School Photos - 10th of April

Travel Arrangements

If you are making any change to your child's travel arrangements, please email quiadmin@arm.catholic.edu.au

Tracey and I both have access to this email address and can make the changes. If you email us individually and we are on leave, we may not see the changes until it is too late. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

SCHOOL ADVISORY COUNCIL

Last week we welcomed Aaron King and Billie-Jean Cameron onto our School Advisory Council. We thank you for your dedication to our school and look forward to working together throughout 2025.

QHS Y6 Taster Day

The Quirindi High School is having a taster day on Wednesday the 19th of March however, we have informed the school that this is St Joseph's Day as well as our Cross Country Carnival so all students are expected to attend St Joseph's on this day. There will be more Taster days throughout the year at QHS.

Weekly Award Winners

Class Awards

Early Stage 1:

Charlie Tranter for consistent effort with all his school work. You are trying so hard and you are improving out of sight!

Marlee McDonald for always being ready to listen and learn. You are a great leader in our classroom

Stage 1:

Evie Stevenson for completing Big Write independently

Luka Sharp for beginning a new Read 3 Program and really focusing on tasks.

Stage 2:

Hayley Sexton for her continued effort to overcome challenges and try new things in writing.

Cash Kelly for his outstanding effort during maths this week, partitioning 4 and 5 digit numbers

Principal’s Awards:

Mrs Darnell for making the delicious pancakes for our whole school on Shrove Tuesday. Thank you.

Phoebe Schultz for your kindness on the playground and in class. Thank you! You make our school a better place.

Priscilla Chen for your kindness on the playground and in class. Thank you! You make our school a better place.

It is really important to keep up with Compass events and permissions and process them by the due date - late permissions will not be accepted this year.

If your child is not participating or attending an event we still need you to choose 'decline' in the options so that we know you are aware that it is on and your child

does not miss out.

Front Office Sign in and sign out

A gentle reminder that if the front gate is shut you need to come in to the office to sign your children in because the teaching staff may have already marked the roll for the day and then your child may be marked absent. We don't want your children standing at the gate by themselves as this is very upsetting and confusing for them.

Parents and guardians entering the school grounds for any reason need to sign in at the front office via the Kiosk unless they are signing students in or out. This is a mandatory safety guideline that must be adhered to.

Attendance Challenge

Please remember to explain all absences on Compass within 7 days of the absence. Once the 7 days passes, you will not be able to make any changes and this will be reflected in the end of semester school report.

51 of our 71 students have an attendance rate of 90% or greater which is wonderful. It does mean however that 20 of our students have fallen below the 90%. Unless your child is unwell, please ensure that they attend school every day and let's strive for 90% + where possible.

The Armidale Catholic Schools Office monitors our attendance and supports us in trying to achieve the best results we can so lets take up the challenge, and improve our rates for the rest of Term 1.

2025 SCHOOL FEE STRUCTURE

For 2025 the school fees are billed over a 42 week billing cycle and are due by the 21st November, 2025. This is the updated 2025 school fee schedule. The school fees have been posted to your account and you will note there is an instalment schedule at the bottom of your statement for monthly payments on the current years fees. You do, however, have the option of paying weekly, fortnightly, monthly or the whole balance. If you have any queries regarding this please phone the school or email quifinance@arm.catholic.edu.au.

2025 School Uniform Price List

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