All families should have received an email from PAM (Parent Access Module). If you have not yet received this email and are a primary caregiver, can you please contact Julian on jblackford@stmnewbor.catholic.edu.au to have this rectified. Once you have set up your account, you are able to notify the school directly through PAM when your child is absent.

Welcome back to all of you for the 2021 school year. We hope and pray that this year will be a good one for all of us. We especially welcome our new Foundation children and their families to our school community and look forward to getting to know you. Tomorrow, with the children coming back to school, we are providing a coffee van as a welcome back to school. The van will be set up on the basketball court and we ask that if you choose to order a coffee, you do so with the COVID restrictions very much in mind. School begins at the usual time of 8.45am, with the children able to come into school from 8.10am. Last year we were so proud of the children as they did an amazing job of coming to school and being picked up via the Kiss and Go. This year we ask you to do the same if that is possible. Of course we understand that our Foundation families may wish to bring their children into school and you are welcome to do so. At the end of the school day we will be bringing the Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 children out to the Kiss and Go area to be picked up. If the Foundation parents would like to come in to pick up their children, we ask that you wait on the basketball court and your children will come out to the Kiss and Go line up area for you to collect them. Please do not wait at the stairs as the children need to have access to the stairs as they exit the school building. If you need to collect your child at 3.15pm, they will be supervised in the classroom just as they were last year. At 3.10pm they will go the the Kiss and Go along with the classes from Year 3,4,5 and 6. I hope this answers any questions you may have and please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions or concerns. Looking forward to a wonderful start to our school year tomorrow.

Please be aware that all parishioners attending Christmas Masses will need to book online. Bookings can be made online at https://www.trybooking.com/BNIQS