Hi Families

Last night at our P&C meeting, a lot of discussion around fundraising and upcoming events. Book fair will be held next week in the library and our schools Liberian is seeking some volunteers to help Monday to Friday from 8.30am – 9am. If there are any parents who can spare ½ hr after drop off, please email communication.calliopess@gmail.com or pop into the library and put your name down.

We had some new faces at our meeting last night, and we thank you for your involvement.

We are seeking parent involvement / representation with PBL meetings. These meetings are held once a month for half an hour from 3.30pm – 4pm in the Staff Room. 

The PBL meetings are designed for parents/caregivers, teachers and leadership to collaborate on how to instil positive behaviour into learning for our students and discuss behaviour trends, what is doing well and not so well and implementing ways to improve behaviour.

Last Thursday, the road safety committee held a meeting to discuss options around providing additional car parking for parents to help reduce congestion in front of the school during drop off and pick up times. The current option that is being considered is to utilise the old rail yards across the highway and utilise the current underpass to access.

We had member for Callide, Bryson Head, Cr Goodluck and Cr McClintock as well as representatives from the School, P&C, Police, Rail Trail, Transport & Main Road (Rail Corridor) and Gladstone Regional Council.

While there is still a lot of work to do, there was good discussion around a pathway forward for the carpark and the added benefits this location would have on the broader community, in particular adding carparks to assist with events at the rodeo grounds.

It was wonderful to see many students participate in walk safely to school last Friday   as well as supporting Day for Dolly by wearing the colour blue.

Over the next couple of months, there will be more fundraising opportunities to support such as our annual pie drive, Sports Day, Bunnings sausage sizzle and hopefully something fun for the kids.

 We have been running Question Time for a couple of weeks now and your feedback and input has been valuable. We appreciate all your ideas and feedback, and in order to make your suggestions possible we will be needing your support and time to make them happen. We will need parents or community members to join the working group for fundraising, so if you are interested and want to see a disco at the school, cent sale/garage sale. Please email pandc@calliopess.eq.edu.au or direct message our Facebook page.

 Please remember, you don’t have to be a member of the P&C to volunteer.

Our objective is to continue this great work and keep kicking goals in all areas of strategic planning, fundraising, school improvements and community engagement. We would genuinely love to hear from the school community with any thoughts or ideas you have on how we can all work together to keep making progress in these areas. You can contact us on communication.calliopess@gmail.com for our Communication Officer or pandc@calliopess.eq.edu.au for our Executive team.

Warm Regards

Geoff, Jason, Angela & Lisa