We’re back and it’s all systems go here at Yeronga State School! It’s so lovely to welcome new families as well as returning families back into the learning community.  Our school is once again filled with the wonder, laughter and pattering feet of children.

Assembly

Assemblies have started for the year. For the next few weeks they will go ahead via Microsoft Teams – which means children will stay in their classrooms and virtually join the assembly audience. We are looking forward to when we can all gather as a large group again for assembly.  We also look forward to parents being able to join us again as assemblies are a wonderful opportunity for parents and the school community to come together and hear about the happenings in our school – we will confirm through the newsletter when this can begin again.

This year we will continue to operate our weekly assembly as two groups:

Juniors (Prep – Year 2) – Friday 9:05am (even weeks)

Seniors (Year 3 – Year 6) – Friday 9:05am (odd weeks)

Parent Information Evenings

During Week 3, we will be holding parent information sessions to provide an opportunity for parents to find out year level specific information for the year ahead. Details are as follows:

• Junior School (Prep- Year 2) at 6pm on Wednesday 23 February
• Senior School (Yr 3-6) at 6pm on Thursday 24 February

Parent Information Evenings are a perfect opportunity to build relationships with your child’s teacher and hear information about the year ahead. Topics to be discussed include school

priorities, Curiosity and Powerful Learning, communication between parents and teachers, home learning, year level curriculum, BYOD (Year 2, 3, 4 & 5), leadership opportunities (Year 5 and 6), camps and excursion information, assessment, reporting and NAPLAN information (Year 3 and 5).

This year due to COVID restrictions, the sessions will be delivered via the Microsoft Teams platform – further information will come from your child’s class teacher.

Time Year 3/4/5/6 (including Before and After School Arrangements)

All students who are not attending Yeronga Outside School Hours Care (YOSHC) should aim to arrive at school after 8:30am. If students arrive between 8:15am – 8:30am they need to sit under C Block to read or talk quietly. No students should be in the school grounds prior to 8:15am. Parents who need to drop students at school before 8:15am need to enrol in YOSHC. It is a great safety concern to have children who are unsupervised in the school grounds. YOSHC is open every morning from 7am.

After school all students need to be collected by parents/carers at 3pm. Students remaining at school after 3pm must be with a teacher (e.g. sports training), their parent or attending YOSHC.

Parents who are later than 3:15pm collecting their children, will need to collect them from the school office. Please note that the school office closes at 3:30pm. All student and parents who

are not part of the YOSHC program need to have left the school grounds no later than 4pm usually, however due to COVID we are respectfully requesting that families leave the school as soon as children have been collected. 

We understand that family life often involves unexpected changes to routines. We appreciate the efforts our families make to manage their schedule to work within these times and thank you for your understanding around this very important safety matter.

Help keep our children safe

For your child’s safety please ensure that students only enter the school grounds via the pedestrian gates (not through any of the car parks). Cars are not to park in the school grounds. Street parking is available for parents. We also have a 2 minute – Stop, Kiss and Go area on Park Road.

The safety of our students is our priority, as these spaces have continual vehicle movement it is imperative that no student, even with and adult, walk through these areas. We thank you for your assistance in keeping our school a safe place to learn, grow and have fun.

Behaviour Expectations and Wellbeing Lessons

Mrs Fairgrieve will be visiting classrooms to teach students about positive behaviour expectations and wellbeing. These lessons are based on Yeronga State School’s Behaviour Matrix, which is on page 15 of  Yeronga’s Student Code of Conduct document, the five Learner Assets, our Wellbeing Framework, and Zones of Regulation. 

This week, the lessons have involved a variety of engaging activities to explore:

Prep – Year 2: What does it mean to be safe?

Years 3-6:What does it mean to belong?

All Year levels: Explain what whistles are for and how they will be used by staff members.  What are the expectations for the students when they hear the whistle.

Please ask your children what they have learnt about the topics above, and to tell you what they would do if they heard a whistle at school.

Our Student Code of Conduct is published on our website, and a hard copy is available from our office.

First Day of Prep

We would like to welcome all the new families to the Yeronga State School learning community. It was lovely to see so many excited (and some a little nervous) faces on the first day of Prep.  The children were settled, calm, ready to learn and were engaged in play based activities.  A favourite activity was definitely the sand pit area and the sand pit toys. 

Junior School Engaging in Play and Curiosity