Mater Dei Primary School is a Catholic, co-educational school catering for children from Prep to Year 6. At Mater Dei, we aim to cultivate a welcoming and positive climate in which students, staff, parents and parishioners feel a true sense of belonging and commitment to a living, faith community. In light of our vision “To teach as Jesus did” the growth of each student is fostered through love, tolerance and justice. Learning takes place in a climate of respect for each person’s dignity and acceptance of their uniqueness. Through an atmosphere of academic and pastoral care, students are equipped with the learning and personal skills necessary to help them take their place in the twenty-first century.
Please find important sport dates on the following link - 2020 SAVE THE DATE
QUEENS PARK CROSS COUNTRY COURSE
The Cross Country for 9 - 12 year old students is on Wednesday the 25th March. Please find a map of the course at Queens Park on the following link - CROSS COUNTRY COURSE
2020 STUDENT RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS AND OTHER INFORMATION COLLECTION NOTICE
The Australian Government is conducting the 2020 Student residential address and other information collection. Please read the following and ensure that your address and other information is up to date with the school office – COLLECTION NOTICE.
TRIPLE P PARENTING PROGRAM
This Term we welcome Triple P – Lena Krause will be presenting a series of free parenting seminars at Mater Dei. Positive parenting offers valuable parenting advice for mums, dads, stepparents, guardians and carers to nurture and care for their children. You are all welcome to attend. The following link contains further information - TRIPLE P PARENTING
NOVEL CORONAVIRUS
Please find imporant information regarding Novel Coronavirus on the following link - CORONAVIRUS
SKOOLBAG APP
The SKOOLBAG app offers another form of effective communication between home and school. Please download the app from i-tunes (further instructions here) or google play to receive immediate updates on your phone or device. You can also access most of the information and functionality of the App in the skoolbag communication centre below.
SkoolBag is in the process of upgrading our school's mobile app to give you greater control over the notifications you receive and the content which is shown to you.
The Upgrade will start to take effect as of Monday, 21st May.
The biggest change will be the introduction of User Registration. By utilising the new User Registration feature, you can have more control of the content that you receive, and enables us to tailor information whilst maintaining privacy.
Please see the attached flyer for more information - SkoolbagUpgrade
PARENTING IDEAS
Our school has a subscripton to Michael Grose's Parentingideas Magazine. These magazines contain fantastic articles designed to support us to 'raise exceptional kids.' Please click on the link to read more.... (this section is protected in our parent portal by username and password).
Our school uses FLEXISCHOOLS, an online ordering system for tuckshop. Click on the link above to get started. Please also check out our tuckshop page for further instructions and a video demonstration of how the system works. The mobile works on any mobile devices and makes it even easier to order lunches. Please remember that orders need to be placed before 8am.
ELECTRONIC DEVICES
Please be aware that all phones, ipods etc are not recommended to be brought to school. If parents decide that one of these electronic devices is essential for students travelling to and from school, it is to be checked in at the office upon arrival at school and collected on the way out of school. No phones, ipods, cameras etc are to be in the playground or classes at any time.
ASTHMA MANAGEMENT
For up to date information regarding managing asthma in schools, please click here
Our school has a subscripton to Michael Grose's Parentingideas Magazine. These magazines contain fantastic articles designed to support us to 'raise exceptional kids.' Please click on the link to read more.... (this section is protected in our parent portal by username and password).