News from around the school
NEW - 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
New - Grade 5/6 Happy Campers
St Mary’s Submariners - The first stop on our way to Canberra - the iconic Holbrook submarine!
The campers arrived safely in Canberra yesterday!
Along the way they stopped to visit the Dog on the Tuckerbox in Gundagai and enjoyed some time at the Black Mountain Peninsulsa Park stretching thier legs!
After arriving at their cabins, unpacking and settling in the campers enjoyed the scenic drive up Mount Ainsley!
Our Campers finished thier travel day with a trip up to the lookout at Mount Ainsley to watch the sunset.
After a great nights rest our campers are ready for a big day of exploring Canberra...
First Stop - a guided walk down Anzac Parade! We explored all of the memorials and learnt a lot about the different conflicts and wars.
Next stop - Parliament House!
We look forward to hearing more about thier adventures as the week goes on.
New - Clean up Australia Day
Last Friday, our Year 3/4's took part in a Clean Up Australia Day activity in partnership with other community groups, including Parks Victoria and the Mooroopna Lions Club.
We had lots of fun and were happy to see that there wasn't as much rubbish as last year.
New - Project Compassion - Coin Line
Project Compassion: Lent, Week One activity!
The Grade Six Social Justice Leadership Team co-ordinated our CARITAS Money Line today and did a terrific job in their role as social justice leaders!
A total for our first fundraising activity for this Lent will be announced next week!
New - Sam Birrell visits Mooroopna
We welcomed our local Member of Parliament, Sam Birrell, to speak with our Grade 5/6’s ahead of their Canberra camp next week!
He answered lots of questions about his role in the House of Representatives, and said that he might even see us at Parliament House next week!
The students were super excited to meet Sam after learning about the government in class!
New - 1/2's Creative Art
Our Grade 1/2’s were busy during art this fortnight, creating Line Sculptures Artwork!
New - 3/4's Learn about St Mary's Parish
The Year 3/4 students and teachers would like to thank Maree Williams for coming in to speak to us today. In the past few weeks, we have been learning all about St. Mary's Parish. As always, Maree was a wealth of knowledge! She told us all about the different groups in the Parish and what they do. We are so fortunate to have someone so generous with their time working in our Parish and school community.
NEW - Story Time with Arti & Zoe
Story Review by either Noah, Nate & Angelo. Gr 2
'The Giving Tree'
Rating of the Story -
Words we liked:
joyful, grateful, playful, loving - all of these described the friendship between the boy and the tree
Parts of the story we liked/loved/disliked:
- we liked when the boy played with the tree at the start of the story.
- we loved the whole story but did not like when the tree's branches and trunk were cut off.
Visit the link below to listen to the story of 'Darryl's Dream'
https://storylineonline.net/books/the-giving-tree/
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