Junior School Olympics Green & Gold Day | 💚💛🇦🇺 Attention all Junior School Parents! In honor of our beloved Olympians, we will be celebrating Green and Gold Day tomorrow Friday 9th August for all Pre-K to Year 6 students. We ask all Junior School students to come dressed in their green and gold outfits! If students do not have green or gold clothing, they are welcome to wear their Mamre Sports Uniform or House Shirt. *Please refer to the letter that was sent out for clothing guidelines. #mamrelearning

YEAR 12 TRIALS Please join us in praying for our Year 12 students who commence their HSC Trial exams today. We pray that God will give you the strength to remain focused and clam, and to be confident in your abilites in this time. Best of luck to all our students. #mamrelearning

WELCOME BACK TO TERM 3! We hope everyone had a great first week back and that we’re all looking forward to a wonderful term ahead! #mamrelearning 📚

NAIDOC WEEK CHAPEL SERVICE // A special Chapel was held today for NAIDOC week, which commences on Sunday. We came together to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We heard from Uncle Leon who shared his story as an Aboriginal Christian Pastor and we listened to the sounds of the didgeridoo. #mamrelearning

KINDERGARTEN LIBRARY DRESS UP DAY // On Wednesday Kindergarten had a wonderful day dressing up for their Library lessons. Which book characters can you recognise? They loved listening to The Very Cranky Bear by Nick Bland and enjoyed a craft activity making their own Cranky Bears. #mamrelearning

SEMI-FINAL SUCCESS // Our Open Boys Football team travelled to Coffs Harbour earlier this week to compete with Bishop Druitt College in the CIS Cup Semi-Final. The overnight trip served a good purpose as the boys were treated to what it would be like as a professional travelling team: team meetings, team dinners and a team walk were all on the agenda. The boys played in good spirits and had a convincing win with a 3-1 final score, earning themselves a place in our first ever CIS Cup Grand Final. #mamrelearning

PLANNING FOR NAIDOC // Yesterday, our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Junior and Senior School enjoyed morning-tea together to inform planning for NAIDOC week. Capturing student voice is an important way to ensure we celebrate events such as NAIDOC in an authentic way. Students discussed ways to honour God and culture during NAIDOC and in particular within our whole school chapel being held on Friday 5th July. #mamrelearning #naidoc2024

NEW RECRUITS // Today our newest recruits in Mamre Cadet Rural Fire Brigade received their RFS uniforms. We managed to take this photo just before they started training this afternoon using fire hoses and hydrants. The uniforms weren’t quite as clean (or dry!) when they had finished. #mamrelearning #nswrfs

A BUSY DAY OF FOOTBALL // Congratulations to our teams who today qualified for the CSSA State Football Finals! #mamrelearning

MEDIEVAL LEARNING // Year 8 History students had the opportunity for some hands-on learning today as part of their study of medieval Europe. The visiting presenters demonstrated and explained many aspect of medieval life, especially the legal system, differences between peasants and the nobility, castles and warfare. The students who tried on the chainmail armour decided that our school uniforms are very comfortable! #mamrelearning

SENIOR SCHOOL ATHLETICS CARNIVAL // Plenty of action on the track and the field yesterday at our Senior School Athletics Carnival, including appearances from a superhero or two! It's the Junior School's turn today, so hopefully the running and jumping will help everyone warm up on this cold morning. #mamrelearning

CELEBRATING OUR MUMS // After a glorious sunrise, many of our students and their mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers and other significant ladies in their life joined together on the lawn and in the Hall for our Mothers Day Breakfast. Our photo booth, thanks to I & Z Balloon Creations & Events, was a big hit! It was a wonderful celebration of the love and care we receive from our Mums and an opportunity to thank and honour them. #mamrelearning #Mothersday2024 https://www.facebook.com/izballooncreations/

CIS CUP FOOTBALL ROUND 3 // Both our Girls and Boys CIS Cup Football teams had success in Round 3 last week with matching scores of 5-0. The girls played at home versus Meriden College and the boys made the early morning journey to Newcastle to play against Charlton Christian College. Well done teams! #mamrelearning

TERM 2 // We are looking forward to another great term of learning at Mamre. Our staff will be taking part if professional development activities on Monday 29 April, which is a student-free day. Students commence Term 2 on Tuesday 30 April. For the first two weeks of term, students may wear either their summer or winter school uniform (not a combination of both). Senior School students will be issued with new timetables on Tuesday morning. #mamrelearning

LEST WE FORGET // Our School Captains and Vice Captains joined about 4000 people at the St Marys ANZAC Day Dawn Service this morning to remember the sacrifice and commitment of those who have served, and continue to serve, in Australia’s defence forces. Tamara and Flynn read a prayer for our nation and the group laid a wreath on behalf of our school community. In the words of Jesus from John 15, “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” We will remember them. #mamrelearning #anzacday2024