Other News
Online Activity
It has come to our attention that many students are play an online game called Five Nights at Freddy's.
This is an intense horror game with animatronic characters. This psychological and emotionally disturbing game is recommended for teenagers and adults.
A reminder to continue to monitor your child's online activity.
Parish Snow Trip
Snow Trip
Date Saturday, August 3rd
Cost $50-$80 (depending on numbers)
The bus will leave St. Mary's early on Saturday morning and returns in the evening.
For queries or to book your place on the bus contact
Enri Dalton Phone:0423027612
TriSkills
All classes have had their first session of TriSkills and the smiles on the students faces have been great to see. The program offers our students 5 weeks of Dance, followed by 5 weeks of Gymnastics. Below are some photos of the students in action!
Library News
The theme for Book Week 2019 is;
Reading is My Secret Power!
I am really looking forward to working with the students to explore how reading empowers each of us and how we can express ourselves creatively through books. We will be exploring a range of CBCA (The Children’s Book Council of Australia) shortlisted texts during Library lessons and will complete visual arts and literacy responses to the texts.
Book character parade will take place on Wednesday 21st August at the start of the school day. The parade is about having fun and celebrating book characters, so the focus will be on keeping costume ideas simple and manageable for families. I will discuss ideas for characters with the children but there are some great ideas for costumes here too
https://www.familiesmagazine.com.au/childrens-book-week-costume-ideas/
On Monday 2nd September at 9.10am we have Perform Education visiting. They will perform an educational musical for the whole school, based around the 2019 CBCA shortlisted books. This should be fabulous!
Premier’s Reading Challenge – for those students who have been participating in the challenge, please return the reading checklist as soon as possible to Miss Clare so that we can register the books read by individual students.
It is most certainly an exciting term for celebrating literacy, literature, information literacy and other curriculum outcomes through books!
Miss Clare
Our Next Teen Spirit Gathering
Attention all High School aged students. The next Teen Spirit Mass will be held at St Mary's Church on Sunday 4th August at 5:30pm. Please come along and celebrate your faith. Activities and pizza will follow in the school hall after mass.
For further information contact Fr Shabin 03)94842907
St Mary's Thornbury Children's Sunday Mass
Sunday 25th August 2019
10:30am Mass
Followed by sausage sizzle and fun activities
Please bring a plate of salad or sweets to share
BYO Drinks
Australian Maths Competition
The AMC is on Thursday 1st August. If your child is participating and would like to have a go at some practice questions, please follow this link: https://www.amt.edu.au/department/free-problems