Art Display - Friday, 29 November 2019

Greetings!

As we begin our decent to the end of the 2019 school year, there are few reminders we need to give you:

This Friday, 29^th November, is our School Concert. ALL students are expected to attend this celebration of the Performing Arts at St. Martin’s. Our Semester 2 Visual Arts students will also have work on display this evening. Gates will be open from 5:30pm for you to access the BBQ for dinner. We will also have coffee, ice blocks, cool drinks and chips for sale at this time. Students need to be here by 6:30pm as the concert will begin at 7:00pm sharp. Students sit with their families and will be instructed to join their class teacher just prior to their performance. Due to a recent change in Liquor licencing, this will be a NO ALCOHOL event. You are welcome to bring a picnic dinner or snack to enjoy during the concert. We also invite you to bring a picnic rug or chairs to sit on.

Thank you!

Thank you to all the parents, volunteers and staff who contributed to coaching, managing, supervising and ferrying athletes and sports teams at St Martin’s this year. Thank you also  students, athletes and Sports Captains.

The presentation for ICAS Awards will be held on Friday, 6th December at 9.00am at the school assembly.

ICAS presentations will be made to students who were awarded with one or multiple higher awards. These awards may include Merit, Credit, Distinction and High Distinction.

All students will receive their certificates from their class teachers at the end of the day. 

We had a very successful year for the Premiers Reading Challenge in 2019. I would like to thank all the teachers, parents and students for their hard work in completing the Challenge. A big THANK YOU goes to Mrs Wendy Hill for the incredible work on coordinating the Challenge. This year, 383 students completed the challenge.

100 Certificates

85 Bronze Medals

51 Silver Medals

60 Gold Medals

42 Champion Medals

24 Legend Medals

17 Hall of Fame Medals

Congratulations to Max Beaulne, Tom Herbert, Serena Hitchcock and Vidhi Parmar for being the awarded the highest award “Reader for Life”.

All families whose children are returning in 2020 recently received an envelope with the following forms:

• Student Information (printed on pink paper)
• Finance Agreement
• ICT - Acceptable User Agreement

A big THANK YOU to those families who have returned their forms.  If you have misplaced your child's forms, please contact the front office (info@smg.catholic.edu.eu) for a new set.

All forms should be returned no later than Monday, 2 December.

First Week of Advent

Matthew 24:37-44 – Stay awake, you must be ready.

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘As it was in Noah’s day, so will it be when the Son of Man comes. For in those days before the Flood, people were eating, drinking, taking wives, taking husbands, right up to the day Noah went into the ark, and they suspected nothing till the Flood came and swept all away.  It will be like this when the Son of Man comes.  Then of two men in the fields one is taken, one left; of two women at the millstone grinding, one is taken, one left.

‘So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming.  You may be quite sure of this that if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house.

Therefore, you too must stand ready because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.’

The OfficeMax|Winc website is ready to accept 2020 Stationery Orders.  

Ordering details were sent home with students on Monday, 11 November.  If your child has misplaced their note, please contact the Front Office or email Natalie Tompkins (ntompkins@smg.catholic.edu.au) for a new copy.

Free delivery applies for orders placed on or before 15 December 2019.

Our 2019-2020 Vacation Care program is now available. If you need Vacation Care over the summer break, please come in and collect a booking form from the OSHC room.  New families are also welcome to come in and pick up an enrolment form. Our OSHC closure days will be from Saturday, 21 December. until Sunday, 5 January. OSHC will be closed during this two week period but will be available every other day of the holidays (except Australia Day).

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