Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to our 4th and final term for the school year! It is always amazing to look back over the school year and wonder where the time has gone. It is also incredible to think that our two Year 6 leaders, Hazel and Lucy will complete their final years of Primary Schooling at the end of this term. Both of the girls have completed their full 7 years of primary education at St Mary’s school and we are extremely proud of the amazing young people they have developed into from Kindergarten through to our present day school leaders. We wish both girls a wonderful last term.

Another wonderful term is planned over the next ten weeks. We begin this week with Pioneers Night this evening and the Batlow Apple Blossom Festival on Saturday. Both of these community events have asked our students to perform some singing items. Students are asked to wear their full school SUMMER uniform for both (dresses for girls). Please see meeting times below. We are very grateful to our wonderful parents for enabling their children to come along and support these special Batlow community events.

Visitors to St Mary’s this week include Mrs Kerry O’Callaghan, Aboriginal Education Officer from CE and Mrs Leonie Anstey, Mathematics Consultant from CE. We welcome both Kerry and Leonie to our lovely school and look forward to their input.

We are delighted to announce that our new school website is up and running. It is lovely to have a modernised site that will be easier to negotiate and use. The website is linked to our school Face Book page and alert system, which ensures our information is going out to our families and the community as needed.

Golf lessons for sport and Footsteps Dance for PE will be commencing this week and next. A great way to start our new school term.

Wishing everyone a great week and looking forward to hearing our lovely St Mary’s choir tonight at Pioneers Night.

Christine Baron

Principal