Kay Bradley

If you use the ‘Drop Off’ zone or ‘Pick Up’ zone in the morning or afternoon, you will probably have noticed some new signage.  The brightly coloured, new A frames are helping with the traffic flow and have been a big hit with our students.  Moving forward and dropping or collecting at the designated point really helps our congestion during our peak times. 

P.B.L. FOCUS OF THE WEEK

Be Safe in all Learning Areas

 

Kookie Colouring Competition

  

Design workshop for new learning centre

Reminder: New Farm SS design workshop expressions of interest closing this Friday, 23 August

As part of the planning for our new learning centre, the Department of Education is hosting a design workshop with the school and local community.

A date has now been confirmed for the workshop: Wednesday 11 September, 2019. Registration will open at 12.30pm with the workshop commencing at 1.00pm.  

The design workshop provide an opportunity to review the master plan and consider design options for the new building before construction commences in 2020.

The department is taking expressions of interest from parents/carers, neighbours and staff would like to be part of this workshop until COB 23 August 2019.

The expression of interest form is available here.

NBN Works in James Street- continuing this week

Our James street entrance will be closed with works continuing this week. Please seek an alternative entrance to the school. Hawthorne and Heal Street will be open for drop off and pick for this week.

Life Ed Van – delivered to site Tuesday 20 Aug at 4pm.

We would ask all non-essential visitors to the school be off the premises prior to the delivery of the oversized vehicle. It will be located on the netball for the next week. Please remind children this is not part of the playground for the duration of the week.

Gates locked during the school day- Access via Heal and Hawthorn Street. Reminder to parents if you wish to access the office during the school day to sign your children in or out this is only via Heal or Hawthorne st pedestrian gates. Little Farm will be locked during the school day as well.

Playgrounds closed after 3.20pm- Please be advised that all school playground are closed for general use after 3.20pm. Jabiru will access these areas for any students registered and signed in for care after school.

No Animals permitted on school grounds- 

 

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

Last reminder… The Premier’s Reading Challenge closes this Friday 23 August.

Every student who completes the challenge will receive a Certificate of Achievement signed by the Premier. These certificates will be handed out during the Premier’s Reading Challenge celebration weeks in Term 4.

Please hand Reading Record forms in to your class teacher or the library.

Parent Volunteers and Visitors to the school – Signing in at the office.

Reminder to all Parents, Carers and Visitors to our school.

All volunteers need to sign in and out at the office prior to going to your child’s class to attend activities. This include classroom helpers and tuckshop volunteers.

The Mandatory Training for Volunteers and Visitors needs to be completed prior to attending class activities and class excursions.

THE TUCKSHOP IS OPEN 4 DAYS A WEEK

The tuckshop is open on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.

Here are our daily specials:

• Monday - homemade pies and sausage rolls
• Wednesday - pasta and pizza
• Thursday – sushi, sushi bento box and pumpkin soup
• Friday - sausage sizzle and nachos

Orders need to be placed for sushi and the sushi bento box by the Monday prior.

MONEY OWING

We still have a considerable number of students owing money to the tuckshop, some from previous years. Could you please come and check with us to see if you child’s name is on the board. 

TUCKSHOP VOLUNTEERING

Thanks to Prep L for helping out this week and all our regular volunteers that help us out.

Here is the timetable for the remainder of Term 3

Week 7 – 6L & 6Z

Week 8 – 5R & 5C

Week 9 – 4/5F

Week 10 – 4W

I will be sending out emails for Term 4 soon!

Have a great week,

Vanessa, Rachael, Leanne & Tarnya

SCHOOL HOUSE RASHIES AVAILABLE

Available in school house colours (red, yellow, green)

Sizes available: 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 (limited quantities available)

Price: $49.95 each

Features:

• Queensland designed and made 
• Sustainable fabric - 80% Recycled Nylon (using a regenerated nylon thread made from discarded fishing nets and plastics recovered from the ocean) 
• UPF50+ 
• Ultrachlorine resistant
• Outstanding quality fabric for shape retention and durability
• Soft feel fabric
  

The Debating Club @ New Farm State School

The students competed in an Evening Debate on Tuesday 13 August 2019.  The topic was "that all city students should be required to complete a term at a rural school".

