I live close by and love seeing families out and about. The St Mary’s community is a unique and wonderful community.
I grew up in Keilor and am the youngest of 4 kids with 2 older brothers and an older sister. I have many nieces and nephews, 11 to be exact, ranging from 19 years old to 2. We love spending time together and even go on holidays often. I have 2 girls, Maddie is in Year 4 and Layla has just started Prep. They go to Queen of Peace Primary School.
I barrack for the mighty Bulldogs and love playing netball and meeting family and friends at the park for plays. I love traveling and discovering new places and can’t wait till we can travel overseas again.
The Prep - 2s talked about ‘Thinking about how you feel’ (even with cute actions so ask the kids to show you).
The 3/4s discussed making sure their passwords are ‘Long and Strong’ as well as how to take into account the perspectives of others when in the online world.
The 5/6s touched on Cyber Safety and in particular Cyber Bullying and the importance of being an ‘UPSTANDER’ if you see it happening.
All groups looked at the different online spaces - Personal, Private and Public and what each of these spaces meant in terms of your safety online.
We had good attendance at our Parent Webinar where Trent went through some great information with us about different trending apps and games and even the language children are using to communicate with each other in these apps and games. Trent also spoke about having digital agreements in homes and keeping the communication between the kids and parents as open as possible.
The Cyber Safety Project has a number of resources parents can access and tap into their expertise:
The Blog has information and ideas around parental controls for trending apps and games.
https://www.cybersafetyproject.com.au/blog
Subscribe to the newsletter to receive monthly updates straight to your inbox.
https://www.cybersafetyproject.com.au/subscribe.html
On demand webinars and courses are available at their new families website.
https://families.cybersafetyproject.com.au/
You can use the following code for a 50% discount: STMARYSPS
Other resources available to us:
Office of eSafety Commissioner
https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents
Kids Helpline
And if anyone requires any help from the school please reach out to Ronnie Tucker (vtucker@smaltona.catholic.edu.au)
Church Bulletin 21st March
Hobsons Bay Kindergarten Program
Williamstown Magic - Basketball
Emmanuel College News - 19th March
We welcome your school community to our Open Day on Sunday 21 March, 12pm to 3pm.
St Mary’s College is inner-city Melbourne’s only co-educational Catholic College. We are located in two adjacent campuses at:
Edmund Rice Campus - 11 Westbury St, St Kilda East and Presentation Campus - 187 Dandenong Rd, Windsor.
We would love to see your school community on the day. There has been a huge interest in our first Open Day, pre-registrations are recommended https://www.stmaryscollege.vic.edu.au/enrolments/open-day
Our EASTER RAFFLE will be held at a special assembly on the last day of term, 1st April at 12:45pm.
You should have received your raffle tickets yesterday or today.
If not, there are spare booklets available at the office.
To make this raffle great fun for all of the children, we ask that you kindly donate an Easter gift (per child).
This could be in the form of chocolate, a toy, or allergy free option.
Please give this gift to your child, to give to their teacher over the coming weeks or take it to the office.
All raffle tickets and money need to be returned by Monday 29th March.
Many thanks.
We really appreciate your support!!!