Dates to mark in your calendar:

Friday 25^th October – Day for Daniel

Friday 1^st November – Prep 2025 Transition Morning #1

Thursday 7^th November – Book Fair Opens

Thursday 14^th November – Student Leader 2025 Applications due

Friday 15^th November – Prep 2025 Transition Morning #2

Friday 22^nd November – 2pm School Captain Speeches

Monday 18^th November – 1:50pm Spelling Bee Finals

Monday 25^th November – 9am Senior Swimming Carnival

Tuesday 26^th November – 9am Junior Swimming Carnival

Monday 4^th December – 9am Principal’s Awards Assembly and School Captains 2025 announced

Wednesday 4^th December – 2pm Roll Up Afternoon

Thursday 5^th December – 9:00am Year 6 Graduation; 12pm Enoggera’s Got Talent; 3pm Year 6 Guard of Honour; 6pm Graduation Dinner; Report Cards emailed.

Pillar Practice

This fortnight, our Pillar Practice is around our Relationships and Safety Pillars focusing on improving responsible behaviours in our toilets.

This has been an ongoing issue this year with a lot of feedback provided through the Student Council. Last week, senior leaders visited all the classrooms to deliver some important messages about our expectations for behaviour in the classroom.

We would appreciate parents taking some time at home to go through these key expectations with your children.

Front Gate

Parents are asked to please drop children at the supervised gate (closest to the library) when using the South Pine Road Stop, Drop and Go zone from 8:15am.   Some parents are letting students out of the car to go through the gate closest to Camp Australia which is not supervised, and causes issues with the flow of traffic. 

In the afternoon, this gate also should not be used by parents or students to exit the school ground as it is very dangerous to try to cross the carpark during this peak time. Please use the front gate of the school to leave the school grounds or the supervised the gate to access the car park. Thank you for your support of these processes to ensure the safety of our children and community.

Student Leaders 2025

Last week, Mrs Robinson and Mrs Burrows launched the ‘Student Leadership Process’ for the 2025 leadership positions. Students were provided with an information package to apply for a position including School Captain, Vice Captain (Student Council Chairperson); House Captain, or Arts Captain. The students will be required to write a letter of application and complete a criteria card to submit. They have also been provided with a handout to assist with the formal letter writing.

Applicants are encouraged, but not expected to attend leadership workshops with Mrs Robinson and I from Week 3 – Week 6 on Thursday at second break. Good luck to all of our aspirational leaders!

Student Council News - Day for Daniel

Once again, Enoggera State School Student Council will be supporting Day for Daniel on Friday 25^th October. Students will be permitted to wear a red shirt and/or socks to school on this day in support of Day for Daniel and the Student Council will collect gold coin donations from students to donate to the Daniel Morcombe Foundation. 

There will be a “Dance for Daniel Disco” on the AstroTurf in front of the Prep A veranda and our Chappy Twinkee will get everyone dancing at second break.  Students are reminded that they cannot colour their hair for this event or bring red balloons to school. Thank you for your support of Day for Daniel.  

Due to the Gala Sports catch up day being this Friday, Year 5/6 students will be unable to dress up but are invited to donate a gold coin before leaving for sport.

Student Council  - Free Dress Day

Our departing Year 6 students were given the choice of theme for their final free dress day and they opted for a ‘Free Choice’ dress up day.  Students are permitted to wear anything they like so long as it is school appropriate and includes their school shoes and hats.  Please bring along a gold coin to support the Student Council.

Student Council Wellbeing Initiative

Aligning with the Learning Curve Program implemented in our school, the School Council focus for the wellbeing initiative is hope. Students are able to go the library to collect or complete a “Hands of Hope” activity.  Students are encouraged to reflect on 5 things they are hopeful for and write these on each finger of the hand. 

The hand can then be decorated with colours and patterns. These will then be on display in the library.

If your child brings this activity home to complete, please speak with your child about their hopes for the future and help them to record them on the activity sheet.  Thanks for your support of this wellbeing initiative.

Swimming Lessons

Just a reminder that only students who have their lessons at 9am or 10am are allowed to wear their togs to school under their uniforms. There are many students arriving at school with their rashie shirts (often long sleeved) under their uniforms yet they do not swim until after the first or second break of the day. With the temperatures during the day becoming increasingly hotter, wearing togs under uniforms for such a long time is both very hot for students, uncomfortable and unhygienic. There is time allotted within the lesson time for changing in and out of swimmers for all classes.

Swimming Carnivals are coming up soon in Week 9.  We look forward to seeing lots of parents there.  If you are coming to the senior carnival, please remember to bring a folding chair to sit on, as the students will be in the stands during the event.

Uniform Reminder

A reminder that students are required to wear ALL black shoes to school as part our Dress Code. Socks should be white only. As we begin our last term of the year, it is important that we maintain our dress code at all times. For our older students who are interested in applying for leadership positions, adherence to the dress code is taken into account in their application. As the weather warms up, please ensure that your children are bringing their water bottles and hats to school every day!  

All sponsorship forms and money are to be returned to the office by this Friday 25^th October for the Spell-a-thon. Please note, the sponsorship forms must be returned even if you did not have any sponsors on it.  We have had a huge response to this event and have already collected close to $4000 from the community.  Prizes for the top fundraisers will be presented on Assembly in Week 6!

Teachers are now in the process of selecting a class representative for the year level spelling bees which will be held in class by Mrs Robinson and Mrs Burrows starting next week for Years 3-6. This will be an elimination style competition. This will then give us our 7 finalists from each year level, who willcompete in the ESS Spell-a-thon before assembly on Monday 18^th November!  Good luck to all competitors!