Deputy Principal Pen
Welcome back to the new term. I hope that you all had a lovely holiday with your families over the break. It is sure to be another fantastic term of learning and fun at Enoggera State School with the Book Week Parade, Science Week, Year Level Excursions, Volleyball Cup, and Wakakirri! Our first assembly was a great celebration of the students in our school with lots of awards and certificates presented to students for Student of the Week, NAIDOC Week colouring competition, Environmental Excellence and Mathletics/Mathseeds.
A reminder that there are two days that our school is closed this term:
Wednesday 16th August for the EKKA holiday
Friday 1st September for a departmental Student Free Day.
These dates and other events can all be located in the newsletter calendar and on our school Facebook Page.
Stationery Restock
As we begin Semester Two, please check with your child or your child’s teacher if they need any stationery items to be restocked! It is surprising how quickly students go through their pencils, erasers and colours with all the learning activities that they complete every day. As always, please ensure that all items are individually named clearly to assist your child to manage their belongings. This is the same for items of clothing, shoes and hats. If items are clearly labelled, it is more likely that they will be found and returned to your child. Before coming to the office to ask about lost property, please check the lost property shelf near the uniform shop under A Block.
As the weather remains cold over the winter months, a reminder that students are required to either wear a school jacket available at the uniform shop (open Tuesday morning from 8am); or a plain jumper in a school blue colour. Students are not permitted to wear hoodies or jumpers with any printing or designs on them.
Girls are permitted to wear blue stockings (or black if blue is unavailable). All students can also wear plain school blue tracksuit pants. A reminder that girls should be wearing suitable earrings and headbands to school. Headbands should be in school colours and earrings should be limited to plains studs.
This Dress Code was developed collaboratively with the school community and supports the wearing of a school uniform to promote a sense of belonging and school pride. It also promotes a supportive environment fostering mutual respect among individuals at school by minimising visible evidence of economic, class or social difference. Thank you for your support of our School Dress Code.
Our school has a very active Facebook page with daily posts to keep our school community informed of what is happening in our school. Our events are posted throughout the term to allow parents time to be prepared for the term ahead. Click on the more tab and then the events tab in the dropdown menu to go to our events.
The more you interact with the page by liking and commenting on posts, the more our page will appear in your newsfeed. A reminder that Facebook is not the best platform to ask questions that you need immediate or urgent replies to, as we don’t always see questions in the comment sections of a post. This is best done by emailing the teacher/admin or calling the office. Facebook is also not a site for posting complaints or negative comments about staff or school processes. If you have some constructive feedback for the school or an issue that you would like to raise, we would respectfully ask that you make an appointment to speak with the Principal to discuss your concerns. Any inappropriate or derogatory comments will be removed from the platform.
Pillar Practice
Our three school pillars including Safety (Be Safe); Relationships (Be Respectful); and Learning (Be a Responsible Learner). Each fortnight at Assembly, a Pillar Practice is shared with staff and students that becomes our focus behaviour improvement. This fortnight, our Pillar Practice is around improving our behaviour under the buildings particularly at eating time and line-up times. Mrs Robinson and Mrs Burrows are out and about every day for the next two weeks, awarding points to classes and eating areas for their behaviour. Winning classes will be announced at assembly in Week 4.
All class teachers are provided with a poster for their classroom and will explicitly teach our school expectations around the relevant pillar and behaviour. Students are reminded daily about our focus behaviour with the goal of improving this behaviour across the school. The Student Engagement and Behaviour committee reviews behaviour data across the school at their meetings to discuss future focus areas for identified behaviours of concern. This process is documented in our Student Code of Conduct and is part of our explicit teaching of behaviour in our school. You can support us by being aware of the current Pillar Practice and discussing the expectations with your children at home.
STUDENT COUNCIL
The Subway Meal Deal raised approximately $250 for the Student Council. Thanks to those who supported the fundraiser at the end of last term. A reminder that the Student Council supports the Sustainability Club’s Wrapper Free Wednesday initiative and ask that parents consider how they can reduce waste in lunch boxes on Wednesday. The Student Council will be meeting this Friday with Mrs Robinson and Mrs Burrows to discuss their plans for Term Three. They will be supporting a charity, running a wellbeing initiative and continuing to fundraise for their legacy item during the term.
One of our current School Council parent representatives, Lisa McDonald, has recently stepped down from their position. We are very grateful to Lisa for the valuable contribution she made to the School Council. This has created a parent representative vacancy on the School Council and the opportunity for any interested parents to submit a nomination form. The School Council meets once every term on a Monday afternoon from 3:15pm for approximately an hour. The meeting is both in person and via teams, so you do not have to come to school to attend the meeting. Nominations will be voted on by the current members at the meeting on Monday28th August. The meeting has been postponed for 2 weeks from the original date due to scheduling conflicts. Nomination forms should be email to Tina Burrows (tburr11@eq.edu.au) as the current chair of the School Council by Friday 25th August.
We look forward to receiving any nominations and welcoming a new parent representative to our School Council.
Tina Burrows
Deputy Principal