Religious Curriculum at St Thomas Aquinas

Students in Year 6 have been learning about how the Catholic Church has grown and developed in Australia. Their focus has been on the building of our faith community since 1900. In the past century or more, Australian ‘catholicity’ has been largely influenced by our growing diversity. Australian Catholics have an identity that is quite distinct from Catholicism in other countries as we are a very blended nation with traditions and cultural influences from so many different nations.

Year 6 are also looking at music as a form of faith expression. What songs help you connect with God? Is it a tradition hymn? Or is there a modern song that brings you into encounter with Jesus?

Religious Life of St Thomas Aquinas

Advent Prayer Celebrations

As school finishes before Advent, we have decided to hold our prayer celebrations a little earlier. The whole school will come together to reflect on the weekly Advent messages and all families are invited to join us in the church at 2:00pm each of the Thursday afternoons in Weeks 6, 7, 8 & 9 for these celebrations. We are looking forward to starting off with 6 Blue leading us this coming Thursday.

Christmas Appeal

This year we are hoping to contribute much needed food items to support those in our community who may find the financial aspect of Christmas challenging. We are working with St Vincent de Paul to collect items for Christmas Hampers. Below you will see a list of suggested items to be brought in with different grade levels being responsible for different items. All donations will be presented to St Vincent de Paul at our final whole school Mass on Thursday 5th December. Please send these non-perishable food/drinks into your child’s class where they will be kept until this Mass. Thank you in advance for the generosity this school community is known for.

Grade Food items Grade Food Items

Dignity Hamper

As part of our ongoing support of St Vincent de Paul and those in need in our own community we have established a new dignity hamper. Families are invited to donate to the hampers items to assist the homeless and those in need with hygiene items such as shampoo and conditioner, body wash or soap, deodorant, tampons and pads, incontinence aids and moisturizer. All donations can be place in the new cubes outside the Coordinators’ Office. These will be passed on to St Vincent de Paul as the cubes become full. Thank you in anticipation of your generous donations.

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