St Mary's Primary School Crookwell eNewsletter

Week 9	TERM THREE
Friday 20 Sept	Tuckshop- Lisa, Todd, Georgia Great Spring Clean Up- please bring gloves and bag
Week 10	Last week of term
Monday 23 Sept	Special tuckshop order- please order by 20 Sept for numbers St Matthews Page visit
Wednesday 25 Sept	CHS Taster Day 4 NSWCPS Athletics- Homebush Bay
Friday 27 Sept	Last Day of Term Kindy/Yr 1 Showcase of Learning- 12.30pm. All welcome No tuckshop
Week 1	TERM FOUR
Monday 14 Oct	Pupil Free Day Uniform Shop open
Tuesday 15 Oct	Students return No tuckshop until 28 Oct
Week 2
Friday 25 Oct	Boorowa Touch & Netball carnival- compulsary for Yrs 2-6. Please complete the event on Compass

Term Three Wrap-Up

As this will be the final Newsletter for Term Three I would like to take the opportunity to express my appreciation and gratitude to all who make our school community one to be proud of. This Term has been jam-packed with extracurricular activities, visitors, fundraising, representative opportunities; academically and sporting, and lots of dedicated learning.

I am especially grateful to our P& F working party who held a successful Wood Raffle last week raising valuable funds for our school. My thanks to all involved especially the Strode and McCormack families.

Please keep the Romer and Hewitt families in your prayers as we will in ours.

I hope you take the time during the holidays to refresh and recharge for the always busy final Term of the year.

Kindergarten /Year One Showcase

Please join us for our Term Three Showcase next Friday at 12:30pm. Year One and Kindergarten have been busily rehearsing and fine-tuning their performances and can't wait to share them with you.

St Mary's Feast Day

On Friday, September 6th, we celebrated our school's feast day with great joy and enthusiasm. The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a special occasion that holds significant meaning in the Catholic faith, and to us at St Mary's Primary School, and our students made sure to honour it in a memorable way.

Our celebration began with a beautiful Mass with Father Xavier guiding us to reflect on the virtues of Mary.

Following the Mass, our students engaged in various Mary-themed fun activities. The students decorated biscuits with images and symbols associated with Mary, made Rosary bracelets, did some mindful Mary colouring and bookmarks and incorporated AFL Coaching as part of the celebrations !!

As we celebrated the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, our students learned about the virtues and qualities that Mary exemplified – kindness, humility, compassion, and faith. These values serve as a guiding light for us all as we strive to be better individuals and members of the St Mary's School community.

I would like to thank all the teachers and staff, especially Mrs Rachael Croker, our Religious Education Coordinator, who made this celebration possible.

#ST MARY'S REPRESENTS

This week Jaydan Costello and Henry Galland have both been competing at the NSWPSSA Golf Tournament in the Hunter Valley. A detailed report from these boys will be included next week in my email update.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

I can share with you news just in as we were completing this edition- Jaydan Costello has been successful in being named in the NSW State Team to compete in November. Congratulation Jaydan!!!

CWA

Today I was presented with a cheque from Susan Reynolds on behalf of the CWA Crookwell Day Branch. Every year they donate 100% of their fundraising to the three local schools. This money is to be used for students and families in need of support with extracurricular activities such as excursions, etc. We are extremely grateful for the community support and thank the CWA Day Branch for this kind and generous donation.

Last week many St Mary's students were invited to the CWA Rooms for afternoon tea and a presentation of the winners, runners-up and highly commended for the CWA projects. We were very proud that so many St Mary's students took part this year and supported the CWA with an entry in the Agricultural/Environmental category and the Country Study. Announced on the day were our representatives who will now have their entries sent off to compete at State level.

CONGRATULATIONS to Emmett McIntosh, Joe MCormack, Bridie McCormack and Gabriella McDonald.

Important TERM FOUR dates to note:

Tuesday 15 Oct - all students return for T4

Friday 25 Oct - Boorowa Touch Football/Netball Carnival

Wednesday 30 - Thursday 31 Oct - Yr 5 Astronomy/Ag Excursion

Tuesday 5 - Friday 8 Nov - Year Six Camp

Friday 15 Nov - Grandparents Day

Monday 2 Dec - Kindergarten 2025 Orientation Day

Thursday 12 Dec - Leadership 2025 Mass

Thursday 12 Dec - St Mary's Carols evening

Monday 16 Dec - Year Six Graduation

Wednesday 18 Dec - Year Six final Assembly

2025 Term Dates

Included below are the dates for our 2025 School year.

TERM 1,2025 (31 Jan - 11 Apr)

Friday 31 Jan - CECG system-wide pupil-free day

Monday 3 Feb - NSW pupil-free day

Friday 11 April - CECG system-wide pupil-free day

TERM 2, 2025 (28 Apr - 4 Jul)

Monday 28 Apr - CECG system-wide pupil-free day

Friday 4 July - CECG system-wide pupil-free day

TERM 3, 2025 (21 Jul - 26 Sep)

Monday 21 July - CECG system-wide pupil-free day

Friday 26 Sep - CECG system-wide pupil-free day

TERM 4, 2025 (13 Oct - 19 Dec)

Monday 13 Oct - CECG system-wide pupil-free day

Friday 19 Dec - CECG system-wide pupil-free day

Addition to the Girls' Uniform

We have an exciting addition to the girls' summer uniform choices, with the addition of a white short sleeve shirt to be worn with bottle green shorts, and white socks.

