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Dear Parent and Caregivers,
WAKAKIRRI
It was wonderful to attend the Wakakirri performance “I Am” on Thursday night at the Logan Entertainment Centre to see our students shine. Our performance in the words of the Wakakirri Ambassador, Leah Clark, “Such a well-rehearsed and polished performance. Great choreography that supported but didn’t distract from the main story. All students performed brilliantly with such confidence. Great simple costuming, sets and projection.”
We were awarded the ‘Ensemble Award for Overall Performance’ on the night and have consequently been invited back to perform again at the Showcase Awards night on September 8th.
On assembly this week we not only acknowledged the great performance and hard work our students have put across two terms, but we also acknowledged the staff who have made this happen. We especially thanked Miss Dunstan for her choreography, leadership and creativity and her support staff of Mrs Hall, Mrs Harris, Mr Harris and Ms Kerr. We also thanked Mr Edhouse, the Pre-service teacher who assisted on the night and also Mrs Rees who drove down to assist in bringing back props.
As usual our whole school community is behind our Waka team as they maintain their motivation and continue to polish their performance ready to perform again. We wish them all the best, or as they say in Waka land-Chookas!
PREP OPEN MORNING
Last week we held our final Prep Open Morning for the year with a number of families attending to hear about wonderful school and to go on a tour of the facilities. Our Prep Enrolments Meeting bookings are now open for enrolled families to make a time to attend their Prep Enrolment Meeting. There are slots available over the last two weeks of school currently and then if needed we can open up more spots early next term.
Once our in-catchment enrolments are finalised we will then be able to look at offering enrolment interviews to some of our 'out of catchment families' before we move to the Prep Transition mornings on Friday November 3 and 17. On those mornings the 2024 Prep students will participate in a morning of activities in class whilst the parents participate in Prep Information sessions in EPAC. The Transition mornings go from 9-11am on each of the days. The P and C will run a special uniform shop access for those mornings.
EXCURSIONS
Recently our Year 2 students attended Lone Pine as part of their learning for their English unit where they have to write an information report on an Australian animal. They had a great day leaning all about the animals their diet, habitats etc.
Last week our Year 3 students attended the Nudgee Beach Environmental Education Centre to participate in the ‘Young Curious Scientist Program’ as part of their Science unit this term. Students were able to observe and group unique plants and animals in their natural habitat and learn how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples may have alternative forms of classification.
As we have several more excursions and off campus activities coming up over the next couple of weeks of this term it is a timely reminder to families that when students are leaving the school on excursion, they are representatives of the school and must be in full school uniform and of exemplary behaviour at all times. If students arrive at school without the correct uniform parents will be phoned or students may be excluded from the excursion. Likewise, if behaviour at school prior to the activity is not to a satisfactory standard, students may not be invited to attend these excursions/activities and camps as this can pose additional supervision and safety risks for the activity.
With all of these excursions/activities happening this term on top of some other incursions and all of them requiring permissions and some payments, I encourage parents to stay informed and to meet deadlines for permissions and payments.
If activities have payment required the payment and permissions go to the administration office and if just permissions with no payments these can be managed by the class teachers. It is the responsibility of parents to meet payment deadlines otherwise the invoices lapse and students will be unable to attend.
TEACHER AIDE APPRECIATION WEEK
This week across Australia is Teacher Aide Appreciation Week, where we acknowledge the great work our Teacher Aides do to support Teachers and students every day of the school year. We are blessed here at Enoggera to have experienced and passionate Teacher Aides in our work force and we love nothing better to acknowledge them as the unsung heroes in our school.
We presented our Teacher Aides with a certificate of appreciation on assembly this week and will also celebrate with them at a staff morning tea later in the week. I know that some of our classes are also preparing a little thank you for the Teacher Aides who work in their classrooms as well.
READERS CUP AND MATHS TOURNAMENT
Our winning Reader’s Cup team have been working hard on their new books in preparation to represent Brisbane North at the coming State Finals Competition next Thursday. We wish Layla, Jarvis, Charlee, Patrick and Adelyn all the best as they head off to do their school and region proud.
