Dear Parents and Caregivers
Next week, students from St Joseph’s Memorial School will complete the Sacraments of Initiation by receiving Eucharist for the first time. These students have prepared for this over the past year along with students from within the Parish. Please keep the candidates in your prayers as they continue their faith journey.
Prayer for First Communion Candidates
Lord Jesus,
Bless our children who will be receiving you in
Holy Communion for the first time.
May each one of them know your
love and mercy in a personal way.
May all your people open their hearts to receive You
so that they might be transformed by your love.
Amen.
Child Protection Sunday
On Sunday we celebrated Child Protection Sunday across the State. This provided the Parish with an opportunity to celebrate the presence of children and young people in our parish by giving them the opportunity to actively participate in the Mass. Fr Mullins in the Parish Newsletter said that Child Protection was a shared responsibility. Our young people have a right to be safe, happy and healthy. We all need to be a community committed to the care, wellbeing and protection of our children and young people.
Tournament of the Mind (TOM)
Congratulations to Alicia, Paula, Laila, Samuel, Luca, Santiago and Xander who on Sunday afternoon participated in the Tournament of Minds at Flinders University. This group of students from Years 5 and 7 are to be commended on the way they worked together throughout the term to solve the challenge presented. The students as a team wrote a script, designed their props and worked out their performance.
They demonstrated the skills of cooperative learning and team work, problem solving, risk taking, creative and divergent thinking and a love of learning. Well done Team!
Grace Vassallo-Wakefield
Assistant Principal RIM