24-2023

From the Principals Desk

Welcome to week 4! 

Welcome everyone. Thank you to all parents and carers for having your child ready for school and attending in week 4 of term three. 

Our Year 4 students had a fantastic time at Bike Education.  Despite the weather causing some difficulties, Bike Education went ahead.  Thank you to Miss Armstrong and Miss Sandrey for all of your hard work and supporting our year 4 students.

Thank you to Mackay PCYC for being so accommodating and organising the two days for the year 4 students.

On behalf of the school staff, I would like to thank all parents, carers and the community for being patient and understanding during the recent Telstra outage. Telstra advised the school of a failure at the Exchange. Spare Parts have been sourced from Melbourne and also from Townsville.

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 school expectation:

BE SAFE

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.  Please contact your child’s classroom teacher to discuss any concerns or issues you may have.

A friendly reminder to our families. Invitations to participate in the School Opinion Survey will be sent over a number of days in the week beginning Monday 17 July to all parents/caregivers. One parent/caregiver per family will receive an email. The survey will close on 18 August.  Our year 5 and year 6 students will have the opportunity to complete the survey from 24th July.  They will do this at school and with their classroom teacher.  If you are unsure about how to complete the survey, please ask your child's teacher.

No logins or passwords are needed, parents/caregivers can simply click on the link and complete the survey.

Swimming lessons are fast approaching.  Thank you to parents and carers who have already paid and sent back their child’s permission note.

Thank you to Miss Roberts and Mrs Ford for supporting our students at the Mackay and District Sports Carnival last Thursday (27th July). Congratulations to our Slade Point State School students who all competed well and tried their hardest. We had five students progressing to the next level and will represent Mackay and District at Capricornia Trials.

Term Three Events: -

1. High school enrolment packs due– week 6, 18th August;
2. Pioneer State High School Year 6 Interviews TBC week 7 and week 8;
3. Rewards-Celebration Day-Lawn Bowls week 10 Wednesday 13th September
   
4. Pupil Free Day Friday 1st September—School is Closed;
5. Swimming Carnival– week 10 Thursday 14th September –all welcome to attend the Memorial Pool;
6. STEM Punks year 5 and year 6 students- 29^th August
7. Eisteddfod for instrumental (Monday week 6) and choir (Friday week 5)-all welcome to purchase a ticket and attend the MECC.

Term Four

Save these Dates: -

Community Breakfast-week 9, 28th November

Year 6 Graduation-week 10, 6th December

Please note a reminder about a new and exciting opportunity for our year 5 and year 6 students is STEM Punks.   This is a totally free event and more information will be given to parents, carers and students over the next few weeks.  The date is set at this stage for the 29th August.  The program is a full day and will be offered at school.

Thank you to all students for being safe during our recent rain and cold weather.

I am very proud to announce that this term our school will be having a swimming carnival.  The Mackay Memorial Pool staff have donated the use of the pool for free.  Children will be able to attend for free and the cost of the bus is covered by the school.

This carnival will be a perfect opportunity for our students to proudly display their swimming skills that they have been taught this term.

Angie Malone

Acting Principal

Parade Awards

Student of the Week:  Caroline, Bell, Riley, Areia, Lily, William, Summer, Jahmarkus & Terri.

Wheel of Attendance Winners for Week 4: Ena, Aster, Josef, Thayleema, Rex, Ethan, Leo, Teale & Jade.

Mackay District School Sports

On Thursday & Friday last week, we had 5 students represent the Cumberland district at Mackay & Diostrict. All 5 students are to be commended for their amazing effort with each of them making it through to the next level. Students will now represent the Mackay & District at Capricornia trials.

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Bike Education

This term 4A has attended two days of bike education at PCYC with our amazing instructors. We used their track to learn all the important rules and skills that we need  to be safe on our bikes on the and at the end of our second day we were all given our bike licence!

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Bike Program

Chappy Peter showed the boys how to repair a wobbly back wheel by fine adjusting of a nut and lock to take away the looseness of the shaft and how to grease the bearing. 

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P and C News:

Date Claimers

Swimming Lessons:

At Marlins Swim School for Prep to Year 6 Students.

• Monday 7th and Friday 11th August.
• Monday 14th and Friday 18th August.

Eisteddfod:

Choir at the MECC 10:30am Section 5B Choral Singing for Primary Session: 6

• Friday 11th August.

Strings at the MECC 1:00pm Section: 506 Small group of any acoustic instruments for primary students. Session: 21

• Monday 14th August

Culture Day:

• Thursday 31st August

Pupil Free Day - School CLOSED:

• Friday 1st September.