Family Fun Day
📣 Mater Dei Family Fun Day 2025 – Save the Date!
Preparations are in full swing for this year’s Family Fun Day and it’s set to be our biggest yet!
Expect a fun-filled day for the whole family with:
🛝 Inflatable rides
⚾️ Baseball batting cage
🎨 Art show
🍷 Bar & cheese boxes
🌮 Food vans
🍰 Bake sale
📚 Book stall
🍫 Lob-a-Choc
🎟 Raffles and so much more!
🎟 Ride Armbands
Pre-purchase online for $30 or grab one on the day for $40.
Kids 4 and under ride free!
💛 The Spring Fair relies on the support of our wonderful community.
Here’s how you can help:
🕒 Volunteer on the day – just 30-minute slots
🎁 Donate goods – chocolate bars and packs, secondhand books, baked goods and raffle prizes
💚 Sponsor a ride or a stall
For sponsorship info, contact Jess 👉Jess.Sawtell@gmail.com
To volunteer, register here 👉https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084AA8AC29A7FEC52-58031372-family
Keep an eye for exciting updates in the leadup to the big day!
Mater Dei’s Mystery Masterpieces
What if you could create a piece of art and sell it without the buyer knowing who made it?
What if you could buy a piece of art without knowing who the artist was??
What if you could take home a beautiful piece of art and make a donation to the school all in one go?
You’ll never guess what….at the 2025 Family Fun Day, you can!!
What is the Mater Dei Mystery Masterpieces?
The Mater Dei Mystery Masterpieces is an opportunity for all the Mater Dei Community to create a piece of art to donate for sale at the Family Fun Day.
Just take home a blank card to make a piece of art. Return it to school by the due date for display at the art show where people can buy it.
BUT the mystery is that nobody knows who the artist is until they have bought and collected the piece!
You can paint, draw, print, collage, whatever you like on the page.
AND if you have a brother, sister, mum or dad, aunt, uncle, grandma or anyone else who likes to create and would like to donate a piece to our fundraiser, we’d love their art too!
Every piece of art will go on display and be for sale for $20. All money from the sales goes back to Mater Dei!
How do you get involved?
Just collect one of the Mater Dei Mystery Masterpiece Cards from the school office, create your artwork and return it to school by Friday 17th October. Remember to fill in your details on the back of the card but don’t sign your artwork on the front!
Now go and get creative!! We can’t wait to see what you mysteriously make!
Trivia Night Thank You
A big thanks to everyone that attended the Trivia Night last Friday night and thanks for all the effort with dressing up. There was lots of neon, wind breakers and big hair, gotta love the 80's!
Thanks to our Year 6 parents for organising such a fun event. We look forward to next year.
Term 3 Week 1
TRIVIA NIGHT
*Welcome to 80’s Trivia Night!*
Dust off your leg warmers, tease up that hair, and get ready to party like it’s 1985! Tonight, we’re throwing it back to the most iconic decade of pop culture — where mixtapes ruled, arcade games reigned, and every outfit had *just* the right amount of neon.
Test your knowledge on everything from classic 80s movies and chart-topping hits to outrageous fashion trends and unforgettable TV shows. Whether you’re a trivia master or just here for the vibes, it’s going to be totally tubular!
💵 Cost: $10 per person
👥 Tables: Teams of 8 to 10 ppl (if not booking a table we can link you in with other groovers)
🚫 Adults Only: This is a grown-ups-only event — so leave the kids at home and bring your A-game!
🍕🍸 BYO Food (Cheese Platters, Pizza delivery etc). ALL drinks available for purchase from bar *NO CASH - CARD ONLY*
So grab your friends, channel your inner 80s icon, and let’s find out who’s the ultimate trivia champs of the decade! 🕺📼
Get your tickets here TICKETS
Clothing Pool
Hi parents and carers,
I would just like to thank you for supporting the clothing pool during the change over from summer to winter. We are still happy to receive donations in a clean and wearable condition. If students grow over the next term we have a great range of second-hand summer uniforms. We also have hoodies and softshell jackets in all sizes.
Thank you, Judy
New Opening Hours for Term 3
Monday 2:30 - 3:30pm
Wednesday 8:00 - 8:30am
Mater Dei Cook Book
Mater Dei Primary School welcomes our wonderful families to contribute recipes to our School Cookbook!
Our aim is for each family to contribute their favourite family recipes to be compiled and published into a cookbook. If we receive multiple versions of a popular recipe we may reach out and request alternatives.
