Next week sees a very important time in the Catholic School calendar – Catholic Education Week. Catholic education strives to make a difference in the lives of those in our schools and in the wider community by challenging young people to live out the message of Jesus and to reach their full potential as compassionate, contributing, life-giving members of society.

This year is particularly exciting because the Cairns Diocese has been selected to host Catholic Education Week. As a part of the celebrations, our Year 6 captains will attend Mass at St Monica’s Cathedral along with other school leaders in our Diocese, while our Year 5 and 6 classes will travel to Innisfail to attend Mass at Mother of Good Counsel church before participating in a tour and activities at Good Counsel College. Our Prep to Year 4 children will attend a Liturgy at St Clare’s Church. Our school community is most welcome to join us for this liturgy.

As another part of the Catholic Week Education celebrations, the Cairns Diocese has been able to engage with Andrew Chinn (a popular Australian Christian musician) and offer each school the opportunity to have him visit for the day. This Friday (July 19) we will host Andrew where each class will participate in a one hour workshop and then a whole school concert at the end of the day. Parents are welcome to join us in the hall at 2pm for this concert.