Last week the Semester 1 SRC had the opportunity to meet together for the first time. This year the SRC is taking a different tack by focusing on the care of the environment and service to others. This is based on the Catholic teachings on stewardship and social justice, as well as the message of the founder of our charism, Mary MacKillop - "Never see a need without doing something about it." 

The leaders are called on to support Mrs W in masses and liturgies and are often called upon to thank visitors at short notice. They also show new families around our school and are expected to always live by our school motto "Concern for Others."

Next week classes will receive their seedlings to plant in the garden space.  Each class has been allocated a bed in our garden space and they will plant seedlings, weed and care for beds and ultimately harvest the lovely fresh produce. Holy Name School has established a partnership with Catholic Care to supply them with fresh produce to use in their Community Kitchen program. We are hoping to expand this partnership when the Community Kitchen starts operating out of our Parish Hall by preparing and serving food for those less fortunate in our community. We also plan to visit the sick and lonely in our community.

The SRC is also going to work on caring for our environment. We are planning to do activities such as a rubbish audit at school, performing skits and making videos about using the bins correctly and not wasting water. Next Semester we will work with Landcare and the Local Council to conduct some local community clean ups and form plans to stop rubbish entering our beautiful waterways. We would also like to raise the profile of the Take 3 for the Sea initiative and hopefully engage a guest speaker from this great organisation.

Our House Captains are going to be busy collecting and displaying House points for our Term Challenge. Each term, the House with the most points will have a BBQ and movie at the end of the Term. Points are earned from Sport events as well as teachers catching children doing the right thing in class or on the playground. Our first "big" job will be to organise a short presentaion for the students on March 20th for the National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence.

I am really excited about the direction the SRC is taking in 2020 and I know that our school community can really make a difference!