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- Day For Daniel
- Grade 5/6 Hooptime
- Grade 3/4 Maffra Show visit 2023
- Japanese Culural Day
- Socktober - Tuesday 31st October
- Colour Run 2023 - 9th November
- Financial Concessions 2024
- Gumnuts Information
- Second Hand Uniform Shop - Open Times
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- 2023 Term Dates
- Parish News
- Maffra Cricket U/11 program
- Geoff Watt Fun Run 2023
- Christmas Wishing Tree
Yesterday our school hosted Dr Ben Robbins, Clinical Psychologist, Head of Mental Health and Well-Being at Essendon Football Club (formally St Kilda) & ex AFL player, to discuss mental health and performance. We had an amazing turnout, with around 80 in attendance from the Maffra and districts community. Ben is also a former student of St Mary’s.
Ben spoke about ‘Mental Fitness’, explaining that the brain needs exercise to maintain its fitness, just like any other muscle. He gave us insights into the science of how the brain works, particularly when dealing with the many pressures that come from our environments. Ben gave some ideas and strategies to improve the way we think when faced with any scenario. He explained how our brain is wired to think in ‘Blue Brain’ and ‘Red Brain’ and how we can use Mindfulness and Meditation to navigate back to our calm and composed Blue Brain.
We had great responses from the students in the audience and Ben really enjoyed the interactions. Thank you to Charmaine Wilson, our Mental Health and Well-Being Leader for organising the event. Here are a couple of links that give a little more information about Ben and his message.
Please have a great weekend with your families.
Kind regards,
Julian
October
18th Judson Harrap FB
19th Asher Murphy FB
22nd Kye Bence 5/6A
22nd Henry Gately 3/4B
27th Roy Wilkinson 3/4B
28th Monte Loadman-Morgan 3/4B
28th Johnny Moyle 1/2B
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Awards: Congratulations to the following children who have received awards.
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| Class Award | |
| Foundation A |
Zac Hart Hudson Teese Ana Franek Tillie Allman |
| Foundation B |
Aidan Thomas Tex Anderson Mia Vardy Willow Moody |
| Grade 1/2A |
Lucy Foat Marnie Bagguley Frankie Forsyth Sailor McQuillen |
| Grade 1/2B |
Charlie Rawson Nathan Thomas Max Osborn Piper Bates |
| Grade 3/4A |
Myah Henry Ben Murphy Olivia Nicolaci Payton Robson |
| Grade 3/4B |
Max Roberts Poppy Caffrey Cooper Battista Harper Herbstreit |
| Grade 5/6A |
Imlay Pickalla Hannah Bagguley |
| Grade 5/6B |
Ada Phillips |
Congratulations and well done to all students who were nominated for their wonderful choices in the classroom or on the playground. This is a fortnightly award and all nominted children should be very proud of themselves.
Congratulations to the following students who were drawn out of a box of nominees for this fortnights Positive Behaviour Awards. St Mary's have introduced this reward system to acknowledge the wonderful behaviour of students who regonise our school values of Respect, Act and Learn.
20/10/2023
Albie Saunders
Nate Hayles
Jas Stockdale
6th October ~ Jack Trewhella
Congratulations to Jack for doing so well at school in class. Jack has been concentrating really well and listening to the teachers. He has been following directions and staying focused. This has been a challenge for Jack but he is proud to say he has grown and is extending and expanding his learning as a result. Jack has found he now has a positive and happy energy.
Well done Jack!!
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.
Gippsland Regional Athletics
Last week on Wednesday we had 7 students represent our school at the Gippsland Regional Athletics in Newborough. It was amazing to have so many students progress to this level of competition.
Congratulations to the following students who competed at Regionals: Georgia Rawson, Jess Rowley, Johnni Bramich, Imlay Pickalla, Summer Domaille, Ben Murphy and Owen Crutchfield.
A special mention to Ben Murphy who came 2nd in the U/10 High Jump and has qualified to compete at the State Titles in Melbourne.
Super 8s Cricket Day
On the 20th of October we had a HDSSA Super 8s Cricket Day, which was led by Cricket Victoria. The competition was held at the Maffra Cricket Club and we entered 4 teams - two from 3/4 and two from 5/6.
We would like to thank our coaches which were Mr. Blackford, Mrs. R Stobie, David Churchill and Chris Murphy. We appreciate the time you took out of your busy schedules to coach our teams.
As well as the coaches, we would like to thank the Maffra Cricket Club for hosting and the Maffra Secondary students for helping umpire the games.
Lastly, we would like to thank all the students who participated in the HDSSA Super 8s Cricket. We are sure that most students and helper’s had a wonderful day. Although most students are just getting started with cricket, they did a fantastic job. Thank you!
~ By Jess Rowley and Millie Daly.
Colour Explosion Fun Run
Get your Colour on, St Mary’s Maffra is hosting a Colour Explosion Fun Run!
Colour Explosion Fun Run Fun will be on Thursday 9th of November from 1:45pm to 2:45pm, held here on our school grounds at St Mary's.
Not only are we hosting an awesome Colour Explosion Fun Run, Students can order up to a total of 5 prizes based on their donations received. They can even mix and match!
Students have received a sponsorship book with instructions on setting up their cybersafe, online fundraising profile at www.australianfundraising.com.
