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

   

St Mary's would like to say get well soon to Mrs Manchur.  Lauren had a fall on Friday and has broken her knee.  All is well but we will have to wait until she has recovered from surgery and can walk on crutches before we see her back in our classrooms.

Interviews will start this week from Monday to Thursday depending on the teachers schedule.  Interviews will be held from 3.30pm via telephone call. 

PLEASE NOTE the teachers will call parents and the call will come from a private number.  Please be ready to take the call.

These interviews are held in Term 1 to enable parents to speak about their child's strengths and where they might require some help.

The booking form link was sent to all parents last Friday via text to their mobile phone number.  If you did not recieve this text please contact the office so we can check our contact information.

Below is a link to the booking system if you have not booked an appointment and would like to do so.  Use the email you input when you created a login to our SZ App.

  Click here to book an interview with your child's teacher

    

Parents of Kinder students are reminded that there is one more rest day - Wednesday the 23rd of February.

We look forward to seeing our Kinders every day of the week, starting in Week 5.

Happy Birthday to

Amity Speedy, Abigail Sturgess, Adalia Chantril and Bella Alchin

who celebrate their birthdays this week.

• Medical Form (orange) - All Years - Please complete and return the form to the school office.  A new form is required for each student every year.  If you indicate your child has asthma, even if seasonal, an action plan from your doctor is required to be held at the school office along with a puffer and spacer labelled with your child's name.
• Walking Permission Note - All Years - Please complete the online form to give permission for your child - link is here.

   

At times during the school year your child/ren will participate in off premises cultural and sporting learning activities within walking distance of the school.

For example Book Week at the Bland Shire Library, performances at the S&C Club, training at the stadium or Perseverance Oval.

As part of St Mary's "duty of care" responsibility, risk assessment documents must be submitted to Catholic Education Office Canberra Goulburn for these events.  As most of these excursions are low key, for a short duration and do not require monetary payment, parents are notified of the actual date, time and event via the newsletter.

This permission note covers your child/ren attending these events for the 2022 school  year.

If at any time you do not wish your child to attend an event off premises, after specific notification, please contact the school.

Please click on this link Local Excursions (Walking) - Permission Note 2022 to complete the note.

Award Winners

Our award winners this week are included in the gallery below.

We also have some pictures of our first outdoor assembly which ran very well considering it was our the first effort.

The following events are in the caldendar in the next few weeks.

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