A Message from the Principal

Dear Parents,

Well here we are already!  There’s a sense of excitement and exhaustion in the air and little wonder when we reflect upon last week’s events.  Our students and staff made a positive impact on many people in our community as well as the wider community with:  the Christmas picnic, art show and carols, a visit from the residents from MiCare, whereby our students performed for them and provided morning tea, followed up by the Lilydale Rotary Christmas Function which saw our students, lead by Miss Frisina, singing carols on Friday evening! We are so blessed to have such a generous community who give of their time, effort and talent time and time again. As we head into the final week, we reflect upon all that has been, thank everyone and farewell others. It is important that we also celebrate all the good work that has been done throughout the year and so we are having lots of fun activities occurring.

On Thursday we farewell our Year Six Students.  I am sure that many memorable friendships have been forged during the time spent in primary school and we want our students to leave us with a sense of belonging, knowing that they will always be “St. Mary’s people” and that their links with the parish and school continue. On behalf of the school community, I thank the graduating students for their wonderful contribution to our school over the years.  They will remain forever in our thoughts and prayers.  I am confident, as I see you leaving primary school that each of you will continue to make yourself, your families and St. Mary’s, proud. 

Garden Club

Garden club is run on Wednesdays during school terms, from 10.45 till 11.30am. New parents helpers required.  Please bring gloves and garden tools. All helpers are required to have a working with children’s check.  If you would like to assist, please email ronnie.pritchard@smmountevelyn.catholic.edu.au.  Thank-you

Stomp Team

Our fabulous Stomp Team earned the honour of performing at the Catholic Education Melbourne Celebration of Principalship.

Follow the link to read the article - St.Mary's Stomp Team

CATHOLIC EDUCATION TODAY MAGAZINE

Term 4 of the Catholic Education Today Magazine (copy sent home in schoolbags), has St Mary’s featured on page 9 with an interview with none-other than our very own Principal - Angela Glennie! If you have a moment, you may like to have a look over a cuppa!  (Click here to view online, scroll to page 9)

2020 School Tours

2020 tour dates to be advised in February.


Bookings are essential and can be made from March onwards: Please contact 9736 2219 or email principal@smmountevelyn.catholic.edu.au.
Tour groups are kept at a maximum of 5 bookings only.

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 (click here)

NOTICE BOARD

NO NUTS AT ST MARY’S

Fair Funding Video (click here)

School funding policy is a complicated area.  The quality of education available to your children, the breadth of learning opportunities they’ll receive, the amount of fees you’ll be expected to pay, the special services and teacher training available to your school all comes down to funding.  Right now all of this is under a cloud, thanks to the Turnbull government’s proposed education changes.  The video and pages contained in the above link will explain what’s on the table, what it means for you, where Catholic education believes it should be changed and how you and your school community can work for an outcome that will ensure the best results and opportunities for your family.

Ref: Catholic Education Melbourne/Funding

Skoolbag App

      IMPORTANT INFO FOR PARENTS     

‘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. Once installed search for our school name (St Marys Catholic Primary School Mount Evelyn). For Windows Phone, and Windows 8.1 or 10 users, search for ‘Skoolbag’ in the Windows store, install the app and find our school.

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. Once out of draft form, all employees and volunteers at the school will be required to sign the Code of Conduct.  We welcome any feedback you may have and ask that you direct any thoughts to aglennie@smmountevelyn.catholic.edu.au

All parents, relatives and caregivers attending St.Mary's Primary School to help within the classroom must hold a current Working with Children Check (available FREE online to volunteers) and must have read and signed the Code of Conduct.

CHILD SAFE - Code of Conduct       CHILD SAFE - Policy 2017      CHILD SAFE - Video     

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.

They provide online safety education for Australian children and young people, a complaints service for young Australians who experience serious cyber bullying, and address illegal online content through the Online Content Scheme.

Their goal is to empower all Australians to explore the online world—safely.

Reference: https://esafety.gov.au

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.  Please click here for further details.