New Farm State School eNewsletter

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	2020 Calendar
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Wed 9 Dec	Last Day of Term
Thurs 21 Jan	Open School Session 8-8:45am	Not compulsory
Mon 25 Jan	Student Free Day
Tues 26 Jan	Public Holiday
Wed 27 Jan	Term 1 begins	all students

Carmel McGrath

2021 Prep Enrolments – Now Enrolling

We have now 87 confirmed enrolments interviewed and accepted for our 2021 intake.

Key dates coming up this term include:

Prep Student Classroom Visit Tuesday 17 November

For those prep 2021 students who have completed the enrolment interview, the classroom visit will be Tuesday 17 November.

Children to be dropped off by parent at the Hawthorne st Gate at 9.15am, and can be collected from the same place at 10.00am .

Staff will collect students from the gate and take them to the alloted classroom. we please ask parents to wait outside the gate at these times.

Registration required email: enrolments@newfarmss.eq.edu.au

Prep play days remaining please register by contacting Jo Keehan.

2021 School Captain Selections

Congratulations to all our School Captain candidates who demonstrated outstanding quality in their speeches last week. The students were well prepared and presented their ideas with confidence. It was a very difficult decision for all our Yr 3-5 students who took part in the voting. This week we begin our House Captain selections.

I am pleased to announce our 2021 School Leaders:

School Captains - Liam Malone and Pearl Quigley

School Vice Captains – Hugo Serisier and Aneliese Armstrong-Schofield

P&C Trivia Night Fundraiser

Congratulations to all the P&C fundraising committee David Armstrong, Laura Watson, Louise Ware, for organizing this year’s Trivia night. The event was well attended and it was terrific to see everyone having such a wonderful night.

Evacuation and Lockdown Practice Drills

Last week we conducted our whole school evacuation drill and this week we will undertake our Lockdown drill across the school. Thank you to staff, students and visitors for following the procedures during these drills.

Kay Bradley

Class Allocations 2021

To enable us to begin forming 2021 classes, it is now helpful to know of students who will not be returning to New Farm in 2021. Please inform your current class teacher if you have definite plans that will mean your student will not return in 2021. This does not include our current yr 6 students.

I have received a number of requests from parents for students to be placed with particular friends in 2021. Unfortunately, these requests will not be actioned. Our students have an opportunity to list friends they would like to work with and parents’ choices may not match their own child’s choice. In addition, the request may not match the other student’s choice of friend or a teacher’s recommendation for 2021.

In week 10, our students will have an opportunity to meet their 2021 teacher and classmates and spend some time in their new classroom.

Tenerife House Disco

As the students from Tenerife House collected the most money for Obstathon they have won a lunchtime Disco. This Friday, the 6^th of November, Tenerife students will be able to take part in a lunchtime disco, in the assembly hall.

Time - 12.50 p.m. – 1.10 p.m. for Yr4-6 and 1.20- 1.40 p.m. for Prep – Yr3.

Dress code – house colours (green) and disco hair (no colours)

Heal Street Pick up Zone

We are going to make some adjustments to our pick up zone in Heal Street as our current model, is causing traffic jams in James Street. From next week, we will trial the following:

Cars parked in the zone will be asked to move on, if their student is not ready for collection.
Students will only be allowed to leave when their car is at the gate nearest the bottom of the hill.

We hope that this will speed up the process and reduce traffic problems in James Street. To further improve traffic flow we ask that parents:

only arrive after 3 p.m. for pick up. B. 3.05 p.m. – 3.15 p.m. is much quieter
display a name card
do not call their child out of the gate, when further back in the queue or across the road.
remember to only turn left into James Street.
remain in their car.

We will review this at the end of next week, in consultation with the Brisbane City Council. As this service is a voluntary one, which can be quite stressful for staff, we appreciate the support of parents.

If you would rather not be part of the pick-up zone process, please park in a different street and walk into school to collect your child.

Melinda Norman

Thank you to our P&C!

A huge THANK YOU to the P&C for raising a total of $16178.65 in donations from the Obstathon last term! An amazing feat and thanks to all the families that supported this event. These funds have been gratefully received and will help support our NFSS Arts curriculum for 2021. We have purchased 5 brand new 3D printers and can’t wait to put these to good use with our excited students. Looking forward to showcasing our work with you next year!

Here is a photo of our new additions just out of their box:

Caption: FlashForge Inventor 2 - Bilby 3D Special Edition x 5

Olympics unleashed

Recently our Year 6 students met David Mckeon via Microsoft Teams, an Australian competition swimmer who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. David spoke to the students about his journey from competing in school swimming races to reaching Olympic level races. He reminded students that it takes motivation and persistence to achieve success and encouraged students to follow their passions.

Fundraiser for Beirut

On 4 August 2020, an explosion in the heart of Beirut sent a mushroom cloud into the air and a supersonic blastwave radiating through the city. It was felt in Turkey, Syria, Israel, Palestine and parts of Europe, and was heard in Cyprus, more than 250 km away and was considered one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosion in history.

We thank Erin and her family for being so caring and supporting others in need across the globe. Erin and her family chose to donate the money to Lebanon as they wanted to help others and these people were greatly in need.

Class	Student Name	Reason
Prep B	Jude	Looking out for a classmate and inviting him to learn a new game
Prep NASH	Harry	For wonderful progress with letter writing. Keep up the awesome wor Harry!
Prep NAV	Rafael	For working hard to complete set tasks in a quiet and efficient manner. Keep up the wonderful learning Rafael!
1SM	Oskar	For amazing Science assessment creativity with his musical instrument making.
1SC	Charles	For a wonderful first week at NFSS. Well done Charles!
2R	Jagger	For using iPads to construct a great outline of a narrative.
2M	Dhaanraajveer	Working well in all areas of the year 2 curriculum. Keep up the good work!
2A	Sienna	For presenting a composed, thorough and descriptive book review to your classmates.
2M/A	Riley	For an incredible effort in his learning this week. Well done Riley!
3D	Theo	For an ongoing improvement in writing and spelling
4W	Giselle	For her consistent positive attitude towards her learning. Keep it up Giselle!
4W	Kane	For his consistent positive attitude towards her learning. Keep it up Kane!
5H	Pearl	For her outstanding effort in leading the Day for Daniel assembly.
5B	Aven	For demonstrating a positive attitude towards her learning. Well done, Aven!
5/6C	Milla	For displaying a positive and enthusiastic attitude towards her learning.
5/6C	Jolie	For displaying a positive and enthusiastic attitude towards her learning.

Be Safe - Recognise, React, Report

Class	Student Name
Prep B	Xavier
Prep NASH	Lucy
Prep NAV	Leighton
1SM	Kit
1SC	Brianna
2M	Indiana
2M/A	Etta
2R	Sienna
3D	Darcy
5H	Valentine
5B	Eva
5/6C	Kalden

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Author Visit

During Book Week award winning author Aleesah Darlison came to our school to speak to all students about her book ‘League of Llamas, The Golden Llama’.

Students from Prep to Year 6 enjoyed her fun and engaging sessions of activities such as book readings, quizzes, games, code breaking and drawing.