This Friday, we will celebrate St Patrick’s Day by dressing in green for a gold coin donation. Our Year 6 stewardship group will also be selling green jelly cups, topped with rainbows, for $1 at second break. All money collected from the free dress and jelly cup sales will go towards Project Compassion, our fundraising focus for the Lenten period. After the second break, children will spend time with their buddy class, engaging in more St Patrick’s Day activities together. The celebrations will continue with a St Patrick’s themed Mass, held on Saturday March 18 at 6pm in the St Clare’s Church. All of our school and parish community are most welcome to attend.

Next week, St Clare’s will celebrate Harmony Week. Year 5 will lead us in assembly explaining the significance of Harmony Week (celebrating Australia’s multiculturalism) next Friday. We will once again spend some time with our buddy classes that afternoon, enjoying some fun activities based around this event.

Thank you to those who have been supporting our Project Compassion appeal through donations. Our classes are continuing to learn about different people around the world and how they have been supported by Caritas. We will continue to collect donations up until the last day of school.

If you have a child (who has been baptised Catholic) and in Year 4 or older and you would like them to participate in the upcoming Sacramental Program next term, please get in touch (schappel@cns.catholic.edu.au). Please also pass this information on to others in our community if you think they may be interested.

With Blessings