Dear Parents,

Welcome to week 4

An important item to start the newsletter this week is that our communication through Schoolszine will be changing. Schoolszine has been a simple and very effective way to keep parents up to date with school events and news. We are as a system now moving to a new portal called Compass and all this will become operational from Term 4. Brief details are listed in the document below. The additional feature of Compass is that parents will access students semester reports online as of Term 4. More details  will be provided over the coming weeks as to how you can gain access to the Compass parent portal.

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As we trasnsition to Compass, we need to have all details up to date. Information Checklist were sent home today with your child. Could you please check that all information is correct and send back to school ASAP even if there are no changes to be made.

The Olympics

This week we celebrated with our Australian Olympians with some fun events led by our Yr 6 students. The students in Year 5/6 have also been researching Australian athletes and all classes are keeping a medal tally. We are very keenly following the events over in Tokyo. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!

Jeans for Genes Day

Jeans for Genes Day is a special day happening this Friday 6 August. Students are invited to come dressed in their jeans, or mufti clothes, and support the cause with a gold coin donation. All funds will be collected for medical research into genetic related conditions. Ms Rachel Galvin will be cooking a special cupcake for each student to also to mark this special day. Thanks Rachel!

Remote Learning Preparation

If you have not already done so could you please update the information in regard to your household’s capacity to support remote learning with your own devices and also access to the internet via the form below. If you do not have devices we aim to provide hard copies/worksheets and other materials to support students in their learning if we do happen to move to remote learning.

https://stmarysbatlow.schoolzineplus.com/form/70

Jannine