Dear Parents and Carers

Sports News

Last Wednesday the PSSA Cross Country Carnival was held. We had a number of children attend and many of them progressed to the next round and did particularly well. Congratulations to Alice A, Josie A, Noah G, Ciara G, Xavier H, Anna S, Ben S, Hamish S, Kiera S, Ava T, Zoe T and Isabel W for progressing to the A.C.T. Championships. I thank all students for their participation and efforts. Last Friday we held our annual Athletics Carnival at Woden Park. My thanks to Mary de Smet for organising an excellent carnival and to the many parents who volunteered and assisted on the day. It was an excellent day and all children participated very well, showed very good sportsperson ship and clearly enjoyed themselves. In Futsal news, a team of our Year 6 boys, Tareq, Nick, Marly, Michael, Ben, Oscar, Henry and Noah, participated in the A.C.T. Championships on Monday and won every game, scoring an amazing 78 goals. The boys had only one goal scored against them. After this extraordinary effort, the boys will travel to Brisbane to participate in the National Championships. My thanks to the parents for their great support and to Mohammed for coaching the boys. Finally, in an individual effort, Ewan in Year 6, has been chosen to represent the ACT to play tennis in the Australian Teams Championships, which is being held on the Gold Coast. Well done Ewan, this is a great achievement. I am very proud of all of our students and their efforts.

We have also heard that a former student, Habibat Ogunbanwo, is a qualifier in swimming for this year's Olympics. She will be swimming for her home country, Nigeria. What an amazing acheivement.

Confirmation

Last weekend, students in Year 6 who are making their Confirmation participated in one of the Presentation Masses on Saturday night or Sunday morning. My thanks to Fron Garrett-Rumba, Paul Jenkins and Sarah Kennelly for their work with the students, and of course to Fr John Woods and the parish team for their support. Our Confirmation candidates receive the Sacrament next week, on either Tuesday or Wednesday evening. My thanks to all parents for their support. The Presentation Masses followed on from the Confirmation Retreat Day, which was held last Thursday, in partnership with students and staff from Holy Trinity School. Again, my thanks to our excellent teachers for their work for the students.

Parent-Teacher Conference

A reminder that parent/teacher conferences are being held next week, over Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with Thursday being the evening conferences. Please book in a time to see your child’s teacher. The conferences are particularly important this year, as the reports will not have comments on them, due to technical issues with the new reporting format. Reports will go home, via the new platform Compass, on Wednesday of Week 10 (June 23^rd). Bookings for the conferences can be made via Compass.

School Photos

School photo day is Friday, 18^th June.  Photo order forms for online ordering were distributed to the students yesterday.  These forms do not need to be handed back.  The forms are pre-named and issued with a shoot key for each individual student which will match up with their online order.

Family/Sibling Order Forms are available for collection from the front office.  A discount applies for families with 3 or more children, after purchasing individual packs for EACH child a siblings presentation pack of your choice will be free.

All students are to wear their full school uniform, with jumpers, as class photos will be taken outdoors this year (weather permitting). Individual class photos will be taken indoors. 

Have a wonderful week with your families.

Best wishes

Cameron Johns

Principal