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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.
Pillar Champion Awards
Each term our school community acknowledges the outstanding contribution of students, staff and parents in our strategic pillars.
- Curriculum- Natasha Andrews, Jasmin L and Jolie S.
- Inclusion- Ethan Fleming and Aspen O
- Innovation- Mei-Lin Chen and Gisele M.
- Wellbeing- Belinda Hill, Wendy Maslen, and Cian H.
Congratulations to our term 1 Pillar Champions:
Next term our newsletter will feature articles regarding our 4 Pillars.
Watch this space.
Year 6 Camp
Thank you to Ms Zayn AlAbidin, Mr Jones, Mrs Blackadder and Mr Lawrence for supervising students during Year 6 Moreton Island environmental camp this week. It is a great deal of planning and preparation for staff and families but such a worthwhile and memorable experience and for building positive relationships. Thank you so much to all our staff for the commitment shown, enabling this camp to happen. Once again, this also strengthens our bonds with the Moreton Bay Eco Marines network.
RWI Training and 3L Training
Last week our Year 4 teachers participated in professional development focused on literacy development based on functional grammar. The staff are looking forward to implementing these practices in Term 2 English lessons.
Thank you to Literacy / Numeracy Coach Ms Sandy Chambers, for conducting Read Write Inc. Synthetic Phonics training days for new staff to New Farm. It is amazing to see our new staff so enthusiastic in learning this program. The explicit teaching and positive approach of RWI ensures students are focused on learning their sounds, blending and segmenting sounds and being able decode words from very early in Prep. Every child is working at their individual level with support in learning to read.
Inclusion Pillar
Congratulations on our Inclusion Pillar’s acceptance into the regional group: Collaborative Community for Prep and Year 1 Students with Complex Needs. Inclusion Coach Mrs Cath Eurell and teachers Ms Kerrisk, Ms DeBoer, Ms McLeod and Deputy Principal Mrs Kay Bradley will represent our staff in the regional work and lead the capacity building across our school.
Year 6 Student Leaders’ Legacy Project
Thank you to Year 6 teachers and students who have now submitted their proposed Legacy Project for 2023. The project will be a mural painted onto Perspex and mounted on the dividing external block wall behind the netball court. Theme: early Indigenous Brisbane River featuring people, fauna and flora. Inspiration has been taken from the painting below which is hanging in Q-Shelter offices on Wickham Terrace. Thank you to P&C President Fiona Caniglia for working with student leaders to help inspire this year’s project.
Safe and Relaxed Easter Break
After a busy Term 1, I hope students, families and staff enjoy a restful Easter break. I look forward to seeing everyone back for Term 2 starting MONDAY 17 APRIL.
Important Dates:
Year 6 Moreton Island Camp – Wed 29-31 March
Year P-2 Fun Day – Thursday 30 March
Last Day Term 1 – Friday 31 March
Term 2 begins – Monday 17 April
School Photos – Wednesday 19 April
Parent-Teacher Interviews May 2023
Dear Parents,
Parent-Teacher interviews will be held for years Prep to Year 6 on the 3rd and 4th of May. No booking can be made yet. Interviews will be of 10 minutes duration.
For these interviews, we are using the online booking system called Parent Teacher On-Line (PTO). It saves time for parents, staff and students!
Using this system, you will be able to book the interview times that suit you best from any internet enabled device. PTO also has its own free app for Apple and Android devices. Contact our school office, if you do not have access to a device.
The booking system will be open and live on 21st of April at 3 p.m. No bookings can be made before this time.
In the first week of Term 2 you will receive a paper slip with your student’s EQ ID. You will require this to log on when our booking system goes ‘live’. Please keep this slip safe.
From 21st of April, you will be able to access the system as follows:
- Go to the school’s home page: https://newfarmss.eq.edu.au/
- Click the PTO icon as shown here
- Click “Obtain PIN/Password” and enter your email address. Your PIN will be emailed to you.
Full instructions are provided to you after log in. Please note the following points:
- When you log on, enter your student I.D. number which will have been sent home on a yellow slip. If two parents/guardians wish to attend, one parent/guardian should make the booking then both can attend.
- You will only see time slots that are available at the time you are using the system. As time slots are booked for teachers, those time slots are no longer displayed as available. PTO prevents double-booking of teachers or parents/guardians.
- When you have made all the bookings you require, you can download or email a report of your bookings in time order for printing. You can log in and change bookings any time up to 12 p.m. on the day of the interview.
- Other parents may be making bookings at the same time that you are using the system. It is possible, though unlikely, that a time slot is displayed to you as available, but is then booked by another parent shortly afterwards. If you then attempt to book this time slot it will not be available and a message will be displayed to indicate this.
- If you encounter any problems using PTO please contact the school office by phone on 3358 7333 or by email to kbrad27@eq.edu.au
Any feedback you may wish to provide will be most welcome.
Dance Concert
I great time was had by all on Monday night at the Senior Dance Extravaganza. Thank you to all the students, families and staff who attended. As usual it was standing room only. Thank you also to Creative Dance Industries and our Tuckshop Volunteers who helped make the night a success. The junior school will have their Christmas Dance Concert at the end of Term 4.
Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting
Teachers have been busy moderating the student’s assessment for Term 1. This ensures consistency of judgement across the year level, and a deep understanding of the Australian Curriculum Achievement Standards and Content Descriptions. Not all learning areas will be formally assessed and reported on each semester. This has been detailed in previous newsletters and in the Term 1 Overviews.
