Calliope State School eNewsletter

Principal's Message

Welcome to Week 8 of Term 2. This week is our big week for our Sport and Athletics Carnivals. It has been great to see our younger grades enjoy participating in the range of athletic and sporting activities that they rotate around. It is always exciting to watch our running races. Several students have caught me in the school yard with beaming smiles as they proudly show me ribbons, they have for achieving winning placement in races. Congratulations to all our students on your participation in our carnivals. Mrs Betts, our PE teacher always works tirelessly so our students can have an awesome time at their carnival. Friday is our senior carnival and we are excited to see our school community come together as our students participate and compete in various athletic events.

School Arrival Time

Students should not arrive at school before 8:30 am. The exemptions include bus students, or students participating in extracurricular activities including but not limited to choir, planned sporting activities, and robotics. Bus students who arrive before 8:30 am are to sit quietly in the Undercroft area, outside the office until the play bell at 8:30 am. Class lessons begin promptly at 9:10 am. Helping Hands is our Out of School Care Service that can provide care for students before 8:30 am. Contact details for Helping Hands: 1300 395 735 or 0409 267 755.

School Dress Code

Oodies are not appropriate for school. They are great for the weekend. Please don’t send your child/children to school with oodies. Our uniform shop has a great supply of jumpers for winter. If any family is struggling to purchase a school jumper, please give our administration a call or make an appointment to see the myself and we will organise a school jumper.

Resilience Project

We believe that our journey with the Resilience Project can make a significant difference in the lives of everyone. This is an exciting project that can change lives. If you can only make one open day this year, please make it this one.

As a reminder, on Friday of Week Ten we are bringing the Resilience Project to our families. We will have our normal Principal’s Parade, followed by a presentation for all our families on the Resilience Project and how you can be resilient as a family. This will be followed by our open classrooms where you can see Resilience Project lessons in action. Families are then welcome to join your children for a picnic lunch on our grassed area. Please put this day into your calendars.

Empathy

Working on empathy helps us to identify, understand and feel what another person is feeling. When we show empathy or we do something kind for someone else our brain releases oxytocin. This leads to increasing our self-esteem/confidence, energy levels, positivity and overall happiness. Whole Family Activity: Neighbourhood Kindness Challenge As a family, choose an act of kindness from the list below that you would like to do for a neighbour or family friend. Each family member can select one to commit to, or you can choose to do one together.

Cook them something delicious like a cake, hot bread, or cookies.
Write a note to put in their letter box thanking them for being a great neighbour or friend.
Design them a Thank You card.
Pick or buy some flowers to deliver to them.
Choose a little plant from your garden to give them.
Make them a gift from things around your house.
Offer to do a job for them, like wash their car or water their garden.
Offer to take their pets for a walk.
Invite them over for afternoon tea.
Invite them on a walk.
Recommend one of your favourite books to borrow and read.
Ask them if they need anything from the shops next time you buy groceries.
Say hello next time you see them and ask them how their day is going.
Feel free to do more than one and spread the kindness even further!
Report back to each other in one week and share how your acts of kindness were received, and how doing them made you feel.

Family Habit Builder: Every night at dinner, have each person thank another family member for something they’ve done or said today or give another family member a compliment.