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Dear Parents and Caregivers,
LEARNING CURVE WELLBEING PROGRAM
The Learning Curve focus this week is from the ‘Engagement and Mindfulness’ category, the wellbeing skill builder is ‘Ways to Cope’. This topic is about students learning coping strategies to calm themselves when they are starting to feel tense, anxious or frustrated.
Students are working on this topic during their Health lessons and following up with their class teachers as well as using their ESS Learning Curve diaries. The parent article regarding this topic is attached for your information.
2025 CLASS PREFERENCE FORMS
Please find attached below the class preference form for students for 2025. There is a space on the form to indicate if your students will be returning to ESS for 2025 and if so, this is an opportunity to reflect on this year and indicate a preference of the style of class and teacher that would suit your student/s better. On the form there is also a place to indicate student/s you would prefer your child/ren to be placed with or not for next year. These forms will need to be returned to the administration office (not class teachers) by the end of week 4 (25th October 2024), to be considered in the class placement process. We will then commence this process with teachers in week 5. Please be reminded that this is not an opportunity to choose a teacher as at this stage staffing and teacher placements for next year have not been finalised. Whilst we take on board the feedback, of course there is no guarantee that all requests can be actioned, as ultimately, we have to make the best placements conducive to teaching and learning for all students.
PREP 2025 ENROLMENTS AND TRANSITION MORNINGS
Mrs Burrows and myself have been very busy last week finalising the Prep enrolment meetings for next year. If you know of families who live in our catchment and are planning to come here next year, please remind them to get their enrolments in asap as we are now planning for the next phase of the process which is the Prep Transition mornings, which will be held on November 1 and Nov 15 for all enrolled 2025 Prep students. Email reminders around the transition processes will be sent out to all enrolled families in the coming weeks.
2024 YEAR BOOK
A reminder that again this year we are producing a Year Book of the 2024 school year at Enoggera State School. This book is a great memory book of the year and is available to purchase by our families. It includes class pages and pages on all of our school events and activities throughout the year. It also includes a special focus on our graduates. The book is gifted to our graduating students at the graduation ceremony and will also be available for collection for families who order and pay for one prior. Order forms will be emailed out this week so if you wish to purchase the year book please complete the order form attached and return to the office with payment Friday, November 29, so that you do not miss out. As we only have 60 available this year the first 60 families that order will receive their copy before the holidays. A further order can be placed after that for delivery at the start of school next year.
GRADUATION
A reminder that our Graduation Ceremony for our Yr 6 student will be held on Thursday 5th December at 9:00am in EPAC and this will be followed by the Guard of Honour later in the day and then the Graduation Social Event in EPAC that night. Information will go out shortly to the Yr 6 families with information about the event. The cost of tickets for a 3-course catered buffet dinner will be $45 per head. There will be a DJ to entertain the students after the dinner. There will be a limit on 3 tickets per student to the dinner (graduate and 2 parents) only.
We would like to set up a committee of parents who would be interested in assisting with some roles as the event gets closer. These would be tasks such as setting up, cleaning up, decorating the EPAC and setting up a photo booth. We invite parents interested in being part of this committee to meet with us on Friday, October 18 at 2:30pm in the school library.
MORNING ROUTINES
A reminder regarding the morning routines at Enoggera State School. Students are supervised by school staff under D Block from 8:15am. Only students waiting with parents should be under C Block. If students are arriving at school prior to 8:15am they should be booked into OSHC.
WEEK 11
A reminder that we are still working on a plan for week 11 of this term, however as was in the last newsletter, this week 11 of school is being termed a ‘soft week’ and there will be no formal activities or formal teaching occurring. All official school events will be finalised by the usual end of week 10 of the term and week 11 will be supervision and alternative activities for those students’ requiring supervision. Therefore, if families are wishing to go on holidays early, they can go at the end of week 10 as usual, without missing anything important at school. Hopefully, with less students attending in week 11 we will be able to collapse classes so that our teachers get some planning and preparation time for the new school year before heading into the holidays.
Till next time,
Mrs Anne Robinson
Principal
Welcome back to Term 4! I hope that everyone had a great holiday! I am happy to be back at school for a busy and exciting Term Four and am looking forward to the many events that occur during this term including Book Fair, Day for Daniel, Gala Days, Swimming lessons and carnivals, Roll Up Afternoon, Student Leadership, the Year 6 Graduation and dinner. Have a wonderful term everyone!
