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School Reports and Parent Teacher Conference

Semester 1 School Reports will be available on Compass on Friday the 26th of June.

Parent/ Teacher Conferences

We encourage all parents/carer's to attend our Parent/Teacher Conferences. This is a wonderful opportunity to discuss your child's progress with their classroom teacher.

Please follow these instructions to book your interview time with your child's teacher:

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From the Compass homepage click the hamburger menu button at the top left (three horizontal bars) and then select 'Conferences'.
To start the booking process click on the T2 2026 Parent/Teacher Conference option.
Once you've selected the cycle you will first be shown a popup which contains information from the school. Read the message and click 'Okay' at the bottom to continue.
Select your student to proceed with booking.
Select your child's teacher from the Right Hand Side of the screen.
To book in just click an available (white) timeslot.
This will open a booking popup for you to confirm.
Confirm booking

Bookings are made more easily from a device other than a phone. If you are having trouble making a booking, please call Kate in the front office and she will be able to help you.

NB: Parent/Teacher Conferences will be able to be booked through Compass from Friday 12th of June, 2026 at 8am.

Athletics Carnival

Today we sent out permissions for the athletics practices and the carnival on the 26th of June. I have just added in questions for helpers with time keepers and field events so if you have already given permission for your child to attend, can you please go back in and fill in the question section of the event or email mbartholomew@arm.catholic.edu.au to volunteer your time.

Enrolments are Now Open!

We are now accepting online applications. Whether you are a new family or a familiar face, the process is now quicker and easier than ever.

How to Apply

New Families: Applications can be accessed directly via our official website: Visit our new "Enrolment Information" page and click the ‘Start an Application’ button.
Current Parents: Simply log in and apply through the Compass portal.

Kindergarten 2027: Important Dates

We have already seen a fantastic response for our Kindy 2027 cohort! To ensure we can dedicate enough time to every family, please submit your application by end of Term 2, 2026.

Meeting this deadline allows us to:

Process your application efficiently.
Schedule enrolment interviews promptly.
Organize our specialized Term 4 School Readiness Program

Spread the Word: If you know friends or relatives considering our school for 2027, please encourage them to apply soon so they don't miss out on our upcoming transition programs!

Week 6 Award Winners

Year 1/2

Chantelle: Applying herself to writing tasks, especially expanding her use of vocabulary.
Aela: Applying herself to writing tasks, especially expanding her use of vocabulary.
Claude: Always being an engaged learner and leading one of our maths rotations.
Huddy: Successfully writing a sentence to include his own thoughts and ideas.

Year 3/4

Arli: Showing wonderful listening skills and actively participating in all our hands-on chance experiments in Maths this week.
Darcie: Her fantastic participation in our Catholic Schools Week activities! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas!

Year 5/6

Oliver: Displaying your leadership skills as a supportive member of our class, towards both teachers and peers.
Andy: Showing excellent focus and dedication towards uplevelling your factual recount, taking on any feedback given. Great work!

Leaders’ Award

Mrs Sheridan: For always smiling and organising fun activities for everyone.

Principal’s Awards

Luka Sharp: For displaying resilience and persistence when things didn’t go as planned this week.

Week 7 Award Winners

Kinder

Vaeda: Always being willing to support and encourage her classmates when needed.
Parker: Always listening carefully to instructions and putting in 100% effort into everything she does.
Mahalia: Persevering with her handwriting and never giving up on her “e”s.

Year 1/2

Levi: Outstanding effort during writing everyday.
Joe: Planning and completing two sentences.
Immy: Always being an engaged and enthusiastic learner.

Year 3/4

Theo: For fantastic PAT Maths results. A mathematician in the making!
Mikayla: Outstanding PAT Reading results. 98th percentile. Wow!!! Well done!

Year 5/6

Reuben: For bringing lots of positivity to the stage 3 classroom and working super hard in your writing.
Maycee: For always working hard, displaying excellent growth in your confidence within your learning.
Elvira (from a couple weeks ago): For showing growth in your confidence with math and writing and always being actively engaged in your learning.

Leaders’ Award

Phoebe: For always having a smile and is ready to help every time.

