IMPORTANT NOTICES

What if my child is unwell?

Any child who is showing signs of illness or feeling unwell, must stay at home.

If a child is showing signs of illness at school, the school will contact the parent or carer to collect the child.

Kay Bradley

Playground Behaviour

Last week at assembly, I spoke to all the students about respectful playground behaviour. This follows some disappointing behaviour particularly relating to handball games.  I have spoken to individual students and to particular year levels.  Teachers have been emphasising our behaviour expectations and consequences, in particular around:

Respecting other students’ property and games.

Being aware of the rules before starting to play.

In relation to handball:

If a student hits or kicks the ball out of play they will have to retrieve it and sit out of play.

If a student can’t retrieve the ball, he/she will have to replace it.

If an ‘out’ call is made a player should respect the rules and if there is a dispute the majority decision will be upheld.

Students deliberately ruining games will be referred to Admin and will receive follow up consequences.

Teachers on duty will continue to actively supervise the playground.

Mini-Coders 

As part of the City Cluster Mini-Festivals, our school is hosting 46 students from 12 different schools. Mr Fenton, Mr Curby (Brisbane Central SS) and Mrs Hird (Milton SS) have been running the Mini Coders program for students Year 3 and 4 students. 

Students involved in the program have been part an Invention Squad. They have been using Lego Robotics to apply their engineering design skills to each step of the design process by defining a problem with success criteria, making different prototypes, establishing systematic testing procedures, analysing data to improve their solutions and describing why their solution is the best.  

Rhea, Olive and Joshua have been representing New Farm and have highly enjoyed creating hoppers, rubbish grabbers and making stories with robots.  

Jo Minto 

I have been a little quiet on the newsletter front this year! Please find some links below that you may find helpful regarding parenting your precious ones.  

Term 3 Week 2 Focus: Be Respectful in All Areas

Class	Student Name
Prep B	Madeleine
Prep E	Sidney
Prep M	Sakura
Prep P	Kitana
1D	Sean
1H	Bianca
1S	Bos
2F	Miggy
2R	Ryo
2S	Eli
3D	Evie
3/4A	Abby
4C	Khando
4G	Dimitrios
6L	Jolie
6Z	Raymond

Windsor Park Interhouse Track Day 

We were glad to have been able to have our Track Day last Friday at Windsor Park.  

It was tremendous to be having this opportunity, the students competed enthusiastically and many were on a regular athletic track for the first time. Many thanks to the City North Little A’s and to committee member, Vanessa Vickery, for assisting in organising the venue.  

The conditions were lovely for most of the morning. We appreciate the teachers and aides for their persistence later, through light and threatening rain to be able to finish the main events for selections to Districts. Moments after finishing the last of those we scrambled for extra cover as the rain set in. Consequently, we were unable to finish the scoring and present Age Champions, or the Inter-house trophy on the day. Congratulations to those who were successful in their events – our nominations will be given to the district according to the number of competitors we are allowed and information and permissions will be distributed this week. 

The Trophy and Age Champions will be announced on assembly after the Year 5 classes return from camp. 

 Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome to Week 3 of Term 3 2021.

After-School Care Activities

Jabiru has started two new extracurricular activities for Term 3. One is Bricks4 kids which will be on Wednesdays (Juniors $20.00) and Thursdays (Seniors $25.00). The second one is Homework Club which will be available free for all the kids. The two timings for this session will be from 3:15pm to 4:15pm and 4:15pm till 5:00 pm. Please ensure you book in by calling the office on 07 3269 0044, as spaces are limited to six children per session.  

What’s happening next!

The vacation care flyer will be sent out very soon with fun-filled activities for our kids.

Kind regards

New Farm Team

Parents and carers are welcome on school sites. Parents' and carers' contact details are recorded in OneSchool and can be used for contact tracing by Queensland Health if needed. NFSS also has the Check in Qld QR code for all visitors to the site.

All other visitors need to adhere to school visitor and sign in arrangements.

Covid safe practices apply to all adults on school sites. These include physical distancing between adults, not exceeding occupant density limits for rooms, staying home if sick and regular COVID-safe hygiene measures.

Schools should encourage adults to avoid congregating in or around the school, in the car park, at drop off and pick up, outside classrooms or at the school gate.

Are Parents allowed on school sites? 

Except when there’s lockdown restrictions in place, parents and carers are welcome on state school sites. However, adults should avoid congregating in or around the school, at drop-off and pick-up time, in the car park, outside classrooms and at the school gate.

When there are restrictions in place that require the wearing of face masks, advice regarding wearing of face masks should be followed.

Schools operate under ‘Covid normal’ conditions when there are no COVID-19 restrictions in place.

Please do not visit a school if you are sick. Anyone who is showing signs of illness or feeling unwell must stay at home, contact their doctor or call 13HEALTH (13 43 25 84) and get tested .

Do schools need to have the check in QLD app?

Queensland state schools may choose (but are not required) to use the Check In Qld app  for school functions and events to collect attendees’ contact information electronically.

There is no need for schools to obtain parents’ and carers’ contact details if this information is already on record and able to be provided to Queensland Health if required for contact tracing.