Office Hours

St Mary's Office office hours are currently 8.30am - 4.30pm

2020 Office Closure

12pm Thursday 17th December

2021 Office Re-opens

10.30am Wednesday 27th January

Updated - Open Day & 2022 Enrolment Process

Enrolment enquiries are now open and the date for this year's Open Day is Thursday 27th May - please see flyer under the 'School Information' & News from around the School Tabs.

Our Open Day coincides with Catholic Education Week and is currently being advertised in the local newspapers and online. We also use Facebook as another platform for notices like this.

Our usual process is for families to attend the Open Day, collect an enrolment pack on the day, then after returning the appropriate documents, a family meeting with our principal is booked to meet and greet and view the school. The family meetings usually occur in Term 3.

New - St Marys Open Day

New - 2022 Prep Students

For any current families who may have a student looking to enrol for 2022, please contact the office to arrange for an enrolment pack to be sent home.

School Fees

School fee statements have been distributed via email. Please notify the office if you have not received your invoice or if your email address has recently changed.

Please see 2021 Fees & Levies Schedule for calculations of family/student fees.

School Fees can be paid by

Cash, Cheque or EFT at the office,
Direct Debit/Credit Card - a 2021 request from is required for either of these to be processed - Please see forms & schedule below,
Centrepay - please see form below
Direct Bank Deposit - Bank Details for Direct Deposit below. Please use your child’s name/surname as a reference.

St Mary’s General Account

BSB 083-543 Acc No 457812500

Forms for direct debit, credit card and centrepay are available below.

Camps Sports & Excursion Fund - CSEF

The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) provides payments for eligible students to attend activities like:

school camps or trips
swimming and school-organised sport programs
outdoor education programs
excursions and incursions.

From 2020, the Victorian Government is investing an additional $160.9 million for the Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund over the next four years. This has been bolstered further with an additional $28.6 million announced in the 2020-21 State Budget for the 2021 school year. This funding will help ensure more than 220,000 government and non-government students from lower-income families are able to participate in camps, sports and excursions each year.

Who can apply

Families holding a valid means-tested concession card or temporary foster parents are eligible to apply. A Special Consideration category also exists. Schools can receive applications from families over term one and two.

Families can list more than one student in the one application form if they are attending the same school.

Payment amounts

Payments amounts for 2021 are:

$125 per year for eligible primary school students
$225 per year for eligible secondary school students.

Payments are made directly to the school and are tied to the student.

from March onwards each year where the parent/carer’s concession card is assessed as valid on the first day of term 1; and
during term 2 where the parent/carer’s concession card is assessed as valid on the first day of term 2.

Applications can be received over term one and two. Payments are for the application year and cannot be claimed for previous years.

Use of funds

The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) provides payments for eligible students to attend activities like:

school camps or trips, swimming and school-organised sport programs, outdoor education programs, excursions and incursions.

The CSEF payment cannot be used towards books, stationery, school uniforms, before/after school care, music lessons, or formals/graduations.

Submitting an application

Applications can be entered from 18 January 2021. Parents/carers wishing to apply for CSEF payments for 2021 must submit their application form to the relevant school before the last day of term 2 (25 June 2021).

However, a parent/carer will only be required to submit an application form to the school in the following circumstances:

the parent/carer is applying for the CSEF payment for the first time – i.e. an application form was not lodged with the school in the previous year; or
circumstances have changed – e.g. there has been a change in the care arrangement of the student, a change of name or CRN, or a new sibling has commenced at the school and the parent/carer wishes to apply for the CSEF payment for the new sibling.

Where a parent/carer is not required to submit a new application, schools can copy the previous year’s application on the CSEF system to the current school year.

Schools must retain application forms for a minimum of seven years.

CSEF applications may be audited by the Department.

For further information about CSEF please click on the link - CSEF LINK

CSEF Application form below

UPDATED - Subway

Please place orders in classroom subway tub Thursdays for delivery Friday. Late orders can be dropped directly to Subway prior to 10am, however the preference is for all orders to come through the school.

Please ensure correct money is included and clearly mark your students name, class and which order and inclusions you require.

Please Note - Variations are limited to the items listed on the current order form as attached. This also applies to orders placed directly through the subway shop.

Schnitzel orders will only be accepted directly through the shop and will incur extra charges. Please Note - these are made up warm and can arrive at school up to half an hour prior to lunchtime.

