Dear Families,

Our ANZAC Day service at school continues to be a reverent honouring of those who have served our country. This year marked the 100^th service at Yeronga State School and the tradition of laying posies at the feet of the memorial fig trees on Honour Avenue. This tradition is a humbling and moving experience or our youngest to our oldest. May it remain for 100 years to come. Lest we forget.

I am pleased to advise our community that we now have an appointed Student Welfare Worker. Jackie will commence at Yeronga State School next week and will work alongside our inclusion staff on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Following a period of induction and getting to know our school and students, I am Jackie will soon become an integral part of wonderful community.

This week I met with Brisbane City Council Transport Planning and Operations staff to discuss some of the safety issues regularly encountered on the Park Rd side of the school site. As a result, Council proposes to install yellow ‘No Stopping’ lines across the school’s emergency access driveway into the Year 1 area and install enhanced school zone signs at the pickup/drop-off. A plan has been submitted to undertake these works and it is expected for these works to be carried out in line with Councils current priorities. The driveway entrance to the Year 1 area is the only safe access for parents with children on cycles to disembark before entering the school site. Please do not park over the driveway.

At Yeronga staff we work towards three high leverage strategies to progress the flourishing and achievement of all; Collaboration, agency and engagement. Here are some images of staff collaborating in recent professional learning opportunities with staff from other schools;

Have a wonderful week,

Eunice