Deputy Principal Pen
The term is well under way and it is hard to believe it is Week 4 already. Despite the rainy weather, students are enjoying being back in the pool for their swimming lessons with Mrs Jardine and Mrs Prill.
Last week, it was wonderful to see over 30 Year 5 students attend the first Student Leaders Workshop with Mrs Robinson and myself. For any students who missed the workshop, the application packs and criteria cards are available at the office. I am looking forward to reading the applications from the students. There will not be a workshop this week due to other professional development commitments, but this workshop will be run next week on Tuesday. Students will be reminded by their class teachers.
Classroom visits have begun again for the term, and I have been into many classrooms to share in the learning happening with the students. I have seen Year 1 students working on how to write procedures, Year 5/6 students learning about the building blocks in writing Chinese Hanzi, and Prep students who are writing additional events to traditional stories. I am always so impressed by the enthusiasm for learning demonstrated by students in our school.
This Pillar focus is currently around safety. Students are working hard to remember to use their ‘walking feet’ especially when going to and from the toilet; and when returning from the fort and oval after playtime. Special ‘Walking Feet’ Gotchas are being given out by staff when students are seen consistently walking in the school grounds. The focus on this Pillar Practice has certainly seen an improvement in walking and a reduction in falls and minor accidents.
Students place their Gotchas in a special basket in the office foyer and then random Gotchas are drawn out on parade. Students will receive a colourful shoe keyring to hang from their school bags as a visual reminder to students to use their walking feet to stay safe in our school grounds.
Gratitude Tree
The Student Council likes to promote wellbeing in our school community. This term, they have decided to create a Gratitude Tree as an initiative to promote staff and student wellbeing. Research tells us that showing and acknowledging gratitude is one of the many things you can do for your own mental health! Students have been given the opportunity to express their gratitude on leaf templates that are being displayed on our ‘Gratitude Tree’ that was kindly lent to us from the drama department. As the leaves are placed on the tree, it continues to grow and flourish! A special thanks to the teachers who have taken the time to assist students to complete their leaves and cut them out for the tree!
Term Four is a very busy term and to help families to plan ahead, all upcoming events are located in the events tab down the side of our newsfeed. Please take a moment to go through the events and add them to your diary to allow plenty of time to prepare your schedule so you don’t miss out on anything! Remember also, that the more you interact with the page by liking and commenting on posts, the more our page will appear in your newsfeed. Messages and questions on our Facebook page can be overlooked, so this is not the quickest and most reliable way of getting clarification around school events. It is always best to ring the office or email the class teacher.
Day for Daniel
Once again, Enoggera State School will be supporting Day for Daniel on Friday 28th October. Students will be permitted to wear a red shirt 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 concrete in front of the Year 1 classrooms and our Enoggera DJ Mr Roxburgh will get everyone dancing from 8:15 to 8:45am! Parents are welcome to attend.
Student Council Fundraising
This term, the Student Council will be running two meal deals. The first “Sub and Drink’ meal deal is currently live on line the My School Lunch website. Once you are in the site, you will be required to make many choices regarding your sub to get it just right!
Please be aware that orders close at 9am Tuesday 8th November. Food will be delivered on Thursday 10th November.
The second meal deal with go live after the first one to avoid confusion. It will be held on Thursday 24th November.
Thank you for your ongoing support of the Student Council as they fundraise for their Legacy Gift to the school.
Morning Routines
A friendly reminder that under C Block (Year 2A and Prep B) is out of bounds before school for children and adults. All students are to be waiting under D Block before school unless they are with a parent. Students in the care of their own parent are required to wait under E Block. For duty of care, all other areas are out of bounds as they are not supervised before school. When students are waiting with parents, it is important that are expected to remain seated and to not run around playing, to keep our ‘before school expectations’ consistent for all students. Thanks for your assistance with our morning routines.
