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- Anzac Day Service - Friday 22 April
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- P&C NOTICE
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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.
Year 6 Camp
Our Year 6 staff and students headed off this morning for 3 days at Moreton Island. I am pleased the covid impacts have not restricted this year’s camp proceeded as planned. Hopefully they will have fine weather and a wonderful adventure. Thank you to all staff who have given up their family time to plan and attend the camp this year.
Planning Days
Head Of Department (Curriculum) Ms Loudon is working with year levels teachers in this last fortnight to plan term 2 curriculum units. The planning sessions focus on teachers collaboratively developing assessment tasks and marking guides to ensure consistency across year levels. This term moderation focus areas are Maths and Technology. Innovation Coach Mr Peter Curby is working with teachers to guide them through the Technology curriculum. Peter has good experience to share in coding and design process.
Staffing update
Congratulations to Ms Cath Eurell who has now been appointed to the Inclusion Coach position. Cath has fantastic experience and qualifications in disability and inclusion, with particular special interest in well-being and trauma informed practice and brain aware strategies. I am very pleased that Cath will continue working with our staff and community to develop and improve our inclusive practices.
Pillar Champion Awards
Our New Farm State School vision is to actively and responsibly pursue, promote and maintain a safe, respectful and inclusive learning environment for all. Our school community has been working with the pillars of our strategic plan including:
- Curriculum
- Inclusion
- Innovation
- Wellbeing
We have many superstars and champions within our school’s students, staff and families. We are starting to celebrate the work done in each of these pillars. This work makes sure that our students have a life of choice rather than a life of chance. As this term ends, we are formalising our acknowledgement of this work, starting with our staff and students at next week’s Wednesday morning assembly. Recipients will be awarded a certificate and an official badge which we hope they will proudly wear to school. Later this year we will be also acknowledging parents/carers for their work with these pillars.
Kay Bradley
- Class Parent Representatives
With Covid restrictions easing, we are excited to have parents more involved in school. The benefits of parents and schools being more connected is multi-faceted. Last week, I met with parents who have volunteered to be class parent reps.
Their role includes, but is not limited to:
- being a central point of contact between teacher and parents,
- providing clarification to parents on school events and messages,
- building connections amongst parents e.g. playdate after school.
- coordinating support where needed e.g. organise drop offs for a student in the event of a new baby,
- welcoming new families into the class.
After two years of being disconnected, it is exciting to plan for connecting once again. Our parent reps would like to build an email list of parent contacts so that they can ensure no one is missed from communication. You need to give consent for your name to be included in such a list and your name will not be added unless you have opted in. Please let your class teacher know if you are happy to be included.
School zone speed limits and signs
When you are entering a school zone, you will see a school zone sign. The sign will tell you the:
- reduced speed limit
- times when this limit is in place
- in some locations, may incorporate alternating flashing lights and red circle to indicate the zone is operational.
What is a flashing school zone sign?
A flashing school zone sign consists of a standard school zone sign that incorporates a flashing red circle and twin alternate flashing yellow lights mounted above the 'school zone' plate. The red circle and twin yellow lights flash during the operation of the school zone. These signs are intended to draw motorists’ attention to the hours of operation of the school zone and to signal to motorists to slow down to the posted speed during those hours of operation.
School zone speed
The following speed limits apply in school zones:
- 40km/h on roads where the normal speed limit is 50/60/70km/h
- 60km/h on roads where the normal speed limit is 80km/h
- 60km/h or 80 km/h on roads where the normal speed limit is 90/100km/h
- 80km/h on roads where the normal speed limit is 110km/h.
The most common school zone speed limit is 40km/h.
School zone times
The school zone times for each school are listed on the school zone sign. Generally, the standard times that most school zones apply in Queensland are 7–9am and 2–4pm.
If you are entering a school zone that operates outside of the standard times, you will see the flashing light school sign in operation. An example of this may be that a school has a split campus and pupils may need to cross the road to access each campus, so their school zone operates all day (7am-4pm).
