Welcome to Week Two of Term One. Students are now engaging in their first units of work for the year.  The year has started off with great weather; this is now changing. Our school always considers student safety first.  We have had a few days where students have spent their eating and playtime indoors due to the weather conditions.  This week we will have our second assembly for the year at 9:15 am on Friday.  This is a time where the whole school assembles together in the hall to hear whole school messages, celebrate achievement and learn which classes are being recognised throughout the school for cleanliness, Cool Coins and attendance.  We also have our mystery person each week who selects the best class.  Last week it was Smiley.  All parents and caregivers are welcome to attend.

Equity and Excellence

• We are committed to supporting the learning of every child that comes into a Queensland State School.
• Equity and Excellence remains our state wide strategy – it brings us together as a system.
• A cohesive strategy is essential to focus our energy and resources on what matters most – coming together across the system to support every child to realise their potential.
• The children and community of Queensland all benefit from a world class state education system.
• High quality State Schools underpin the future of Queensland, and are essential to building a functional and thriving community.
• As we enter the third year of working with this strategy we can see how it has made a difference to our school.
• We can also see where we need to maintain the momentum and what are our next steps for of what matters most in supporting student learning, wellbeing and engagement, culture and inclusion.
• 2025 will be a year of clear focus.
• We will be asking ourselves what is the most important work?
• What can we stop doing, so that we can maximise the time we have to make a difference for all of our students in their learning?
• How do we make best use of the resources and people who are available to us in order to support our school community?
• The best schools have an effective relationship with their school community.
• They have an actively involved community.
• They work together to support the learning of every child.
• Working together means respecting each other, and recognising that we all have the best interests of every child at the centre of all we do.
• Student outcomes and experience of school every day are enriched when the staff and community combine to help every student to realise their potential.

 Gratitude

Gratitude is one of our Resilience Project themes.  When we focus on gratitude it can change the outlook.  Last week on assembly we had a technical issue and the National Anthem didn’t play correctly.  It was considerably frustrating.  However, I am extremely grateful for our amazing students and community.  They continued to sing both verses of the national anthem without the music and together our school community sounded amazing.  I am also grateful that parents and caregivers of our school community are ensuring that our students are in correct uniform daily.

NAPLAN

Our Year 3 and Year 5 students will be participating in NAPLAN this year. The dates at Calliope School will be from Wednesday 12 March until Tuesday 18 March. More information will be sent home to parents later in the term.