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Well done to our Wakakirri dancers who put on a special performance at Parliament House. The students and parents were also treated to a tour of the Parliament and afternoon tea. Thank you to Mrs Wilcox, Mrs Leeson and Mrs Kerr for their support on the day and to Mrs Haslam and Mrs Coates for their organisation to make the event run smoothly. The countdown is now on with the National winner announced this Thursday.

We were lucky enough to have a visit this week by a Para Swimmer. Jacob, who is legally blind, has represented Australia in the 2016 Rio Paralympics placing 6th in the 400m freestyle and at the Para Pan Pacs in 2018, winning medals in 5 events. He is aiming to be part of the 2020 Japan Paralympic team. Jacob told us with stories of his challenges, positive attitude and drive to succeed. Thanks Mrs Jardine for organising this inspiring event.

You have probably seen the scaffolding around our buildings. We are looking forward to the painters giving A, B and D blocks a fresh new look in heritage colours. In the meantime there will be some changes to school access points.

We are looking at our 2020 enrolments. If you will be leaving us please let the office know as soon as possible. If you know of anyone wishing to enrol please ask them to phone the office also. Your assistance will help us to ensure a smooth transition into next year.

Yours in Education
Carol Butler
Principal

BOOKLISTS for 2020

Enoggera State School will be using Bedrock Books to supply class stationery packs for 2020.  Year level booklists will be sent home on Friday 25^th October.  Orders can be made online, in store, by phone or via the school office.  Payment Plans are also available through Bedrock Books.  Please Note that Orders will need to be finalised by Wednesday 27^th November.  Orders placed after this date will incur a $6.50 packing fee.  All required information will be included on the Booklist Order Forms.

Prep 2020

We are very excited to have our Prep 2020 students join us this term as they transition into our school community.  The Prep Transition Program will run on:

Wednesday 23^rd October 1:45pm – 2:45pm

Wednesday 30^th October 9:30am – 10:30am

Wednesday 13^th November 9:30am – 10:30am

Wednesday 20^th November 1:45pm– 2:45pm

If you know of any families within catchment who have not yet enrolled their children for the 2020 school year please encourage them to make contact.

Amy O'Malley

Head of Curriculum

Well done team on a great performance at Queensland Parliament House! Thank you to Tim Mander, Member for Everton Park, for hosting Enoggera State School’s Wakakirri team. The students and families enjoyed some afternoon tea and a tour of Parliament House post performance.

Don’t forget about our upcoming Arts on Stage showcase on Friday, 22^nd November at EPAC, 6pm start. This will be the final opportunity to see Wakakirri performed live.

We look forward to gathering together this Thursday for the announcement of the National Story of the Year.

A huge chookas!

Mrs Wilcox and team

 I hope everyone is having a great term 4 so far!

 Senior Choir and Recorder- Gala Days

 Due to the Gala days on Fridays for the next 3 weeks there will be no Choir practice before school. Recorder will still be on for the Junior levels at first break.

Beginner Strings

 Year 2 students have now been told if they have made it into the Strings Program for 2020.

Further information will be provided at the Beginners Information Night on Tuesday October 29^th at Samford State School.

Retirement Home Christmas Concert

Our annual Retirement Home Christmas Concert will be held on Monday December 2^nd in the first session. This year Senior Choir and Recorder will attend to serenade the residents.

Arts on Stage

 Arts on Stage will showcase our extra-curricular program this year on 22^nd November. Any students in ensembles and choirs will perform for our school community.

Australian Girls Choir Open Day

Look no further than the Australian Girls Choir (AGC) because we encourage, challenge and inspire girls as they learn to sing, dance and perform. School aged girls are invited to come along to our Open Day on Sunday October 27 to try our fun and inclusive classes and learn more about being part of the AGC! Please contact us if you would like to attend the Open Day. Ph. 1800 338 142 or email headoffice@aspagroup.com.au.

Mrs Mariel Hopper

Year Five News - by Year 5 Students

English

Last term in English, 5A learned how to interpret a poem and transform it to a narrative. We started with the Man from Ironbark, Waltzing Matilda and Fur and Feathers. It was a wild experience and we came up with some very interesting results and some funny slang language. Here’s an example from Leila.  As the man grew bored of exploring the park, he stumbled around until he found a nearby park bench.

Here’s some more wonderful work from 5A. This is an example of Fur and Feathers from Lottie. One unusually foggy morning in the old wrecked town of Walgett the giant emus formed a football team. Their bright yellow shirts lit up the red dusty field. When the thumping kangaroos came to watch them play they would sit and laugh and call them ‘butter fingers’ because they had no hands.

That is a snippet of some of 5A’s wonderful work. For our assessment we did high explosive by Banjo Patterson. This is a poem about a dingo pup that goes and hunts for himself then gets scared at an egg cracking, thinking its gunshots. The rest of our work is as eggcelent as the bit I showed you before, but since that was our first one we still had a lot of time to improve. And since our work is so good we will probably all get B+’s. We also used lots of formal language, verb groups and noun groups.

In conclusion I think that our year 5 class did eggcelently and we all deserve a round of applause. We learned how to transform a poem to a narrative and we learned how to replace boring pronouns to interesting ones. We learned how to use the best noun and verb groups and some excellent formal language. That is why I like English a lot.

Written by: Elizabeth Howie

Science

Last term in science we learnt about electrical circuits. As part of our learning we made a steady hand game. We made our steady hand game out of a battery, a coat hanger, a light bulb/buzzer. As a result Year 5 know more about electrical circuits. This was the most exciting science unit that we ever had.

