APRE News
Welcome Community Hospitality
We warmly welcome our school community to our 2020 school year. We would also like to welcome families who are joining our school community this year. You are all very welcome at St Clare’s.
We extend an invitation to all families and friends to join us in celebrating our Opening Mass this Thursday, 6th February at 9am in St Clare’s Church. An important part of our opening Mass will be pledges from student leaders, staff and parents.
This year we will continue our school greeting inspired by the Gospel verse 1 Peter 4:10; ‘Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others as faithful stewards of God’s Grace in its various forms’. Students will greet staff, parents and visitors to the school with ‘Good morning/afternoon …., May the Grace of God be with you’.
Other significant dates in term 1 include:
Monday, 17th February – Whole School Reconciliation Liturgy 9 am
Tuesday, 25th February – Shrove Tuesday (pancake fundraiser for Project Compassion)
Wednesday, 26th February– Ash Wednesday Mass (Parish and whole school) 10am
Wednesday 4th March – Fr. Hilary’s 80 Birthday
- Year 6 Caritas Just Leadership Day (hosting the Southern Deanery schools at St Clare’s)
Wednesday, 17th March – St Patrick’s Day (green slushie fundraiser for Project Compassion)
Thursday, 18th March – Multicultural Day (further information to come)
Shrove Tuesday - Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser
On Tuesday, 25th February (Week 5) Year 6 students will host a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Breakfast fundraiser for Project Compassion. Pikelets will be selling for 50 cents each (with a limit of 2 per student). We will be organising pre-orders in Week 4 and will ask that all orders be handed into your child/ren’s classes by Monday, 24th February. We look forward to families joining in the fundraising.
ALTAR SERVERS
We are seeking students who wish to serve at our weekend masses in Tully and Mission Beach throughout 2020. In order to be eligible to serve, students need to have made the sacrament of First Eucharist. We are looking at putting together a roster whereby your child would serve approximately once a month at the weekend mass.
If your child can serve please email kkennedy1@cns.catholic.edu.au
to advice which service you child is available for.
TULLY – SATURDAY 6pm
- SUNDAY 9am
MISSION BEACH – SUNDAY 7am
May the Grace of God be with you,
Kath Kennedy