Thank you to everyone who purchased raffle tickets in our recent College fundraiser to provide Christmas hamper donations and support student, Joly Karabite (Year 11) in the Windeward Bound Trust Youth Leadership Challenge.

The fundraiser has supplied Joly with the required equipment to help undertake her journey, departing today, Wednesday 11 December.

Along with the cupcakes sold last month (pictured), Joly and the College raised $562, thanks to the support of Dee Spaulding.

Thank you to the generous sponsors who donated raffle prizes: Great Bay Construction, Edge Living, Lost Freight Café, Frances Mann, Wendy Forsyth and St Mary’s College.

St Mary’s College Junior School was honoured to be invited to prepare the Christmas decorations for this year’s Henry Jones Art Hotel Christmas Tree. As part of their Christmas program, Henry Jones Art Hotel gifted St Mary’s College with $1,000 to donate to the charities of their choice. The students selected the Catholic Care Family Assistance Christmas hampers initiative and the Sacred Heart Catholic School Geeveston fundraiser for bushfire affected families in Queensland and NSW. 

Pictured below: Mrs Ruth Prichard, Junior School Religious Education Coordinator and Year 1 Teacher accepts the donation cheque on behalf of St Mary’s College.

The St Mary’s College Year 3-4 and Year 6 Basketball teams put in a wonderful effort at the State Basketball Competition.

Although the Year 3-4 team didn’t win a game, they continued to improve and kept smiling the entire time.

Our Year 6 team should be very proud of their commitment to the game. They played beautifully and really connected as a team.

The girls managed to make it to the final where they were beaten by Our Lady of Lourdes team by 25 points. Basketball skills aside, staff were really impressed by their leadership. They made the time to wish the Year 3-4 team luck and cheered them on during their games.

Congratulations to both teams on a fantastic season.

Kate Jordan
Junior School HPE Teacher

Limited places are available in 2020.

Prospective families are warmly invited to attend the St Mary’s College Pop-Up Open Day on Friday 6 December from 9.30am – 11.30am.

The St Mary’s College Senior School Basketball Teams had a brilliant weekend in Launceston at the State Basketball Tournament.

The Year 7-8 team qualified for the final but just couldn’t get a win over a very strong St Brendan-Shaw College outfit who boasted a number of State representatives.

In the Year 9-10 Girls Division, St Mary’s College defeated favourites St Brendan-Shaw College to earn a spot in the finals against old rivals, Marist Regional College. Unfortunately, they too were just too strong on the day and we finished runner ups.

Well done to both coaches, Nicole Read and Ashley Banks as well as all of the players for a great season of basketball! We are proud of the way you represented the school. A special thank you goes out to the parents for the time and effort they have put in over the last couple of weeks including the travel up to Launceston for the State Finals.

Bring on 2020!

Mia Blignaut 
Sports Coordinator – Senior School