IMPORTANT NOTICES

What if my child is unwell?

Any child who is showing signs of illness or feeling unwell, should 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.

Dr Carmel McGrath

Teneriffe Festival

Thank you to you to all staff and parents involved in supporting our student groups at this weekend’s Teneriffe festival Saturday 08 June – assembling at the stage area at 10:45am and due on stage at 11am. Thank you especially to Bec Davis for coordinating choirs, and Michelle and staff from Creative Dance for coordinating the dance group.  

High Achievers

Congratulations to all Year 5 and 6 students involved in the City Collective High Achievers Program at Kelvin Grove College this year.  The final session is this week with parents and school staff invited for the celebration event Wednesday 05 June 4pm.

Students have been attending activities run by the college including:

• Digital Technologies
• Drama
• English
• Maths
• Science
• Visual Art

Prep Enrolments 2024

Our prep ’24 enrolment process has begun, with interviews with families and new students to start in term 3.  Our enrolment officer will confirm interview times once applications, including all required documentation and evident of residency and birth certificates, are received. Please email your applications to:  enrolments@newfarmss.eq.edu.au 

Lunchtime Clubs

I would like to acknowledge our staff who run additional lunchtime clubs.  These provide great alternative activities for our students and change each term; with this term Sport Yr 3-6 (Mr Fleming), Optiminds Yr4-6 (Ms Kemph and Ms Joynson), Oval Games P-2 (Ms Baker), Drumming P-2 (Ms Davis), Dance P-2 (Ms McLeod), Inclusion space P-6 (Ms Eurell) and Rock and Water program (selected year levels) (Ms McLeod and Mr Fleming).  More exciting activities are currently being organised for next term.

Kay Bradley

Peer Support Program

Ask your child/children about our Peer Support Program. This evidence-based program, provides a fun and engaging environment for our students to develop skills in resilience that can be used at school and home.  The Peer Support Program, promotes wellbeing, which encourages positive relationships, connectedness and a sense of responsibility. Your child/children will get to know and form relationships with other students from Prep to Year 6.  The peer support group, once set up, stay together for the whole year.

Our groups are led by trained Year 5 & 6 Peer Leaders, supervised by a teacher, facilitate structured activities with students from prep – yr 6 in each group, of 8-10 students.

Briefing and debriefing sessions, led by teachers, take place before and after each session.

Uniform

A reminder that, school jumpers and/or plain leggings are part of our winter uniform.  Plain stud or hoop earrings are also permitted.  More elaborate earrings should be kept for weekends and evenings. 

Toy/Trading Cards

Please keep trading cards and toys at home.  These can sometimes be swapped, taken or misplaced and sorting out issues can take up a lot of teachers’ teaching time.

Melinda Norman

Kookie’s Playgroup

Do you know anyone who has a child starting Prep next year? Kookie’s Playgroup runs on Tuesdays, 9:15-10:15am in weeks 3-8 of Term 3 and 4 only. Dates are as follows for Term 3:

• Tuesday 23^rd July
• Tuesday 30^th July
• Tuesday 6^th August
• Tuesday 13^th August
• Tuesday 20^th August
• Tuesday 27^th August

The Premier’s Reading Challenge has begun! The Premier’s Reading Challenge is an annual state-wide initiative for Queensland state and non-state schools and home-educated students from Prep to Year 9, as well as children (aged up to 5 years) enrolled in an early childhood centre. The Premier’s Reading Challenge aims to improve literacy and encourage children to read for pleasure and learning. 

Read 15 or 20 books, depending on your year level, to complete the challenge. If you require another reading log, please see the office to collect one. Submit all reading logs to your classroom teacher, or the office by 23^rd August 2024.

Report Cards

Report cards will be emailed to families on Thursday 20^th June.

First Contact Excursion

On 19^th July all year 4 students will visit Moreton Bay Environmental Centre for the First Contact excursion.

First Contact is a day program focusing on the initial contacts between Aboriginal and European people in the Moreton Bay area. Students will be immersed in a moment in time in 1823, when circumstances brought the two different cultures together for the first time. Students are encouraged to become ‘Champions for the Bay’ by developing deeper understanding of local Indigenous Culture and reflecting on historical events and how they shaped the area.

Under the guidance of Moreton Bay Environmental Education Centre teachers, students attempt a range of hands-on activities that are essential for survival, such as fire building, shelter construction from natural local materials, using a spear and boomerang to “hunt” animals and storytelling.

The day provides students with the opportunity to reflect and analyse their learning and new understandings in relation to Indigenous culture, language, country and lifestyle.

Please ensure permission and payment has been made for your child to attend.

Year 1 Nudgee Beach Excursion: Everybody’s Backyard

On 22^nd (1M & 1J) and 23^rd (1S & 1T) of July our year 1 students will be visiting Nudgee Beach for an excursion that links to their Science unit of work.

Moreton Bay is your Backyard! Students will explore habitats along the edge of Moreton Bay. As they explore a mangrove forest they discover what living things need and learn that changes in the habitat (introduced animals and removal of trees) causes some living things to no longer survive. Through a dramatic performance they are empowered to consider how what we do at home can protect or harm the ocean.

Sandy Chambers

RETURNING RWI HOME READING BOOKS                    

Read Write Inc Phonics lessons and home reading were temporarily suspended for the past week as we conducted our latest round of RWI assessments. New groups will begin again next week.

Please return all outstanding Read Write Inc home reading books to school as soon as possible to ensure we have enough resources for our new groups.

Home reading books will be sent out again next Friday, week 9. If you would like your student to keep reading during this time, please click on the following link to the Ruth Miskin website where you can access RWI eBooks.

Accessing Free eBooks

Parents and carers can access 27 Read Write Inc. Phonics eBook titles for extra practice with their children at home, plus three Fresh Start Anthologies. 62 Speed Sound Practice Sheets are also available to download. 

Visit: www.oxfordowl.co.uk/read-write-inc-home

Parents will need to create a free account on Oxford Owl for Home to access the eBooks.

If your child/ren have a medical condition requiring regular or emergency administration of medication, please make sure you have supplied school with the following:

1. All medications must be in the original container and have clear chemist labels with the students name
2. Any allergy/asthma/anaphylaxis plans must be completed and signed by a GP
3. All parents must also complete a consent to administer form that aligns with the GP directed plan - there must be a form completed for each medication

IF YOUR CHILD/REN SELF ADMINISTER THEIR MEDICATION THIS NEEDS TO BE CLEARLY DISPLAYED IN BOTH THE LETTER FROM THE DOCTOR AND IN THE ACTION PLAN

Parents are also required to provide a letter detailing their consent for their child/ren to administer their own medication.

Parents are welcome to drop medication to the Admin Office between 9am – 3pm daily.

Students are not permitted to transport their own medication. An adult must attend and provide medication and complete any require consents.

For all emergency medication, once it has been received and recorded by administration, all medication (e.g. asthma medication, anaphylaxis medication) will be put into a labelled box and stored in the administration building First Aid Room.

If your child/ren’s medical status changes (e.g. asthma action plan no longer relevant, allergy severity decreased etc) please let the school know via email through firstaid@newfarmss.eq.edu.au so that we may update our systems.