Mother's Day Celebrations 

On Friday, 8th of May the Preps entertained our school community with a beautiful Mother's Day Assembly. It was great to see so many special people attend. The brave Preps read, they sang and they handed out 'flowers' to our mums, grandma's, aunts and special friends. It was wonderful. 

It was fabulous to have so many of our families stay afterwards for a morning tea and a chat with other families before moving into the classrooms to see what clever children we have at St Mark's. 

A lovely day all round.

Thankyou to the KidsMatter@SMAT for coordinating the Mothers Day Stall. Thankyou to the staff and all that contributed to the Morning Tea (Ange A, Lisa, Kate and Dot) and Durga for the Chai Tea which was a lovely tradition.

From the KidsMatter@SMAT...

What a wonderful week of celebrations and shopping up a storm at our Mother’s Day and Special person’s stall! Thank you to all the parents who came to help set up and sell the items on the day  We raised a phenomenal amount of $1800!  It’s so wonderful to see the kids choosing lots of items for their family! 

Thank you to everyone who came along to our Mother’s Day morning tea. Through your gold coin donations you helped raise $200 for our fundraiser Safe Steps.

How will donations be used?

Your donation will assist women and children who use our vital services by providing a 24/7 family violence response phone line, transport for woman and children fleeing abuse, crisis accommodation and ongoing support programs.

How Safe Steps helps

Safe Steps responds to women and children at risk by:

• Delivering Victoria’s only 24/7 specialist family violence crisis response service, 365 days of the year.
• Individual specialist risk assessments, safety planning and advocacy for victim-survivors including children.
• Access to safe, secure and supported accommodation for those who need it, including through our own highly secure supported family violence crisis accommodation services.
• Lead national provider of free, 24/7 specialist trauma-informed online and phone counselling for all victim-survivors of domestic, family and sexual violence via1800 RESPECT.
• Access to additional wrap-around family violence supports through our Courts, Pets, and Disability programs.

If you’d like to donate to this organisation you can do so here; https://www.givenow.com.au/safesteps

More details about the good work Safe Steps does can be found here; https://safesteps.org.au/

Special thank you to Ms Stef Marin (well her very generous husband) and Chemist Warehouse who contributed some fantastic beauty care items that were used for door prizes along with coffee that was previously donated by Giuseppe (Antonio LA3). 

COMING UP

The KM@SMAT is busily preparing for the upcoming disco in Term 3 (Friday 28th August) and finalising a super fun and colourful event for Term 4! Stay tuned for more details to come. 

Thank you again families for your continued support. 

Lisa Marchio - President KidsMatter@SMAT