Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Week 8. Hard to believe we are nearing the end of another term! We were delighted to see our Year 4/5/6 return safely from Canberra on Friday evening, after a wonderful three days exploring our national capital city. A very big thank you to Mrs Murray and Mrs Richards for taking such great care of our lovely students.

This week we are looking forward to celebrating our St Mary’s School Feast day in honour of Mary, the Mother of God. Year 2/3 have prepared a beautiful liturgy which they will present at 12.00pm on Thursday in St Mary’s Church. Parents and friends are most welcome to join us for liturgy and stay and enjoy lunch with their child/ren.

Today we have had the pleasure of hosting teachers from our local Catholic schools who joined us for a literacy cluster meeting. This has been a wonderful opportunity to share the great things that are happening with literacy across our Archdiocese.

On Wednesday we look forward to welcoming our 2019 Kindergarten students to our school. The visit is to help familiarise the children with our school environment, the other students and teaching staff in readiness for 2019. It is always an exciting time for our new students and their families.

St Mary’s is in the process of updating our newsletter to a digital newsletter and hope to be paperless through the SchoolZine platform. You may have noticed a digital version come out last week as a trial. The digital newsletter will have links to our school website, Face Book page, calendar and weekly items. The ‘SZapp’ will be available shortly for parents to download to their phones to enable you to receive the new newsletter. This will replace our Skoolbag app in time. We are also in the process of updating our school website through Schoolzine. The website will receive a much needed overhaul and a new updated look very shortly.

Please join Year 4/5/6 and Mrs Richards on Friday when they present their class assembly at 2pm.

Plans are in place for a wonderful Catholic Schools Week celebration next week. We have much to celebrate and be proud of at St Mary’s! unfortunately, I will be away attending the Australian Primary Principal’s Association (APPA) Conference however Mrs Richards has the celebrations in hand. Mrs Richards will be Acting Principal for the week and word has leaked that she is great at ‘boot scootin’!

Happy week,

Christine Baron

Principal