St Mary's War Memorial School West Wyalong eNewsletter

Older members of St Marys school community would be saddened to hear of the passing of Honk Mulcahy. Honk was the school cleaner for many years and always had a smile and friendly word for staff and students. We extend our sympathy to his family and friends.

Last Friday four of St Mary’s Year 5 students expressed their interest in participating in an online zoom session for a Mini Vinnies Inter-School Social Justice workshop.

Larna Pilon, Freddie Bell, Amelia- Rose Blampied and Marlee Wendt joined other schools from our Archdiocese and had in depth discussions with the central theme being RESPECT.

One of the organisers, Matt Wilson sent an email to state that they, 'Were very pleased by the maturity of discussion and the participation from each group.' Well done, Larna, Freddie, Amelia-Rose and Marlee for being great ambassadors for our school.

As we hastily approach Advent, the season in which we prepare for the birth of Jesus, we pray:

Dear Heavenly Father, this Advent season, we especially are in need of peace. War rages on in our world. It impacts the daily lives of millions in different ways. This year, as much as ever, we need Jesus, Prince of Peace, in our world and in our hearts. During Advent in 2022, we pray that Jesus transforms our world as we await His coming again.

Amen

The recipients of our Whatever You Do, Do Well awards for Week 6 were:

Bella Alchin	Poppi Barber	Karlani Caygill
Hunter Connellan	Mae Dean	Nixon Hart
Ridley Hutchins	Nixon Loudon	Stella Murrells
Alexandra Patton	Billy Pettit	Alexander Ridley
Leo Stephens	Mike Uiva

We welcome Sharn Ferguson to the school next week. Sharn is in Year 10 at St Annes in Temora and will be doing work experience in various classes. Sharn was a student of St Mary's who in her final year was the School Dux. We are happy to have Sharn come back to St Mary's to learn from our great teachers.

Year 5 School Captain Speeches and Voting @ 9.10am	Tuesday 6 December St Mary's School Hall
Matinee Performance @ 11.30am	Thursday 8 December West Wyalong S&C Club
Speech Night and Performance @ 6pm	Thursday 8 December West Wyalong S&C Club
Reports go home to parents	Monday 12 December
Year 6 Graduation Dinner	Wednesday 14 December West Wyalong Sports Club 6.00pm
Year 6 Graduation Mass	Thursday 15 December St Mary's Church at midday
Final School Day	Friday 16th of December
First Day of School for all students in 2023 This includes our new KINDER, who will then have the next four Wednesday's off.	Wednesday 1st February

Our Year 6 Graduation Mass will be held on Thursday the 15th of December at midday.

We look forward to seeing everyone there.

The following students will have a part in the Mass:

Welcome	Mrs Cuthbertson
Readers	Hugo Harper Cate Curry Nixon Loudon
Prayers of the Faithful	Bobby Bryant Toby Nielsen Eleanor Ramsay Bella Alchin Finn Brown
Offertory Procession	Asha and Harper McDonell Jay and Rose Player William and Molly Stokes Bodhi and Zahli Cattle Madison and Liam Davies Zack and Molly Gaynor Ruby, Ted and Lola Glasgow

Date

Teacher on Leave or PD

Class

Relief

Mrs Cuthbertson will be away on Tuesday the 22nd of November to attend the Religious Education Leaders Day.

Mrs Ramsay will be away on Thursday the 24th of November to attend the Finance Rollover training.

Circus Splendida is a show filled with colour, humour, energy and a great story. It features clowns, jugglers, hula hoop performers, the tiny tumblers and lots more! It revolves around one night in the life of a circus troupe that is competing for the opportunity to go on a fantastic world tour.

All of the various acts in the circus troupe try their best to present a fabulous performance but fall just short of the mark. To the surprise of everyone it's the bumbling quartet of clowns who emerge as the unlikely heroes of the show and along the way provide lots of laughter.

