News from around the school
UP Coming Events & Reminders
REMINDER - Subway Lunch Orders
Please place orders in Subway Tub Thursday for delivery Friday. Late orders are to be submitted to Subway Store before close of business Thursday evening, please avoid dropping them in Friday morning.
For orders via CDFpay, please select all items on the menu to be included in your students Sub and submit before 2.45pm Thursdays.
Updated - Summer School Uniform
Students are now able to wear Summer uniform during term 4. Changes to this is at the principal's discretion.
Summer Uniform consist's of -
- All students - Grey shorts/Skort, School polo top (short or long sleeve) and school navy blue windcheater if required, grey socks for boys OR white socks for girls.
- Sports uniform is to be worn for students PE day and all students are required to wear school polo shirt & windcheater as required, plain black basketball shorts - no logos permitted and no bike shorts, these are not school uniform.
- All Students - School Hat is required for all outdoor play and activities. Please ensure this is clearly named.
PLEASE NOTE
- Bike shorts/leggings are not school uniform.
- Students uniform items should not have any branding or logos other than school print.
- Shorts are to be visible and longer than T-Shirt and or Jumper.
- Jewellery - sleepers or studs 1 per ear, extra earrings are to be clear, 1 necklace with religious or cultural symbol, nose piercing is not to be noticeable (eg clear stud) or should be covered, no bangles or bracelets.
Hair ties to be black or Navy Blue.
News from Around The School
Updated - Term 4 After School Program
There are still places available, If you would like your child to attend please fill in the attached form and return to the office as soon as possible.
After school program is Government funded Program run by St. Mary’s School through Sporting Schools Program. The program runs for 1 hour after school. The children are provided with a drink and fruit. The program will be offered for 7 weeks.
Each session starts at 3.45pm and finishes at 4.45 p.m. The program is supervised at all times and an outside person runs the program. Each session can only take 25 children.
This term we are offering the following:
Multi Games with Skillzone Multi Sports Coaching, with the aim of this program being to have fun, learn new games and be happy. This will be held in the Marian Centre or Oval depending on the weather.
WEDNESDAYS - starting Wednesday 22nd October for 7 WEEKS, finishing on 3rd December.
THURSDAYS - starting Thursday 23rd October for 7 WEEKS, finishing on 4th December.
The children will meet Maree outside the Marian Centre straight after school and have fruit and a drink.
Please return the form below to the office as soon as possible.
Thank You
Maree Williams
Co-ordinator
New - International Maths Challenge
Does your child like a challenge in Maths?
There is a Two-Round Open Challenge coming up in November that our students can enrol in. There are two rounds – Round 1 (Prelims) and Round 2 (Finals). Students from Year 1 -6 can enrol. There are 20 questions which takes about 45 minutes to complete.
Top 70% then get to do Round 2 to qualify for the Finals.
Prelims begin November 22-23. Results are available on Nov 30.
Finals begin Dec 6-7 and the results are available on Dec 14.
Students participate at home.
Registration deadline is Nov 18 at 5 pm.
Cost – Prelims $46
Finals $29
To register your child/ren use this link -
https://international-maths-challenge.com/about-the-challenge/
New - Grade 1 Data Recording
Last week, just before the wind nearly blew us away the Grade 1 students ventured outside to record the types of vehicles that drove past the school as a part of our maths unit on Data.
New - Preps hard at Work
This week in Prep we have been very busy.
We are doing a lot of writing making sure we hear the sounds in the words we write and working out any digraphs that may be in them.
We have been busy sorting and graphing objects in maths.
We have also started are flight to the North Pole on St Mary’s Airlines by stopping to explore England. We identified it on the world map, looked at landmarks and shared some of their Christmas traditions. We cannot wait to see where we travel to next week.
New - BeeBots
Grade 1 are learning about directions in maths so today we gave the BeeBots directions!
Foodshare
Recently, St Mary's School has become an agent for Foodshare. We are able to assist with some food items for families in the Mooroopna area. We have prepacked frozen meals that are great for people who are ill. We are also able to provide some food supplies. Each week we receive a selection of groceries, fruits and vegetables. If you need support please reach out to Gary Woodward or Liz Turk via the school office - 5825285.
We have a facebook page. If you haven't checked it out or are not following the page the link is listed below.
Our Facebook page and our fortnightly newsletter are two of our main sources for communicating information to our families.
