St Aloysius Catholic College eNewsletter

PARISH COMMUNITY AND OUTREACH

CARDS OF CARE

Students from the Huntingfield Campus recently had the opportunity to write letters to the residents of Bishop Davies Court Nursing Home in Kingston.

As you are probably aware, residents of nursing homes have been quite isolated from their families until recently due to COVID19. The students wrote letters to the residents expressing their understanding of how difficult this time must have been. The students also introduced a little about themselves and how life has been for them during COVID19.

Students from Grade 8, Fergus and Bonnie made an early morning visit to deliver the letters to Bishop Davies Court. Facility manager George Wilson was very grateful for the letters. He said his residents would really enjoy reading the letters and that it would help to brighten their day. A big thank you to all the students who wrote letters and the teachers who assisted.

KINGBOROUGH HELPING HANDS

As part of the College's Outreach Program, for a number of years now the Kingston Campus has been involved in weekly donations of cakes and biscuits for Kingborough Helping Hands. Unfortunately KHH are unable to accept home baking at this time and so the invitation is being put out for families to donate dry store items. Due to the rise in need for these items we are extending this program to Grades 5 and 6 at the Huntingfield Campus.

Classes will be rostered for the remainder of Term 2 to bring in tins, biscuits or pantry goods. These will be collected and delivered to Kingborough Helping Hands at the end of each week to be distributed to those most in need in our community.

The roster is as follows:

Week 6 beginning Monday 1st June: 6 Blue

Week 7 beginning Tuesday 9th June: 6 Green

Week 8 beginning Monday 15th June: 5 White

Week 9 beginning Monday 22nd June: 5 Blue

Week 10 beginning Monday 29th June: 5 Green

Thank you so much to Mr Harrington’s class 6 White for their generous donations last week.

LIVE STREAMED MASS

Today, (4 June,) a Mass for the Prep to Grade 4 students was live streamed from the Huntingfield Chapel. Thanks to Grade 4 Blue for their prerecording of the readings and prayers and to Father Chris for being ever adaptable in his celebrations with us. You can check it out (along with the students’ awesome hymn actions!) on the Kingston Channel Parish live stream Mass YouTube page.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWsCT3P6Cwt5YV4jio3VBgQ/featured

NEW PRAYER TABLES

Each homeroom at the Huntingfield Campus is being provided with new prayer tables including storage boxes and lighting. These tables are helping to create a calm environment for when classroom prayers are taking place. A big thank you to the students who helped build the shelves in Grades 7 and 8 and to the teachers for setting up their shelves so nicely.