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Week 5 |
Monday 16 May |
Strings Fanfare Performance |
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Week 5 |
Tuesday 17 May |
Year 3 Trevena Glen Excursion |
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Week 6 |
Tuesday 24 May |
P&C Meeting |
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Week 6 |
Wednesday 25 May |
National Simultaneous Story Time |
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Week 6 |
Wednesday 25 May |
Open Day |
| Prep A | Thomas G. | for working on measuring length of objects during Maths groups |
| Prep B. | Alice S. | for blending her sounds into words |
| Prep C | Rosie L. | for always participating in class and taking her time with writing |
| 1A | Luke R. | for trying his best all the time |
| Blake E. | for outstanding reading | |
| 1B | Maddie D. | for using the class Learning Wall to find information about Poetry |
| Noah M. | for enthusiastic participation in discussions about features of Poetry | |
| 2A | Annabelle-Rose W. | for trying her best in all tasks and growing with confidence |
| 2B | teacher absent | |
| 3A | Matias C. | for always contributing amazing thoughts to our class discussions |
| 3B | Danny R. | for his wonderful work ethic |
| 4A | Harrison R. | for being a conscientious and constructive member of class |
| 4B | Seraphina O. | for excellent contributions to group tasks |
| Audrey P. | for comprehensive research in History | |
| 5/6A | Josephine D. | for creative thinking and problem solving |
| 5/6B | Neve T. | for consistently working to high standard across all learning areas |
| 5/6C | Zachary A. | for focused efforts at the start of Term 2 |
| Ava R. | for always giving her best in class |
NAPLAN 2022
The NAPLAN testing for this year is underway with our Yr 3 and Yr 5 students undertaking the Writing test yesterday. Whilst there were some technical difficulties across the state, we got it done eventually. We are hoping for a smoother run today as they undertake the Reading test. The Language Conventions will be on Thursday and the Numeracy on Friday. If students are absent, we will attempt a catch up session when they return to school next week, before the close off date. Thank you to Mrs O’Malley (Head of Department-Curriculum) who is also our NAPLAN Co-ordinator. It has been a busy time for her ensuring our students and staff are well prepared and also managing the demands of the technology, timetables, rosters and supervision as we continue to work around the COVID absences. We wish all of our students the very best as they stay calm and give the testing their best shot and demonstrate what they know and can do.
MOTHER’S DAY STALL
We hope that all of our Enoggera Mums had a lovely day on Sunday with their families, as they enjoyed the special presents our students purchased from the P and C Mother’s Day stall last week. We thank our P and C and the volunteers who organised the day and helped out with the selling. Many months of planning and preparation goes into these days, so we are very appreciative of the great work they do. There certainly were many very excited children around the school on the day very keen to show their purchases to everyone. Congratulations also to all of the Mums who were also able to support the P and C Mother’s Day event on Saturday afternoon at Soul Pantry. It looked like a great afternoon of fun and friendship.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PROGRAM
Congratulations to our Senior Strings Ensemble who played for the first time this year on assembly on Monday afternoon. Our IM Teacher, Mrs Harle was very impressed with how they performed and we thank her for her efforts. They will be travelling to Everton Park SHS on Monday morning to compete at the Fanfare event. We wish them all the best as they represent our school.
COVID Reminders
A continued reminder re the latest communication re the changes around close contacts that were emailed out last week.
OPEN DAY
We will hold our first Open Day for this year on Wednesday May 25th at 9am in EPAC. We will present a talk about our school, the enrolment process and also include a tour of the facilities. Whilst this is aimed at families making a decision for Prep for 2023, it is also open to families of other year levels who may be looking at joining our school community. Please pass this information on to any families that may be considering our wonderful school for their children.
CITY DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY
Some of our students attended the City District Cross Country carnival at Brisbane Grammar School with Mrs Jardine and Mrs Fitzpatrick on Friday 20 April. As usual our team behaved in an exemplary manner and represented our school with pride. Big congratulations to Ari who was selected to go through to the Metropolitan North Regional Carnival again after coming 3rd in his 11 yr event. It was also very exciting to hear that we actually came away as the winners of the ‘C Schools’ Division on the day for the second year in a row and we also came 3rd Overall. Congratulations to Mrs Jardine for all of her hard work in organising the Inter-House carnival and preparing and organising our team to attend the Districts.
INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATE
The building site is coming along now with the pylons for the building being erected and much of the foundations underway and work starting on the new playground. We are hopeful that further wet weather will not hold up the proceedings too much.
STUDENT COUNCIL
Our Student Council held their second meeting last week and it was great to see them really hitting their stride as they took on their roles. Heidi, our Vice Captain and Student Council Chairperson, led the meeting and even facilitated a vote of representatives, while our Secretary Savannah took minutes and Lara, the Treasurer gave her first Treasurer’s Report. The representatives shared their reports from their classes and came up with many worthwhile ideas for discussion. They were very excited to hear they have already raised $320 from the RSL ANZAC Day merchandise sales as their first donation. They have chosen some very worthwhile events to support and have decided on their legacy to the school. They will be busily raising money towards some Buddy Benches to go around the school and also some cold-water coolers. They have decided to support the Down Syndrome Association of Qld as a Queensland charity and also the national ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day’ to support Childhood Cancer in September. This term they will also be running a ‘Random Acts of Kindness’ day within the school. Great work team as it was a pleasure to sit in on the meeting and support the very active and productive discussions. We look forward to the next meeting later in the term.
CROSSING SUPERVISOR
A reminder that the position of the crossing supervisor employed by Department of Transport is currently vacant whilst a recruitment process is being conducted. Unfortunately, this means that our crossing is unmanned before and after school, until they employ and train a new supervisor. If you know of anyone who might be interested in a little work every morning and afternoon please contact our Business Manager, Ms Haslam via email at lhasl2@eq.edu.au who can provide the application pack. Consequently, we ask all of our families to take care when driving and walking around the crossing area at present whilst it is unmanned.
STAFFING
We thank you for your continued support as we continue to battle staff and student absence due to COVID. In addition to that we also have Ms Hawes (2B Teacher) and Mrs Muston (Teacher Aide) on pre-approved Long Service Leave this week and Mr Colin Callaghan, the School’s Officer is still off work due to injury. We have managed to secure a part time replacement for him in the interim. Mr Peter Eastes will commence with us today.
Till next time
Mrs Anne Robinson
Principal
Deputy Principal Pen
The wet weather has returned but this has not put a dampener on the wonderful learning happening in our school. Students are well underway with their learning this term and will soon begin on their various assessment pieces in preparation for end of semester report cards. As I walk through the classrooms, I continue to be impressed by the teaching and learning occurring in all year levels. A highlight for me is to see our Preppies starting to read and how proud they are of their achievements!
In other news, Our Year 3 and Year 5 students are participating in NAPLAN this week and are engaging with the on-line platform for the various tests with a high level of effort. Good luck to all the students! Today I have the great honour of taking our two School Captains, Louis and Lara; and the Vice-Captain Heidi to a Leaders’ Luncheon at Parliament House. I know this will be a great experience for us all and I will share photos on Facebook. My favourite part of the week though continues to be my Just Dance Club in the EPAC where I enjoy time with lots of students from all grades who come along to dance as part of our Clubs and Activities program. This continues to provide our students with many different options of things to do during breaks while our grounds are a construction zone!
Pillar Practice
At Assembly this week, the students were introduced to our current Pillar Practice. Students are focussing on the Pillar of Safety and are working on ensuring they are transitioning around our school grounds safely. This includes remember to use our “Walking Feet”! You can support our Pillar Practice by discussing these expectations with your children at home. Our goal is to see an improvement around safe transitions in our school especially given the access limitations due to the construction site.
The key reminders are:
- Walk on concrete and pathways
- Walk around bench seats
- Walk down stairs one at a time
- Walk around drains on the pathways
Our school Facebook page is a handy way to keep up to date with upcoming events! 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. 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. Thanks for your support of our Facebook page and for interacting on the page with respect and support.
Uniform Policy
With the cooler weather coming, it is a good time to remind our school community about our Dress Code expectations. As always, please ensure that your child’s clothing is clearly named especially hats and jumpers as students take these off during the day. Student dress codes provide clothing that aims to contribute to a safe and supportive teaching and learning environment through:
- ready identification of students and non-students at school
- fostering a sense of belonging
- developing mutual respect among students by minimising visible evidence of economic or social differences.