Orders requesting meatballs are discouraged due to health regulations and will be supplied with an alternative lunch order menu item.

Local Town Bus

If you require further information regarding fares or travel routes, please contact

Jodi Jacobson

Phone: 03 58203700

Fax: 03 58253494

E-mail: jodi@jacobsons.com.au

Student Medical profile / Absences

All student medical information and permission notes will now be collected and sent out through PAM.

Absent notes can also be submitted through PAM.

We ask all families to make any updates to their students medical profile through PAM by clicking the "red bell" in the top right hand corner of the home page or through the school office.

Parent Handbook

Our recently reviewed Parent Handbook is attached below.

Updated - School Uniform

Students are required to be in Winter uniform, for Term 2 & 3.

Please see the attached policy to ensure your child has all the required items.

We have a number of second hand items for sale in the office.

If you have any uniform items you no longer require and wish to donate them to the school, please bring them into the office.

Please see attached Uniform Policy.

The school uniform shop in Corio St, Goulburn Valley School Uniforms in High St Shepparton and Quality Teams, all stock St Mary's uniform.

School Information

Contact details

St Mary’s School

121-143 McLennan Street

PO Box 259

Mooroopna 3629

Telephone :(03)5825 2858

Emails

General - office@smmooroopna.catholic.edu.au

Newsletter - office@smmooroopna.catholic.edu.au

Principal: Anthony Butts

abutts@smmooroopna.catholic.edu.au

Deputy Principal: Ann Margaret Carroll

acarroll@smmooroopna.catholic.edu.au

Office Administrator : Amber Feehan

afeehan@smmooroopna.catholic.edu.au

Administration Assistant: Naomi Egglestone

negglestone@smmooroopna.catholic.edu.au

Canonical Administrator: Monsignor Peter Jeffery

mons.peterj@bigpond.com

St Mary’s Parish

Presbytery - 5825 2034 (Office & After Hours)

Parish Priest: Monsignor Peter Jeffery

Parish Secretary: Brenda Pye

Parish Email: mooroopna@cdos.org.au

2 Toolamba Road, Mooroopna

P.O. Box 365 – Mooroopna –3629

Bus Company: Jacobsons - 5820 3700

Bus Co ordinator: 5825 2344

Out of Hours Care

Stepping Stones - 1300 665 699

Office Hours - Monday to Friday 8.30am - 4.30pm

Newsletter - Processed fortnightly from week 2 of each Term. Deadline for inclusions - Tuesday 11am

(office@smmooroopna.catholic.edu.au)

Subway Orders - Return order and payment Thursday for Friday delivery.

Emergency Contact Details

Please ensure all your family contact details are up to date on PAM or through the office, including Home phone, Mobile, residential & postal address & email address.

We also require your nominated emergency contact details to be current & up to date.

Working With Children Check

Parents or family members who wish to help out in the classrooms or on excursions are required to have an up to date Working With Children's Card. These can be applied for online and there is no cost if you are a volunteer. A copy of this needs to be passed onto the office.

Medication

Families are reminded to please ensure they provide up to date medical plans and necessary in date medications to the office. .

Parents are reminded that all non prescription medication to be administered at school or on camp or excursions, requires a pharmaceutical label detailing student name and dosage. A signed authority to administer medication form is also required, a copy of this is located below.

Student Absences

If your child is absent, you are required to notify the school. Please do so via PAM, instructions are detailed on the 'Simon Everywhere' page of this newsletter.

Absences can also be phoned through to the school office or you can notify your students teacher direct.

Following government guidelines, schools are now legislated to contact families regarding ’unexplained absences’, and parents will receive a text message for any ‘unexplained absence’ including late arrivals that are not signed in at the office. If you receive a message, we ask you to please contact the office to notify reason for absence.

Late arrival / Early collection

If you arrive at school after 8.50am or leave school before 3.20pm student/s must be signed in or out at the school office.

Acknowledgement To Country

At St Mary’s Primary School Mooroopna we Acknowledge the Traditional people of this land.

The Yorta Yorta Nation are the Traditional Custodians of this area and we remember their elders, past, present and future.

We remember that the Aboriginal people of Australia will always be the traditional owners of the land on which we gather today.

We continue to grow through education and reconciliation to a better future for all Australians.

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