Dear Parents and Caregivers,

As we close out the 152^nd year of operation of this wonderful school it is time to reflect on all that we achieved throughout the year. 

After a well-deserved break and time to recharge we will turn our attention to the new school year and will be back with a renewed spring in our step and passion to support our wonderful students again in 2024.

We would like to thank our supportive parents and carers along with community members for all that you do, to ensure your students are at school each day ready to learn and give everything their best shot.  

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD CEREMONY

On Monday at our Principal’s Award Ceremony, we saw three students from each class achieve awards for demonstrating our three school pillars - Learning, Safety and Relationships, consistently across the semester. The ceremony went smoothly with excellent participation and behaviour of our wonderful students, attendance from a large crowd of parents and carers and the superb organisation by school staff. 

A massive congratulations to all of the award recipients, but also to all of the other students who may not have received awards, but still have done their best and achieved their personal learning goals for the year.

Principal’s Awards - Semester Two 2023 

KAY POINTON AWARD

The Kay Pointon Memorial Award is awarded each year to a Year 5 student who demonstrates attributes of determination, persistence and resilience.  This year the Kay Pointon Memorial Award was presented to Lisa G.

2024 CAPTAINS

At the conclusion of the assembly, we announced the Captains for 2024 and held a congratulatory handover from the current Captains to the 2024 Captains. I am pleased to announce after a very rigorous process which commenced with a criteria card, application and submitting a persuasive letter. The eight shortlisted School Captain nominees gave a speech in front of the Year 3/4/5/6 students, staff and parents. We then conducted a student and staff voting process. A panel of staff then had the difficult job of considering all of the data to make the final decisions to select the best candidates for the various positions for 2024.

Our 2024 Captains are:

School Captains: Bronte Scholes and Adelyn Blatchford.

Vice-School Captain and Student Council Chairperson: Isabella Hall

Arts Captains: Georgia Linedale and Ivy Smith

Banksia House Captains: Levi Lavin and Mason Cross

Waratah House Captains: Jamie Landon and Ivy Atkins.

BREAK UP DAY and CLEAN UP DAY

Thursday will be our break up day/class celebration day. Each class will be partaking in holding a pizza party in their classes at 12pm - payment for the pizza day closed last friday. Games and activities will be organised by class teachers, which will including swimming for some classes. Your classroom teachers will have communicated what is planned for the day.

This is a usual school day and as such students need to be in normal school uniform. We will also do the traditional send-off tunnel and guard of honour for the Year 6 students tomorrow afternoon at 2:50pm at the front of the school.

On Friday there are usually limited students at school as this will be clean up and moving day in readiness for next year. Of course, school will be open on Friday for those families who need supervision for their children, but all of the activities for the year will be finished on Thursday.

Friday will be a big day of teachers moving and cleaning classrooms in readiness for next year. Students attending on Friday still need to wear full school uniform, as this is not a free dress day. A reminder that tuckshop has finished for the year so there will be no tuckshop or party food on this day. Please ensure students bring their usual lunches.

2024 SCHOOL YEAR

A reminder that the school office will be open from Monday, 15th January 9-3pm and that teachers will be involved in professional development from Wednesday, 17th January through to Friday, 19th January. 

School recommences for the new school year on Monday, 22nd January, 2024.  The Australia Day Public Holiday will be on Friday 26^th January, at the end of the first week back.

Parents will be able to drop off book list items to outside the tuckshop on the tables set up from Wednesday, 17^th through to Friday 19^th January mornings between 7.15am and 10:00am, so that they can be transported to classrooms each day in readiness for the first day. A reminder that booklists were sent home recently for Year 1-6 with contact details for our suppliers, Bedrock Books at Brendale. The booklists are also avalible online on our school website. You can of course choose to purchase classroom items elsewhere, if you wish. Please ensure if items are purchased elsewhere, that they are the correct items or of similar quality.

Prep School Resource Scheme information was also distributed to Prep families recently with the participation agreement on Q Parents and also in hard copy. These agreements must be returned by Friday this week to ensure ordering of the correct amounts of equipment for Prep. Invoices will be issued for payment in the new year and can be made in one payment or across terms one and two. If you do not wish to be part of the Resource Scheme for Prep you will need to purchase all items on the list and provide them to school for the start of the year and your child will be unable to partake of the shared resources system that operates in Prep.

A reminder also when purchasing uniforms for next year that our dress code states all black shoes and white socks, so if purchasing new shoes for next year please make sure these align with the dress code. All black shoes means all black shoes, soles and laces with no coloured trims, coloured laces or white soles. A reminder that boots, high tops and basketball shoes are not acceptable school wear.