Principal’s Awards

Addi: For always looking for opportunities to support adults and peers.

Winter uniform time

Our student's looked very neat and tidy in their winter uniforms today. Thank you to all of our families who made the effort to ensure students were in full winter uniform.

A couple of things to remember:

* It is very important that you put your child's name on all uniform items so that they can be returned if misplaced; especially hats, jackets and jumpers.

* Navy jumpers should be worn before students put on a jacket. This way, as the weather cools down, they can take their jackets off while they are in class

and put them on again for an extra layer of warmth, when they go outside to play.

Attendance

We had jumped to 71% of our students whose attendance rate is equal to or greater than 90% but today we have fallen back to 66%. It is very important that all students attend school unless they are unwell.

Risk Categorisation	Percentage	Impacts per Fortnight	Impacts per Year	Impacts over 6 Years
🟢 No Risk	>95%	Up to 0.5 days absent	10 days = 2 weeks	Up to 12 weeks (3 months)
🟡 Potential Risk	90–95%	Up to 1 day absent	20 days = 4 weeks	Up to 24 weeks (6 months)
🟠 At Risk	80–89%	Up to 2 days absent	40 days = 8 weeks	Up to 48 weeks (Over a school year)
🔴 High Risk	70–79%	Up to 3 days absent	60 days = 12 weeks	Up to 70 weeks (1 year and 3 school terms)
🛑 Critical Risk	<70%	Over 3 days absent

School Processes

Late Arrivals: School begins at 8:50 AM. If arriving after this time, an adult must accompany the child to the office to sign in.
Absences: Must be explained within 7 days (this is a legal requirement).
Visitor Sign-In: Mandatory for all adults entering the school grounds.
Office Hours: 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM. Please wait for the gates to open before entering.
Finance: Tracey is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Parking: Park strictly between the lines at the front of the school to maximize space.
Canteen: All canteen orders and cancellations must be processed via Compass before 8:00 AM on Fridays. No late orders or changes will be accepted after this cutoff. For any other canteen inquiries, please email quicanteen@arm.catholic.edu.au (rather than contacting staff personally) so our on-duty team can assist you promptly.
Compass Events: Please respond to all notifications by the due date, even if your child is not attending. Closed events cannot be reopened.
PT&F Pre-orders: Place all meal deal and fundraising orders strictly within the advertised timeframes.

School Fees

Due to the school billing system being fully automated the following reminders are now occuring through the system:- Reminders are sent via SMS and are scheduled to run each week on Tuesdays. Monthly letters will be sent to those debtors who have outstanding fees or a missed instalment which is letter 1. Letter 2 follows up from letter 1 if there is still an outstanding amount, and no response from letter 1. Both letters 1 and 2 are from the our school principal. Letter 3 will be from Helen Bentham, Armidale Catholic Schools Office head of finance, facilities & ICT. Letter 4 will be from the FAAS team, Armidale and will be about recovering the debt owing. If you are paying regular payments outside of the monthly instalments you might find that on occasion you will receive a SMS reminder or letter 1 due to timing of payments, this will be the system picking up a balance due which hasn't been included in your payment yet, but if you are concerned about receiving a SMS/letter extra payments can be made at any time through Compass, BPay (details are on your statement) or EFTPOS through the front office. If you have any concerns please do not hesitate to contact the school.

St. Joseph's School, Quirindi - 2026 School Fee Schedule
Children	Yearly	*Weekly	*Fortnightly	*Monthly	With 5/6 Canberra
		Approximately		as Billed on Account	Excursion/1 Child
1 Child	1,543.00	35.88	70.13	10x $154.30	1,943.00
2 Children	2,700.25	62.79	122.73	9x $270 1x $270.25	3,100.25
3 Children	3,703.20	86.12	168.32	9x $370.30 1x $370.50
4 Children	4,088.95	95.09	185.86	9x $408.89 1x $408.94
*Weekly: Over billing cycle 23.01-21.11.2026 - 43 weeks
*Fortnightly: Over billing cycle 23.01-21.11.2026 - 22 Fortnights
*Monthly: Over billing cycle Feb-Nov 2026 - 10 Months

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