To all our ELC families, we wish you a happy and blessed Easter holidays. We have so enjoyed getting to know you and your children over the last term, and hope that you all enjoy some family time and hopefully a chance to relax over the Easter weekend.

We have enjoyed celebrating Easter with the students over the last few weeks. Each of the classes have enjoyed making hats for our Easter Parade, decorating egg cups and making some coloured eggs.  It has also been a lovely experience to have the hatching chicks at preschool, and a reminder to us of the Easter message of new life and renewal.

As we journeyed through Holy Week, the children joined in with students at the school in a Palm Sunday Liturgy, the Stations of the Cross and an Easter Liturgy. On all of these occasions we have been so impressed by the beautiful, respectful way they have listened and joined in. As we shared the story of Easter, the children were told of the sadness of Jesus’ death but we have also emphasised to them that the Easter story has a happy ending. The story of Easter is a story of hope – hope of new life, hope of restored relationships, hope of light overcoming darkness. Have blessed and hope filled Easter, spent with those you love.