ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

The Calliope State School Athletics Carnival was held over 3 days last week. The students had an absolute blast! They thoroughly enjoyed getting outside and participating in the activities including races, shot put, and ball games. A huge thank you needs to be extended to Mrs Betts for the time and effort that she put in to preparing for the week and leading on the day. Our P&C also did a fantastic job of serving food to attendees on Friday. We thank all volunteers that gave up their time to support the school.  

WEAR PURPLE FOR DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION MONTH – MAY 30

On Monday May 30, many of the staff and students wore purple and donated a gold coin to support in raising awareness about domestic and family violence.

On Wednesday June 1, we encourage our students to wear red, the colour that represents child safety, and donate a gold coin, as we acknowledge ‘Day for Daniel’. We are acknowledging this day early this year as we are lucky enough to have the Morcombe’s visit our school on this day. The Morcombe’s will provide personal child safety education to all of our students on how to stay safe from abuse and risk of harm.

Staff of the Week Leadership Award – Vic Brown

Vic has demonstrated our staff vision of working together throughout the semester so far. Vic has been working closely with the Leadership Team, Student Learning and Wellbeing Team and the Hub to look at different ways to support the engagement of students in the classroom, enabling them to learn. Vic has been persistent in his expectations of the students and following up with the students when they try to work outside those expectations.

 

Staff Member of the Week Peer Award – Marjorie Foster

Marjorie Foster is a true champion for lower school learning and support. She leads by her wealth of experience and broad knowledge and is first to share resources and support colleagues. Marjorie’s classroom is a wonderland set up for play based learning and interactive play which her students become fully engrossed in. She is a much valued staff member at Calliope State School and an invaluable Prep team member. 

FINAL THOUGHT

Regards

Coralie Ditchmen

Acting Principal

As we are nearing the end of the school year, police would like to issue a friendly reminder that the areas marked in yellow on the below map are ‘No Stopping’ areas, which means that you can’t pull up and wait an extended period of time for a car to leave a car park or stop to drop your children off. These areas are clearly signed and marked with a yellow line.

Also a reminder that the Stop, Drop and Go area is limited to 2 minutes for the loading and unloading of passengers. Police have and will continue to issue fines for vehicles stopped along the yellow lines or parked in the Stop, Drop and Go area for an extended period of time. The maximum penalty for these offences is 20 penalty units (as of July 1, one penalty unit = $143.75) and can attract 3 demerit points.

To avoid the end of school traffic congestion, consider parking a bit further away and walking to collect your children or delaying pick up for 5 – 10 minutes. Remember school staff will be at Stop, Drop and Go until 3:30pm. 

6A has been very busy this term in all subject areas.

We have read two awesome novels by the talented Elizabeth Honey and analysed her writing style. We have learned and applied the Order of Operations in Math as well as working with angles. Science has been a blast learning about natural disaster and in HASS we have studied the democratic process in Australia and how it has changed and progressed throughout history.

With only 4 weeks to go, we are almost half way through our last year at primary school and the year is flying by!

Congratulations to 1D who had an amazing attendance rate for Week 6. Their attendance rate was 97.27% for the week!

Also, congratulations to the 2 classes 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.

This week’s focus is: Creating a positive classroom environment

Students will explore things that can negatively impact a positive classroom environment, while reviewing how teachers have created a positive classroom environment. This lesson is our focus because:

-Every student should be allowed to learn in a positive classroom environment

-Both teachers & students influence the positive classroom environment

-A positive classroom is one where students can learn & feel safe

Triangle Data

Exploring the Learning Re-Engagement Flow Chart

As stated last week, there are a number of steps followed by teachers to re-engage students, before calling the Student Learning & Wellbeing Team (SL@WT teachers) to assist.

STEP 1- Setting clear instructions

If students are aware of the expectations of their classroom, they feel safe, secure and comfortable in their classroom setting. They know what is expected and strive to
work positively in their classroom. Teacher’s can use these clear expectations to give regular positive verbal & non-verbal feedback to those following the expectations and can also use them to remind students who are not following them. While setting & revising these expectations, it is important to stay 100% calm, 100% of the time developing and maintaining a positive, safe learning environment.

