Parents and Carers under the existing COVID rules if you need to enter the school for any reason please phone the office, 48422413 before entering the grounds.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Tomorrow we look forward to meeting the new teachers for 2022. All the children from Kinder to Year 5 will have an opportunity to spend an hour with their new teacher. Some teachers will be moving to a different year level next year and from next week will be in their 2022 classroom.

The staff for 2022 is as follows:

On Tuesday a liturgy was held for the changeover of leadership. Fr Mick conducted the ceremony and the 2022 leaders were announced. Next year we are moving to a new leadership system which provides more roles for all the students.

We sincerely thank our 2021 leaders and congratulate the 2022 leaders:

The children will receive the badges for their leadership roles at the opening school mass next year.

Tonight, we look forward to the Year 6 Graduation at Garanvale Italian Restaurant. Many hours of organisation have gone into making this a very special night for our Year 6 students and we thank our Year 6 parents and Ms Kaptein. They have been excellent leaders and role models to all our students and we congratulate them on completing the primary years of their schooling as they head off to High School next year.

This week we received the exciting news that St Bede’s has received a BGA Grant for $769,721, this application was started in 2020 by MrLaffan and MrsFerlitsch. The Grant will provide three new classrooms, a new front office area and refurbish the Year 5 and 6 classrooms. These works won’t be commencing until later in the 2022 school year and more information will be provided then.

This is our final newsletter for 2021. We would like to say farewell and thank you to Mrs Victoria McGrath and Mrs Ann Monkhouse who are retiring after working for many years at St Bede’s. Mrs Kerry Boyenga has resigned from teaching Dhurga language, Mr Ged Galvin who is going to Marist in Canberra and Ms Lisa Kaptein who is going to a private school in Canberra in a leadership role. We thank all our staff who are leaving for their commitment and dedication to St Bede’s and we wish them all the very best for the future. To our families who are leaving St Bede’s this year, we say farewell and thank you for being a part of our school community.

To conclude the year, we have some significant people to thank in our school community: Father Mick and Brother Brian who celebrate masses, assemblies and are very much a part of our school community. The Community Council for their assistance, commitment and support and  Mrs Samantha Moore for organising Book Club. Our wonderful staff who have worked tirelessly in what has been quite a challenging year with the lockdown and demands that this put on them and our amazing parents who are always encouraging and helping the children. Finally, a very special thank you to our beautiful students who are a credit to their families and a pleasure to teach. School reports will be published to all families tomorrow after 3pm electronically on Compass. Hard copies are no longer being sent home.

We wish you all a happy and holy Christmas and look forward to seeing you all back at St Bede’s in 2022.

God Bless

Principal

The Christmas Mass will be held on Friday 24 December at 5:30 pm in the church grounds and also a mass on the 26 December for Feast of the Holy Family. Please contact 48422444 if you would to attend or contact Brian on 0408 687 915 or Helen on 0430 169 849 reserve a spot.