Dear McAuley Families

Welcome to Week 7.  The weeks are certainly staying busy with a multitude of educational, sporting, and cultural events filling our calendars.  Please be very aware of notifications through Compass so that you can assist your sons and daughters stay on top of what is coming as the weeks speed by. The Google Calendar also lists events and happenings that are coming up.

We also seem to be experiencing another wave of COVID 19 and a nasty stomach bug. Please do not send your children to school if they are displaying cold and flu like symptoms or other illness.  There are still RAT kits available from the office if you need them. 

A very excited group of Stage 1 students headed off to the Dinosaur Museum this week as did our Year 7 group to camp at Narrabeen.  Experiences like these are such a wonderful time to get to know other students and try and learn new things.  They are always high on the list of “favourite memories” of school days. These experiences are a privilege and a reward for the excellent efforts our boys and girls make.

There have also been a large number of sporting events and trials where our McAuley students are performing at high levels.  As always, we often receive compliments on our students’ good manners and cooperation.  Well done to all on being fine ambassadors for our school.

Linda Stade recently wrote about the importance of being connected to school and the benefits that has for both mental and academic success.  A strong sense of belonging is evident here at McAuley and is something that all our staff are very proud of.  Our partnership in educating the young men and women in our care is paramount.  Stade lists some ways in which families can build this connection from their side:

1. Show that your family values school and education.
2. Participate in co-curricular opportunities – sports, charity work etc.
3. Model good relationship skills.

In all - relationships are clearly at the core of any success.  Like all things, we need to work on open and positive relationships and, be aware that things don’t always go smoothly. As Catherine McAuley reminds us “…be ever ready to praise, to encourage, but slow to censure, and still more slow to condemn…”

Mary our Mother, Look after us.

Eamonn Moore

Principal