The Term 2 Overviews will be sent out via Schoolzine at the end of week 1 next term. These overviews detail the Learning Areas, focus on the units being covered, and whether there is an incursion, excursion or special event planned.
Prep - 2 Fun Run and Sports Morning Games
Thursday, March 30th (9am - 11am)
It will be an exciting morning. It will be a great to have a 'fun run' around the oval again as we did last November, plus use other spaces for ball games and sack races for the Preps, Year 1 and Year 2.
Please note: spectators are welcome to watch the oval fun run from the oval footpaths, but we will need the oval grass clear to allow for a safe race set up. You are welcome to follow your child's year level to watch the other rotations.
Rotational activities include:
* Oval Fun run class heat and year level final
* Sack races
* Traditional ball games
Classroom Awards Term 2
| 2023 Assembly - Classroom & Leadership Awards | ||
| TERM 2: Week 8 | ||
| Prep M | Henrik K | for using puppets to retell a story which included lots of details. |
| Prep K | Tom J | Incredible work retelling the beginning, middle and end of The Very Hungry Caterpillar! You are a star, Tom! |
| Prep D | Edgar K | For your hard work drawing illustrations of the Very Hungry Caterpillar story. Fabulous Edgar! |
| 1M | Danny E | For your incredible use of adjectives and verbs within your character description assessment. You are a super star Danny! |
| 1D | Tristan C | For your wonderful use of adjectives in daily writing. Great work, Tristan! |
| 1S | Mabel Ea | For being an active learner in all class situations. Well done Mabel! |
| 1K | Eva D | For being a super learner and trying your absolute best in all that you do. You are a role-model to your peers, Eva! |
| 2K | Isa | for beginning to think about what she has done well and what she needs to do next to progress. You're an active learner Isa. |
| 2J | Kiran F | For being a kind friend and including everyone during play times. You're a great role model Kiran. |
| 2V | Rhett W | For your incredible work ethics and being a responsible student of 2V. Well done, Rhett. |
| 3T | Xavier K | For excellent research and presentation of Information Reports. Great work Xavier. |
| 3F | Bianca H | For being a respectful and dedicated student who always gives her best in all learning tasks. Well done, Bianca! |
| 4N | Arthur P | For his attention to detail and using scientific knowledge to design an incredible mouse tent. Good job, Arthur! |
| 4K | Dom R | For sharing great insights and knowledge especially in Science when designing a wonderful mouse tent. |
| 4A | Aspen O | For demonstrating high levels of care and understanding to your peers. You are a leader Aspen and 4A is lucky to have you! |
| 5S | Jagger B | For being a good listener and finishing your task promptly in Chinese. Well done! |
| 5F | Oliver Mo | For demonstrating high levels of respect and leadership throughout school Gala Day events. |
| 6J | Joshua V | For excellent work and high performance in class. |
| 6Z | Flyn M | For being the resident class I.T. expert. Very helpful! |
| 2023 Assembly - Classroom & Leadership Awards | ||
| TERM 2: Week 9 | ||
| Class | Student Name | Reason |
| Prep B | Estella S | For recognising and reading fifty-seven new tricky Red Words in one week. What a FABULOUS effort Estella! |
| Prep M | Georgia H | for making enthusiastic progress with reading |
| Prep K | Oakley S | For trying extremely hard to write sentences in daily writing! |
| Prep D | Frankie T | For being a caring and respectful member of our classroom, who gives her best efforts in learning. Amazing effort Frankie! |
| 1M | Beth G | For your creative independent writing. You are an incredible writer Beth, keep it up! |
| 1S | Nicholas M | For showing a huge improvement in making positive choices in the classroom. Well done Nicholas! |
| 2B | Austin K | For being a responsible and dedicated student who always gives his best effort. Well done, Austin! |
| 2K | Isla | for beginning to think about what she has done well and what she needs to do next to progress. You're an active learner Isa. |
| 2K | Harry | for being a reflective learner who continually takes on board feedback to help him improve. |
| 3M | Lachlan H | Lachan approaches each day with enthusiasm, cheerfulness and a willingness to apply himself to all tasks. Well done, Lachlan. |
| 3F | Shayla N | For an impressive portrayal of the lion in the drama of The Lion and The Mouse. |
| 4N | Claire B | For being a responsible and respectful member of our classroom, who gives her best efforts in learning. Awesome job Claire! |
| 4K | Harriet W | For being engaged in learning and making a huge effort in her learning. Well done Harriet. |
| 4A | Montse D | For always being the smiling face in 4A, your positivity is unrivaled. Well Done Montse! |
| 5F | Samuel 0 | For always following teacher instructions and supporting his peers. |
| 6Z | Josh Evans |
For working hard toward achieving his goals |
School Watch
The School Watch Program is a partnership between Education Queensland, the Queensland Police Service and the State Government Protective Security Service. It aims to reduce criminal activity in Queensland schools and encourages everyone to look out for after-hours crime in our schools. If you see anything suspicious, please don’t attempt to intervene.
Call the School Watch number – 13 17 88
Let’s work together to help create safer school communities.
If you have information for police, contact Policelink on 131 444 or provide information using the online form 24hrs per day.
You can report information about crime anonymously to Crime Stoppers, a registered charity and community volunteer organisation, by calling 1800 333 000 or via crimestoppersqld.com.au 24hrs per day.
