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Dear St Clare's Community,
Welcome to Term Three. It has been wonderful to be back with our students and see so many smiles. I hope that you all had a chance to spend time with family and friends. We wish all students competing in the District Athletics this Friday all the best. We have a long weekend coming up next week, with the Tully Show Holiday on 28th July. Hopefully we will be blessed with fine weather for both.
Catholic Education Week
National Pyjama Day
National Pyjama Day falls on Friday 21st July. Students & staff (parents are welcome to join in too!), are invited to come to school in their pyjamas. Closed in shoes are still required to be worn and pyjamas also need to fit in with the school’s Sunsmart policy. Anyone coming to school in their pyjamas is asked to bring a gold coin donation. Students that do not wish to wear their pyjamas are to come in their usual school uniform.
FEEDBACK SURVEYS
This year's Feedback Surveys (previously known as Satisfaction Surveys) will be conducted during the first four weeks of Term 3.
All parents and staff are invited to take part in the survey, as well as all students in Years 5, 6, 8 and 11. You will receive an email with a link to the survey. We estimate that it will take around 30 minutes to complete.
The Feedback Surveys are an important tool in providing information and opinions - both positive and negative - which we can use to further develop and refine all aspects of our operations and offerings, at both the school and system levels. This process plays an important role in helping us gauge the wellbeing of our students, parents, and staff and to determine strategies to improve this. We are also required to report the results (in broad terms) in our annual reporting to the government.
The greater the number of participants, the greater the breadth of opinion we will be able to consider and analyse. We look forward to receiving much useful data from the surveys and will report the broad results in due course. This is a great opportunity to have your voice heard and I urge you to take advantage of this.
On Thursday 27th July, the RACQ Streets Ahead road safety program is being 
delivered to our Prep to Year 6 students focusing on pedestrian, passenger and riding safety. Resource Packs with age-appropriate activities and videos demonstrating strategies are available here: www.racq.com.au/streetsaheadresources. These will assist you to continue to teach road safety, implement the 
strategies your child/ren have learnt and apply them to your everyday lives.
Absences
Attendance data year to date - 78.8% of students have attended 90% (or more). Our goal is 90% of students attending 90% of the time. 16.5% of student absences are unexplained. Our goal is 0 unexplained absences. If your child is away - please notify the office.
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Tuesday |
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Friday |
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Week 1 |
12 3 unexplained |
4 0 unexplained |
3 3 unexplained |
10 1 unexplained |
16 2 unexplained |
Blessings for the week ahead
Karran Burzacott
Principal
Faith Knowledge Community Respect
Welcome back to another busy term for our school. A major focus for our school next week will be on celebrating Catholic Education Week. Our Year 3 to 6 students will travel to Innisfail next Tuesday to attend a mass with other southern deanery schools and then participate in activities either at Warrina Lakes (Year 3 and 4) or touring Good Counsel College (Year 5 and 6). If you have not already done so, please complete the Parent Slip sent out last week. On Wednesday (July 26) our Prep to Year 2 students will gather in the church for a liturgy led by Fr Joby. All families are welcome to join us for this event.
If you have a child in Year 4 to 6 who has completed their sacraments and is interested in assisting Fr Joby by altar serving on a Saturday night or Sunday morning, please let me know. Forms were sent home with students this week and the assistance from children is always greatly appreciated by our parish community.
Term 3 Assemblies - (subject to change - please check subsequent Newsletters for updates)
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Year 2 |
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Week 3 |
No Assembly Tully Show Holiday |
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Week 4 |
Year 4 |
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Week 5 |
Year 6 |
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Week 6 |
No Assembly |
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Week 7 |
Prep |
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Week 8 |
No Assembly Pupil Free Day |
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Week 9 |
Year 1 |
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Week 10 |
Year 3 |
With Blessings
Sharon Chappel
Semester 1 Report Cards
End of Semester 1 report cards were uploaded to the Parent Portal at the end of last term. If you are yet to see your child’s report, please follow the instructions attached to login to the portal. Any questions can be directed to cedwards@cns.catholic.edu.au
Chris Edwards
Week 2
Mrs Lang is back from her whirlwind trip to Malaysia in the holidays for the regional finals of the Healthiest School Challenge. The primary division winner was Vietnam. The experience was wonderful and sharing St Clare’s success in an international forum was excellent. Visit @aiavitalityaus on Instagram to see the announcement.
