Dear Parents and Carers,

“Living in community means living in such a way that others can access me and influence my life. It means that I can get “out of myself” and serve the lives of others. Community is a world where kinship with each other is possible. By community I don’t mean primarily a special kind of structure, but a network of relationships. Sadly, on the whole, we live in a society that’s built on competition, not on community and cooperation.”

Richard Rohr

Each term, Sts Peter and Paul focus on two values, which help us give shape to our year long theme. Our 2022 theme is, ‘Let Your Light Shine’. Our value for the beginning of this term is ‘Kindness’. I have included the quote above from Richard Rohr because kindness does not take place, or exist, unless or until it is enacted between two people. It takes place in a relationship. It makes no sense to try to understand kindness, outside of seeing it lived. Rohr’s quote above, while not directly addressing the importance of kindness, makes space for our understanding of kindness, by highlighting the importance of community. Rohr’s quote includes the powerful sentence, highlighted, where he talks of community making possible kinship. Kinship implies a mutual recognition of our shared humanity.

Yesterday, I sent a letter detailing the COVID arrangements that are in place for Term 3. This letter was sent to flesh out some of the implications of the letter from CE that was sent on Tuesday. I won’t rehearse the letter in its entirety, but below are the main action items, for parents:

• Please ensure your children are tested for COVID if they are displaying any symptoms.
• Please understand that the school is required to call parents to collect their child or children if a child is exhibiting COVID-like symptoms.
• If a member of your household contracts COVID, please ensure your children have 48-hour tests, until the quarantine period passes.
• Please be mindful of the need to limit being on school grounds, particularly inside the school building.
• The advice last term was that parent attendance at outdoor, morning assemblies was ok. This is no longer the case.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Sacrament of First Eucharist

Many of our students in Year 4 are making their First Eucharist this term. If you are a parent of a child who is making his or her First Communion, there is an Information Night next Tuesday night at 6pm. The meeting is streamed via Teams and is being broadcast from the Holy Trinity meeting room (students from Holy Trinity will also be making their First Eucharist this semester). All parents of students intending to make their First Eucharist are invited to attend. My thanks to Stephanie Burns, our wonderful Religious Education Coordinator; to our 3 excellent 3/4 teachers, Sarah Walsh, Josh Gereis and Paul Jenkins; and to Monsignor John Woods, for his excellent support and commitment.

Year 6 Leadership Day

Fortunately for us, our Year 6 students can complete their Term 3 Leadership Day at BFirm next Friday. The day falls inside the two-week period of grace, that CE has given all schools, in terms of honouring any Term 3 commitments to excursions and the like. The days are important ones for the students and give them an opportunity to explore life skills such as resilience, community, collaboration, and commitment. As well, they are a great deal of fun. My thanks to Luke Gubler and Sarah Kennelly for their hard work and commitment.

Visioning Garran

Last Monday, the pupil free day, was a PD Day for the staff. We spent a large part of the day thinking about, talking about, and committing to paper, some thoughts around Sts Peter and Paul, and its ongoing mission for the next 10 years. I would like to see the school community commit to writing a statement that articulates the school’s moral purpose, and how it goes about living its purpose. These two statements will go a long way to anchoring our pedagogical, pastoral, and curriculum standpoints, for the next 10 years. Sts Peter and Paul is now 54 years old, and it already has an extraordinary legacy. It is time for a mid-life reset, as it were, and the pressures of the last 2 or 3 years have intensified, if anything, that need. The staff had the first of several reflective and inspiring conversations. I would like, as well, to bring in other voices: the parents, the parish, and critically, the students. In the coming weeks, all parents will receive a survey via Compass. I encourage you to lend your thoughts around the questions that the survey will contain. One question that I will ask is, ‘What would you like Sts Peter and Paul to be known for?’ Your input is very important.

Have a wonderful week with your families.

Best wishes

Cameron Johns

Principal

This year at Sts Peter and Paul, we are all called to ‘Let Your Light Shine”

 The Value we ae focusing on at the moment is Kindness.

