Welcome back to the new school year! I witnessed much excitement on the children’s faces when they returned to school after a long break and were reunited with their friends. To officially welcome the St Clare’s community back to school, we will be holding our Opening School Mass at St Clare’s Church on Friday, February 9 at 9am. This mass is particularly special for our Year 6 students, who will be commissioned as our 2024 Leaders at the ceremony. We always enjoy having our families and friends join us for these celebrations, so please feel free to come along.

As part of our Back to School routine, students have been learning about St Clare’s

Church. Fr Joby will be spending time with each class visiting the church and helping us to learn about our history. If there are any children who have received their First Communion and are interested in reading or altar serving at weekend masses, notes have gone home this week. Please select dates that are suitable for your family and return to school.

We are very excited to be participating in a new social emotional program this year at St Clare’s. Our staff spent some professional development time recently familiarising themselves with The Resilience Project and we will start to roll this out in our classrooms this term. I encourage you to take some time to have a look at what this entails as it is aimed at people of any age and can quite easily become a part of your family’s daily routine. Please see the attached flyer at the end of this newsletter for further information.

With Blessings,

Sharon Chappel