Dear Parents

We are very sad to be saying farewell to several staff members at the end of this year. One very significant farewell is to Helen Procak. Helen has worked at St Mary’s for many years and has always given her very best to any role she has taken on. She is such a team player, going out of her way to provide support across the school. We will certainly miss Helen and thank her most sincerely for all she brings to our school community. As the year draws to a close we also thank Mersina Gelagotis, who has been our Physical Education teacher this year. Mersina has brought so much to our school and we thank her for all that she has been to our school community. Mersina will be missed by all staff and students of St Mary’s.  We also say goodbye to Kelsea Timmers who has been a highly valued Education Support Officer for the past two terms this year. Kelsea will be missed by all of our staff and students.  We also say goodbye to Jordan McMahon. Jordan has been an Education Support Officer for the past two terms. Jordan has built relationships with staff and students and will be missed by our school community.

We warmly welcome two new members to our staff for the 2022 school year. We welcome Trudee Ridley to the role of classroom teacher two days per week in the 1/2 area. We also welcome Lauren Halket to our team as our new STEM teacher. We are very excited to have these two talented and passionate teachers as members of our staff and we are sure you will all make them feel very welcome.

We are in the final stages of creating the classes and will be letting you know whose class your child is in prior to the Statewide Transition day on Tuesday December 7. This information will be sent to you before this day.

The following are the teacher allocations to classes for next year:

Wishing you all a wonderful last few weeks of school for the 2021 school year and I thank you all for your continued support and positivity throughout this ever-changing year. We are so fortunate and blessed to be part of such a wonderful school community.

Kind regards

Lisa Broeren