News from around the school

NEW - St Mary's Bingo Committee

Our Parish has been running Bingo on a Saturday evening for close to 45 years. Over this time the school has received monetary donations of approx $12,000 per year, for support in achieving and maintaining larger projects around the school. just recently new airconditioning in the Marian Centre.

In raising this money, the small Bingo Committee, needs some support from our school families to volunteer and assist on the Bingo roster once or twice over an 8 week period .

The tasks that we require help in are -

Ticket Selling - 6.30pm - 9.30pm - 3 hours
Canteen - 6.30pm - 9.00pm - 2.5hours
Caller - 7.30pm - 10.00pm - 2.5 hours. This is now done by 'auto call'
Floor Walker - 7.30pm - 10.00pm - 2.5 hours. This is checking the winners ticket and calling back the ticket number

Bingo is held in the Marian Centre Saturday evenings for people in our community and volunteers will help other people from the committee, parish or the school. This is a great way to meet new people and help raise funds for our school and parish.

We thank all our families who are already helping, this is very much appreciated and we look forward to meeting new helpers for 2023.

Please contact any of the following to help out on the roster.

Tom Dumaresq - 58254836

Emma DiFede - 0416857026

Bev Ryan - 58252597

Maree Williams - 58252584

School Office - 58252858

Thank you for your consideration in supporting our school and our Parish.

Bingo Committee

New - Ash Wednesday

Today the Grade 1/2 students celebrated Ash Wednesday with a paraliturgy in our classrooms. We received the Ashes on our foreheads, listened to a reading from the Bible and discussed ways we can be like Jesus during the season of Lent.

New - Prep Welcome Liturgy

A special Celebration for our 2023 Prep students and their families as we shared prayer time with at our Prep Welcome Night this week.

We followed the celebration with an Open classroom night and BBQ for all our schol families.

Thank you to everyone who attended and to those who were able to help on the night.

New - Opening School Mass

We held our opening school Mass last Friday.

It was a lovely celebration and as part of this occasion our Grade 6 students were presented with their leadership badges.

New - Shrove Tuesday in the Prep Area

The Preps had so much fun making pancakes this week and learning all about Shrove Tuesday.

New - Shrove Tuesday in the 5/6 Area

The Grade 5/6 students shared some fun activities and pancake making in celebration of Shrove Tuesday.

NEW - Richmond Football Club comes to St Mary's

Students were excited to have two Richmond Footballers recently visit St Mary's. The players talked about their journey to elite levels of sport. The players spoke with our grade 3-6 students who had prepared some fabulous questions to gain an insight into the life of an AFL footballer.

It was made extra special as one of our guests was a former St Mary's student and Mrs Brown's son Tom Brown. The other player was two time premiership player Tom Lynch.

Thank you to AFL Goulburn Murray and the Richmond Football Club for this great opportunity.