With regard to hair- our dress code states that hair should be of a natural and style and colour for school, so this means alternative haircuts and colours are not suitable for school. If hair is of shoulder length or longer it needs to be tied back.  This applies to girls and boys.

Our students look fantastic here at Enoggera State School when they wear their full uniform with pride. I encourage parents to support this and ensure their children are able to comply with the approved dress code and are coming to school in full and correct uniform every single day.

The uniform shop will be open in the week prior to school:

Monday 15/1 from 9am to 11 am

Thursday 18/1 from 4pm to 6pm 

Friday 19/1 from 9am to 11am.

It will then be open on the first day of school on Monday 22/1 from 8-9am. Items are always available to be ordered on QKR and these orders will be filled when the uniform shop returns.

YEAR 6 GRADUATION

On Thursday will be the Year 6 Graduation, which is often both a happy and sad occasion. We celebrate this Year 6 cohort, who have been outstanding learners and great role models for our entire school. We have valued their contribution to Enoggera State School and are truly sad that the time for them to leave has arrived. Even so, we know that they leave ESS with excellent knowledge and skills to progress well in their learning and also having a deep understanding of how to enact the school pillars to help them be their best every day. Go well, Year 6. We will miss you. Our whole school will farewell our graduates at the front of the school at 3pm on Thursday afternoon.

2024 STAFFING

Also at the Principal’s Assembly we farewelled the staff leaving Enoggera State School this week. We farewelled Mrs Ros Kerr who is taking leave for term one as she moves into retirement.  We thank her for her many years of service to the DoE and service to ESS since 2017. We also farewelled some Teacher Aides who have finished temporary contracts with us. Mrs Gibbons, Mr Giblin and Mrs Riddle are all finishing up their contract as these hours have been replaced by permanent staff on the transfer list for next year. We also announced that Mrs Karen Kent will be moving into a District Relieving Teacher role for next year and Teacher Aide - Mrs Sue Griffin will be taking leave next year. Mrs Vicky Cho our LOTE teacher has had her circuit changed so she will be servicing West End SS next year and we will have a new LOTE teacher in our school on Thursday. 

We thank them all for the amazing work they have done at this school and wish them all the best at their new schools/roles or on their leave.  I can now announce the Enoggera State School staff for the 2024 school year. 

Principal - Mrs Anne Robinson

Deputy Principal - Mrs Tina Burrows

Head of Department-Curriculum - Mrs Amy O’Malley

Business Manager - Ms Ellie Mastrapostolos

Administration Staff - Mrs Stacey Talbot and Ms Tory Rawlinson

Teaching Staff-

Prep - Mrs Jacque Egerton, Miss Emma Enoch and Mrs Shalana Rossiter

Yr 1 - Mrs Rebecca Nelson/Mrs Tanya Farrell, Mrs Amanda Boon, Miss Jasmine Hunt

Yr 2 - Mr Richard Lin, Mrs Julie Chapman, Mrs Jaime Hall

Yr 3 - Mrs Andrea Moeser, Mr Jason Taylour

Yr 4 - Mrs Alison Leeson/Mrs Laura Arthur, Mrs Belinda Harris

Yr 5/6 - Mrs Lynn Lancaster, Mr Tom Emes, Miss Tamara Dowling

Specialist Teachers and Support Staff-

Success Teacher–(Literacy and Numeracy Support)- Mrs Donagh McKenzie

Success Teacher - (Inclusion)- Mrs Belinda Paton and Mrs Lauren Miceli

Guidance Officer - Mrs Margi Graham

Health and Physical Education Teacher - Mr Andrew Woodrick

Dance and Drama Teacher - Miss Georgia Dunstan

Classroom Music Teacher - Mrs Rebecca Rees

Instrumental Music Teacher – Mrs Yvonne Moore (Strings), Mrs Rebecca Rees (Band)

LOTE Teacher - Mrs Linda Jeffrey

District Relieving Teacher - Mrs Karen Kent

IT Technician - Andrew Wilson

Chaplain - Miss Twinkee Polius

Permanent Teacher Aides - Penny Fitzpatrick, Jess Tucker, Ainsley Butwell, Helena Frantz, Nyree O’Donnell, Michelle Humphrey

School's Officer - Colin Callaghan

Permanent Cleaners - Caroline Salfischberger, John Salfischberger, Nicolas Park, Cheryl Hill

To all of our families who are leaving us this year, I trust you take with you many happy memories and assurances your child has had a great education at Enoggera State School. Some of our families who have had a longstanding relationship with Enoggera State School will have their last child leaving Year 6 this year. Thank you for your partnership over many years and all the very best for the future.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I thank everyone for a fantastic year at Enoggera State School and look forward to seeing everyone back for another great year in 2024.  I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and that if travelling you stay safe on the roads over the busy season. If you are moving on over the holidays, we wish you all the best in the future.

