Catholic Education Week will be celebrated across the Archdiocese of Melbourne from Sunday, 12 March to Sunday, 19 March. This is an opportunity for all Catholic Schools to celebrate their Catholic identity, achievements and the role school plays within the parish and local communities.
The theme for this year’s celebrations is Forming lives of faith, hope and love in the light of Christ.
Here at Our Holy Redeemer Primary School we have had much to celebrate over these last few weeks. From Burning of the Palms on Shrove Tuesday when Fr Frank led all our students in a palm burning ceremony outside the Church. Using ashes obtained by burning palms from the previous Passion Sunday provides a wonderful life-death-life symbol of the paschal mystery to explore.
Followed by the Ash Wednesday Mass when once again the whole school gathered in the Church for Mass with students being blessed with ashes.
Recently we had a special visit from Healthy Harold! All students attended a Life Education session offering schools a unique, curriculum based program empowering children to make safer and healthier choices through education. Life Ed is a 60-90 minute interactive lesson delivered by specialist educators. The face to face lesson is also accompanied by a range of pre and post visit lessons to help extend and reinforce the learning.
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