Saint Mary Mackillop Colleges Wagga Wagga in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | Primary School

Saint Mary Mackillop Colleges Wagga Wagga

Locality: Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 6925 6601

Address: 20 Hely Ave 2650 Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

Website: http://stmarymackillop.nsw.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Year Two have been studying place value in Mathematics. The students were intrigued to play around with this hands on place value set. Keep up the hard work!

25.01.2022 RED WEDNESDAY was celebrated by St Mary MacKillop Colleges Wagga Wagga on the 20th of November, the day when we remember the Persecuted Christians. Quite a number of our students know people who have suffered for the Faith, and all know about past and present heroes and saints. Several buildings in Sydney lit up Red, including our St Mary's Cathedral (image from Catholic outlook). The students raised over $200 for our school charity: Aid to the Church in Need. Thank you esp...ecially to those seniors who washed staff cars! Some asked about online giving:https://www.aidtochurch.org/donate-now Pray for our persecuted brethren and watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx3HkxYcLtI

25.01.2022 A reminder that this afternoon's assembly award presentation will be live streamed.

25.01.2022 Time flies when you're having fun! School resumes Monday.

25.01.2022 This afternoon's assembly will be live streamed to this Facebook page. Year 3/4 will present event a short item. We hope you can join us for a virtual assembly at 2:30 pm.

24.01.2022 Our new oval is up and running! Here is a picture of Year 5/6 boys enjoying the oval in sport. Mr. Griffin also took his class outside to the oval area for their poetry class.

24.01.2022 We are currently in the midst of our Read-a-Thon Fundraiser. Share a picture to this post of your whole family reading to raise the school funds!

24.01.2022 This week, week will take a peek into the Year One Class. Stay tuned for pictures and videos highlighting their incredible work!

24.01.2022 May God and His saints bless our year ahead! We look forward to seeing your faces - new and old - on Thursday!

22.01.2022 Wishing our SMMC community a very holy and blessed Christmas. We look forward to a new adventure in 2021.

21.01.2022 Creative Arts is an essential part of our curriculum. Foundation students have created a variety of items lately. Some of these items were created through cross curriculum lessons. We have some very talented young students.

21.01.2022 Thank you to all the families who attended our 24 Hour Adoration last weekend. It was incredible to see so many people adoring Our Lord and praying for the St Mary Mackillop Colleges.

20.01.2022 As we begin the Christmas Novena today, all the staff at St Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga. pray that God will shower your and your family with peace and love this Christmastide. See you again next year!

20.01.2022 An enormous thank you to all the attendees of The SMMC Annual Presentation Night. All the staff wish the parents, students and family members a very happy and holy Christmas season. We look forward to seeing you all in the new year.

19.01.2022 This Litany of Loreto was led by Father Jordan Perry O.P. with the Emmaus Community, Perth. In this month of May we have be the first anniversary of Father Jordan's death. Father was chaplain of our school for over 4 years, and spent many years in the Wagga diocese at Vianney Seminary. He was beloved by many families in our school community and elsewhere. The Litany: This ancient devotion invokes Our Lady under all her traditional titles and is customarily recited or sung o...n Saturday (her special day of the week) and during the Month of May. May Father Jordan Perry rest in peace. https://youtu.be/7eqK8vydKXw

19.01.2022 Adoration began with the 9:30am Mass this morning and will conclude with Benediction at 9:20am tomorrow. Father Casanova preached on martyrdom, and explained the reason why saints are often found in groups. May our school be a training ground for many such saints! The students had time to adore and go to Confession during the day, and parents and staff are adoring until the end of our 24 hours of Adoration. God will not be outdone in generosity. May this be a very fruitful time for us all.

18.01.2022 Once again the High School English Department has published SCRIPTA 2020, the literary magazine of our high school students. We encourage you to purchase a copy to post to family this Christmas for some interesting reading. (They will also be able to put faces to the names they often hear about from school!) SCRIPTA $5 per copy ... (Each student who contributed will receive a free SCRIPTA.) Your children can bring in the money to order more, or order via email this week. (Please hand money to a sister on Thursday.) Scripta will be available to send home on Thursday. Some writings in this issue were composed during the off-campus period. Others have been done in workshops in English class where we have focussed on the techniques of narrative, review, poetry, reports, analytic journalism, satire etc. For 2020 we included more than one piece from most students, making this our longest Scripta magazine yet!