Calendar Dates
Dates to mark in your calendar:
Friday 4th, 11th and 18th October – Year 5/6 Gala Sport
Thursday 17th November – Student Leadership 2025 Process launched
Monday 21st October; 4th November; 18th November - Assembly
Friday 25th October – Day for Daniel
Friday 1st November – Prep 2024 Transition Morning #1
Thursday 7th November – Book Fair Opens
Thursday 14th November – Student Leader 2025 Applications due
Friday 15th November – Prep 2024 Transition Morning #2
Friday 22nd November – 2pm School Captain Speeches
Monday 18th November – 1:50pm Spelling Bee Finals
Monday 25th November – 9am Senior Swimming Carnival
Tuesday 26th November – 9am Junior Swimming Carnival
Monday 4th December – 9am Principal’s Awards Assembly and School Captains 2025 announced
Wednesday 4th December – 2pm Roll Up Afternoon
Thursday 5th 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
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 our Relationships Pillar focusing on the power of our words.
- Using kind words and not swear words
- Your words can change someone’s entire day
- Use your words to speak friendly and speak firmly when following the ESS High Five
You may have noticed that the Term 4 Events were posted on Facebook over the holidays. Please click on ‘More’ and then ‘Events’ to see a list of all of our events for the term.
Student Leaders 2024
Next week, Mrs Robinson and I will launch the Student Leadership Process for the 2025 leadership positions. Students will be provided with an information package if they are interested in applying for a position including School Captain, House Captain, Arts Captain or Student Council Chairperson (Vice Captain). The students will be required to write a letter of application and complete a criteria card to submit. 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.
Day for Daniel
Once again, Enoggera State School will be supporting Day for Daniel on Friday 25thOctober. Students willbe 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 from at second break. Please no face or hair colour for this 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!
Student Council News
Last term, the Student Council held a Subway Meal Deal which raised $250 towards their legacy item. They also organised a fundraiser for the National Endangered Species Day and raised $190 towards this cause. The Student Council also launched their first ever ESS Spell-a-thon as a major fundraiser. Thanks so much to all the students and their families for sponsoring students for the Spell-a-thon. All tests have now been conducted and students will bring home their tallied sponsorship forms to collect moneys. All sponsorship forms and money are due back to the office by Friday 25th October. Please note, the sponsorship forms must be returned even if you did not have any sponsors on it. Once the spell-a-thon is completed, teachers will be selecting a class representative for the year level spelling bees which will be held in class by Mrs Robinson and Mrs Burrows. This will then give us our 7 finalists from each year level to compete in the ESS Spell-a-thon before assembly on Monday 18th November! Good luck to all competitors!
The Student Council has already had their first meeting for the term, bringing lots of interesting ideas to the meeting on behalf of their classes. This term, our Wellbeing Initiative will focus on ‘Hope’ with an activity being organised for Week 5. There will also be a free dress day – the theme is going to be decided by the leaving Year 6 cohort and this will be held at the end of Week 6 on Friday 8th November. The Student Council also supports Day for Daniel with a gold coin fundraiser and our ‘Dance for Daniel’ dance party on the AstroTurf with Chappy Twinkee on Friday October 25th at 1:20pm. Finally, the Student Council will be organising for students to purchase pizza for class parties on Thursday 5th December. It is going to be a busy term ahead for the Student Council.
Deputy Principal
Term 4 Learning
This week all families will be receiving class newsletters and Term Four Curriculum Overviews. These documents will provide detailed information about all the valuable learning experiences students will undertake this term. Should you have any questions regarding this term please contact your child’s classroom teacher via email.
2025 Stationery Book Packs
2025 Stationery Book Packs will be available through Bedrock Books. We are currently working with staff and Bedrock to finalise book lists. Once completed applicable book lists will be emailed to families with information on how to order. Families will have until 27th November 2024 to order to ensure these are delivered prior to the commencement of school next year.
Library Upgrades
Our amazing library and computer lab is back online after a beautiful facelift over the holidays. In addition to paintwork the library has been redesigned to provide designated junior and senior school areas for students to utilise and enjoy. It has been very pleasing to see many students accessing the library this week and treating the area and resources with Enoggera care and respect.
Book Club Issue 7:
Students received Book Club catalogues in Week 1 of Term 4. Orders can be made online until Sunday 20th October. Please note the below reminder on how to order Book Club.
Once again Enoggera State School will host our spectacular Book Fair in Week 6 of Term Four. Students will be able to peruse the fair with their class and purchases can occur from Thursday 7th November until Wednesday 13th November. Family members are most welcome to attend and the Fair will be open until 6pm on Monday 11th November. Further information will be provided in upcoming Newsletters and Facebook.
