Dear Parents,

I recently received an email that included this prayer by Pope Francis about fasting during Lent. Coincidently, this same prayer was read and used as a reflection at last Friday’s school liturgy. The words in the prayer are very powerful and lead us not to fast (give up something) during Lent, but encourages us to ‘be more’. What do you want to fast from this Lent?

St Mary’s Primary School Open Day

All St Mary’s families and friends are invited to our Open Day. Please come in and visit your child’s classroom, join them in their learning and enjoy a look around our school.

School Closure Day

Next Friday, 5^th March is a school closure day for St Mary’s Primary due to staff being involved in professional development. As Monday, 8^th March is the Labour Day public holiday, I hope that you all have a great long weekend.

School Advisory Committee Nominations

This week forms were sent home to all families regarding nominations for the St Mary’s School Advisory Committee. Please carefully consider nominating yourself or another parent to either the position of chair, secretary or general committee member. Positions will be announced at our AGM on Tuesday, 16^th March at 5:15pm.

Email Addresses

Due to a number of families not receiving the school newsletter of emails sent to all families, a note was sent out last week asking for your email address information. If you have not completed this form and returned it to school, can I please ask that you do this as soon as possible.

Communication with Teachers

Communication between parents and classroom teachers is important in your child’s education. If you need to contact your child’s classroom teacher, you can book an appointment through Heather at the office or contact them via email. Below are the classroom teachers email addresses for your records:

Prep & Grade 1 – mmoore@stmyarram.catholic.edu.au and sbenc@stmyarram.catholic.edu.au

Grade 2 & 3 - asheedy@stmyarram.catholic.edu.au and hhaughie@stmyarram.catholic.edu.au

Grade 4/5/6 - dowens@stmyarram.catholic.edu.au and hflynn@stmyarram.catholic.edu.au

Kind regards,

Joel

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

TERM 1 2021

February

March

TERM 2 2021

April

May

June

SCHOOL FEES SCHEDULE 2021

2021 School fees have been posted to families this week. Fees are to be paid in full by the end of Term 3. Alternatively, you can pay in equal instalments over the remainder of 2021. 

School camps and Year 2 sleepover will be invoiced separately closer to the events. 

Family Fee Assistance Scheme

All families in which the fee payer holds an eligible health care card or pensioner concession card are eligible to apply for the Family Fee Assistance Scheme. 

This allows for a significant reduction of your school fees. Application forms are available from the school office or click on the following link: School Fees Concession Application

For more information about concessions, please contact the school.

CSEF Assistance
This is a government assistance scheme for families with an eligible Health Care Card. Applications are available at the office or click on the following link: CSEF 2021 Application Form

Terms of Payment for School Fees Accounts
Fees can be paid in one lump sum, by term, monthly, fortnightly or weekly. At the beginning of the year you are asked to nominate a payment frequency eg. Weekly, fortnightly, per term. If no payment mode is nominated it will be presumed that you will pay by the end of term 3, Friday 17^th September 2021.

There are numerous options available to pay your school fee account. Money can be received via:

• Cash, Cheque or Credit Card at school office
• Direct Credit to our account from your bank.
• Centrepay-Centrelink can deduct school fee payments prior to paying you Centrelink.

Applications forms are available at the school office or click on the following link:Centrepay Deduction Authority

We would ask that you consider all the payment options available to you and make a commitment to one of them. 

Please contact Heather at the school office if you would like to set up a payment plan for 2021 school fees. For families who already have one in place this will continue this year. 

World of Maths, a unique traveling maths show visited our school today.  The children participated in fun, colourful, hands-on, mathematical problem solving activities. 

ICY POLES

The Year 6 students will be selling Icy poles at lunchtime on Fridays to help raise money for their Year 6 Polo Shirts.

50 cents each

ST MARY'S TALENT SHOW

To be continued tomorrow Friday 26th February....................

1st Price - Box of chocolates

2nd prize - block of chocolate

3rd prize- bag of lollies.

GOOD LUCK!!

St Mary's will be holding a lucky jar stall at the Easter Carnival.

Saturday, 3rd April 

12.00-5.00pm at the Yarram Recreation Reserve

To make this a success we need help from our St Mary's Community.

On Monday, 15th March we will be having a free dress day...... we kindly ask that children bring a jar of goodies to donate for the lucky jar stall:

here are some suggestions:

Lollies

Toys

Hair ribbons 

Pencils 

Stickers

Beads 

Let your lucky jar imagination go wild!!!!!!

Help Required prior and on the day of the Carnival:

• help on the day at the stall -  one hour sessions
• 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 Heather at the school Office if you can help with any of the above.