Calliope State School Community

Today will be my last day at Calliope SS, I will be returning to Gladstone West SS. I want to thank you for having me here at Calliope SS and wish the school and staff all the best.

The new Acting Principal will be Mrs Coralie Ditchmen. Mrs Ditchmen is the Principal of Miriam Vale State School, and has been a long-time employee of the department in the Gladstone region, with a wealth of experience. I wish Mrs Ditchmen all the best in her new future endeavours at Calliope State School.

Easter Parade and Easter Eggs

Please be aware that Thursday 1st April will be the End of term parade with the Easter bonnet parade occurring on this day. The leadership team have made the decision no Easter Eggs this year, so please refrain from sending your child with Easter eggs.

Parent Interviews

Calliope State School will be holding two formal parent interview sessions this year. The first will be in Week 10 of this term and again at the beginning of Term 3. Letters will be sent home next Monday to all families with times and dates class teachers will be available in Week 10, March 29 – April 1. This is a great opportunity to discuss your child’s progress this year.

Mr Berry challenged 5B to design and develop a device to help keep their desktop area neat and tidy using only cardboard, plastic drink bottles and other containers as well as sticky tape. They followed the steps of investigate, ideate, produce, collaborate and evaluate.

Stamping Out Bullying

This week our SWPBS lesson supports last Friday’s National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence. Calliope State School has adopted the strategy of Stamping Out Bullying.

What is Bullying?

Bullying is when someone:

• Keeps picking on you again and again and tries to make you feel bad

• Says or does lots of mean things that upset you

• Makes fun of you a lot

• Tries to stop you from joining in or make others not like you

• Keeps hurting you such as hitting or punching you.

• Bullying can make us feel sad and not enjoy school.

Students are taught to use the following acronym might help them to remember what to do if they see someone being a bully or not treating them with respect:

• S Stay away

• T Tell someone

• A Always help

• M Make friends

• P Play nicely

Be a good friend. Let’s STAMP out bullying together!

Congratulations to 3B who had an amazing attendance rate for Week 7. Their attendance rate was 98% for the week! Also congratulations to the 10 classes which were at or above our school attendance target of 94% for Week 7. Remember, every day you are away is a learning day lost.

P&C News!

Hello Calliope families, thank you to the parents, staff and community who attended our AGM last week and becoming members of our P&C. Our team is very excited about the year to come and are reassured that we have a great team behind us, to smash some goals! Don’t forget that it’s not too late to be a part of our team. Just attend a meeting and you can sign up. Congratulations to our executive team for 2021:

President: Tenielle Wode

Vice President: Kate Whitehead

Treasurer: Bec Harlow

Secretary: Sian Morley

SCHOOL DISCO – Thursday 18th March

We can’t wait to see our students dance the night away at our Disco on Thursday. Don’t forget to wear Green to celebrate St Patricks Day if you wish. Ticket sales and hot food orders close at 7PM – no late sales can be accepted.

P- Year 2 ONLY: 5:30pm – 6:45pm

Year 3 – Year 6 ONLY: 7pm – 8:30pm

Parents if you are staying for the Disco, you will need to sign in and please stay in the allocated area and keep siblings with you at all times. People are asked to not walk through the school for any reason. For safety reasons, siblings of our school aged children are not permitted in the main Disco area, sorry. Thank you for your cooperation in this.

Tuckshop News

Tuckshop operates at both first and second breaks from Tuesday to Friday. Ordering is only through the QKR! App.

WE NEED HELP IN OUR TUCKSHOP! Can you spare a day or even a morning/afternoon? · Contact Lisa at our tuckshop from Tuesday – Friday or via email at pandc@calliopess.eq.edu.au

· Helpers needed Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday

· Any time you can contribute would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Uniform Shop

UNIFORM SHOP OPENING TIME: Fridays 8:30am - 9am

Our uniforms can also be purchased through QKR! If you have any questions or queries, please email uniformshop.calliopess@gmail.com

CONTACT DETAILS

We would appreciate it if you could use these avenues to contact us with queries, feedback, or complaints. Please also remember that our team are volunteers, doing what we do because we love our school and wish to support our kids through their education. We do have other jobs, responsibilities, and commitments but we always try to respond to your concerns, questions, tuckshop, or uniform orders as quick as possible.

Email: pandc@calliopess.eq.edu.au for general enquiries uniformshop.calliopess@gmail.com  for Uniform Shop enquiries

Phone:

Tenielle Wode 0406218312 (President 2020)

Bec Harlow 0402056452 (Treasurer 2020)

Your P&C Team

Tenielle, Kate, Bec & Sian

Book Club

It’s that time of year again when we send home Book Club catalogues for you and your children to browse. Just a reminder that all orders are to be completed online through scholastic.com.au/LOOP. All order are due in by 5pm Friday 19th March.