Principal's Report
Dear Families and Friends
Welcome back students, we hope you are refreshed and ready for a great term of learning and new experiences. Some great events coming up early this term. On Tuesday the 7th of August, we will celebrate Book Week. Our book week theme this year is “Find Your Treasure“ and we are asking the students to come dressed as a character from a book they treasure. As part of our Book Week celebrations, we will be holding a morning tea for our grandparents and friends commencing at 9:30 at our school. This will be followed by our Book Week Parade at 10:30. Please come and join us and spend time with your grandchildren/special children in your life in their classrooms and be entertained by their written work. Grandparents/parents may also like to bring along their favourite book to read to the children.
Next Tuesday, a team from the Archbishop’s Office for Evangelisation (formerly Catholic LIFE), will be coming to St Patrick’s, Gundagai, to present the My Body, My Life puberty and personal development program to our Year 5 and 6 students and their parents. These sessions have been developed specifically for pre-teen, early adolescents and cover aspects of the physical, emotional and social developments that take place during puberty. The program is consistent with a Catholic understanding of the dignity of every human person and the dignity of the gift of sexuality. Students will attend a 90-minute morning session in class on Tuesday 31th July from 9.00am to 11.00am.
Supportive Playgroups will continue on Friday mornings from 9 - 10:30 am, beginning this week. We are looking forward to seeing our parents and children in the group.
Our Public speaking finals between Gundagai and Tumut will take place on the 14th of August with selected students progressing to West Wyalong on the 23rd of August. Good luck to all those students preparing for this event.
All the very best for our staff, students and families for the term.
Vincent Powell
Principal