Enoggera State School has developed our School Dress Code in consultation with the school community, including staff, students and the P&C Association. We firmly believe that the school uniform contributes greatly to the tone of the school, encourages students to take pride in the school and their appearance, and it ensures identification outside the school confines.
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Uniform Summer ESS logo polo shirt ESS sports polo shirt (may also be worn as a daily school shirt) ESS shorts or skorts Black joggers and white socks ESS logo hat One-piece swimwear, sun-safe shirt and swim cap |
Winter As per summer ESS logo jumper ESS logo long-sleeved shirt
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Optional: Plain royal blue shorts or skorts, from alternative retailer Plain royal blue sun-safe hat, from alternative retailer YMCA red hat, in-school only NOT to be worn on excursions |
Plain royal blue jumper (no hood), from alternative retailer Plain royal blue trackpants, from alternative retailer Black opaque tights to be worn under shorts or skorts |
Hair
Hair should be worn in a tidy manner, and should not obstruct vision, with long hair (past shoulders) being tied up with appropriate hair accessories. Hair accessories should be kept simple and align with school uniform colours. Students wishing to colour their hair may do so as long as the new colour results in a natural look. Bright wash out colours may be permitted for special events such as sports days and fundraising activities, with Principal approval.
Jewellery
Watches, studs and sleepers are acceptable but only one ear-ring per ear is to be worn whilst at school. No other form of jewellery or adornment is to be worn, except for medical, cultural or religious purposes. A letter from the parents/caregivers requesting permission is required. Staff will not be held responsible for jewellery worn by students. Jewellery is not permitted in the pool.
Shoes
Students are expected to wear predominantly black closed-in shoes and plain white socks.
Hello from Prep!
It has a very busy start of the school year for our preppies, working very hard to learn the ins and outs of school.
This term for English, we have been looking at traditional stories. Students have been retelling events, connecting personal experiences and practicing their beginning writing skills each week. We are also nearly finished learning all of our Jolly Phonics sounds and letter names. Our focus has been on hearing the sound in a word that is spoken, so we can write the word; and looking at the letters in a word that is written, so we can sound it out and blend the sounds together so we can read. We have begun to learn our tricky words (sight words). In writing we are learning to use our developing sound knowledge to write words and sentences. Our focus when writing is to use a capital letter at the start, spaces between words and putting a full stop at the end, while further developing our formation of letters in handwriting.
In our classrooms, we have our learning walls to help display the steps we need to do to succeed in our assessments in week 7. We are getting prepared by doing these steps for each traditional story in the lead up to our assessment.
Below is our English wall.
In Science we have been looking at different objects and exploring what materials they are made of. We have found out that materials can be natural or man-made and have investigated objects that are made of wood, plastic, fabric, metal and glass, We have explored the special properties that these materials have by doing experiments to test the properties of these objects. Our goal will be to design and make our own wind chime by choosing materials that are durable, water/wind proof and noisy so it can hang outside. Have a look at our learning walls below where we investigate how things feel.
Wakakirri
Our Wakakirri team is off to a flying start! Students have been very busy learning choreography and developing characters. The backstage crew are now auditing existing materials and making lists of needed resources. For the first time, primary schools are allowed the use of projection. This new addition should greatly reduce the need for large set items hence making shows even more sustainable.
This Friday, second break in EPAC, Year 6 students are invited to ‘try out’ for some featured roles. The students are so super keen to attend. Finally, a warm welcome to our talented and enthusiastic 2022 staff team; Jaime Hall, Ros Kerr and Belinda Harris.
Chookas
Melissa Wilcox and the Waka team
wilcoxm@eq.edu.au
Assembly Performances Term 2
Senior Choir: Week 6
Junior Choir: Week 8
Recorder- TBA (Term 3)
The Senior Strings, lead by Mrs Harle performed beautifully on assembly this week. Next week they are heading to the Fanfare competition which is a very exciting opportunity for our Strings musicians.
Senior Choir are now leading the National Anthem and School song on assemblies each fortnight. Please note we are not performing the body percussion/clapping part of the School song for the time being.
Term 2 is proving to be an interesting time when it comes to sport. Between the weather and the progress towards new learning spaces at Enoggera, we are learning to be flexible if nothing else.
