Dear St Clare's Community,

Welcome to Week 4, this term is certainly moving on quickly. It was great to see so many families enjoying the sunny weather at the show last Friday. Hoping you all enjoyed the long weekend and had a chance to spend time with families.

 Individual student reports for NAPLAN 2024 were sent home with Year 3 & 5 students last week. If you did not see yours, or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher.

Further on in this newsletter, you will see flyers for sessions led by Maggie Dent. Good Counsel College, Innisfail is hosting Maggie Dent over two nights, 15th & 16th August. Maggie is a very highly regarded parenting and resilience educator, I strongly encourage you to attend these sessions as they are very worthwhile. You must register your attendance, details on how to do this and further information can be found on the flyers attached to this newsletter.

Work on our new student toilets and flexible learning space is on track. The completion date is still set for 18th August. There will be a lot of activity on the building site as the internal fit out and finishing occurs over the next few weeks.

• Toilet doors & partitions have been installed
• Flexible Learning Area – all cabling in, painted & lighting and aircons fitted
• Friday 28^th – electricity connected
• August 3^rd - cabinets & joinery installed and internal fit out begins
• August 7^th – flooring installed
• August 14^th – services consultant and certifier inspect

 

ABSENCES

Attendance data year to date - 76.5% of students have attended 90% (or more). Our goal is 90% of students attending 90% of the time. 16.7% of student absences are unexplained. Our goal is 0 unexplained absences. If your child is away - please notify the office.

 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Week 2	16 3 unexplained	11 1 unexplained	10 1 unexplained	8 3 unexplained	10 3 unexplained
Week 3	9 2 unexplained	7 1 unexplained	8 0 unexplained	23 9 unexplained	Show Holiday

 

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.

Our next P&F meeting is Wednesday 2nd August @ 5:30pm for anyone wishing to attend. We will meet in the staffroom.

Blessings for the week ahead

Karran Burzacott
Principal

Faith Knowledge Community Respect

• The use of computers, laptops or any internet enabled devices (iPad, phone, iPod, Xbox) SHOULD be in a common area of the house NOT IN THE BEDROOM! Need an alarm - buy a clock radio!
• Parental monitoring is vital - walk past and see what your child is doing, who they are talking to and what sites they are on…be aware if their mood changes. This is NOT invading their privacy at all…it is parenting in the digital space.
• Make sure there is no response to rude or harassing emails or messages and keep a record in case of further investigation.
• Advise your child to immediately exit any site that makes them feel uncomfortable or worried.
• If the harassment continues…. The current email account can be deleted and a new one started. The new email address should only be given to a selective few.

ICAS enrolments have now closed and assessments will start next week, so all those students that have already selected writing, maths, and/or spelling will be participating in these over the next few weeks. Best of luck to all participants.

Congratulations to the students that participated in the 3^rd APSMO maths challenge last week. Everyone is making significant progress in their problem-solving and mathematical reasoning skill development. One more competition will be held later this term so keep up the great work.

Jessica Lang

2023 Term 3 fees were sent out on 19th July.  Due date is this Friday 4th August.

Thank you to those families who have made their payment for this term.

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.