Dear Parents and Carers.

On Sunday we celebrate Mother's Day. This day is a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge and affirm the special women - our mothers, grandmothers and aunties in our lives who play such a significant role in supporting, loving and guiding us. We wish them a very happy, relaxing and joyous day with family and friends.

'Mother's hold their children's hand for a short while, but their hearts forever'

Yesterday, it was great to see so many of our mothers, grandmothers and aunties attending our  Liturgy and morning tea. Thank you to Emma McIntyre for organising the beautiful flowers, Mrs McDonald and Mrs Pasoce for organising the morning tea and Mrs Herring along with Year 1 for presenting such a thoughtful liturgy.

To Caroline and Paul Ayers, Linda Logue and Sarah Foster, along with 'Team Mother's Day' who collected, packaged and wrapped the Mother's Day gifts that our students were able to purchase today, who set up and served at the stall today. - Thank you once again.

I would like to thank the following families and business groups who kindly donated prizes for the Mother’s Day Raffle. We greatly appreciate your support and generosity.  

Thank you to the following; Lisa Murphy, Catherine Miller, Deana Misopapas, Gisella Villella, Sarah Haafkens, Craig Allman, Nelson Pires Junior, Cecilia Welch and Caroline Ayers.

Thank you to the following businesses; Evonne Ballinger Beauty, Lucia's by the Sea restaurant, Indigo and Salt, Refine Massage Therapy, Medusa Hair Gallery, Fraternity Club, The Beauty Bar, Ciao Cucina restaurant, Villa Serenity and. Polka Shoppe.

The winners were:- 1st Dakota Short, 2nd, Kalani Good, 3rd Jake Walsh, 4th Indira Lozenkovski, 5th Isabella Oliver, 6th Matthew Munn and 7th Flynn Karhof.  Congratulations to all our winners.

The Raffle raised $969.00 and the Mother's Day Stall raised $1358.70 - totalling $2327.70.

Congratulations to Mrs Perre and husband Dominic who are expecting their second child. It is a wonderful time in their lives and we wish Christine, Dominic and son Samuel all the very best.

Over the next few weeks, Mrs Disibio and I will be conducting Kindergarten Interviews for our 2020 cohort. It is has been great to meet with many of the new families wishing to enrol in our school and to become apart of our amazing St Columbkille’s School community. 

Last Monday, we held our first 'Understanding Our Boys' parent session on Trust. Thank you to Sam Immens and Kerrie Hayes-Williams (Catholic Education Office, Wollongong) who presented on the night. Their insights, knowledge and understanding were greatly appreciated and widely respected. Thank you to the many parents who attended and we look forward to our next session - 'Communication', on Monday 20 May. 

Our winter uniform transition will commence on Monday 20 May. All students are expected to wear their winter uniform by this date.  If you have any concerns regarding your child's/ren winter uniform, please let the school office know before Monday, 20 May. 

I wish you a fantastic weekend, Happy Mother's Day and thank you once again for your support of our school. 

Happy Mother's Day!

Take care

Mr Brad Colquhoun – Principal