Pentecost – The Birthday of the Church

 ‘Come, Holy Spirit’, or its Latin, Vene Sancte Spiritus, has become the basis of countless prayers and hymns over many hundreds of years.

To this day, it remains a powerful invocation that can be used in prayer or meditation. Three simple words convey a wealth of meaning.

The invitation for the Spirit to ‘Come’ indicates recognition of the need for the Spirit’s intervention and openness to accept the guidance that the Spirit brings.

It is a powerful, simple prayer that can be used at the outset of any significant undertaking or whenever you find yourself in need of inspiration.

On Wednesday we celebrate our Feast Day at the St Mary's Help of Christians Mass.  All parents and carers are most welcome to join us at this Mass at midday.

On Friday the students will participate in a Feast Day Activity afternoon and may wear mufti clothes.

Students will be required to have a hat and wear closed in shoes such as runners.

The following students have been chosen to read at our Mary Help of Christians Mass on Wednesday the 26th of May at 12pm:

Welcome - Harry Morton

First Reading - Grace Kellahan

Response - Cate Curry

Second Reading - Layla Player

Prayers of the Faithful - Ashton Barber, Montana Crouch, Max Cuthbertson, Caitlin Parker, Molly Stokes

Altar Servers - Bodhi Cattle and Hugo Harper

If your child is not available on this day please contact Mrs Daniher or the school office so a replacement can be arranged.

• School Athletics Carnival - All Years -  There are a number of outstanding permission notes in all classes.  Please complete the online permission form for your children at this link.

Friday Award Assembly

In 2021 we moved our Friday ‘What Ever You Do, Do Well’ award assembly to 1.50pm in the afternoon.

The purpose behind this move was to ensure prime educational time in the morning was utilised for learning. With some assemblies going for close to 30 minutes the school felt that an afternoon assembly would have less impact on student learning than the morning assembly.

We do realise that this time is potentially more challenging for parents to attend the assembly. Taking all this into account we would like to give you the chance to have your say.

Please follow the link below to participate in the St Mary’s School Assembly Time survey.  THIS SURVEY CLOSES ON FRIDAY 4TH OF JUNE.

Reconciliation Australia’s theme for 2021, More than a word. Reconciliation takes action, urges the reconciliation movement towards braver and more impactful action.

 

Arrangements for St Mary's athletics carnival on Tuesday 1st of June 2021

Students in Kinder and Year 1 will have recess at school at 11am and then walk to McAlister Oval to participate in races and games.  Students are able to be picked up from the ground but those who are not being picked up by parents at the ground will be escorted back to St Mary's in time for the afternoon bell and buses.

Students from Year 2 to Year 6 have advised the school they will either get off buses at the public school stop (there will be a teacher on duty there), be dropped at the Oval by parents or come to school as normal and walk to the Oval accompanied by a teacher.  The afternoon dismissal will work in reverse with students not going home with parents being accompanied to the public school bus stop or back to St Mary's after the carnival. 

Children should wear house coloured t-shirs and their sports clothes.

Thank you to those parents who have indicated they are able to assist on the day in the field.

Champion trophies and ribbons will be presented to students at assembly on Friday 4th of June.

1500m Event - Nominations Required

   

Order of Events

The 1500m will be run on Monday the 31st of May directly after lunch at 1:50pm.  All other events will be run at the carnival.

    

   

Canteen Ordering

Assembly

Our award winners last week.

The Very Hungry Catperpillar

Our Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 students travelled to Wagga with Mrs Meincke, Mrs McPake, Miss Parker & Mrs Brewer on Friday the 21st of May to watch a combination of Eric Carle stories - Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear Brown Bear and The Very Busy Spider.

The children really enjoyed the show and the play in the park at Temora.

Simultaneous Story Time and Book Fair

Another successful St Mary's Book Fair was held on Wednesday.  Parents joined with their children for a shared reading of Give Me Some Space by Phil Bunting and then browsed the books in the hall.  The Book Fair sold over $2700 worth of books.

Thanks to the support of our students and parents, each class teacher was able to choose $120 worth of books for their classroom library.

Thanks to Mrs Neilsen for helping to set up and pack up the Book Fair and to Mrs Gaynor and Mrs Buttenshaw for helping with the book sales.

Mrs Daniher runs a Book Fair raffle for each class and the winners get to choose a $10 book from the selection on sale.  The lucky winners were:

Annabelle Brose, Harriet Bell, Billy Pettit, Zahli Cattle, Jess Hardie, Bobby Bryant and Nate Pursehouse.

Outdoor Learning Space

Our outdoor learning space is currently in construction, and below are pictures which show the current progress.  It is very exciting to see it change each week.

The following events are in the calendar in the next week.

To see the school's full calender check out the SZApp or our website.