Mary Immaculate Catholic Parish Primary School Eagle Vale eNewsletter

FROM THE PRINCIPAL AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

We hear about John the Baptist and the way he prepared the people for Jesus, the adult Jesus to come among them. It can be a bit confusing thinking about it at this time of year when we are preparing for ‘Baby’ Jesus. The message is about waiting in great anticipation for the fulfillment of God’s promise to send a Saviour to bring the people back to Him. We know Jesus was the promised one and are lucky to do so. The people of John’s time didn’t know that Jesus had been living among them for 30 years already. We still remember them waiting for the unknown and have our own ‘unknown’ to prepare for. Jesus promised to come back so in preparing for Christmas, we also prepare for the adult Jesus who will come again.

We are very happy to say that after an extensive process that included a great deal of counting and re-counting, the following students are our leaders for 2024.

Captains
Gilgamesh Zaia
Ivory O’Brien
Vice Captains
Samuel Bastoli
Kara Velante

Farmer House, Service Mission Captains - Blue
Patience Smith
Biar Ajak

Gibbs House, Learning Mission Captains - Green
Bonnie Makelim
Logan Collison

Therry House, Faith Mission Captains - Red
Addyson Kong
Lincoln Hampton

Mitchell House, Respect Mission Captains - Yellow
Gabriella Gamboa
Ryan Stanmore

All the students who put themselves forwards as candidates did a wonderful job. Congratulations Captains of 2024. We are looking forward to working with you to make our school the very best!A quick reminder that the bell goes at 8.25am to start classes in the morning. Some students thought it was 8.30am. Parents leave on the 8.23am lining up bell. Gates open at 2.30pm, the official end of classes in the afternoon. Car pick up begins at approximately 2.40pm as long as the two buses have gone. Please don’t park in the pick up zone before this time because then people line up waiting to come into the zone too and the buses can’t get through. Thank you to the parents who happily drove around the block for us yesterday afternoon when the bus was stuck down the street!

Our Christmas concert was wonderful despite the heat. We do thank you for being able to come early. The students and staff worked very hard and you provided very festive outfits – thank you!

We hope our signing out process was easy for all of you. We need to have records, as we’re sure you would understand, but with such large numbers it can take a lot of time. If you have any feedback about how we could improve the process, please let us know. It seemed to work well at the gates.

We look forward to seeing you at the End of Year Mass tomorrow, followed by the Year 6 Guard of Honour walk out.

We’d also like to take this opportunity of wishing you a joyful Christmas and whole holiday season.Stay safe and enjoy ‘wasting’ time with your children making lots of wonderful memories. The childhood years go by too fast!

God Bless,

Mrs Michelle Rolfe and Mr Lindsay Burns

Principal and Acting Assistant Principal