17.01.2022 Wishing our Syro-Malabar community a happy feast of St. Thomas the Apostle.

17.01.2022 This week, we will have a sneak peak into the Foundation classroom. Stay tuned over the remainder of the week for short videos and pictures from their class.

17.01.2022 This term, Foundation to Year Six students are participating in Jump Rope for Heart. The students have been enthusiastically learning new skipping skills each day!

16.01.2022 Here are a few snapshots of Bishop Edward's visit to every classroom on Tuesday. What a mammoth task: giving us so much time, and getting to meet everyone. We're so grateful! The Bishop answered questions in all classes. He repaid the Year 3/4 class’s gift of a choral recitation by reciting an excerpt from St John’s Gospel, and was ‘interviewed’ by the Year 6 class on all things episcopal. Many classes were interested in the insignia and items a Bishop uses, which he showe...d them. He finished the visit by fielding tough questions from senior students on abortion, IVF, homosexual unions, the Green's party, dealing with the pressure of the world and more. Thank you, Bishop Edwards. We will continue to pray for you and our diocese, as you have asked.

16.01.2022 Today is the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Our high school students were treated to doughnuts and some Sacred Heart Cookies. You can have a devotion to the Sacred Heart by doing as Our Lord asked, by receiving Holy Communion and make confession frequently (especially on the first Friday of each month), veneration of an image of His Sacred Heart, and prayers and sacrifices offered out of love for Him and for the conversion of sinners. Happy Feast Day!

15.01.2022 Tomorrow's assembly will be live streamed from 2:30 PM. Year 2 will present a short piece.

15.01.2022 A thorough knowledge of phonics is integral to the Literacy program in the Primary School. It is built into the Foundation students' routine in a variety of modes. Drilling the sounds and chanting the rap is one effective way that proves to be valuable in supporting early writing success. In this video, Mrs. Long directs the class as they recite their Thrass Rap.

14.01.2022 We wish all the father's in our community a very happy Father's Day for this Sunday. May God bless all your families abundantly. Have a great weekend.

14.01.2022 Today's Year 6 assembly item will be live streamed.

13.01.2022 It's the final week of school for 2019! What a year it has been! The formal conclusion to the academic year will be held this Thursday at 7PM. Please see the details in the image below. God bless

13.01.2022 The school sends a cheer to all who Stood For Life this week in Sydney. Staff and students have been closely following the debate and have just completed a Novena with the Angelus (THE pro-life prayer) followed by a minute's silence to ask God for mercy. It is by charity that the walls of Geneva [the life battle] will be breached, St Francis de Sales declared, By love the city will be invaded, it is by love that it must be reconquered!" The footage, as seen in ACL's link, has been uplifting. We are proud of our local Wagga Wagga MP Joe McGirr who 'Loves Them Both' and all who have prayed and work for this great cause. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEPYm-F8B8w

13.01.2022 Year Six Assembly

12.01.2022 Foundation students enjoying the beautiful weather today.

12.01.2022 Our Dominican Sisters have just launched a fantastic initiative in which many friends of SMMC Wagga Wagga may be interested. They have begun a podcast series, 'Truth Bytes': free, short podcasts about basic truths for the 'man on the street'. Send your email address to [email protected], and you'll receive a weekly email with the links to 1 or 2 free podcasts by our sisters. (1 - 3 are listed below!) "The Truth Bytes Series brings you the truths of the Catholic Faith..., not only in small morsels, but in a way that challenges. Although these truths are glorious and necessary to us all, many will find that the Truth "bites". In a world comatosed by error, this may not be such a bad thing. This is part of the Sisters' apostolic outreach to "Preach the word...in season and out of season" and to keep alive the search for Truth in a world that keeps looking for lies." from http://www.conventualsistersofstdominic.org/p/post-podcasts Listen on Soundcloud Truth Byte 1- Happiness Truth Byte 2: Choices Truth Byte 3 - The Human Factor OR Listen on iTunes/Apple Podcasts Truth Bytes 1 - Happiness Truth Byte 2 - Choices Truth Bytes 3 - The Human Factor

11.01.2022 This week's assembly will be live streamed from 2:30. The Year One classroom will present their item.

10.01.2022 The Foundation assembly item will be live streamed from 2:30 pm today.

10.01.2022 Fr. Ledinich came to say Mass for Year 5/6 on the Feast of The Sacred Heart. Afterwards, he stayed for a quick game of table tennis with the students. We are blessed to have such holy men to say Mass for our school!

