Welcome back to a new school year. I hope you were able to enjoy a lovely Christmas and holiday time with your family. I hope that 2023 will be a safe and positive year for all our school community.

Loving God, at the beginning of this new school year we ask you to bless the students, the teachers and staff and parents of our school, that together we may grow in faith, hope and love as we learn from you and each other how to follow your Son, Jesus.

Opening School Mass

On Friday 10^th February we will celebrate our Opening School Mass at 12 noon in St Patrick’s Church.

During this Mass we will present our School Captain’s with their badges, introduce our Year Six leadership group and present badges to the newly elected SRC Representatives for 2023. Our new students will also be presented with a welcome gift.

We warmly welcome members of our school community to join with us to celebrate our first Mass of 2023.

Welcome Fr Joe

In January Fr Yoseph Neonbasu joined our St Patrick’s Parish as our new Parish Priest. We would like to welcome him and support him in his role. Father’s homeland is Indonesia. He studied and was ordained for the priesthood here in Australia.

Father has a very big job, as he is the only priest looking after the Tumut Mission which includes Gundagai, Tumut, Batlow, Adelong and surrounding towns.

Father likes to be called Fr Joe. He is looking forward to meeting our St Patrick’s children and their families.

Altar Serving

Thank you to all our super Altar Servers who continued to carry out their important ministry throughout the holidays. Your service is always appreciated by all in the Parish.

Kate Howe

REC