Dear Parent and Caregivers,

MULTI-PURPOSE COURT

We are still working with the builders, certifiers and the project management company to get our court handed over. We had a meeting last week to discuss the hold up and they are still developing a plan to enable the court to meet the full fire certification requirements. This is due to the close proximity to the library and may require some further works to access and exit procedures for the court to enable it to meet certification. Once these works are carried out it will still be another month with the certifiers from that point.

WAKAKIRRI

Our Wakakirri team attended the State Showcase Awards night last Friday night and again performed beautifully in a much stronger competition this time.  Whilst they were unlucky to not come away with a National Award nomination this year, they still performed brilliantly and we have had some great feedback around the relevance of the story and the way it was told.

So, a massive congratulations to our 2023 Waka team and their parents for supporting them and travelling down to watch. A huge thank you again to our dedicated staff who have worked tirelessly for two terms to pull the production together.  Especially, Miss Dunstan and her team of Ms Kerr, Mrs Harris, Mrs Hall, Mr Harris, Mrs Rees and also Mr Edhouse, who took responsibility for different elements of the production to support Miss Dunstan in her first Wakakirri entry.  It is only with the great work and dedication of our staff being prepared to put in the many extra hours required to create something like this that enables our students to have this opportunity.

Thank you also to Mrs Rees, Mrs Burrows who along with myself travelled down to watch the performance then bring the staff and props back to school. Mr Harris was a great help also tying the bed and bus prop to the roof of my ute.  I certainly got some strange looks coming along the M1. Thank you to the other staff also who met us at EPAC and helped to unload the props and equipment late into the night.

We look forward to our team providing the whole school community wilth a final viewing of this years entry at our Arts on Stage evening next term on Thursday 9^th November.

PREP ENROLMENTS

We are currently conducting our prep 2024 enrolment meetings with enrolled prep students for next year. We have opened additional bookings for eligible students for the first two weeks of term 4.

If you know of anyone that is still to enrol for next year, please encourage them to get their paperwork in and to make a booking as soon as possible.

Once our in-catchment enrolments are finalised we will then be able to look at offering enrolment interviews to some out of catchment families before we move to the Prep Transition mornings on Friday November 3 and 17. On those mornings the 2024 Prep students will participate in a morning of activities in class, whilst the parents participate in Prep Information sessions in the EPAC. The Transition mornings go from 9-11am on each of the days. The P&C will be opening the uniform shop during these mornings for special access for the 2024 prep parents. 

EXCURSIONS

A reminder to families as our Prep students head off on their first excursion to Nudgee Beach EEC tomorrow, that when students are leaving the school on excursion, they are representatives of the school and must be in full school uniform and of exemplary behaviour at all times. If students arrive at school without the correct uniform parents will be phoned or students may be excluded from the excursion. This includes the full school uniform of shoes, socks, hats and jumpers. When students are representing the school they are to wear their school polo and not a house shirt. Likewise, if behaviour at school prior to the activity is not to a satisfactory standard students may not be invited to attend these excursions/activities and camps as this can pose additional supervision and safety risks for the activity.

A reminder also that if activities have payment required the payment and permissions go to the administration office and if just permissions with no payments these can be managed by the class teachers. It is the responsibility of parents to meet payment deadlines otherwise the invoices lapse and students will be unable to attend.

READERS CUP

Our winning Reader’s Cup team of Layla, Jarvis, Adelyn, Patrick and Charlee, attended the State Finals at Moreton Bay College last Thursday to represent Brisbane North. They were up against some tough competition this time and finished 11^th on the day, but there was certainly not much in the final results as they actually came 2^nd in Round 3 with a near perfect score of 19.5 out of 20 and they were very close in the other rounds. In fact, when looking at the final scores we finished with 67.25 out of 80 and the winner, St Peter and Paul College with 74.5, so there was only 7.25 marks between the winners and us on the day. 

They are to be commended for their great work in preparing for the competition in the lead up and then staying focussed on the day to do so well. For only our second year in the competition and against more than 400 teams across the state, to make the State Finals says a lot for the reading talent in our school and the great reading programs we have on offer at Enoggera and the support for reading in our community.  We look forward to competing again next year and building on our successes thus far.