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25.01.2022 Gecko Golf All classes are enjoying improving their golf skills on this lovely day!

17.01.2022 We went back to the 1850’s today and experienced what it was like at school during the gold rush.

10.01.2022 St. Mary's Indigenous Connection WRITING FOR RECONCILIATION : PROJECT 2020 The Nalderun Upper Loddon Events Committee are running a Competition for writers of all ages. They are asking us to write for Reconciliation inspired by this year’s Reconciliation Week Theme In This Together. Aunty Julie McHale met with our year 2-6 students to inform them about this year’s reconciliation week writing for the reconciliation competition. Aunty Julie explained the concept of reconcil...iation, the meaning of the theme and provide some ideas about what children’s writing could look like. She said that the writing may be fictional, creative, historic, personal, political and/or more. It may be in the form of poetry, essay, diary, letter, report, summary, book /film review etc. It needs fit to the theme of Reconciliation Week. There will be a Writing for Reconciliation Community Information Evening run at Castlemaine Community House on Tuesday 17th March at 7pm. At this they will explain the five critical dimensions: race relations, equality and equity, institutional integrity, unity and historical acceptance. These five dimensions do not exist in isolation; they are inter-related and Australia can only achieve full reconciliation if we progress in all five. They also explain the forms of writing; imaginative, informative or persuasive, the components of writing; Recount, Narrative, Procedure, Information Report, Explanation, Exposition, Response and Discussion and the genres of writing; poetry/prose, horror, fairy-tale, myth, legend, comedy, drama, realism, romance, satire, tragedy, thriller, fantasy, science fiction, crime, western, biographical, gothic, medical, philosophical, personal, self-help, play/script etc. This evening will also include nibbles with bush tucker ingredients! We thank Aunty Julie for speaking with our children. It was great to welcome her back into our school. See more

02.01.2022 Clean Up Australia Day started to promote cleaning up, fixing up and conserving our environment. In 1989 an 'average Australian man' had a simple idea to make a difference in his own backyard - Sydney Harbour. This simple idea has now become the nation's largest community-based environmental event, Clean Up Australia Day. To show our support of this initiative and to enact our commitment to care for the earth our St Mary’s students spent some time today cleaning up our outdoor surrounds. Pictured are our school captains with other helpers showing what they collected along the street in just fifteen minutes. We intend to classify this rubbish and recycle as much as possible. Congratulations childrenyour contributions make a difference!