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The Foundation students were extremely lucky to receive hand knitted teddy bears made by Carol Elswyk and Krys Broeren. These talented parishioners named each teddy bear and gifted them to each child in Foundation in their first week of school. The children are using these teddy bears while undertaking meditation each afternoon and when they need some extra support during the day. Thank you so much Carol and Krys, we love our teddies!
Dear Parents
St Mary’s community have had a wonderful start to the 2023 school year with 44 new Foundation students and their families excitedly starting their journey into school life. The children have settled beautifully and are enjoying all of the new experiences life at school brings. We welcomed several new students throughout the school and several new staff members. We have started our year with 11 classes, one class more than we had last year. We have 230 students and 33 staff. We have welcomed many new families to our school and look forward to supporting them as they get to know us and our school community.
Cory Monckton took on the role of Deputy Principal in week 2 of Term 3 last year when Julian Blackford left to take on the role of Principal at St Mary’s Maffra. Cory was seconded to our school from St Ita’s in Drouin. Cory is now our ongoing Deputy Principal and has also taken on the role of Religious Education Leader and Sports Coordinator. We are very blessed to have Cory on our team and know that he will bring a wealth of knowledge, experience and passion to his role and to our school.
We are looking forward to the year ahead and all it will bring, and I thank you for the continued support you give to your child and to our school community.
Kind regards
Lisa
We are trialling a new 'cashelss' ordering process for lunch orders.
Orders can be placed online via; h-w-food-service.square.site
Link; https://h-w-food-service.square.site/
Follow the directions in the attached document to place your order;
St_Marys_Tuck_Shop_Ordering_Instructions.pdf
****Please note the following****
For catering purposes, orders still need to be submitted via the app no later than 8:00pm on the Wednesday for delivery of Friday orders.
If you place an order and your child is unable to attend school on the Friday please text Heather by 9.00am and she can hold it until the following week.
Please ensure you place your child’s name and classroom in the checkout box as noted in the instructions.
Please place a separate order for each child.
Heather Clarkson
H W Food Service
0432 966 982
Note; You can save the Tuck Shop website as an Icon to your phones home screen by following the same instruction sent home earlier in the week by Mr Monckton regarding the PAM Portal.
A special welcome to our new School Families! Our Craft Group has been operating for many years. We meet every Tuesday in the School Hall at 9.00am and we make gifts for the three stalls we hold each year – Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Christmas. At these events we sell presents for the children to buy for their parents and prices range from $1 to $5. All the money we raise goes to the School.
We have various material, trims etc that we use to make goods for these stalls, however we are always looking for donations of suitable goods plus items for the Raffles that are held in conjunction with the stalls.
Please feel free to come along any Tuesday and see what we do and join in. There is always time for a cuppa and a chat!
Did you know that we have a Before and After School Care provider on our premises; Our Patch.
The centre is located in our school hall and operates from 7.00am to 8.40am and 3.00pm to 6.00pm. The are also open 7.00am to 6.00pm on school closure days and run a school holiday program.
For more information or to register go to; https://ourpatch.education/before-and-after-school-care/
Contact; 1300 018 310 or info@ourpatch.education
February 2023
- Friday 10th - Swimming Trials year 3 to 6
- Monday 13th - Whole School Prayer Gathering 9.00am
- Tuesday 14th - Parent Teacher Interviews
- Wednesday 15th - Parent Teacher Interviews
- Friday 17th - Netball Clinic year 3/4
- Tuesday 21st - Parent Teacher Interviews
- Wednesday 22nd - Parent Teacher Interviews
- Thursday 23rd - Learn to Swim Program year 3/4 and First Reconcilation Meeting 5.00pm
- Friday 24th - Learn to Swim Program year 3/4 and Netball Clinic year 5/6
- Monday 27th - Responsible Pet Program Foundation students and P&F AGM
March
- Thursday 2nd - WV Swimming Carnival, Learn to Swim Program year 3/4
- Friday 3rd - Learn to Swim Program year 3/4
- Monday 6th - Foundation Camp Program
- Wednesday 8th - School Advisory Board Meeting
- Thursday 9th - Learn to Swim Program year 3/4
- Friday 10th - Learn to Swim Program year 3/4
- Thursday 16th - Learn to Swim Program year 3/4
- Friday 17th - Learn to Swim Program year 3/4
- Monday 20th - Foundation Literacy Afternoon for Parents
- Thursday 24th - School Photos
- Friday 24th - Melbourne Zoo Excursion year 3/4
- Monday 27th - National Young Leaders Day Melbourne year 6
- Thursday 30th - First Reconciliation Sacrament 5.00pm
- Friday 31st - Athletics Carnival
April
- Wednesday 5th - Last day term 1
- Thursday 6th -School Closure for Staff First Aid Training
- Friday 7th - Good Friday
- Monday 24th - First Day term 2
- Tuesday 25th - School Closure for ANZAC Day