Term 3 Welcome

A big welcome back to all of our community for Term 3!  Like most previous years, Term 3 2022 will be action packed with camps, excursions, athletics carnivals, retreats, and lots of engagement in the curriculum.  We will also see our first “Enchanted Evening” lead by Miss Creeley and Miss Nicholson, Our Lady of the Southern Cross Day (1 September), as well as the official blessing and opening of the Middle Years Plaza, The Chapel, Agribusiness Pathways Precinct, and the Grounds and Maintenance Shed.  Needless to say, it’s important that everyone in our community take note of the dates in newsletters, and those sent out by your child’s teachers so activities and events are not missed. In this newsletter is a College Term 3 Calendar for you to print and hang on your fridge.  Alternatively, feel free to ask for a hard copy from the office.

Today’s Assembly

I must congratulate Jaiken Crothers and Claudia Child, our College Captains, on their progressive development of whole College Assemblies throughout the year.  Today’s assembly was a wonderful celebration of success and a true reflection of the amazing College we are all so proud to be part of.  This year’s NAIDOC theme is “Get Up, Stand Up, Show Up!”, as presented by Mrs Ballantyne, and we reflected on how we need to Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! in all aspects of our lives – whether it be getting to school, helping others make better decisions, fighting for change or simply getting to class. My message to the students this morning was that our little school is an exceptional one.  We constantly perform significantly better than others expect of us, and that is largely because we simply Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! in everything we do.  Our celebration of success at this week’s assembly certainly shows the phenomenal humans that the community of OLSCC continues to grow.

New Jackets for Middle and Senior Years!

The conversations regarding an alternate jacket for Middle and Senior Years has been ongoing for a long time now.  I am proud to say that the new jacket is now available from the Uniform Shop! The feedback from students and parents so far is excellent and we are excited to see that students will look smarter, feel warmer and require less uniform items as this jacket can be worn with any uniform.  It is only marginally more expensive than the sports jacket at $82.50.  This is only for students in Years 5-12, and there are only 90 jackets in the first shipment which I expect to sell out fast.  The uniform shop is open Tuesday (8 - 9:30am) and Thursday (3 - 5:30pm) every week of the term. 

College Coach and Car

On the last day of school last term, some criminals broke into the grounds shed and stole various tools as well as the College Car.  This was obviously quite a surprise the night before the car was due to drive to Mackay for a sport trip, though we are grateful that the car has been found, along with the criminals, in Wagga Wagga, some 1100 kilometres from Dalby.  The car is being processed by NSW police and will take some repair and checking before returning to the College.

This morning our College Coach had a little disagreement with a camphor laurel tree in Toowoomba and is on its way to Ipswich to be repaired.  No one except the driver was in the coach at the time, and everyone is safe and sound.  Students are being collected by a private company to return to the College from TCS Athletics and the Hybrid Learning Day today, and all future trips have been arranged with alternate providers.  This means no-one will miss out on any camps, retreats, excursions or sport due to this minor incident, and we look forward to having the coach back as soon as the parts are sourced.

Peter Cuskelly

Principal