Some of these same students are in Wakakirri and have been rehearsing hard for that and are also in the Maths Tournament and have been preparing for that competition as well. They competed in the Maths Tournament on Monday this week and whilst not placing on the day did very well to work together as a team to tackle some very difficult Mathematics problems. We were represented by two Year 5/6 mixed teams on the day and both teams tried their hardest and showed amazing tenacity and resilience to keep pushing forward in the competition. Thank you to Ms Burrows and Ms Kerr who have been preparing our Maths students and also to Ms Kerr and Mrs McKenzie who attended the competition with them on the day.
FAMILY FUN DAY
Our wonderful P and C are running their big fundraiser for the year on Saturday September 9. This will be the Family Fun Day where there will be lots of things for families to enjoy together with rides, stalls, yummy food and activities to do.
We look forward to the whole school community getting behind our P and C to support this bi-annual event on the school calendar. Our P and C have worked hard for many years to raise $187,000 towards the Multi-Purpose Court Roof. Now it is time to restock the bank account so that we can plan for the next big projects in the school and to supplement the grants we currently have in the ‘Gaming Benefit Fund’ for a new Prep Playground and also the ‘Go For Gold Grant’ for the pool heating and fencing refurbishment.
STUDENT FREE DAY
This Friday September 1 is the annual September Flexible Student Free Day on the DoE calendar, which was typically put aside for moderation purposes. As our Teachers’ have completed their interschool moderation hours as twilight PDs after school this year with Stafford State School, our Teachers, Teacher Aides, Admin and Leaders will be off site on Friday with only the School’s Officer, Cleaners and Camp Australia on site on that day.
Till next time,
Mrs Anne Robinson
Principal
Calendar Dates
A reminder that our school is closed on:
Friday 1st September for a departmental Student Free Day.
Other Dates to mark in your calendar:
Thursday 31st August – Feed your Fella BBQ Breakfast for Chaplaincy
Thursday 31st August – QLD Volleyball Cup – Year 5/6
Friday 1st September – School Closed
Thursday 7th September – MADD Day at EPSHS – Year 4
Thursday 7th September – Reader’s Cup State Championship
Friday 8th September - Wakakirri Performance at Logan Entertainment Centre
Saturday 9th September – P&C Family Fun Day
Monday 11th September – School Assembly – Strings Performance
Thursday 14th September – Prep Excursion to Nudgee Beach
Friday 15th September – Last Day of Term
These dates and other events can all be located in the newsletter calendar and on our school Facebook Page.
Student Council
The Student Council is running another fundraiser at the end of the term to raise money for The Kid’s Cancer Project. Students are invited to dress up as a Pirate on the last day of term Friday 15th September and bring a gold coin donation. Students must wear their school shoes and school hat to school on this day, when in costume.
The Student Council will also be running another Meal Deal fundraiser. The Meal Deal fundraiser will be held on Tuesday 12th September and will be a Zambrero’s meal including burritos, tacos or nachos + a drink for $9.95. More details will be provided early next week.
Our school has a very active Facebook page with daily posts to keep our school community informed of what is happening in our school. Our events are posted throughout the term to allow parents time to be prepared for the term ahead. Click on the more tab and then the events tab in the dropdown menu to go to our events.
The more you interact with the page by liking and commenting on posts, the more our page will appear in your newsfeed. A reminder that Facebook is not the best platform to ask questions that you need immediate or urgent replies to, as we don’t always see questions in the comment sections of a post. This is best done by emailing the teacher/admin or calling the office.
Facebook is also not a site for posting complaints or negative comments about staff or school processes. If you have some constructive feedback for the school or an issue that you would like to raise, we would respectfully ask that you make an appointment to speak with the Principal to discuss your concerns. Any inappropriate or derogatory comments will be removed from the platform.
Please remember to never make comments on the page referencing a child’s name for privacy reasons.
