St Mary's Bulletin

Thank you to Mrs Crees, all the staff and all our wonderful parent helpers for what I hear was another successful Faction Athletics Carnival. Congratulations to Salvatorians for taking home the shield with 1095 points, closely followed by St Josephs with 991 and Mackillop with 970. Well done to all the competitors who gave it their all today. Thank you to everyone that came down to support their children and to all the students who cheered on the fellow competitors!! Stay tuned for the full write up and all the photos in next weeks Newsletter!! 

On Monday Mrs Riethmuller and our Year Four students will participate in their  Holy Communion Retreat. This is to celebrate our three Year 4 students, Ava Webb, Sage O'Malley and Sienna Anderson receiving their First Holy Communion on Sunday, 14th September.

During the retreat they will complete some activities and enjoy a Subway lunch together. The students are allowed to wear "free dress". Father Philip will be joining the students for a portion of the day. 

Our school photo day will be on Tuesday the 9th of September.  Your child's online ordering instruction slip and a unique student shootkey has been sent home. If you would like to order family photos, envelopes can be obtained from the front office. 

Please note there has been a modification to the uniform requirements for Kindy and Pre-primary for photo day, the students are to wear their skort OR shorts for the photos.

KINDERGARTEN AND PRE-PRIMARY

* Black lace up leather type shoes/sneakers

* White socks with no logos 

* Maroon skort OR shorts

* Maroon sports jacket with school logo

* White and maroon polo with white logo

Thank you for your flexibility.

Our Interschool Athletics Carnival will be held on Friday the 12th of September. More information regarding this event will be sent out next week. 

The St Mary's Leadership and Admin team are already in the planning stages for 2026. In preparation for this we would appreciate if any families that know that they will not be continuing their education journey with us next year if they could please notify the office at: admin@stmarysmerredin.wa.edu.au

Thank you for you co-operation with this matter. 

God Bless!!

Mr H

On Tuesday we had a visit from the amazing women from Ride4Life. Louise, Anna, Sonia and Rach explained to the children all about their world-first journey to ride a quad tandem bike across Australia, raising awareness and funds for mental health and suicide prevention through Gotcha4Life. Thank you to everyone who sent in their gold coin donations. We were able to donate $227.00 to GOTCH4LIFE and help these inspiring women with their great cause!!

We hope all families received their Fete information packs that were sent home yesterday. 

If you have any queries about the information provided please email Christine at christinejohnston001@gmail.com. The documents will also be posted to Audiri as a reminder next week. 

We're grateful for your support and look forward to a successful fundraising day! 

Thanks also to our ever increasing list of sponsors. Days like this wouldn't be possible without you!!

Footy Tipping Coordinator - we are looking for someone to run our well known Football Tipping competition! Our Competition has been running for over 20 years and is one of the main fundraisers for our P & F!

Social Media Coordinator - we are looking for someone to keep our Facebook page up to date! Keeping our community up to date with everything P & F related!

A handover will be completed with the existing coordinators. We look forward to hearing from you! Thank you!

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.

Karen Georgi is a lecturer for School based support at Narrogin Tafe.

Narrogin Tafe are offering this a fully online course.  If you are interested you may ring Karen, Monday to Wednesdays at the Tafe to discuss your options.

Phone Karen Georgi on (08) 6371 3952 or email Karen.Georgi@srtafe.wa.edu.au

The program is open to eligible parents/carers all year.

To join Saver Plus, you need to meet these requirements:

• Be 18 years or older
• Have a current Health Care or Pensioner Concession Card
• Have a child in school, starting next year, or be studying yourself
• Get a regular income (can be you or your partner in paid work or child support/carers' payment)
• Agree to join in free online financial education workshops

If families would like to check their eligibility and receive a call back, please visit the enquiry link -  Our Saver Plus financial literacy program (thesmithfamily.com.au), or they’re welcome to call our national number 1300 610 355, and a local coordinator will contact them directly.