Welcome back to Term Two. We hope you enjoyed a lovely term break. Students can wear either summer or winter uniform for the first two weeks of term, depending on the weather. From Week 3, students are expected to wear their full winter uniform. 

On the last day of Term One , we gathered together as a school to reflect upon the Easter story. The students participated in an Easter Liturgy, prepared by Sue Rickwood. In classes, the students acted out various parts of the Easter Story as shown in the photographs taken below. Today we gathered for the remainder of the Easter liturgy; the Resurrection of Christ. 

Luke 24: 1 - 12

Easter is the most important celebration in the Christian calendar. The discovery of the empty tomb – although so simply told – is an astounding event that completes the Paschal Mystery: the passion, death AND resurrection of Jesus. Whilst Christ’s willingness to go to his death on the cross was an extraordinary statement of God’s love for humankind, it is his rising again from death that offers all Christian people hope. It is the second disciple – the one whom Jesus loved – who is the first to grasp the meaning of what has happened inside the tomb. The gospel tells us that upon entering the tomb and seeing Jesus’ burial cloths lying there, ‘he saw and he believed’. Unlike the later encounters with the risen Lord, this disciple recognised the truth and significance of what he saw in the empty tomb. He didn’t need to see the risen Lord to believe. Perhaps it is he that we today can best identify with. Not in a position to physically encounter the risen Christ, we are capable of seeing the signs of his resurrection and continuing presence in the world and choose to believe.