Principal's Message

NAIDOC WEEK ASSEMBLY to finish the Term

Earlier this week, the College recognised and celebrated Naidoc week with a visit from our local elders. It is always a privilege to have them here, seeking their advice, listening to their stories and having them as part of the SJPC community.

The NAIDOC 2022 theme - Get Up! Stand Up! - calls for all of us, whether it’s seeking proper environmental, cultural and heritage protections, Constitutional change, a comprehensive process of truth-telling, working towards treaties, or calling out racism—to do it together.

At SJPC we continue to work on implementing our Reconciliation Plan (which came to a halt during the last 18 months thanks to COVID) and as part of that,  plans are afoot for a yarning circle to be developed at the front of the school. We have much to be thankful for because of the way the local Gumbaynggir nation have taken care of our region for tens of thousands of years.

Our prayer for the assembly can be found below;

God of all wonder,

We pause in the busyness of our days to listen deeply to the wisdom of this land and those who belong to it. May our minds be open to dialogue,

May our hearts be open to transformation and May our hands do the work of reconciliation.

We ask that the Spirit accompany us on our journey of healing on these lands, seas and waterways;

We also ask the Spirit of peace be with all those who are living a life of fear, dispossession and distress.

We make this prayer in the name of Jesus our brother and friend.

Amen.

Thank you all for a wonderful first semester and I hope this upcoming break affords you all a time of rest and relaxation, ready for another busy Term 3.

God bless

Michael Carniato
Principal