2020 School Tuition Fees
The Catholic Education Commission has advised that the Tuition Fee in the NSW sector of the Archdiocese will rise by 4% in 2020. This will make the Catholic Education Primary Tuition Fee per family $320 per term or $1,280 per annum.

There is a 50% discount on the primary tuition fee if a sibling attends a Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocesan systemic secondary school. There is no charge for a 4th or subsequent child attending an Archdiocesan primary, central or secondary school.

School based fees were determined by the Community Council at their last meeting. Whilst a more detailed letter will be forwarded to you before the end of the school year, the 2020 school based fees are listed below:

Resource Levy: $52 per student per term ($1 increase) 
Technology Levy:  $42 per student per term ($1 increase) 
Running Costs Levy:  $164 per family per term ($1 increase) 
Maintenance Levy:  $122 per family per term ($1 increase) 
Community Council Levy: $15 per family per term (no increase) 

Student Leadership 2020
The final step in selecting our Student Leaders for 2020 will be a panel interview to be held tomorrow. I wish all nominees the very best and look forward to being able to announce the successful appointees very soon. 

Christmas Concert
As mentioned in last week’s Carmeletta, this year’s Christmas Concert, which is being held next Friday 13 December, will be a K-6 event. Please note the starting time of 11:30am. The school has limited seating for parents and guests, and the Christmas Concert is always a very popular event, so we ask parents to please bring a folding chair, if you have one, to be certain of a seat.

Premier’s Reading Challenge
This year we had 65 students complete the Premier’s Reading Challenge, all of whom completed the challenge in their own time. Special congratulations to Esther Adie, Charlotte Alexander, Maddelin Barker, Caelan Cassidy, Samuel Hillman, Zara Hillman, Archer Lees, Luca Markota, Grace McPherson and Delilah Rajic, who each received a Gold Award for completing the challenge for the fourth time. Extra-special congratulations to Ella Broers and Louis Green, who each received a Platinum Award for completing the challenge in every year of their primary schooling. Well done, everybody!

School Banking
Dollarmite school banking has concluded for 2019. Banking will resume on Tuesday 11 February 2020. If you have any questions regarding school banking, please contact the front office. 

May God’s peace be in your families, 

Michael Green
Principal