It was good to have a full fortnight of school, however, you will see there are still events happening to enrich the lives of our students. 

Last week we had our Senior Health classes and other selected Year 12s attend the P.A.R.T.Y Program at the Townsville University Hospital. This was a great opportunity to see the fall out from some poor choices people make from parties and other events. They had a tour of the Emergency and ICU facilities as well as the morgue. Then later in the week the Year 12s had a drama presentation, Choices which was the same focus. We really hope the message has been received and we can keep our Year 12s safe.  

We also began our NAPLAN Practice last week. We had our Year 7s and 9s doing practice in their classes as opposed to a huge group in the SDC. By all accounts this went really well. The NAPLAN Test will occur Wednesday 12 - Friday 14 March. 

This week the focus has been on being kind to each other. The students had a variety of activities in Homeroom on Thursday around this topic and generally there has been activities every Homeroom for students to be engaged at school and at home around this topic. We hope they were kind to you at home as well. 

Thursday we had a fantastic turn out of parents at the Assisi First Nations Emerging Leaders Information Night. Staff from TCE came out to inform our parents of the opportunities for them as parents and students have as part of this program. We are expecting a full take up of this program from our first nations families. We also thank our First Nations team at Assisi for their work to facilitate the program and all the staff who will support the students over the course of the year. 

It is also that time in the year where we are marketing the College to our area for enrolments for next year. For the first time St Clare’s ran a Marketing Expo with about four other Catholic schools participating. This was a good opportunity for the parents at this school to see what each of the schools has to offer. Then on Sunday we have our Encountering Secondary Education morning. We are hoping for another wonderful turnout of families. We certainly have many of our teachers coming along to support the morning as well as a range of students helping with sporting demonstrations, music items, cooking in Hospitality for breakfast and our tour guides. If you are new to the College and would love to see our facilities, please come along. 

Until next Newsletter or I see you, take care

Nick Antoniazzi 

Deputy Principal - Assisi Campus