Dear Parents,

This week St Mary’s parents and teachers will be engaging in our "Get to Know Your Child" interviews. The purpose for the meetings is to allow parents to communicate specific details about their children to their respective teachers. Family routines, past successful experiences and any other important information is shared with the teachers to allow them to develop a full picture of their students and allow them to plan appropriate learning activities. The interviews will take place over the phone to the mobile number of the parent who booked.  Please be aware teachers will be calling from an ‘unknown number’. At the end of term 2 St Mary’s will have another round of interviews allowing teachers to give feedback on student progress.

St Mary’s has been given an updated list of Covid-19 restrictions. The main change refers to whole school assemblies and gatherings. We are now permitted to hold school assemblies with the entire school for more than 10 minutes, while outside and grouped in cohorts. Unfortunately we cannot have parent’s onsite, so we will continue to stream the assembly via Teams. Our first run last Friday appeared to work well, with not only parents joining the live stream, but also some students who were away from the school. I will continue to update our community over the coming weeks as restrictions change.

The beginning for 2022 has seen a large number of our 5 and 6 students participate and make Canberra and Goulburn Archdiocesan teams. St Mary’s is also sending a competitive contingent of swimmers to the Western Region carnival this Thursday. Congratulations to all those students for your efforts so far and best of luck to those who have sporting events coming up in the future.

Mr Nielsen