In 2020 we are very fortunate to have secured a grant for a twelve-month coaching program for our Aboriginal students. This is an exciting new initiative designed to support our students maximise their personal potential.

Meg Barker, who is new to St Mary’s, has been appointed to work with selected students until the end of the school year. Meg has spent her career working within the recruitment profession supporting individuals achieve their career goals and more recently expanded this experience to personal coaching.

The twelve-month coaching program will lead students through a process of self-reflection for them to determine 1-2 key goals that are uniquely important to them. Some students may wish to look at academic goals while others may wish to set goals around physical, social or emotional development.

This is the first time our College has embarked on a student coaching program such as this and we are enormously pleased to be able to offer this rare opportunity to our current Aboriginal students.

For further information on coaching please see the link below.

Kind regards
Nicky Wakefield

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We warmly invite all current and prospective parents and students to our Open Day on Thursday 2 April 2020.

Take a tour and see what we get up to on a regular day at the College. There will be opportunities to visit our classrooms, speak with students, staff and College parents, and find out what makes us a leader in Catholic education.

For more information, including tour times, please refer to the flyer below.

Due to indefinite shipping delays from China, Chinese Made Easy for Kids cannot be supplied from Office Max Winc. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Staff have discussed the impact to families and have decided to remove it from the required textbooks for 2020 for Year 7 and Year 8 students.

In light of this, we would like to offer to buy back Chinese Made Easy for Kids with a valid proof of purchase.

Please take the book and proof of purchase to Student Services, along with the following reimbursement form. Copies of this form are also available directly from Student Services.  

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We hold the safety of students and staff with the utmost importance and following advice from Catholic Education Tasmania, we would like to provide you with further information about Novel coronavirus.

For detailed information about the Novel coronavirus provided by the Australian Government Department of Health, please read here.

While we do not wish to disrupt families or cause unnecessary alarm, the College will adopt a similar approach to many other schools who may have students who have visited the affected areas in China, particularly the Hubei Province. Please note the following:

• Students or staff must be excluded from school if informed by Public Health authorities that they are a close contact of a confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), irrespective of whether they have developed symptoms.
• Students and staff may be excluded from school if they have recent travel history to mainland China and develop symptoms (until their primary care provider and Public Health units determine otherwise).
• Students and staff should not be excluded from school if they have travelled to mainland China but have no symptoms.

Should you have any concerns about this matter, please do not hesitate to contact James Lambert, Risk and Compliance Manager via email jlambert@smc.tas.edu.au or phone 03 61082560.

We pray for those who have been affected by this virus.