Contributing family names will be included in the cook book but your email address will not be published.
When submitting your recipe, please include your name in the "Submitted by/Recipe Author" section, along with your child/ren's names in brackets.
For example:
Ashley Byrne (Ruby, Jack, and Lucy)
or
Irene Whitney (Grandma to Ruby, Jack and Lucy Byrne)
You can let us know in the description box where you got your recipe's inspiration from!
Is it a recipe by another food author? Or a family favourite?
To enter a recipe follow the link below:
Mater Dei Primary School -- Create Cookbooks
If you have any questions please contact
Ashley Byrne on 0428 350 500 or byrne.family.kids@gmail.com
Recipes Due by Thursday 31 July
How to order information will be sent out at a later date.
2025 Trivia Night - Save the Date
Friday 8th August
Family Fun Day
Ladies Night
On the last day of Term 1 we had our annual Ladies Night. Over 80 of our Mum's enjoyed a fantastic evening celebrating our Mater Dei community. A big thanks to Emma Herbert, Annie Roberts and Molly Herbert for organising such a wonderful event. We look forward to next year.
Ladies Night
Please click here to buy your tickets
Ladies Night - Save the Date
Christmas Carols
Term 3 Information Evening "A Night with Sue Chandler"
Trivia Night
Please use the link below for ticket purchases:
Save the Date - Long Lunch
Trivia Night
The Annual Mater Dei Trivia Night will be held in Term 3. This is always a fantastic night and enjoyed by all.
Put Friday 2nd August in your diary. A hint is in the flyer at the theme for this year's event.
Stay tuned for more information.
Mater Dei Ladies Night
Mater Dei Men's Night
Mater Dei Spring Fair 2023
Thank you to everyone who donated and volunteered at our recent Spring Fair. There were a lot of happy children due to your efforts! School Fairs are complex things to organise with so many moving parts and we appreciate anyone who was able to help make our fair a success. A special thanks goes to Amy Dampney, George Carroll and Lyn Wegner for their efforts in coordinating the entire fair!!
As we review our recent Fair we are asking the Mater Dei parent body for feedback. Is there something you would like to see at our fair? Or is there something that you think could be done differently, then we want to know. Could any feedback please be sent to MATPandF@twb.catholic.edu.au
The aim of our school Fair is for a family fun day. If you have any suggestions for an alternative event then please also email us your suggestions.
Looking forward to 2024 our main parent event will be “The Long Lunch”. The date has been set but we are on the hunt for a coordinator. If you would like to play a part in coordinating this event please register your interest by emailing MATPandF@twb.catholic.edu
Christmas Carols - Helpers Needed
Spring Fair - Ride Arm Bands & Crackerjack Dinner Packs
The Spring Fair is fast approaching! Please purchase Ride Arm Bands via Flexischools.
- $45 early bird price ends Wednesday 25th October 2023 @ 5pm
- $55 on the day
Ride Arm Bands include a free sausage sizzle, drink and ice block!
Individual ride tickets can be purchased on the day.
Dodgems and Skyflyer will be $10 each.
Giant Slide and TeaCup will be $5 each.
Crackerjack Dinner Packs are also available to order via Flexischools.
We are looking forward to a fun day for all.
Spring Fair - Volunteers Needed
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Our fair committee is in need of two more stall coordinators - Dunk Tank and Arm Bands/Ticket Sale (role descriptions below).
DUNK TANK
- This person will need to man the Dunk Tank from 1pm-5pm (and/or organise others to help in shifts).
- Organise volunteers and roster for the Dunk Tank – I believe Mr Ball is keen!
- Fill up the Dunk Tank the morning of the Fair
- Ensure the kids stay in a line, take turns and behave.
RIDE ARM BAND DISTRIBUTION & STALL TICKET SALES
- This person will need to sit at the Ride Arm Band and Stall Ticket Sale tent from 12:30pm-5:00pm (and/or organise others to help in shifts) and hand out/sell Ride Arm Bands
- Vouchers for Drink, Ice Block and Sausage Sizzle (they will be in envelopes ready to hand out with Arm Band)
- Sell Tickets for the Stall – 4 for $10
If you are able to help please message me on : Marleisa.connors@twb.catholic.edu.au
The excitement levels are building with the students for the fair. We appreciate anyone who is able to make this a great day out for our kids.
Father's Day Stall
Volunteers are needed to help on the Father's Day Stall from 8:45 - 10:45am, Thursday 31st August.
Please call Di Longmire if you are able to help 0437 351 103