Dear Parents,

Today we celebrated our first whole school mass for 2021. With us being in the Church season of Lent, the theme for our mass today was ‘Prayer’. Prayer is a way to communicate and talk with God. Below is a list of the basic forms of prayer with a brief description of each.

 The mass was a beautiful celebration and I know Father Antony was excited to have us back in the Church. Thank you to the parents that attended the mass, I know that your children greatly appreciate you being there. I look forward to seeing more of you at our fortnightly masses throughout the year.

Tutor Learning Program

As mentioned in the newsletter last week, the Victorian Government has provided funding for schools to implement a Tutor Learning Program. The Tutor Learning Program seeks to support those students whose learning was impacted throughout the periods of remote learning last year. St Mary’s currently has Sue Benc who provides Literacy support to students across the school and I am pleased to announce that Hope Haughie has been employed to provide this extra support through the Tutor Learning Program. Hope will work with a select group of students each Friday, throughout Terms 2, 3 and 4, to provide targeted teaching to meet their individual needs. Having Hope in this role will have a significant impact on the learning of these students. 

School Advisory Committee Annual General Meeting

The St Mary’s School Advisory Committee Annual General Meeting will be held next Tuesday, 16^th March at 5:15pm. At this meeting, a new committee will be elected. If you are interested in being a part of the School Advisory Committee and have not nominated yourself, I encourage you to do so. It would be great to have some new parents involved in the committee to provide a different perspective to the group.

 Clean Up Australia Day

The St Mary’s Clean Up Australia Day is tomorrow, Friday, 12^th March between 11:30am and 1:00pm. All students will help tidy up our school grounds, to make it a safe and enjoyable place to play. All students are required to wear gardening clothes (old clothes) on this day. On this day we will have a BBQ, where students can have a sausage or two in bread for a gold coin donation. The money raised will be donated to CARITAS Australia, who support vulnerable communities, globally. I encourage all parents that are available on this day to come in and be a part of the day.

Kind regards,

Joel

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

TERM 1 2021

March

TERM 2 2021

April

May

June

SCHOOL ABSENCES

If your child is going to be away from school, I kindly ask that you contact the school via the school website, school app, by phone, email - hleemon@stmyarram.catholic.edu.au or in writing.

This is a legal requirement 

When there is an unexplained absence, parents will be contacted by phone and if parents are unable to be contacted, student emergency contacts will be phoned. 

St Mary’s Award Recipients

At St Mary’s we value the following school-wide expectations:

• Be Safe
• Be Respectful
• Be Responsible
• Be a Learner

This week we recognise those students in our school that demonstrated that they can ‘Be Responsible.

The award winners for this week are:

• Grace Muir
• Evie Wade-Thomas
• Lars Millier
• Austin Janssen
• Nate Dawson
• Breanna Wade

Parents & Friends Fundraiser

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 (must be in wrappers)

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. 

Congratulations Blake for competing in the Wellington Division Swimming Carnival on Tuesday. Blake competed in the 50m Breaststroke and the relay.

What a great sporting achievement!!

Book Club orders are due back on Thursday 18th March 2021.

KIDS VOUCHER PROGRAM

A Victorian-first program to provide vouchers of up to $200 each for sporting equipment, uniform and membership is available...

To Apply click here...

Casual Clothes Day

(Easter Theme if you wish)

Monday 22^nd March 2021

 Please bring an Easter Egg to donate to the Easter Raffle in lieu for a gold coin.

Easter Raffle 2021.

Tickets have been sent home with children. They are $1 a ticket and there are 20 tickets in a booklet.

Please return all sold and unsold tickets to the office by

Monday, 29^th March.

Raffle will be drawn at school on Thursday 1^st April.

Thank you for your support!