It’s been a high energy fortnight at Yeronga State School as we have enjoyed the Mother’s Day Celebrations and Prep Pet Visit, along with ensuring that the participation in NAPLAN testing was as smooth as possible for our Year Three and Five students.

We are filled with anticipation and excitement while looking forward to our first Yeronga State School Fete experience, however there may be some trepidation when it comes to contemplating taking part in the ‘Dunk A Teacher’. See you there!

Active School Travel - Let’s get active!

A huge thank you to the Active School Travel leaders who are helping stamp the passports every Wednesday.  They are growing in confidence with their Self Manager skills and also their Communicator Learning Asset Skills.  A huge thank you also is dedicated to Stu the Bikeman who ensures that he rides the attached route to school every Wednesday – so come and join him.  Another thank you goes out to the teachers who are walking to school every Wednesday from the designated spot – let us see how many students we can get at the walking and riding point.

Special events this term are:

• Walk or ride to school with the AST trains to receive a lucky dip prize
• Receive a raffle ticket to go into the scooter and helmet voucher prize – drawn on assembly the last week of school
• Wednesday 5 June 2019 – Ride your bike to school to receive a free bike check by Stu the Bikeman and Brisbane City Council

Riding Train Map

Assemble at 8:20am for an 8:30am departure.

Start at the 7/11 corner of Ipswich Rd/ South Street, ride down South Street, turn right into Nathan Terrace, turn left into School Rd, right onto Park Rd and then to take bikes into the tennis court to stay there for the day. Please view the map below:

Walking Train Map

Assemble at 8:10am for an 8:15am departure.

Meet at River City Cycle, go across the overpass, over to Killarney St, turn into Park Rd then walk onto school. Please view the map below:

Bridge Builders Information Session                 

On 16 May we welcomed Joceyln Chirnside to present a parent workshop. An eager and engaged group of parents attended and it was an extremely beneficial session. The workshop aimed to support parents in guiding the use of ‘Bridge Builder’ strategies to resolve sibling and friendship conflict.

The Bridge Builders program is followed at Yeronga State School with an aim to teach children strategies to address conflict effectively, so they can move through life confidently. Conflict is an unavoidable fact of life and usually occurs because of our different needs, beliefs or expectations. Resolving conflict well enables us to move more confidently through our lives and create positive and healthy environments around us. 

Uniform Reminder

A reminder to parents to ensure that all students are wearing the correct shoes to school. The expectation is for all students to wear closed black shoes, such as sports shoes or leather school shoes, with the formal dress uniform. Black or white joggers are the expected colour of joggers for the sports uniform. Laces must match the shoe colour.  Please see the examples of expected shoes to be worn to school below:

Upcoming Events

We would love to see you at our upcoming events - mark the dates in your diary!

They include:                         

• Book Fair (29/5-3/6)
• Combined Music Showcase (21/6)
• Junior Athletics Carnival (25/6)

Kate Paynter and Tracy Freeman

Deputy Principals