RE News
Welcome to Term 3 – what a busy term we have ahead of us in the Celebration of our Faith!
Our Year 6 children are busy preparing for Confirmation. They will attend the Confirmation meeting in the Church with their parents next Wednesday, 27th July at 7.00pm. They will also attend one of the Commitment Masses, with their families, on Saturday, 30th July or Sunday, 31st July as part of their preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation. There will be more Confirmation news as the term progresses.
Each year level will be involved in an ‘Encounter with Jesus’, meeting with Fr Joel to hear and discuss stories about Jesus – his life, teachings and his great love for us all. Years 3 – 6 will also receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Important Feast Days
8th August: St Mary of the Cross MacKillop
15th August: The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Day of Holy Obligation)
LGT
‘Let’s Get Together’ will begin next Monday at St Patrick’s. For the new families to our school, ‘Let’s Get Together’ (LGT) is the means we use at St Patrick’s to spread across our school the ideas, values and attitudes from the Making Jesus Real Program. This year we have 32 groups with 13-15 children from Kinder to Year 6 in each group. Yr 6 students are the leaders for each group and we meet fortnightly after recess on Monday.
The ‘Making Jesus Real’ Program or MJR is centred on the belief that we are the image of Jesus to all those people around us. We are his representatives and our actions should reflect His values. These values include showing care and compassion, respect, honesty, and trustworthiness, understanding, tolerance and inclusion. These values also encourage students to do their best, treat others fairly and be responsible for their own actions. In MJR language this translates to trying to be a ‘happy chappy’ rather than a ‘nasty pastie’; to be a WEST person who welcomes, encourages others, says sorry and thanks as opposed to an EAST person who excludes, annoys and argues with others, sulks and talks back. These are just the very first ideals and values that the children are exposed to in ‘Let’s Get Together’.
Through “Let’s Get Together” we aim to have our school community switched on to seeing Jesus in others and actively living out the Gospel Values.
