Dear Parents and Carers,

Hope that you are well and are enjoying your week.

The Year 6 Mass with Bishop Brian took place last Wednesday, with several schools across the Diocese of Wollongong celebrating this event at St Therese, West Wollongong. Thank you to Ms Patton and to Claude Vincent, Georgia Doherty and Indira Lozenkovski, for their preparation, beautiful singing and participation in the Mass. Our Year 6 students answered many of Bishop Brian's questions, participated actively in the Mass and enjoyed interacting with Year 6 students from the other schools.

The annual Year 5 overnight excursion to Canberra was held last Thursday and Friday. We enjoyed a sensational time together. The early 6am start on Thursday morning was followed by the frost and cold of Goulburn. Once arrived in Canberra we were able to visit and explore the AIS, Parliamnt House, Questacon, War Memorial and Old Parliament House Electrocal Office throughout the 2 days. We greatly appreciate the time away from home, organisation and sense of adventure from the Mrs Lace, Mr Lowrie, Mrs Sumner and Mrs Finney. Thank You!

This Monday, our Year 4 students will be participating in the annual Religious Literacy Assessment. Thank you to Ms Finlay-Joseph and Mrs Kipp  for their work in preparing  Year 4  for this assessemnt and wish them all the very best.

NAPLAN results were releaased this week. The St Columbkille's results show Year 3 and 5 Above National Average in each Domain - Reading, Writing, Spelling, Grammar/Punctuation and Numeracy - a wonderful result! We will further explore students and school data re: NAPLAN results from NESA and CEDoW once this inofrmation is released.