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month the St. Mary’s Cathedral parish has dedicated a Sunday morning Mass to a child friendly Family Mass.

This month, to celebrate Mother’s Day the Family Mass will be held on Sunday 12th May at 9.30am.

​​​​​​​All families are invited to attend this Mass.

At this Mass, the Gospel readings will be read from the children’s lectionary and our St. Mary’s choir will lead the congregation.

Other students are invited to take part in these Masses by taking up the offertory gifts and reading the readings of the day and the prayers of the faithful.

If you would like your child to have an active part in this Mass please email Christine Ferreira at christine.ferreira@nt.catholic.edu.au.

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Wonderopolis. Each day and intriguing question is posed, the 'Wonder of the Day' and and explored in a variety of ways. Some of its features include text to speech (for hesitant readers), hyperlinked words and definitions, videos and links to related content.

Student Testimonials:

• A fact that had suprised me is that all fish contain some form of plastic. When we eat fish we are eating the plastic too. - Zak
• Did you know that humans buy 1,000,000 plastic bottles per minute. - Lachlan
• I wonder how much plastic Australian's use each year and what happens to it? - Maddison
• I'm keen to learn what I can do to help. - Damien
• Making a water bottle requires two thousand times more energy than filling up a cup with water. - Isaac K

 

 

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http://www.smeebu.com These assessments are designed to help build familiarity with the NAPLAN test format, they’re also fun to do. ·

- Sample questions and example test booklets can be accessed on the NAPLAN website: http://www.nap.edu.au/naplan/the-tests.html

- For further information please refer http://www.naplan.edu.au

- Speak with your child’s classroom teacher for further information or clarification of tests as required.

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https://www.schoolsurvey.edu.au/s/emER3HjQ

Teaching and Learning Survey     https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSembqA91v2UoN24kKiDZs3uvX4-004dtMBpC5Xih8qC2ZdJ2Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

Leadership Program - This year Mr Hup (Assistant Director) has been selected to participate in the Middle Leaders Formation Program facilitated by the Queensland Educational Leadership Institute (QELi). This Leadership Formation program is funded jointly by St Mary’s school and the Catholic Education Office NT. The first phase of this program commenced last week and modules will continue throughout the year.

NAPLAN - Yesterday students in Years 3 and 5 participated in the NAPLAN equating test. The official NAPLAN testing will take place from 14-16 May with any catch up testing to be completed on Friday 17th May.

School Photos - Families are reminded that school photos are scheduled for Friday, 31st May. All students are required to wear full school uniform on that day including black shoes, white socks.

We have a number of social events scheduled this term for families including our Bunnings BBQ 18th May, Family Trivia Night on Sunday 2nd June at Trailer Boat Club and our Family Movie Night on 21st June. I look forward to seeing you all at these events.

Congratulations to Anita Lin from the Community of Learners and  Amana Akter from school on the recent arrival of their baby sons.

I trust that you will continue to enjoy our beautiful dry season weather and the long weekend ahead.

God bless you all and thank you for your ongoing support.

 

Jacqui Langdon, Principal

 

 

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Thank you all for your generous support of our St. Mary's fundraising efforts!

 

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have an impact on our environment.  

One of our biggest goals this term is to reduce rubbish that comes to school in lunchboxes.  Our aim is to be a totally Nude Food School.  Did you know that one popper is made up of three pieces of rubbish? 

Every Wednesday, we will be promoting Nude Food and we will be giving tokens to students who have zero litter in their lunchboxes.

A special certificate will be awarded to those who are consistent Nude Foodies.

 

Thank you for your support,

Tiyana, Lavinia, Dhruv, Aidan, Connor.

 

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However the theme is not restricted to travel. Perhaps you could interview someone from a family business. How did the idea for the business come about? What went into the organisation? What ups and downs have they faced?

Alternatively, do you know a family that has dealt with sickness or trauma, or one where they play a particular sport or are involved as a family in a particular organisation? Stories can be found everywhere. 

ENTERING THE AWARD

There are two sections to enter: 

• Junior Section – Years 5 and 6
• Intermediate Section – Years 7, 8 and 9

The winner of each section will receive a prize pack of $200, consisting of a Pegnuin Random House pack of $150 and $50 cash, while the runners-up will receive a $100 Penguin Random House prize pack and $50 cash. The winning stories will be published in our Spring edition. View full prize deatils here. 

This is a journalistic piece – so no creative writing. It must include quotes from at least one interview subject and should answer the basic questions of who, where, when, why, what and how. 

Judges will be looking for an interesting factual story with a strong heading (no more than six words). The article should be of broad interest to Australian Catholics readers (ie. students, parents and teachers in Catholic schools and parish communities). 

Entries must not exceed 350 words for the Junior Section, nor exceed 500 words for the Intermediate Section.

ENTRIES CLOSE 5pm on Friday 24 May 2019.

Please email christine.ferreira@nt.catholic.edu.au for more details on how to enter. 

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