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- Bicycle Safety Program
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- 2023 Participation ICAS
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Welcome to Week Two – Life Education lessons have continued this week and teachers are facilitating interviews for all parents. Whilst your child’s report card gives you a record of how your child is achieving, it is at the interview you will be able to discuss their achievement in greater detail and how you can help at home to assist with increased learning.
Last night our monthly P&C was held and many items were discussed with a focus on the best outcomes and opportunities for all students at Calliope State School.
Student Code of Conduct
Each week I will focus on an aspect of Calliope’s Student Code of Conduct. This week the focus is Intensive Responses.
School leadership team work in consultation with Student Support Network to address persistent or ongoing serious problem behaviour. This may include:
- Functional Behaviour Assessment based individual support plan
- Complex case management and review
- Stakeholder meeting with parents and external agencies including regional specialists
- Temporary removal of student property (e.g. mobile phone)
- Intensive Check in-Check out program
- Alternative Timetable
- Discipline Improvement Plan
- Short term suspension (up to 10 school days)
- Long term suspension (up to 20 school days)
- Charge related suspension (student has been charged with a serious criminal offence is suspended from school until the charge has been dealt with by the relevant justice authorities)
- Suspension pending exclusion (student is suspended from school pending a decision by the Director-General or delegate (principal) about their exclusion from school)
- Exclusion (student is excluded from a particular state school site, a group of state schools or all state schools in Queensland for a defined period of time or permanently)
- Cancellation of enrolment for students older than compulsory school age who refuse to participate in the educational program provided at the school.
Parent Survey
A reminder that our CSS survey closes today. To date we have had 90 responses.
As a reminder, this survey will reflect your opinions on Term 2. 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.
We are seeking consultation regarding our application for funding for continued Chaplaincy/Student Wellbeing Officer in our school. Although we don’t have a person in the role now, if we don’t apply for funding, we won’t be able to fill this role in the future when someone amazing does apply. This position is not about religion, it is about supporting our students. School chaplains or wellbeing support officers, support young people and provide a safe, positive influence for our children. Often this person would provide extra activities in lunchtimes, focused small group programs, assistance on school camps, and assistance on our breakfast mornings, just to name a few.
We are also seeking your ideas on how to better improve our supports regarding wellbeing of our students. We have some funding which can focus on this aspect of school life and would like parent opinions.
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.
All parents should have received this email and a reminder. If you have not please check your junk mail or give the school a call.
New Technologies for Classrooms
All Prep and Year One Classrooms will be receiving an updated interactive board to their classrooms in Week Three of this term. The library will also have a board so that all classes can access this technology. Over the next few years, we anticipate to roll out a device or devices across the school. This board is an 85” ActivPanel V9 Premium on a moveable stand that height adjustable. Teachers have been busy in both their own time and in-school time learning how to best use these board in preparation for their arrival. In addition to this the school hall will be having a multimedia revamp with new screens, projectors, and sound system.
Staffing
Moira Mackenzie is on leave from 31 July – 25 August; Raelene Norris is on leave from 31 July – 18 August. Sarah Jacob, Deputy from Gladstone West will be replacing Moira and Kayleigh Donald will be backfilling for Raelene. Kayleigh’s class will be backfilled for the three weeks.
Upcoming Events Calendar
Some reminders of upcoming events from the calendar include –
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 Sessions
28 July – Rotakids Badge Presentation (Badges not ready for presenting on 21 July)
01 August – P-3 Pie Collection
In English in 4C so far this term, we have been busy learning about traditional stories. Students of 4C have enjoyed watching, reading and listening to a range of traditional stories from many different cultures and learning about the moral or message behind each one. All students have been actively engaged with their learning in this unit. As we move forward with this unit, we will be analysing the language features and structure of a traditional story in the coming weeks. Great job 4C!
Congratulations to our Calliope Netball team for their awesome efforts at the CQ Regional Shield Competition in Rockhampton last Thursday and Friday. It was a fun two days of competitive netball and our girls played like champions! We placed 17th overall out of 36 teams and brought home the CQRS plate. Their team work and sportsmanship were commendable!
Thank you to Celisa Faulkner for being our dedicated umpire for the two days!
Thank you to the parents for getting the girls to the venue and extending the great sportsmanship off the court.
Thank you to the organisers of CQ Regional Shield for another year of sporting fun and great competition!
It was an outstanding effort and performance from our students considering they had only started learning how to play volleyball 12 days before the competition. The teachers were so proud of seeing their skills develop over this time and over the day itself! We were super proud of their team work and great sportsmanship. What a day and what a team! Thank you so much to Miss Heather, Miss Green and all our amazing parent coaches who supported our teams and kept the positive sportsmanship going throughout the day. Calliope won first place in all three age divisions!
