School Vision

St Matthew’s School empowers children to embrace life-long learning, and grow and develop as God intends.

Dear Parents & Carers,

Welcome to the first newsletter for 2024. We have had a lovely start to the year, with both students and staff happy to be back together. 

Annual Community Meeting

I would like to extend a genuine thank you to the supportive parents and staff who braved the heat to attend the Annual Community Meeting on Thursday evening. I hope you found the evening informative. The PowerPoint will be uploaded to the school website soon. I will inform parents by sms when this is available for viewing.

2024 P&F 

We are very fortunate to have a committed and proactive P&F Executive Committee continuing to support our school this year.

President:    Mrs Zeta O’Rourke

Vice President:  Mrs Kylie Turton

Secretary:    Mrs Gayelle Quartermaine

Treasurer:    Mrs Alex Wray

The first P&F Meeting will be held in the Sr Mary Library on 23 February at 9:30am, following assembly. All are welcome.

2024 School Advisory Council

​Thank you to the hard-working members of our School Advisory Council. We are very pleased to welcome Danielle van Rooyen and Ziech van Onselen for 2024.

Parent Information Sessions

Over Weeks 3 and 4, St Matthew’s will be holding Parent Information Sessions. These sessions are hosted by the class teacher in the classrooms. It is an opportunity to learn about what is special about your child/ren’s class this year and meet the classroom teacher/s. We would appreciate as many parents as possible attending these sessions.

Pre-Primary Wed 14 Feb 3:15pm
Year 1 Wed 14 Feb 3:15pm
Year 2 Thurs. 15 Feb 3:45pm
Year 3 Tues. 13 Feb 3:15pm
Year 4 Thurs. 15 Feb 3:15pm
Year 5 Tues. 13 Feb 3:45pm
Year 6 Mon 12 Feb 3:45pm

Kindy Wed 21 Feb 3:15pm

We look forward to seeing you at these sessions.

Introducing Abbie Smith – Middle Primary Education Assistant

We are pleased to welcome Abbie Smith as our new Middle Primary Education Assistant. Abbie resides in Pingelly and is a past St Matthew’s student. Abbie will largely be assisting in Years 3 and 5.

Swimming Lessons Years 3 to 6

Our Year 3 to Year 6 students started swimming lessons on Monday for 2 weeks.

Year 3 – 10:50am

Year 4 – 12:00pm

Year 5 – 12:45pm

Year 6 – 1:30pm

To assist with changing, students may wear their school sports uniform for the 2 weeks of lessons.

Chicken Eggs For Sale

Our gorgeous chickens are very happy in their new home. We have several cartons of eggs that we would like to sell – $2.00 per 6 eggs. We would also welcome any empty egg cartons. Eggs can be purchased from the Office during school hours.

We Need Your Help

Over the next few weeks, we hope to complete the remodelling of our Kindy and Pre-Primary play area. Although most of the hard work is organised, there are several jobs we need parent assistance to complete:

• Laying roll-on lawn
• Staining the new cubby
• Finishing off the sensory path – placing pavers to create the sections

If you are able to assist in completing any of these jobs, please email susan.milton@cewa.edu.au We will happily work around your schedule.

Uniform Reminders

Thank you to all of our beautiful families who are ensuring that their child/ren are wearing the correct school uniform. As parents were informed throughout last year and previously, several uniform items are no longer able to be worn this year:

• The old formal skirt
• The old formal girls’ shorts
• The old sports shorts, with the yellow St Matthew’s logo
• The sports jumper
• The old sport tracksuit pants

Please click this link to see some gorgeous uniform photos, as well as more uniform information. A big thank you to Mrs Keppel and Mrs Darcy for updating our uniform information and keeping our Uniform Shop well-stocked.

P&F Registration

Important Dates

All important dates can be viewed on the St Matthew’s app calendar. Of particular note are:

Keep cool,

Susan Milton

Principal