…keep fervent in your love for one another…

                …Be hospitable to one another without complaint.                                
(1 Peter 4: 8-9)

As I write this newsletter, I have joined with diocesan Principals and senior leaders in Charleville at the Toowoomba Catholic Schools Term 2 Leadership Forum. I am very much looking forward to catching up with the Year 6 students this evening on their outback adventure.

My time at OLSCC is quickly drawing to a close, and I am saddened by the thought that I will be moving on from a community that has warmly accepted me and made me feel welcome across my 6-week tenure.

As a part of my work here, I have begun the strategic planning process moving into 2024, collating data from staff and sitting with groups of students, hearing their voices around where they see the future of OLSCC. This has proven most insightful. Some common threads that weave through all those I have encountered, is that Our Lady is a place of great welcome, all feel known, and quality staff provide an excellent learning experience for learners. Both staff and students are proud of their school and see the great benefits of a P-12 community. This has been my experience also.

My prayer for this community as I do make my way back to St Saviour’s is to never lose sight of what a special community this is. The staff are so dedicated to the success of their learners, and their work is carried out with a deep love for their learners and the OLSCC community. In addition, the students are polite and warm, and funny and full of life and love. All these things have bolstered my experience and given me a reason and purpose to turn up every day.

Thanks, in particular, to the Senior Leadership Team, Cate, Rod, Craig, Katrina, Sarah and Nicole who have been such great supports and wonderful companions. I can genuinely say that there is quality leadership from the top; dedicated educators who are committed to the success of their learners and OLSCC as a whole.

It will be wonderful for you to welcome back Pete Cuskelly to the community and learn of his adventures and time on the Camino, which I am sure was a time of great blessing.

May OLSCC always be blessed and may Our Lady of the Southern Cross, continue always, to be our guide.

Blessings for the times ahead.

Ms Sharon Collins

Acting Principal