Dear Families,

It is hard to believe that it is the second last week of term already. It has been a very busy first term and I’m sure everyone is beginning to feel a little weary. We have had two very interrupted years where our children have not been able to do all of their usual activities, so 2022 feels as though it has been jam-packed already with most things going back to something resembling “normal”.

Last week we had our Year 3 and Year 5 students participate in a NAPLAN practice test. This was run nationally to test the capacity of the system to have everyone logging on all at once moving from paper-based tests to an online forum.

This week, we are looking forward to filming our promotional video. We are also looking forward to District Athletics at the Yinnar Football Ground. Parents are welcome to attend.

We also have a number of children making the sacrament of Reconciliation this week, so we keep those people in our prayers that they may grow further in faith and in their relationship with God.

Thank you to everyone who made a donation to the Easter Raffle last Friday. It’s not too late if you forgot to bring in your donation, it can be brought in in the next day or two. We thank the parents and friends group for organising this, the volume of chocolate that came in is sure to make some wonderful prizes.

The Victorian Government have extended the Rapid Antigen Testing program until the end of the term, so more of these will come home this week which will be enough to test twice weekly for the remainder of Term 1 and prior to coming back to school if required. Thank you to everyone who has continued to do this, we have been very lucky with relatively low numbers of Covid cases so far.

We also thank all of the children who have been donating to the Project Compassion boxes in their classrooms. It is lovely to see children choosing to put money into the box to help others, I will be donating my weekly coffee money into our staffroom box also. We will be collecting until the end of term. Social Justice is an important part of our Catholic Identity, in particular during Lent when we explore things like “The Common Good”, “Caring for the Poor and Vulnerable” and “Solidarity”.

Just a reminder that Term 2 begins on Tuesday 26^th April after ANZAC Day on the 25^th.

Enjoy the rest of the week,

Sally