Newsletter-27-2023

From the Principal's Desk

Welcome to week 7! 

Slade Point State School is always focused on improving communication with parents/carers and staff. Every day at school is busy and full of learning opportunities.  We also want to keep all of our students safe.

Road Safety is also supported at school.  All students need to wear bike helmets if they are riding to school. Please help all students to be safe on the roads by supporting this very important safety message.

Please use the main pedestrian crossing in front of the school at all times and abide by the road signs for speed limits.

Crossing Pheasant Street in the afternoons can be very dangerous.  Please remind your child to ask a staff member at the pick-up gates to help them.  If parents and carers are parked across from the school on Pheasant Street, please walk across the road to collect your child.  As mentioned, staff can assist your child, especially if you have small children in the car.

Please check in with your child’s teacher at the pick-up gates.  Teachers are always available to confirm dates or times for the various activities that your child may be involved in. Notes that are sent home will have dates, days and payment details on them, as well as the times for various activities.

There is always a member of the leadership team on duty in the UCA from 8 am each morning.  Parents, carers and the community are also invited to check with this person about dates, times and organisational details for any school activity.

This coming Monday 28^th August at 8:45 am, all parents, community and carers are invited to a special parade to thank our very special support staff and cleaners for all that they do for the students, staff and school.  Please join us in the hall.  They will be receiving some very special surprises.  It is also Speech Pathology Week.  Our Speech Language Pathologist is Mrs Jodie Quayle.  We will also be thanking her for her work in the school.

Uncle Patrick is back to complete the dance he taught our Year 5 and Year 6 students at the start of the year.  He is working with the students on Mondays at 9 am and the dates are listed below: - (this will entail leaving parade a little bit earlier,  from 9 am).

AUG - 21^st 

SEPT - 4^th

OCT - 9^th 

We will be confirming our participation in Awakening Spirits, 18^th October at the MECC. This will be an opportunity for our students to perform their dance to other schools, parents and carers.  All of our parents and community are invited. Tickets will need to be purchased.  Enquiries via the MECC Ticketing Box.

We are seeking Prep students for 2024.  You are invited to Slade Point State School’s getting to know you sessions or they are better known as READY SET PREP.

We would like to help transition your child into their first year of schooling and allow you the opportunity to find out how you can participate in their learning.

A 4-week program plus a parents and carers, meeting is being held at Slade Point State School.  We are strongly encouraging a parent to attend with their child.

The dates are all Thursdays- Time: 1:45 pm-2.30pm:

1. 5th October;
2. 12th October;
3. 19th October and;
4. Concluding, Thursday 26th October

Interviews held, 9th and 16th November. Start booking now-Ring 49657333

The Parent Information meeting will be on Thursday 2nd November at 2:00 pm.  This program is open to ALL 2024 Prep aged students.  Children must be born between 1st July 2018-30th June 2019

PSHS Scholarships 2024: It is exciting to inform all parents and carers of our year 6 students that I have already received a number of scholarship applications.  I am strongly supporting the partnership work that Slade Point and Pioneer High School have been establishing around scholarships and the extension program “Leap into Pioneer”- As a recipient of a Scholarship, this student is entitled to:

- $200 credit per year on the student account for 3 years (Years 7-9)

-One-off $200 per LOWES VOUCHER for School Uniforms.

- Free entry into national Academic Competitions.

-Name on the School’s Scholarship Honour Roll.

- Entry into the Schools Learning Excellence at Pioneer (LEAP) Enrichment program.

Please return your Scholarship Application to the school office by next Tuesday.

Please note that our short PBL Parade will be held every Wednesday morning at 8:30 am.  Our key message this week is reminding students about the school expectation:

BE RESPECTFUL- please support all staff at the school and remind your child to always follow instructions.  Students are forgetting that at the end of play they need to line up and show they can come in off the playground.

During week 7 and on Wednesday 23^rd August we will be conducting our Book Week Parade.  The 2023 theme is: READ GROW INSPIRE.  This will be in the hall at 9 am.  All parents, community and carers are welcome to attend.  Please enter the hall via our Pheasant Street Gate.  Children are being asked to dress as their favourite book character and also bring their book to hold during the parade.  Once again, we will be working in partnership with Pioneer State High School as some of our previous students will be returning to Slade Point to assist with the parade.

Fiona Forrest is bringing over her Leadership Pride students.  Children will meet at the UCA at 8:45 am take their school bags to class and then assemble in the hall by 9 am.  There will be prizes and judging from 10:00 am.  Parents, community members and carers are invited to dress up as well.  There will be an adult prize for the best dressed book character.  We will have reading activities in the lower school classes.  The Leadership Pride students will read with the students in Prep, Prep-1, Year 1, and Year 2. 

Please support the P & C Father’s Day Stall on Wednesday 30^th August.  All money must be handed to the classroom teacher (preferably in a named envelope).  The P & C will prepare a timetable for the classes to visit the stall.

All parents, carers and the community are invited to all activities on Culture Day.  Please bring a plate of food to share on the day.  Children are all encouraged to dress up in a costume from their country. Please support our annual Culture Day on Thursday 31^st August.  CHILDREN WILL ALSO NEED TO BRING A PACKED LUNCH FOR FIRST BREAK.

 Thank you to Aunty Waveney, Aunty Vik for starting to prepare our program.  A very basic outline is as follows: -

9 am -10:45 am- Hall Concert, 11:30-12:55 pm -Rotational Activities, Shared Lunch in the UCA and 1:30-2:25 pm - Rotational activities continue.

