Issue 12, 2023 Term 4, 1st November 2023
- Principals Report
- Student of the Week & Gotcha Winners Term 4
- Happy Birthday
- Graduating Students
- PPF 2023
- Prep 2024 Enrolments
- End of Year Mass
- End of Year Awards Night Wednesday 29th 6pm
- Whole School Nativity Play, Thursday 30th Midday
- Quilpie & District Carnival Dates
- Christmas Mass 24th December
- School Yard access
- School Absences
- School Bell Times
- Term Dates 2024
- St Finbarr's Student Protection Contacts
Principals Report
Dear Parents, families, and friends,
I would like to thank everyone who attended our Awards Night. I am so proud to be the Principal of such a wonderful school. Our students are respectable, dedicated and passionate about their school. I have had a huge number of positive comments from our community members who were so impressed with the behaviour of our students and the standard of their performances and successes this year.
I would like to wish our Year 6 students and the Grimm Family as they head off to their new home.
Thank you to everyone for an absolutely amazing first year as Principal.
I wish you all a blesses, safe Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
Until next year
Kind regards,
Kara Marsh
Principal
Student of the Week & Gotcha Winners Term 4
Gotcha tickets are given out each week when students are seen to be following our school rules and values. Actions may include caring for each other, greeting other students, staff and parents warmly or showing respect and responsibility. Actions may also be following the words of Mary Mackillop - 'Never see a need without doing something about it'
Week 7 - SOW Winners- Bailey & Emily
Gotcha Winners - Layla & James
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday, this past fortnight to Lincoln & Lewis
Graduating Students
Good luck to our Graduating students of 2023 , Jess, Emily, Digby, Ava and Abbie
PPF 2023
On behalf of the PPF I would like to thank my fellow committee members and parent helpers for the past year. We are very lucky at St Finbarr's that fundraising is not a constant headache for us. Our Fete and Monday tuck-shops are our only Fundraising events for the year and both are greatly antincipated by students. These two types of fundraisers reduce the weekends or after hour demands on parents to sell meat trays or cater for events in order to raise money for the school. Thankyou to everyone for all our parents for making St Finbarr's the communtiy it is
Regards Kerri Thompson- Secretary
Prep 2024 Enrolments
Theres still time to enrol, be it prep to grade 6. Below is the link to the online enrolment form.
Enrolment Application | St Finbarr’s School, Quilpie (twb.catholic.edu.au)
End of Year Mass
End of Year Awards Night Wednesday 29th 6pm
Whole School Nativity Play, Thursday 30th Midday
Quilpie & District Carnival Dates
Swimming – Friday 24th November
SOMMERFIELD
PEGLER
DURACK
McMANUS
Christmas Mass 24th December
There will be a Christmas Mass at St Finbarr's Church 24th December 6pm for those who are intrested
School Yard access
Please note that students are no longer permitted on school grounds out of school hours or during school holidays.
School Absences
PARENTS, Please contact the office each day when students are unable to attend school.
Please don't send a message with siblings about absences, please contact the school directly each day
Ph 07 46 215 200
Email - quilpie@twb.catholic.edu.au
School Bell Times
Start of day bell -8.45am
Morning Tea Bell 11.00am -11.30am
Lunch Bell 1.00pm -1.30pm
End of day Bell -3.00pm
Please don't send students to school before 8.30 unless prior arrangements have been made, playground supervision doesn't begin until 8.30am
Term Dates 2024
Term 1, 24th Jan-31st March 10 Weeks
Term 2, 18th April-23rd June 10 Weeks
Term 3, 11th July-15th Sept 10 Weeks
Term 4, 3rd Oct - 1st Dec 9 Weeks
St Finbarr's Student Protection Contacts
It is a legislative requirement that all non-state schools have at least two nominated staff members to whom a student can report the behaviour of another staff member that the student considers inappropriate. We call these specially trained staff members School Student Protection Contacts, or SSPCs. Each SSPC has been nominated by the principal in recognition of their integrity, approachability and knowledge in the area of student protection. Whilst students are encouraged to speak up to any trusted adult in the school community, it is important that they know they can access these specific staff members at any time should they have worries, queries or concerns. You will have noticed posters throughout the school depicting our current SSPCs. The SSPCs are also published on our school website along with information about our student protection processes. In everything we do at St Finbarr's student safety is our highest priority, therefore the SSPCs at our school are key personnel in our overall safeguarding processes. Please see the poster depicting our current SSPC team.
