Principal Pen
Dear Parent and Caregivers,
BUILDING UPDATE
Isn’t the new building looking fantastic now the scaffolding has come down? The cladding matches in beautifully with the rest of the school and inside is really coming ahead with interior painting almost complete. Our furniture is still on track for the 30th November- though handover is unlikely to happen until well after that date due to the ICT works being done over the holidays. In the last newsletter, I spoke about the tele-communication centre of network being moved to the new building, which required the cabling from the street to be moved near the front car park. This meant possible disruptions to the Sth Pine Rd ‘Stop Drop and Go’ and parking. Now, a new plan has been created now which means the cabling will run along our fence line to the carpark, requiring less disruption to the car park- which is great news. The new lines will run through between the library and D Block to the new building. Work on this project will commence tomorrow so we will lose our D Block to Library access again, which means we will be going the long way around the front of the library for the foreseeable future.
MULTI-PURPOSE ROOF PROJECT
We have had official confirmation of the maximum SSS (School Subsidy Scheme) funding of $500,000 being confirmed for the roof project and so the project is definitely going ahead next year. We now wait for final DoE and Procurement processes to be conducted before we get a timeframe for the project. But it certainly is an exciting and massive step forward with a project that at times I feared may not ever happen due to the price rises.
WORLD TEACHER’S DAY
Last Monday we celebrated World Teacher’s Day at Enoggera State School with a morning tea for our Teachers. The theme this year was “Hats off to Teachers” which was the focus of the many cards and messages our students created for their teachers. We are very fortunate at Enoggera State School to have wonderfully experienced and dedicated Teachers and we appreciate the great work they do with our students every single day.
DAY FOR DANIEL
Again this year we acknowledged the Day for Daniel by wearing red clothes and hearing important messages on the day about personal safety. Our students bought in a gold coin for the Daniel Morcombe Foundation and we are pleased to announce that we raised $165 on that day.
REMEMBRANCE DAY
Remembrance Day is one of the most important days on our commemorative calendar. It's a day when we acknowledge those who died while serving in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. Remembrance Day is held on 11 November each year. This is the anniversary of the Armistice that ended fighting with Germany in World War I. People in Australia, and many other countries, observe 1 minute's silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month because that's when the Armistice came into effect. It's a time to honour our service personnel who died in service of Australia.
We will be observing a minutes silence on Friday for Remembrance Day and our Defence students will lay a wreath at the front of the school in our memorial garden, with myself to commemorate this special day.
PREP TRANSITION
Last week we welcomed most of our enrolled 2023 Prep students and their families to our school. Whilst the Preps were engaged in classroom activities with the current Prep Teachers, the parents were provided an information session in EPAC covering whole school processes and routines and the Prep Curriculum programs. Next week we will host the 2nd Prep Transition morning and will provide another session for parents in EPAC with our Guidance Officer, Speech Language Pathologist and Support Staff to focus in on the transition to Prep and supports available. The P and C will provide morning tea for the parents outside EPAC before the new Preps return from class. The uniform shop will also be open on the morning following the session.
Whilst the Prep transition morning is on, we are using this time to focus on our Prep to Yr 1 transition for 2023 in the Library as this is also a big change for these students.
A reminder that if you have a Prep student to enrol for next year please contact the office and book an enrolment interview prior to the next transition mornings.
ROLL UP AFTERNOONS
Again, this year we will conduct a roll up afternoon in the last week of school for all students to hopefully meet and spend time with their new teacher and class mates in their new space for next year. As transitions are an important step in preparing students for the new school year we place high importance on offering these opportunities to our students and hope that this process helps to relieve anxiety over the unknown of the new school year and to build some excitement about the year to come. Class placements for 2023 will also be sent home in the last week of school following the roll up afternoons.
Till next time,
Mrs Anne Robinson
Principal