Term 3/4 Key Dates

St Mary's Feast Day

Thank you to Mrs Skelly for organising a fantastic St Mary's Feast Day held on the Feast of the Nativity of Mary (Mary's Birthday). Looking striking in their blue clothing, the students participated in a myriad of activities in the middle session. Some of these activities included Mary chalk art, clay statues, bookmarks, cards and party games.  The afternoon finished with a special (and noisy) treat - a party bag. Thank you Year Four for making these for each student.

St Mary's Cookbook

Our St Mary's P&F Year Four coordinating team of Daria, Tash and Donna, are currently putting together a new St Mary's Cookbook. This cookbook will be filled with our families favourite 'tried and true' recipes. We encourage every family to contribute their best recipes for this cookbook. Let's make this edition as good as the last, which was produced in the 90's, when some of our parents were students at St Mary's.  

Recipes can be emailed to Office.Stmarysc@cg.catholic.edu.au or send in with your child.

Original St Mary's Cookbook Chapter 4 title page by James McCormack- Tara, Marnie, Finn and Bridie's dad.

Operation Christmas Child

Operation Christmas Child (OCC) is a project of Samaritan’s Purse. It partners with local churches in developing nations to reach out to children by providing gift-filled shoeboxes to children in need.

As a school, we will aim to fill as many boxes as we can. Items can include small toys, hair accessories, a hairbrush, toothbrush, skipping rope, marbles, pencils, notepads, textas, handkerchiefs etc.  

If you would prefer to send in a couple of dollars to go towards the $10 postage per box, rather than send in an item, this would also be appreciated.

Uniform Reminders 

• All uniform items must be purchased from our uniform shop. Please do not purchase items from other suppliers as the colour and style do not match. Our uniform items have our school logo on them.
• All boys should be wearing our school socks - grey with a green and gold stripe and the girls should be in black tights.
• Black school shoes are to be worn by all students. If your child is unable to wear their black shoes they will need a note explaining why. If you are shopping for new shoes please remember that the vans or sandshoe style does not fit with our Uniform Policy.
• A bottle-green coat is the only acceptable additional outer item.
• Please remember that no nail polish can be worn to school and hair accessories should only be in our school colours. 

As the weather starts to warm up, students will start to take off their winter woollies, so to ensure we can return them to their rightful owner, please name them on the side tag so that it is easy to read.

We have some families who are missing items that are named, so please check what your child brings home to ensure it belongs to them.

Maybe now is the time to start planning for your summer uniform to check it all still fits correctly and you have enough. Place orders through Qkr for distribution on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

A reminder that for the first two weeks of Term Four, students may still wear their full winter uniform if they wish.

School Photos

Our 2020 School Photo day is booked for 22 October in Week 2 of Term 4.

Deodorant

As the weather warms up some of our older students are finding the need to apply deodorant after our play breaks or sport activities. If your child requires this, please ensure that only roll-on deodorant is sent to school.

2021 Enrolments

If you are intending on enrolling your child at St Mary's, but have not yet done so, could you please complete this process as soon as possible. 

Enrolments can now be placed online. Go to https://enrolments.stmarysc.nsw.edu.au/enrol/ or collect an enrolment form from Belinda in the Office.

For assistance with the application process please contact Belinda.