General News
Mrs Kate Thompson and Mrs Tracey Klitsch
School TV , Facebook links below
Week 4
Wednesday: PAT assessments (Reading) Year 2
Lesson 4 Holy Communion
Real Talk for primary students
National Simultaneous Story Time, Quirindi Library 12:00pm for Infants
Thursday: Principals' meeting in Armidale
Friday: Principals' meeting in Armidale
Mary Help of Christians feast day Mass at 10am in honour of Sr Therese and Mrs Cath Davidson. Primary students to attend.
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!
ATTENDANCE
After the 20th of May, there will be a new automated system that will run through Compass where you receive an SMS message if your child is not at school. This will now be sent at 10 am 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
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.