Mrs Amy O'Malley
Head of Department, Curriculum
Bebras Challenge
The Bebras Computational Thinking Competition commenced today and will conclude at the end of October 2024. Students Years 3-6 are encouraged to participate in this free activity by taking one hour out of their lunchtime to work in pairs or individually in this paired activity. Email Mr Harris ASAP mharr94@eq.edu.au if you are interested in your child/ren being part of this important Digital Technologies activity.
More information at Bebras website. Practice challenges are found here.
Michael Harris
Digital Technologies Teacher
Interschool Gala Sport
Our year 5&6 students participated in the first Friday of Interschool Sport (Gala Sport) last week with two more Fridays to go. Teams participated in Girls Touch, Boys Touch and T20 Cricket. From all accounts, everyone did a great job.
Thanks to all the supporting teachers who supported the students during these activities – including where students needed umpiring or refereeing games.
I would also like to say a huge thanks to Scott and Emily Howard for setting up the boys touch fields at the last minute. All the schools participating passed on a huge thank you.
Reminder that everyone needs to be bringing their hats, water bottles, lunch and sunscreen. It is important that they bring their lunch to ensure they are fuelling their bodies well and any canteen purchases supplement their lunches not replace them.
Year 3 & 4 Sport
Our year 3 & 4 students participated in their first week of our sports skills program. All year 3 & 4 students spent our middle session and afternoon session out on the oval and multipurpose court rotating through four separate sports. This will happen while our year 5 & 6 classes are out at Gala sports.
Our focus for the program are the sports that we participate in annually, namely, Volleyball, Touch and T20 Cricket. The fourth sport, is a multi-sport – activities like 10 pin bowling and bocce. Again, a massive thanks for the supporting teachers.
During week 1 – students focused on skills for each sport, week 2 will work on additional skills and start introducing modified game play and in week 3 it is planned that they focus more on modified game play.
Swimming
Swimming has started for this term – thanks to everyone who has been bringing their equipment as needed each week. Another thanks to parents who have been notifying us if their child is unable to participate in swimming.
We are still looking for help from parents in all of our Prep to year 2 space with some classes in more urgent need of help. Thanks so much to those who have already volunteered and are coming along, we can’t do it without you. Any helpers for Prep B would be amazing.
If you are able to help either for one lesson or maybe each week please email aawoo0@eq.edu.au
Adult support in these age groups makes a huge difference to our programs.
A reminder that personal equipment (swim cap, rashie, towel) is required to participate in the swimming program. There are limited numbers of “spare” equipment that is ok to use sometimes, but its important to get in the habit of having everything ready.
Named items of clothing are also essential. There were many lost items last week that could be solved easily if everything was named – yes please EVERYTHING!
Swim timetable:
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Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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9am |
2A |
Prep B |
3A |
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10am |
3B |
1A |
1B |
Prep C |
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11:40am |
5/6A |
5/6B |
5/6C |
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12:10pm |
Prep A |
2B |
4A |
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2pm |
2C |
1C |
4B |
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Mr Andrew Woodrick
HPE Teacher
| Term 4 | ||
| Week 1 | Monday 30 September | Return to School |
| Wednesday 2 Ocotober | Student Leaders meeting 1.15pm | |
| Thursday 3 October | Student Council Meeting 1.15pm | |
| Friday 4 October |
Gala Sport Years 5 & 6 Sports Skills Years 3 & 4 |
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| Week 2 | Friday 4 October | Swim Club commences - free swim from 5.30pm, Races begin at 6.15pm |
| Monday 7 October | Public Holiday - School Closed | |
| Friday 11 October |
Gala Sport Years 5 & 6 Sport Skills Year 3 & 4 |
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| Week 3 | Friday 18 October |
Gala Sport Years 5 & 6 Sport Skills Years 3 & 4 |
| Week 4 | Monday 21 October | Assembly 2.15pm |
| Friday 25 October | Day for Daniel | |
| Week 5 | Monday 28 October | Years 3-6 Spelling Bee Competition |
| Friday 1 November | Prep Transition Morning 9-11am |
P & C News
EVENTS
WORLD TEACHER DAY FRIDAY 25TH OCTOBER
Celebrate our wonderful teachers and support staff at our big little school by donating a gold coin or your choice donation towards a cup of Coffee or choice of their drink from Coffee Crema. Open now on QKR! or leave in Reception in the Box.
