Dear Parents and carers,

I hope you are enjoying the early signs of a Spring soon to be with us, including the striking gold and green colours of our wattle.

Green and gold will be the theme as we cheer for our wonderful Matilda’s tonight!

Staff illness

A relief teacher shortage continues to impact on our ability to cover teacher absences. I often step in to teach a class together with Bridgette McCann on any given day as we are unable to source relief teaching staff. There are days when several staff are absent and while we can cover some classes, we need to split other classes across the school. Teachers have ‘day-away’ learning prepared for students and they are included and supervised by other class teachers. If your child says “my class was split today” this would be the reason. We certainly do our best to ensure that this is a rare occurrence, however we are impacted by staff illness during this time of year.

Absent Notes

Thank you to all our families who are assisting us to update Compass to ensure historical absences are updated. Thank you also to Maria and Lynda in the front office who have been supporting families to update information, please call us if you have any questions or concerns as we are here to help.

Principal Siloam

Today I am at Galong with a group of Principals and Father Emil Milat for ‘Siloam’ a brief period of prayer, scripture reflection and professional collaboration. The term Siloam comes from the healing pool where Jesus sends a man born blind to wash his eyes, (John 9: 2-12)

In miraculous events, Jesus reveals his divinity and the power of God’s love. We are asked not merely to understand the event as a healing miracle, but a sign to remind us about our own sight. Are we open to the love of Jesus in our lives, being able to see others with not only open eyes but open hearts? Jesus refers to our spiritual blindness when he refers to ‘those who do not see’ and asks us to follow his example and to believe.

Thank you for your continued support, and best wishes to those in our community who are currently unwell.