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Dear Parents and Friends of St Mary’s,
Congratulations to Jikaya and Austin, who participated in the Zone Swimming Carnival in Sale on Monday. They both swam exceptionally well, and we, as a School Community, are very proud of the effort it takes to make it that far.Thank you also to Jessica Benc for driving to and from Sale and supporting Jikaya and Austin through the morning.
Naplan will be conducted for our Grade 3 and 5 students on Wednesday, March 15th and Thursday, March 16th.
Please click here for important NAPLAN information
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Wednesday, March 15th Grade 3-5 students |
9:30 am - 10:30 am |
Writing |
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Wednesday, March 15th Grade 3-5 Students |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Reading |
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Thursday, March 16th Grade 3-5 Students |
9:30 am - 10:30 am |
Conventions of Writing |
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Thursday, March 16th Grade 3-5 Students |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Numeracy |
Kind regards,
Maria
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
TERM 1 2023
March
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10th Lunch orders due by 9:00 am |
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13th Holiday - Labour Day long weekend |
14th |
15th NAPLAN begins |
16th NAPLAN |
17th 2:30 Assembly Gr. 3/4 NAPLAN Lunch orders due by 9:00 am |
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20th |
21st | 22nd |
23rd Whole School Mass 10:00 |
24th Yarram District Athletics Lunch orders due by 9:00 am |
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27th School Closure Day |
28th | 29th |
30th |
31st Lunch orders due by 9:00 am Final Assembly for Term 1 @ 2:30 Gr. 5/6
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TERM 2 2021
April
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 3rd | 4th | 5th |
6th 12 pm Easter Liturgy End of Term 1 |
7th |
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24th Pupil Free Day - Start of Term 2 |
25th ANZAC DAY - Holiday  |
26th Term two begins for students |
27th | 28th |
May
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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1st Yarram District Cross Country
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2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
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8th School Closure Day
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9th | 10th | 11th | 12th |
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15th
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16th | 17th | 18th |
19th National Walk to School Day |
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22nd Wellington Zone Cross Country |
23rd | 24th | 25th |
26th |
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29th |
30th |
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Religion News
As we journey through the season of Lent we continue to focus on prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
Prayer is something that the students at St Mary’s understand and participate in throughout every school day.
However, fasting and almsgiving can be harder to understand. Fasting doesn’t mean to fast from special foods, fasting can be fasting from saying unkind things, from thinking unkind thoughts or even fasting from behaviour that is not always nice, Almsgiving can be seen as doing or saying something nice for others, for helping someone in need. Almsgiving can also be helping our families when they are busy. Fasting can also be as easy as not being disrespectful to others, even our brothers and sisters.
In the words of Pope Francis
Fast from hurting words and say kind words.
Fast from sadness and be filled with gratitude.
Fast from anger and be filled with patience.
Fast from pessimism and be filled with hope.
Fast from worries and have trust in God.
Fast from complaints and contemplate simplicity.
Fast from pressures and be prayerful.
Fast from bitterness and fill your hearts with joy.
Fast from selfishness and be compassionate to others.
Fast from grudges and be reconciled.
Fast from words and be silent so you can listen.
Our children aave begun preparation for our Holy Week enactment, which, will be presented on the last day of Term One, Thursday 6th of April at 12:00 midday in the St Mary Mackillop Hall. This is an excellent way for our students to learn and reflect on Jesus’ final hours.
Sacramental News
Sacrament of First Holy Communion will now be celebrated on Sunday the 21st of May at St. Mary’s Catholic Church at 11:00am.
Kind Regards
Sue Benc
How teachers can supercharge student engagement in the classroom
- By Bret Henebery
Last week, a landmark study confirmed a growing body of evidence showing
that the number one factor that impacts student learning in the classroom is
engaging teaching.
The research, conducted by Emeritus Laureate Professor John Hattie from
Melbourne University’s Graduate School of Education scoured 2,100
meta-analyses over 40 years, drawing from more than 130,000 studies
involving more than 400 million students worldwide.
St. Mary's Primary School will be electing new committee members at our School Advisory Committee Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, 14th March 2023 at 5:00 PM. We would like to encourage you to consider joining the committee.
Nomination Forms are also available at the school office.
Thank you, to all our families for your wonderful support of this fundraiser. We truly appreciate your efforts to make this fund
raiser a success for our school.
If you would like an extra box, please contact the school office as we do have a few boxes remaining.
Please remember to hand your money, along with any unsold chocolates to the school by 24th March 2023.
St Mary's will be holding a lucky jar stall at the Yarram Easter Carnival on Saturday, 8th April 2023.
To make this a success we need help from our St Mary's Community to help fill jars.
Here are some suggestions:
Lollies
Toys
Hair ribbons
Pencils, erasers
Stickers
Beads
Help Required prior and on the day of the Carnival:
- help on the day at the stall
- numbering the jars
- purchasing products to make extra jars (schools expense)
- making up extra jars as we are hoping to have 200 or more lucky jars on the day.
- donation of empty jars.
Please contact Debbie at the school office if you can help with any of the above.
A REMINDER TO PLEASE FILL OUT YOUR SURVEYS
The process of school review is an important element of the ongoing improvement of
schools in the Diocese of Sale. This survey tool is a way for your school to examine its
practices and shared understandings as a way of identifying practices to be maintained
and strengthened, and opportunities to be addressed moving forward.
As a parent, you have an important perspective to share. Please answer each question,
rating your response on the five-point scale. Responses are anonymous and will assist
the school in its school review.
The link for your survey is:
