Term 3 has certainly commenced with a flurry. Our postponed Athletics Carnival was held in very favourable conditions and our Athletes will now go on to compete in SCS championships later in this term. Our Junior football teams completed their 2025 campaign after being competitive all year just to fall at the final in the semifinals. Our league teams 13’s, 15’s and A grade will compete in the SCS Finals this week at Liechardt Oval against Patrician Brothers College Fairfield. We wish the teams and their coaches all the best. 

Our year 12 students are in the final stages of preparation for their Trial HSC Examinations commencing in week three.  We wish the seniors well. This will mean there will be some restrictions to our normal circulation around the College Hall and The FLP precinct for the duration of the examination period. 

Last Friday we launched our Term 3 Delany Foundation Reachout. We were very fortunate to welcome Mr Daniel McInnerney, Director of the Delany Foundation, SCS School Manager and former principal of All Saints Catholic College Liverpool and Casimir Catholic College Marrickville to launch this year's Delany Foundation Reachout. Named after the founder of the Patrician Brothers, Bishop Daniel Delany, the Delany foundation is an initiative of the five Patrician Linked Schools here in Sydney which seeks to raise money to support our Patrician communities here at home and overseas. In recent years the Delany Foundation has supported school communities in Ghana, Kenya and Papua New Guinea as well as contributing scholarships to each of the five Patrician Schools here in Sydney to assist students in need.

School Attendance 

It is important not to send your son to school when they are sick. It is equally important to send them when they are not. Every day counts! This is often quoted, and the evidence clearly indicates that it is true. Attendance at school is a very clear path to success at school and by association success after school.  This is something that has been a focus over the past year and has greatly improved. Exemptions from school attendance are reserved for very limited reasons and must be applied for in advance of any absence.  Under the guidelines family holidays are not covered by an exemption and will be recorded as an absence. 

In cruce salus