On Wednesday in Weeks 8 and 9 (23 and 30 March) the only meal available at the canteen during lunch will be beans and rice.

Each week during Lent, JPC is taking the opportunity to create awareness and fundraise for Project Compassion, Caritas Australia’s annual fundraiser.

Every dollar from the beans and rice meals sold at the canteen will go toward communities across the world.

For many people across the globe, a normal daily meal could be a simple bowl of beans and rice and not much else. By purchasing a bowl in Week 8 or 9, you are not only supporting communities across the world, but you are also participating in an act of solidarity, putting yourself in the shoes of another.

Biru in India is featured as the Project Compassion story for this week of Lent. Biru is a man who, despite a disability caused by childhood Polio, was able to learn how to repair bicycles through Caritas’ support.

With a bicycle repair business that he runs from home, he supports his wife and four daughters, and actively trains others in his local community.

His story is just one of the five stories featured this year for Project Compassion. You can find out more about him here: https://www.caritas.org.au/project-compassion/biru-story/

So, at just $3.50 a bowl, your beans and rice can make a big difference in a community like Biru’s.

Remember: Beans beans the musical fruit, the more you eat the more you…… help others toward a sustainable future!!!

Beth Doherty
Religious Education Teacher

Key Dates

• 26^th April – ASC athletics
• 28 April – SSACT Beach Volleyball 
• 3^rd May  - ACT AFL – Year 8/9 Boys and Girls
• 5^th May – JPC Cross Country
• 6^th May – SSACT 13/O Swimming

The following four athletes compete with Sirens Cheerleading in the International Co-ed Open 5 squad- Sirens Anthem. 

• Rory Grummett (Year 10)
• Sienna Gerstenberg (Year 10)
• Ruby Dacey (Year 8)
• Ceinwyn Robens (Year 12)

Last year they won not one but two bids to compete at the World Cheerleading Championships and will be travelling to Florida in April 2023 to compete against the best teams in the world.

These four students will travel to Florida with their team mates (all 22 of them) where they will spend two weeks training at some of the best cheerleading gyms in the World. They will then move to the Disneyland Resort at Walt Disney World to compete at the ESPN sports centre.

The Cheerleading Worlds attracts athletes from all over the world with over 10,000 cheerleaders competing for the World Champion Title.

Sirens Anthem and these four JPC students have been working towards this competition for several years now however covid has impacted their ability to travel.   

Cheerleading is an extremely athletic, precision team sport requiring immense strength, fitness and physical skills.  It involves both males and females performing a 2 minute & 30 second routine composed of stunting, pyramids, group tumbling, jumping and a dance break. 

Over the next year, they will devote hours and hours of training to ensure they are ready to hit the Worlds stage to represent Sirens, Canberra and all of Australia in 2023!

JPC wishes the team all the best and we look forward to hearing about your adventures.

Well done!

JPC Careers Updates

• Don’t forget that we have amazing resources on our JPC Careers website https://jpc-careers.com/
• Also, follow us on our social pages to get more up to date information - @JPCcareers on Instagram and Facebook.
• You can contact Ms Zorzi at careers.jpc@cg.catholic.edu.au

Story Ground for Secondary Students

Story Ground for Secondary Students is an exciting creative writing course for students in years 10, 11 and 12 – best of all, it is FREE. Students will be guided by Dr Paul Collis, author of Dancing Home (a novel) and Nightmares Run Like Mercury (poetry), to understand how Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and valuing are connected to story. Students may choose to work with story in a variety of ways, through oral, written or visual modes.

All participants will receive a certificate of participation on completion.

Click HEREto register

Ms Teena Zorzi
Leader of Learning (Careers) and Wellbeing (Drexel House)

Parish Newsletter

For the latest news Click here or you can view it on the Parish App or visit the website below.

Holy Spirit Catholic Parish, Gungahlin invite you to a Vigil of prayer for Ukraine.

When:  Friday 18 March 2022

Time:    6:30pm

Where: Holy Spirit Church

Our prayers can make great things happen! 

This is an opportunity for us to gather and pray for peace and show our solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

All are welcome, you do not have to be Catholic to come along and light a candle in support of peace.

Further details - Fb link: https://fb.me/e/1JHK4RW59

“When a believing person prays, great things happen.” - James 5:16