St Mary's Primary School Maffra eNewsletter

Dear Families,

Wow, it's hard to believe we're already halfway through the school year! We've had such a busy and rewarding time so far, with plenty more exciting learning opportunities and events still to come.

I'm pleased to share some exciting news with you: we have a building project currently out to tender, set to begin next term. This project involves the addition of a new classroom and a smaller group learning space on the south-western corner of the school. These new spaces will connect to the existing Year 3–4 classrooms.

This addition isn't about expanding our enrolment numbers, but rather about providing greater flexibility in how we use our learning spaces. It’s the first stage of our new master plan, developed last year, with a focus on adaptable learning spaces that continue to support collaboration and innovation.

Construction is scheduled to commence next term, with the goal of completing the build in time for the start of the next school year. We are working closely with the builders to ensure that disruption to learning is kept to a minimum throughout the process.

Please see below for concept drawings of the new learning space.

Thank you to all families and staff for your ongoing support and for helping make the first half of the year so successful. We wish all our students a fun and restful holiday and we look forward to welcoming them back for two more terms of fantastic learning.

Kind regards,
Julian

June

30th Hudson Stubbs 1/2 Morris

July

1st Marnie Bagguley 3/4 Holmes

3rd Valerie Hanratty 1/2 Howard

3rd Stella Simpson 5/6 Sandeman

5th Willow Matthews 5/6 Sandeman

7th Larni Burns 5/6 Sandeman

7th Addie Walker 1/2 Morris

13th Harlow Tudor 1/2 Morris

14th Madeleine Nicolaci 3/4 Fixter

19th Piper Bates 3/4 Schilg

Awards:

Congratulations to the following children who have received awards.

	Class Award
Foundation Stobie	Ray Moyle Zakylah Richards
1/2 Hellings	Maddie Florisson Xavier Paravinic
1/2 Morris	Hudson Stubbs Artie Gray
1/2 Howard	Nate Anderson Albie Saunders
3/4 Holmes/MacLean	Whynter Lindrea
3/4 Schilg	Estelle Chilton Amber Bagguley
3/4 Fixter	Frankie Forsyth Lilly Weatherley
5/6 Stobie	Henry Gately Mack Howard
5/6 Sandeman	Stella Simpson Larni Burns

This award is given to a student in recognition of their effort in promoting The Resilience Project’s core principles of gratitude, empathy, mindfulness, emotional literacy and our school values of respect, act and learn.

One student will receive this award at assembly each fortnight. All slips will be counted over the term and the house with the most slips will enjoy a reward at the end of term!

27/6/2025

Maddie Nicolaci

To celebrate student's achievements, we will be presenting children with Star Of The Week awards. This is a self nominated award of something a student is proud of. It could be something academic, sports related, or a personal achievement. Have you learnt to ride a bike? Won 1st place in a dance competition? Read a book by yourself? Anything that makes you proud!

Forms can be found on the link below.

Star_of_the_Week_form_updated_2023.pdf

Star_of_the_Week_form_updated_2023 _pdf 3.16 MB

On the 19th of June, the year 5/6's went to the Art Gallery in Sale for an exhibition about Turner. Turner is famour for painting landscapes and the weather. He lived 200 years ago. The paintings were painted with watercolour.

- written by Payten Robson & Olivia Lawrence