School Arrival and Departure Times

A reminder about our before school expectations as per our school handbook.

All students should arrive at school AFTER 8:30 AM. Students arriving between 8:15 and 8:30am must sit under C Block and read or talk quietly with friends. Students will sit in this area until they are dismissed at 8:30am.

Students are then allowed to play quietly outside their classroom area until school begins. No students are to be dropped off in the Junior School prior to 8:30am as no supervision is available. Junior School students can play on junior playground equipment between 8:30am and 8:45am under parental supervision. Senior School students are to play quietly around the classroom area. The oval, nature’s play, tennis courts and senior playground equipment are out-of-bounds before school. Students are not permitted in classrooms before school and at lunch times unless their teacher is present.

Parents who have to drop off students before 8:15am need to enrol students in ‘Yeronga Outside School Hours Care’ (YOSHC) facility, which opens at 7am.

Children remaining at school after 3:00pm must be with a teacher (e.g. sports training), their parent or attending YOSHC.

Parents must actively supervise all children. All students and parents need to exit the school grounds by

4:00pm. If children are arriving home late for no apparent reason, inquiries should be made with the classroom teacher. Students are not permitted to leave the school grounds from the time of arrival in the morning until departure at 3:00pm. Parents who are later that 3:15pm to pick up children will need to collect them from the school office. Please note that the school office closes at 3.30pm.

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD)

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) takes place every year in August and YSS is preparing for this data capture. The NCCD is a collection that counts the number of school students receiving an adjustment or ‘help’ due to disability and the level of adjustment they are receiving to access education on the same basis as other students.  For further information, please see the Fact Sheet for Parents, Guardians and Carers attached.  

Naplan Item Trial

Yeronga State School has been selected by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) to participate in this year’s ACARA Item Trial, to be conducted using the Online National Assessment Platform.  The Item Trial is a component of the National Assessment Program, an agreed national education requirement and is mandatory that we participate.  A selection of students in years 3 and 5 will take part in the Naplan Item Trial over the next 4 weeks.

Zones of Regulation

Zones of Regulation is being used across the school to help students learn how to self-regulate. The Zones of Regulation creates a system to categorize how the body feels and emotions into four coloured zones with which the students can easily identify. Each fortnight, students learn about the Zones in their classes and set a goal to work towards for the next two weeks.  Consistent language across the school and home environments help students to generalise the skill of self-regulation. Students will be familiar with the following diagram and you may like to adopt these principles and the language at home.

• Blue Zone: Used to describe a low state of alertness. The Blue Zone is used to describe when one feels sad, tired, sick, or bored.
• Green Zone: Used to describe the ideal state of alertness. A person may be described as calm, happy, focused, or content when he or she is in the Green Zone. The student feels a strong sense of internal control when in the Green Zone.
• Yellow Zone: Used to describe a heightened state of alertness. A person may be experiencing stress, frustration, anxiety, excitement, silliness, or fear when in the Yellow Zone. The student’s energy is elevated yet he or she feels some sense of internal control in the Yellow Zone.
• Red Zone: Used to describe an extremely heightened state of alertness. A person may be experiencing anger, rage, explosive behaviour, panic, extreme grief, terror, or elation when in the Red Zone and feels a loss of control.

Farewell to Teachers

Over the last few weeks we have and will be farewelling some of our valued teaching staff.  Ms Leanne Ford 1LS is taking long service leave for the remainder of the term and Mrs Lindsay is replacing and working alongside Mrs Schirmer.  This week Ms Lizzy King will be taking long service leave for the term and Ms Sally Atkinson who is currently at the school working with the inclusion team will assist in this role.

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Yeronga Team mates!

Stef Kirk and Tracy Freeman