Just a reminder to visit ICAS website below if you are interested in enrolling your child for 2023.
We have enrolled St Clare’s in the International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS) for 2023! If you have a child in years 3-6 and wish for them to compete in the writing, spelling bee, or mathematics categories, you can access the parent portal via the link https://shop.icasassessments.com/pages/pps and enter the school access code: FBM955. Assessments will be facilitated at school under competition guidelines in a few weeks so don’t miss out!
Jessica Lang
Ken Hamill Cup
Kind Regards,
Sharon Chappel
BACK: Phoebe, Saxon, Emily, Lincoln
Front Row: Tina, Lucas, Jonny, Hudson, Oliver, Mia
Back Row: Laine, Saxon, Shiloh, Logan, Grace, Emily
Friday 21/07/2023
Coordinator: K Morris Helpers: A Samperi L Robertson
Bakers: R Murgha K Kampe (Cupcakes)
Friday 28/07/2023
NO TUCKSHOP SHOW HOLIDAY
Marie
2023 Term 3 fees will be sent out this week.
Invoices will be sent by email to all parents. Please contact the school office if you do not receive the invoice so we can check your email address, or if you require a hardcopy of fees to make payment.
Please check your junk or spam mail.
Families have the option of paying weekly or fortnightly. Internet banking, or direct debit can be arranged with your bank.
Please note:-
There is NO EFTPOS available at the school office.
- Preferrably no cash but if paying in cash, we appreciate that correct money be given as we do not carry any change in the school office.
- If paying by Bpay or EFT direct debit or internet banking, please use the school bank account details shown on the term one statement.
- IMPORTANT: Please use your Ref: 966000….....(under Biller Code). This number is to be used when paying by Bpay, or EFT -direct debit, internet banking.
- Remittance slip at the bottom of the school account to be returned to the school office with ALL payments. (cash, cheque, direct debit or internet banking).
Thank you.
FETE UPDATE 5:
TERM 3 IS HERE AND ITS FETE TERM
Every week between now and the fete we will be focussing on a particular area/stall. A message will go home via Seesaw.
A few reminders:
FETE ROSTER: We really need to get the Fete Roster finalised BUT to do this we need more help. Please let someone on the committee know where YOU can help.
RAFFLE TICKETS: All tickets need to be returned as soon as possible, this will just save us time in following families up. We have some awesome prizes this year that all have been generously donated by local businesses.
CHOCOLATE STALL: We requires donations of chocolates in the form of bars, boxes and/or blocks for the stall. If you see chocolates on special at IGA or Woolworths please grab a few. These can be dropped off at the school office in the bucket provided. Also if you have old flower arrangement boxes lying around at home the ladies would love them to use to display top shelf prizes, these can be brought to the office as well.
CAKE STALL: Peach Blossom creaming etc is happening on a Thursday between school hours. Please if you can spare time we would love the help. You can let Maria know on 0400 898 104. The ladies are also selling Peach Blossoms( $15dz) and Chocolate lamingtons ($12 for 6)every Thursday and Friday morning from the Tuckshop.
CHRISTMAS STALL: We have a new edition to the fete this year with a Christmas Stall. The ladies are chasing donations of any homemade Xmas craft etc you may have, these items MUST be new. We already have homemade earrings and homemade xmas scrunchies. Any items can be dropped to the school office. Any questions please let Alice McNamara know.
In the coming weeks order forms will be coming home for personalised Christmas baubles.
CLASS HAMPERS: These donations play a huge part of our prizes that we do up for our cent sale which always pulls a big crowd. Just a reminder what each class is on, remember all items must be in new condition as these form prizes.
PREP: Laundry
YEAR 1: Garden/Outdoors
YEAR 2: Pantry/Kitchen
YEAR 3: Games/Fun
YEAR 4: Bathroom/Pamper
YEAR 5: Mums Delight
YEAR 6: Dads Delight
Any further information or questions please let Marie, Kylie, Alicia, Tammy, Alice or Jess know.