The teams included:

Congratulations to all of the students for a successful evening and especially to Ella and Harley for presenting two speeches on the night.  The Affirmative Team secured a win in Debate 1 and the Negative Team was the most convincing in Debate 2.    If you would like to join The Debating Club then please contact Debating Australia on debatingaustralia@gmail.com or 0402 618 890.  Classes are held Tuesday afternoon at 3pm in the Library and it is open to year 4, 5 and 6 students.

All lessons for the CEP (Community Education Program) have been cancelled on Friday 30 August in the afternoon and any classes scheduled for Saturday 31 August have also been cancelled due the Trivia night set up and clean up. Please contact your instructors for any makeup lesson times.

Ashley competed at the Queensland 10-12 Years Track & Field Championships yesterday in the High Jump event. She broke her PB to get a bronze medal with a jump of 132cm for the 10 year girls high jump. She has now qualified to go to the National Championships to be held in Darwin 18-23 September. 

BAND PROGRAM POSITIONS AVAILABLE

The instrumental music recruiting process for students wishing to be in the band program in 2020 has begun. Following the departments policy current year 3 students can apply to participate in the band (woodwind, brass, percussion) program beginning in 2020.

Could you please check that you have received the "expression of interest" form?  The form was emailed to all year 3 parents in week 4 and also given to students by their year 3 class teachers. If you wish your child to be considered for the selection process you need to complete and return it to the office before the end of this term, Friday the 20^th of September.

The class teachers and the office have spare copies.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

BAND PROGRAM: Colin McIntyre, senior instrumental music teacher.

email: cmcin13@eq.edu.au

Looking forward, Colin.

Ladies, our favourite fundraising lunch is coming up soon! Hats & Heels is on Sat 19 October at Bucci. Tickets are $160 each and include a 3 course

Lunch and unlimited Pol Roger champagne. We are raising funds this year to upgrade the playground outside the school hall.

We will have a Live Auction, Silent Auction and Raffle as well as lucky door prizes and prizes for best Hat, best Heels and best outfit.

There is also an exclusive styling evening hosted by Calexico on Thursday 5 Sept from 6-8pm to get your outfit sorted! 

For more information and to buy tickets, please go to www.nfsspandc.com.au

If any families in the school would be interested in donating to our event, please contact Justine Khoury or Belinda Hill at treasurer@nfsspandc.com.au

Get involved in the School Banking program.

New Farm State School is excited to offer the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program to all students.

School Banking is a fun, interactive and engaging way for young Australians to learn about money and develop good savings habits. Children who deposit money into their Youthsaver account through School Banking earn Dollarmites tokens, which they can save up and redeem for exciting rewards.

The rewards available during 2019 are:

* Scented Stackable Highlighters 

* Snowy Origami Set                 

* Icicle Slapband Ruler 

* Yeti Fluffly Notepad 

* Arctic Owl Fluffy Keyring

* Scratch Art Cards

* Water Skimming Bounce Ball 

* Polar Pencils & Pencil Toppers

School Banking is also a great fundraiser for our school. Our school receives a Regular Savers Contribution of $5 for every 10 deposits processed per student as well as an Annual Contribution which is based on the number of students who made at least one School Banking deposit in the prior year.

Getting involved in School Banking is easy!

All you need to get involved in the School Banking program is a Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account. You can open an account for your child in one of two ways:  

1. Online

Visit commbank.com.au/schoolbanking and click on the link to open a Youthsaver account. 

2. In branch

Visit a Commonwealth Bank branch with identification for yourself and your child, like a driver’s licence and birth certificate.

If your child has an existing Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account they can start banking straight away. They just need to bring their deposit in every week on School Banking day using their Dollarmites deposit wallet. 

School Banking day is every Friday (except for the first and last Friday of each term). Each week you just need to hand in your bank book between 8.15 - 8.45am outside the Library.

If you would like to know more about School Banking, please ask for a 2019 School Banking program information pack at banking on Friday morning or visit commbank.com.au/schoolbanking

For further information, please contact Belinda Hill on bjyates12@hotmail.com

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