St Mary's Bulletin

Meet your Catholic School Advisory Council for 2024 –

Chairperson – Dave O’Neill

Vice-Chairperson – Ross Billing

Treasurer – Roxanne Webb

Secretary – Marie Bartlett

P&F Representative - Daina Sutherland

Committee Members – Estelle Madaffari, Rosie Bogle and Natasha Giles

The School Advisory Council (SAC) meet once a Term with the Principal, Assistant Principal and Parish Representatives of Father Andrew and John Jefferys. The role of the SAC is to support the Principal to fulfil their responsibilities in leading the Catholic Identity, Education, Community and Stewardship functions of the Catholic School in pursuit of CEWA’s vision to be Christ-centred and child-focused. The SAC’s purpose is an Advisory role not a decision-making role: we offer suggestions and ideas and the Principal takes this into account when making his final deliberations on any decisions that need to be made.

Key items addressed at our meeting held on the 26th of February included – Kindy / Pre-Primary improvements, Social Media and Website improvements, Gardening, School Business Plan and Uniform update on the new Polo shirt.

It is our aim to provide an update after each meeting in the Newsletter to our St Mary’s Community.

Thank you.

Due to the Labour Day public holiday on the 4th of March there will be no school on Monday. Have a safe and happy long weekend!

On Tuesday the 5th of March the Pre-Primary - Year Six students will be participating in a World of Maths incursion. Watch our Socials for some great updates from this event!

The whole community would like to wish our Interschool swimmers all the best for the carnival and send a special message of thanks to our parent volunteers and the amazing Mrs Crees for her work over the past few weeks.

Family Friday will be held next Friday the 8th of March. Families are invited into their children's classroom from 8.25am - 9.00am.

The Sacrament Parent and Student Information Session for all sacraments will be held on Thursday the 7th of March at 3.15pm in the Year Four/Five classroom. 

The Sacrament Committment Mass for all Sacraments will take place on Sunday the 10th of March at 10.30am. Everyone is welcome to come along and support our students as they start their sacramental journey for 2024.

When emailing staff regarding changes to your child/children's bus plans, pick up plans, lunch orders etc please make sure these emails are directed to the admin email address first and foremost. The admin email address is monitored throughout the day and therefore this is the safest way to ensure that your message is received. Unfortunately due to staff commitments in the classrooms and staff working  part time not all personal email addresses can be checked throughout the day. The admin email address is:

admin@stmarysmerredin.wa.edu.au

Alternatively you can always give us a call on 08 90411907.  Thank you!

Friday 1st March saw us complete our first major sporting event for the year with the students in Year 3 - Year 6 competing in the Faction Swimming Carnival.

The sun was shining, and it was perfect weather to be in the water. It was a wonderful display of the swimming talents of our Year 3-6 Students who showed great determination, sportsmanship and Faction Spirit.

Of course, events like these don’t happen without a lot support. Thank you to our St Mary’s Staff, the St Marys P&F for catering, the Merredin Swimming Club for the hire of and set up of the lane ropes and starter and all of our amazing parent helpers.

In what was one of our closest carnivals in years, Salvatorians just managed to keep their winning streak with only 4 points separating them and second placed Mackillop. St Joseph’s coming in 3rd.

Congratulations to the following year group winners.

Year 3

Champion Boy              Kyle Stroinksi              10 Points

Runner-up Girl            Sienna Anderson         22 Points

Champion Girl             Ava Webb                    30 Points

Year 4

Runner-up Boy            Mac Johnston              26 Points

Champion Boy             Kai Wahlsten              28 Points

Runner-up Girl             River O’Meagher        26 Points

Champion Girl             Layla Gregory              28 Points

Year 5

Runner-up Boy            Thomas Billing             24 Points

Champion Boy              Andrew Wilson           30 Points

Runner-up Girl            Emily Kermode            24 Points

Champion Girl             Alena Madaffari         28 Points

Year 6

Runner-up Boy            Logan O’Meagher       20 Points

Champion Boy             Patrick O’Neill            30 Points

Runner-up Girl            Caitlin Carlson             18 Points

Champion Girl             Kate Growden             30 Points

We wish all our students who have been selected to represent St Marys at the interschool carnival next Wednesday all the very best. 

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St Mary's School is part of the "Containers for Change" program. Please see the poster below for all the details. If you require a green bag to collect your cans, these are available from Mrs Riethmuller at the school.

Are you child’s hair accessories starting to look a bit worst for wear? Or are you having trouble finding the St Mary’s colours?? Take a look at the link below or scan the QR code for School Ponytails to see what is available. Don’t think just School, do you need colours for Football, Netball, Hockey, Basketball etc…..take a browse as for every order placed the St Mary’s P & F receive a portion back!! Tell your friends, family, next door neighbour - anyone you know that needs to update their hair accessories! Thank you for your support. P.S Orders can be placed at anytime throughout the year and are sent direct to you! https://www.ponytailsandfairytales.com.au/discount/ST%2520MARYS%2520PS?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fst-marys-primary-school-merredin-wa-6415