News from around the school
Events & Reminders
Reminder - Easter Bonnett Parade
Reminder - St Mary's Open Day 2025
When: Thursday, 1st May
Time: 11:45am – 1:30pm
Where: Marian Centre, St. Mary’s Mooroopna
Discover all that St. Mary’s has to offer. Join us for a warm welcome and presentation by our Principal, followed by guided tours of our school led by our amazing student leaders.
See our vibrant learning spaces, meet our dedicated staff, and experience the wonderful St. Mary’s community firsthand.
Enrolments for 2026 close Friday, 30th May – don’t miss this opportunity to secure your place!
We can’t wait to welcome you to St. Mary’s Mooroopna.
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 download the new app and register your student as per the attached instructions prior to ordering.
To place your order through the new App, please select all items on the menu to be included in your students Sub and submit before 2.45pm Thursdays. The old CDFpay link will automatically redirect you to register on the new App.
Updated - Summer School Uniform
Students are to wear summer uniform including school bucket hat for all outdoor activities. If the students do not have a hat they will be asked to sit in the shade, unfortunately we do not have spare hats here at school. Please ensure your students items are named.
Summer Uniform consist's of
- All students - Grey shorts/Skort, School polo top and jumper if required, white socks for girls Grey socks for boys;
- Sports uniform is to be worn for students PE day and all students are required to wear black basketball shorts or black tracksuit pants.
- Girls - Summer dress and white socks - no tights or leggings to be worn with school dress;
PLEASE NOTE
- Bike shorts/leggings are not school uniform.
- Shorts are to be visible and longer than T-Shirt/Jumper.
- Jewellery - sleepers or studs 1 per ear, 1 necklace with religious or cultural symbol, nose piercing to not be noticeable or covered, no bangles or bracelets.
- Hair ties to be black or Navy Blue.
School Hats are required for ALL outdoor Activities for Term 1 & Term 4
Reminder - NDC Enrolments Open
Notre Dame College have opened Applications for 2026 Year 7 Enrolments.
Applications for Enrolment for Year 7, 2026 will close on Wednesday 30 April.
Parents do not need a tour to be able to apply, however, the following Documentation is required to apply:
- Birth certificate
- Baptism certificate (if applicable)
- Immunisation certificate
- Passport details (if born overseas)
- VISA details (if born overseas)
- VSN - Victorian Student Number (obtain from current school)
Around the School Happenings
New - Italian Specialist Week - Immersion Carnevale
What a FANTASTICO time we had last week during all the specialist classes. Students completed some Italian music, art and sport.
We had fun at our 'Carnevale' in the Marian Centre and enjoyed some delicious pizza for lunch. Thank you to Adrian from Mooroopna Pizzeria for the yummy pizzas, to all the specialist teachers and support staff for some engaging activities, laughs and fun, and the students and families for creating some incredible costumes. Bravo St Mary's!
Our wonderful Gr 1/2 Learning Support Officers looking fabulous during our Italian Specialist Week!
New - Year 2 Italian
This Term in Grade 2 Italian we have been learning basic Italian greetings and the connections/differences between Italian and Australian culture. Sherrie has been impressed with the students' quality of work and participation in Italian lessons.
New - Performing Arts
In Performing Arts this term, the Grade One and Two students have learnt all about the different sections of the orchestra: the woodwind section, string section, brass section and the percussion section!
The opportunity detailed below will be at Eastbank in Welsford Street, Shepparton, during the holidays and would be a perfect experience for them!
Riverlinks and Orchestra Victoria present:
Meet the Orchestra!
Friday 11th of April, 2025,
11:30am – 12.30pm.
Experience the magic of live music with this concert made just for families!
Get ready for a morning of musical fun these school holidays when Orchestra Victoria comes to Riverlinks Eastbank.
Across an energetic 60 minutes, discover the magical world of the orchestra, meet the musicians and learn all about the instruments being played. With the vibrant Janet McLeod as your guide, audience members big and small should be ready to get up from their seats and move to the music, and there’ll be plenty of audience participation to keep even the youngest audience members enthralled until the orchestra take their final bow.
Designed especially for younger children, this is the perfect first concert experience for the whole family.
They’ll be singing and dancing all the way home!
Here is the LINK for more information and tickets!
New - Prep Fun
Prep had fun yesterday with decorating Easter biscuits with our buddies and having duckling cuddles!
New - Holy Week
The whole school gathered together on Monday to tell the story of Holy Week. Thank you to the teachers and students for such a lovely, reverent and holy celebration. And thank you to the parents that we able to join us.
Palm Sunday P/1
Holy Thursday - The Washing of the Feet and The Last Supper Grade 2
Holy Thursday - The Garden of Gethsemane Grade 3/4
Good Friday and Easter Sunday Grade 5/6
New - Harmony Day
We recently celebrated Harmony Day at school. Classes learnt about other cultures and traditions.
New - Harmony Day in 3-4JM
We had a fantastic day learning about Harmony Week and what it means.
We celebrated our many different cultures in lots of different ways. We wrote about what harmony means, made a 'Harmony Globe', competed in a Harmony Day Kahoot, had a guest speaker (Jennie Chen) from Taiwan, shared traditional costumes and customs and tasted all sorts of yummy foods from around the world. Not many were fans of the Dutch licorice but we definitely enjoyed our Italian pizza, Filipino Puto and Portuguese tarts.
Thank you to all parent and carers who helped out.
New - Sam Birrell Visits 5/6 Area
The visiting politicians continue in 5/6 this week, with an appearance from Sam Birrell! We have been learning about the House of Representatives, so it was wonderful to hear from Sam about his experiences as our current Federal MP! Thanks for visiting!
New - Chicks Have Hatched
Our chicks and ducklings have finally hatched!
We have been learning about the Easter story in class and waiting for new life, just like people waited for Jesus.
Updated - After School Photo Day Information
Our annual school photos have been taken by Arthur Reed Photos.
To view the images of your child and order photos, you will need to first register online.
- Go to https://order.arphotos.com.au and enter the 2025 image code for your child (from their personalized flyer)
- Tap on ‘Add another child’ to enter the image codes of any siblings
- Fill in your email and mobile details and then review all details before confirming your registration
That’s it! When 2025 photos are ready, you will be notified by email and SMS.
Even if you registered last year, it’s important that you do it again each year using your child’s new image code to link their photos for the current year with your contact details.
To ensure you are ordering school photos for the current year, please wait for notifications that 2025 images are online before placing orders.
In the webshop you can view photos and customize your photo package; Choose ANY layout, ANY image and purchase multiple digital image downloads.
All photo orders will be sent directly to the address you provide when ordering.
REGISTER ONLINE NOW to be notified when 2025 school photos can be viewed and ordered.
If any students misplace their code they can contact Arthur Read's customer service team on 5243 4390.
Please see attached flyer for more information.
Reminder - Easter Bonnet Parade
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.
