Dear Parents and Caregivers
This week, we celebrated the Feast of St Mary MacKillop, a significant person in the history of Catholic Education in South Australia, but also for our School Community. St Mary MacKillop spent 10 years in the Norwood and Kensington area. She helped to establish our School at the Bridge Street site and would visit the children at this site often sharing lollies with them. What is most significant is that this was almost 150 years ago. Next year, we celebrate the sesquicentenary (150 year anniversary) of our school. We hope to make this a very special celebration for our school community.
At our liturgy on Monday, we also took the time to acknowledge Fr Paul Mullins and his service to our school and Parish over the past 12 years. As an educator and leader for over 30 years, he has provided wisdom and guidance to students and teachers alike and will be missed. Fr Paul will be moving to Melbourne in September to work with the Jesuit Provincial.
Performing Arts Studio (PAS)
As you are all aware, the construction of our Performing Arts Studio is due to commence next week. Communication was sent out to families earlier this week to advise of the changes to play areas at William Street. We are grateful to all our Parents and Caregivers for their support and understanding to disruptions that may occur, especially to the drop-off and pick-up areas and ask for your patience during this time. We hope that the construction of the PAS will be completed late January 2022. Following this, there will be a redevelopment of the play space which will include a nature play area (pictured above) as well as a combined netball / basketball court area.
Pick up / Drop off Reminders
Just a reminder to all our parents and caregivers to be aware of the Kiss and Drop Zones operating outside both sites. Parents and caregivers must remain in the car and wait for their child to be called out when you are waiting in this zone. Please do not park and get out of your car to collect your child as you may receive a parking fine. If you do need to leave your car, please find a car park on the street and then come to the gate to collect your child.
Book Week
In Week 6, we will celebrate Book Week with our students. During this week we will focus on the following activities:
Monday 23 August – Reading rotations with teachers reading their favourite book to students.
Wednesday 25 August – Students to bring along their favourite book to share with their friends.
Friday 27 August – Dress up as your favourite book character.
We look forward to celebrating Book Week with our students.
Thank You
I would just like to extend my sincere thanks to all our parents and caregivers for observing the current COVID restrictions relating to entering the school grounds etc. Hopefully, this won’t be a long term restriction and acknowledge that especially for the parents of our new Preschool and Reception students, this would not have been the start you envisioned to your child’s first experience of school.
Yours sincerely
Grace Vassallo-Wakefield
Acting Principal