PARISH MASTER PLAN

As you will know, our Parish of St Agnes’ is a large organisation which has services supporting the people of Port Macquarie and surrounds from early childhood, primary and secondary education, vocational and higher training, youth ministry, aged care and community outreach. The benefit for our schools is that there is a high level of collaboration across education to ensure students receive quality learning and environments.

St Agnes’ Parish has started the process of developing a “Master Plan” for all of its education facilities. This is an innovative and extensive project that will consider what we are currently doing in our schools, where we would like to move towards in our practices and what facilities will be needed to reach these goals.

Each of the schools in our Parish, as well as Wauchope, Laurieton and Kempsey are involved in this project, as a collaborative group. To begin the process, each school has selected a design team, composed of students, parents and staff. This team will work with our community in building a “Project Nest” to capture the ideas and wonderings of everyone willing to take part. The Project Nest will be an actual space within our school that is accessible to all and enables everyone to place their ideas in a central location. Once our design team are given some guidelines around how to best encourage and seek the community’s ideas, we will share with you how you can be part of this initiative. The actual Project Nest work will take place over 3-4 weeks, so we would really like you to visit and contribute a little or a lot. More details will be communicated shortly.   

We are working with two companies in this project, who will take all of our contributions and formulate them into a summary which will be combined with all of our education settings to form the overall Master Plan for the Parish. This is a very exciting and unique opportunity for all of us to build our future.

KUYPER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CONCERT BAND VISIT

On Friday 20th September, we are fortunate to have a visit from the Kuyper Christian School Concert Band from Kurrajong NSW. The school approached us recently as they are touring, offering a performance for our band students. As it is a free performance, all students are invited to participate in the audience, and being the day after the Glasshouse performances, would be a lovely way to end the week. The performance time will be 11:40am and will run for 50-60 minutes.

 The band is a Concert Band set-up, with 34 students and 6 adults in the band. The students are from Years 5-8. They will be playing a highly entertaining, interactive show for students to enjoy and would love to meet any of our musicians after the show. This will be their last performance on the tour and they are really looking forward to being with us.

GLASSHOUSE PERFORMANCE