Deputy Principals' Report
Term Four is a busy term, where we continue our strong focus on teaching and learning, as well as our swimming lessons which are up and running for the whole school. The weather is glorious and it is important to remind our children to be ready for the warmer months by ensuring that students always have their school hat and full water bottle every day.
It’s been a fun filled fortnight as our Year 4 children enjoyed a trip to Pullenvale, Year Twos enjoyed their ‘Go with the Flow’ excursion and our Year Fives are currently on camp – hopefully the children are not too exhausted this weekend.
ACTIVE SCHOOL TRAVEL DAY
Just a reminder that every Wednesday is Active School Travel Day. Many of our students have been ‘out and about’ travelling actively to school, particularly on a Wednesday. Winners of the interschool weekly competition get to hold the coveted gold start trophy for two weeks. Just a reminder that children need to get their books stamped at the stamping stations by 8:45am, as our lovely senior students need to pack up the station and get back to class. There was an active school travel meeting held this morning – so keep an eye out for some exciting new AST initiatives in the coming weeks.
COLLABORATION AND PLANNING
Over the last two weeks our teachers have been engaging in collaboration and planning days. During this time teachers on the year level come together to look at student voice, achievement standards for the year level and learning opportunities in the curriculum areas of inquiry, maths, english and digital technologies. The teachers collaborate with each other to create a shared understanding of what our children need and want to learn – from here we look at ways of engaging our children to provoke thinking, engagement and creativity.
PREP 2022 FESTIVITIES
A huge thank you to our current Prep teachers!! This week they have hosted Yeronga Park C&K kindergarten children and the kindergarten children from the ECDP. The children walked down, did a tour of the school, visited the library and then made some new friends in the Prep classrooms where they collaborated in building and creating. Moving forward in the prep transition space – interviews, kindergarten visits, orientation morning and then ‘Get set for Prep mornings’.
A huge thank you to Yvonne Starr for allocating uniform fitting times for our new families – this has been very successful.
2021 PLANNING
It would be much appreciated if parents could Mrs Freeman know if their child will not be returning to YSS in 2022. Please send through this information to tfree19@eq.edu.au
We wish you and your child/ren all the best for the next two weeks. There is certainly a lot to look forward to with Year 2 make up excursion (for 2BH, 2L & 2P – Monday 25 October), World Teacher Day (Tuesday 26 October) and the rescheduled public holiday (Friday 29 October).
Student Leadership 2022
At Yeronga State School we are committed to providing opportunities for all students in Year 3-6 to undertake leadership responsibilities that contribute to the betterment of the school community. Students in Year 3-6 have the opportunity to be elected to represent their class as a Student Council Representative and students in Year 6, more formal leadership roles.
In 2022, the student leadership selection process and roles will look slightly different from what it has been this year. Formal leadership roles will include; School Captains and Vice Captains, House Captains, and Performing Arts Captains. At the commencement of the new school year, all students in Year 6 will be required to nominate for one of the four school priority area committees including; Wellbeing, Outdoor Play, Sustainability and Curiosity and Creativity. These committees will be supervised by one of the school leadership team and Year 6 teachers and meet twice per term. Through their active participation in the four Legacy Committees, students will be engaged in deciding on a legacy project in their final year of primary school and commit to fundraising and contributing to the committee goals through engaging with the students, parents, staff and community.
Students in year 5 begin their leadership journey next week at Currumbin Valley School Camp and in the week following (week 4), year 5 students will be briefed with the nomination and selection process for next years student leadership. Students will be given the Student Leadership Handbook and the nomination form.
We’re excited to begin this process soon, and to work with all the up and coming leaders in the Yeronga State School Community.
Tracy Freeman and Stef Kirk
Deputy Principals