News from around the school
Events & Reminders
New - Crazy Sock Day
Flyer designed and created by Lucas Tripoli Gr 5/6TJ
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 2.45pm 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. If you do not have a CDFpay account please follow the directions in the Instruction sheet below.
Updated - School Uniform
Students are now 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, 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;
REMINDER
- Bike shorts/leggings are not school uniform.
School Hats are required for ALL outdoor Activities for Term 1 & Term 4
Downball Incursion
Mr Preston has organised a downball incursion in Term 4 on Friday 29th of November.
We will be doing their standard which will initially involve all students and give them an introduction to all things downball.
The workshop will include:
-Intro to Downball Australia’s exclusive Old School Rules
-Ample free play time, with a focus on participation and involvement
-Tips and Tricks for each Downball student accustomed to their prior level of game experience
-An in-class knockout tournament
School Happenings
New - Welcome to our 2025 Prep Children
We welcome our 2025 Prep students to St Mary's for their first transition session next week.
The students will spend time in the Prep classrooms participating in various activities and becoming familiar with different areas of the school.
We wish the students and their family every blessing as they commence their early years education journey here at St Mary's.
New - Term 4 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 Wednesday 23rd October for 7 WEEKS, finishing on 4th December.
THURSDAYS - starting Thursday 24th October for 7 WEEKS, finishing on 5th December.
The children will meet Maree outside the Marian Centre straight after school and have fruit and a drink.
Please return the form attached to the office before Monday 21st October 2024.
New - Performing Arts
In Performing Arts this term, we are focussing on Drama skills.
We are currently finishing practises for our Grandparents/ Special Friends Day concert!
This week, we have been discussing the "Success Criteria for a Good Audience" with all of our classes.
We have discussed, that this criteria is for all times we are members of an audience - at assemblies, in classrooms, in social circles - not just in Performing Arts.
Teachers will also be using this criteria in class and to remind the students how to behave as successful audience members and behaviours expected when in and audience setting.
Please see the attached flyer on Successful Audience Criteria.
Thankyou
Mrs Hicks
New - Interschool Athletics
Gr 5’s enjoyed the beautiful sunshine last week at Interschool Athletics.
We had our Red girl relay team taking home 3rd.
Congratulations to Sophie who made it through to the next round by coming 2nd in High Jump.
We also had some great results with our Grade 3's & 4's with the Green Girls coming First in relay - Zara V, Lily P, Rosie D and Nevanah W.
And our Grade 4s came 3rd in the Green Girls Relay - Ivy V, Mine C, and Ruby W; Maryanne B-M absent.
Well done Everyone!
New - Preps Explore 'Farm to Family'
We had so much fun with our term topic of ‘Farm to family’ immersion today.
We explored maths by feeding our animals.
We spelt out key farm words.
Practiced following directions and speaking confidently by playing farmer says.
We problem solved by building barns for our animals and designed farms in small groups.
We cannot wait till next week to learn about how honey is made.
We also had a special guest visitor who watched over us and kept us all wide awake with his cock-a-doodling in our classroom today.
New - Preps Learn about Bees & Honey
Today we explored where honey comes from.
We learnt how we have to wear safety clothing to get honey and how we safely get honey.
We learnt how bees pollinate, we made our own bees with hairy legs to pick up pollen and took it back to our own hives.
We explored hives and honey and got to make our own honey sandwich with Logan’s honey.
We read books about how bees make honey and sequenced the process.
We also explored key focus words on bees and set up our own shop and bee keepers hives practicing the key words.
Best of all we all got a jar of Logan’s honey to take home to share with our family.
New - Building Works
You may have noticed a new addition to the Prep rooms. We have a new access ramp to help make it safer and easier to enter and leave the Prep buildings. It is now finished and ready to use.
Our ramp is amazing - Thank you to Ryan Armstrong Carpentry and Sibio Engineering for this great addition.
New -
REMINDER - Bus Travel in 2025
Shepparton/Mooroopna School bus applications for the 2025 academic year are now open for all year level students requiring travel on a country bus (not town bus).
The Shepparton/Mooroopna School Bus website has developed a new and more efficient process for the School Bus Program bus applications.
Moving forward, parents can easily access and submit bus applications via Microsoft Forms. We believe this will help parents and ensure a smooth transition to the new process.
Simply click on the link below to complete the Bus Travel Application Form.
If you have any questions or require further details, please feel free to reach out.
Regards,
Linda Piastri
Student Transport Coordinator – Shepparton Region
Hours: M, T & 9am-3pm & Thurs 9am-4.30pm
bus@gssc.vic.edu.au
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