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St Mary’s Crazy Hair Day

St Mary’s is having a Crazy Hair and Casual Clothes day on Wednesday 3rd April (the last week of Term 1).

 

We encourage you to style your hair however you want.  You could have your hair spiky, wavy, curly or whatever you desire.

 

Please bring a gold coin that will go to charity.

 

From Steven Pham

President SRC

Weekly Mass Newsletter

2nd Sunday of Lent Year C 17 March 2019 .pdf

Premier's Reading Challenge

A pink consent form went home with each child on Tuesday.  We would love for as many children as possible to get involved in this fabulous challenge. All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and can choose to have their name included on the online Honour Roll.  The signed form only needs to be returned to school to give permission for your child‘s name to appear on the Honour Roll.

To meet the challenge you need to read the following numbers of books:

Prep – Year 2: 30 books (20 or more from the list to be read or experienced with families)

Year 3 – Year 6: 15 books (10 or more from the list)

Children will receive a checklist to record books and will be required to return these when they have completed the challenge.

Miss Jane and Miss Clare

Maths Online

Remember that at St Mary's students are to do 10-15 mins of Maths homework each night.  Maths Online (mathsonline.com.au) is available to all students.  They will have a unique username and password (given out by homeroom teachers) and have Maths tasks linked to the learning that is taking place inside the classroom.

Other Maths Homework tasks could unclude:

Looking for patterns in our world (letterbox numbers go up by 2's on each side of the road etc.)

Cooking, measuring, counting, halving, doubling etc.

Creating and solving counting patterns

Looking for different 2D and 3D shapes in the environment

Telling the time (on both digital and analogue clocks and watches)

*I am away this Friday, so I will begin awarding Mathsonline certificates at next week's (29/3) assembly!!!

All the best,

Jarrod Mullavey

Playgroup

ST Mary’s Playgroup News

 

We began our first playgroup session  couple weeks ago! If you have a baby, toddler or a preschooler please come and join us after most assemblies in the hall.

Who: babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers

Where: school hall and outside playground

When: Fridays after assemby (9.30-10.45)

Bring along: a hat and healthy snack for your own child

Come by, have a cup of tea and meet other parents. We will offer a variety of inside and outside play based activities.

House Sports

ST. MARY’S TWILIGHT SPORTS 2019

Friday 29th of March 5:00pm – 7:00pm, Collingwood Harriers Athletics Club, Knott Reserve   

 Heidelberg Road, Clifton Hill.

 

   5:00PM start.

Children assemble in their house colour areas.

Welcome (Dino)

1/ All grade Prep-2 children assemble at the end of the sprint straight in two rows per house with boys at the front and girls behind. (Boys only race boys and girls race girls). Some age/grade levels will require heats and children will be seeded by me. Children from grade 3-6 will be running in their appropriate age groups with the first four names from their Age A race being recorded. Every child receives a ribbon after this race, either a 1st, 2nd, 3rd or well done ribbon. Senior Children with designated teachers begin activities on oval at the same time.

  • Grade 2 boys (70m Sprints)
  • Grade 2 girls
  • Grade 1 boys (60m Sprints)
  • Grade 1 girls
  • Prep boys (50m Sprints)
  • Prep girls

1/ Tabloid Activities:

  • Grade 6’s to go Long jump pit and line up in one row per house. Grade 5’s & 4/5’s can collectively do the same with the other pit. See scoring sheet.
  • Grade 3/4’s go immediately to sack races & Egg and Spoon

2/ Tabloid Activities continued

  • 6’s go to Star leader ball
  • 5’s & 4/5’s go to other ball games (tunnel ball/ under and over, pass ball etc)
  • 3/4’s to long jump pits
  • 1/2's to egg and spoon races/ball games etc
  • Prep to sack races

3/ Tabloid Activities continued

  • 6’s sack races
  • 5’s & 4/5’s egg and spoon
  • 3/4's Bean bag retrieve
  • 1/2's long jump pits
  • Preps go to Bean bag retrieve.

4/ Tabloid activities continued

  • 6’s egg and spoon
  • 5’s & 4/5’s sack races
  • 3/4's go immediately to ball game area and begin (eg tunnel ball, pass ball under & over)
  • 1/2's to bean bag retrieve
  • Preps Long jump pit

 

5/ 100m Sprints (5:50pm)

  • 8/9yr boys
  • 8/9yr girls
  • 10yr boys
  • 10yr girls
  • 11yr boys
  • 11yr girls
  • 12/13yr boys
  • 12/13yr girls

5/ Tabloid Activities continued

  • 1/2s Sack races
  • Preps go to bean bag toss.

6/ Tabloid Activities continued

  • 1/2's Tunnel ball
  • Preps Egg & Spoon

7/ Sausage Sizzle for junior grades

7/ 5/6’s Sausage sizzle when sprint is completed etc.

Short Break:

8/ 200m invitation event

  • 9/10yr Boys (2X runners per house, 8 in total/race)
  • 9/10yr Girls
  • 11yr Boys
  • 11yr Girls
  • 12yr Boys
  • 12yr Girls

9/ Relays (6:40pm) 9a/ Preps, 9b 1/2's 9c, 3/4s 9d, 4/5’s 9e 5/6’s

10/ Completion, scores, announcements (Dino)

Finish 7:00pm