St Bernadette's Primary School Dundas Valley

SEASON OF CREATION by Nick Brodie

In today’s parable where a son said yes but did nothing, Jesus offers a striking indictment of empty lip-service. In our age, one of the Church’s most insistent calls has been for people to work for the protection of the vineyard of the earth. Speaking of climate change, deforestation and chemical pollution, Pope Saint John Paul II declared in 1990 “that the ecological crisis is a moral issue” and called on all people to “recognize their obligation to contribute to the restoration of a healthy environment.” In 2009 Pope Benedict XVI insisted that “technologically advanced societies can and must lower their domestic energy consumption”. In 2015 Pope Francis called on all of humanity “to recognize the need for changes of lifestyle, production and consumption, in order to combat this warming” of the world’s climate which we are currently facing.

Successive Popes have therefore called us all to work for the protection of our planet and its people. But it is up to every Christian to ensure that these words are not just empty rhetoric.

In Religious Education Early Stage 1 have been learning about Jesus’ love for little children.

Matthew 19: 14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

This week our teachers have spent time with our Numeracy Teacher Educator planning rich problem solving tasks for next term. Exploring this opportunity will definitely help in bringing rigor to our numeracy tasks moving forward.

Next term we will add some of these tasks into the newsletter so you will see how much hard thinking your children are doing.

Please look out for the link to our zoom meeting where some of our students will share their learning from the past couple of weeks.