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 30^th  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 2^nd 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

Deputy Principal Pen

We have now past the half way point of the term, and the end of the school year is fast approaching!  The weather is finally warming up and students are enjoying the warmer water in the pool! It won’t be long before we are cheering on our swimmers at the Junior and Senior Swimming Carnivals!

I was recently given the opportunity to attend the Positive Schools Conference and listen to a range of excellent presenters talk about developing a community of wellbeing; the power of resilience; equity at the heart of wellbeing; on-line risks for young people; and mental health and the value of teaching students about their brain.  This learning will help us to continue to support our staff and students and implement programs to promote wellbeing in our school community. 

Finally, we recently celebrated World Teachers’ Day.  I would personally like to acknowledge the outstanding work of the teachers at our school, who everyday make a difference to the lives of the children that they teach.   Thank you to the parents and carers for entrusting your children into the care of amazing teachers!

Student Leaders 2023

Over the last couple of weeks, Year 5 students have continued to attend the Student Leaders Workshops with Mrs Robinson and myself.  Students have learnt about the concept of leadership; and the 4Cs of leadership – consistency, collaboration, citizenship and communication.  They will conclude the sessions with information on how to write and deliver their speech.  Applications are due at the office by 3pm on Thursday 17^th November with shortlisting occurring with a panel of teachers and administration after school.  We wish all the applicants the best of luck!

Pillar Practise

This fortnight, our Pillar Practice has moved to the Pillar of Relationships with a focus on respect for others.  Teachers will be reminding students about the different ways they can show respect for all staff and students in our school with some reminders about being kind, polite, calm, helpful, honest, punctual, attentive and positive.  As we all become more tired towards the end of the year, it is a good time to remind students of our Relationships Pillar to ensure we continue to show respect to others.

Student must be commended for the vast improvement in using their ‘walking feet’ around our school as a result of the Safety Pillar Practice and the introduction of Walking Feet Gotchas.  Many students have been selected from the Gotcha Box to receive their special ‘walking feet’ keyring in recognition of their efforts. 

Facebook

A reminder that a frequent check-in of our Facebook page, will keep you up to date with the many things happening such as poppies being sold for Remembrance Day and the opening of the Book Fair this Friday!  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.  

Student Council Fundraising

This term, the Student Council will be running two meal deals. The first “Sub and Drink’ meal deal has closed on line and will be delivered tomorrow!  Meal deals will be delivered to students in their classrooms by 11am.

The second meal deal with go live after the first one to avoid confusion.  It will be held on Thursday 24^th November.  This will be a Pizza and drink meal deal! 

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.

Arts on Stage

An information letter for Arts on Stage has been emailed to families. Please make sure that your child has all the necessary items for the night. On the night, performers will be supervised in the library. Junior Choir, Recorder Band and the Instrumental Strings students who are only in one item will be taken into the auditorium to watch the show after they perform. Classes have been invited down Friday afternoon at 2pm to watch a rehearsal. Thank you to Mrs Robinson and the amazing P&C for assisting with the evening.

Show Night

4.30-6pm             P&C Sausage Sizzle and drinks (students are required from 5.45pm)

6pm                       Door opens

6.15pm                 Show starts

Approx. 7.45pm Show concludes.

So pop onto the QKR app and book your tickets and food. Tickets are $5 per adult and $2 for a child. Don’t miss out on celebrating the hard work of our Performing Arts students; Instrumental Strings, Junior Choir, Senior Choir, Senior Dance Ensemble, Recorder Band and Wakakirri.

The Performing Arts team.

EPAC Lighting thanks

Thank you to Esme and Lottie’s dad, Ryan for donating lights and time to improve the theatre experience in EPAC. Ryan has installed six fabulous Fresnel theatre lights and repatched some existing lights to make the space brighter! Thank you Ryan for your generous contribution and we look forward to enjoying the new lights at Arts on Stage!

