Dear families,

Welcome to all of our new families and welcome back to our returning families. I hope that everyone enjoyed some family time over the Christmas break. It was great to see so many families coming into school for a coffee and a chat on Monday. It once again reminded me of what a wonderful community we have here at St Mary’s. 

The year has started off amazingly with lots of smiling faces and great learning happening already. There is a real buzz as I walk around the school with all classes seeming very settled and happy and ready to learn. A big thank you to all of our staff who have worked so hard to prepare for the beginning of the year, which has allowed for such a successful start. 

It has been a very busy start to the year with swimming lessons for year 1-6 beginning this week and continuing for the next two weeks. Every student who comes back from swimming is smiling and happy and always ready to tell me about the great time they have had. It takes a lot of organisation from our PE teacher Mrs Bec Stobie and work from our staff to help this run so smoothly, so thank you to all.

Please remember that my door is always open or I’m just an email or phone call away if you ever have anything you want to discuss about your child or the school. Everything we do here is to keep your child safe, happy and learning and open communication between families and the school helps us to do this.

Please have a great weekend.

Kind regards,

Julian