Welcome to our last week for the term.

A huge thank you to Cathy Betts for all the work she has put into our swimming program, including swimming carnivals this year.  I had the pleasure of attending each carnival for a small amount of time.  The carnivals were fun, relaxed and exciting.  Cathy did an amazing job of organising the carnival so that all students could be involved at their level.  Cathy you are an awesome PE teacher.

On Monday our Year six students had their final days of primary schooling with their Graduation.  The Year six teachers all expressed how this cohort have been amazing and this year has been an enjoyable year for them as teachers. Congratulations to all our Year six students.  I wish you all the very best in your future years.  Please remember, “you can be whatever you set your heart on – You decide”

On Thursday, 7 December, all students will receive a lunch pack from the school as part of our celebration day. A note has gone home about this. Please contact administration if you child/children cannot.

This day is classed as a ‘Red Food Occasion’, as per the Smart Choices Strategies.

We have asked that you please notify the office on 4975 8333 or email admin@calliopess.eq.edu.au by Tuesday if there were items in the pack that your child/ren cannot have due to allergies.

Report Cards will be emailed out on Thursday. The best place to view them is on the QParents App.  You can view all report cards here from any state school your child/children has attended. 

A Factsheet about QParents is included in this newsletter.  Please see our administration staff for assistance. 

A mammoth thank you to all our staff for everything they do for our school community.

We wish the following staff all the best who are leaving us this year –

Miss Angelina Davis, Miss Jaimee Baartz, Mr Chris Allen, Ms Katelyn Blake and Mrs Kylie Kettle. 

Mrs Jenny Kirchner will be taking leave before retiring next year. 

Ms Katrina Southwick is on long service leave before leaving our school. 

Ms Natasha Crookey is on leave for 2024. We wish all of these staff the very best with their plans for 2024 and beyond.

Thank you also to our P&C for their fundraising this year.

I wish all our families a very safe and restful holiday.

Congratulations to 4B who had an amazing overall attendance rate for Term 4. Their attendance rate was 92.62%.

Remember, every day you are away is a learning day lost.

• Please note all named uniforms that are in the lost property are returned to classrooms. 

Swimming Carnival Results

Age Champions

Champion House – Flinders

We made it Calliope! We are living the madness that is Week 10 and we can just about taste the summer holidays!

Congratulations to all 13 of our lucky winners in our Christmas raffle! We are so grateful for the support we received for our final fundraiser this year, both in generous donations and ticket sales! We have a very special community here and our students will benefit greatly from the profits of this raffle as we continue to support their educational ventures throughout 2024 and beyond.

Congratulations to all our Graduating Year 6 students! It was wonderful to be a part of their Graduation ceremony Monday night and it’s been so nice to see the students’ enjoying their gifts of signature bears around the school the last couple of days. We wish all our graduates the very best as they continue their education journeys.

Please remember;

• Tuckshop is closed Thursday and Friday this week.
• Uniform shop will be open for extended hours this Friday, December 8^th; 8:30-10:00am.

In January, our volunteers will be opening the Uniform shop during the week before school starts back on the following days:

Monday January 15^th 9:00-11:00am

Wednesday January 17^th 2:00-4:00pm

Friday January 19^th 8:30-10:30am

If there is a need for additional opportunities we will release more dates via our Facebook page.

If you’re already planning ahead for 2024 please consider shopping at Office National Gladstone for your stationery needs. The more families that purchase their booklist supplies through Office National, the more money they will give directly back to the P&C for the benefit of all our students. Office National is a locally owned business, has super competitive prices and also delivers your booklist supplies to your home for free when you spend over $50! You can drop off your booklist in person or email it in. Check out our Facebook page for more details too!

We would like to thank everyone for their support this year. The job is far from over but, like everyone; we are looking forward to taking it a little easier over the summer holiday. We wish everyone a wonderful and safe holiday! Merry Christmas! See you next year for another fabulous year at Calliope SS!

If you need to contact us over the holiday, as always; you can email us on 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.

Hello School Partners,

 We at Helping Hands Network are very excited about our upcoming reimagined Holiday Program – Holiday HQ!.

 If you haven’t already, please spread the word to your families about our action-packed program of activities, incursions and excursions that are taking place at your  school.

 Please find attached some artwork to promote across your channels before the school term ends.  Bookings can be made via this link.

 If you are not the right person to be receiving this type of email, please forward on to the correct contact or let me know their details so I can update our contact list.

 We look forward to kicking off the holidays with a fun-filled program for the kids this summer ?

 Kind regards,

Terri Golder