Dear Parents 

REPORTS

Reports will be sent home in a few weeks. It is important to remember that a school report is not the definitive measure of your child’s abilities. It is only one measure amid a wide range of opportunities, experiences and activities. Setting a pattern of constructive support should help make report time a productive and positive experience that will help your child make progress at school. A few tips:

• Find the positive aspects of the report and praise your child;
• Take into consideration that the A-E grading scale is very different to the one you would have experienced;

• Discuss what your child found difficult. Look at work habits, homework routines, diet, sleep patterns, etc; and
• Discuss how things could be improved. Offer some constructive/criticism and attainable goals for next year.

 Special thanks to the teachers for the many unpaid hours of work, outside school time, that go into marking assessments, preparing, editing and finalising the written reports.

WARMER WEATHER

The recent warmer weather reminds us all of the need to wear a hat, keep hydrated with water and to apply sun screen (slip, slop, slap, seek, slide). Students are often too eager to be outside and play and can forget to stop for a drink resulting in dehydration. The school encourages children to bring a water bottle to school (or leave a bottle at school) and to stop regularly throughout the day to sip water. No fizzy, cordial or fruit drinks in class please.

Have a good week.

Brad Gaynor

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Week 7. This week presents another busy week for St Mary’s with our Intensive Swimming Program being held. Thanks again to the community Council for their generous donation toward the cost of this vital program. Please ensure students come to school with everything required for the program. In particular their hats, sunscreen and swimmers. Please ensure every article of clothing is clearly labelled to ensure all misplaced items are returned to their owner. In the event of thunderstorms, we will have to cancel our session. This will be communicated to you as soon as possible via text. Fingers crossed this won’t eventuate.

Week 9 will see our leadership program for 2024 begin. Our Year 5 students who wish to nominate for school captain will present their speeches on why they would make a good school captain in front of years 2-5. As it is a small cohort, we will still have two school captains, however they won’t necessarily be a male and female. After the voting of the school captain a decision will be made on how sports captains will be decided upon.

The executive team at St Mary’s have been busy finalising staffing for 2024. With a few more pieces of the puzzle coming together over the next few weeks we look forward to announcing each class’s teacher. Thank you for your patience.

On the 28^th of November we will be holding our Thank You morning tea for all who have volunteered their time to make St Mary’s such a fabulous place for our students.

Please remember my door is always open.

Damian Collins

Assistant Principal

Events

Teamwork

In partnership with families, we are dedicated to educating children who demonstrate:

Teamwork - The virtue of TEAMWORK is when a group of people join to make something happen, like winning a soccer game or organising a school fete. For teamwork to succeed, we need to have humility, flexibility, loyalty and dependability. Teamwork is also an opportunity to serve others, because as a Christians, this means ‘loving our neighbour’.

A Prayer for the virtue of teamwork

Gracious God, we thank you for the gift of teamwork. 

May each team member be blessed with the wisdom to recognize and value the unique contributions of all those involved. 

Help us respect each person’s perspectives and encourage others to be better together. 

May our conversations and interactions be marked with kindness, understanding, and respect. 

Grant us the grace to look for opportunities to serve one another, understand different opinions, and show mutual respect in all that we do. 

In your holy name, we pray, 

Amen.

Term 4, 2023 Class and Whole School Mass Timetable

    

Luna Kelly and Bodhi Fair

who celebrate their birthdays during this week.

We hope you enjoy your special day.

Any parents, grandparents or carers who have assisted the school in any way are invited to a Thank You morning tea on Tuesday the 28th of November at 11am. 

Students in class have spent a great deal of time already preparing for this year’s play which is promised to be better than ever!!

Listed below is what each class will wear;