By Chris

Sports Day

During the third week of term three, the entertaining annual sports day took place. The two teams Waratah and Banksia competed in exciting events such as shot put, long jump, high jump, running races and novelty events. The children from Years 3-6 who did not participate in long jump and high jump played fun games and engaged in thrilling activities, known as the novelty events. Each child worked their hardest in every activity and event and the day was memorabile throughout the entire term.

At the end of the day, the age champions were announced as well as the winning team. Overall Waratah achieved the title of winning but both teams played excellently, they were great sportsmen and both showed great appreciation towards the day. Even though no one from our class 5A achieved age champion every student showed great effort and determination throughout the entire day.

By Leila Davis

STEM

On Friday the 13^th September, Year 5s went to a STEM (science, technology engineering and math) at Everton Park State High School. We left our school as a group and got there about 9:00 am. When we arrived at the high school we were separated into two groups, my group went to exercise physiology where we learned lots of cool facts about your pulse and how fast it beats when you exercise. Most people found it tiring but I found it quit easy. We had a small snack break and then got straight back into our second activity.

This activity was defiantly one of my favourite, we were doing robotics and learning how to code them. We did lots of cool moves like the perfect square. Once you had it done and dusted you would move onto the coding the robot to play soccer. My team won 1-0.

We then went onto another activity called the noodle challenge. The challenge was to build the tallest tower out of one 1 meter of string, 1 meter of tape and 20 pieces of spaghetti. The tallest one was 18cm but my group beat it by only two cm and we ended up winning.

After that we all got a free sausage sizzle and cordial which was really yummy. We then went to wood works where we got to see a real lazer cutter in action. We got a freshly cut sample as well to take home. We then went to make a catapult out of paddle pop sticks. There was a competition of how far, how high and most accurate. We didn’t do too well in that but it was still fun. After we finished that we reassembled and got ready to head back to our school. 

By Ollie K

We are all looking forward to an awesome last term.

 Mr Chinn and the Year Five team.

Welcome back to Term 4. It is always a massive time in the library with our much anticipated BOOK FAIR only weeks away.

This year’s theme is

The fair will run from Friday 8^th November to Wednesday 13^th November, with our Family Evening on Tuesday 12^th of November. There will be fantastic books to buy, as well as posters, and many novelty items. It is a great opportunity to keep the students interested in reading, or possibly buy Christmas presents. We will be running competitions during the fair and as an added bonus, from every purchase made, the school get to purchase new resources. More information will go out closer to the date.

I know a lot of the students are as excited as us.

Also, a reminder that we have a LOT of books that are overdue and some that have been overdue from early in the year. Can you please help us by looking in bags, chair bags, desks, under beds etc and return any overdue books as soon as possible. Thanks for your assistance.

And always remember, reading may unlock your SECRET POWER!!! 

Happy Reading

Donagh McKenzie and

Shannon Green

EVENTS

End of Year Celebration The P&C are this year hosting an event to celebrate the end of year which will include carols and a movie. Mark your calendars for Friday 29th November and stay tuned for more details.

TUCKSHOP

During Term 4 the P&C are undertaking a review of the Tuckshop, which will include consultation with parents, students and staff to understand what they like and what they would like to see change. Please keep an eye out for a quick survey which will be distributed in the coming weeks.

MULTI-PURPOURSE ROOF UPDATE

 A project manager has been engaged to develop a scope of works for the project. We are hoping to submit a SSS Application in November as applying for a number of grants which have been identified.

The P&C has already committed $70,000 to the project with an overall fundraising goal of $120,000 ahead of an expected construction start date of end 2020. You can help us get to our goal more quickly by making a tax deductible donation to our Building Fund via www.giveit.com.au

 EVENTS PLANNING 2020 Do you have some ideas for fundraising events in 2020? We will be holding an event planning meeting during our October P&C meeting on the 22nd October in the EPAC building from 6.15pm. We would love to hear lots of new ideas and see some new faces on the night.

RECYCLING -CONTAINERS FOR CHANGE

Well done to everyone bringing in their containers from the holidays! Together in the few short days of term 4 we have recycled over 1000 containers and we look forward to growing this number and continuing to raise funds to improve the school for our kids.

Should you wish to still visit the depot you can use our ID number to donate to the P&C.

 Containers for Change – SCHEME ID C10051863

CALENDAR

Make sure to mark your diaries with the following dates:

Keep up to date via our Facebook Page- Enoggera State School P and C Association

* Next General Meeting- Tuesday 22nd October 6.15pm in the EPAC

 * End of Year Carols & Movie Night – 29th November 2019

* With other dates / events to be finalised….

 Please send us an email if you would like to be added to the mailing list to stay up to date with events and activities pandc@enoggerass.eq.edu.a

We are pleased and excited to inform you that we’ll be producing a new eNewsletter with Schoolzine. The move to this new format will enable us to communicate with the school community across multiple channels. It will promote and enhance our engagement with parents, students and the wider community.

We believe you’ll find the eNewsletter highly engaging, as it will provide us with a more efficient and effective means of connecting with you. The new format will allow the inclusion of video, photo galleries, online bookings, mobile app, feedback forms, calendars and so much more.

The newsletter also has a sponsorship section which provides a great opportunity for local businesses to engage with our parent community. If you would like to be a part of this, please contact Schoolzine.

Phone Jude 07 5414 2363
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LOCATE WITNESS to MOTOR ACCIDENT

A road accident happened near our school at about 2.20pm on Monday 3 June 2019  near the western driveway entrance of Emmanuel Uniting Church, with a green Kawasaki motorcycle and a red Mazda station wagon involved.

We have a request from a solicitor, who would like to speak to anyone who witnessed that accident from HarryDay  Lawyers.They can be contacted on

E: hd@hdlaw.com.au

or M: 0438 90 55 30