Dear Parents and Carers

School Musical

The many weeks and months of preparation and practice are coming to fruition this week, as our wonderful Years 5 & 6 students are performing our excellent 2025 production, Dare to Dream’. We had the first of our daytime matinee performances today, with our students performing in front of the whole school and in front of a large cohort of parents and grandparents. It was a wonderful performance and the range of abilities of the students is remarkable. Our second matinee is tomorrow, with our evening performances on Thursday and Friday nights. My thanks to our wonderful students for their hard work and dedication, and the equally talented hard-working staff, especially our Years 5 & 6 teachers, with Talia Wagner and Fron Garrett-Rumba also providing particular assistance. Tickets are still available via these links:

Matinee show tickets: https://compasstix.com/e/e3kc5slkf4

Evening show tickets: https://compasstix.com/e/ttadoevxdq

Limited snacks will be available for sale, for $2, at the night performances.

Friendship Four and Class Lists – 2026

Sts Peter and Paul have been preparing for some time for next year. Among the needs that need to be met are class arrangements for 2026. Last Friday, a Google form was emailed to parents, asking them to name four friends that their son or daughter would like to have in his or her class, in 2026. The school can guarantee at least one of the four friends listed. Please have the form returned by Wednesday, November 19^th.  In addition, if any parents have concerns over peer relationships, involving their child or children, please email me directly with your requests. In order to adequately prepare the class lists, I ask that all parents email me by Friday Week 5, which is Friday, November 14^th. Thank you for your support.

Kindergarten 2026: Information Night and Orientation Days

A reminder for all parents that the Information Night for 2026 Kindergarten students is taking place next Monday evening, November 10^th, at 6pm. The first of two orientation days is also taking place that day, from 9.30am – 12pm. The second Orientation Day for 2026 Kindergarten students is taking place on Tuesday October 18^th, from 9.30am – 12pm.

Remembrance Day Liturgy

Next Tuesday, the 11^th of November, is Remembrance Day. As we do each year, Sts Peter and Paul is holding a prayer liturgy on Tuesday, at 10.40am. Parents are warmly invited to attend, if they are able to do so. The liturgy is being led by our Youth Ministry Team, which is made up of students from Years 5 and 6. My thanks to our wonderful students, and to Julia Norgrove, our Youth Minister, and to Andrea McQuirk, our Religious Education Coordinator.

House Cup

Starting in a couple of weeks, on a Friday at lunch and recess, we are holding the annual House Cup competition, which runs every Friday until the end of the term. It sees the four houses compete in a variety of competitions, for example, Egg and Spoon Races. The House who has compiled the greatest number of points by the end of the term earns the right to hold the House Cup trophy aloft and have their House name inscribed as 2025 champions. It is a lot of fun and a good way to end the term and year. My thanks to Luke Gubler for coordinating the competition.

Have a wonderful week with your families.

Best wishes

Cameron Johns

Principal

Please see the flyer below about the upcoming Parish Mass celebration on 23rd November at 5:30pm.

This is a wonderful time to gather as a school and parish community to celebrate our faith and connect as a shared community. As there are no combined events in Term 4, this will be our chance to come together as a parish and reconnect, share a meal, and celebrate the spirit of our community. We hope to see you there! 

This year, our school is supporting the St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal by collecting new, unwrapped gifts to help families in need experience the joy of Christmas. Many families in our community are doing it tough, and your generosity can help make a real difference. When purchasing gifts, please consider a range of age groups (0–3 years, 4–8 years, 9–13 years, and 14–17 years) to ensure all children have something special under the tree. Your thoughtful donations will bring hope and joy to families who might otherwise go without this Christmas. Thank you for your kindness and support.

Class Masses

Class Masses and Liturgies schedule Term 4: 

Kindergarten will be participating in a retreat run by our Year 6 Youth Ministry team in place of a liturgy this term.  It is a great opportunity to connect with the faith through peer ministry in a less formal setting.

The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica -Jesus Clears the Temple Courts  John 2:13-22 

A community discerning the building of a new parish church or chapel might first consider the choice of site, asking where we will build. Perhaps it’s helpful to ask whether the new church will be built on earth or in heaven? The question is a surprise, but a church in the Catholic tradition is understood to be a foyer or narthex of heaven. Of course, a church building is not completely in heaven, but neither is it simply another earthly shrine. 

Today’s feast of the Cathedral for the diocese of Rome blends the boundaries between earthly church buildings and the Church as the body of Christ: We are God’s building and Jesus is our foundation. We are, each of us individually and all of us together, temples of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, when we enter a church building we are no longer simply on earth, but we are touching and tasting the heavenly realities and our eternal future. From the Collect for today’s feast we pray: O God, who from living and chosen stones prepare an eternal dwelling for your majesty,  increase in your Church the spirit of grace you have bestowed, so that by new growth your faithful people may build up the heavenly Jerusalem. Amen  

From God’s Word, Daily Reflections, 2025

Yours in Christ, 

Andrea McQuirk 

Religious Education Coordinator

School-Wide Positive Behaviour (SWPB)

At Saints Peter and Paul our students are supported by a School- Wide Positive Behaviour framework that was developed by our school community to develop a positive, safe, and supportive learning culture.

