This week’s School Voices article comes from Our Lady’s Primary School in Wattle Park.

Prep and New Families Mass

We are looking forward to sharing Mass this Sunday, 17 November at 9.00 am at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church.  This is a wonderful time of community gathering, as we come together to share Mass and a cup of tea afterwards, to welcome new families joining our school in 2025.

Learning Inquiry and Religious Education

This term our Inquiry question is “What makes this our place?”.  It was so wonderful to see our Year 5/6 students lead us in raising money for our refugee family through hosting a Market Stall Day.  This money will go towards helping our refugee family feel like Australia is ‘their place too’.  There was a real buzz about the school as the Year 5/6 students manned stalls of wonderful treats from cakes to popcorn.  They organised sporting activities including soccer kicks and golf.  It was so exciting to see how our students were so genuinely engaged and had a real desire to support and help those in need.  More information about our connection to a refugee family can be found on the Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Pilot (CRISP) website.

Thank You to Mr Hollamby, Carissa Bright and Jane James for supporting this project so well.

Advent

We are looking forward to celebrating Advent as a school community.  We will reflect on questions such as; What needs to be born again in us this Advent? What do we need to let go of? What can we take up this Advent to help make our homes, classrooms and wider world a place of hope, love, joy and peace?  We connect to our inquiry question “What makes this our place?” and we say to ourselves each and every day, “What can I do today to make Our Lady’s a place of hope, love, joy and peace?  We are looking forward to also sharing the traditional Nativity story, with our Preps leading and all other students joining the story with song.  It will be a wonderful way to celebrate Advent as a community.

By Clare Hicks, Deputy Principal

Published: 15 November 2024