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- Principal's Message
- 100 Days of Prep!
- Life Education 2023
- Student Wellbeing Team News
- Parent Teacher Interviews
- P & C
- Uniform Hours
- School Dentist Van
- 2024 Prep Information Sessions
- Student Absences
- Regular School Attendance
- Late or Early Sign outs -
- MESSAGE TO STUDENTS
- RETURNING CALLS TO THE SCHOOL
- 2023 Participation ICAS
- NCCD
- Expressions of Interest - Calliope SS Swimming Pool
- Parking Inclusion
- Bicycle Safety Program
- Position Vacant
- Rotary News
- Port to Park
- Helping Hands
Welcome back to an amazing start to Term 3 – This week the school has commenced Life Education lessons and students have been excited to learn in interactive, fun ways about having a healthy life.
Student Code of Conduct
Each week I will focus on an aspect of Calliope’s Student Code of Conduct. This week the focus is Focussed Responses.
Class teacher is supported by other school-based staff to address in-class problem behaviour. This may include:
- Functional Behaviour Assessment
- Individual student behaviour support strategies (e.g. Student behaviour plan)
- Targeted skills teaching in small group
- Behavioural contract
- Counselling and guidance support
- Self-monitoring plan
- Check in Check Out strategy
- Differentiated Stamp Chart
- Working at Success Program (WASP)
- Restorative Conversation
- Problem Solving Conversation
- Teacher coaching and debriefing
- Referral to Student Learning and Wellbeing Team (SLaWT) for team based problem solving
- Stakeholder meeting with parents and external agencies
- Negotiated alternative spaces
Parent Survey
Our school is always looking at ways to improve. Our last parent survey from last term heard parent voice to increase our swimming program with a strong preference for the School’s PE teacher to facilitate the swimming program. This year all grade levels will participate in the swimming program in Term 4, facilitated by Cathy Betts and her team of swimming coaches. Parent Voice from the survey also requested better communication of upcoming events. We have introduced a calendar into our newsletter that can be printed out and put on your fridge. We are also looking at other ways of communication with our community.
Today, a survey that reflects your opinions on Term 2 will be emailed to all parents. This survey will dig deeper into how we can best meet the needs of our community. There will also be consultation with our community to see if there is support for a chaplain and/or student wellbeing officer in our school. We are also seeking your opinions on how to improve student wellbeing in the school and your opinion on the use of technologies in our school.
Please know that the platform used for these surveys, “Survey Monkey” keeps your identity private. The school does not know your individual replies. I have been open in sharing our last survey whit our P&C executive. The survey in anonymous.
Some reminders of upcoming events from the calendar include –
Week 1 – Life Education
12 July – Parent Survey Opens
12 July – 100 Days of Prep
Week 2 – Life Education
17 July – P&C Pie Orders Due
18 July – Parent/Teacher Interviews
18 July – P&C Meeting
19 July – Parent Survey Closes
20 July – 2024 Prep Information Day
21 July – Rotakids Badge Presentation
01 August – P-3 Pie Collection
Today our Prep students celebrated 100 days of learning in Prep. Students and staff dressed up as their 100 year old self. There were some amazing outfits! Congratulations to all on their wonderful first 100 days of school.
Over the next two weeks, our students will have the opportunity to participate in Life Education. We welcome Mia Boyd, the Life Education educator to our school. Several classes have enjoyed their session already! Payment for this has now closed.
Calliope Sate School will be holding our mid-year parent interviews next Tuesday, 18 July. An email was sent home to families earlier this week to book in a time to meet with class teachers to discuss your child’s progress. Please make contact with your child’s class teacher to book a face to face meeting or a phone interview.
Welcome back to school everyone! We so hope all families had a well deserved break from school routines! Term 3 is set to be a huge and fun filled 10 weeks!
Important dates approaching within the next week include:
- Pie Drive forms and monies are due Monday July 17th. This year we are accepting payment via cash or QKR! If you’re paying by cash, pop the money and order form in an envelope or zip lock bag into the P&C collection box in the office. If paying by QKR, apply your totals of each item in the Pie Drive menu in your child’s profile, complete purchase as normal and then submit your order form into the P&C collection box in the office.
- P&C Meeting is Tuesday July 18th at 5:30pm in the administration building. If you are attending parent/teacher interviews, why not stay on and pop in for a looksee to the meeting and find out what’s happening around the school?!
- Warm milos are back next week!! Tuesday-Friday 8:30-9:00am at the tuckshop for $1.00!! Any volunteers for this time bracket would be so greatly appreciated!
We are very pleased to inform you that size 10 school shirts are back in stock at the Uniform shop! Yay! Available to order now through QKR! Uniform shop continues to open every Friday 8:30-9:00am. Unfortunately, no cash or EFTPOS facilities are available, however, you can order through QKR on the spot, show our friendly volunteers your receipt and you can take your items with you; easy peasy!
If you have any thoughts or ideas to share, we would love to see you at the P&C meeting next week! However, we understand that we could never set a day and time to suit everyone. So, send us an email to communication.calliopess@gmail.com for our Communication Officer or pandc@calliopess.eq.edu.au for our Executive team.
Warm regards,
Heidi, Geoff, Angela and Lisa.
Normal opening hours:
Friday 8.30am to 9.00am
Uniform Shop located at the entrance to the Multipurpose Hall (closes to the oval). Uniform can also be purchased through the QKR app.