Till next time,

Mrs Anne Robinson

Principal

Please DO NOT return this order form to the School.

You can call Bedrock’s friendly team on 07 3881 1122 to place your order over the phone. You can also shop in store by heading to Bedrock Books. Bring the order form with you and use it as a picklist in store. 

Bedrock Books also offer payments plans - Please call Bedrock Books on 07 3881 1122 to organise a payment plan for your booklist. Payment plans have no fixed payment amounts and you pay when you prefer.  A non‐refundable deposit of $20 is required at the time of placing your order.  Orders over $300 require a 10% deposit.

Library Books

Our records show that students still have lots of outstanding library books that need to be returned before Friday. Please encourage your child to check at home and return any items as soon as possible. If books are not returned you will incur an invoice for the missing book/s in 2024. 

Mrs Amy O'Malley

Head of Department - Curriculum

Hello Parents and Caregivers,

Only two more sleeps until the Christmas/New Year break!

Swimming Consents

Just a quick reminder that all swimming consents are due back to classroom teachers or administration by this Friday the 8^th of December. Students who have not returned their consents will not be allowed in the pool in Term 1, 2024. So please ensure these are handed in.

QParents

Online consents through QParents have now gone live and your yearly State School Consent and Online Consents have been sent out. Please ensure you complete these online to help administration in 2024. If you haven’t already set up a QParents accounts please refer to the following link:

If you are having trouble, please feel free to contact administration and we can try and assist.

Yearbook Orders

Yearbook orders for 2023 have now closed however we still have more yearbooks for sale and sales will reopen in 2024. If you are interested in purchasing a 2023 yearbook please send through the order form and I will process early next year.

Students Leaving

A reminder to please advise the administration team if your student/s is planning on leaving at the end of 2023 – this excludes our leaving year 6 students. There is a formal process that needs to be followed to ensure a smooth transition to a new school – the sooner we have this information the quicker we can process this.

If you have any other financial inquiries, please contact me directly on 07 3550 1333 or email me on bsm@enoggerass.eq.edu.au

Have a fantastic break and see you all in 2024!

Ellie Mastrapostolos

Business Services Manager

What a big year it’s been. Term 4 is always busy, and this was a particularly huge term with gala sports, camp, and arts on stage in amongst all our learning and assessment. 

Camp was an amazing opportunity to see each other's character strengths that we have explored through the Learning Curve program this year. Year fives particularly had great fun on the crate climb and low ropes.

Year sixes loved the koala climb and raft building, and the flying fox was a highlight for all. Many of these activities encouraged teamwork, perseverance and resilience.

We’ve also enjoyed comparing the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the film adaptation, particularly singing the Oompa Loompa songs. Every English lesson just made us all hungry reading about all the delicious lollies and inventions in the story.

Our year sixes are ready to move on to bigger and better things in high school, while our year fives are ready to step up into being school leaders. We wish the year sixes all the best with their future endeavours. Have a safe and happy holiday, from the 5/6’s!

Jaime Hall, Tom Emes, Ros Kerr 

Year 5/6 Teachers

End of Year Movie Night

Our first ever Christmas market was a hit!

Thank you to our wonderful school students who had stalls and to our local artisans for jumping in too. It was so lovely to see so many families shopping for their loved ones.

I think we can all say that the slushie’s were a hit on such a muggy night.

The kids’ carols were a highlight! What a bunch of superstars we have. Yes, we got a little wet, but rain never stopped anyone from having fun!

It was great to see our community stick it out in the weather and see the concert finish. We had families stay behind to have picnics and enjoy their evening!

A big thank you to our P&C volunteer team who put in some amazing effort at the end of the year when I’m sure they really had nothing left and Cr Andrew Wines for all his support over the years!

What a way to kick off the festive season.

Goodbye year 6 parents and students.

Congratulations and a big thankyou to our year 6 cohort. Your efforts at the school over the last 7 years have been amazing. We hope you all have a fantastic night celebrating your amazing children and yourselves on Thursday.

We will miss you all and have been lucky to have you all as part of the school community.

Tuckshop

Volunteer opportunities for TERM 1- 2024 in the Tuck Inn are now available.

