General News 

How the Grinch Stole Christmas Movie Night

Please check the community news page of this newsletter for information regarding an outdoor movie night to be held at The Longfield Ovals, this Saturday the 10th of December. This should be a wonderful event for all ages to attend. 

YEAR 6 STUDENT SCHOOL REPORT ADVICE FOR PARENTS AND CARERS.    

Dear Parents and Carers, Your Year 6 child's Compass Portal will close on the last day of the Term - if they are not attending a Catholic High School.  We recommend that you download all school reports to your own device for future reference. You will not be able to access their Portal Page after the 16th of December, 2022. Term 4 reports will be open to parents on the 9th of December however you can download all current school reports any time now. 

WEEK 9 - THIS WEEK

Tuesday - Wednesday: Parent Teacher Interviews - please make an appointment through Compass if you would like to meet with your child's teacher

Wednesday:  Swimming 2pm-3pm

Friday:  Christmas Week Begins

Friday:  End of year School Mass 9:30am. We would love to see you all there. 

Friday:  School Reports open to Parents on Compass. 

WEEK 10                                 

Wednesday:  Swimming 2pm-3pm

Thursday:  Year 6 Big Day Out

Friday:  Last day for students

NEW FINANCE SYSTEM AND SCHOOL FEES

We have now transitioned to a new financial accounting system.  This new system has added functionality in the way you can make payments to the school and now include BPay and CompassPay (via the compass app).  But, our current school's bank account will no longer be available to direct credit, therefore we ask that you make payments to the school via one of these new functionalities.

Shortly you will receive your new fee statement issued by the Catholic Schools Office (CSO), Armidale with your BPay payment details.  Regular payments can be set up directly from your bank account to the new School Bpay account.

Just a reminder that fees are due by Thursday, 08 December, 2022.

THE COOLAMON CHALLENGE

Students have another opportunity to enter the the Christmas cracker jokes challenge. Infants may need some help from family at home to write their joke down on a piece of paper (don't forget to include your name!). One infants and one primary joke will be chosen on Friday to receive their free ice cream courtesy of The Coolamon! 

10c Bottle, Can and Juice Box Donation Drive

Look what's coming!

After months of collecting and depositing, we excitedly await the arrival of  our awesome STEAM buys; Lego Education robotic kits! 

We are sure these kits will be a hit during lunch time clubs and in the classroom and will allow students to develop engineering, robotics and coding skills. 

We thank everyone for their contributions of bottles, cans and poppers over the year. Next week will be our last Wednesday for donations before we formally close our donation drive. Once again, thank you for your contributions and we hope the students enjoy their new STEAM equipment!

ATTENDANCE 

It is a legal requirement that you log in to Compass to explain all absences within 7 days of your child being away from school, however it is so much easier if you attend to this on the day as soon as you receive the reminder.  

You will not be able to complete this task after the 7 days has passed which means they will be recorded as Absent Unexplained.  

If you are having trouble accessing all of the Compass features,  there should be a drop down menu on your home page which looks like 3 horizontal lines.  Open this menu and choose 'open in browser'. This will help you access the school portal features.