News from around the school
Laptops For Sale
Secondhand lap tops are still available to purchase - $500, if you are interested please contact the school office.
Specifications listed below -
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015)
Storage 128 GB
Processor 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB
Sock it to Poverty
We are again raising awareness and money for Catholic Mission with our Socktober Appeal. "Sock it to poverty" by helping out with this appeal. St Mary's will hold a crazy sock day on Wednesday 23rd October where children are invited to wear coloured, bright, odd or patterned socks etc and are asked to make a gold coin donation to Catholic Mission.
AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR TERM 4 for 2019
St. Mary’s Primary School will continue to run an After school program this term. The program will run 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 3.45 and finishes at 4.45 p.m. The program is supervised at all times and an outside person will run the program. Each session can only take 25 children.
This term we are offering the following:
Both activities will be Fitness & Fun with Brodie; this will be held in the Marian Centre or Oval depending on the weather.
WEDNESDAYS - starting on 30th October – 11th December for 7 WEEKS
THURSDAYS - starting 31st October – 12th December for 7 WEEKS
The children will meet Maree outside the Marian Centre straight after school and have fruit and a drink.
Please return the attached form to the office before Wednesday 23rd October.
Thank You
Maree Williams
Co-ordinator
Children's First Aid Workshop
On Monday all students took part in children's 1st Aid classes ran by St John's Ambulance. Trained St John presenters led students through tailored sessions on the importance of First Aid and what to do in the event of a medical emergency.
Our Junior students learnt how to know when there is an emergency, keeping themselves safe and how to call for an ambulance.
Our Senior students learnt about carrying out CPR and what they can do to assist in an emergency.
We encourage all parents to have a chat with your children about what they learnt and discuss what to do when we are injured.
Word Mania
Congratulations to all Year 1-6 students that participated in Word Mania. We had some wonderful success in the competition. From all participating schools across Australia and New Zealand, our Year 3’s finished 17th, our Year 4’s finished 19th and our Year 5’s finished 45th. What a great effort!!!
From our school leaderboards, these individual students did particularly well and will receive a LiteracyPlanet Word Mania stationary pack:
YEAR 1
Maya Williams top scored with 2895
Sophie Marshall scored 2052
Liam Watts played the most games on 37
YEAR 2
Macen Hamilton top scored with 1652 and played 43 games
Emiliana Corish-Zito scored 1543 and played the most games with 50
Izel Davis played 35 games
YEAR 3
Liam Kennedy top scored with 5134 and played 214 games
Cruz Bourke scored 4932 and played 323 games
Hunter Ferrari scored 3915 and played the most games with 377
Rhylee Marsters played 282 games
Liam Moreno played 221 games
Ruby Briggs played 212 games
YEAR 4
Sahib Athwal top scored with a HUGE 9090 and played the most games with 404
Kaiden Whittaker scored 5225
Zane Brown scored 3987
Tyson Glover played 241 games
Arlen Smith played 230 games
Josh Ulrich played 221 games
YEAR 5
James Wyhoon top scored with 4576 and played 164 games
Noah Kennedy scored 4186 and played 201 games
Noah Williams scored 3888 and played the most games with 288
Landon Hodgson played 223 games
Sienna Vigliaturo played 201 games
Brenton Curtis played 164 games
YEAR 6
Jack Williams top scored with 5336 and played the most games with a HUGE 535
Jaegen Briggs scored 3052
Seth Wills scored 2831
Caleb Aitken played 166 games
Alicia Cann played 140 games
Tyler Nolen played 131 games
Most importantly, everyone that participated in Word Mania had great fun and did a lot of learning. We are already looking forward to taking part in next year’s competition.
New - Chatter Matters
Language genre/longer and more complex sentences
These activities will help the students to make the necessary adjustments to their language so they can communicate for a variety of purposes eg; to tell stories, recount events, persuade, give instructions and report information. Learning about the language and types of words we use in each of these different contexts supports not only the child’s oral language but written language development also.
Focus: Understanding longer and more complex sentences
1. Following instructions: Obstacle course
Obstacle courses not only work on following directions but work gross motor skills as well. Create an obstacle course using pillows to walk across, tunnels to climb through or jump on and a ball pit to end up in. Provide your child with instructions on how you would like them to complete the course. Initially start with one instruction increasing the steps to include two, three, four step instructions. To make this activity more difficult, you could include describing words (adjectives), e.g. step on the red cushion after you have picked up the blue ball, or include joining words (conjunctions) e.g before, after, then, and etc.
2. Following/Giving instructions: Putting together a model
Kits are great, they contain complete sets of instructions and materials, but they can be expensive. As an alternative, try supplying your child with a collection of building blocks and give them a set of directions for building various items. Once they have followed your instructions, reverse the rolls and encourage your child to give you instructions to build an item.