Term 2 Week 2

Dear Families,

Welcome to our New Newsletter!

Welcome to our new format for the newsletter. Some of you may be reading this online, some on your phones at work whether that be behind a desk or Seeder, some of you reading the good old-fashioned hard copy. The important thing is though…that you are reading it!

Our new format of newsletter will capture highlights from each of the classrooms, and the various areas in our school. It will have many voices and articles appear, including by the middle of this term an article from our leaders.

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Hello! And welcome back to school. We have had a busy start to the term with preparations being made for our Mother’s Day liturgy being held tomorrow at 1:45pm and our first whole school Mass next Thursday May 13 at 9:15am. Looking back at this time last year when we were not able to have whole school masses or parents on site, we are so fortunate to be back holding these beautiful services for our school community. We look forward to seeing as many mothers, grandmothers, aunties and other family members at our liturgy tomorrow which will be followed by an afternoon tea and an opportunity to have a look at your child’s/ren’s classroom.

Next Thursday’s Mass we will be honouring Mary, Mother of Jesus, in this month of May which is traditionally dedicated to her. Mass will start at 9:15am and you are all most welcome to join us for this special celebration.

Finally, our Project Compassion campaign is officially over, and we raised a total of $398! Whilst not hitting our target of $500, this is a huge increase from last years $101!!! So, thank you so very much to everyone that helped to raise money for such a worthy cause.

God Bless,

Miriam

This week we are celebrating Catholic Education Week. The Junior Primary Unit have been involved with different activities all week to celebrate the theme of 'Raising Hearts and Minds to the wonder and awe of God's creation'. They have enjoyed writing gratitude prayers, making bookmarks to share within the community, planting seeds in our school garden and participating in our liturgy. 

Our children represented SCMS beautifully at the Yorketown ANZAC Dawn Service on Sunday morning

This is part of the poem they read:

A TRIBUTE TO ANZAC DAY

Last week on the 28th of April a group of Year 4-7 students represented SCMS with pride at the Interschool Cross Country Event

Little Collie's celebrated their second birthday last week with cupcakes and crafts!

St Columba's proudly presents - OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHTS 

Activities for toddlers and babies from Adrosssan down.