Pillar Practice
- Playing Fairly and Safely
- Not kicking and Hitting
- Speaking Kindly
- Showing Respect to other
We have introduced a ‘red card system’ to our behaviour management during break times. This is inspired by the recent interest in the World Cup. Students will first be warned about physical behaviours, and if the behaviour continues, they will be ‘red carded’ and sent to the Reflection Room for a time out for the remainder of this break. They will be counselled around strategies they could use to manage their physical outbursts. A reflection sheet will not be completed; however, parents will be informed via email about attending to Time Out. We are hoping that by being removed from the situation in which they have become physical and speaking immediately about other strategies, that this may help to teach our students some self-management strategies and reduce the number of physical incidents occurring both in general play and soccer games.
Best Line Up and Best Eating Area
Congratulations to our winners of the Best Line Up and Best Eating Area for the past fortnight. Mrs Robinson and Ms Burrows were out and about monitoring over the last two week. There has been a huge improvement in the eating area behaviour with a special mention to the improvement in the Year 3/4 Eating Area. Line up has also improved with a special mention to Year 4 for their improvement. The winning class and year level will be rewarded with additional 10 minutes playtime on a Friday afternoon of their choice supervised by Ms Burrows and Mrs Robinson. Keep up the great work everyone!
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 the year moves towards our last term, 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!
Ms Tina Burrows
Deputy Principal
Book Week 2023
What spectacular festivities we had to celebrate Book Week last week! Everyday involved CBCA shortlisted books being read to students with follow up activities on offer. Students thoroughly enjoyed exploring these books with our special guest readers and completing arts and crafts for these books.
Friday brought our Book Week Parade with many fantastic costumes on display. A big congratulations to all our staff, students and community for making the 2023 Book Week Parade so successful!
Book Club
Book Club Issue Six closes on Friday 1st September. Orders can be submitted online through LOOP. Please note the instructions below.
Premiers Reading Challenge
A big thank you and congratulations to those students who met the Premier’s challenge of reading 15 books (Years 5 and 6) and 20 books (Prep – 4) and returned their reading record forms. This information is currently being collated and student certificates will be presented in late September.
HAPPY READING!
Amy O'Malley
Head of Department, Curriculum
Hello Parents and Caregivers,
Just a reminder that full payment for the PREP Nudgee Beach Excursion is due nextc friday the 8th of September. We also have the Wakakirri Awards Night payment due next monday the 4th of Septmeber. Please ensure payment is made by the due dates as late payments will not be accepted.
If you believe you may have a credit on file please don’t hesitate to contact me to apply these credits to outstanding invoices.
Please note if you have school or music SRS fees outstanding these need to be paid in full before a student can attend excursions.
If you would like to discuss any outstanding balances, please contact me directly on 07 3550 1333 or email me on bsm@enoggerass.eq.edu.au
Have a great week,
Ellie Mastrapostolos
Business Services Manager
Family Fun Day – Saturday 9th September 2023
We are so excited to be hosting our Family Fun Day on the 9th September. With rides galore, amazing stalls, delicious food there’s fun for the whole family.
Unlimited ride bands are on sale now via the Qkr app up until THURSDAY 7th SEPTEMBER . This year we ask that EVERY person attending the event also purchase a FREE admissions ticket along with your ride tickets. This helps us and volunteers on the day with catering numbers.
Ride bands can be purchased under ONE Qkr profile. Ride bands will be sent home with this child for the whole family. Ride bands and single tickets will be available on the day.
Donations
We are currently looking for donations of:
- Good condition books
- Soft drink cartons- Lemonade and Fanta
- Juice Poppers
- Cartons of water
If you would like to donate, please message our Facebook page, or send an email to pcsecretary@esspandc.com.au
Donations can be dropped off to the uniform shop on TUESDAY mornings or to the tuckshop on WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY mornings.
Family Fun Day - Calling all bakers!
Family Fun Day wouldn't be complete without a bake sale!