09.01.2022 Assembly Awards, Week Six

09.01.2022 Last year we embarked on the upgrade of the SMMC oval. The oval was fitted with drainage and irrigation, top dressed and seeded. Here's our finished product ready for the Primary School Inter-house Cup

08.01.2022 Some points from Term 4 so far: Chess, Science and Serra Club. The senior Chess team won the Riverina Regional Chess Championship on All Saints Day. Well done to Julian Vieira, Ben Curtis, Michael Curtis, and Sam Bell. Congratulations to all Year 7 & 8 students for your successful presentation of your Science Physic projects on Thursday (31 October 2019). Francesca Morton received 3rd place for her Roller Coaster investigation, Harry Thomas received 2nd place for his Electri...c Battery Train and Brenna Shaw received first place for her Pulley System. The teacher's choice award went to Tully Shaw. It was a fun activity for all the K - 6 students who came to see the event and thank you teachers and parents for all your support. On Tuesday November 5th we were honoured with a visit from the priests and seminarians of Vianney College. The idea and goal of this visit was to expose students to the vocation of holy orders. The visit began with a beautiful Mass at 12.20 pm which was celebrated by Fr Thompson and con-celebrated by Fr Byrnes. The Mass was followed by a barbeque which was provided by the Serra Club whose role is to promote and support vocations in the diocese. It’s a worthy cause to join and we recommend parents consider helping out in any way possible. The school would like to thank the Serra Club for all their efforts over the course of the afternoon. The seminarians visited all the classrooms and spoke about their life and the vocation to the priesthood. Visits such as the one we had on Tuesday are extremely important, as it makes the decision for our young people to answer God's call to the religious life or priesthood tangible and realistic. We live in a world where following down such a path is frowned upon and our priests are heavily attacked. Let us all remember to pray both for our priests and our seminarians that they may embrace God's will in all they do and receive the grace to lead as many souls to heaven as possible.

08.01.2022 Happy Easter to all of the members of the SMMC community. May the the joy of the Risen Lord shine true in all of your lives!

08.01.2022 Mrs. Green and the Year One class are passionate about beautiful works of art. This passion leads to an appreciation of truth, goodness and beauty in fine artworks and the world around us.

07.01.2022 The short video explains what makes St Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga so unique. Featuring the Directors, Principals and Dominican Sisters.

07.01.2022 St Mary MacKillop Colleges are accepting enrolments for Foundation 2021. Please share our beautiful schools with anyone who may be interested in sending their child in the coming years. https://www.stmarymackillop.nsw.edu.au/

07.01.2022 Today's Athletics Carnival was a wonderful opportunity to see our students displaying their athletic ability! Thanks to all the families who came out to support the students and volunteer to marshal or time events. A special thanks to our BBQ team. The SMMC Athletics Carnival will be covered in tomorrow's edition of the Daily Advertiser.

07.01.2022 Please see the additional information below about the first day of school. Parents of students in Years Foundation-2, and parents of students new to the school, will be permitted to drop off their children to the classroom. All other students must be dropped at the gate as per usual drop off procedure. Physical distancing is asked to be observed.

06.01.2022 At SMMC, our students focus on the literary classics. This term, Year One have studied fairy tales and folk stories. Here's a letter from Goldilocks created by one of our students.

