Happenings from around the school
New - Student Creations
Nate built this amazing ship earlier this week.
He was so very pleased with his creation.
New - Kinder Visits St Mary's
Today our Preps had fun with our kinder friends!
New - Inquiry Learning in the 3/4 Area
Over the last few weeks in Inquiry students in 3/4 have been learning about heat transfer and sources, conductors and insulators of heat and the states of matter. To consolidate this learning students planned, created and conducted their own experiment to melt butter.
New - Book Week in 5/6 Area
New - Book Week in 1/2 JM & MW
New - Book Week in Prep
New - Swimming recount Writing from 1/2 FD
Swimming Week 2023
Last week we went swimming. The name of my group was Jellyfish. I had Evie, Oscar, Jai, Boston, Noah, Levi C and Levi M in my group. We did safety and rescuing. I was the fastest to pull Oscar out of the water. Things I did was diving, torpedoes, floating on my back and front, back stroke, sinkies, horsey rides, pin drops, bombs, wearing life jackets and noodle race.
My swimming teacher was Roslyn. It was amazing and other people’s swimming look good.
Charlotte 1/2FD
My bus partner was Boston. My group was Sharks. The people in my group were Alarah, Eddie, Paddy, Harper, aria, Nate and Harlem. We did were horsey rides, rescuing, lots of swimming, backstroke, sinkies, floating on our backs and bombs. My favourite was horsey rides and the games, I felt more confident at swimming.
Zac 1/2FD
I was in the dolphin’s group. In my group were Nate, Dylan, Jorja, Brixton and Menley. We did back glides, jumps, torpedoes and wearing life jackets, safety and rescuing. You never swim by yourself, because you can drown. On the bus I sat next to Dylan. I loved swimming.
Guntas 1/2FD
The name of my swimming group was Dolphins. In my group was Charlottte, Menley, Phoebe, Jorja and Nate. My bus partner was Sam. We did floating, jumping, sinkies and lots more. We also did rescuing people and other rescue things. I loved swimming because it was so much fun.
Brixton 1/2FD
Last week we did swimming. The name of my group was Jellyfish. In my group there was Sam, Charlotte, Jai, Levi, Levi and Evie. We did sinkies, backstroke, torpedoes, jumping, floating and horse rides. On the bus my partner was Zac. My favourite activity was sinkies and horse rides. It was an amazing week of swimming.
Boston 1/2FD
The name of my group was Sharks. I had Aria, Zac, Harper, Harlem, Eddie and Paddy in my group. We did torpedo and we went on the mat. We also did horsey rides, floating on our backs and sinkies. We did rescuing and we got to have a pool noodle to help people who were drowning. We learnt to not go in the pool when someone was drowning and we have to call 000 for help. We stayed on the steps waiting for our turn. My bus partner was Phoebe, Evie and Jorja. I really enjoyed swimming.
Alarah 1/2FD
Some Pics of 1/2 FD & 1/2 CD swimming and water familiarisation
Day 4
New - 1/2 JM & 1/2 MW Swimming
Day 2 Swimming with 1/2JM & MW
Day 4
New - Prep Swimming
Here are some of our Preps having a wonderful time during their week of swimming and water familiarisation.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Upcoming Events
Reminder - Fathers Day Stall & Fathers Day Breakfast
Breakfast response link - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XBQ2YRY
New - Sausage Sizzle
Azem from People Supporting People will be serving a free sausage to students during lunchtime, Tuesday 5th September.
This will be a little extra treat for students and we do suggest students will still need to pack some food for the day.
There will be no cost!
New - St Mary's Athletics Carnival
Our School Athletics Day will be held on Wednesday 13th September at the Shepparton Athletics Track.
Students will be bussed there and back and will be departing from school at 9:00am. Events will begin at 9:45am and will conclude with Relays before returning to school at approx 3:00pm.
The timetable for the days activities is attached below.
The permission note has been emailed out, please remeber to respond to this event.
Thankyou Josh Preston
New - Supporters Dress Up Day
On Friday 15th September we are having a Supporters Dress Up Day.
Come dressed as your favorite sporting person or in your favorite team colors.
Students will also participate in Grade 6 student led activities throughout the day and P&F are running a hot dog lunch order. (please see P&F page for order form)
Reminder - Grade 3/4 School Camp
Unfortunately our Grades 3/4 School Camp dates have changed.
It is still in Term 4, but is now in Week 5 and will be held from Monday 30 October to Wednesday 1 November, NOT the previously stated dates of Wed 1 Nov - Fri 3 Nov.
Please amend your calendar dates.
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.
