Term 1, Week 4 - 20th February, 2025

From the Acting Principal

Dear families,

Welcome to Week 4 of the school year! It is hard to believe that we are almost halfway through Term 1 already. During Week 5, I will be attending the Leadership Forum in Toowoomba to network with other Principals in the Diocese as well as participate in a range of professional development opportunities. My schedule for Week 5 is as follows:

• Monday 24^th February – Principal Forum (Toowoomba)
• Tuesday 25^th February – Principals Forum (Toowoomba)
• Wednesday 26^th – Return to St Maria Goretti
• Thursday 27^th February – Professional Development (Toowoomba)
• Friday 28^th February – Return to St Maria Goretti

During my absence, Miss Darcy Barnes will be in the role of Deputizer. Should you need to make contact with the Principal in my absence, please direct any communication to the front office by phone – (07) 4652 1109 or email – inglewood@twb.catholic.edu.au.

Right to Disconnect

Student Leadership

At St Maria Goretti school, we value our Catholic identity and are proud to have a strong religious life of the school. To celebrate the beginning of a new school year and officially welcome our Year 6 leaders, Charlie, Rachael, Pippa, Amelia and Cleodora, we held a Beginning of Year and Leadership Commissioning Mass today. Our leaders received their Year 6 badges during the ceremony. Thank you to our families and the wider community for joining us in this celebration. I know that our Year 6 cohort will lead our school with pride throughout the 2025 school year.

Furthermore, Week 5 will see the Year 6 leaders and Miss Key travel to Highfields to participate in the GRIP Leadership Conference. This conference is unique in that it concentrates specifically on training student leaders for their role as a School Leader. The topics and contents of the conference focus on what the students can do right now and provides our Year 6 students with a clear vision of what it takes to be a great school leader. This is an excellent opportunity for our students to network with other school leaders to take away ideas of how to be the best leaders they can be.

As part of the new Student Leader Guidelines for 2025, our student leaders prepared a 1-minute speech which was delivered in front of the school community on assembly about their vision for leadership. Initial support was provided in class, however students were then required to finish and practice these speeches at home. 

Caritas - Project Compassion

Our School Prayer

Library News

Queensland School Libraries Week 

We celebrated our library by reflecting on ways it serves us as a window to the world. Other questions we will consider across the term are:

What do we want to learn about our world through the library window this year?

What are the steps to using the library as a window to the world?

Prep –Year 6 Browse and Borrow 

"The more that you read, the more that you'll know" Dr Suess

Thank you to parents and caregivers for sharing the students’ free choice library books at home and for reminding students to return them with their bags each Thursday morning in readiness for new books during their library session.  

Library Time

Share the joy of reading together in your homes!

Anne Anderson

Teacher Librarian

Students of the Week - Week 4

Sports Award

Sight Word Certificates

Happy Birthday!

NAPLAN Testing Schedule

NAPLAN information for parents and carers

2025 Student residential address and other information

Enrol Now for 2025

Please visit our school website for information about enrolment https://www.inglewood.catholic.edu.au/enrol or call the office on 4652 1109.

Parent Engagement Network (PEN)

Strategic Plan 2023-2026

Notices