The tuckshop roster has weeks 2 to 9 listed for specific “Year Levels”, where we are seeking volunteers, whose children are in that year, e.g., Prep; Year 1; Year 2; etc. This is a great opportunity for parents to meet other parents as well as experience the school tuckshop, or for a group of friends to sign up and have some fun for a couple of hours. Hopefully you will enjoy it and sign up on a regular basis for each term!

Please click on the following link to go to the signup sheet. All parents and grandparents are welcome to volunteer. Don’t be put off if the dates don’t suit, if you are available to volunteer on specific dates please sign up as we do not want to miss out on your help!

volunteersignup.org/RB83Y

If you’re unable to help out in the tuckshop but have some time to bake, please sign up to the Home Baking roster.

volunteersignup.org/FA7FM

Uniform Shop

New opening day in 2024 – MONDAY Mornings 8.00-9.00am

Uniform Shop is open every Monday morning during the 2024 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 Tuesday. If you are unable to pick the items up, they will be provided to the office to distribute to your child.

Be sure to take note of the school holiday hours below. We are always looking for volunteers to help staff our Uniform Shop, if you are interested, please reach out to ess.uniforms@gmail.com

P&C Meeting

Join us on the 27^th February 2024 for our next P&C meeting. With the year coming to the pointy end and some of our current Exec members finishing up, if you’re interested in being part of the P&C now is the time to come along and see what the P&C is all about. Our P&C only runs if we have people at the helm and those around to help.

P&C Executives

The Enoggera State School P & C meets every 4^th Tuesday of the month – next meeting is 27 February 6.15pm in the staffroom.

Keep up to date on all things P&C via our Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/EnoggeraSSPandC

Congratulations

Well done 1C for scoring the most points through the year for their conduct in class, lining up, moving around the school and into class in an orderly and careful manner. I shall be bringing along some hot chips (not many) to enjoy with our pizza.

2024

2024 is an exciting year for Digi Tech events. We will have:

• • Robot club for years 2-6: RoboCup Jnr  - June and August Competitions. There is also the Vex IQ National Competition (Yet to be named capital city November)
  • Coding Club years 1-6: NCSS NCSS Challenge Python 3 & Blockly (February);  BEBRAS (March and September); Premier’s Coding Challenge (April – September); Minecraft Build Challenges for Years 5,6 e.g design a sports stadium, build an historical home; construct new orbital outpost to replace the ISS, redesign schools, represent people’s feelings and emotions; “WebComp” (October) Design your own webpage “Cyber Comp” (November); Build games, sprites, apps in code.org public projects (all year); Build a game at Makecode arcade  (all year); Tynker Hour of Code (all year, student must have a home account).

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to our wonderful Enoggera State School family.

Michael Harris

Digital Technologies Teacher

2024 Musical News

Ms Dunstan and I were so excited to have our first musical meeting on Monday this week. We want to thank everyone who came along. Please make sure to check your emails for your practice tracks and other information, including your junk mail as sometimes my emails end up in there.

If your child couldn’t make the meeting but is still wanting to audition for the musical next year please either come and see myself or Ms Dunstan on Thursday or Friday, or email me a request for the information (rmree1@eq.edu.au).

I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and I look forward to seeing you all in the new year!

Rebecca Rees

Primary Music Specialist Teacher

Name the Garden Competition

This term the environmental committee asked students to enter a name the garden competition. It was wonderful to see so many entries and students having a go.

The name of our garden will be announced next year. Thank you to everyone who entered!

From the Environmental Committee.

Well, we have made it!  Final Week of 2023 and what an amazing year it has been.

We finished the term with our swimming carnivals

Senior Swimming Carnival

The Senior Carnival was held on Wednesday 29^th November. It was a HOT day and the swimming was terrific. Congratulations to Waratah for taking the win. 

Special mention and congratulations also goes to our age champions:

Junior Swimming Carnival 

The Prep to year 2 carnival was held the day after on Thursday 30^th November.  It was another hot day, but with some changes to seating arrangements everybody had an enjoyable day trying their best in the pool.

Thank you everybody for all your great work this year. A special mention needs to go to the 36 swimming volunteers over the year. Without your help, our swimming program would not be as great as it is.

Farewell

Farewell to the grade 6 group. I had the pleasure of teaching many of you last year and it has been terrific to watch you grow. All the best for your future. I truly wish you all the very best.

Until next year, if you are at the beach please stay within the flags and I look forward to seeing all the faces in 2024.

Andrew Woodrick

HPE Teacher