10th September 2015

BUSH DANCE 2016

Dear Parents

Our Bush Dance last Saturday was a huge success. A great time was had by young and old . A big

thank you to Mr Spranklin who taught the dances to the children, Mr and Mrs Drysdale for their sensa-

tional food and the Ridgee Didge Band for their great selection of music. It was really great to observe

the children and their parents dancing and bonding so well.

The Ball Games Carnival held last Friday was a resounding success. The children had a fun-filled day

where they learnt new skills as well as participating in the competition of the Ball Games Section.

Thank you to the organisers and to the staff of the school who looked after groups on the day. Well

done to the children for their excellent behaviour.

Selection Process for a New Principal:

The Catholic Education Office Toowoomba uses a set of industrially sound process-

es for the employment of a Principal of a school.

The process is as follows:

1. The position is advertised in the media with a closing date on which applica-

tions will be accepted. This is next Monday for our School Principal Advertise-

ment.

2. The senior education officer for the school then consults with the Parish Priest,

the Board (if there is one), the school staff and the parent body in the form of

the P & F Executive to find out the qualities that they wish to see in a new lead-

er of the school. This has already been completed this week.

3. Once applications have been received, a process of short listing takes place,

referees are checked and a short list of candidates are selected for interview.

4. A panel is then formed which usually consists of the Parish Priest, 2 members

of the P & F Executive, the Director of School Improvement Services, The Ex-

ecutive Director and the Senior Education Officer.

5. Once interviews have taken place, a candidate is selected by the panel who

recommends a person for the position and the Bishop of Toowoomba then ap-

proves the appointment. An administration process then takes place which

can take up to two weeks before any announcement is made to the school

community. During this time, all information about the appointment is kept

strictly confidential, until the announcement is made to the community by the

Executive Director of Catholic Education.

6. This process takes place in all schools when a new principal is appointed,

with no exceptions.

TOY CATALOGUE REMINDER: Completed order forms to be returned by October 9th Complete your orders over the holidays and return to school. If orders are mailed directly to company the school MAY miss out on any benefit from the fundraising

If you would like to give a catalogue to a friend or relative we have extra cata-logues available. Regards Tania.

Quote of the Week: They can because they think they can.

Virgil

God Bless,

Brett Pollard

Principal

Dates To Remember SEPTEMBER 2015 18th - Term 3 Ends - No Tuckshop 19th - Bull Sale number 1. 23rd - Bull Sale 2 Fundraiser (Year 4/5 Parents to organise—funds raised to go to Canberra trip 2016) OCTOBER 2015 5th - Labour Day Holiday 6th - Term 4 Begins 14th - P & F Meeting 6pm 16th - Prep Open Day 19th - Pupil Free Day - CTJ (All schools) November 2015 1st - Bunnings Sausage Sizzle—(Year 4/5 Parents to organise—funds raised to go to Canberra trip 2016) 8th - P & F Volunteers Lunch @ 10.00am - Picnic Point 18th - P & F AGM 6pm 20th - Prep Open Day December 2015 3rd Year 6 Farewell Mass and Parent BBQ 6pm 4th End of year Nativity Assembly DATE CLAIMER: 19 March 2016 - PARISH FETE

This Week’s Family Mass Roster Saturday: 12th September 7pm

Welcoming: H Gillam

POF/OH: G Imhoff

Readers: K & M Cranitch

Offertory: J Nash & family

Eucharistic Ministers: J Nash & L Lucas

Church Cleaning: J Cleary, B Lack, P Tickner & J Lyons

Tuckshop Roster:

18 Sept - NO Sausage Sizzle or Tuckshop

SCHOOL FEES:

School Fees are now overdue. Please endeav-our to pay accounts by next Tuesday. Thank you to those families who have finalised their Term 3 school fee accounts.

UNIFORM SHOP NOW OPEN

ON TUESDAYS 8.30am

For uniform Direct Debit PAYMENTS

please phone Jenny Gillam for the P & F

bank details as school fees are paid into a

separate bank account.

