Term 3 Week 5 Newsletter 2025

Important Dates

Character Virtue:  P E R S P E C T I V E
What it looks like:  Understanding that others will not always have the same point of view as you.  Their opinions and ideas may be different based on their experiences.
What it means:  This means being a good listener and trying to understand different sides of a story.
Why it is important:  Perspective lets us practise being Christian by walking in other's shoes and showing empathy.

From the Principal

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Week 5.

Thank you to Mr Keady and Fr Greg for our Assumption Mass last Thursday. Thanks to Mrs Fiander for leading our singing. Thanks to Mrs McKenzie for organising today’s Book Week Parade, and thank you to our families for putting so much time into your children’s costumes. Children's Book Week in 2025 will be held this week. The theme for the week is "Book an Adventure!". This year marks the 80th anniversary of Children's Book Week. 

School Dances
Our school dances will be held in the School Hall, as follows:
Infants - Tuesday, 16th September - 6:00 pm - 7.30 pm
Primary - Wednesday, 17th September - 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm

BOOK WEEK

ST. MARY'S BOOK WEEK 2025

This morning, we started our Book Week celebrations with a play performed by our very talented Year 6 students and our character parade. I would like to thank everyone who helped produce all the amazing costumes for today and everyone who stayed to share in the celebrations. The excitement and enthusiasm were electric, the perfect launch into Book Week.

Your very grateful Librarian, Mrs McKenzie

Religious Education

Feast of the Assumption
Thank you to Fr Greg, Mr Wilson, and our Year 6 students who led the school community in our Feast of the Assumption Mass on Thursday. 

2025 First Holy Communion
First Holy Communion preparation sessions have now concluded. We look forward to celebrating this sacrament with our Year 3 class over the coming weekends. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Rosie Hosking (Sacramental Coordinator) or myself at;
Rosie- sacraments.dubbo@cdob.org.au
Tim- t.keady@bth.catholic.edu.au

ST. BRIGID'S PARISH - MASS TIMES: 
St Brigid's:  Saturday - 5pm, Sunday - 9am and Sunday - 5pm
St. Laurence's Church:  Sunday - 7.30am

Sport

Polding Touch Football
Best of luck to Zara, Maggie, and Fletcher, who will represent Polding at the NSW PSSA Championships in Dubbo this week.

Diocesan Athletics Carnival
The Diocesan Carnival takes place this Friday, 23rd August, at Barden Park. We wish them every success. A Bathurst Diocesan Team will be selected from this carnival to compete at the Polding Carnival on Friday, 12th October.

Congratulations to the following students who will represent our school at this carnival:
Ada, Aidan, Alyssa, Ari, Beckham, Buddy, Charlie, Cohen, Cooper, Diesel, Ella, Ellie, Emily, Emma, Esther,
Evie, Frankie, Frankie, Georgie, Gus, Hugh, Hunter, Jackson, Jake, Jake, Jensen, Leo, Lucinda,
Lucy, Lucy, Maddix, Maggie, Ned, Ollie, Remy, Rio, Roy, Slater, Solei, Tanner, Thomas, Thomas and Zara. 

Horse Sports Days are as follows:

Merriwa - 25th and 26th September
Tamworth Inter Schools - 16th to 20th October

Please email Mr Wilson - l.wilson4@bth.catholic.edu.au if your child is interested in participating.

Awards

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:

HOUSE AWARDS:
Congratulations to the following students for gaining 10 points for
their Sports House for exemplary behaviour:

Wellbeing

PEER SUPPORT:
This week in Peer Support, children identify their strengths. Children will explore the following important strengths: curiosity, kindness, and teamwork. Through activities, children will be able to recognise strengths they possess. They will realise how important it is to use their strengths in different situations. During the week, encourage your child to share their strengths with you. This will help your child to become more resilient and optimistic. Ask your child to share the strengths they identified in the session.

School Fees

School Fees for Term 3 2025 were due last Friday, 15th August 2025.

Thank you to all those families who have already paid the School Fees. Your payment is much appreciated.  
If your family pays their school fees by the Term, please note that your final instalment of fees is now overdue.  
For the families who have a Direct Debit in place by way of weekly, fortnightly or monthly instalments and, if you haven't already, please ensure that your payment plan is sufficient to settle your school fees account by the end of November 2025.
If you have any questions, queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to email k.bywater@bth.catholic.edu.au 
Thank you.

Attendance

Community News

BIRTHDAYS:
Celebrating their birthday this week are:
Thea, Beau, Ari, Harry, Billy, Harlie, Tommy, Halle, Evie
and Mrs Helen Tobin.
We hope you enjoy your birthday!

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Found at Grandparents Day:

Canteen

MunchMonitor - We encourage all families to use the MunchMonitor online program for lunch orders. 

We Are Allergy Aware

Anaphylaxis is a severe and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. We want to do our best to keep those at risk, as safe as possible. We have several children at our school who have allergies to peanuts and tree-nuts.
It is important for the safety of these children that we ask that you don't send any nuts or nut products to school.
This includes foods such as peanut butter, Nutella, hazelnut spreads, trail mix or muesli bars/biscuits that contain nuts.

Please help us maintain the health and well-being of all our students by considering this information when packing lunches for your child.

We appreciate your support.

The Clothing Pool