Today the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Assumption - Mary’s Assumption into heaven. The gospel highlights Mary's faith. Mary's faith enabled her to recognise the work of God in history and in her own life. Mary is a wonderful role model for our community - prepared to say ‘Yes’ to God’s will, even though that puts her in a very vulnerable position.
She was then generous enough to visit her cousin Elizabeth in her time of joy and need and acknowledged and praised God’s goodness to her. May we become more like Mary, open and cooperative toward God's plan for us and able to reflect upon and praise God for the many things God has gifted us with. If we are open and trusting like Mary, God can and will, do wonderful things in our lives too. The children have participated in a liturgy at school to celebrate this important feast day.

It was great to attend the Grade 5 camp at Billabong Ranch near Echuca last week. The children were a credit to the school and their families having a go at many different activities and working together to achieve great results. A big thank you to the staff who again took time out of their own lives to provide a wonderful experience for all. I am sure the weekend was spent resting after such a busy three days.

We are very excited to finally have a certificate of occupancy for the new administration building. In the next week or so we look forward to moving the staff and admin to the new building and opening the front gate. It has certainly been a long and challenging process and with a few small corrections to be done we look forward to being fully operational within the next two weeks. Thanks to everyone for your patience! 

Following our recent school athletics, the children in under 10, 11 and 12/13 who qualified for the Catholic Regional athletics will do so on Wednesday. We wish all 63 children involved, all the very best and most importantly have a great day of fun and participation. Again, thanks to the staff who have coordinated the event amongst the many other activities occurring at this time.

A reminder that children who are symptomatic need to remain at home and we ask that the office is informed. Thanks to everyone for supporting us in keeping the school healthy and operational.

Go Cats!

Paul Wilkinson

Principal