FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Dear Parents
We’re at the end of another term! If time flies when you’re having fun, it flies twice as fast when it’s fun and jam-packed!! What a great, busy term we’ve had. Here’s some of what happened!
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NAIDOC Week Gallery Walk Catholic Education Week Gala Days Disco Peninsula Athletics Hoops Basketball Program Chess Competition Readers Cup Prac Students Board Meetings Rainforestation Theatrical incursion MoGC Connect Professional Development |
100 Days of Prep Care Team Meetings MoGC Has Talent Grandparent’s Day Masses & Liturgies Year 6 Camp Book Week Parade Firies Visit Science Week Story Dog Visits Year 3-6 Swimming Swimming Carnival Kuranda Train Uniform changes |
MoGC Connect Meetings Staff PD CEW Diocesan Mass Work Experience TCC Athletics Year 4 Camp High School Visits Father’s Day Breakfast R U OK Day Bishop Joe Caddy Visit Coffee on the Deck Butterfly Sanctuary Buddy Time Feedback Surveys Preparations for 2026! |
Ten solid weeks of work and engagement explains why we’re looking forward to a break from the school routine at the end of this week.
Work intensification is a reality for all members of our community, and when it’s coupled with ‘life intensification’; travel, extracurricular groups, sport, music, tutoring, social catch ups, family commitments etc. Everyone is tired!
What does tiredness look like in a family of over 400 people who have been in close proximity for 10 weeks? It can get prickly. We become easily frustrated, irritated, less resilient, experience meltdowns, have trouble concentrating and bouncing back and are more likely to blurt or react emotively. An increase in Friendship Fires is common. It is easier for adults, whose brains are more developed, to recognise these signs and signals and regulate accordingly. It is VERY difficult for young people who can be overwhelmed and confused by big feelings, feelings that are normal.
In times of overwhelm, our children are provided with space and support to work through their feelings and reregulate. Sometimes it is just sharing the space with them, as talking adds to their sensory overload. It could be taking a ‘walk and talk’ where words are shared without the need for eye contact. At times, a conversation is facilitated to work through a Friendship Fire or brainstorming strategies to restore a relationship. Our little people do not have the cognitive, mental or emotional capacity to deal with these things alone. And one approach does not suit everyone!
So as the term winds up, I wish you and your family a safe and fantastic break. I hope it’s filled with a balance of work, adventure, relaxation and pyjama days so you can recharge and be ready for Term 4!
I am adding a few extra days to these holidays. You will see me back at school from Week 2.
We thank you Lord, for this term.
For our challenges, our successes, and the mistakes from which we have learnt.
Be with us as we spend our time with family and friends.
Give us strength and courage to do what is right: to be witnesses of our faith.
Amen
Student Leadership at MoGC
At this time each year, we begin processes with our Year 5 cohort to prepare them for leading the school in the following year. Throughout this term, I have engaged with Year 5 and 6 students, staff and the MoGC School Board to reflect on Student Leadership processes currently in place at MoGC with the purpose of making leadership a more equitable and shared experience of service for students.
Students and staff were asked to reflect on our current leadership processes and brainstorm elements to STOP, START, KEEP and additional CONSIDERATIONS & IMPROVEMENTS. This has been a valuable process and based on the feedback and insight, a new approach to student leadership is being developed and will be shared with families in the first newsletter of Term 4. Stay tuned!
