Community News
New - Alpha in the Catholic Context Program
An Invitation to all Parents from St Mary’s Parish.
You have chosen to send your child to St Mary’s Primary School. Therefore you are invited by St Brendan’s Parish to attend an eleven (11) weeks program called Alpha.
You may or may not be Christian or Catholic. This does not matter. The Alpha Program will suit you as it opens up basic questions of life within a Christian context. The Alpha Program starts with a shared meal followed by sharing of ideas. Differences do not matter. The Alpha Team is busy preparing to welcome you.
Please fill out the registration as an expression of interest and return to the school office. Once we have your expression of interest we will let you know more details and dates of starting. The Program will be offered on a Monday evening for 2 hours over eleven weeks. Don’t let this opportunity go by so fill out the form below and be welcomed to Alpha.
Registration: Expression of Interest
- Name:
- Grade your child attends
- Email:
- MOB:
New - Transition Tatura
Transition Tatura is proud to Launch our 2021 Environmental Art Competition. We have great prizes and a great topic;
“My Town: A Zero Carbon Town … what can I do to make it happen?”
The categories of art we will be considering for this competition are as follows;
- Visual Art (painting, drawing, sculpture, fashion design, etc.)
- Performance Art (dance, theatre, song, music, etc.) (up to six minutes duration)
- Literature (poetry, story, etc.) (up to 1500 words)
- Media Arts (film, animation, computers, etc.) (up to six minutes duration)
If any students or their parents’ are interested in this competition, please see the Information flyer below, along with the entry form.
Entries to close 4.00pm, Friday July 30th, 2021
Prizes of $60.00 for winning individual entries and $280.00 for the Overall Best Entry.
New - St Pauls African House - Community Survey
St Paul's African House is facilitating a Community Survey as part of our African Focus, "Our voices are important in Greater Shepparton" project. Our community survey is now open for
- People of African heritage
- Over 18yrs
- Living in Greater Shepparton
Please see the flyer below for further information.
New - A Taste of African Cultures
Our most loved community event of the year is 'A Taste of African Cultures'.
This year it will be held on
Saturday 15 May 1-7pm at St Paul's African House
Everyone is invited to come along and experience the sights, sounds, rhythm and taste of Africa!
Please see the attached flyer for more information.
New - Mooroopna Cats Basketball
Greater Shepparton Basketball Association Winter Competition that starts next week. The Mooroopna Cats Basketball club is looking for more players to field teams for both boys and girls from Under 10 through to Under 16.
The Basketball WINTER COMPETITION will be starting on 26th April.
Registrations are open NOW: Here is the registration link: https://www.playhq.com/basketball-victoria/register/6f2186
Nights of play
Monday - U18 Boys and Seniors
Tuesday - U10's Boys and Girls
Wednesday - U12's Boys and Girls
Thursday - U14's Boys and Girls & U16 Boys
TRAINING started but we are encouraging players to come along and have a go as the Winter competition is a great starting point!
Training Tuesday’s (starting 20th April).
> U10 & U12 - 4:30pm
> U14 - 5:30pm
> U16 - 6:30pm
Coulson Centre Mooroopna (next to Westside / Greater Shepparton Secondary College – Mooroopna Campus.
We are keen to keep the kids playing though winter, if you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me Kylie D’Aloia or the president of the Mooroopna Cats Basketball Club – Owen McCarron – 0419 006 100.
Please see the attached flyers for further information.
New - Goulburn Valley Hockey
My name is Michael Van Dorsser and I am the promotions and publicity manager for the Goulburn Valley Hockey Association and we have a new program that is being run by Hockey Victoria on Saturday mornings.
Stick2Hockey is a program that is a natural progression from Hookin2Hockey and will help participants develop their skills further as they move towards traditional club hockey or other social formats of the game and its focus is on trying to step up to match play situations.
There are no fees for this but it is important that anyone who is wanting to play signs up on the link on the flyer.
Saver Plus
Saver Plus Program is a program that will benefit those families whom are eligible in the school system, to assist with the purchasing of laptops, school uniforms, textbooks, camps and excursions and many more education costs.
For further information please click on the following link - http://www.berrystreet.org.au/saverplus
And a short video link
St Annes College Enrolment Process
Mooroopna - Auskick
Mooroopna Auskick will commence Friday nights starting 23rd April until 25th June between 530pm & 6.30pm.
