General School News

Keep connected with what is happening at school through Compass & the Newsletter

Please make sure you are connected to COMPASS and receive the newsletter.

All families need to subscribe to the St Mary's COMPASS portal. Regular information comes from this site to families. Each parent is given a login. If you have lost your login details or are having difficulty logging in please call the School Office for assistance.

It is also really important to read the newsletter fortnightly.  The Newsletter can be found electronically on COMPASS.

Uniform Days

Term 1 Summer Uniform

Kindergarten and Years 5 & 6 (stages ESI and S3) wear their yellow sports shirt on Tuesdays.

Years 1, 2, 3, 4 (Stages 1 & 2) are to wear their yellow sports shirt Wednesdays.

 All students wear their coloured house shirt on Fridays. Thank you.

Canteen Lenten Menu

On Ash Wednesday, 22 February and on Fridays during Lent the Canteen will be serving our special Lenten Menu.  

School Hours

8:20am Doors Open & Student Supervision begins.

8:50am Classes start.

Students who arrive after 8:50 am will need to be signed in by Parents at the Front Office, if this doesn't occur parents will receive an unexplained notification for late attendance.

Thank you for signing your child in if they are late as this ensures our attendance records are accurate. 

10:50am-11:30am First Break

1:30am-2:10pm Second Break

3:10pm Classes end

3:15pm Buses are loaded

3.10-3.20pm Pick up top gate Dangar Street

3:15-3:30pm Pick up Rusden Street. All students are to be collected by 3:30pm.

After School Care is available for families from 3:10-6pm on site at school.

School Office Hours

The School Office hours are 8:20 am - 4 pm Monday- Friday. 

Contacting Your Child's Teacher

Teachers welcome contact from parents, if you need to talk with staff please either contact the class teacher by phoning the school – 6772 4441 or email the school on smaadmin@arm.catholic.edu.au

Lost Property

We already have large quantities of lost property items which have not been labelled. Please make sure that you check and label or re-label clothing items so we can return items to their owners and please remember to rename items purchased from the Clothing Pool - if the previous owner's name is still on it, we will send it home with them!  

Apart from many items of unlabelled uniforms we also have large amounts of unlabelled lunchboxes, lunch containers and drink bottles in our lost property baskets.  It is impossible to return these items to students. Unnamed uniform items are donated to the clothing pool. 

Clothing Pool 

The Clothing Pool is open by appointment every second Friday morning.  It will next be open on Friday, 3rd March from 9.30 am - 11.00 am.  

Please contact the school office on 6772 4441 or smaadmin@arm.catholic.edu.au to book a time.  If you are paying for second hand clothing items via Compass, please contact the school first, so that we can confirm that your required size is available.

Back to School Vouchers

St Mary's is accepting the The Premier's Back to School NSW Vouchers for new uniform items such as bags, hats, beanies etc.  Please note that second hand clothing pool items are not eligible for the vouchers.