Dear parents, friends, staff and students,

This newsletter is being sent early due to the Staff Development (Pupil Free) day which will be held tomorrow (June 4). This is an opportunity for the staff to come together to spend some time reflecting on their own spirituality and spiritual development. This time is specifically important at the moment as this Sunday is the Feast Corpus Christi (the Body of Christ) and this year it will also be the Feast of St Marcellin Champagnat. We will celebrate our Champagnat Day next Friday. The Feast of Corpus Christi is an opportunity for us to consider what the Body of Christ refers to. In the Gospel of Mark, we read again the events of the Last Supper and specifically the words “This is my body” and “This is my blood”. Christ gives Himself as a sacrifice for us and this is the pinnacle of our belief as Catholics. The Body of Christ however can also be thought of as each of us as members of Christ’s church. St Teresa of Avila is often quoted with the prayer; “I have no hands but yours…” so we understand that we are required to do God’s work. We do this through our words and actions and this is how we are the Body of Christ to those around us. 

As mentioned above, on Friday June 11, we are celebrating Champagnat Day. This day is one of our major community building days beginning with a Mass which will be followed by activities designed to raise funds for Marist Australia social works. The end of the day involves a concert where our students get the opportunity to showcase their talents. Unfortunately we are unable to invite parents to any of these events given the number of students and the size of our hall. Please ask your child after next Friday what they did and how they enjoyed the day.

One of the learnings from the COVID restrictions last year was around academic report releases and the associated Parent/Teacher/Student meetings. As with last year, academic reports will continue to be released electronically through the Compass site. P/T/S meetings have been set down for the evenings of Monday June 21 and Thursday June 24 and the morning of Friday June 25. The evening sessions will be face to face and the Friday will be via zoom. There will be no restrictions on which days parents can choose to book but please understand that timeslots may book out quickly. Due to the meetings on the Friday, students will not be at school on that day so the last day of lessons is Thursday June 24. More instructions on how to book these meetings will be sent to parents prior to bookings opening.

Last week two of our SRC students attended NSW parliament to participate in a school leader’s forum. Congratulations to Tiana Kostic and Noah Stewart who met Her Excellency - Linda Hurley, Governor of NSW whilst at the conference. Tiana and Noah are two of our Legal Studies students and gained valuable insights into Political discussion and leadership.

As some of you would be aware, Ms Laura Penfold (our Assistant English Coordinator) began her Parental leave at the end of last week. Ms Tolomeo (our Curriculum Coordinator) has resigned to take up a position at an independent College. We wish both of these staff the best in their futures and will communicate their replacements as these become available.

Next Tuesday, June 8, we will be holding our last Parents and Friend’s meeting for the term. As usual, this will be held in room I3 (at the front of the College) beginning at 7pm. The guest speaker at this meeting will be Mr Simon Huntly who is the College Pastoral Care and Wellbeing Coordinator.  for any parent wishing to attend via zoom, please use the following username and password: 

Join Zoom Meeting

ID: 98008118091

Passcode: 164131

Parents joining via zoom are requested to ensure their camera is turned on and their microphone turned off unless they wish to say something. As always, all parents are invited to join us for this meeting.

Ite in Veritate

Mr Steve Lo Cascio
Principal