College Updates Term 1 Week 3 - 09/02/23

These dates may be subject to change at the discretion of the College and/or depending on COVID-19 restrictions. Any changes will be advised to parents and carers via Schoolzine.

Our 2023 College Swimming Carnivals will be held as follows:

Yr 7 to Yr 12 - Friday, 10 February 2023 - War Memorial Swimming Pool - Bega

For Tathra/Kalaru students, the bus company has said you can jump on the bus with the Bega High kids

Events - ungraded (33m) and graded (66m) free, back, breast strokes

Novelty events - bomb comp, belly flop

Novelty - activities in the medium and baby pools, volleyball

Canteen and BBQ available CASH ONLY!!!

Travel - once all of the buses arrive at Lumen, everyone will get on the buses to Bega. Those students who are meeting in Bega, be there from 8.30am onwards

If you are leaving from the pool after the carnival, you will need a note.

Dear Parents and Carers

We will be sending home Rapid Antigen Tests with students on Monday, 13 February 2023. We ask that families continue to test regularly when you have any Covid or Flu like symptoms, or if you have been a close contact to a positive Covid case.

For further information please contact the College by telephoning (02) 6495 8888 or emailing lccc@cg.catholic.edu.au

The NSW Govt has recently announced that the $50 Back-to-School vouchers can be redeemed for payment of School Excursions that do not form part of the Student Resource Levy.

The usual process for payment for these Excursions is via Qkr!. However, if you wish to redeem your voucher as payment for Excursions, you will need to present your electronic voucher for redemption at the College Reception.

Partial redemption of vouchers is not possible. You will need to settle the balance of the Excursion amount owing using cash or credit card at the time of redemption.

Vouchers can also be redeemed at Pickles Uniform Shop.

The vouchers cannot be redeemed as payment for school fees.

Good morning, All

It’s very early in the school year but there has been a number of school hats (and some other property) found on buses already. The common factor in every case this year is that the articles are not labelled with the owner’s name. In these cases, we are obliged to retain the property for a period of 3 months. At the end of that time, unclaimed property can be disposed of by the Company in the most appropriate way. Often, the property is returned to the school for addition to any store of 2^nd hand uniform that might be kept by the school. In other cases, property is donated to charity, or it may be destroyed.

We ask parents to label hats, jumpers / jackets, pencil cases and drink bottles with the student’s name. In the case of older items, check that any labelling can still be easily read.

For those students who carry mobile phones, we find that almost all phones are in protective cases. A note left inside the back of a case with the owner’s name and an alternate contact number will facilitate the return of the device. Ear pods and ear pod charging cases was another item that we found many examples of in 2022. In every instance, the cases were NOT labelled. We found it very difficult to return the property to the owner unless we were called.

In cases where the name of an owner is on the property, we have almost a perfect record for returning the property in a timely manner. Where the property IS NOT labelled, our record of returning items is not as high.

Regards

Bill

University of Wollongong are hosting a live, after-hours public ‘FMP 101 and Q&A’ session on Thursday 23 February at 7.30pm. The registration for this session is available at Yr 12 Future Me Public Information Session 23rd Feb Rego Link. 

Registration is required as a link to join this session will be sent to the registered guests prior to the session commencing.