meeting.

It is a great reminder to check in with family or school friends whom you have not caught up with since going into lockdown. Teachers are planning a little something with classes that that day. Learn more about the initiative at https://www.ruok.org.au/

Keeping Morale High

Staff team A left this welcome for Staff Team B. A very nice thought. Staff Team B are now getting creative in return. Stay tuned!

We would love to hear about what you are doing to support your household, family and friends during this time.

Please email through a short comment or photo for next week’s newsletter.

We have a wonderful community. Please reach out if our school and community can support your family.

In praise of fathers: the place of the modern dad

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Counselling is still available through CE during lockdown. 

CECG’s school counselling service providers have adapted their delivery to be available via Zoom and Microsoft Teams. This is an important resource that is available, not only for students, but also for parents and caregivers during remote learning and lockdown. The counselling service has undertaken a more proactive wellbeing case management approach to include wellbeing check-ins. Due to this change in approach and the move to a telehealth platform, a new Informed Consent will be required. All CECG school counsellors are now using updated forms for this purpose.

For further information, please refer to the following flyers, or contact the school office.

Counselling_and_Informed_Consent_Flyer_FF.pdf

Learning_from_Home_Info_Sheet_V3.pdf

Looking_After_Your_Mental_Health_During_Lockdown_FF2.pdf

Free Online Seminar 7.00-8.30pm Friday 3^rd Sept

Hosted by the Archdiocesan Women’s Taskforce. 

The Archdiocesan Women’s Taskforce invites all to a free, online, interactive seminar entitled Mary Magdalene, Fake News and the Gospel. Dr Margaret Beirne RSC, a religious sister and Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies (St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College, Sydney) will draw on her doctoral thesis Women and Men in the Fourth Gospel, a Genuine Discipleship of Equals to reflect on the important and much misrepresented role of Mary Magdalene, ‘apostle to the apostles’ in the early church.

All welcome. Registrations essential. Numbers limited.

Register at bit.ly/ZoomWorkshopMaryM or phone Beth Doherty on 0432 608 310 More info at bit.ly/FakeNewsSeminar

Swimming

Details for the Term 4, K-2 Swimming Lessons and how to register will come out shortly. Please keep watch on SZapp and in the Newsletter.

 

COMPASS is coming soon. Login credentials and details of how to use COMPASS will be communicated to all families shortly. COMPASS will replace SZapp for most of our communication.

Students Not Returning in 2022

To help in preparing for classes for 2022, we kindly ask that if your child/children will not be returning in 2022, to please fill out and return the attached form as soon as possible.