School was out for summer

Sydney
26 January

School was out for summer

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Bowling club will go into retreat

School was out for summer

School's been out for most of the summer - but these youngsters, pictured enjoying the summer sun on Bondi beach, will soon be swapping beach games for school books as they wend their way back to school next week.

The leaping lads and lasses are, from left to right: Ashleigh Randich-Potts; Jay Doran, Lucy Cavanagh, Zane Tukukino and Henry Payten. They are all in Year 2 at Galilee Primary, Bondi, which opened just last year.

The kids have a good chance of a happy future, too.

As Pope John Paul II says, Catholic education helps the young confront in a positive way the "big questions of existence".