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Assistant Principal Welcome Back! , Lunch Time Clubs , Australian Citizenship, ICAS Assessments (Year 4-6 only)

Diary Dates 2026 Term 3 Dates , Sacramental Dates Term 3, 2026 Term Dates, Staff Development Days /Pupil Free, P & F Fete Date 17th October 2026

Sports News Diocesan Athletics Carnival, School Sports Dates for 2026, Rugby Clinics, Out of School Sporting Success, SPORT INFORMATION

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Photo Gallery & Classroom Learning Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 3 , Year 4, Year 5

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P&F Association & School Advisory CouncilNews P & F Dates, 2026 Fete Donation Days, 2026 Committee, SCHOOL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

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Community Information ADIG, Armidale Vinnies Community Sleepout, Healthdirect, Basketball, Benevolent Society

Parent News Centacare, Safe on Social, Council of Catholic Schools Parents - CCSP Catholic Schools Parents Association, Catholic Education Commission, NENW Branch NSW Royal Society Community Event, Real Talk Parents Free Membership, Social media age restrictions hub, Good For Kids Snippets

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Library News

Carrie Fittler

LIBRARY NEWS

Coming Up In Term 3

CBCA Books of the Year: We’ll be reading the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) shortlisted Books of the Year during library lessons and finding out if we agree with the judges when they announce the winners in Book Week.

Book Week (Week 6, 28th August): We celebrate all things reading with the much-anticipated Dress-Up Book Parade and Book Fair with our family & Grandparents.

PREMIER'S READING CHALLENGE

The reading challenge deadline is Friday 18 September 2026. There are detailed instructions below about how to log books your children have read. If you are unable to access an appropriate device or internet connection at home for recording your child's reading, please just record the titles and authors on paper and they can bring them to me to record them. For more information about the Student Experience Site you can watch the video available here.

Adding Books

Step 1: Follow this link to the Student Experience Site

Step 2: Log in using the button in the top right corner with the details on your child's PRC login card.

Step 3: To record books already read (you can include books that have been read earlier this year), click on the avatar in the top right corner, then click on "My Reading Log". NB: Books should only be added when they have been read from cover to cover!

Step 4: Start typing the name of the book read into the "Add a PRC Book" search, select the title from the drop-down menu and click "Add".

Step 5: If the book does not come-up in this search, it is not a PRC list book for 2026 and needs to be added as a personal choice book. Type the title and author into the fields and click "Add".

LIBRARY DAYS

Borrowing will occur during library lessons to give the students more focused time to engage with library borrowing. Students must have a library bag with them on borrowing days.

Please refer to the list below to see which day your child/ren will need to bring their library bags and return any books that are due in order to borrow new books.

ES1 - Wednesday

S1 - Thursday

S2 - Thursday

S3 - Wednesday