Thank You
As this is the last newsletter for 2021, I would like to thank everyone for their support this year. I truly appreciate the families being calm and patient this year. Everyone has been flexible with all the changes and requirements we have had to follow. You should be proud of the preparation and reassurance you gave your child as they returned to school. Your support has been amazing! The children demonstrated independence and pride in the way they arrived each morning and left each afternoon. I am really proud of them!

Holiday Reading
Over the holiday break all students, are encouraged to read every day. Reading is a very important and necessary skill that we use every day when reading books, magazines, watching TV, shopping and playing games. Please continue to foster your love of reading over the Christmas holidays.

Parents and carers are encouraged to help their children find fun and interesting books, fiction and non-fiction.  It is important for your child to read aloud to someone and just as important for them to listen and enjoy stories being read to them. We all know that reading is one of the most important fundamental skills children must master to succeed, almost everything we do involves reading of some form. Hopefully, this will help motivate your child to continue reading on a regular basis during the holiday break.

Year 4 are busily getting ready for Christmas and making their room look festive and bright.

Education in New South Wales is compulsory.  This means all children are legally required to attend school from 8.30 am - 3.00 pm.

If your child has to be absent from school, it is a requirement that you provide a reason for your child's absence.  To explain the absence parents enter this in their Compass Parent Portal or respond to the text.  All absences must be explained.

Please log in to your Compass Parent Portal and update any unexplained absences.

Please make appointments outside school hours, where possible.  If your child needs to be collected early for an appointment, a note explaining this is required to be given to the teacher by the student.

2022 Compulsory School Uniform requirements
When returning to school for the 2022 school year, it is required all students are in the correct school uniform including sport polo, navy shorts, girl's summer tunic and wearing the correct black leather school shoes and predominately white school joggers for sport. Parents are requested to purchase predominately white joggers when your child requires new shoes or at the start of the 2022 school year, thereby adhering to the School Uniform Policy.
Pictorial examples of appropriate joggers.  

2022 - Sports shoes do not need to be expensive; they can have some colour on them but must be predominately white. Thank you for your continued support.

Haircuts
Many thanks to those parents who ensure their children have haircuts that meet the expectations for students at St Francis of Assisi. Students are required to wear their hair in a neat and tidy manner.

• Haircuts should be of an even cut - extreme shaving.
• Hair should be brushed and combed.
• Hair should not be in a condition as to invite comment.
• Long hair is to be tied back or plaited, off the face and should not extend to cover the eyes.
• Only navy, blue or yellow headbands, ribbons or scrunchies are to be worn in the hair.
• Extreme styles, colouring or dyeing of hair is not permitted

Lowes Uniforms Warrawong