On the morning of the Family Fun Day, Saturday 9th September, we will gratefully receive baked goods of all sorts. You are welcome to prepare anything you are comfortable with but here are a few ideas:
Old fashioned favourites like fudge, coconut ice, chocolate crackles, rocky road
Iced cupcakes and butterfly cupcakes
Tea cakes, whole iced cakes, date loaf and brownies
Slices like vanilla, chocolate, Mars Bar and lemon slice
Biscuits like jam drops, choc chip, melting moments and shortbread.
It would be great to have a small gluten free section as well.
If your talents lay in preserving, we would also love to have a selection of goods like chilli sauce, jams, chutney and relish. Some freshly baked bread would top it off!
If you can bake and deliver one or more items for our stall, please contact the convener, Emma on:essbakestall@outlook.com
Volunteers
Great events like the Family Fun Day can’t happen without our wonderful volunteers. Join up with a friend to make it more fun! Set up and pack down slots are vital to help us on the day, so please don’t leave those empty.
Sign up via the link volunteersignup.org/L43KA
Tuckshop
Looking for ways to help in the tuckshop. We are always accepting donations of pantry staples and consumables. Please feel free to contact Rosetta to find out what we are in short supply of.
Don’t forget to order our upcoming Wednesday special via the Qkr app.
WEDNESDAY 6th September- Sushi
P&C Executives
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President – Dean Collings Vice President – Khesanh Brock |
Secretary – Christina Maher Treasurer – Debbie Brauer |
For any questions or concerns please email pcsecretary@esspandc.com.au
The Enoggera State School P & C meets every 4th Tuesday of the month.
Our next meeting will be October 24th in the Staff Room.
Keep up to date on all things P&C via our Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/EnoggeraSSPandC
Student of the week awards for Monday 28 Aug 2023
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Class |
Name |
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Prep A |
Angus H |
Using letter-sound knowledge when writing a sentence |
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Prep A |
Zoe N |
Practising your sight words so you can use them when reading |
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Prep B |
Liam H |
Effective use of adjectives |
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Prep B |
Monique H |
Learning her letters and sounds |
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Prep C |
Sonam P |
Giving his best effort to tasks |
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Prep C |
Max K |
Sounding out words when writing a sentence |
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1A |
Glen G |
Settling back into school at Enoggera |
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1A |
Roger J |
Excellent effort during assessments |
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1B |
Henry B |
Displaying an enjoyment in creating and writing |
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1B |
Sam C |
Excellent persistence and success with his school work |
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1C |
James T |
Engaging enthusiastically during ‘time’ maths activities. Well done! |
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1C |
Roxy R |
Being focused and working independently on your English assessment. Well done! |
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2A |
Natalia J |
Creating an interesting information report on a koala. |
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2A |
Shashwat K |
Paying closer attention to writing with detail |
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2B |
Asher C |
For his great participation at our Lone Pine Excursion. Well done! |
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2B |
Emma B |
For using her editing checklist to improve her writing. Well done! |
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3A |
Olive R |
Conquering her Mathematics! Keep it up Olive! |
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3A |
Michael S |
His super effort in writing and reading! |
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3B |
Leonardo B |
Your amazing focus towards learning |
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3B |
Willow V |
Starting to give things a go |
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4A |
Colin B |
Actively participating in Science lessons |
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4A |
Tristan H |
Getting along well with others and playing fairly |
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4B |
Olive O |
Great efforts and ideas in Science |
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4B |
Miranda A |
Persevering without complaint |
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5/6A |
Hannah O |
For resilience when attempting challenging tasks |
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5/6A |
Grace M |
For positive attitude and growth mindset |
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5/6 B |
Millar N |
For showing an increase in resilience during English |
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5/6 B |
Adelyn B |
For showing initiative and enterprise in maths |
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5/6C |
Harry M |
Improved homework submissions! |
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5/6C |
Luna M |
Being willing to help at all times! |
Term 3 has been a busy term for year one as they have been learning to write descriptive retells. They are getting very clever in using nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs to vividily describe what happens in the beginning, middle and end of a story.
The children have been illustrating, using puppets and acting out their retells to entertain each other and practice their use of new vocabulary.
