26 July 2011

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LORETO COLLEGE COORPAROO P O Box 1726, COORPAROO DC QLD 4151 Telephone: 07 3394 9999

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Email: email@loreto.qld.edu.au Website: www.loreto.qld.edu.au

26 July 2011

Dear Parents and Students This week we look forward to our Semester Two College Mass which concludes with our Semester One Award Ceremony. I extend an open invita on to parents and family members who would like to join us to please do so. You are most welcome and it would be lovely to have you here as part of this very special celebra on. The Mass will be held in the Mary Ward Centre at 11.00am on Thursday July 28th. I look forward to seeing you there if you are able to a end. This week is Catholic Educa on Week; a week in which we celebrate the wonderful heritage of Catholic Educa on in Queensland. In doing so, we especially congratulate the Sisters of Mercy on their Sesquicentenary, as they mark 150 years of leadership, educa on and service in Queensland. Educa ng Body, Mind and Spirit is the united mission that all Catholic schools share. We thank you as parents, for your support of Catholic Educa on and for entrus ng to us the care of your daughter(s). It is a privilege for which we feel deeply humbled and truly honoured. In our hearts and minds we pray most fervently this week for the people of Norway as they struggle to comprehend the senseless loss of so many innocent lives last weekend. May they find comfort in each other and courage through faith. We know that some mes there are simply no answers to our ques ons. With heavy hearts we pray most especially this week for Jessica Blakeway (Year 11) and her family as they mourn the loss of Jessica’s father, Neil. A er a period of long illness and struggle he is now at peace in God’s loving eternal care. We hold Jessica, her mother, Beverley, and her brother Sco , close in our hearts as we pray for them at this me of such profound sadness and loss. “….and I want to ask you, as well as I can, to have pa ence with all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the ques ons themselves. To love them like books wri en in a foreign language. Do not search now for answers that cannot be given to you, because you could not live them right now. And the ques on is to live everything. For the me being, live the ques ons. Perhaps then, one fine day, you will gradually live into the answers without no cing it.” By Rainer Maria Rilke

A MESSAGE FROM QUEENSLAND CATHOLIC EDUCATION:

“Queensland Catholic Educa on authori es have engaged closely with the State Government and support the decision to move Year 7 into secondary school from 2015. The move will be a significant change for both Catholic primary and secondary schools. However, we believe it is the right decision if Queensland is to maintain a world class educa on system. Since the introduc on of the Prep Year, students will be an average of six months older when they reach Year 7 and we believe ready for the challenges of the specialist teaching programs and facili es that the secondary school se ng provides. Importantly, the move will more closely align our school structures with both the delivery of the new Australian Curriculum that will be implemented in Catholic schools from 2012, and with the other States. Projec ons indicate that about 11,000 addi onal students will need to be accommodated in the State’s 85 eligible Catholic secondary colleges from 2015 and planning for the move has already commenced.


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