ARTS ON STAGE FOOD THURSDAY 21ST NOVEMBER
The P&C will organise food and drinks for purchase prior to the concert and sell Mini Magnums afterwards. More details to follow.
CHRISTMAS MOVIE AND MARKET COMMUNITY EVENT FRIDAY 29TH NOVEMBER
Our Annual Christmas Movie and Markets night is back. For those new to the school this year, this is a community event held on the Oval. Starting from 4.30pm there will be local handmade market stalls for stocking up on those Christmas presents along with food trucks, drinks and snacks to buy. Each Year group will also perform a Christmas Song and to finish the evening we will show a Family Friendly Movie on the big screen on the oval. This is a Free Event, however if you would like to donate to help us reach our $50K target for a new Playground, please donate via QKR! or in the Box in Reception.
MANGO DRIVE
Our annual Mango Drive is this Term with the cut off on Friday 25th October.
Purchase a tray of delicious Bowen Mangos and they will be delivered to the school for pick up around the last week of November.
Get onto QKR now to secure your tray.
Send this link to anyone outside the school to help https://www.trybooking.com/CVBFA
ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
Entertainment is the easy-to-use App packed with incredible savings of up to 50% off and 2 for 1 offers, so you can save on takeaway, dining, shopping, groceries, gift cards, activities and more! And what's even better, 20% of every 12-month membership purchased will support our P&C fundraising goals.
Click on this link to purchase and share with your friends - https://subscribe.entertainment.com.au/fundraiser/228244a
TUCK INN WEDNESDAY MEAL DEAL SPECIALS FOR OCTOBER
OCTOBER MEAL DEAL!! Running for 5 Wednesdays.
Mini cheese pizza with a Halloween Choc Chip Cookie and a drink
Hop on QKR! now and place an order.
BACK IN TERM 4
Thats right, our very popular frozen Fridays are back at the Tuckshop in term 4
$1 Ice Blocks, cash only 3-3:15pm
CONTAINERS FOR CHANGE
Please support our P&C by using this code when you deposit your bottles / cans etc.
Enoggera State School P&C Association C10051863
P&C Executives
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President – Melanie Russell Vice President - Winsome Rosier Secretary- Jessica Wall |
Treasurer – Debbie Brauer Assistant Treasurer – Shane Evans |
For any questions or concerns please email pandc@enoggerass.eq.edu.au
The Enoggera State School P & C meets every 4th Tuesday of the month.
Our next General meeting will be on the 22 October at 6.15pm in the staff room or on Teams. New faces always welcome.
Keep up to date on all things P&C via our Facebook page
Dixon Centre.
A bold new work by Chris Dyke, a Kaurna (Adelaide) based dancer and choreographer living with Down Syndrome. With the mesmerising Dancenorth Ensemble by his side, Chris leads the way, transforming the stage into a portal where love and light illuminate darkness.
We also invite you to bring your family along to sing, dance and connect at our free Brisbane Serenades outdoor concerts.
Hope to see you at the festival!
Did you watch the 800 metres Track and Field and see Peyton Craig in the Olympics onThursday evening 8 August?:
I wanted to let you know about something awesome we are doing here at Official School wear – our Scholarships For Dreams competition.
We are so proud of being a small part of Peytons journey to the Olympics. They say that the first step in achieving something amazing is to first conceive and believe you can achieve.
Scholarships for dreams was founded to follow the philosophy of Barry Berghan who believes that we all must have a dream. That we all need to support and encourage each other with positivity and energy and that the best thing we ever do is to give to help others achieve.
So, please pass this around to all the students of your school community and invite them to send in their BIG dreams as they expect great things!
Here is a link to the site where they can enter https://scholarshipsfordreams.com/
The Gap State High School: A Top Choice for Academic Excellence
The Gap State High School has been ranked among the Top 20 Brisbane Schools for ATAR results, as featured in the Courier Mail. This recognition underscores their commitment to providing a nurturing and dynamic learning environment where students can thrive.
Choosing the right high school for your child is a crucial decision, and at The Gap State High School, they strive to offer diverse learning experiences that foster personal and academic growth. There dedicated staff and innovative programs ensure that each student is equipped to reach their full potential.
There are limited spaces available for Year 7 to Year 12 in 2025. If you haven’t submitted your application for Year 7 yet, we encourage you to do so as soon as possible to secure your spot. Enrolments can be completed easily online at The Gap State High School Enrolments.
Don’t miss this opportunity to give your child a top-tier education at one of Brisbane’s best schools!