Last Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon Calliope State School held its Junior Athletic carnivals. We had two fun-filled afternoons of sprints and athletic inspired rotational activities. Mrs Betts would like to give a huge shout out to the amazing Year 5 and Year 6 students who helped her out running stations at the carnivals. She was very impressed of the how confident and reliable the older students were. On Friday students in Year 3 to Year 6 participated in our school Athletics carnival. It was a great day of athletics and friendly rivalry between our house teams. Mrs Betts was very proud of the efforts and sportsmanship of all our students who took part.

The winning team of the day was Flinders. Fitzroy was awarded the Ball Games trophy for the carnival.

2022 Age Champions

12 Year Old Boys- Carter

12 Year Old Girls- Gian

11 Year Old Boys- Jaxon

11 Year Old Girls- Sienna

10 Year Old Boys- Tyson

10 Year Old Girls- Ruby

9 Year Old Boys- Brax

9 Year Old Girls- Allie and Sienna

8 Year Old Boys- Kai

8 Year Old Girls- Lilly

Students who are in the 10, 11 and 12-year age group and who placed first and second in their events now have the opportunity to participate in the Country Coast Athletic trials on Friday 10^th of June at Boyne Island State School. Notes for these trials will be sent home this week.

Congratulations to Ethan for being selected in the Port Curtis Softball team!

Congratulations to Shaylee for her selection in the Girl’s Capricornia Soccer team. What a great achievement!

We hope everyone is having a great Term 2!  There are lots of events happening over the coming weeks so keep your eyes peeled for more information!

Tuckshop News

Keep your eyes peeled for some delicious new winter warmers added to our menu. Our fabulous tuckshop convener, Miss Lisa, is working hard again and creating some delicious soups and lucky dips along with all the amazing tastebud delights on our weekly menu, be sure to get onto QKR and get your orders in. Miss Lisa can always use an extra set of hands or two each tuckshop day to make sure your kids get their food as quickly as possible at break times. If you’d like to lend a hand, please contact Miss Lisa via our Facebook page or pandc@calliopess.eq.edu.au

Parents are reminded that ice creams and ice blocks need to be collected from tuckshop by the students with their paper bag

Senior Shirts

The second run of senior shirts have arrived, these will be sent home on Wednesday. If any remain, they will be put on QKR in a first in first served basis.

Day for Daniel

On Wednesday 1^st June 2022, we will be having the Daniel Morcombe Foundation visiting at 12pm so we are inviting children to wear 'Red' on the day in support. Please bring along a gold coin donation on the day.

Taste Buds Fundraiser

Taste buds is a variety of yummy spice blends, savoury salts & rubs and versatile mixes and the best part is you can order online and they are delivered straight to your door. Just remember to use the code Calliope at checkout to fundraise for your kids. Feel free to share the link with friends and family. More information on the Calliope State School P & C facebook page or Visit https://tastebudsfundraising.com.au/?ref=Calliope

Pizza Day

Pizza Day orders are now closed. Thank you to everyone who ordered.

Prep – Year 2 orders will be distributed on Monday, June 6.

Year 3 – 6 orders will be distributed on Monday, June 13.

Sports Day

Sports day canteen was a success and we would like to give a shout out to Bry K and our awesome team of students who volunteered on the day. The additional help was very well appreciated.

Uniform Shop

Uniform shop orders on QKR can take up to 3 business days to fill after day of order. These items are then taken to the office and the students are contacted to collect. If you haven’t received your uniform order please check, if it has been 3 days, that its not in your child’s school bag ( we all have that one child :p ) and that its not in the classroom. Please remember if you have any concerns the admin ladies are probably unlikely to be able to solve them, contact us via our Facebook page or email uniformshop.calliopess@gmail.com 

Reminder

I would like to take this moment to remind everyone that we are volunteers, we are parents, we are employed by other organisations or companies and that unfortunately, although it would be amazing, we do not have endless hours in the day. Please when contacting us be patient, be polite and be kind. We know it may be frustrating not getting a response straight away; however, please understand you are not being ignored, we just may be busy and will get to it as soon as possible. If you would like to help lighten the load and volunteer please reach out we would love to have you on board.

Please don’t hesitate to stop us and say hi and ask questions.

Your P&C Team

Tenielle, Kate, Bec, Geoff and Cass.

On Wednesday, 1 June students are encouraged to wear red, the colour that represents child safety and donate a gold coin as we acknowledge 'Day for Daniel'.