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

Trivia Night

Trivia Night was another spectacular success with a great crowd, colourful costumes and plenty of fun had by all.  I am so grateful to our P&C members, Natalie Chin, Michelle Logan and George Gallantree, who coordinated and organised the event and to all the many volunteers who also helped out on the night by serving dinner, working at the bar and baking for the night.  An absolutely amazing community atmosphere and support for our school. 

Staffing Update

​​​​​​​This week we say a sad farewell to two of our wonderful teaching staff.  From Year 1, Ms Johnston will be leaving us and is moving overseas.  Her last day with Year 1J class is Wednesday 19^th June and will be replaced my Ms Fiona Campbell who has been working with us as support teacher for maths.   From Year 6, Ms Zayn Al Abidin will also be leaving us at the end of week 2 term 3, as she is moving overseas during Semester 2.  Ms Zayn Al Abidin will begin Term 3 with her class while joined by the newly appointed teacher Ms Sue Cuthbertson. Ms Cuthbertson is an experienced teacher from the Sunshine Coast who is excited to be joining the New Farm community.

Mrs Bradley is on long service leave this week and for the first 2 weeks next term.  During her absence Ms Melinda Norman will be Acting Deputy Principal and Ms Krohn will be A/HOD Curriculum.  Regular relief teacher Ms Robyn Alderman will replace Ms Krohn on Year 4. 

Sports Days

Thank you to Mr Rainbow, Mrs Bradley and all staff who helped organise and facilitate the track and field events for this year.  It was the first time we have combined the track and field for upper primary students and feedback from all involved has been that the positive, with students having greater activity during the day.  The weather was spectacular for the day at the Windsor Park and a huge thanks goes to the many parent helpers who volunteered on the day.  Students and staff supported their Houses by proudly wearing their respective Colours and showing excellent participation and sportsmanship.

Semester 1 Report Cards

Student report cards will be emailed home in this week of term from Thursday 20 June.  Thank you to Ms Norman and Mr Curby for coordinating this year’s process.

Prep ’25 Enrolments

Our 2025 prep enrolment process has begun. I encourage any families with prep aged children to submit their enrolments as soon as possible as we hope to conduct the majority of interviews in Term 3.  This is an essential part of predicting student numbers, allocating staffing and forming classes for 2025.  Other prep transition elemens will include:

• Term 3 – Pre-Prep Playgroup program for 6 weeks and a ‘Tour of the School’ for prospective families (date to be confirmed).
• Term 4 - Pre-Prep Playgroup program for 6 weeks and our regular Prep Open Day.

Inclusive Education - Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD)

The NCCD is a needs-based model of supporting students with disability in alignment with both the Disability Discrimination Act (1992) and the Disability Standards for Education (2005).  Education Queensland’s Inclusion Policy also aligns with these key policies and gives guidance to how we develop our inclusive practices at New Farm SS.  Our Inclusion Coach Cath Eurell and Inclusion Mentor teacher Kahli McLeod recently attended a regional moderation forum to ensure consistency among schools.  The main aspects included:

1. knowing our students well,
2. identifying the characteristics of individuals through consultation with students, parents or carers, specialists and teachers,
3. identifying the impacts on access and participation in school,
4. identifying the barriers which a person’s disability may have on their learning and participation, and
5. developing adjustments to the curriculum, teaching strategies and assessments to support and enable every student to participate on the same basis as students who do not have a disability.

Pillar Champion Awards

Congratulations to our Term 2 Pillar Champion recipients.  We will hold a special assembly in the last week of each term to recognise staff and students who have been nominate as doing excellent work in the areas of Inclusion, Innovation, Curriculum and Well-Being.  

Upcoming events:

• Last Day Term 2 – Friday 21 June
• First Day Term 3 – Monday 08 July

Congratulations Abby 

Congratulations to Abby who was awarded trophies for respenting regional Brisbane North for Girls cricket.

• U12 Girls Division Most Wickets and also Best Bowling Average.
• U14 Girls Division Most Wickets and also Best Bowling Average.

Melinda Norman

Report Cards

Report cards will be emailed to all our New Farm SS families on Thursday 20^th June.

Should you have changed your email address, please advise the office as soon as possible.

Year 1 Nudgee Beach Excursion: Everybody’s Backyard

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

Important Note: There has been a change to the classes attending on these days. The classes have swapped days due to teacher availability. See above.

If you wish to attend this excursion as a parent helper, please advise your child’s teacher. There are 4 allocated seats on the bus and parents beyond this allocation are welcome to attend this excursion using their own car.

A reminder to ensure permission and payment has been made for your child to attend this excursion.

First Contact Excursion

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

A reminder to ensure permission and payment has been made for your child to attend this excursion.

Merrilyn Krohn

Teacher Planning

Last week and this week teachers have been planning for Term 3. During this time the cohort of teachers meet together to discuss what learning is ahead for our students. It has been a pleasure to work with such dedicated and hardworking teachers as they review our Term 2 units of work and plan for next term.

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

Stan Williams

NEW SCHOOL ZONE SIGNS

The Queensland Government remained committed to ensuring the safety of students ravelling to and from schools and will install flashing school zone signs (FSZS) in 100 school zones across Queensland, during the 2024-25 financial year. It gives me great please to advise the New Farm State School will be receiving these signs in the Annie Street school zone and the Beeston Street/Kingsholme Street school zone. Installation of FSZS at New Farm State School will improve visibility of the school zone and serve as an active reminder for motorists to slow down when children are out and about. Several important factors are considered when assessing school zones for flashing lights, such as crash history, traffic volumes, pedestrian movements, the speed limit and visibility. This ensures FSZS are delivered to priority sites across Queensland. FSZS have been a success since the program was introduced in 2012. Since then, FSZS have been installed at more than 1390 Queensland school zones.

UPCOMING EXCURSION PAYMENT REMINDERS

Term 3 will see an array of excursions for our children, please see below due dates for payments – all invoices are payable via the QParents App, if you are yet to sign up please contact the administration team for support:

• Mini Festivals due 07^th June
• Year 4 First Contact Excursion due 28^th June
• Year 1 Nudgee Beach Excursion due 28^th June
• Year 5 Emu Gully Camp due 13^th May

Our enrolments for 2025 have now opened, be sure to submit your expression of interest now!

Thank you to Lead Organisers - Michelle Logan, Nat Chin, George Gallantree

Thank you for volunteers for raffles, bar, dinner, dessert - Dahna, Fiona, Sue, Les, Lara, Sarah Gunn, Lauren C, Rachael A, Sarah K, Eden, Kim D Robert O and Tim S.

Congrats to TRIVIA WINNERS - The Reigning Champions for the 2nd time in a row....M&Ms!

And Congrats to THE MAFIA for BEST DRESSED! 

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.