Sacrament of First Eucharist

Who is eligible?

Children in Year 4 or above who celebrated their First Reconciliation may be enrolled in the Parish’s Family-Based Sacramental Program for First Eucharist. 

The enrolment form and associated fee must be received ASAP. Enrolment can be done online using Qkr! App

To enrol online:

Access or download the Qkr! app. 

Tap on ‘North Woden Transfiguration Parish’

Tap Sacrament of First Eucharist (second option)

Complete the form and make your online payment.

The requested offering per family is $40. This helps to defray the cost of a workbook, commemorative certificate, memorial gift and administrative costs.  If you have difficulty meeting the offering, please contact Fr John for a confidential discussion.

Hosting a Family Group

The program is dependent on the generosity of some parents to host or to co-host a family group. A ‘Host Nomination’ form is enclosed for your consideration. The role of a host is not difficult, with session notes provided.  N.B. Hosts will be required to attend an Information Session via Zoom 5.30pm, Tuesday, 26 July followed by the Parent Information Night via Zoom at 6.00pm.

All hosts must have, or have applied for, a Working with Vulnerable People (WWVP) card.  There is no cost involved in applying for a WWVP card for volunteers.  Further information as to how to apply for a WWVP card is found on the ‘Host Nomination’ form. 

What does the program involve?

The program includes:

• An Information Night for hosts of a family group via Zoom at 5.30pm, Tuesday, 26 July. Here is the Link to Tuesday’s meeting:
• An Introductory Night for parents to receive an overview of the family sessions via Zoom at 6.00pm, Tuesday, 26 July.
• Four family group meetings for parents and children following the Introduction Night.
• Presentation Mass. Each family to attend one of the following:  Saturday 27 August 6pm or Sunday 28 August 9.30am at Holy Trinity Church, Curtin.
• A children’s retreat/prayer session and practice. Further information will be provided at the Parent Introductory Night, Tuesday 26 July 6pm.

At the Introductory Night, you will receive notification of meeting options for home groups and you will be asked to nominate your preference.

Here is the link for Tuesday’s meeting:

https://cgcatholic.zoom.us/j/63391410815 

Celebration of First Eucharist

You will need to nominate a weekend Mass (Sat. 6pm, Sun. 9.30am or Sun. 5.30pm) on the weekend of 17-18 September for the celebration.  There will be a limited number of seats available for candidates, their families and guests, mindful of the need to accommodate other parishioners at each of these Masses.  This will be further explained at the Parent Introductory Night.

What next?

If you would like your child to celebrate First Eucharist this year, you must register via the Qkr! App ASAP.  Meanwhile, enquiries can be directed to the Parish Office (6281 3999 / wodennorth@cg.org.au ).

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C

In today’s gospel, Jesus provides his disciples, and all Christians, with a model for prayer. In keeping with this modelling by Jesus, it is significant that the Lord’s Prayer, or Our Father, is the common prayer of all Christians, regardless of denomination. The parable and teaching that follow the Lord’s Prayer make clear the particular purpose of prayer that Jesus was highlighting – prayer as petition. In this instance, Jesus assures us that if we pray for what we need with conviction and confidence, then God cannot fail to respond to our prayer. Jesus in fact encourages us to be demanding and persistent in our prayer. However, the parable used to demonstrate the persistent nature of prayer is not focused on demands for selfish purposes, but rather the neighbour needs assistance in fulfilling his obligations of hospitality to a traveller. He is not waking his neighbour in the middle of the night to ask for bread for himself; he asks for bread to give to his guest. He asks for help to fulfil his duty and responsibility. This gives us something of an idea about how we might focus our prayer. Praying for a pony or new bike isn’t quite in the same league! The final element of the gospel passage provides us with a description of God’s love and care by something of a negative comparison: if human parents would not do harm instead of good to their children, God is even less likely to act like this towards us. It’s a bit of an odd way around of saying that God’s love is greater than anything within our experience or imagination. (Reflection by Greg Sunter)