The children have also been learning about good listening and speaking techniques through pretending to interview a character. After creating interesting questions, they then present them to their friends and enjoy their responses. Dressing up and using microphones add to the fun!
| Week 8 | Wednesday 30 August | P & C Fathers' Day Stall |
| Thursday 31 August | Chaplain's Feed your Fella BBQ Breakfast | |
| Volley Ball QLD Primary Schools Cup Year 5/6 | ||
| Friday 1 September | STUDENT FREE DAY! | |
| Week 9 | Thursday 7 September | Readers Cup State Competition |
| MADD Day Everton Park State High School Year 4 | ||
| Student Leader's Meeting 1.25pm | ||
| Friday 8 September | Student Council Meeting 1.25pm | |
| Wakakirri Awards Night - Logan Entertainment Centre | ||
| Saturday 9 September | ESS Family Fun Day 12pm to 5pm | |
| Week 10 | Monday 11 September | Assembly ESS EPAC 2pm |
| Wednesday 14 September | PREP Nudgee Beach Excursion | |
| Friday 15 Sepetmber | Last day of term - HOLIDAYS! | |
| TERM 4 | Tuesday 3 October | Back to School! |
Bebras– For students in Years 3-6. The purpose of this challenge is to improve computational problem solving and reading comprehension skills. The task is 20 online questions completed in 45 minutes. The quiz is completed lunchtimes at school, either in pairs or individually.
To participate, registered students drop by the computer Lab first or second breaks (after eating). New students require a signed consent form (email mharr94@eq.edu.au or collect one from Mr Harris during Digi Tech).
Well done to the students who have already completed the questions. I have seen a big improvement since Term 1!
September 10 is the 2023 deadline.
Michael Harris
Digital Technologies Teacher
Metropolitan North Track and Field.
Congratulations to our students who competed at the Met North Track and Field Carnival last week.
- Chelsea – 4th in Shotput
- Alexis – 7th in High Jump (equal 5th)
Both girls achieved Personal Bests against quality competition and they should both be very proud of their efforts.
Great work. Well done.
Photo courtesy of Naomi Dorland
Volleyball Cup
We will be participating in the Primary Schools Volleyball Cup at Craigslea State High School this Thursday 31 August. Good luck to all players. I hope you can all get involved and play really well.
Look out for the next newsletter which will include the results and photos.
Interschool Sport
Gala Days for the Years 5 & 6 are being planned for City District Schools for three Fridays in early Term 4. Notes will be going home shortly and will be due back by the last week of school.
Swimming
We will be returning to the pool for our PE lessons in Term 4. Please keep an eye out for notes over the next week, with days of lessons and times where you may be asked to help if you have a little one in Prep to Year 2.
With the holidays just around the corner it is a good time to make sure that your student – not only has everything they need for swimming but that they also fit and are ready to go.
- Swimming Bag (suitable to hold all swimming gear and uniforms when in the pool).
- Swimmers (please avoid cross overs straps for our younger students if possible as they can cause difficulties when getting changed for our little ones.)
- Towel
- Swimming Cap (COMPULSORY)
- Sunsafe Shirt (this may be either a rash vest or a T-shirt)
- Goggles (Recommended)
- Plastic Bag to carry wet swim wear after lessons.
(Please make sure ALL items of clothing are marked with the students name – this includes school uniforms.)
Brisbane Festival has great family activities for these school holidays! ‘Swim’ under the sea into a shark cage at Erth’s Shark Dive, learn circus skills at Flipside Circus, enjoy a storytelling adventure with a Tassie Tiger at Hide the Dog, check out some mind-blowing circus, dance & comedy at Cirque Bon Bon, or join in with our spectacular Closing Concert, All Together Now.
NetSetGo is an introductory netball program for girls and boys from the age of 5 to 10. It provides a fun and safe environment where children can learn fundamental motor skills related to netball through activities and modified games. This year we are also running a PLAY component, designed for 10 - 12 year olds who are new to netball or have just started playing at school. These sessions will allow them to learn the necessary skills and confidence to play competitive netball.
