APRE NEWS

Dear Parents and Carers,

Obviously at this time one of the things we CAN do, for ourselves and for others is PRAY...

Gracious God,

We give thanks anew for your providence and presence.

We prayerfully seek your grace, amidst COVID-19 here and overseas.

We pray for those in need of healing.

We pray for your peace with those who are anxious or grieving.

We pray you will continue to strengthen and sustain

all those who are serving in response.

We pray for your Holy Spirit’s discernment

amidst the many choices and decisions

facing our national, community and medical leaders.

We pray we each might see quickly what more we can do

to help those who are vulnerable.

This prayer for our nation in the family of nations,

with all that is in our hearts,

we gather now and pray

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

This is an ecumenical prayer from the National Council of Churches, who have invited all of us to pray this prayer at 7pm each day, but especially on Sunday 29 March which we will mark as a National Day of Prayer in this time of crisis. 

HARMONY DAY: On Monday, staff and students celebrated Harmony Day, sharing a message of unity and community. Students came in cultural dress or Harmony Day colours (orange/ red/ yellow) and Year 2 shared an assembly. $275 was raised which will be shared between Project Compassion and TRAMS. Thank you to everyone for your support of this event.

Year 5 EASTER RAFFLE: Year 5 students and staff have been very active around ths school donating items to raffle and then selling tickets. $400 approx has been raised which will go to Mini Vinnies and Project Compassion. This will be drawn in the next week or so. Again, thank you to the Year 5 families for your generosity.

AWARDS: Encouragement Awards and Cornerstone Value Awards are still being allocated by the teachers for the end of term. While we cannot present these now at assembly, we will put out a notice via Skoolzine next week so everyone can see the recipients and the Awards will be presented to the students as soon as we can gather back at school.

Take Care: I want to take this opportunity to ask you all to look after yourselves, to take care and be mindful of your neighbours as well of course of your families. I do understand that for some of you, the next few weeks, housebound with teenagers ;) would be quite daunting. I encourage you to stick to sensible routines, with limited screen time still for the students and plenty of outdoor or playbased/ hands on activities and of course there is always READING to do. 

This Easter will be a very different one for me (and all of us) this year, with no Good Friday Stations of the Cross or Easter Vigil Mass to attend. The students have all spent time recalling the Holy Week events and there are plenty of resources available so please if you can ensure that the Easter message of love is shared.

Best wishes to all,

Regards

Judy