Our Explicit Improvement Agenda

Student Voice and Agency

Planning for improved student learning - key focus in Mathematics

Celebrations of Community

Andrew Chinn Concert 

We had a fantastic day today with Andrew Chinn providing students with workshops in music and the school concert in the afternoon.  Thank you to the families who joined us for this very special event and a big thank you to Lize Privitera for organising Andrew to work with our students.  Andrew is in high demand and is booked years in advance, so to finally have him here with us is a blessing!  Thank you for an amazing day.

Father’s Day Celebrations

Father’s Day Stall was held yesterday.  Children wishing to purchase a second gift can bring $5.00 to the office tomorrow (while stocks last).

Father’s Day Breakfast – Friday 30 August 

• Gold Coin donation supporting Trinity Families (Trinity Families is a charitable fund which operates to serve other charities supporting families in the Greater Gippsland area).
• Father’s Day Breakfast - serving bacon and egg rolls from 8.00 am - 8.40 am (please note starting time)
• Time in classrooms with your child - prayer, Father’s Day activity from 8.40 am - 9.05 am
• Father’s Day Special Assembly - in the Allen Hall from (including Father’s Day School Community Raffle) 9.05 am - 10.00 am approximately 

We look forward to this special event tomorrow and wish our dads, grandads, uncles and special people in our school community a very happy Father’s Day.

The weather is not looking good, therefore the event will be held in the Allen Hall.  Unfortunately we will not be able to set up our usual sports equipment for students and their dads to enjoy due to the weather forecast.  

Celebrations of Learning

Book Week Dress Up

Last Friday was loads of fun for our Book Week dress up.  The day began with the students parade in assembly and engaging activities throughout the day.  Please see a selection of photos below capturing our Book Week characters . . .

Write a Book in a Day Competition

Congratulations to our Year 6 students who participated in our annual Write a Book in a Day Competition - Alyra, Demi, Dior, Jovan, Zara, Raf, Eliza, Emily, Jeremy & Layla.  Last Thursday these students had the opportunity to compete in a timed competition that required them to complete a book with illustrations in one day (from 8.00 am to 8.00 pm).  On our path of continuous improvement, we are very much looking forward to unleashing this Years 6 students’ creativity, innovative thinking, writing and artistic skills.  We look forward to sharing this year’s story with the wider community over the coming weeks.

Year 4 Polly Woodside Excursion

Year 4 students travelled to Melbourne yesterday to visit Polly Woodside as part of their history inquiry learning.  More information and photos will be shared in next week’s newsletter.  

Student feedback

An integral part of our cycle of teaching and learning is student feedback.  Every week, staff record and acknowledge feedback to students and this is shared with them in class and  via the school newsletter, at Assembly and in MMPS News on Wednesday mornings. Read on for this week’s feedback to students.

Thank you to students who helped assist someone who had a heavy fall onto the concrete. It was great to see so much empathy and care shown. Lots of students were willing to help in many ways, and our school values were shown in many ways. 

Fantastic work Year 3 and 4 students with your listening skills and participation during our Kids ROAR Child Safety sessions. We were very proud to hear you list the body clues when feeling unsafe, such as sweaty palms and butterflies in the tummy. Great work!

Fantastic work Year 6 students who participated in the Write A Book In A Day Event. You did an amazing job brainstorming, planning, writing, illustrating and publishing a book in 12 hours! Your story titled, ‘The Switch’ was an interesting and creative mix of engaging characters, plot and pictures. Excellent Job!

Well Done to all the Year 6 students who helped with the Father’s Day Stall. Great work behind the tables selling the special Father’s Day Gifts. You were all very helpful and enthusiastic stall holders!

Planning for 2025 School Year

2025 Student Class Placements

Teachers will begin planning for our 2025 classes in the coming weeks.  We respect and value parent input and ask that you email me – ejones@marymacnarre.catholic.edu.au, or put in writing and leave at the Administration Office, if you have information about your child that could impact on their placement for 2025.  Please ensure your request is received tomorrow - Friday 30 August, 2024.  

Parents please be mindful of the following:

• Staff use their professional judgement and a range of information when placing students into classes.  This information includes student learning progress, learning strengths, learning needs, NCCD Data, gender balance within classes and across the level to provide an optimal learning environment for ALL students. 
• Parent requests are forwarded onto staff when placing students into their 2025 classes. Please note, the 2024 class teacher places students from their 2024 grade into the 2025 class groupings.
• Please be aware that your letters of request are not a guarantee of your child’s placement. 
• Please note that requests made in previous years are not necessarily considered in the process.  Historical information provided by parents regarding their child’s placement will need to be re-submitted if the concerns expressed in previous years are still relevant for consideration in 2025.

Requests received after the cut off date of Friday 30 August are very difficult to take into consideration.  We ask parents to be mindful of our teachers’ preparation and time that goes into student/class placements which is not an easy task taking into account all the areas mentioned above.