“He went on His way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying towards Jerusalem.”

Luke 13: 22

(from the Gospel for the twenty first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C)

Dear Parents and Carers,

Yesterday, we farewelled Mrs Rachel Neville in a beautiful funeral service at St Paul’s Camden. Rachel was much loved and this was reflected in the large gathering for her funeral. She was committed into God’s eternal care by her family, her wide circle of friends, colleagues from the two schools at which she worked as well as staff and community from two other schools attended by her children. 

Thank you to the many kind expressions of condolences we have received at the school. The majority of our staff attended the funeral. The children had a somewhat unusual day yesterday with six of the seven classes being taught by our regular casual teachers. Our school’s normal systems and processes remained in place. Consequently, the children had a good day. 

Diocesan Athletics carnival was held on Tuesday at Beaton Park, Gwynneville. Congratulations to all our representatives who qualified to represent the Western Region team at the diocesan carnival. Special mention needs to be made of Lilli Ragan and Jessica Wray both in Year 6 who have qualified for the MacKillop Team. Lilli qualified after finishing first in discus and shot put, setting new records in both these events. Jess came second in the high jump, thus qualifying for the next representative level. The MacKillop team is drawn from the dioceses of Canberra / Goulburn, Parramatta, Sydney, Wagga Wagga as well as Wollongong. The other diocesan Catholic team is Polding, being drawn from Armidale, Bathurst, Broken Bay, Lismore, Maitland/Newcastle and the Wilcannia/Forbes Dioceses.

For your information, the pathways for representative sport can be viewed by following this link:

https://www.dow.catholic.edu.au/sport/nsw-catholic-schools-sports-structure/

Wakakirri! 

You may have seen the headline article regarding our recent performance and success at Wakakirri in the Southern Highland News. If you missed it, here is a line to the online version. https://www.southernhighlandnews.com.au/story/6337711/a-step-and-jive-to-success-for-st-pauls-primary-students/

We should feel very proud of our performers!

SHIPS Athletics: Last Friday, our athletics team participated in the annual SHIPS carnival at Tudor House. The supervising teachers report that the children had a great day and were a credit to us. Thank you to the parents who helped set up our shelter. It is always quite a job. Well done everyone on a successful day!

Father’s Day Stall Friday 30 August: the annual P&F Fathers’ Day stall will be held on Friday 30 August. A note went home earlier this week advising the same. Gifts are $5 each. All money raised will go towards providing for additional resources for the children to use in their learning.

Confirmation: Our Year 6 students will continue their preparation to receive the sacrament of Confirmation this weekend. The third class in the sacramental program will be held on Sunday 25 August after Mass. Please keep our Year 6 Confirmation candidates in your prayers . Confirmation will be held on Saturday 21 September with Bishop Brian.

Date claimers for Term 3:

CONFIRMATION PROGRAM

Students who are participating in the Confirmation Program will continue the classes this Sunday.

Session 1: Sunday 11^th August

Session 2: Sunday 18^th August 

Session 3: Sunday 25^th August

Session 4: Sunday 8^th September

Session 5: Sunday 15^th September

(No classes on Father’s Day – 1^st September)

Confirmation: Saturday 21^st September

Families are required to attend the 10:00 am Mass followed by class in the School Hall.

Thank you

Catherine du Bois

Religious Education Coordinator

Term three is always a wonderful celebration of Australian children’s literature. This term children will be looking at many of the shortlisted books as part of library lessons.  The theme for Book Week 2019 was ‘Reading is my Secret Power’ and reading does indeed give us secret powers: the power to walk in the shoes of others through their stories; the power to escape into other worlds; the power to improve vocabulary and imagination…the list goes on.  We would like to finish Term 3 with a celebration.  On the last day of Term we will hold a book parade.  So you may like to start thinking of a costume …..what secret power does reading give you? During Week 10 there will also be Book Hoopla at break time…..bring a gold coin and toss it to try to win a pre-loved book. We will also have a book raffle. 

Our Wakakirri success has been published in this weeks 'Southern Highlands News' Newspaper.  The article also appears online.  Here is a snapshot of the article along with the link to read the full article: