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Week 5 - Sports uniform on Wednesday and Friday please

Monday:          Message Stick Welcome

Tuesday:         Catholic Schools Week Mass in Tamworth for school leaders

Wednesday:  Open Morning at school; 9:30am - 10:30am

                          First Holy Communion Lesson

Thursday:       Preschool Visit

Friday:            Soccer - Sports uniform

Sunday:          Sacrament of First Holy Communion

Enrolling Now

Hopefully you will see our Enrolling Now flyers out in the community and through Social Media as well as in the Quirindi Advocate over the next few weeks.  Please encourage your friends and relatives to Come!  Share the Spirit!

TERM 2 FUNDRAISER

The fundraiser for this term is through Picture Products.  We are be offering 3 products which include a melamine plate, ceramic or plastic mug and a calendar.   Each requires a separate template. 

The process will be: 

1. Orders will be made through the PT&F square QR code (see attached 2nd flyer).
2. Orders must be made by the 4th June.  Once the order/s have been paid for, templates will be sent home for the students to decorate. Templates cannot be rolled, folded, creased or damaged in any way to be successful.  
3. Templates will need to be back at school by June 21st. (No late artworks will be accepted after this date.) These will then be sent to Picture Products for processing.
4.  Artworks should then be back at school for collection by Week 5 in Term 3. 

ATTENDANCE

We have begun our new automated attendance through Compass where you receive an SMS message if your child is not at school. This will now be sent at 10:00am not 9:30am, as is the current system. 

You will also receive an email each day for 7 days to remind you to explain your child's absence as this is a legal requirement.  As a school, we are no longer able to send out or process attendance notes that are more than 7 days overdue.  This will apply to all absences, partial and whole day.

If you drop your child off at school after 8:50am and you don't come in to the office to sign them in, this will be an unexplained absence. They will be marked as present from the time they walk through the front gate but there will be that timeframe that is unexplained. 

Return and earn is back on Wednesdays 

Is anyone missing this book from their home library?  

It has been returned to school but it is not our copy.  Please call the office if it belongs to you and we will send it home with your child. 

Compass Events

If your child cannot attend an event, please select the decline option just so that we know the permission has not been missed. 

Meetings

If you need to speak with a staff member other than Kate or Tracey, please email and make an appointment time as our staff are often on duty and are not available for on the spot chats especially at the front gate - they also need to have breaks for lunch. Email addresses can be found in the 'Contact details' page of this newsletter to make it easy for you. 

Afternoon Travel Arrangements  

Please notify the school by email before 2pm of your child's travel changes. In an emergency you can call the office after this time.

Activities levy

The activities levy of $70/student needs be paid in full by Monday, 24th June 2024.

This levy will cover buses for swimming, athletics and cross country, pool entry, visiting performers/shows and a portion of the transport for a specialist music teacher. This does not include major excursions, Mothers/Fathers Day gifts, Year 6 Big Day Out, or Diocesan sport as these are user pay activities.   All families are expected to pay this levy.