Date Claimers - Term Three: -

1. Pioneer Year 7 Scholarships due back on the 8^th September;
2. Pioneer State High School Year 6 Interviews TBC week 8;
3. STEM Punks year 5 and year 6 students – Week 8, Tuesday 29^th August
4. Father’s Day Stall – Week 8, Wednesday 30^th August (BRING MONEY IN A NAMED ENVELOPE);
5. Culture Day- week 8, 31^st August (all parents, carers and community welcome);
6. Rewards-Celebration Day-Lawn Bowls - week 10 Tuesday 12^th September
7. Community Breakfast — will be held in the 4th term;
8. Pupil Free Day Friday 1st September — School is Closed;
9. Swimming Carnival– week 10 Thursday 14th September – parents, carers and community all welcome to attend the Memorial Pool;
10. Last day of term 3-week 10 Friday 15^th September;

Term Four Save this Date: -

1. Ready Set Prep 5th October, 12th October, 19th October and concluding Thursday 26^th October;
2. Year 5 and Year 6 Camp- Week 8 – Seaforth Outdoor Recreation Centre; Donations for morning and afternoon students are kindly requested to bring (Boys-Fruit) (Girls-Baked Items/biscuits). The students will be leaving on Wednesday and arriving back on Friday at 2:50 pm. Final payment to be confirmed;
3. Community Breakfast – week 6 - 7^th November;
4. Awards Morning -week 10, Monday 4^th December;
5. Year 6 Graduation-week 10 - Wednesday evening 6th December (Mackay Surf Club) 6:30 pm $17.50 per person Dinner and Dessert;
6. All 2024 Year 7 students attend a full orientation day at PSH Tuesday-week 9 28^th of November 8:30 am to 2:30 pm;

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Angie Malone.  Acting Principal

Parade Awards

Student of the Week 6: Keirra, Tafea, Kohen, Layla, Kovi, Leila, John B, Levi, Azaria & Llawana.

Wheel of Attendance - Week 7: Kasey, Eadie, Josef, Maverick, Ryder, Nate, Chase K & Terri

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Sladey Artist

Andy Warhol is the artist the Year 5/6 have used as their inspiration for the annual Sladey Artist competition. Bright colours are used to portray Michael Jackson into the concept of Pop Art.

Gardening

Thanks to Lily from Bunnings who came along to the school on Tuesday to plant some beautiful flowers in a new garden outside the P/1B classroom. Lily helped the children build a garden bed and talked to them about looking after plants. 

A big thank you to Lily and Bunnings for the donation of portable garden, plants, soil and watering cans. We loved gardening with you Lily.

Ali Yates - Teacher Aide.

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Tree Day

Last Thursday was Tree Day and it was very fun for the little kids and us. There was lots of trees at the forest and they all had signs saying what species of tree they were. Grade 6 students brought their iPads to the forest and took photos of the kids (Preps) looking for evidence of life, creatures with legs etc. Students had to take a notebook and partner with a prep student and record whatever we found. 

The alarm went off and we had a fire drill, but now back to tree day - It is all about teaching the Preppies that it is not OK to harm nature in anyway as nature is where the animal have homes. Littering and chopping down tress is not OK either as that is killing nature.  We need to remember to look after nature for future generations.

Written by Archimedes.

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Swimming Excursion - Thursday 14th Sept.

Today all students have recieved a blue form  - Consent form for Swimming Excursion.

This event will be held on the last Thursday of term - 14th September and the Memorial Pool.

All schildren turning 9 years old this year older also have been given a bright lime coloured form for Swimming Carnival Nominations.

All forms to be completed and handed in to your child's class teacher.

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Leap into Pioneer (QAMT Maths Comp)

On Thursday, 7 of our students participated in the Learning Excellence at Pioneer (LEAP) program at Pioneer High School along with students from Andergrove Primary. The program aims to develop student's higher order thinking skills and exposes them to a range of enrichment okpprtunities when starting high school.

This terms discipline area was Maths. A huge Congratulations to Seth Lowis, Jacob Lyons and Ella Bonehill for achieving the highest score out of the whole group at the end of the day.

The students enjoyed Pizza and Poppers on arrival and briefly caught up with previous students.

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Welcome to Mrs C

Welcome to our new Tuckshop Covenor, Miss Mary. Mary has a grandson at our school and is a Sladey local. The students will call Mary, Mrs. C.

Please be very kind and patient with Mary as she gets  to know all of the children and the workings of our Tuckshop. Have a great first week Mary!

P and C News

The P & C is able to supply items for the Father's day stall with a very small budget...BUT we rely on a lot of donations for this also. We love to have a great range of gifts for this day.

Unfortunately we (P & C members) are having to be the main donaters of items for this stall. We love donating but we would love more donations from our school community which would help the wonderful P & C Father's Day stall out.

Maybe its a ......

• Box of chocolates or individually wrapped lollies
• Coolers  - do you work for somebody with an abundance of  these?
• Key chains
• Pens
  

It could be items we can use like sticky tape, brown paper bags etc. also.

We understand that times are tough but any donation is appreciated. Please drop off at Tuckshop. We will appreciate your support with this.

Thank you

Father's Day Reminder:  $10 limit per child for the gift. Money is to be in an envelope marked with name and grade and how much money inside. Please give to their tacher in the morning of the stall.

Irish Dancing

At the start of the month, Year 1 student Luna Van Straalen participated in her first ever Feis for Irish Damcing Competition. Luna did an amazing job and came in third on the podium. Congradulations Luna 

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Contact information:

Please let us know if you have changed your phone number or address.

We need to keep our parent contact information up to date in case of emergency.

Please either drop us an email or note advising of any changes so that we can update our records.  Thanks