Yr5/6 Canberra Trip Fundraisers Thank you to all families who supported the 2016 Yr 5/6 Canberra Trip Sausage Sizzle and Choco-late Sales Fundraisers over the last few weeks. The sales from the sausage sizzles and chocolates have raised over $1,200 in profits which will help reduce the cost of the camp for all students travelling. All families who have chil-dren going on the Canberra trip in future years will have the same, or similar opportunities to raise funds to help reduce their fees al-so. This Friday will be the last sausage sizzle as Tuckshop will resume next term. Thanks again

Darling Downs Athletics Carnival Congratulations to Lachlan Peardon, Lily Rickert and Sophie Willett who competed at the Darling Downs Trials on Tuesday. They all achieved good results. Well done.

Heidi Burton is the year 3/4 times tables ‘Mad Minute’ champ this week.

Congratulations Harry, Mrs D and Myckeai.

P&F NEWS BUSH DANCE The P&F would like to thank the staff of St Frannies for organising the Bush Dance. A special thank you to Mr & Mrs Drysdale for organising and cooking the camp oven dinner – it was deli-cious! The children spent a lot of time practising their dances and everyone who attended had an enjoyable evening dancing with their children to the Ridgee Didge Bush Band and catching up with friends. Thank you to Mr Spranklin for teaching the dances.

TUCKSHOP We are pleased to announce that we have found a new Tuckshop Convener. We welcome, and thank Anna Marks for taking on this role. Tuckshop will resume in Term 4.

SCHOOL MESSAGE BOARD The decision for the P&F to purchase and install a wind - up school message board was passed last year. The concept of the school message board was to provide a form of communication to parents and the wider community, in addition to the existing school newsletter. Over the past year, the school has introduced a text message service, communicating events and reminders to families. There have also been safety incidents with existing wind up message boards within Qld Catholic Dioceses. The P&F has therefore had to seek alternatives to the wind up sign. During the P&F meeting in August, some options were presented, however these were not favourable. The P&F therefore sought additional quotations which were presented at Wednesday evening’s P&F meeting. The options consisted of (1) removing and modifying the existing sign by extend-ing the poles and moving the sign up, powder coating the poles and installing a magnetic mes-sage board below the current sign and re-installing it; (2) having a stand-alone sign next to the original. Both options were going to cost approximately $4,000. We discussed these options and looked at where the signs might be placed and how they would look within the school grounds. We also discussed if we still required the sign, given the school now has the text mes-sage system in place. After careful consideration and deliberation, the P&F voted that we would not proceed with installing a school message board. The text messages are currently sent to parents of our school and the Newsletter is sent home to families and also available for the wider community online and at the Foodworks, Pharmacy and other local businesses. The P&F dis-cussed running an ad in the local paper once a month to notify the wider community of upcoming events and to promote the school in general. We thank everyone for their involvement over the past couple of months in obtaining quotes, taking photos and preparing visual signage options, talking to contractors in regards to modifying the existing sign and attending the meetings to help reach this outcome.

VOLUNTEERS THANK YOU – SAVE THE DATE To thank all our volunteers who have helped throughout the year, the P&F will hold a family day at Picnic Point on Sunday, 8

th November from 10am. This invitation is for parents/carers/family,

teachers, staff and community members who have volunteered throughout the year such as in the canteen, the uniform shop, in the class room, helped with sausage sizzles, Bunnings BBQ, Polocrosse, Chip Van etc and also for those families who have not been able to give of their time, but have provided our fundraisers with donations such as baked goods. Please save the date. More information to follow.

P&F AGM – NOTICE The P&F AGM will be held on Wednesday, 18

th November at 6pm. All current P&F positions will

be vacated and elections will be held on the evening. Nomination forms for the 2016 committee positions will be available next term and should be provided to the P&F Secretary by Wednes-day, 11

th November.

Next P&F Meeting: 6pm – Wednesday, 14th October 2015 P&F AGM: 6pm – Wednesday, 18th November 2015

Please email your agenda items to: Clifton.PandF@twb.catholic.edu.au