News from around the school
Events coming Up
NEW - SAVE THE DATE
St Mary's Open Day - Wednesday 15th May 2024.
Information Session and student led tours.
2025 Prep Enrolments will open this day and enrolment packs will be available to collect.
Further information to follow.
REMINDER - Subway Lunch Orders
Paper subway orders are to be placed in Subway Tub Thursday's for delivery Friday. We ask for late orders to be submitted to Subway Store before close of business each Thursday, please avoid dropping them in Friday mornings.
For orders via CDFpay, please place order before 12pm Thursdays. Scan the QR code beside and register your details if you haven't already done so, and use the Subway menu to place an order.
REMINDER - School Uniform
Just a reminder that students are required to have a hat for all outdoor play and activities in terms 1 & 4.
Sports uniform is to be worn for students PE day and all students are required to wear black basketball shorts, bike shorts are not school uniform.
New - St Patricks Day - Accessorise with Green
St. Patrick’s Day celebrations will be held on Monday, 18th March!
Students are invited to accessorise with something GREEN on this day - GREEN socks, a GREEN hair ribbon, a GREEN shamrock badge - as well as their NORMAL SCHOOL UNIFORM.
GREEN JELLY will also be sold in cups on this day - $1.00 per cup - to raise money for Caritas and Project Compassion. The Grade Six Social Justice Team will coordinate this activity at lunchtime.
Green jelly cups!
$1.00 each
Monday, 18th March!
New - Harmony Day
Harmony Day is a celebration that recognises diversity in our community and brings together Australians from all different backgrounds. It is about inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone.
We will celebrate Harmony Day here at school on Thursday, 21st March with whole school activities.
Watch this space!
New - Easter Bonnet Parade
All students are invited to wear an Easter Bonnet with their full school uniform on Wednesday 27th March.
P/1/2 students will have an Easter Bonnet Parade in the Marian Centre at 9.15am
School Happenings
New - Cross Country
On the 1st of March 2024, St Mary's School Mooroopna had their school cross country. All the kids raced at the Mooroopna Oval and all had a blast!
A highlight was getting to cheer on fellow runners.
A big thank you to Mr Preston for organising everything and to all the parents and carers for coming to support everybody.
New - Preps Enquiry
As part of our Easter study we are learning to wait for new life by hatching chicks. We put our eggs in today and are now on the egg-citing count down!
New - 1/2 Area Specialist Day Activities
What a great day of Specialist Classes for Grade 1/2! PE, Art, Performing Arts and Italian recently.
New - Grade 6 Leadership Commissioning
At our recent opening mass, the Grade 6’s were blessed and commissioned as leaders of St Mary’s!
Last week, the students received their badges that they will wear with pride throughout 2024!
New - 5/6 Enquiry
What do you notice? What do you wonder?
This was the question posed to some of the 5/6 students recently, when they were given a chart of numbers!
This inquiry based task had them thinking, engaging in awesome conversations and coming to some wonderful conclusions about multiples, factors and prime numbers!
New - Crazy Hair Day
Check out some of the Crazy Hair Day photos from our recnt Caristas fundraiser. We loved the creativity of the hairstyles!
So many gold coins donated to support Caritas! We raised $348, which is enough to build a toilet for a school overseas!
Well done everyone, You rock!
If you forgot to send a coin on the day, bring one to pop into the classroom Project Compassion box!
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1/2 Area
3/4 Area
5/6 Area
1/2 CD Create Crazy Hairday Art
New - Yabbying with Mr Crowe
The Grade 6’s on the Sustainability Team enjoyed an afternoon of yabbying with Mr Crowe. The students walked down to the John Gray Oval reserve and were greeted with a feast of sausages in bread and fresh fruit.
Mr Crowe showed us the ropes to yabbying and, after some testing of patience, we had a successful afternoon! About 12 yabbies were caught and then returned to the lake.
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New - Project Compassion Launch
Our annual fundraising efforts for Caritas began on Ash Wednesday and the Grade Six Social Justice Team launched our Caritas Appeal at Assembly this week.
They are aiming to raise $1,000 for Caritas!
Donate online now! at the following link -
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