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Newsletter 62 - 17th July 2024

Principal's Desk

Welcome to Week 2

Principal messages

We have had a very busy start to term three!! Please read over all of the exciting and wonderful activities and events that are happening.

- Our Sladey School Disco is on this Friday. Please check Face Book, the school sign, posters around our great school for details. The P and C coffee shop operates each morning and volunteers will have information about the disco. Come dressed as your favourite move character. Please stay in the hall at all times.

5:30 to 7:00 pm. $2 entry (via Pheasant Street). Gate open at 5:30 pm.

Our Student Council always support the P and C. They will be selling glow sticks for 50 cents or 5 for $2. There is also a Crazy hair Day on the 31^st July.

- Individual student reports on performance in 2024 NAPLAN will start arriving in schools over the next few weeks. Parents and Carers will receive a student copy a well.

- Slade Point State School continues to offer endless academic, sporting and cultural opportunities for all students.

- Best wishes to our athletes competing this week at Mackay and District Athletics.

- Performing Arts:

Afternoon Tunes:

Tuesday 30^th July at 3pm in the hall. Choir, Beginner Strings and Ensemble to Perform!

Eisteddfod:

Due to ongoing repair work at the MECC, this year’s Eisteddfod will be held in venues around Mackay. As some of these venues are in use through the week some performances have to take place on weekends.

String Ensemble (year 4-6 students): Sunday 11^th August at Northern Beaches SHS at 9am . Please note that exact arrival/pick up times will be confirmed in the permission note as students will be required to arrive earlier to warm up.

Beginner Strings (year 3 students): Sunday 11^th August at Northern Beaches SHS at 1:15pm . Please note that exact arrival/pick up times will be confirmed in the permission note as students will be required to arrive earlier to warm up.

Choir: Wednesday 7^th August at New Life Church at 12:30pm. Students will be transported between the venue and school via maxi taxi. We are performing “Gecko” and “Where the Sky Meets the Sea”.

- Another opportunity that Slade Point is offering students in year 4, year 5 and year 6 is an excursion to Wetlands Walkabout. This is to also celebrate NAIDOC. The excursion will be held on Tuesday the 23^rd July.

- This year the School Opinion Survey will be open to students, parents and staff between 22 July and 16 August 2024 with invitation emails being distributed the week starting 15 July 2024. I encourage all parents and students to fill in the survey and remember the exciting and wonderful academic, sporting and cultural opportunities our school offers.

- Please note that parent teacher interviews will be held on Monday 22^nd July. Notes will be coming home over the next few days. Please check your child’s bag for an interview note.

- I would like to acknowledge all the support that Uncle Patrick gives to our school. He will be continuing his Wednesday dancing with our Year 5 and Year 6 classes. Thank you, Uncle Patrick.

- Thank you to all of our wonderful students who always show that they can be respectful in the playground. It was very pleasing to congratulate all the students who received 25 tokens and 50 and 75 badges.

Our Slade Point State School PBL message for the next 2 weeks –Be a Learner. Be respectful and Be Safe.

- We will be having a Community Breakfast this term. This will be held on Tuesday, week 7. The date is 20^th August.

- Culture Day Dances. Culture Day is approaching quickly. SAVE THIS DATE – 29^th August.

Our school is also preparing for Sladey Artists. This will run in conjunction with Culture Day.

Class	Song	Culture
Prep	Rattlin’ Bog	An Irish folk song performed by The Wiggles
P/1	Samba Nana	A dance inspired by traditional Brazilian Samba
Year 1	Makeba	By French singer/songwriter Jain. Inspired by South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba
Year 2	I’ll Make a Man out of You	A song from the Disney musical “Mulan” set in Imperial China
Year 2/3	Walk Like an Egyptian	A pop song by 1980s band ‘The Bangles’ inspired by Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics
Year 3	Enua Manea	A traditional Cook Islands song
Year 4	Cuban Pete	A song in the Cuban dance style Mambo
Year 5	Great Southern Land	Sung in English and the Gamilaraay language by Indigenous performer Mitch Tambo
Year 6	Wish You Well	By Yolngu rapper Baker Boy feat. Bernard Fanning.

Save these Dates: - Check Facebook posts from the school and P and C. Always ask your child’s teacher if you are unsure about events in the school (dates, times and venue). Check with staff on duty in the mornings at the UCA. Check with staff at the pickup gates each afternoon.

Future Dates: -

11th July, term 3, Thursday our first Pre-Prep- Ready Set Prep morning, 9:00-9:30 am at the UCA to start;

31^st July, term 3, Wednesday 4:30 -5:30 pm Pioneer High School Tour and sausage sizzle;

MySchool dates term 3 and term 4-

11th July, 25th July, 8th August, 22nd August, 5th September, 3rd October, 17th October, 31st October

C and K Kindy dates term 3 and term 4-

18th July, 1st August,15th August, 12th September, 10th October, 24th October, 7th November

Parent Information Session - Thursday 14th November 9:00-9:30.

11-12th July term 3 – Whitsunday Voices Festival (TBC tickets and events)

19th July P and C Disco week 2 term 3- dress as your favourite Movie Character;

2nd August Mathematics Competition week 4 term 3 – St Joseph’s Year 5 and Year 6 (1 team) 8:45-11:45 am;

7th August Year 3-6 ICAS Writing – parents to register by 26th July - (See Miss A for another copy of the information note);

14th August Year 2-6 ICAS English - parents to register by 26th July - (See Miss A for another copy of the information note);

28th August Year 2-6 ICAS Mathematics- parents to register by 26th July - (See Miss A for another copy of the information note)

23rd August, term 3 - Book Week parade in the hall Week 7 term 3- Reading is Magic 9:45 am;

27th August, term 3 - Father’s Day Stall. Tuesday at school. Money is to be brought in an envelope (named);

29th August, week 8 – Culture Day. All parents, the community and families are invited. Please always check Facebook and our school sign, to confirm times and dates.

30^th August, week 8 School Closed (Public Holiday).;

12^th September, week 10 Sladey Celebration Day – Lower School (scooters in the UCA) Upper School (Lawn Bowls)?

17th October, week 3, Awakening Spirits at the Mackay Entertainment Centre;

1st November, term 4, week 5 - Halloween Disco;

5th December, term 4, week 10 - Christmas Concert;

6th December, term 4, week 10 -Swimming Carnival;

2nd December, term 4, week 10 - Awards Day;

11th December Canelands and Lagoon, term 4, week 11 - Wednesday

ADJUSTED DATE BY POPULAR REQUEST 4th December, term 4, week 10- Year 6 Graduation Ceremony Surf Club (staff, parents or carers and child to attend only);

12th December, term 4 week 11 - Sladey Celebration Day and Petting Zoo’.

I hope that all families and students had a very restful, well-deserved holiday.

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Angie Malone

Principal Slade Point State School

Admin Notes

Office Hours - 8:00am to 3:15pm

Student Accounts:

Parents, all invoices for Student Resource Scheme are now overdue. Please make arrangements for payment as soon as possible.

Late to school -

Students arriving after 8:45, please enter through the admin and collect a late slip.

SWIMMING - TERM 4

Parents, notes will be sent home in August for Swim lessons which will begin week 1, term 4. More info to follow.

Whitsunday Voices

Slade Point students were lucky enough to secure seats at this year's Whitsunday Voices where they got to see 2 Australian Authors, James Foley and Nick Earls.

Mrs Bishop said "Nick Earls was fantastic and loved to play with word meanings, which had significantly changed over the years."

James Foley... an author who writes children books for children who read books. If you're a child and you're eating his books you're doing it wrong.....