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- Principal's Message
- Short-listed nominees' - Speeches
- Student Awards - Week 6
- Attendance - Week 6
- PBL - Week 7
- P&C News
- CSS Booklist 2024
- Year 6 Camp Students
- Prep Open Afternoon
- Helping Hands Info
- Calliope State School Christmas Carols
- Calliope Carols
- Calliope Kindy Enrolments for 2024
- Summer Holiday - STEM Central
- Respectful Relationships Education Hub
- MESSAGE TO STUDENTS
- RETURNING CALLS TO THE SCHOOL
- Late or Early Sign outs -
- Snacks and Drinks
- Donations
- School Savvy
- Save the date!
- Breakfast Club
- CSS Christmas Raffle! On Sale October 30
- Year 7 Orientation
Welcome to Week Seven of Term 4. Students are busy completing assessments for their units of work. In the next couple of weeks, teachers will participate in moderation and write report cards for students. A reminder to everyone that report cards will not have comments for subject areas this term. Parents/Caregivers may request an interview at any time and we offer interviews twice a year. Report Cards will be emailed in the last week of term and can always be accessed through QParents. Please see our administration if you do not have access to QParents and need assistance.
A Factsheet about QParents is included in this newsletter.
Student Code of Conduct
Each week I focus on an aspect of Calliope’s Student Code of Conduct. This week the focus is Related Procedures and Guidelines and Resources.
Related Procedures and Guidelines
These are related procedures or guidelines which school staff use to inform decisions and actions around matters associated with students wellbeing, behaviour and learning:
- Cancellation of enrolment;
- Complex case management;
- Customer complaints management policy and procedure;
- Disclosing personal information to law enforcement agencies;
- Enrolment in state primary, secondary and special schools;
- Hostile people on school premises, wilful disturbance and trespass;
- Inclusive education;
- Police and Child Safety Officer interviews and searches with students;
- Restrictive practices;
- Refusal to enrol – Risk to safety or wellbeing;
- Student discipline;
- Student dress code;
- Student protection;
- Supporting students’ mental health and wellbeing;
- Temporary removal of student property by school staff;
- Use of ICT systems;
- Using mobile devices.
Resources
- Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
- Behaviour Foundations professional development package (school employees only)
- No Way!
- eheadspace
- Kids Helpline
- Office of the eSafety Commissioner
- Parent and community engagement framework
- Parentline
- Queensland Department of Education School Discipline
- Raising Children Network
- Student Wellbeing Hub
Some reminders of upcoming events from the calendar include -
Week 8
21 November – School Captains Speeches
22 November – Leadership Speeches
24 November – Prep Open Afternoon (2-3pm)
24 November – Calliope Carols
Week 9
27/28 November – Year 6 Transitions
28 November – Year 3 Swimming Carnival
29 November – Prep Swimming Carnival
30 November – Year 1 & 2 Swimming Carnivals
01 December – Year 4-6 Swimming Carnival; Prep Open Afternoon (2-3pm)
Week 10
04 December – Year 6 Graduation
06 December – Classes for 2024
07 December – End of Term Celebration/Break-up day; Reports emailed home
08 December – Clean-up day
Congratulations to 6B who had an amazing attendance rate for Week 6. Their attendance rate was 98.33% for the week!
Also, congratulations to the 7 classes that were at or above our school attendance target of 94% for Week 6.
Remember, every day you are away is a learning day lost.
Hello everyone! Last night we had our final P&C meeting for this year. Even though the school year is winding up, the work to continue to improve our wonderful school for each and every student certainly doesn’t end. We had extensive discussions around planning for 2024 last night. From uniform policies and tuckshop procedures to Community grants and operational planning. All P&C memberships and positions held carry right through til next year’s AGM. So, if you have any thoughts or ideas, don’t sit on them just because we’re nearing the end of Term 4; pop us an email on; communication.calliopess@gmail.com for our Communication Officer or pandc@calliopess.eq.edu.au for our Executive team.
Tuckshop days for Week 10 will be Tuesday and Wednesday only. The Tuckshop will not be open for Break up and clean up days. When you order tuckshop, can we encourage you to let your child/ren know that they are receiving tuckshop on that day? And also to please remind your children to collect their orders through lunch time and not at the end of break as they head back to class. It is often not feasible for students to eat their lunch through class time. Thank you for your cooperation in helping getting hungry bellies fed.
Are you attending one of the Prep open afternoons? Or know someone who is? Our uniform shop volunteers will be there with uniforms for your Preppie-to-be to try on and for purchases.
Families of Year 5 students have one more week to place their orders for 2024 Senior shirts. Please ensure your orders are placed via QKR before COB Wednesday November 22nd. We don’t want anyone missing out and this is a one time only order due to the hefty shipping costs.
Have you got your tickets in our Christmas raffle yet?. Tickets are on sale now and will be drawn at the end of Week 9. We would love your support so we can continue supporting all our wonderful students. Check out our Facebook page and the advertisement in this newsletter for all the details. If you wish to support us with some of your spare time (even only a small amount of time helps the team immensely!); please check out the dates that we have booked for pop-up stalls to sell our tickets to the wider community too. If you would like to volunteer please send us an email on the details above.
Warm regards,
Heidi, Geoff, Angela and Lisa.
Parents and carers play a vital role in supporting children and young people to establish respectful relationships. Having regular conversations about what positive, healthy and equal relationships look like helps children and young people build self-respect and learn to be respectful to others. Learn more about the role parents, carers and schools play in supporting students to develop respectful relationships on the RRE hub.
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.
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.
Please note NO sweets (lollies), energy drinks or large bags of snacks are permitted. Students are not allowed to share food.
Students are only allowed to bring water into school: no fizzy drinks or energy drinks are permitted.
Lollies and fizzy drinks will be confiscated and given back at the end of the day.
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.
Pop up shop in Gladstone for families doing it tough with back to school supplies. More Information to come!
