Principal's News

Dear Parents,

What a wonderful week we had at St Mary's last week with many positive learning experiences. We strive to ensure we have the best learning environment and community possible in our amazing school. 

Congratulations to the Year 4 community and Natalie Dullard, our Faith leader, on a wonderful community dinner last week. We highly value coming together and ensuring a sense of connection and belonging for all.   

Congratulations to Lisa Galvin and Grant Rolston for leading the community area with a movie night in the hall on Friday night. It was wonderful to see so many dads and kids coming in their oodies and pjs to watch a movie and spend time together.

Community is at the heart of all we do in our school as we aim to create a wonderful positive faith community where all students are of the highest priority. Together we can provide a wonderful landscape to learn, grow and thrive in.  

The following link is a great article from Kids Matter on building mental health and protective factors for our kids, one of which is being immersed in a community that cares.

Kids Matter - mental health and wellbeing

Congratulations to Sue Jackson, Deputy of Learning, for all that is happening in the learning space with upcoming reports and parent conferences and wonderful planning days last week.

Congratulations to all staff on our fortnightly Family Fun Friday - it is really special to see so many parents across Prep - 6 coming in and joining in on learning Maths fluency. The school was buzzing with everyone building our love of Maths and promoting our students being mathematicians.

As we approach the end of Term 2, 2023, I would like to take the opportunity to thank our wonderful staff for all their dedication and excellent work to ensure every student in our school is reaching their full potential. 

Throughout the year, we will continue to provide a comprehensive snapshot of your child's learning through a variety of platforms, including a formal report, learning conversations and Seesaw learning pieces. Through these platforms, we celebrate and reflect on the learning strengths and areas of need for your child. This week, you will have the opportunity to discuss your child’s learning in the parent teacher conference.

I look forward to attending one parent conference in each class to celebrate the achievements and also check in on our processes.

The formal school report will be emailed to you tomorrow morning. It is most important that you ensure the admin team has your current email. 

The school term concludes this Friday at 1pm. Our end of term assembly will be held on Friday at 12.30pm in the hall. At this assembly, we will celebrate the Spirit of St Mary’s Awards and the Padua Perseverance Award given to a child in year 3/4 who has demonstrated great persistence in their learning throughout semester 1.

We thank parents for working in partnership with us and collecting students from school at 1pm on Wednesday, if possible, for our parent teacher interviews. 

Please note that there will be no crossing supervision, so we recommend that students do not ride or walk to school on this day.

School will recommence on Monday, 10th July. I look forward to continuing our journey throughout Semester 2 and thank you for all your support and contributions throughout the year. We are truly blessed to have such a wonderful community here at St Mary’s.

Yours in Partnership,

Gab