News from around the school
New - St Vinnies Appeal
We are currently runnning our annual St Vinnies Winter Appeal.
We are asking families to help where possible, by donating non-perishable items, new blankets, socks and warm clothing.
Please place any donations into the tubs in your child's classroom or send into the school office before the end of Term 2.
We thank you for supporting this very much needed cause.
Reminder - St Mary's 2024 Enrolments are Open
2024 Enrolments are now open. Please pass this information on to families with 2024 Prep students.
If families were unable to attend our open day and require any information or an enrolment pack, please contact he school office on 58252858.
New - Prep Learning Experiences
Preps have recently been learning about Cinderella. We had fun making magic potion in pumpkins, exploring how pumpkins grow and designing structures to hold a pumpkin. We also made bird feeders that we brought home today.
New - Preps Discover
Preps have have been exploring and making discoveries through our fairytale, The Three Little Pigs. Students made houses out of bricks (Lego) sticks (paddle pop sticks) and straws. It was exciting to see if they could withstand the Big Bad Wolf’s huffing and puffing!
New - Preps Warm Up
With the cold and wet weather our preps enjoyed warming up with some milo and quiet reading time.
New - 1/2 Classroom Fun
Mr Dyke brought his puppies to school.
Three husky puppies came to visit school and play with our students in 1/2 CD and FD.
New - Grade 5/6 Visit Rumbalara
5/6 GL and CT had their visit to Rumbalara today! The clear weather meant that they were able to take part in a smoking ceremony with Aunty Cheryl and Uncle Lance which is always very special!
New - Grade 6 Led 'Healthy Us Day'
The Grade 6 students will be leading a 'Healthy Us Day' on Friday 23rd June (Last day of Term 2).
All classes will participate in a variety of student led activities which will take place in the middle sessions - 11:35am - 1:25pm.
Students to wear house colored t-shirt.
New - Indigenous Art Work
Our Artwork that Kimberly Watkins has been working on with our Indigenous students continues to take shape. Yr 1/2 students added the ceramic long neck turtles
that were made at Kaiela Arts a few years ago.
At assembly next week we will view the final artwork and thank Kimberly for all her work this term to help create these beautiful pieces that we can hang up near the Art Room.
New - Scholastic Book Fair
Thank you to everyone who popped into our book fair last week. There were so many exciting books and items to look at.
Through your purchases we raised approx $800 to spend on books for the Library through Scholastic.
Thank you to Maree Williams for once again coordinating this event for our school and to Nerissa for assisting Maree.
URGENT - Help 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
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