Dear Parents/Carers,

Last week and this week was an interesting one, with the floods surrounding the CBD of Camden.  I hope, on a local level, the heavy rain and flooding didn’t significantly impact families within our community.  

Unfortunately, we had to make a decision at the last moment to cancel the P&F AGM.  It has been rescheduled to Wednesday, 16 March 2022 at 7.00pm. This will be when new office bearers for the P&F Executive will be elected. Having the opportunity new people in the roles of President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary is a good thing, therefore, if you would like the opportunity to be more actively involved, this is the perfect avenue. Please come along to the meeting on Wednesday held in the Heritage Hall.  This is the key parent forum which is an advisory to the principal.  It is my wish that all who participate in our P&F meetings (which have been few in the past two years) come with a listening heart. With people, the fruitfulness of God’s spoken word is dependent on the openness of the person to attend with a listening heart.  If our Catholic school is to reflect this, there will be the challenge to have our community come together as a listening community where the Word Of God is generated through relationship and action.

Please come and share your thoughts with a listening and active heart.

Go Gently,

Michael Reardon
Principal

Parent Volunteer Orientation

Any parent who wishes to support students in the classrooms during group work, or as helpers at any sporting event or excursion, must complete our parent/carers volunteer orientation.  We keep a list of parents who have attended and they remain valid for two years.  Therefore, many parent volunteers by now would have lapsed.  We have a list at the school of parents who are still current as well as those whose volunteer’s orientation requirement has lapsed.  If you are not sure whether your volunteer status is current, please call the school and we can inform you.

In the past I have run Volunteer Orientation sessions during the day and evening for parents and carers.  We always seem to have the need to run additional sessions because parents have missed the sessions.  To make it easier on your time as well as my time, we have created an electronic orientation session.  It will require parents to dedicate an hour to viewing and completing the activities required.  At the end of the session there is a small set of multiple choice questions, once completed by you, finalise your status to be a volunteer.  The presentation slides have a voice over by Mrs Hatter and I as we cover the content of managing student behaviour and Child Protection. This gives greater flexibility to parents as to when they complete the volunteer’s Orientation.

Once the course is completed your status as a volunteer is electronically recorded on our database.

Today we will send out to all parents, through compass, the link to the Volunteers Orientation and I encourage all parents and carers who wish to be a volunteer, to complete the course.  If you have difficulty accessing the course please inform the office to quickly remedy this situation.

Staffing Update

Miss Lopreiato has informed me that due to an opportunity of a permanent position at another school in our Diocese she has decided to resign from her temporary teaching position at St Paul’s, Camden. This Friday, 11 March 2022 will be Miss Lopreiato last day in our school. We wish Miss Lopreiato well in her new position at St Francis Catholic College, Edmondson Park.

From Monday, 14 March 2022 Miss Jackie Bazzi will commence as the 2 Truth Teacher. Miss Bazzi is currently a PPT teacher in our school and is known to the children in 2 Truth.