St Mary's War Memorial School West Wyalong eNewsletter

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Olga Scott who passed away this week. Olga turned 101 last month.

Olga devoted much of her life to charity work, such as the CWA, Royal Far West and the Catholic Women's League, she was a remarkable person and will be sadly missed by her family and the community.

Mk 12:28-34

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark

One of the scribes came up to Jesus and put a question to him, ‘Which is the first of all the commandments?’ Jesus replied, ‘This is the first: Listen, Israel, the Lord our God is the one Lord, and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.’

In Sunday’s reading we were reminded that we are called to love God above all things and to love our neighbour as ourself. As today is All Saints Day, we can look to our Faith’s great heroes and heroines who each in their own way witnessed to the love of Christ through the inspiring actions of their lives.

One recently beatified woman who loved God with all her heart, soul, mind and strength was Blessed Sandra Sabatini. Despite dying in a car accident at just 22, she devoted her short yet beautiful life to service of others by helping and providing care for the poor and disabled in her local community. She once wrote in her journal to:

“Love everything you do. Love deeply the minutes you live, which you are allowed to live. Try to feel the joy of the present moment, whatever it is, to never miss the connection.”

Let us pray:

They left their mark on the earth for you, for us, for our children to come. Thank you, God, for the tremendous sacrifices made by those who have gone before us. Bless the memories of your saints, God. May we learn how to walk wisely from their examples of faith, dedication, worship, and love.

Amen

The recipients of our Whatever You Do, Do Well awards this week:

Blair Bales	Harriet Bell	Annabelle Brose
Montana Crouch	Lola Glasgow	Gemma Logg
Nixon Loudon	Larna Pilon	Hugh Ridley
Lilly Robertson	Ricky Smith	Maive Stewart
	Edward Tulloch

St Mary's says a massive thank you to all our families and staff who contributed so generously to Socktober.

Together over the month of October we raised a massive $732 for the Good Shepherd Sisters Kindergarten in Bangkok. We joined 350 schools across Australia raising $99,823 for Catholic Missions which will make a huge difference to the lives of poor and underprivileged children in Thailand.

Bravo St Mary's, we are official Socktober Superstars!

Term 4, 2021 Class and Whole School Mass Timetable

Unfortunately due to the current COVID restrictions we are unable to have parents, grandparents and carers attend the church.

Date

Class

Week 6

Wednesday 10 November

Kinder, Year 5 & 6 Mass @ 12pm

We would like to clarify the pickup arrangements on Church Street during the current COVID restrictions.

For your child's safety we ask that parents only park on the the school side of Church Street. Parents should remain with their cars and as soon as your child is in the car please move along so other parents can get closer to the gates.

We can no longer allow children to cross the road to get into a car and ask you do not park on the opposite side to the school and then walk across. This holds up the cars leaving and is dangerous.

LAST CHANCE TO CHOOSE YOUR CHILD'S SWIMMING LEVEL.

Please complete this permission note today.

Intensive Swim Lessons - Permission Note

Students not attending the program will be supervised at school and set appropriate literacy learning activities.

THIS YEAR THE SWIMMING LESSONS WILL BE AT NO COST TO ALL STUDENTS.

*WATER LEARNER*	Water Learner encourages children to become independent in the water. We introduce the fundamentals of water safety and continue to develop water confidence. The core focus is to get the child to stay afloat and start achieving short distances of propulsion.
*WATER BASIC*	This level introduces swimming skills. At this level, children will learn kicking, breathing, streamline, body position and arm rotation, the core swimming skills needed to ensure your child has the correct techniques for their on-going development.
*WATER SKILLS*	Children are now displaying correct freestyle techniques. We start to advance the distances of swimming to 15 metres. Backstroke is also introduced along with more advanced skills and drills to refine the child’s stroke and to continue water confidence.
*SQUAD*	Squad training has various levels. Re-enforcing the core swimming skills over a longer distances of 25m. The 50m squads focuses on fine tuning all four strokes along with further development of dives, introduction of turns, starts and finishes. There is also a concentration on developing fitness and fun in all squads.

If your child is holding a perpetual trophy from last year, could this please be returned to the school office.

Our Kinder Orientation sessions start are on the following dates:

Friday 12 November - 8.55am to Midday

Friday 19 November - 8.55am to 11.30am - followed by a parent session on "Everything you need to know about Kinder 2022"

Friday 26 November - 8.55am to 3.20pm

Friday 3 December - 8.55am to 3.20pm

Children should wear comfortable clothes and a hat. They will need a piece of fruit, recess and a drink for the two half days. On the full days they will need their lunch as well.

Please drop your children at the Parish Centre from 8:45am. Mrs Meincke will be there to greet your children. As per our current COVID regulations please wear your mask and leave the church carpark immediately after dropoff.

Year 5/6 Excursion	Friday 3 December Narrandera
Year 5 School Captain Speeches and Voting	Wednesday 8 December St Mary's Church, Time TBA
Speech Day	Thursday 9 December West Wyalong S&C Club 9.30am Times and parent attendance will be confirmed soon.
Reports go home to parents	Friday 10 December
Year 6 Graduation Dinner	Monday 13 December West Wyalong S&C Club 6.30pm
Year 6 Graduation Mass	Tuesday 14 December St Mary's Church at midday
Final School Day	Wednesday 15 December
First Day of School for students in 2022	Tuesday 1st February

Date	Teacher on Leave or PD	Class	Relief
There are no staff changes for Week 5.

The Secondary Coordinator from St Anne's, Michelle Jamieson, will be visiting West Wyalong on the 4th of November between 4pm and 6pm. If you are interested in discussing the opportunities available for your child in secondary at St Anne's please email Michelle on michelle.jamieson@cg.catholic.edu.au.

Happy Birthday to

Jagger Lange

who celebrates his birthday this week.

We hope you enjoy your special day.

Assembly

Our award winners this week.

World Teachers Day

We paid tribute to our awesome teachers and all the work they do for our school last Friday for World Teachers Day.

Their dedication to the vocation as a teacher is outstanding and helps shape our young people for the future.

On Friday all of our students spent the afternoon writing / making something special for their teacher. They took pride in doing this becuse they were truly grateful for their teacher and wanted to express this.

"A TEACHER TAKES A HAND, OPENS A MIND AND TOUCHES A HEART"

A Special Visit

A baby joey visited our Kinder, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3/4 classes last Monday. The students were very excited to see the joey in it's special pouch and having lunch.

The following events are in the calendar in the next week.

To see the school's full calender check out the SZApp or our website.

Nov
2
Tue

02 Nov 2021

Event Info

Nov
2
Tue

02 Nov 2021

If you would like to make a confidential appointment for your child please contact the school office or you can complete an online form at this link:

Catholic Care - Counselling Referral Form

Event Info

Nov
2
Tue

02 Nov 2021

School Event Kinder Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Nov
4
Thu

04 Nov 2021

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Event Info

Nov
4
Thu

04 Nov 2021

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

St Anne's 2022

If you would like to discuss the opportunities available for your child in secondary at St Anne's the Principal and Secondary Co-ordinator will be visiting West Wyalong on the 4th of November between 4pm and 6pm. Contact St Anne's directly to make an appointment.

Event Info

Nov
4
Thu

04 Nov 2021

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

School Event Year 6

Mk 12:28-34

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark

Term 4, 2021 Class and Whole School Mass Timetable

LAST CHANCE TO CHOOSE YOUR CHILD'S SWIMMING LEVEL.

Date

Teacher on Leave or PD

Class

Relief

Assembly

World Teachers Day

A Special Visit