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Welcome to Week One of Term Two.This a short week with Easter Monday and ANZAC day on Friday. Welcome back all our families and welcome to all our new families joining us this Term.
We will have our ANZAC Day Commemorative School Service this Thursday at 10 am. Please consider joining our school at either the dawn service in Gladstone or the Calliope service on ANZAC day this Friday. More information about times is further down in this newsletter.
Anzac Day honours all Australian personnel who have served in wars, conflicts and peace operations. The poster below commemorates 110 years since the Gallipoli Campaign involving the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and the Royal Australian Navy. Major Ernest Morgan Williams, Brigadier General Henry George Chauvel and Captain Walter Percy Farr sitting in front of Courtney's Post. The HMA Submarine AE2 made its way through the Dardanelles strait to the Sea of Marmara but was sunk by a Turkish torpedo.
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/resources/anzac-day-2025-poster
Equity and Excellence
Generative artificial intelligence in Queensland Schools
- The effective use of digital tools, resources and environments by teachers and learners is essential to respond and adapt to a changing world. Awareness of the capabilities, benefits and challenges of digital tools, alongside their safe, ethical and responsible use—particularly in the context of generative AI—prepares every child and student for a digitally enabled future.
- Generative AI tools can contribute to future-focused learning. Teachers remain instrumental in leading learning, including helping students developing critical and creative thinking skills, and ethical understanding to safely and responsibly use generative AI for learning.
- Education Ministers from all Australian states and territories agreed that responding to the risks and harnessing opportunities from generative AI technologies is a national education priority and the Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Schools was developed by a National Taskforce to provide guidance on the ethical, safe and responsible use of generative AI in schools in ways that benefit students, schools and society.
- With the release of the Framework, the department has developed initial guidance materials to support Queensland state schools to operationalise the principles and guiding statements. These materials, for Queensland state school teachers, can be accessed on OnePortal.
- In Term 4, 2024 the department undertook a short trial of a student generative AI tool named Corella. The tool is based on QChat and has additional configurations for classroom use and additional security layers for our students.
- 14 secondary schools from across Queensland representing all the regions trialled the tool with limited classes in Year 9 and 10 in Term 4. This trial will be evaluated to assist the department to identify the opportunities that a generative AI tool brings to teaching and learning.
Our ANZAC Day Commemorative Service will take place tomorrow at 10:00am in the Hall. Parents, carers, and guests are warmly invited to attend.
We also encourage everyone to join the local ANZAC Day Commemorative Services on 25 April, which include:
The Dawn Service in Gladstone - Please meet Ms Norris and Mrs Smith-Ashton at Brumby's in the Valley Shopping Centre at 5:10am. Please wear full school uniform.
The Calliope Service - We will assemble at Bunting Park at 10:30am to prepare for the march to the Calliope Cenotaph at 10:45am. Please meet Mrs Johnson and Ms Mackenzie. The service will begin at 11:00am. We strongly recommend the application of sunscreen. It is essential that students bring a water bottle and wear their full school uniform, including a school hat.
PBL Lesson this week
This week we are focusing on Establishing Expectations. We are looking at the Behaviour Matrix and unpacking this as a whole class.
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We will be hosting STAR LAB as part of our Science curriculum, this is an incursion on school premises. This is for Year 3 and 5 students ONLY. Pay via QKR! App or Eftpos in office.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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. School staff contact details including email address are available on our school website: https://calliopess.eq.edu.au/our-school/our-staff
- LOST PROPERTY - We have a large amount of lost property items at the moment. These items are located in the lost property container outside the office. If your child is missing their hat, shoes, towel, water bottle, lunch box or jacket/jumper these items can be collected from the undercroft.
- SMOKING - Smoking is banned at all Queensland state and non-state schools (school facilities), and for 5 metres beyond their boundaries.
The law applies at all times-during and after school hours, on weekends and during school holidays. It includes the use of all smoking products, including electronic cigarettes.School facilities are defined as land on which a
- state school provides education programs under the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006; or
- non-state school provides primary education, secondary education or special education under the Education (Accreditation of Non-State Schools) Act 2017; or
- state or non-state school provides other educational instruction or activities, for example, sports grounds, including land that is owned or leased by the school.