News from around the school
New - Grandparents Day
Wanted: Photos of St. Mary's students with their grandparents!!
As part of our Grandparent's Day celebrations, we are after some photos to use in a Slides presentation that will be shown to students and families in the Marian Centre on this day!
Clear photos of students and their grandparents can be emailed to mhicks@smmooroopna.catholic.edu.au no later than Friday, 21st July.
New - Grandparents Day Parish Mass
New - 100 Days of Preps
Today our preps celebrated 100 days of school. The students and teaching staff dressed up as either their 100 year old self or celebrating 100.
There was much excitement, great costumes and fun activities.
New - Preps Learning - Naidoc Week
Preps celebrating NAIDOC Week!! Great excitement, energy and learning!!
New - 5/6 Learning - “How does it change? How does it work?”
The 5/6’s launched their new inquiry topic, which is all about SCIENCE!
The teachers all presented a different experiment - Elephant toothpaste, Pencils through a bag of water, balloon in a jar and a Coca Cola fountain!
The students then investigated the science behind them! We are all looking forward to being scientists this term!
New - Term 3 After School Program
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 on Wednesday 26th July for 7 WEEKS, finishing on 6th September.
THURSDAYS - starting Thursday 27th July for 7 WEEKS, finishing on 7th September.
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 before Monday 24th July 2023.
Thank You
Maree Williams
Co-ordinator
Reminder - St Mary's 2024 Enrolments
2024 Enrolments are still being accepted. Please pass this information on to families with 2024 Prep students.
If families require any information or an enrolment pack, please contact the school office on 58252858.
We have commenced 2024 Prep family meetings with Mr Butts and Ms Carroll. If you have not made a booking for one of these please call the school office.
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
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.