City District Cross Country.
On Friday 29th April, 21 students from years 3-6 participated in the City District Cross Country. They did incredibly well and pushed themselves very hard to compete against some strong competition. Thanks to Mrs Fitzpatrick who managed the team at the event while Mrs Jardine performed her role supporting the City District Staff with the event.
Congratulations to Ari who came 3rd in the 11years boys, 3km race earning him a place in the City District Team which will compete at the Met North Carnival on Tuesday 14th May. All the best Ari.
Now the huge news – City District is broken into 3 divisions based on school size. Enoggera fits into the C Schools Division (small school division) and for the second year running we have won the C Schools Division with the most points in that division. We came third overall based on percentage. Huge effort ESS!
Dates to Remember:
- Tuesday 24th May – Met North Cross Country
- Wednesday 22nd June – ESS Senior Track and Field Carnival
- Thursday 23rd June – ESS Junior Track and Field Carnival
Sustainability
Feed the worms program.
Do you throw your food scraps away? If so, perhaps you would like to drop them into one of our tumble bins. We have plenty of capacity at this time. The more food we prepare the more worms we will grow. The worm farm is near the tennis courts.
Containers for Change is up and running families. Please donate your containers and help your little darlings understand how to recycle their containers to help raise money to purchase special resources for your school.
Purple wheelie bins are located in all the student eating areas for your convenience.
P & C Members Night – 19 May
The new 2022 Executive committee are organising a small informal members night on Thursday, 19 May from 6pm at The Ploughman (just across the road from the school). The Executive would like to get to know members outside of the formalities of a the regular P & C meeting, meet members who aren't always available to attend meetings and / or members that are new to the P & C.
Please let us know if you can make it, we hope to see you there pandc@enoggerass.eq.edu.au
It’s not too late to become a P & C member if you would like to attend the evening. If you would like to be a member but unable to attend a meeting please feel free to submit a membership form.
Mother’s Day Stall
A big thank you for supporting the Mother’s Day Stall this year and purchasing the vouchers via QKR! App, it worked well! Enoggera parents should be so proud of their children, they were all so excited and so happy! It was gold to see them selecting their presents and excitedly showing each other what they bought.
A huge thank you to our wonderful volunteers who spent the day helping the kids, a special thank you to Tahne, she only volunteered the night before and was only supposed to stay a couple of hours, and also thank you to Brad and his daughter, you were fantastic and so nice to have a Dad there!
We are already thinking about next year so if you have any ideas please let us know! pandc@enoggerass.eq.edu.au
Father’s Day Working Group
We are starting to prepare for the Father’s Day Stall this year. It would be fantastic to have a working group to put some ideas together on ‘the best Father’s Day gifts’ and to assist with researching ideas or sourcing gifts. If you have some ideas and/or would like to be involved in the preparation of the gifts please contact the P & C via pandc@enoggerass.eq.edu.au
Mother’s Day High Tea
What a wonderful time our ESS Mothers had at our Mother's Day High Tea event held over the weekend.
With lots of mingling and laughter it was a great time for new friends to connect and old friends to reconnect after the last couple of years.
Thank you to our wonderful events team for putting on a lovely day supported by our local community with their generous donations for our raffle, there were some very lucky winners on the day! A huge thank you to Sarita, our Event Coordinator, who unfortunately wasn’t able to attend the afternoon due to Covid.
Containers for Change
The purple bins are conveniently placed all around the school for you to bring your containers in! Alternatively you can visit the depot, deposit your containers and contribute to the ESS scheme, our school scheme ID is C10051863
Key Dates
Follow Enoggera P & C on Facebook to keep up to date on planned events, activities, Tuckshop menu and Uniform Shop. It is the best way to stay informed on all the latest happenings! https://www.facebook.com/EnoggeraSSPandC
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P & C Members Night - Ploughman |
From 6.00pm, Thursday, 19 May 2022 |
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P & C General Meeting |
6.15pm, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 |
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Trivia Night |
Saturday, 23 July 2022 |
P&C Executives
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President – Dean Collings Vice President – Khesanh Brock |
Secretary – Christina Maher Treasurer – Debbie Brauer |
The Enoggera State School P & C meets every 4th Tuesday of the month – next meeting is 24 May 2022