Calliope State School eNewsletter

Welcome to Week 7 of Term 2. This week our Year 5 students are at camp. Each year the department hold two meeting days for principals. The first day is hosted by our Regional department and the second day is hosted by our delegates from Brisbane Central Office. These days are being held this week. It is a great opportunity to hear about the latest initiatives within Education Queensland.

Resilience Project

This year Calliope State School has embarked on a journey with The Resilience Project. Wellbeing is vital for successful learning. To be resilient is to have the strategies to manage when adversity happens our way. The ability to practice gratitude, empathy and mindfulness assists with resilience. This is very exciting for our whole community. Students have participated in lessons and watched videos this year to boost their resilience. Teachers have also been working on their own resilience through practicing gratitude, empathy and mindfulness.

On Friday of Week Ten (21 June) we are bringing The Resilience Project to our families. We will have our normal Principal’s Parade, followed by a presentation for all our families on The Resilience Project and how you can be resilient as a family. This will be followed by our open classrooms where you can see Resilience Project lessons in action. Families are then welcome to join your children for a picnic lunch on our grassed area. RotaKids will be running activities based on The Resilience Project in the hall during first break. Please put this day into your calendars.

Some reminders of upcoming events from the calendar include –
Week 8 -

4 June - Prep Sports Day - Last session

5 June - Year 1&2 Sports Day - Last Session

6 June - Year 3-6 Sports Event Day

7 June - Year 3-6 Sports Day and No PARADE

Week 9 -

11 June - P&C Meeting

14 June - Zone Athletic Day

Week 10 -

17 June - Under 8's Day and Cleaners Day

20 June - Reports cards emailed out

21 June - End of Term Parade followed by The Resilience Project for families, Open Classrooms and Picnic lunch on the lawn.

Snapshot 2: Gratitude

Working on gratitude helps us to be thankful and appreciate what we have in our lives, rather than focusing on what we don’t have or what we want. When we practise being grateful, we start to scan the world to look for positives – this only takes 21 days! Practising gratitude every day increases our levels of energy, and helps us to feel happier and more focused, determined and optimistic. It even helps us have better sleep, lowers levels of anxiety and depression and we are less likely to get sick. So many benefits – let’s all try to be grateful for the things and people in our lives every day!

Whole Family Activity:

Gratitude Scavenger Hunt

As a family create a scavenger hunt list of things that make you happy or you are grateful for, you can make your own list or use the examples below:
Something that makes you happy
Something you love to smell
Something you enjoy looking at
Something that is your favourite colour
Something you like in nature
Something that is useful for you
Each member of the family uses the list and has to find as many things as they can.
You can hunt for things inside or outside, or both. You can hunt for real things, or you can also do this using magazines or pictures from the internet.
After a set amount of time hunting, come back together, have a look at what each person collected and let them explain why they are grateful for each item.

Family Habit Builder:

Every night at dinner, have each person talk about their favourite thing about that day.

Congratulations to 4/5D who had an amazing attendance rate for Week 6. Their attendance rate was 96.66% for the week!

Also, congratulations to 1 other class which were at or above our school attendance target of 94% for Week 6.

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

Prep B students have been working so hard and having lots of fun learning this term.

In English we have been reading various fairytale stories. Miss Ellis is super impressed as we are using our knowledge of letter names and sounds to be able to write the beginning, middle and end to each fairytale such as Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Gingerbread Man.

In Maths we have been using lots of hands-on materials to help us sort shapes and continuing to practise our counting skills.

In Science we have been exploring materials. We have loved being able to link this unit to our English unit and be creative with our knowledge to build chairs for Goldilocks and rafts for the Gingerbread Man.

Calliope SS has many talented sporting stars who are achieving great results outside of school, and Mrs Betts loves to brag about their achievements. On the weekend, Addy, Priyah and Stella played for the Gladstone Touch U10 Rep side at the CQ Championships. It was two days of competition against Mackay, Rockhampton and Bundaberg and their team made it into the grand finals and finished runner-up in the competition. Awesome work girls!

Adele is shooting hoops in the basketball league. Recently, her U14 Girls Gladstone Power team came runners up in the Central Queensland Representative Championships. Adele will compete at State Championships next month. Go Adele!

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PBL lesson Week 7 - I stay in my classroom or with my class.

Students are required to remain with their class at all times unless given permission to be away from their class. Safety is our number one reason that students should stay with their class at all times. In the event of an unexpected emergency, teachers need to know where students are at all times. Students who master this skill can be trusted on excursions and camps. This skill is also transferrable to your child remaining with their family when out in the community, especially crowded places.

Mindful GEM moments Week 7 - who they have connected with and what they have done to connect in that moment.

Please have a discussion with your child about the reasons why they need to remain with their class at all times and someone they have connected with over the past few weeks.

Hi Families

As the cold months approach us quickly, the Uniform Shop have jumpers to keep your children warm. We are phasing out the zip up hoodies, so please get in quick, but we still have the pull over hoodies.

