St Mary's Newsletter

We set a positive example in the classroom, playground and community.

Once again we had a great turnout for this mornings Family event. The children love having parents and grandparents take an interest in their school work and we welcome these days.

As we begin planning for 2027, if your circumstances are changing and your child will no longer be attending St Mary's School, please let the Administration Office know as soon as possible.

You can contact us by:

Email: admin@stmarysmerredin.wa.edu.au

Phone: (08) 9041 1907

Thank you for helping us with our planning and enrolment preparations for 2027.

We wish our two Tournament of Minds teams the best for Sunday’s performances that start at 9.30am. All are welcome to attend, but we will perform both interpretations at the next assembly.

Don’t forget to join us for a sausage sizzle next Tuesday at 7.45am if you’re able. As with last year, you can join your children for brekkie, a quick kick of the footy on the oval and conclude with the prayer service. See our "Special Events" section for photos of todays Family Friday event. 

A quick reminder of our Aths carnival next Friday. Mrs Crees, the teachers and the students have been busily preparing for the day.

 "Parenthood: a constant battle between wanting our precious ones to stay little and the love of watching them grow".

God Bless

David Hamersely

(Principal)

Year 4/5 have been very busy with lots of different learning happening in the classroom!

In Art, we have been looking at texture and how we can create different textures using a range of materials. Students used paint and oil pastels to create an otter floating on the water. We had some fantastic finished pieces! We have also included some of our artwork from the end of Term 2, where students worked together to create collaborative paintings using their fingers and primary colours. It was definitely a messy but fun afternoon!

In Mathematics, we have been learning about grid references and coordinates. Students have been practising how to locate different places and objects on a grid and use coordinates to describe their position.

We have also finally finished reading our class novel, Matilda! Students have really enjoyed following Matilda’s story and getting to know all of the different characters. Once we finished the book, we watched the movie and talked about some of the similarities and differences between the two.

We asked a few students about their favourite parts:

Maggie: “My favourite part is when Miss Honey talks to Matilda about her life.”

Ruby: “My favourite part is when the newt gets in Miss Trunchbull’s water!”

Jack: “My favourite part is when Matilda scares Miss Trunchbull by writing on the blackboard.”

It has been a great few weeks in Year 4/5!

Last week 5 of our students travelled to Meckering to represent St Mary’s in the Meckering Cross Country. Congratulations to the following students who ran amazingly, and all placed extremely well given there were a large number of competitors in each race. 

Jack G – 1st PP/1/2 Boys

Chara-Lee G – 8th PP/1/2 Girls 

Maggie G – 3rd 4/5 Girls

Zeke G – 4th 5/6 Boys 

Ava W – 1st 5/6 Girls 

Even with only 5 runners, their wonderful individual performance meant that St Mary’s placed equal 3rd in the Primary division on 34 points. With 24 schools represented at this event this is an incredible result.  What a fabulous effort by you all, well done!! 

Another great week of fundraising this week, with $30.00 added to the Telethon kitty!!  That brings the total to $352.50. Hannah from PP won this weeks prize, correctly guessing the 155 straws in the jar. Well done Hannah!!

And just like that the regular season has come to an end!

Firstly, Round 24 - Congratulations to Alex Settineri and Neil Grinham who were joint winners this week. They share in $200 thanks to Bartlett Mechanical. 

Overall Winner

Congratulations to local legend Craig (Chook) Last who took the overall top spot for the St Mary's Footy Tipping for 2026. It came down to the last round and I thought he was in trouble when he tipped the Pies over Brisbane but his second gamble of picking the Doggies over Melbourne came through and he finished one game clear on top of the leaderboard. Chook wins a lovely $3500 for his efforts! 

In second place for Jason Walker who was a great tipper all year. Jason wins $500 thanks to our amazing sponsor AFGRI Merredin. 

Thank you to everyone who participated in footy tipping and also to our generous sponsors. The competition is a fantastic fundraiser for our school P&F so the support is greatly appreciated. 

Good luck to everyone's teams in the finals and I will see you all next season!

Georgia 

It's hard to believe that it's that time of the year already, but we are starting to prepare for our 2027 intakes. If you haven't already done so, please contact the office to collect an enrolment pack and complete an enrolment enquiry form. We will be conducting our Pre-Kindy interviews later this term, so if you would like your child on our list for next year, please contact us ASAP as places are filling fast!!

I've started collecting items to send to the beautiful people in Tanzania with the help of the Retuno E Maa Foundation I will send a sea container when I have enough items to send. If you have anything you would like to donate that would be amazing. Second hand or new, everything can be used.

Some items that will be loved are:

• Clothes in good condition (no underwear except bras)
• Socks matching with no holes
• Linen
• Shoes in good condition
• School supplies
• Bikes & scooters in any form as they can be fixed
• Balls - netball, soccer, football, basketball, tennis
• Bread & Cake tins
• Craft items like wool, crochet & knitting needles, beads, sewing supplies

Items can be dropped off to Cockies Ag

Jasmin 0427823357

Cockies Ag

Mitchell Street

Merredin

Are you planning for your child to attend Merredin College in 2027??

Please ENROL NOW!!

Applications can be found on our website

For further queries you can call administration on (08) 9041 7520 or at Merredin.College@education.wa.edu.au

Merredin: Saturday 6.30pm & Sunday 10.30am

Kellerberrin: Sunday 8.00am

Please visit our website https://merredincatholicparish.org/

Open Wednesday 8.30am-9.10am

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