Dear Parents and Carers,

How lovely to see parents back on campus! Thank you for joining us for Assembly this week and to those who are volunteering time to help out in the classrooms.

Please note that this coming week is Chapel. Unfortunately, we are not able to use the church as a once off, but we invite you to come to our Stage based Chapels. These are held in the learning spaces of Prep, Stage 1, Stage 2 and Stage 3, starting at 2:15pm on Wednesday. Moving forward, we will be using Real Life Christian Church again for Assembly and Chapel services each week.

PARENT VOLUNTEERS

If you are looking to volunteer your time helping in the classrooms, (e.g reading, coaching a team, helping with a club etc), you would need to meet the vaccination requirements. This includes any parent volunteer hours logged for P&F hours. We ask all volunteers to ensure that our HR Officer, Lena McDowell has a record of your vaccination status. Please contact Lena,  lena.mcdowell@calvarycc.qld.edu.au to do this.

Any parents intending to volunteer more than seven times are also required to apply for a Volunteer Blue Card.  It is free to apply for here. When you apply, you will be asked to provide a reference number to the College in order to complete your application.  Please submit this reference number and your date of birth to our HR Officer, Lena McDowell at lena.mcdowell@calvarycc.qld.edu.au

CAMPS UPDATE

If you have children in Years 4-6, they will be very excited about our Camp program this year. Parents of Year 5 children have been notified that the Year 5 Camp to Lake Ainsworth has been postponed to a date in Term 3. We will confirm as soon as things are locked in.

Year 6 Canberra trip is on track for April 26 -29. We will be presenting an information video on this via Stage and Camp Facebook groups by Friday 18 March, and following this, will host a zoom Question and Answer session for Yr 6 parents on Tuesday 22 March at 6:30pm.

Year 4 Camp to Thunderbird Park, Mount Tambourine is also on schedule. It is a great introduction to Calvary’s camping program. One night away from home and so many team and resilience - building activities for the children to engage in and grow through. Year 4 Camp is Thursday 21-22 April.

STUDENT LEADERSHIP

This week, we introduced the student body to our 2022 Year 6 leaders and captains. Leading our Chapel and Assembly services is one of the many rights of passage for Year 6.

With the new leadership structure, students in Years 3-6 can apply for College Leader. Any students in Years 3 – 6 who have shown that they lead by improving the lives of others at the College through continuous and ongoing service, can apply to be a College Leader.

Applications for College Leadership can be made in Term 1 and Term 2 through a letter to the Head of School. The presentation and announcement of this responsibility will happen twice a year. Once at the end of Term 1 and again at the end of Term 2.

PRINCIPAL TOURS

Both campuses are running Principal Tours next week. If you have family friends who are showing interest in Calvary, feel free to invite them to the Carbrook tour Tuesday 15 March, or Springwood your Wednesday 16 March.

A reminder that our Prep 2023 spaces are filling up. If you have little ones for Prep next year, please book in an interview time through our Enrolments Officer;

Kath.reid@calvarycc.qld.edu.au

Looking forward to seeing you at the upcoming parent Teacher Interviews and around the campus at pick up and drop times.

P&F SPECIAL MEETING

The Presidents of the P&F Associations from BOTH CAMPUSES invite you to a special general meeting of both P&F bodies to be held on 16 March (next Wednesday) at Real Life Christian Church on Dennis Road in Springwood at 7:00pm. This is a significant meeting in the life of our Calvary Community as an important vote will be held to determine whether there will be changes to the way parents volunteer and partner deeply with the College in the future. 

See Agenda Here

REMINDER FOR PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS

Parent Teacher Interview Bookings

3‐6 INTERHOUSE SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Swimming Carnival Note Here

Kim Winton

Head of Junior School - Springwood

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CAPA Update - Dr Gary Holley, Head of Calvary Academy of

Performing Arts

Lots of exciting things are happening in CAPA. Stomp begins at Springwood next week on Wednesday morning, auditions are completed for the MSS Musical and we have our first orchestra performance next Wednesday. It is a great time to be involved in the CAPA program.

This week we also welcome new staff to Calvary. In the area of Cello we are joined by Cameron Fuller. Mr Patrick Farrell is returning to the College to lead Stomp and Contemporary Ensemble and teach Bass Guitar at the College.

Is your child interested in learning Bass Guitar, Guitar or Singing? We have lesson times available at both campuses. Private Lessons are $38 per half hour and Group Lessons of 2 people are $19 per half hour (Subject to numbers) Use the following link if you would like to sign your child up for lessons.

https://forms.office.com/r/wZPsTKZuwP

A reminder if you have not already joined the CAPA Facebook page, please do so as there will be information put there regularly regarding performances.

Should you wish to contact me my email address is gary.holley@calvarycc.qld.edu.au. 

Gary Holley
Head of Calvary Academy of Performing Arts (CAPA)