The framework improves the social, emotional, behavioural and academic outcomes for our students. 

Our three expectations, Succeeding Together Safely underpin everything we do here at Sts Peter and Paul Primary School.

Our goal for Weeks 3 and 4 is

Learning and Doing Your Best

Finish What You Start: Make sure you complete your work and do your best.

Microskill- “It’s okay if you don’t get everything right. What matters is that you did your best and tried hard.”

School Engagement Survey

Have your say! The new annual School Engagement Survey is launching mid-November, and you will have the opportunity to reflect on your experiences at the school as a parent or guardian and provide feedback.

Your feedback will be valuable to help us understand how to better support your child and improve our school.

The new survey has been developed with the support of JWS Research. It will take around 10-15 minutes to complete, and your responses will be kept completely confidential and only reported at an aggregate level.

You can expect the 2025 School Engagement Survey to be distributed through Compass as a News Item and push notification in the coming days! If you have any issues accessing the survey link, please contact the Catholic Education Office through Strategy.Survey@cg.catholic.edu.au

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

to those students who are celebrating their birthday this week

Toby W

Stephanie K

Nathan H

Mina H

Zion D

William F

Hannah L

If you captured any great photos of our students in action during the carnival, we’d love to see them! Please send any images through to luke.gubler@cg.catholic.edu.au so we can share them with our community.

Another fabulous time in the garden and kitchen this week.

We are getting ready to plants some seedlings so we needed to weed, mulch and water. The garden crew were amazing and the weather was lovely too. The spinach was trimmed, weeds pulled and a whole garden bed of mint was cleared. Our potatoes are also doing so well.

Years 5 and 6 continue their journey in the kitchen learning about healthy eating and revising all their kitchen skills. Be sure to ask them to help at home – you will be impressed.

If you have a questions, please email katherine.birch@cg.catholic.edu.au

The Garden Club

Mrs Birch & Mrs Moore

APPLE & CINNAMON MUFFINS

Ingredients

3 green apples, peeled & chopped

2 & 1/2 cups self raising flour

2 tsp cinnamon

2/3 cups brown sugar

1 &1/3 cups milk

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

150 g butter, melted

2 Tbs raw sugar

Method

Preheat oven to 200 degrees, line two 12 hole muffin trays with cases and spray with oil.

Sift flour and cinnamon into a large bowl. Add sugar and make a well in centre.

Whisk eggs, milk, vanilla and melted butter in a separate bowl then fold this mixture into the dry ingredients.

Fold in the chopped apple until just combined.

Fill each muffin pan with mixture and sprinkle with raw sugar.

Bake for 20 minutes, until golden.

THE CANTEEN IS CASHLESS FOR ALL LUNCH ORDERS

 Families are required to place ALL lunch orders via Qkr! before 8.45am

 Please purchase over-the-counter sale items (snacks & treats) for your child in a lunch order.

 Purchase a “daily counter sales voucher” via Qkr! for your child to go to the canteen to collect items at lunchtime.

WEEK 5 TERM 4, CANTEEN VOLUNTEER ROSTER

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

Whether you’re a mum, dad, grandma or grandpa a lending hand is always required and very much appreciated.

 Helping in the Canteen is a great opportunity to meet new people and make a valuable contribution to the school.

 No doubt your child will get a buzz from seeing you at the school. 

So, 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 or click on the link below to add your selected time to the roster.

https://stpandp.schoolzineplus.com/CanteenRoster2025

 A delicious cuppa will be provided!

All volunteers must have a WWVP card.

A WWVP card is available from Access Canberra and is free for volunteers.

https://www.accesscanberra.act.gov.au/business-and-work/working-with-vulnerable-people/apply-for-or-renew-a-wwvp-registration#Apply-for-a-WWVP-card 

 Qkr! TIPS

 Is your child sick and not going to school, and you have placed a lunch order on Qkr!?

 You have till 8.45am that morning to cancel the lunch order - instructions on how to cancel lunch orders are below.

OPEN TUESDAY MORNINGS

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. 

It is usual practice for most schools to offer second-hand clothing at the uniform shop to families at a discounted price. Quality second-hand clothing can only be purchased during uniform hours.  We do understand that this may not be convenient for some families so please feel free to send me an email if you are unable to get to the uniform shop during opening hours and I will do my best to attend your needs.

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.

Lauretta Raccosta

Uniform Shop

Lauretta.raccosta@cg.catholic.edu.au