APRE News
Dear Parents and Carers
Welcome to the end of Term 3 and the beginning of Spring, the best time in Toowoomba!
The last two weeks of term have seen a number of events occur around the school particularly our Mercy Day and Grandparents Day, Child Protection week and our final assembly where we acknowledge our Cornerstone award recipients and Encouragement awards.
During Child protection week, the focus was on “Where we start matters” and encouraging all students wo identify five people on their safety hand who they can contact if they feel unsafe. Thank you to community services such as Act4Kids and Mercy Services for coming and sharing this message with the students in Year 2s and 3s. A reminder that all students are able to access the online form to report Bullying via the student intranet. Every child has the right to feel safe.
Our Mini Vinnies and Service Councillors, Ciarah and Charlotte along with the Yr 6 Service learning group have been collecting winter woollies for this year’s St Vincent de Paul Winter appeal. Thankyou to everyone who donated. Thank you for your support!
It was so special to have so many of our older community members with us on Thursday to celebrate our first Mercy Day starting our day with our whole school Mass at the Cathedral with Fr Michael. The special message of welcoming and including everyone to your ‘table’ was a very important takeaway that Fr Michael shared with us this morning. Talk to your child about how the Bluey puzzle was relevant – what was the final picture? What does that mean for us? We too can be like Catherine McAuley and welcome others into our lives by showing compassion and mercy. Thank you to everyone who took part and celebrated Mass with us. Thank you to the Grandparents who came to Mass and visited our school today. You hold such a special place in our school community and we loved having you here to share in our open classrooms. We hope you had a great morning. Thank you for all you do for us and thank you for taking the opportunity to be with your beautiful grandchildren on Thursday. We hope you get to enjoy some more time with them over the holidays. So many wonderful photos have been posted on the socials and a gallery of images are available for you to see below.
Congratulations to all our Cornerstone and Encouragement award recipients at our final assembly on Friday morning. It is always such a privilege to acknowledge the hard work, effort and celebration of our school values in action through our students here at SSPS.
I hope you get the chance to relax and enjoy the sunshine with your families over the holidays. We look forward to seeing you all to begin Term 4 on Tuesday 3rd October.
Ann-Maree Ward
APRE