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WELCOME TO 2025

After a relaxing holiday, it was with great excitement that I returned to Enoggera State School for 2025. There is always such a sense of anticipation on that first day as students return with their box of books and big smiles on their faces as they join their new class for the year. As always, it is exciting to see our brand-new preppies arriving in their uniforms for their first day of school!  Overall, it was a very smooth start to the year with students across all grades settling in quickly to their classes and getting to know their new teachers. I am looking forward to the year ahead and enjoying all the things that make our school great!  Let’s all thrive in 2025! 

BEFORE SCHOOL PROCESSES

PREP students

• All Prep parents are asked to wait with their own children only under C Block before school. Students should be sitting with their parents at this time. Other students without parents must be seated under D Block.
• Year One parents are asked to wait with their own children only under A Block before school.
• Prep and Year One students under their parent supervision are to remain seated and not play in these areas.
• We kindly ask that parents do not wait under E Block as this is the thoroughfare to the boys’ toilets and a handball area, and is easier to monitor with no parents and students waiting in this area.
• When the bell rings at 8:45am, Prep students will remain under C Block and line up for Mrs Egerton, Miss Enoch and Mrs Rossiter/Mrs Boone. Parents are to say goodbye to their children downstairs and help them to line up to walk up to class. 
• Parents are asked not to go upstairs with the students as it causes congestion on the stairs and on the veranda which is unsafe.

Year 1 students

• When the bell rings at 8:45am, Year 1s are to line up under A Block (near the Uniform Shop) to line up for Mrs Nelson/Mrs Prill, Mrs Gradwell and Miss Hunt.
• Students under D Block are not to deliver bags to their line up areas when they arrive at school, but to keep them with them until line up time.
• All students without parent supervision are to sit and wait under D Block.
• From 8:30 these students are permitted to play handball or skip on the AstroTurf if they choose.

Years 3 to 6 students

• Students in Year 3 – 6 wishing to participate in Kilometre Club will be walked to the grandstand by a Teacher Aide on duty at 8:30am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday starting in Week 2.
• When the bell rings at 8:45am, all students are asked to put equipment away and return to under D Block. The staff on duty will then walk each year level to their line up areas.
• Year 3A & B are to walk via the library to their line up area, not through the building breezeway.

Front Gate

Hats and Water Bottles

During these hot summer months, please remember to ensure your child is coming to school with their hat and a water bottle every day!  It is easy for students to become overheated and dehydrated if they are not drinking water throughout the day.  As always, please ensure your child’s property is clearly labelled.  Only school hats are permitted, caps are not allowed at school or at after school care.

Facebook

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. 

If you have a Facebook page, we encourage all of our parents to follow our page so you can enjoy the wonderful experiences our school has to offer. 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 comments will be removed from the platform. Please remember to never make comments on the page referencing a child’s name for privacy reasons.

Playground Rosters

To ensure that all students have a fair go on the various play areas that are very popular, in Term One we implement a roster system for both the junior school and senior school allocating where each level can play each break.  Of course, students can opt to attend clubs, go to the library or play on the AstroTurf or under D Block and E Block if they choose.  If the roster states Year 1 in Sandpit, this means they can’t go to the Fort or Oval at that break, but can still choose to go to the other options rather than the sandpit!

Stop, Drop and Go

A friendly reminder to parents that to ensure the Stop, Drop and Go Zone at South Pine Road (in the car park) is successful, it is essential that drivers proceed all the way to the first gate closest to the library. Parents are unable to leave their vehicles in this area to walk their students into under the buildings as it causes congestion to the flow of traffic and becomes a safety issue. Please do not drop your students at the first gate either as this causes cars to have to go around your vehicle and again causes issues with the traffic flow. This gate is locked in the mornings for safety.

The expectation is the same for Laurel St Stop, Drop and Go.  Please do not park in this zone and leave your vehicle as it doesn’t allow for the traffic to flow. It is important to continually move your car to the front of the zone to allow cars to move in behind you. Our staff are working hard to ensure the safety of our students as they leave the school grounds and we appreciate your support with this by following our pick-up and drop-off processes.

School Dress Code

At the beginning of the school year, it is a good time for parents to reacquaint themselves with our School Dress Code. 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.  A reminder that students are required to wear ALL black shoes to school as part our Dress Code.  Socks should be white only and should not be pulled up to the knees.

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 Safe Transitions around our school. 

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 Focus Group 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 updated 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.

Classes from Year 3 – 6 are currently going through a class selection process for their Student Council Class Representative.  This student will be responsible for attending student council meetings with Mrs Robinson and Mrs Burrows and sharing ideas and feedback from their class around our school. The students who are elected by their peers to become Student Council representatives, will receive their badges at the Student Leaders’ Induction Ceremony next Monday 10^th February at 2:00pm. 

The Student Council will then meet in Week 3 for their first meeting of the year to discuss events, initiatives and fundraising ideas for the year ahead. 

Good luck to all the students who self-nominate for this position.

Years 5 and 6 Leadership Roles

Apart from our 9 Captains, we are proud to offer many other opportunities for our Year 6 students to hold a leadership role.  Along with the Tech Crew positions, this year we are introducing Pink Vest Volunteer Leaders and Enoggera Earthwork Environmental Leaders.  Year 6 students are currently submitting applications to take on these leadership roles.

Pink Vest Volunteers are Year 5 and 6 students who work in pairs to support students in various locations across the school including:

• P-2 Fort
• Sandpit
• Setting up activities for Prep-Y1
• Library
• Prep Transitions (helping our Preppies move to play areas without getting lost!)

Once again, there were so many volunteers who attended the meeting to sign up.  Each pair of students is rostered on 1 – 3 times per week. Their help with students in these areas is greatly appreciated by staff on duty.  This is a great opportunity for aspirant leaders in Year 5 to develop their leadership skills.  

Our Assembly/Tech Crew includes four positions for students to be part of this crew who assist with set up, sounds, AV, photography and management of assembly and other events.  Application forms are available to Year 6 students this week from the office.  I look forward to reading the applications. Successful applicants will be announced on Assembly in Week 4.