State schools and independent schools such as private education institutions, can have different school terms. More than one school can share a school zone and each school may have different days where school is in session.
Check the school zone speed limit signs near you, or if you are unsure if it is a school day, you should slow down to the speed limit displayed on the school zone sign.
Thanks to the Year 5 students who volunteered to help with the assembly this week whilst the Year 6 students were on camp. You did an amazing job!
Our Transition to School Plan is now completed and will soon be published on our website. This plan focuses on the transition of students into Prep. Highlights of this plan include-
- Term 2 survey of Prep parents regarding their child’s transition
- Linkages with local Early Childhood Education Centre Kindergarten providers
- Establishing a regular playgroup program
- Under 8's week event
- Accessing Kindergarten Transition Statements for all students
- Utilising Age Appropriate Pedagogies
Planning meetings with our teachers have commenced and these will continue next Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th March. Relief Teachers will take the classes for 2 hours on the allocated day, to allow for Teachers to attend their Term 2 planning meetings.
Date claimers-
- Yrs 3-6 Dance Extravaganza Wednesday 30th March 6:00-8:00pm in the hall. Families are welcome to attend. Gold coin donation entry. P&C will be selling drinks and snacks. All money raised will go to supporting The Arts program. See the attached flyer for your class’ performance times.
- Prep-Year 1 Art of the World Exhibition Monday 28th March - Friday 1st April before school. Student’s art work for the term will be on display. Come along and see some tribal masks, pottery and paintings in the Art Room under the hall (beside Prep B room and Prep Playground)
READ WRITE INC PARENT INFORMATION SESSION
Thank you to the parents who came along last Friday to our 1st Parent Information session on our New Farm State School reading program, Read Write Inc (RWI).
If you missed the session there are spare handouts at the office or you could follow the links below to the Ruth Miskin website where you can read more information and watch videos about the program.
Ruth Miskins Parents’ Page:
http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/parents/
Ruth Miskin Facebook :
https://www.facebook.com/miskin.education
Free e-books for home reading:
Tuckshop- Tuckshop closed till further notice BUT ice-blocks are for sale at 2nd break on Friday's.
Tuesday 29 March 6pm Annual General Meeting of the P & C. All executive positions available for nomination. A Block Level 1 curriculum room beside reception.
*All Executive and Officer Positions Vacant* -- Nominations OPEN -- AGM Tuesday 29 March 6pm
All positions and memberships LAPSE each year so all executive positions are available and need to be filled first or we do not have a P&C.
Please consider volunteering as many hands make lighter work for all!
Areas that come under the purview of the P&C:
- Running the Tuckshop
- Running the Secondhand Uniform Shop
- Running the Swim Club
- Fundraising and Events (whereby sufficient volunteers come forward to enable such iniatives to take place)
- Continuing projects currently underway (e.g. Beeston Street Garden, Little Patch)
If you are interested in any of the Executive positions, please fill out a membership form and a nomination and email to the secretary by Monday 28th March. If you would like more information about what is involved, all the information you will need is on the website https://www.pandcsqld.com.au/
Not sure if you would like to be involved yet? Fill out a membership form and return it prior to the AGM! The AGM is the ONLY meeting at which we can accept new members WITHOUT BEING PRESENT. Then, as a member you can monitor the agenda for topics you are interested and join in and vote if you like.
Being a member does not bring any obligations. Membership means you can participate in the decision making as only members can vote!
We look forward to seeing you there!
forms due by Monday 28 March to secretary@nfsspandc.com.au.
CALLING FOR VOLUNTEERS
The P&C will be serving drinks and snacks from the Tuckshop and collecting entry fees for the Dance Concert on Wednesday evening 30 March.
10 volunteers are needed to cover the two sessions. Please contact either the president or the secretary to volunteer. President@nfsspandc.com.au or secretary@nfsspandc.com.au
