STAFFING

We are pleased to have Maddison Brown join our staff as our Youth Minister. A new school counsellor, Kim Ovari, is starting next week we hope. She will work additional days in Term 1 & 2 to make up for some of the time we lost this term. If you would like your child to work with the counsellor there is a referral form link later in the newsletter.

These new additions to our staff are welcome.

PRESCHOOL VISITS

Our Year 3 & 4 students had a wonderful time visiting some local daycare centres in the community. We are extremely grateful to Trinity Catholic College who lend us their bus for these visits and help us keep costs down.

The visits are a great community outreach which always creates a positive story about what wonderful, caring students are at Ss. Peter & Paul’s. Thanks to  Scallywags, Good Start, Goulburn Pre-School & Orana for having us visit and to Mrs Harris for co-ordinating the event.

UNIFORMS

We will start wearing Winter uniforms in Term 2. Students can only wear school jackets. Different coloured jackets, puffer jackets & hoodies are not part of our uniform.

HARMONY WEEK

Harmony Week is the celebration that recognises our diversity and brings together Australians from different backgrounds. It’s about inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging. The message of Harmony Week is everyone belongs. Schools have always been Harmony Week’s greatest supporters. For a school, an event or celebration can be as simple as a lesson plan with a diversity focus or something larger like a whole of school assembly or concert. These celebrations create opportunities for all of us to think, talk about and recognise how our differences make Australia a great place to live. Did you know?

• More than half (51.5 per cent) of Australian residents were born overseas or have at least one parent who was.
• Since 1945, more than 7.6 million people have migrated to Australia.
• Nearly every single country from around the world was represented in Australia's population in 2020.
• More than 150 Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander languages are spoken in Australia
• Apart from English, the most common languages spoken in Australia are Mandarin, Arabic, Vietnamese, Cantonese and Punjabi.
• We identify with over 300 ancestries. This information has been taken from ABS 2021 Census Data.

Our school population more & more represents this diversity. I look forward to seeing you at our HARMONY themed Disco & Working Bee.