It has been a wonderful start for our Kinder 2021 students. The children have settled well into the Good Samaritan school community and the classroom routines. Our Year Six buddies have been helping out on the playground to make our new students feel comfortable and welcome.

In Religious Education, Kindergarten have been learning about the special prayer space in our classroom. The children also participated in an Ash Wednesday liturgy learning that Jesus loves us.

The students are demonstrating their love of learning. They have been participating in play based learning that has helped them to adjust to school and get to know each other. These photos show the students engaged in activities to develop fine motor skills, STEM activities through construction with lego and magnets, development of language and vocabulary at the home corner and working together to complete puzzles.

It has been a wonderful start for our Kindergarten 2021 students. The children have settled well into the Good Samaritan school community and the classroom routines. Our year Six buddies have been helping out on the playground to make our new students feel comfortable and welcome. 

In Kindergarten we begin the year by tuning into sounds, which serves as a stepping stone to learning our letters and sounds. The students have enjoyed experimenting with musical instruments, hearing sounds in our environment, alliteration and rhythm and rhyme.

In Creative Arts with Mrs Jackson the students are enjoying using the picture book ‘The Gruffalo’ to engage in art and drama activities.

The Good Samaritan Cross Country will be held on Friday 12 March on the school grounds. The students will be able to elect to participate in the Cross Country competitive race. Students who participate in the Cross Country competitive race must have a desire to represent the school at the Diocesan Carnival in Term 2. There will be a fun walk/jog event for students who do not participate in the competitive race.

A Compass event will be sent home at the end of this week asking parents to ‘opt in’ to the Cross Country competitive race. Please complete this opt in by Monday 8 March.

The easing of COVID-19 restrictions now means that parents are able to volunteer at school carnivals. Should you wish to volunteer to support the smooth running of the carnival you will be required to complete the Compass notification by Monday 8 March.

Due to COVID restrictions, there will be no spectators at the event.

If the restrictions ease we will notify parents.

It was an absolute pleasure to take our GSFM students to the diocesan swimming carnival on Tuesday at Corrimal. Each and every student displayed a number of qualities that reflect our Benedictine Mission Behaviours; such as Sportsmanship and a genuine care for their teammates.

Milla English, Madix Burcher, Callum Cajar, Rafael Davkovski, Gemma Humphery, Matisse Schettino, Ava Harwood and Samantha Ecroyd excelled in their events and will now represent Good Samaritan at the next swimming carnival. 

A special mention goes to Gemma Humphery who set a new South Coast Primary Swimming Championships record in the Female 12 Years 50 m Freestyle event, with a time of 29.93! 

Gemma Humphery also won overall senior girl champion and Matisse Schettino won 2nd place.

Congratulations to all students ⭐️

Mrs O'Donnell 

Junior Girl Age Champion

• Holly Lawson

 Junior Boy Age Champion

• Callum Cajar

 11 Year Girl Age Champion

• Hope Hill

 11 Year Boy Age Champion

• Logan Paloff

 12 Year Girl Age Champion

• Gemma Humphrey

 12 Year Boy Age Champions

• Riley Dale
• Rafael Davkovski

GSFM Swimming Point Score:

 Xavier: 478 points

Ingham: 330 points

Vianney: 288 points

MacKillop: 146 points

Well done to four girls from Good Samaritan who represented Wollongong in the NSW State Touch Cup over the weekend in Wagga Wagga. They played in the u12 Girls Wollongong Devils side.
Calli F, Vienna G, Bonnie K and Hope H.

Well done to the students Evie N., Ava G., Jett H. and Sarah C. who represented the Wollongong Diocese in the Mackillop trials in boys and girls basketball and tennis last Friday. They represented themselves, our school and our diocese proudly. 

Best wishes to the students who are trialling for the Wollongong Diocesan team in girls and boys football (soccer),netball and rugby league this Friday.

Louise Testa

Our GSFM school community wants to be part of the clean up solution.

We are planning a whole-school clean up event (weather permitting) 

When: Week 6, Friday 5th March, 2021 @ 2.15pm 

What to bring: Gardening Gloves (if you have some at home)

What to wear: Sport Uniform

Where: GSFM school grounds

“What was started thirty years ago, by an "average Australian bloke" who had a simple idea to make a difference in his own backyard has now become the nation's largest community-based environmental event...    

Today our focus is as much on preventing rubbish entering our environment as it is removing what has already accumulated.

18.3 million +

Australians have donated their time as part of Clean Up Australia activities over the last 30 years.

36 million hours

of volunteer time has been donated to Clean Up activities to benefit our environment

380,000 + 

Ute loads of rubbish have been removed as part of Clean Up Australia activities” https://www.cleanup.org.au/about-us