General News 

Windy Station Excursion

David and Clare Lee have extended an invitation to all of our students to visit Windy Station on Friday the 1st of July to view the spectacular crop of cotton that has been planted this year. Mr Lee will give the students a presentation about cotton growing and harvesting the crop. Students will be transported by Howards bus and charter for this event.  The bus will leave school at 10:45am and return to school in time for usual afternoon arrangements. This is a wonderful opportunity for the whole school, and a lovely way to end the term.  Students can wear plain clothes 'mufti' and will need to bring their usual food supplies for morning tea, as well as a water bottle and of course closed in shoes and a hat. David and Clare have kindly offered to provide a sausage sizzle for lunch.

Term 3 Staff Professional Learning Day  Monday,18th July.  

Term 3 Students return on Tuesday 19th. 

VIP Administration changes beginning Term 3, 2022. 

At least once a week please check your Compass Portal, newsletter and calendar for:

• upcoming events
• excursions or to 
• explain any absences for your child

Absentee Notes

• It is a legal requirement that all student absences from school are formally explained. 
• You have 7 days to complete this task on Compass.  
• We will no longer be sending out paper reminder notes.
• If you require assistance with Compass, please call the office on 6761033 during business hours.

Permission Notes

• Consent and payment for activities, must be given through the Compass portal by the due date. 
• One reminder will be sent out the day before an event.
• If Consent/payment/decline is not made on time, students will miss out on school activities which we do not want to see happen.  

School Fees

To alleviate the stress of unpaid school fees, it is important to keep up to date with your payments.  

Term 2 fees are now overdue.   Payment options for school fees are still the same and include: via the Qkr App; EFT (payment made direct to the school's bank account); CentrePay and ADIG Direct Debit (all details are on your statement). 

Please only use your surname and account number when paying via EFT as any more notation than this gets cut off (your account number is on the top right side of your fees statement under the date, thank you).  The Qkr App will be used for school fees until our financial system is upgraded and then it will change over to CompassPay.  If anyone is experiencing difficulties managing their school fees please ring and make an appointment to see Pauline and Tracey. Thank you to all who have already paid and also to those who maintain regular payments.

Contacting the School

When contacting the school for any changes please use the quiadmin@arm.catholic.edu.au email. If you use the administration staff's personal email this cannot be accessed when they are away.  Thank you. 

STAR Words Awards

Congratulations tothe following students for their achievements in the STARS Word Reading Program:

Harold Connal - awarded the Shooting Star award for mastering 100 Star Words.

Lily Brown, Zack Rawsthorne & Jayden Willis - awarded the Shining Star award for mastering 150 Star Words. 

Great job everyone! Keep practising your Star Words over the holiday break. 

The Coolamon Challenge

We have extended last week's challenge and will draw out the winners on Wednesday. 

Infants: What is the missing number in the pattern  17, 21, ___, 29,  33.

Primary: Which operations (+ x - ÷)will fit into the boxes to arrive at the answer of 48? Operations can be used more than once and remember that numbers in the brackets are solved first. 

(2 ? 1 ? 6) ? 6 = 48 

Good luck! 

10c Bottle, Can and Juice Box Donation Drive

Don't forget, Sports Day = Donation Day! 

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St. Joseph's Primary School Quirindi