There will be limited numbers available to start with so we do not have to carry too much excess stock. If you are interested in purchasing, please put the order through on Qkr. Shorts can be distributed straight away, however there will be a delay with the shirts as they are currently in production.

Further information about the St Mary's Uniform Policy, can be found here:

Uniform Policy

New Prices

To assist families where we can, we have not increased our uniform prices for around 7 years and have mostly absorbed any increases. Unfortunately, the time has come for us to increase the prices slightly to ensure we cover costs. This will be reflected on Qkr next time you visit.

Thank you for your understanding of this.

Lost items, second-hand items and a reminder to name

A kind reminder to please check the uniform items that come home with your child each day. Occasionally items get taken off and accidentally picked up and taken home to another family. We have a few students who are missing jumpers which are named. If you can please check and return anything that has come home accidentally.

Our lost property pile has grown into a mountain again, so please feel free to come and check for any missing items.

The second-hand items are also full to the brim. Remember these items are all FREE! So why not drop in and browse through these.

A kind reminder for those who do not have a current periodical payment in place for your school fees, to ensure they are up to date by the end of Term.

If you would like to check your current balance, you can do this via the Compass app. Select "More" on the bottom right of the screen, and in the bottom centre you will find the tab "School Fees". Here you can see your current balance and you are also able to check out your debit/credit history.

If you have any questions regarding your school fee account, please do not hesitate to contact the School Office.

Mary’s Birthday

Thank you to our school community who joined in our wonderful festivities to celebrate the birthday of Mary, mother of Jesus. The day commenced with a beautiful mass performed by Father Xavier. Students then spent the remainder of the day enjoying many Mary-themed activities:

Rosary bead bracelet making
Mary bookmarks
Mary biscuits
Mary art and craft

Thank you to our amazing staff who assisted in running groups and ensuring the day was a great success.

SRC Updates

Our SRC has been very busy over the past few weeks, taking on the role of environmental warriors and creating many different projects to create a more sustainable environment at St Mary’s.

The SRC has created a beautiful worm farm using two Subpods. Each morning our SRC collect our scraps from fruit break, deposit this into the subpods to fuel our worms. We cannot wait to watch our worm numbers grow over the next few weeks.

The Great Spring Clean Up

The next project for our SRC is the organisation of the Great Spring Clean Up on Friday 20 September. Our entire school community will work together to garden, tidy and give a well-deserved spruce up to our gardens and playground areas. Students will need to pack gloves and a bag to assist on the day.

NSWPSSA Golf Championships

This week we have Jaydan Costello and Henry Galland who are representing MacKillop at the NSWPSSA Golf Championships held in the Hunter Valley.

Making it extra special, it is their third year of representing the MacKillop team at the state championships. We look forward to hearing their results.

MacKillop Cricket Trials

Henry Galland, Year 6, travelled to Wagga for 2 days last week as a member of the Canberra Goulburn team to trial for the MacKillop Cricket Team. Henry was selected in the MacKillop team and will now play at the NSWPSSA Championships at Armidale in October.

Well done Henry!

Weeks 9 Awards

Awards will be presented at the assembly on Friday 27 September, 9:05am.

K - Edie Frost, Artie Knight, Ava Lowe,

1 - Harvey Kensit, Georgie Strode

2 - Bridie Anderson, Gracie Hannan, Jack Lowe, Gabriella McDonald, Adrian

3 - Abigail Crosbie, Henry Elsley-Mattox, Cooper Sims

4 - Tenisoni Gerathy, Connor Plumb

5 - Sophie Croker, Grace McCormack, Ruby Pappalardo

6 - Leo Knight, Olivia Millett

Japanese Awards-

Congratulations to Year 2 Gold and Green classes

Uniform Appreciation Awards:

Congratulations to the following students for wearing their St Mary's uniform correctly and with pride:

Piper-Lee Chapple, Ollie Croker, Alice Frost, Elsie McIntosh, Lucas Plumb, Gabby Price

Tuckshop Roster Term 4

If you are keen to help, please click on the following link to complete the form.

Tuckshop Helpers

Friday 20 Sept: Lisa Barlow, Todd Charnock, Georgia Harvey Sutton

Monday 23 Sept: YR 6 SPECIAL LUNCH ORDER DAY. There will be no normal items to order

Friday 27 Sept: NO TUCKSHOP

Years 3 & 4 Fundraising Raffle- load of wood

A big thank you to the Strode and McCormack families who split a load of wood to be raffled last Friday 13 September.

The raffle was a great success, with a profit of $1414. The winner was Sue Kelly of Crookwell

Thank you to all the parents who helped sell tickets and our local community for supporting it.

To access the Google sheet for your number, please click on this link: Grand in the Hand sheet

Parish Office

For Parish and Sacramental matters please forward your enquiries to Goulburn Parish Secretary, Heather Moss. Heather works Tuesday to Friday 9am to 1pm in Goulburn.

Email: Crookwell@cg.org.au

Website: http://cg.org.au/crookwell/Home.aspx

Phone: 0403 631 797

Address: 55 Wade Street (the Old Convent Building)

Berry Interschool Equestrian Competition 5-7 October

For those who are interested in competing for St Mary's at the Berry Interschool Equestrian Competition, we have a small team heading down. For more info please see Catherine Culley or click on this link: Berry Interschool