Principals Message
ENJOY THE EASTER BREAK
Easter is a special time in our faith life. The story of Christ’s Passion, Death and Resurrection form the whole basis of why we are Christians. Unless we can acknowledge the truth in the resurrection story we struggle to find the truth is everything.
Today we had a great celebration of the secular aspects of Easter with our Easter Hat Parade, but as Christians we should celebrate the spiritual and faithful side of the tradition as well. The resurrection makes us God’s people and when we express our belief to others then we are truly living the Easter spirit. What does the resurrection mean to you?
Here is a link to our new Bishop’s easter message.
ANNOUNCING OUR CAPTAINS
After gauging the opinions from parents about School Captains, it was clear that parents preferred our previous model for School Captains - that being 2 captains, 2 vice captains and 4 colour sports captains. It was appropriate then to revert back to our old model now that we have a substantially greater pool from which to choose without leaving only a couple of children out of the picture.
We offered the opportunity to any children who wished to put themselves forward as School and Sports Captains to prepare a short speech to introduce themselves to the school community and explain why they would make suitable representatives for the school. You can see these on our Facebook page.
All the children and staff were asked to consider who would make great representatives for the school community. We voted last Friday and after tabulating the votes we congratulate the following:
School Captains: GEMMA M & OJO T
Vice Captains: SUMMER F & MAX G
Red Sports Captains: FREYA B & ALEX S
Blue Sports Captains: INDIGO H & HARRISON S
All our Year 6 children need to be congratulated on how they presented themselves during their speeches and more importantly, how they have demonstrated their leadership skills throughout this term.
STARTING & STAFFING TERM 2
After a restful and revitalising break, we will be looking forward to the start of the new term. School will resume on MONDAY 24 APRIL.
Ms McGann, Mrs Bradley, Mrs Carroll & Miss Morris are remaining on leave and we are most fortunate in keeping our current teachers with us again next term. Mrs & Mr Fren will continue in Years 3 & 4 respectively, whilst Miss O’Bree will continue in Year 1 for the next term.
As I will be on leave for the totality of Term 3, Mr Craig McNee has been appointed as Acting Principal for OLV for Term 2. Mr McNee is a semi-retired principal from the Broken Bay Diocese. He will work closely with Mrs Dunn in continuing the excellent learning opportunities for the children at OLV.
Mr V's CAMINO
Thanks to all those that have wished me well on my Camino next term. For those that are interested you can follow the journey at:
Hopefully there will be daily updates from 17 April. Depending how strenuous the days walking was.