LifeLink Pyjama Day
On Wednesday 2nd June, we celebrated Life Link Day. The LifeLink Day Schools Initiative was established in 1999 To promote understanding of the Church’s response to people in need within the community. To instil in Catholic students attending Archdiocesan Schools, a sense of responsibility for caring for those less fortunate. To provide education and information…
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Book Tasting – The Year Three/Four and Four/Five classes enjoyed a morning of book tasting. The students booked a table at the restaurant where they enjoyed ‘tasting’ a selection of books from certain genres to ignite their passion for reading. The experience was made more special by the waitstaff (teachers) ensuring their glasses were topped…
Read MoreTree Planting
St Mary’s tree planting day was a huge success! Thank you to Collgar Wind Farm for funding the project, Shire of Merredin and Dylan Copeland for donating the trees, Chris Brown for ripping the bush area with his bobcat (to enable easier planting), the Millington’s for collecting the tree guards and Mrs McDonald for her…
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Catholics Performing Arts Festival
Students from Years Three to Six travelled to Perth on 21 August to perform in the Catholic Performing Arts Festival which was held at the Convention Centre. The students performed ‘The Greatest Showman’ and their colourful costumes and enthusiastic performance made them a crowd favourite.
Read MoreScience Week
Science Week was celebrated with students participating in a variety of activities in class but the highlight was a visit by Mr Grant Stainer with his drone. The students watched the drone fly and then had the opportunity to talk to Mr Stanier about the drone and what it could do.
Read MoreFather’s Day
On Friday St Mary’s celebrated Father’s Day by holding a Liturgy, which reminded everyone how important fathers and father figures are in our lives. Everyone then enjoyed a beautiful breakfast cooked by the staff.
Read MoreBook Week
On Wednesday the 28 August, St Mary’s celebrated Book Week with students participating in multi aged activities throughout the day. The highlight of the day was a visit by Chief, the dingo, who belongs to Mrs Sandy Hooper. Mrs Hooper also read each group the book Dingo by Tannya Harricks and then talked to the…
Read MoreProject Compassion Fundraiser
On Thursday the 4th of April, all students from Kindy to Year Six wore free dress to school and each class created a coin line using only silver coins. In total $836.20 was raised! The money raised has been donated to Project Compassion to help those less fortunate than ourselves. Congratulations to the Year Two…
Read MoreYear Five Assembly
On Friday the 5th of April, the Year Five class performed ‘Cindy Ella’ at the assembly. ‘Cindy Ella’ is an Australian rendition of the story of Cinderella. The children worked together as a class to create a script that was full of Australian colloquialisms and slang. The students had fun learning their lines and coming…
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