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We welcome our Foundation, One and Two Students, back to onsite learning
tomorrow; it will be wonderful to see their faces and reconnect with the classroom
routines. Remote learning will continue for our middle and senior students, and I
look forward to catching up through Google Classroom meets and engaging in the
excellent learning.
This week is Child Safety Week, with the theme being 'Every Child, in Every
Community, Needs a Fair Go'. Through discussion, the students have shared their
thoughts and ideas and how they resonate with this year’s theme.
Accept differences, celebrate individuality and different cultures. Breanna.
Listen to each other and take care of each other. Mia.
Respect and include each other in class and on the playground with our words and
actions. Austin.
RUOK? A simple question with such an enormous impact on everyone at the
moment.
everyone and a celebration of our resilience and connection as families, students
and staff at St Mary’s.
Take care and stay safe,
MariaFOOTBALL COLOURS DAY
Wednesday, 15th September. Dress up in your favourite football team colours. Year 4 - 6 students, this will be done via your Google Classroom meetings. We look forward to seeing you dressed up.
PYJAMA DAY
Friday, 17th September. The Student Representative Council have planned a pyjama dress up day in exchange for a gold coin donation. All collections will go towards the Caritas charity.
This Sunday is September 12th is called Safeguarding Sunday. Safeguarding Sunday, comes at the end of Child Protection Week, whose theme this year is: Every child, in every community deserves a fair go. This day we recall the terrible suffering of people who were abused as children in our Church and resolve, ‘Never again’. This year, however, we focus more broadly on ensuring that in our Church all people are safeguarded.
Safeguarding Sunday 2021: Prepared by Fr Andrew Hamilton SJ
Safeguarding Sunday invites us to ask whether the relationships within our Church express respect for people, and especially vulnerable people, who are precious in God’s sight. It leads us to ask how respect can be translated into policies, protocols and guidelines that spell out in detail how as Catholics we do things. Our procedures must protect people from disrespect.
When we think of safeguarding it is right to think first of children. We may never forget the terrible crimes of sexual abuse and its cover up that priests and other Catholics in positions of trust have committed against children. Abuse and official tolerance of it could happen only because there were no safeguards against it.
In recent years those safeguards have been put in place for children. In most of our Catholic parishes and schools we can say fairly confidently that children get a fair go. We need to keep working especially at it. But we need also to ensure that in all the daily relationships where there is a difference in power people can feel safe. These relationships include those of priests with parishioners, spiritual guides with clients, managers with employees, and volunteers with those whom they help. In all of these relationships those with less power must be safeguarded. That is what safeguarding Sunday is about. It gives Christ’s mission flesh and bone in day to day life.
Prayer for Safeguarding Sunday
Gracious God, you love and care for all of your children, especially the smallest and most vulnerable. We entrust to you the lives of children and adults at risk who have been sexually abused, and whose trust and innocence have been destroyed. Help us to hear their cries of pain and to take responsibility for those whose lives have been broken. Help us to recognise the hurt felt by those wounded by abuse, and the failure to be heard.
We pray that with the help of your grace communities and families will find understanding and support, so that now and in the future their wounds may be healed and they may find lasting peace. Let your grace and love fall gently now upon our children and adults at risk, giving them the inner strength, peace and resilience to seek out assistance when required. We ask this prayer through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever. Amen
Kind Regards
Sue Benc
MONDAY 1ST NOVEMBER - SCHOOL CLOSURE DAY
TUESDAY 2ND NOVEMBER - MELBOURNE CUP PUBLIC HOLIDAY
TERM 3
MONDAY 12TH JULY - FRIDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER
TERM 4
MONDAY 4TH OCTOBER - THURSDAY 16TH DECEMBER
2022 TERM 1
MONDAY 31st JANUARY 2022 - TERM 1 STARTS FOR STUDENTS
Foundation Orientation dates for 2022 foundation students are:
Tuesday, 9th November - 9:00 - 12:00
Tuesday, 16th November - 9:00 - 12:00
Tuesday 23rd November - 9:00 - 12:00
We are excited to welcome our new students to St. Mary's.
If you would like to enrol your child to St. Mary's, information packages are available at the school office and we would be happy to organise a tour of our beautiful school.
- CALENDAR OF EVENTS
TERM 3 2021
September
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
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9th Remote Learning |
10th On site learning for foundation and Grades 1 and 2. Remote learning for Grades 4, 5, 6 |
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13th On site learning for foundation and Grades 1 and 2. Remote learning for Grades 4, 5, 6 |
14th On site learning for foundation and Grades 1 and 2. Remote learning for Grades 4, 5, 6 School Jump Off Day rescheduled for term 4 |
15th On site learning for foundation and Grades 1 and 2. Remote learning for Grades 4, 5, 6 Football Colours Dress-up Day. |
16th On site learning for foundation and Grades 1 and 2. Remote learning for Grades 4, 5, 6 |
17th On site learning for foundation and Grades 1 and 2. Remote learning for Grades 4, 5, 6 Pjama Dress up Day via Google Classroom Last day of Term 3. School finish 2:20 PM |
TERM 4 2021
October
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 4th First Day of Term 4 | 5th | 6th | 7th |
8th Hot lunch day orders must be in by 9:00 A.M. |
| 11th | 20th | 13th |
14th Phillip Green Ugly Bugs Performance |
15th Hot lunch day orders must be in by 9:00 A.M. St. Mary’s Water Familiarization Program |
| 18th | 19th | 20th | 21th |
22nd St. Mary’s Water Familiarization Program |
| 25th | 26th | 27th | 28th |
29th St. Mary’s Water Familiarization Program Taster Day for Grade 6 students @ YSC |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 1st School Closure Day | 2nd Melbourne Cup Public Holiday | 3rd | 4th |
5th St. Mary’s Water Familiarization Program Taster Day for Grade 6 students half day@YSC |
| 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th |
12th St. Mary’s Water Familiarization Program |
| 15th | 16th Grade 5/6 Camp - Gelantipy | 17th Grade 5/6 Camp - Gelantipy | 18th Grade 5/6 Camp - Gelantipy | 19th Grade 5/6 Camp - Gelantipy |
| 22nd | 23rd | 24th | 25th | 26th |
December
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 29th Nov | 30th Nov School Advisory Committee End of Year Dinner | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| 6th Head Start - 2 day program @ YSC | 7th Head Start - 2 day program @ YSC | 8th | 9th | 10th |
| 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th LAST DAY FOR STUDENTS FINISH 3.15pm | 17th |
Everyday resilience lessons for kids
RESILIENCE
Muscles needs to be exercised daily if they’re to remain strong, flexible and do their jobs. Resilience is no different. If it’s not exercised regularly our resilience will waste away.
Resilience is developed through regular daily use. Here are some simple ways you can encourage a child or young person of any age to flex their resilience muscles every day.
Our School Jump Off Day will be rescheduled to Term 4. More details will be in Term 4 newsletters.
Many in our school community continue to face financial impacts as a result of the COVID-1 pandemic.
We are committed to supporting families experiencing financial challenges through
our School Fee Concession programs, and encourage any parent/carer/guardian experiencing difficulties to contact us regarding fee assistance.
Please contact Heather at hleemon@stmyarram.catholic.edu.au to explore confidential financial support arrangements or to obtain further information.