Sports day is in a couple of weeks. The Uniform Shop has plenty of sport shirts in stock. This Friday will be the last chance before sports day to grab a new sports shirt if you need one.

The P&C has organised for new Container for change bins to be distributed around our school for students to use.

Each year, approximately three billion beverage containers are generated in our state alone and they’re the second most littered item. So, to help us all improve our recycling efforts Containers for Change scheme awards a 10c refund for each eligible container.

Containers for Change provides an exciting opportunity for our P&C to raise much needed funds.

Anyone can choose to donate to our P&C via our scheme ID #C10002245 when they return their containers to a refund point.

You will also see a new collection bin outside the school really soon!

Calliope State School P&C scheme ID # C10002245

Volunteers Wanted!!!

We are desperately needing more volunteers to help make our fundraisers successful. We have taken on board your ideas and to make these happen, we will need more volunteers. You won’t be left with long list of tasks to do, just an extra set of hands can make a huge difference.

If you can spare an hour or two for the following events, please let us know via email or our Facebook page.

Sports Day Pop Up Tuckshop – Friday 7^th June (Year 3-6 only) 9:30am – 2:30pm

If you can assist for an hour between 9:30 – 2:30 pm, it would be greatly appreciated.

BBQ cook
Serving food and drinks
Making sandwiches/burgers
Food preparation
Help set up & down

Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Fundraiser – Sunday 16^th June 8am -4 pm

If you can assist for an hour between 8am – 4pm , it would be greatly appreciated. Time allocation will be in next weeks newsletter and on our Facebook page.

BBQ cook
Food preparation
Serving food and drinks
Help set up & down

Please remember, you don’t have to be a member of the P&C to volunteer.

You can contact us on communication.calliopess@gmail.com for our Communication Officer or pandc@calliopess.eq.edu.au for our Executive team.

Warm Regards

Geoff, Jason, Angela & Lisa

SCHOOL HATS

Parents, can you please check your child's hat has their name on it and not someone elses. We have had many hats go missing and are trying to help families out by finding out their where abouts and returning them back to their rightful owner.

Thank you for your help in this matter.

Date Claimer –

Under 8s Morning

Calliope State School will be holding our annual Under 8s morning on Monday 17 June from 9.15-10.45am. Our Prep – Year 2 students will be participating and we welcome parents and younger siblings to this event. Our local Kindy friends are also welcome to attend with parents. More information will be going home soon for the Calliope students.

Playgroup | Parenting Programs | Strong Communities Update

Tuning in to Kids Parenting Program ~ Term 3 registrations now open

Tuning in to Kids is a parenting program that helps us to develop our child's emotional intelligence.

Tuning into our children's emotions can help them to understand and process emotions in a healthy way.

This can often reduce difficult behaviour, tantrums & create a calmer home environment!

Emotionally intelligent children often do better at school, have longer lasting friendships and even have improved overall health and well-being.

Delivered over 6 x 2hour sessions, in a non-judgmental environment.

Thursdays for 6 weeks, commencing the 18th of July 2024
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Calliope, QLD (Address provided on registration)

Limited child minding available, register now to avoid missing out!

Register by emailing admin@strongcommunities.org.au or by calling 0433 019 172

This program is fully sponsored by Gladstone Region Communities for Children, making it free for families to attend.

Supported Playgroup 0-5 years

Join us every Thursday morning at Calliope SS in the Instrumental Music building & Prep outside play area for our supported playgroup.

A welcoming space for families where children can make new friends and develop social skills.

We have a range of sensory activities, arts & craft, early learning activities designed to develop fine & gross motor skills, and it is SUPER FUN!

Some of the fun activities we have tailored for everyone to enjoy this week are:

Soft Play Space
Playdough
Where is ‘Green Sheep’ craft
Colour Sorting
Sandpit Play
Water Sensory Play Tub
Mosaic Snake Art
Coloured Rice Sensory Play Tub
Group Story Time
Music Time with singing & Dancing
We also supply a free morning tea for all attending

Our friendly facilitators will always be there to create a welcoming, supportive space for parents & caregivers too, so look out for them in the ‘Be Kind’ shirts, come along and join our village.

You can check out all of the programs we offer in the region via our website: www.strongcommunities.org.au

Many thanks

Crystal

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All motorists must follow School Crossing Supervisors directions at open school crossings (children crossing flags have been placed in the poles on either side of the road at crossings).

The rule is clear and is like any situation where a pedestrian is crossing a road; whether it is at signals, a pedestrian crossing or a children's crossing; the vehicle must wait until all pedestrians and the crossing supervisors are off the roadway before proceeding.

Do not stop or rest in designated No Stopping areas, this makes it difficult for School Crossing Supervisors to view approaching traffic.

This is a timely reminder for motorists to take extra caution when driving and stopping in school zones and for parents and caregivers to ensure your children are aware of the relevant road safety rules.

At the end of the day, we want everyone to get home safely.

For more information on road safety visit the StreetSmarts website https://streetsmarts.initiatives.qld.gov.au/ or contact the Department of Transport and Main Roads on (07) 4931 1656 and ask to speak to your local Road Safety Officer.

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