Book Fair

Enoggera State School will be participating in our annual Scholastic Book Fair from Friday 11^th November until Wednesday 16^th November.  Students will be attending during class on Friday to peruse available items and will be bringing home “wish lists” containing desired purchases.  Purchases can be done electronically at www.scholastic.com.au/payment or in person before and after school (8:15am – 8:45am Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) or 3:10 – 3:30pm (Friday, Tuesday and Wednesday).  Cash payments are also available. The Book Fair will remain open until 6pm on Monday evening for those wishing to view after work.

We thank you for supporting our 2022 Book Fair!

Semester 2 Reporting

Curriculum Reporting Update

Staff have been very busy reviewing and refining our reporting processes this semester.  In consultation with staff the Semester 2 2022 Report Card will provide a semester learning statement in all reportable curriculum areas contextualising the knowledge and skills students have learnt.  Each learning area will have comments informing of your child’s demonstrated capacity of learning for each area or strand of learning area.

Behaviour and Effort Reporting Information

Effort in each learning area is assessed on a five – point scale using a rubric.  In this way there is consistency of ratings given through the various descriptors.

Behaviour is rated also using a five – point scale rubric that outlines various observable behaviours by students across the semester in areas including the School Pillars, social skills, leadership, respect, inclusivity and conflict resolution to name a few.  The rubric was developed in consultation with staff through the Student Behaviour Committee to guide all teachers to assess behaviour consistently across subject areas and year levels.

This week, the Grade 1 students viited Pine Rivers Heritage Village. The first activity the students participated in was learning about the sort of games children played in the 1950. Hoola hoops and colours - a colours was selected and the student had to jump onto the nominated colour.

The second activity was going to school in the 1950's. The children wrote their names on slate boards with a slate pencil which would not work on paper. That confused the children no end. The children also learned how class worksheets were created. The gel mix absorbed carbon paper and could then be transferred back onto blank paper.

The bus trip to the village was filled with energy. The students were very excited and loved identifying key features that would direct them to their homes. Some children even said, "My Mum shops in there".

A fun filled week for Grade 1- a big thank you to the parent helpers!

Until next time,

Mrs Kent and Mrs Boone.

Hi Everyone,

It’s ARTS ON STAGE time!!

Come one, come all to our annual Performing Arts showcase, Arts on Stage on Friday 18th November at 6:15pm. You will be treated to performances from Wakakirri, Senior and Junior Choir, Recorder Ensemble and Senior Dance.

See you there!!

Mariel Hopper

mxhop2@eq.edu.au

Music Fest

On the 30th of October, ESS ensemble students performed in Music Fest at Ferny Grove Highschool. Both our Junior and Senior Ensemble had the opportunity to play- with the Junior Ensemble recieveing a platinum award and the Senior Ensemble recieving a gold award! 

It was a delight to witness all of the students playing so well together. The junior ensemble were the last performance of the day- recieving special commendation from the adjudicator! 

A big well done to all participants and families.

Mrs Harle,

Instrumental Music Teacher.

Arts on Stage

The P&C will be running the annual BBQ at the Arts on Stage evening on Friday 18^th November from 4.30pm. We are looking for some volunteers on the night.  Sign up via the link below to lend a hand. We promise that all volunteers will be finished in time for the performance.

Ticket sales close on Tuesday 15^th November at 6pm- performers are free.

Food & Drink sales close on Thursday 17^th November at 8pm

volunteersignup.org/FT37C

Mango Drive

What a great take-up we had of the Mango fundraiser this year, selling a whopping total of 153 trays!

The order has been placed and as soon as we have a final date for collection, we will let you know via email and our Facebook page.

Uniform Shop

Uniform Shop is open every Friday morning during the term from 8.00 – 9.00 am. You can purchase from the shop or pre-order uniform items via the QKR! App and pick up from the shop on the following Friday. If you are unable to pick the items up, they will be provided to the office to distribute to your child.

Please feel free to drop off any pre-loved / second-hand uniform items in a reasonable condition to the Uniform Shop on a Friday morning or the tuckshop on a Wednesday.

Our school holiday opening hours are below

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

P&C Executives

The Enoggera State School P & C meets every 4^th Tuesday of the month – next meeting is 22 November 2022