Have a blessed week,

Stephanie Burns

Religious Education Coordinator

Principal's Awards: Ayla B 3/4W

Learning Support Awards: (please note that LS awards are given to any child in the school that the Classroom Support Assistants have noticed doing something wonderful): 

Liam T, KW; Daniel B, 5M

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

to those students who are celebrating their birthday this week

Claire de V

Aaria G

Amelia J

Riyan G

Welcome back to Term 3! We have a very fun and exciting term coming up in the Library. 

Library Lessons for Term 3 & 4 have changed! Please remember Library Bags!

Term 3 Library dates to remember:

Get excited for Book Week in Week 6. Stay tuned for more details soon!

Book Club Orders close Monday 1st August. It will then take up to two weeks for the books to arrive at school and be handed out. 

All orders are placed online via the LOOP app- please note we do not accept cash or orders at school as all orders are placed online. Click here to access an online version: https://www.scholastic.com.au/book-club/book-club-parents/ 

Apologies to Year 1 Parents- Scholastic did not send the Book Club catalogues for the classes- so please look at the brochure online. 

Please contact amanda.basedow@cg.catholic.edu.au if you have any questions regarding the Library or borrowing.

Keep reading! Mrs Basedow

Hello and welcome back to another fun filled term in the kitchen and garden.

We have started the term with Year 3/4 cooking in the kitchen, and also learning about sustainability once every three weeks. 

This week was special in the kitchen as it is NAIDOC week so the Year 3/4 students learnt how to cook damper with Indigenous spices and herbs. It looked very yummy. The students were also reminded of kitchen behaviour and started learning many of the skills which can’t be taught so easily in the classroom.

In the garden this week, we welcomed an Indigenous plant called a Finger Lime. These plants are not frost tolerant so it will be placed in a pot and become our first pot plant under our kitchen garden sheltered eating area. We can enjoy it while we sit on our cushions and eat the delicious food we make.

We have lots of projects planned for this term so keep watching this space.....…

If you would like any more information about the Kitchen Garden Program please email Mrs Katie Birch Katherine.birch@cg.catholic.edu.au.

The Garden Club

THE CANTEEN IS CASHLESS

Families are required to make all canteen payments via Qkr!

There will be no over-the-counter sales at lunch time at this stage.

All over-the-counter sale items (snacks & treats) must be ordered in your child’s lunch order via Qkr! which will be delivered to them at lunch time.

CANTEEN VOLUNTEER ROSTER

Please contact me if you are unable to help out on your day.

 Are you able to help out in the canteen in TERM 3?

If you have any spare time and would like to help out in the canteen, PLEASE feel free to contact me through email at lauretta.raccosta@cg.catholic.edu.au

Term 3 canteen roster available now

Click on the link below to add your selected time to the roster.

https://stpandp.schoolzineplus.com/Canteenrosterterm3

All volunteers must have a WWVP card.

Lauretta Raccosta,

Canteen

Lauretta.Raccosta@cg.catholic.au

8.30 – 9.30AM

 The Uniform Shop is a service for the parents and children.  

We sell New & Quality Second-hand school clothing, and all money raised goes back to the school to provide resources for the children.

The School Uniform is available via Qkr!
Tuesdays - Fridays, orders will be delivered to your child’s classroom.

Orders need to be placed before 8.45 am. 

The Uniform shop is stocked up with second hand uniform, please visit on a Tuesday morning to purchase second hand uniform.

The uniform shop is limited with space, so if you wish to donate pre-loved items, PLEASE ONLY DONATE CLOTHES

that are washed and in perfect resalable order.

Please DO NOT DONATE old white sports tops.  Thank you

Please visit the school's website for the Winter Uniform price list.

Lauretta Raccosta

Uniform Shop

Lauretta.raccosta@cg.catholic.edu.au