PBL Weekly Lesson
This week students are focusing on using items and objects appropriately. All classes are going to look at:
Students are not to be walking around with or throw sticks or rocks, but can build with these in the gully. If you wish to have a copy of the PowerPoint that the students will be engaging in to reinforce at home, please email jxran4@eq.edu.au.
Cyber Safety
In Week 1 and 2 of Term 3, all classes will complete a cyber safety activity about these 2 ideals:
- We do not share personal information
- We need to report to an adult things that are not safe or break the rules.
The 3-step phrase we are teaching the students is “recognise, react and report”. All students are coming home with a small poster outlining this info
rmation. Please place this on your fridge or somewhere that can be seen by your child/ren when they are using their technology at home.
There is also a large copy of these in our computer lab and in every classroom. The lessons that the students will be undertaking are adapted from the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum. Part of the 5-6 lesson is to answer true or false to these questions in small groups. Feel free to try the quiz yourself. If you wish to have a copy of this lesson to do at home, please email jxran4@eq.edu.au.
Hello everyone! We had another wonderful and constructive P&C meeting last night. Some topics we discussed include; funding for camps and excursions (including Eisteddfod), some fundraising opportunities, Yr 6 graduation ceremony, some preliminary comments from the school survey (don’t forget to complete yours, it closes today), school improvements that have been completed, school improvements that leadership are working towards, and other suggestions and opportunities for improvement around resources and infrastructure.
Unfortunately, due to the increase costs of stock and shipping, we have to raise the cost of school uniform shirts. We cannot afford to support our student’s educational endeavours if the uniform shop is running at a loss. From August 1st ALL school, sports and performance shirts will cost $35.00. So don’t put off ordering shirts if you need them, if you want to beat the increase.
Thanks to all the families who placed orders in our Pie and Lamington Drive! Every order, large and small, helps us contribute financially to school ventures such as transport costs for excursions and camps. We will send out reminders for pie collection dates in the newsletter and on our Facebook page (don’t forget to follow us) as the dates approach.
Did you know we are part of the Drakes Community Dollars program? Remember when we used to have key tags to scan when we made purchases at Calliope Drakes Supermarket? Now you can download the myDrakes app to your smart phone, select Calliope SS to support through the Community Dollars program and scan your phone when you shop in store. What an easy way to help raise funds for our school!
Do your children enjoy getting Tuckshop? Maybe they get it once per week or once per fortnight or once in a blue moon?! We have some wonderful parents who volunteer in the tuckshop on a regular basis and other wonderful parents who just pop in when they can. And we appreciate them all! It’s been great to see some new faces volunteering in the Tuckshop already this term. You would be amazed how big of a help it is to have a parent volunteer to spend half an hour sticking order labels onto brown paper bags! Maybe you’re happy to pour out warm Milo into paper cups in the mornings from 8:30-9:00am? Or construct snack cups from the range of ingredients that are already prepared and cut and ready to be popped into a plastic cups for some hungry bellies?! If you can spare any time Tuesdays to Fridays, we would love to hear from you. And let us know what suits you!
Our contact details are: 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.
Donations - The office is chasing donations of size 10 to size 14 school black shorts. If you have any that your child has grown out off, we are more than happy to receive them in the office for students.
Thank you for your help.
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.
Congratulations to 2A who had an amazing attendance rate for Week 1. Their attendance rate was 98% for the Week!
Also, congratulations to the 7 classes which were at or above our school attendance target of 94% for Week 1.
Remember, every day you are away is a learning day lost.
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.
- ARTICLES FOR OUR SCHOOL NEWSLETTER: If you wish to publish a NOT FOR PROFIT COMMUNITY article in our school newsletter you can do this by sending an email to admin@calliopess@eq.edu.au with all the relevant details. This will then go through our approval process prior to publishing.
- REMINDER TO PARENTS: Reminder to parents and visitors to the school to drive carefully when accessing the front entrance of the school. Please drive slowly, abide by the speed limit, normal road rules and be mindful of your surrounds. We appreciate your attention and understanding.
- COLLECTING YOUR STUDENT EARLY FROM SCHOOL: 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 signing out on the iPad, collect a slip and present 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.
- RETURNING CALLS TO THE SCHOOL: 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.
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MESSAGE TO STUDENTS: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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The new childcare subsidy changes to daycare means childcare subsidy rates have increased. Use the child care subsidy calculator.
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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