Dear families,

A warm welcome back to all members of the St Mary’s community. I truly hope that everyone enjoyed a great holiday with their families and are excited for Term 4. There are lots of exciting things happening in our school this term and there is still plenty of learning to do for our students. We especially welcome back Mrs Kathy MacLean from her holiday in Term 3 and Mrs Lyndall Holmes from her university placement at the end of Term 3. Our students are all very excited to have you both back.

Next Saturday the 15th of October we are holding a working bee at school to help to tidy up the school grounds. Any community members that are available to help that day would be very much appreciated. If any volunteers are able to bring shovels, rakes, brooms, wheelbarrows, pressure washers etc, it will be of great assistance on the day. 

Coming up in November, we will begin our transition days for our 2023 foundation students. I have really enjoyed meeting our new foundations in our enrolment meetings and we are all very excited to welcome our new students. It is an exciting time for the school as we are moving to two straight foundation classes next year due to 30 new enrolments! This speaks wonders for our school and really highlights the great learning community that we have.

Our school is lucky to have Andrew Peevy teaching tennis on Mondays to F-2 in week 1 & 2 and 3-6 in weeks 3 & 4. Andrew has a lot of experience teaching tennis to children and has  a really positive and energetic way of engaging students in his lessons. Thank you to Mrs Bec Stobie for organising the tennis lessons for our school. 

Please remember that my door is always open to parents to discuss anything concerning your child, their learning or their safety. My aim is to provide the best possible Catholic education in a safe environment for every child in our school and to do this in partnership with our families. Please have a great weekend.

Kind regards,

Julian Blackford