Latest Newsletter - St Mary's Primary School, Bellingen

ST MARY’S NEWSLETTER
Week 11 Term 4
ST MARY’S PRIMARY SCHOOL
16th December, 2014
“Learning that lasts a life'me.”
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Dates For Your
Diary
Message From The Principal
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
17/12 = 5—7 pm End of
Year Family Picnic
18/12= Wet & Wild
A8ernoon
19/12= Last day of
School!!!!
Wednesday
28/01/15—First Day
Term 1 for Years 1-6
24/02/15— Op'mism
and Resilience performance with blind guitarist Lorin Nicholson
31/03/15—Bell Shakespeare Company— JustMacbeth (Abridged) St
Mary’s School Hall
Christmas is a wonderful me of the year when we celebrate faith, family and friends. It
helps us appreciate the love in our lives we o5en take for granted. May the true meaning of
Christmas fill your heart and home with many blessings and that Jesus Christ’s glorious
message of peace and love fill you with joy.
Three Beau'ful Prayers
We celebrate the amazing school year that we have had and the gi5s and commitment of
every single person, staff, parents and students, that have made it possible. This year we
have experienced an unprecedented growth in learning and we are all incredibly excited
about the coming year when we will build upon everything we have learnt to make next
year even be!er.
Dear God, thank you for my
lovely school and my life.
Amen
By Bella Solomon
Dear God,
Thankyou for everything we
have, our parents , our teachers, and especially our beauful world.
By Kayla Juodvalkis
Dear God thank you for making this world a beauful one.
By Caitlin Errey
During this season of giving let us take me to slow down and enjoy the simple things.
It is a me of remembering the past and hoping for the future.
We wish you all a happy and holy Christmas and may this wonderful me of year touch your
heart in a special way, where you enjoy the company of your loved ones.
Claire Mellon
Principal:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES
TO: Ma!hew Reeson
16th December, Darcy
Brown 20th, Madison Cook
21st, Spencer Tupaea 23rd,
Meena Prava 24th, Paris
Sco! 27th, Lily Moss and
Noah Ashurst-Casey 28th
and Hudson Brown 31st
December. Frankie English 8th January, Ruby Jarman 9th, Brock Preston
13th, Malani Oliver 15th,
Maria Casey 20th, Darcy
Cronin 22nd.
CANTEEN ROSTER
WED 17/12 N.Brown
Last day of canteen
Wednesday 17th.
No canteen on last
Friday.
LOST
Please keep your eyes
out for Samuel Casey’s
special, very expensive
glasses. They have orange lenses but are not
sunglasses . If you see
them please bring to the
office.
LIBRARY NEWS: Thank you to everyone who has returned their library
books, keep them coming in, we are now down to 250 overdue books.
Please help me get down to zero by Thursday. Look for library & class
readers in your bookcases or your children’s rooms. Also, if you haven’t
already, could you please send in your child/ren’s library bags and home
reader bags, so they can be kept in the library unl next year. That way
you won’t have that franc search at the beginning of next year.
BOOK CLUB & BOOK FAIR: Thank you for your support throughout the
year for the Book Club and Book Fairs. Our last Book Fair was another successful one. We had 5 books donated by families, received 10 new ones
from Book Fair as a donaon and made $400 to purchase books for next
year.
This year between Book Club & and the Book Fairs we have been able to
purchase $1500 Worth of books for the library.
It is wonderful to see the children excited to borrow for home and their ‘I
Pick’ boxes in the classrooms.
We have a great variety of books and series of books available to them
now. Keep up the good work and thank you.
Chrisne Halpin
Library / Book Club / Book Fair Co-ordinator
SCHOOL BANKING: Next year we will be starng school banking with the
commonwealth bank. There are great incenves for students and benefits for the school. The eldest child in each family will be bringing home
informaon, if you are interested please, over the holidays, fill in the
forms and return to the local Commonwealth Bank ready to start next
year. Thankyou Jamie Porter for co-ordinang our school banking.
End of Year Picnic
Uniforms If you have
any uniforms that you no
longer need please let us
know so that we can pass
them on, or if you would
like to sell them, email
jwaugh@lism.catholic.edu.
au and we will adverse in
the newsle!er.
For Sale: Size 12
Summer Dress = $20
Size 12 Sport Uniform = $20 ONLY
WORN FOR 6
MONTHS
LEAH RICHARDS
0477294763
Come and join us for the End of Year Picnic, 17th Dec
5.00-7.00pm.
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Santa will be vising, Raffle to be drawn on the Night: Christmas
Cake, 2x vouchers from Bellingen Green Grocers and a fruit box to be
won. Raffle ckets $1.00 each
St Mary’s Choir, Violin Group & Drummers performing.
Ice blocks will be available for sale at the Picnic.
BYO everything, and a request to please bring a dessert to share .
See
you
there!
GIVING TREE : Thank you so much to our beautiful school community for your generosity and
willingness to reach out to others. The response to our giving tree and hampers was overwhelming and together we have made a difference to 17 families in our local community this Christmas.
Congratulations and a huge thank you from
Carmel Dagger and the St Mary's Mini Vinnies team.
YEAR 6 FAREWELL:
Thank you to all Yr 5 Parents and Students.
Your incredible response to help host the Year 6 Farewell made it a great party. Add the new stairs to the stage,
Spotify on the laptop pumping through the PA, great DJs and dance leaders and you have a fun and funky farewell
for our Year 6 students.
Beginning of the night
End of the night
Thank you to Bellingen Red Cross for
their ongoing support of St.Mary’s
School.
The Red Cross recently donated $25
towards books for our school Library.