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- Principal's Message
- The Resilience Project
- Calliope State School Athletics Carnival
- Under the Stars for MND
- ATTENDANCE WEEK 7
- COOL KIDS AWARDEES
- COMING EVENTS
- LEGACY PROJECT
- P&C NEWS
- COLLECTION OUTSIDE CLASSROOMS
- June School Holidays Fun
- Sustainable Fisheries - River to Reef Family Day, Wycarbah, Saturday 15 June 2024
- Training Clinic
Welcome to Week 8 of Term 2. This week is our big week for our Sport and Athletics Carnivals. It has been great to see our younger grades enjoy participating in the range of athletic and sporting activities that they rotate around. It is always exciting to watch our running races. Several students have caught me in the school yard with beaming smiles as they proudly show me ribbons, they have for achieving winning placement in races. Congratulations to all our students on your participation in our carnivals. Mrs Betts, our PE teacher always works tirelessly so our students can have an awesome time at their carnival. Friday is our senior carnival and we are excited to see our school community come together as our students participate and compete in various athletic events.
School Arrival Time
Students should not arrive at school before 8:30 am. The exemptions include bus students, or students participating in extracurricular activities including but not limited to choir, planned sporting activities, and robotics. Bus students who arrive before 8:30 am are to sit quietly in the Undercroft area, outside the office until the play bell at 8:30 am. Class lessons begin promptly at 9:10 am. Helping Hands is our Out of School Care Service that can provide care for students before 8:30 am. Contact details for Helping Hands: 1300 395 735 or 0409 267 755.
School Dress Code
Oodies are not appropriate for school. They are great for the weekend. Please don’t send your child/children to school with oodies. Our uniform shop has a great supply of jumpers for winter. If any family is struggling to purchase a school jumper, please give our administration a call or make an appointment to see the myself and we will organise a school jumper.
Resilience Project
We believe that our journey with the Resilience Project can make a significant difference in the lives of everyone. This is an exciting project that can change lives. If you can only make one open day this year, please make it this one.
As a reminder, on Friday of Week Ten 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. Please put this day into your calendars.
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Cook them something delicious like a cake, hot bread, or cookies.
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Write a note to put in their letter box thanking them for being a great neighbour or friend.
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Design them a Thank You card.
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Pick or buy some flowers to deliver to them.
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Choose a little plant from your garden to give them.
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Make them a gift from things around your house.
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Offer to do a job for them, like wash their car or water their garden.
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Offer to take their pets for a walk.
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Invite them over for afternoon tea.
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Invite them on a walk.
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Recommend one of your favourite books to borrow and read.
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Ask them if they need anything from the shops next time you buy groceries.
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Say hello next time you see them and ask them how their day is going.
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Feel free to do more than one and spread the kindness even further!
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Report back to each other in one week and share how your acts of kindness were received, and how doing them made you feel.
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.
THURSDAY 06.06.2024 SCHEDULE
Plese note times are a guide:
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 has gone this week.
Port to Park 2024
The school captains and vice captains of Calliope State School attended a leader’s lead camp with other school leaders of the Gladstone region, and have been given the opportunity to create a Legacy Project for 2024.
We are planning on making an inspirational mural on a wall in the school and we would like your ideas to create it. The purpose of the mural is to get our school community together to create a place where students can go to help calm and reset their minds in a positive way so they are ready for learning by being resilient and regulated.
Hi Families
This Friday 7th June 2024 is Year 3-6 Athletics Carnival from 9am – 3.15pm held on the back oval. The P&C will be hosting a “pop up” tuckshop at the oval for ALL to purchase from. We will have plenty of food and if you have a spare hour to lend a hand, please come and see us. Cash and Eftops will be available. No need to order via QKR
Pie and Lamington Drive
Pie and Lamington Drive forms have been sent home on Monday. Please take notice of the ordering options- Cash or QKR and the allocated pick up dates for each grade. Regular reminders and information will be posted on our Facebook page.
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Order forms sent home |
3rd June 2024 |
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Order forms and money returned by |
12th July 2024 |
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Prep – Year 3 Pie & Lamington Collection |
14th August 2024 |
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Year 4 – Year 6 Pie & Lamington Collection |
28th August 2024 |
Uniform Shop
Uniform shop will be open on THURSDAY 6th June 8:30 – 9am, instead of Friday due to Athletics Carnival for you to make and collect any last-minute orders.
Volunteers
Thank you to all the volunteers who have helped out this year so far. Many hands make light work; however we still need more volunteers to achieve all the events our school community are asking for eg discos, movie nights etc
P&C Meeting
Our next P&C will be held on Tuesday, 11th June 5pm in the Administration Building. All are welcome to come along – you don’t have to be a member to attend. Hope to see you there and if you have any questions or ideas bring them along.
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