Attention - Dental forms can be found on our webpage or in the office. The dental van sent out lots of letters during Week 10 of Term 2, these forms are to be returned ASAP for an appointment to be made and for the dental staff to see your child/children,this term.
2024 Prep Enrolments
We are currently taking enrolments for our 2024 Prep intake. Children born between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 are eligible to enrol. Enrolment packs will be available from the start of Term 3 and our Parent Information sessions will be on Thursday July 20 at 9.15am and repeated at 5.00pm. A school tour will be available at 4.30pm on that day. For further information please contact the school.
Student absences can be advised via:
1. QParents
2. Phoning the Absentee Line – 07 4975 8366
3. Send an email - absences@calliopess.eq.edu.au
4. Website - https://calliopess.eq.edu.au/
5. Phoning the Office – 07 49758333
6. Send a note to school with your child.
Parents and caregivers must send children to school every school day under Queensland law unless there is an acceptable reason such as:
- Illness
- Competing in school events.
If your child is going to be absent from school, you must let the school know why the absence has occurred within two school days of their return. If possible, it is best to advise the school beforehand.
Avoid keeping your child away from school for reasons such as:
- Birthdays
- Shopping
- Visiting family and friends
- If they sleep in
- Looking after other children
- Minor check ups or care, such as hair cuts.
Routine medical or other health appointments should be made either before or after school or during the school holidays.
Establishing good routines around school can assist with regular school attendance. These include:
- Have a set time to go to bed
- Have a set time to get out of bed
- Have uniform and school bag ready the night before
- Have a set time for starting and finishing breakfast
- Set a time for daily homework activities
- Speak about school positively
- Send your child to school every school day including their birthday and the last day of term.
If you are experiencing difficulty in sending your child to school, contact the school for advice and support.
We realise that, on occasion, students may arrive late for school, or need to leave early; it is hoped that these occasions can be kept to a minimum so that the learning of the student, the class and the routine of the school is not unduly disrupted. In the event that your child is late or leaves early, please ensure that the correct procedure is followed to sign in/out by going to the Administration building and signing out on the iPad, collecting a slip and presenting it to the classroom teacher.
These processes are in place so that the teachers and school staff are aware of the movement of students at school. This is for the protection and welfare of all staff and students. It is important to look at the impact that late arrival and early departure have on a student/s education and those around them. It is not only disruptive to learning that is occurring in the classrooms at the time of arrival and departure, it is all time that accumulates to missed opportunities for learning. A student who is arriving late or leaving early by 15 minutes twice a week will miss, in total, the equivalent of 4 days of school across the year.
As you know, schools and classrooms are very busy places!
To ensure our students are fully engaged in their learning, and our office staff are able to complete their multitude of daily required tasks, we ask that parents communicate clearly with their child at the beginning of each day where you will be picking them up from in the afternoon.
As you can imagine it is extremely difficult for our office staff to field scores of phone calls asking for messages to be passed on to children regarding pick-up information.
Should you need to contact your children throughout the day, please do this via the office. These should be emergency situations only. Messages received after 1.45pm may not be acknowledged by the class in time, so please ensure children know their pick-up arrangements.
We ask parents to assist us by checking their message bank before returning calls to the school, to establish which staff member has phoned. Due to the high volume of staff within our school it is not possible for us to identify who may have called you. Please call the member on their direct number if they have provided this as this will free up the office phone lines.
Last term your child brought home a letter regarding ICAS. ICAS is designed to target the higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics, Science, Writing, Spelling Bee and Digital Technologies of students in Year 2 to Year 6. Participation in any of the tests is completely optional.
These tests take place throughout Term 3 on the dates listed below. The cost of each test is also listed. We cannot offer catch up sessions for absent students on the scheduled sitting day. Please indicate which test/s you would like your child to take part in and pay for each test on the QKR APP or via EFTPOS at the Office. Please return this form and have made payment by Friday, 28 July 2023 Late payments and forms cannot be accepted.
Calliope State School Swimming Pool facilities will be available from Term 4 for any interested parties who may wish to apply to lease the swimming pool.
For further information, please contact the Business Manager at Calliope State School on 4975 8333 or via email bsm@calliopess.eq.edu.au
Police would like to remind parents and caregivers that the areas marked in yellow below on the map are ‘No Stopping’ areas, which means that you can’t pull up and wait an extended period of time for a car to leave a car park or stop to drop your children off.
These areas are clearly signed and marked with a yellow line.
Also a reminder that the Stop, Drop and Go area is limited to 2 minutes for the loading and unloading of passengers. Police have and will continue to issue fines for vehicles stopped along the yellow lines and parked in the Stop, Drop and Go area for an extended period of time.
The maximum penalty for these offences is 20 penalty units (one penalty unit = $143.75) and can attract
3 demerit points.
To avoid the end of school traffic congestion, consider parking a bit further away and walking to collect your children or delaying pick up for 5 – 10 minutes.
Remember school staff will be at Stop, Drop and Go until 3:30pm.
The Port to Park is on again in 2023. It is a fun run that will be held on Sunday 20 August. Entries are open now! Participants can nominate their school to receive funds as part of the event.
Take in the magnificent views along the 10km Koongo Dash starting at East Shores and winding along Marina Parklands and Spinnaker Park or the 3km Yallarm Family Run, crossing the Marina Bridge and back to East Shores. For those with a competitive spirit or plenty of stamina, why not try both!
Keep updated at Gladstone Ports Corporation Facebook or visit Port to Park for more information.
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