APMI News
….experiencing FAITH in the Mercy Tradition
Dear families
Welcome back! It’s so great to see our students back together ready for a busy and exciting Term 4. It’s my favourite term. It’s the final term to celebrate a year of successes and challenges, it’s a time to look towards planning and preparing for a new school year with new goals and directions and, more importantly, it leads us into Advent, a time of waiting for the Birth of Jesus.
We began our term by celebrating our Mercy Day and Grandparent’s Day! Thank you to everyone taking part in our celebration. Check out the school’s FB page for photos! It is wonderful to have our community to not only be with us during Mass, but to also share morning tea and visit our classrooms. Your children love to show you what they’ve been learning. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the day's success, those who have had roles during Mass, our choir and recorder groups, singers, our Music Teacher Mrs Kelly, Mrs Kilpatrick in the Tuckshop and all the staff who have worked together to organise the day. Thank you!
This month of October also means we celebrate World mission month and our students will take part in the awareness and fundraising program as part of World mission month, called “Socktober’. You can read all about it at https://www.socktober.org.au/ .
We encourage everyone to celebrate World Mission Month! Together, we have the power to create change and build a more just world for people everywhere. By supporting missionaries in their work, we can create life-changing opportunities for countless children, families, and communities worldwide. Join us in making a difference for our sisters and brothers.
What is Socktober? Socktober for Mission Month cultivates the passion of students to rise up, engage their local community, and take action against poverty through the world game of soccer. It provides young people in Australia with the opportunity to lead in mission, encouraging them to think not only of what they will do to help, but why they will do it. Each class will design and create a soccer ball by only using socks, plastic bags and string. It is a simple and creative way to bring people together through sport by sharing a simple item that represents a soccer ball.
Date claimers
Week 4 Friday 25th October – Day for Daniel fundraiser – gold coin donation and wear red
Thanks for reading.
Ann-Maree Ward (Assistant Principal – Mission & Identity)
