Our Catholic Life and Identity
National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia in the first week of July each year (Sunday to Sunday), to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for all Australians to learn about First Nations cultures and histories and participate in celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth.
Due to the school holidays, our celebrations will take place on Tuesday 1 August 2023.
2023 Commissioned Mini Vinnies Team
Congratulations to our newly commissioned Mini Vinnies Team:
Phoenix P, Aurora De , Genevieve G, Jessica B, Claudia T, Rose C, Ava G Claudia U, Harper F , Isabella G, Samuel T, Jasmine I.
A special welcome to Miss Rae and Mrs Apolloni who have joined the team. We are very excited to work with you.
St Vincent de Paul Winter Appeal
Mini Vinnies Pyjama Day and Food Drive
Winter can be a particularly difficult time for people, especially the 3.6 million Australians facing food insecurity and the 116,000 Australians experiencing homelessness - 60% who are under the age of 35, 44% who are women and 13% who are under 12 years old.
Our school is guided and informed by the Benedictine Values, in particular the value of Community. This value calls us to service the common good, show respect for the individual, and develop virtuous friendship. It leads us to demonstrate good will, humility, trust, accountability, justice, faithfulness, obedience, peace, and discipleship.
On Friday 21st July (Term 1 Week 1) GSGM will be holding a Pyjama Mufti Day and Food Drive Fundraiser where students will wear their Onesie or Pyjamas or Tracksuit to school (please bring a gold coin donation) and will donate an item of nonperishable food (see below), which will be given out to those in our local area experiencing rough sleeping or food insecurity.
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Kindergarten |
Year 1 |
Year 2 |
Year 3 |
Year 4 |
Year 5 |
Year 6 |
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Juice or milk popper |
2 minute noodles |
Packet chips/ pretzels |
Muesli bar |
Soaps Toothpaste |
Toothbrush |
Deodorant (non gender) |
Year 3 -Commitment Mass Save the Date -
Sunday 23 July 2023 8.30am at St John Vianney Co-Cathedral
This mass is for all students preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Saint Benedict Of Nursia:
11 July marks one of the days where we remember St Benedict.
In a 2005 general audience, Pope Benedict XVI said St. Benedict was a “powerful reminder of the indispensable Christian roots” of Europe. He cited the monk’s instruction to “prefer nothing to the love of Christ,” and asked his intercession to " help us keep Christ firmly at the heart of our lives.”
Born to upper-class parents in modern-day Italy during the year 480, Benedict was sent to Rome to study the humanities. However, he soon became disgusted with the loose morals that prevailed among the students. Withdrawing from the city, he lived briefly with a group of monks, then as a hermit.
St. Scholastica, Benedict’s sister, also embraced religious life as a nun. She most likely died shortly before him, around the year 543. In his final years, the abbot himself had a profound mystical experience, which is said to have involved a supernatural vision of God and the whole of creation.
Around the age of 63, Benedict suffered his final illness. He was carried into the church by his fellow monks, where he received the Eucharist for the last time. Held up by his disciples, he raised his hands in prayer for the last time, before dying in their arms.
Mrs Natalie Shelley
Religious Education Coordinator