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.

Week 1

In PE classes we have continued our focus on Athletics. All students have made great improvement with the different Athletic Events. It was fantastic to have Athletics Coach Denis Huffer at our school for 3 weeks. Denis provided explicit coaching to all our Grade 3-6 students and helped prepare our students for their upcoming Athletics Carnival.  

On Monday we will be having our Whole School Athletics Carnival. This will be held at the Sale Little Athletics Track. Our Grade 3-6 students will start their events at 9:30am and our Foundation and Grades 1/2 will start their events at 11:00am. There will be a coffee van onsite, so we encourage our St Mary’s families to come along and watch our students in action! 

There will be NO sausage sizzle lunch, so can families please ensure their child has plenty of food and water for the day. Students are also encouraged to wear their house colours on the day. 

If anyone has any questions about the day, please send me a DOJO message.   

The Abandoned School

The rusty, moss-covered gates cracked like they were screaming souls calling for help.  The darkness engulfed the ancient castle like sludge over a rock.  It was darker than a bat's wing, it was like looking into the deepest cave.  The ocean of fog covered the hundreds of rotting bats and rats that looked like zombies about to wake up.  The bats smelled like they had been swimming in the bodies of the rats and mice and they were darker than darkness itself.  They swarmed around the castle like it was their life and would also be their death.  The windows looked like black windowless holes.  They looked like the windows disintegrated years ago. Sweat dripped down my forehead as I studied the dreaded mansion.  The hairs on the back of my neck pricked up and goosebumps covered my arms like a blanket.

The windows felt like they were examining me, waiting for me to scream out in terror, but I couldn't.  My heart was in my mouth and I couldn't say anything.  I could only think about the amount of terror I was in.  I was frozen in fear like I was a frost, I was trembling in my boots and vibrating like a massage gun.  I was undoubtedly terrified.

By Lockie Gallatly 

Haunted House

My mouth full of fear, the hairs on my neck stood up like they were porcupine spikes.  When I put one foot inside the building my teeth chattered so hard like they were going to shatter.  A gust of cold, freezing wind brushed past.  I was standing in the one spot when I felt something tap me on the shoulder and rush past my feet.  Still trembling with fear, someone said my name very quietly like the wind was carrying it.  I started sprinting, dodging holes in the squishy floor underneath my feet running and running.  I almost tripped and landed flat on my face.  I kept running leap after leap.  I was so close to the exit, then suddenly I was stopped by someone glowing blue.

"What, don't leave!  We were having fun.  Do you want to be friends?  There are consequences if you say no....", whispered the blue glowing woman.  

I try to go around it but it stops me.  I go and see if I can go through it.  I can!  I ran as fast as I could and then it disappeared.  I sprinted out stopping and trying to get a breath.  Strange things have happened ever since I left that abandoned building.

By Larni Burns

On Friday 28th July, the year 5/6 boys and girls basketball teams represented St Mary’s at the Hooptime competition in Sale. 

Congratulations to both teams on their excellent efforts. 

CBCA 2023 Book Week

Theme: READ GROW INSPIRE

We will be celebrating Book Week in Week 7!

DRESS UP DAY PARADE:
Monday 21st August from 9:10am on the basketball courts.

LEARNING EXPO:
Tuesday 22nd August 2:30pm - 3:00pm.
All families and friends are invited to come along to the learning expo happening in each pod during this time. The students will have work prepared to showcase!

Parentzone Gippsland is pleased to share with you a new program we have commencing this term. It is called “Let’s talk about Parenting” and is designed to strengthen communication between parents and children, for parents to understand their child’s behaviours and what the root causes are and for parents to understand and learn how to stay connected with their child.

This is a 5 week online program, it is part of our parents building solutions package and is an interactive program where parents are encouraged to share and contribute, these sessions are not recorded for privacy reasons and the best part – they are completely FREE.

For registration, parents need to scan the QR code or enter the MS forms link into their internet browser.

If there are any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact parentzone.gippsland@anglicarevic.org.au.

TERM 3

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

**  Please go to our school website for the full year of calendar dates.

TERM 3

10th July - 14th September

TERM 4

2nd October - 15th December

WEEKEND MASSES

Heyfield:

Saturday    6:00pm

Maffra:

Sunday    9:00am 

Cowwarr:

1st and 3rd Sunday   11:00am

Newry:

2nd and 4th Sunday  11:00am

Dargo:

5th Sunday   12:00noon

WEEKDAY MASSES

Heyfield:

Tuesday      9:30am

Maffra:

Tuesday       2:00pm  (Mass & Adoration)

Wednesday   9:30am

Thursday      9:30am

Friday          9:30am

Saturday      9:30am