06.01.2022 The Week 10 School Newsletter had lots of recent news regarding the remote learning (well done everyone!). Some have asked for the Mass links. Remember that our priests continue to offer the Sacrifice of the Mass every day although we cannot attend at present. Search ‘Mass Online’ or a particular parish. ... Friars of St Francis, St Bernadette's Parish. Many students will remember Fr Christopher Sharah, Fr Ruben and Fr Benedict F.S.F. Daily Mass, Ordinary Form, up before 11-00am. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvvWPXGVbkrG4wDb0foO1NA (If they get 1000 subscribers they can live-stream!) Notre Dame Priory, Tasmania, Extraordinary Form. https://www.notredamemonastery.org/livemass

06.01.2022 A friendly reminder that school resumes for all staff and students on Monday.

05.01.2022 Support Reginald as he raises money for Type 1 diabetes research! https://walk.jdrf.org.au//reg/jdrf-one-walk-step-challenge

05.01.2022 Our Sisters have collated some links and put together some audio/visual Stations for families which we'd love to share with all our school community. Let us be joined in prayer during this most holy and blessed Week of our Liturgical year. HOLY WEEK for Families... About Palm Sunday- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoujG6h7UGI About Holy Thursday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1R9Z9gkOck About Good Friday (not for young children) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk72MuWqF3Q Easter Sunday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HY9PM9sWhw STATIONS OF THE CROSS assembled by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic Stations of the Cross shorter Version: 14 minutes. With simple meditations. https://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=Y6Y6DGNX The Way of the Cross: about 50 minutes. This has more extended meditations very relevant to adults and older children. https://drive.google.com//1NOn83TXQ4gXM2qqm4G3LinvzKL/view

05.01.2022 All students return on Thursday 28th January. We look forward to seeing you then!

05.01.2022 In Religion, Kindergarten have been discovering Salvation History, from Creation to the life of Jesus.Our video shows us singing the beautiful hymn Jesus, in Your Heart We Find, asking Christ to share with us His great love of God and others.

05.01.2022 ON SALE at Presentation Night: Beautiful Children of the Week Collectors’ Plates - $20 each, all proceeds to Aid to the Church in Need. 2019 High school Literary Journal Scripta: on sale at the Hall for $5. Please buy a copy for grandparents and friends who would enjoy the literary skills of our students.... See you there!

04.01.2022 As we enter our second week back to on campus learning, home learning seems like a distant memory. Thank you to all parents for their efforts during these challenging times! Share your photos from remote learning to the SMMC Facebook Page.

04.01.2022 Testing out the brand new oval at the Inter-house Cup.

04.01.2022 Congratulations to Siena House on their victory in yesterday's House Cup.

03.01.2022 Attention Alumni and all 18 -30 year olds: YPAT is offering Round 2 online next week. From your own home, you’ll receive bite sized pieces of truth, knowledge and insight that will equip, empower and inspire you to understand the conflicting issues, values and socio-political trends of our day. (YPAT is run by the Thomas More Centre.) In just a few minutes a day over 5 days, attendees access high quality, short and sharp videos, resources and two live interactive events desig...ned to give them the insight and knowledge they need to thrive, and live the Catholic social teaching with confidence. Not to be missed... spread the word! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u6PGWpAYkk https://ncc.org.au/ypat/

03.01.2022 Here are some recent pictures of activities from around our beautiful School.

02.01.2022 Welcome to Term Three! The teachers and staff are all excited to have students return tomorrow morning. We hope you all had a peaceful break. Feel free to share your family back to school photo tomorrow morning. God bless!

02.01.2022 Until school resumes for Term 4 on the 14th October, here are three events during the holidays to mark in the diary: Perpetual Profession of Sister Mary Catherine and Sister Mary Dominica on Monday, 7th October in Ganmain, at 11am. Bishop Columba will be the principle celebrant. This is the most significant step our sisters will make in their lives, so if you cannot attend, do pray for them both! http://www.conventualsistersofstdominic.org/p/photos.html The movie UNPLANNED i...s coming to Wagga Wagga for one night only. It is for mature audiences, and tickets are $22. Still 100 seats left to fill - spread the word! https://fan-force.com//unplanned-forum-6-cinema-wagga-wag/ Our local Legion of Mary groups will host the annual 'ROSARY IN THE PARK' on Saturday 12th October from 11am - 2pm in the Victory Memorial Gardens. For more information call Caronne 0413801616 God bless and keep you all - from SMMC Wagga Wagga

01.01.2022 Today's the day!!!!!! Welcome back to all students! We look forward to seeing new and old faces around campus.

01.01.2022 The sun is setting on another beautiful day! We should be thankful for all the things God has given to us. Especially the blessing of our wonderful school and the incredible community of families.