A Message from the Principal

Dear Parents, Families and Guardians,

I hope that you were able to enjoy some new found freedoms across the weekend.

If you’re anything like me, it’s becoming difficult to keep up with the changes to restrictions and rules, including dates etc!

What I do know is as follows:

• Tuesday 26/10 & Weds 27/10 Preps and Year 3/4 will be onsite.
• Thursday 28/10 & Friday 29/10 Year 1/2 and Year 5/6 will be onsite.
• Monday 1/11 will remain as a school closure day, as to reschedule it further into the term will cause further disruption.
• TheirCare is offering a program for Monday 1/11 (theircare.com.au)
• Wednesday 3/11 all students in all years will return onsite!

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

R.E. Newsletter 25th October 2021 (click here)

Religious Education news:

• Catholic Mission St Mary’s Socktober day will be on Friday 12^th Children will be encouraged to wear coloured socks and to bring a gold coin donation for the needy in Thailand.
• Family First Holy Communion: NB: Dates TBC – depending on COVID restrictions.
• Online Sunday Mass with Fr Rob Galea can be viewed here: 30^th Sunday in ordinary time.
• Please contact Mrs Pritchard (pritchard@smmountevelyn.catholic.edu.au) or Fr. Michel (michel.corriveau@cam.org.au ) if you have any queries.

STUDENT TERM DATES 2021 & 2022

2021

Term 1:   Thu 28th Jan    -  Thu 1st April (early finish 2.30pm)

Term 2:   Mon 19th April  -  Fri 25th June (2.30pm finish)

Term 3:   Mon 12th July   -  Fri 17th Sept

Term 4:   Mon 4th Oct     -  Thu 16th Dec (3.15pm finish)

2022

Term 1 :  Mon 31st Jan (Years 1 to 6)   -   Fri 8th April
              Preps start Tues 1st Feb 8.45 to 12.30pm
Term 2 :  Tue  26th April     -     Fri 24th June
Term 3 :  Mon 11th July      -     Fri 16th Sept
Term 4 :  Mon 3rd Oct        -     Tue 20th Dec

SCHOOL TOURS

For all enquiries regarding school tours please call reception on 03 9736-2219

Working Bees

Working Bees at St Mary’s are fundamental to maintaining safe and orderly learning environments for our students. There are so many tasks to do with such a large school ground that we need all the help we can get!

To assist planning for this year we are asking each family to attend ONE Working Bee.

As an incentive this year the families that attend a Working Bee will be rebated the $100.00 working bee levy from their account.

In an effort to cater for everyone, we will hold Working Bees across a range of days and times. If these dates do not suit you please contact the office and schedule a time that will be appropriate.  If you are a tradie, we would appreciate your expertise at times, so please let us know your skills on the working bee form.

Please register for a working be via the online booking system: https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code?code=buf98

CDFPAY ONLINE ORDERING PORTAL

Welcome to CDFpay Online Ordering for Tuckshop, Uniforms, Events, Fundraising, Production Tickets, Italian Day and so much more.
Please click here to place an order.
Online orders can be placed up to 3 weeks in advance, at your convenience, 24/7.
For instructions on how to create your Online Ordering Account please click here.

Skoolbag App

‘Skoolbag’ is an app for iPhone and Android that will enhance communications with the Parent/Student community. Parents wishing to access this service will need to download and install the ‘Skoolbag’ App from either the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store.

VRQA Child Safe

Child Safety:  Due to new government legislation, all schools are required to raise awareness around Child Safety with the community.  Please read the attached Child Safety Policy and the Child Safety Code of Conduct.  These documents have been written in response to Ministerial Order 870.

eSafety

Office of the Children's eSafety Commission:  The Office of the Children's eSafety commission is committed to helping young people have safe positive experiences online and encourages behavioural change where a generation of Australian children act responsibly online—just as they would offline.

Facebook - St.Mary's Mt.Evelyn Parents Page

The St.Mary's Mt.Evelyn Parents Facebook page is not a page which is run by the school, however because it reflects aspects of our community, those who use it do have an obligation to behave in a manner which would make the St Mary’s Community both comfortable and proud.