Extra Incentives to Fundraise!
« Online Golden Coins – complete fun online tasks to redeem an extra $75 towards your prize credit.
« Monty the Monstar’s Bonus Prizes – achieve milestones to unlock Monty’s bonus prizes.
« $10,000 JB HI FI Spending Spree for one organisation’s highest fundraising student – it could be you!
« Our school will win an extra $5,000 if we have the highest average fundraised amount per student in 2023.
« A Play Station 5 Gaming Bundle – see your child’s sponsorship booklet for more!
Happy fundraising!
A huge thank you to our school community for coming to Dr Ben Robbins’s presentation last night on mental health and well-being.
It was a wonderful turn out.
I know each person in the room learnt something about themselves, especially their blue and red brain! I hope Ben’s presentation gave you the tools to start or improve your mindfulness practice.
Let’s all continue on our mental fitness journey and reduce the stigma on mental health.
~ Charmaine Wilson (St Mary's Mental Health & Well Being Leader)
Australia’s largest child safety education and awareness day
DAY FOR DANIEL
Friday 27 October, 2023
Held annually on the last Friday of October, Day for Daniel honours the memory of Daniel Morcombe.
Day for Daniel is Australia’s largest child safety education and awareness day. St Mary's is proud to participate in this day and raise awareness around child safety. Today, our students particpated in a child safety lesson and we encourage parents and carers to start a conversation with your children about personal safety.
Congratulations to our St Mary's grade 5/6 girls basketball team who competed in the school Hooptime competition at Traralgon today. The girls did an exceptional job and made it to the semi-final where they were pitted against St Thomas's. Unfortunately on this occasion they were unable to come away with the win and went down by just 6 points. A big thank you to Mrs Burgiel for her time and effort going into training and coaching the girls. Well done to Peyton, Millie, Mickayla, Evie, Ada, Ella and Mia, you should be very proud of your efforts!
What a beautiful day for our grade 3/4 students to visit the annual Maffra Show today. Children made their way to the Show before walking around and enjoying what was on offer this year.
Our Maffra show visit
On Friday 27th of October our ¾ Pod walked to the Maffra show for an excursion.
The ¾’s did many activities today. We learnt about renewable energy and how dehydration affects the body. We got to see the cows getting milked, and one cow made 11L. We got to pat 2 of the calves, one of them was named Belle.
We had a really exciting and fun-filled day. We did lots of amazing activities and we are excited to see the Maffra Show in action.
By Olivia N and Willow
As a Catholic school community, we are proud to celebrate mission month, to celebrate and raise awareness of all the amazing work that missionaries do for those less fortunate than us.
On Tuesday 31st October, we will be participating in 'Crazy Sock Day', where children can wear crazy socks to school for a coin donation that will go directly to the missionaries.
See this video for information on Socktober 2023:
Financial concessions are available to eligible families. It is important to note, when concessions are provided, there is no impact on the overall school funding situation.
These concessions may include the Camps Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) of $150 per child. Concessions are available through the following two categories.
Category 1: Eligible, means-tested Centrelink Concession Card holders:
A family in which the fee payer holds an eligible, means-tested Health Care Card (HCC) or Pensioner Concession Card (PCC) is automatically eligible for a school fee concession. There is a simplified application form and streamlined approval process.
Category 2: Special Consideration:
A family experiencing genuine financial difficulty and not eligible under Category 1, is encouraged to apply for a fee concession. This application requires detailed information in order that an equitable assessment may be made of eligibility for and level of a fee concession.
Application forms are available from the school office and only need to be completed if this is a new application. Current concession holders do not need to reapply.
Dear Parents/ Guardians,
Gumnuts Maffra OSHC will be running Long day Care for the following days:
Friday the 3rd of November
Monday the 6th of November
We will be operating from 8am through to 6pm .
New Families will need to fill out an enrolment form and have a meet and greet before they can attend .
If you require care on either or both these days you can book through James at gumnutsoshccoord@gmail.com or by phoning 51 44 6952
Booking are essential
TERM 3
OCTOBER
| 30th, Monday | 3/4 Art Excursion |
| 31st, Tuesday | Socktober 'Crazy Sock Day' |
NOVEMBER
| 1st, Wednesday | Japanese Cultural Day |
| 2nd, Thursday | 10am Googabing Incursion |
| 3rd, Friday | Blessing & opening of refurbished buildings |
| 3rd, Friday | 3/4 Hooptime |
| 6th, Monday | School closure |
| 7th, Tuesday | Melbourne Cup public holiday |
| 9th, Thursday | 2024 Foundation transition |
| 9th, Thursday | 2024 Foundation Parent Information evening 4:30pm-5:30pm |
| 10th, Friday | Foundation Zoo excursion |
| 16th, Thursday | 2024 Foundation transition |
| 24th, Friday | 2024 Foundation transition |
DECEMBER
| 1st, Friday | Grade 6 Graduation |
| 7th, Thursday | St Mary's Little Christmas |
| 8th, Friday | 9:30am Whole School Mass |
| 13th, Wednesday | Maffra Christmas Festival |
| 15th, Friday | Bake Stall |
| 15th, Friday | Last day term 4 |
** Please go to our school website for the full year of calendar dates.
Also, please note dates may change as they are printed in advance.
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