Play Cast List

Myra	Alexandra Patton
Ringmaster	Hugo Harper
Benny	Nixon Loudon
Clowns	Clown 1. Eleanor Ramsay Clown 2. Will Stokes Clown 3. Zack Gaynor Clown 4. Elizabeth Sturgess
Lola	Harper McDonell
Mrs Clancy	Catherine Curry

Costume Guide

Our teachers have sent the class costume guide via SeeSaw. The school is supplying parts of each costume, the guide below is a general indication of what parents need to organise. Please speak to your child's teacher if you are not sure.

Students with main parts in the play have already organised costumes with Mrs Harland.

Kinder	Black T-shirt and shorts/leggings.
Year 1	Black trousers/leggings - preferrably long. Other items ie. a clown outfit have been advised via SeeSaw.
Year 2	Black T-Shirt and black shorts/leggings Colourful hair accessory if you would like. Note: parents of tourists have been advised of costume requirements via SeeSaw.
3/4 Peace & Trust	Black T-shirt with black shorts/leggings. Mrs Harland & Mrs Nielsen have discussed with the children other clothing required. Your child has been advised.
5/6 Hope	Black T-shirt with shorts/leggings/jeans
5/6 Faith	First song: Black T-Shirt with jeans/overalls Second song: Black T-shirt with black shorts

SWIMMING ARRANGEMENTS - WEEK 7

Monday 21st November - Friday 25th November 2022

SWIMMERS - ALL STUDENTS should wear swimmers to school under their uniform. Please ensure your child has underwear.

UNIFORM - Students may also wear their sport uniform all week.

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE REQUIRED:

Sunscreen, underwear, swim shirt if they require one, towel, plastic bag to put wet belongings in, drink bottle, goggles( if they require them), and if at the squad level they will need their flippers and kickboard.

These items should be brought to school every day, regardless of the weather. If wet weather does occur, a decision on whether swimming goes ahead will be made on a daily basis.

The Finance Department of Canberra Goulburn is slowly transitioning its current finance system to an updated system that supports Compass. This will impact those with direct debit fee payments.

St Mary's currently uses Compass for our student information, event consent and payment, school reports and absence notes.

The first step in this process is to ask all families who have direct debits setup by the school to setup their own BPAY periodic payment using their bank account. The periodic payment must be setup using BPAY.

If you have a direct debit setup you are welcome to call the school office now for help however we will call all parents impacted and discuss changing your payment. We will cancel the schools direct debit from your account once BPay is in place.

Our 2023 Kinder students will start school on Wednesday the 1st of February with all our other students. This is first day for students of all classes.

Parents of Kinder students are advised that our Kinder students will then have the next four Wednesdays off. Kinder students get very tired and this break will help them to remain keen and focused.

The Kinder days of for 2023 will be Wedneday the 8th, 15th and 22nd of February and the final rest day will be Wedneday the 1st of March.

The canteen is an integral part of the school and is utilised by every family. We are keen to find an enthusiast parent or other commmunity member to volunteer for 3 hours per week organising our canteen ordering, volunteer instructions, roster, equipment maintenance and cleaning.

Lisa Sturgess has filled the role for the last two years, doing a wonderful job, however Lisa is now working fulltime elsewhere. We thank her for her time and organisation in keeping this critical school service running so well.

Details of the role are in the document below:

Canteen Manager Volunteer

The canteen manager will be responsible for :

Ordering and organising stock,
Organising volunteer roster,
Revise the canteen menu as required and update QKR!,
Ensure canteen equipment is in good order,
Ensure canteen procedures are up to date and communicated,
Coordinating termly clean of equipment and canteen.

For more information please contact the school.

If you are interested in volunteering for this position please contact the school office, more details can be provided at this time.

Canteen Roster

Monday 21 November	Friday 25 November
Colour Run BBQ	VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED
Monday 28 November	Friday 2 December
VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED	VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED
Monday 5 December	Friday 9 December
VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED	Sarah Bales and Kate Braunberger Baking: Both