Today marks the beginning of Lent with Ash Wednesday, we will gather as a school community for Mass at 12pm. During the Lenten season we are challenged to focus on what we can do to help others.

Swimming Carnival

It was a perfect weather day for our carnivals and celebration of water fun yesterday. We had sprinklers and bubbles with the younger students and the pool and splash park for our older students.

A HUGE thank you Erin Hardwicke for her organisation of the Swimming Carnival and Victoria De Mattia for the water fun day. Thanks also to Kylie Arena who assisted Erin in preparing the recording platform.  We couldn’t run a carnival without the support of our Classroom Support Assistants and particularly our parent volunteers who came to help us out. Thanks to any parents/carers who took some time off to support us. It was a great day for all.

Catalyst

Brooke Wardana one of our coaches from WA will be joining us on Friday at St Michael’s. Brooke will be doing demonstration lessons and will also be coaching staff as we continue to implement high impact teaching practice (HITP) across the school.

Registration and Compliance

Next Wednesday and Thursday a panel of visitors from CECG will be visiting us to ensure we are compliant for ongoing Registration as an ACT Non-Government school. The panel will be informally chatting to staff, looking at documentation and generally seeing how St Michael’s operates. It will be great to welcome back Pat Ellis in his role as Education Lead in Performance and Improvement with CECG.

Drills

This week we are completing evacuation and lock down drills as part of our Emergency Management Plans. We conduct these throughout the year to ensure we are all safe and know what to do in an emergency.

Community Council

Please see a section from Community Council after our recent meeting, thank you for the way you continue to support our school.

Many Blessings,

Principal