Please go to our school calendar on the website or COMPASS for more details.

Please note that the first day of Term 4 (14 October) is not a pupil free day. Students attend school on the first day of term. 

Please note that the last day of Term 4 (17 December) is a pupil free days for professional learning for staff. Students do not attend school on this day. OSHClub will be available.

Term 4 Weeks 1-4

• Yrs 5-6 Boorowa Carnival (week 2)
• 2025 Kinder Information Evening (week 4)
• 2025 Kinder Orientation Morning (week 4)
• Grandparents Day (week 4)

What Teachers Are Learning About

Staff celebrated mass together on Wednesday after school.  The Gospel reading was Matthew 4:1-4.  This reading describes the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, where He fasts for forty days and nights and is confronted by the devil.   The devil challenges Jesus to turn stones into bread to satisfy His hunger, but Jesus responds by quoting Scripture, Deuteronomy 8:3, stating that "man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God." This not only highlights Jesus' reliance on God's word over physical needs but also sets a precedent for resisting temptation through faith and Scripture.  

Restore Initiative - Louise Osborne-Goldsbrough

On Wednesday evening, I had the privilege of attending a networking event for Catholic women within the Archdiocese. The event was organised by a new initiative, connecting women from many different work backgrounds to come together to share and bond over their unique gifts. I felt completely out of my depth, I was representing teachers, mums, wives and felt completely like I didn’t have much of anything to share let alone inspire others. 

I was inspired to focus on perspective, how we can maintain perspective in our lives. What is important? For me, I think that God should be in the forefront of my mind which is a challenge as a busy working mother. It's often easy to lose track and prioritise other things and to do lists. As a teacher, this networking event was beneficial to me making and maintaining connections with other like minded teachers from across the Archdiocese, and speaking with them on what we can focus on in our classrooms. It sparked in me two questions: How can we bring God into our classrooms? How can we bring our students to encounter Jesus?

Catholic Life and Reflection

I thoroughly enjoyed taking the Year 2 students to Floriade this week, spending time with them outside of the classroom.  It was a pleasure witnessing their wonder and awe of the vibrant displays.  Floriade shares the beauty of God’s creation and the gift of renewal. Spring signifies not only the physical rebirth of nature but also invites us to reflect on our spiritual rejuvenation.  Let this spring be a time to cultivate our faith, to grow in love, and to share the beauty of our journey with others, just as the flowers share their splendour with the world.

Technology Giants & Our Kids

MyWay+ is coming! Transition set to commence

The next major phase for MyWay+ is about to commence from Friday 20 September ahead of the next generation ticketing system going live this November.

Over the last few months significant progress has occurred in the design, development and testing of the new MyWay+ system.

We are now at the exciting point where system installation can commence. This includes removing the existing MyWay equipment on board buses and installing the new MyWay+ validators both in buses and along the light rail alignment. System user testing will also take place with over 200 Canberrans providing feedback on the new system and its journey planning functionality.

To enable these critical activities to take place the current MyWay and NXTBUS real time systems will no longer be available from Friday 20 September.

Bus and light rail services will continue to operate as per the scheduled timetable and frequency, however people will not need to pay during the transition period to MyWay+.

A fare free travel period was always planned as part of the MyWay+ transition. We didn’t want to try and run two systems at the same time given it will take at least six weeks to fit out the whole bus fleet and install new ticket machines at locations such as along the light rail alignment.

Key changes taking place from Friday 20 September 2024:

• Travel will be free - The MyWay ticketing system will no longer be available. Travel on buses and light rail will be free. Customers will not be required to tap on and off during this fare free travel period.
  
  
• Timetable Information will be available online and at major stops and interchanges - NXTBUS will no longer be available. This includes on board buses at bus stops and stations as well as the SMS service.
• Bus services will continue to operate to the scheduled timetable. Where possible, static timetable information be available at bus stations.
  
  
• Light rail will continue to operate to the scheduled frequency. Next stop information will still be available for light rail (onboard and at stops).

Further details on impacted services are available online at https://www.transport.act.gov.au/news/news-and-events-items/september/transition

Customers are encouraged to KEEP their MyWay cards as the card number will assist with the balance transfer to MyWay+.