Dear Families,

Please enjoy the holiday break with the children.  Now more than ever, the holiday break is a time for our young people to get outside and play. Recently Georgia, Madeleine, Kaitlin and Hannah, took action on an issue at school. They collectively wanted to improve the Nature’s Play areas around the school and worked over a weekend to run a bake and sell store in their neighbourhood. The girls raised $23.05 for the Student Council to put towards the outdoor learning and play legacy committee. Thank you and congratulations girls!

Recently I have been reading The Anxious Generation -How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt. In The Anxious Generation, Haidt describes how, between 2010 and 2015, childhood and adolescence got rewired. With the advent of smart-phones and social media, time engaging face-to-face with friends and family plummeted, and so did mental health. He purports this has taken place incrementally in three junctures since the 1970s. Starting against a gradual loss of declining childhood freedom and free-play, as parents (and educators) over-supervised every aspect of their children's lives off-line (depriving them of the experiences they most need to become strong and self-governing adults). Ironically, against a drastic increase in under-supervision and freedom on-line.

I support our PandC and school staff for taking on this issue in partnership as a school community. In the absence of legislative guidance on the issue for primary school age students, we can design solutions for how our students continue to access technology as they learn and engage with the curriculum, whilst protecting them from harm. I look forward to seeing many of our parents at the upcoming forum run by our PandC on this topic.

Next semester we say farewell to some much loved and long-term staff. Teacher, Ms Lindsey Jobbins has been a staff member at Yeronga for 10 Years and recently accepted a transfer to Serviceton South State School. We wish Lindsey all the best in her new adventure and thank her for her commitment to YSS over so many years. Sadly, we say goodbye to our much-loved Tarnee Southwell. Tarnee has been successful in the acting Head of Special Education Services position at Sherwood State School. Again, we wish Tarnee all the best in her new role. This week we farewelled Sherrie Sward who has had a long association as parent and staff member for nearly 25 Years. I know our community share with me sincere best wishes for a wonderful next phase in your lives.

Please look out for the email on Wednesday with your child’s Semester Report. If you have any questions, please contact your child’s classroom teacher.

Have a wonderful last week of term and a safe and happy holiday.

Eunice Webb

Principal

Eyes Open Social Media – Student and Parent Workshops

In term 3, Students in years 4/5/6 and their parents will have the opportunity to engage in a workshops about online safety. 

A Social Media Safety Awareness session will be offered to students in years 4, 5 and 6.  This session covers the main risks and dangers on social media and empowers participants to make the best choices to reduce these risks.

A night time Parent Social Media Safety Information Session will be offered to parents. This session covers the main risks and dangers on social media and empowers parents to make the best choices to reduce their own risks and the risks for their children.

A night time Security and Privacy Setting Workshop will be offered for both Parents and Students to attend together.  This session is a practical hands-on session where parents and students bring in their personal mobile devices. Participants will be shown how to add privacy and security to their accounts step-by-step for a social media site to reduce the risks and dangers that were covered in the first awareness session.

More information about dates, costs and how to register for these workshops will be emailed home to parents in the near future.

Thank you Mr C!

Mr Curness has recently been recognised for 25 years of service for representative sport. We are lucky to have Mr Curness on staff at YSS, for his advocacy and support for students in sport. Thanks Mr C!

Under 8s Day

Families and all under 8s welcome. 

Our school and local community are invited to attend our Under 8’s celebration.

When:  Friday 21^st June

9:15 – 10:45am

Where:  Yeronga State School

What:  Games, craft, sports, goop play, nature play clay constructions and much, much more!

Learning asset:  Self-Management

How can we help our children use self-management skills to regulate their emotions?

What is self-regulation?

Self-regulation is the ability to understand and manage your behaviour and your reactions to feelings and things happening around you.

It includes being able to:

• regulate reactions to strong emotions like frustration, excitement, anger and embarrassment
• calm down after something exciting or upsetting
• focus on a task
• refocus attention on a new task
• control impulses
• behave in ways that help you get along with other people.

Why self-regulation is important

As your child grows, self-regulation helps them:

• learn at school
• behave in socially acceptable ways – because self-regulation gives your child the ability to control impulses
• make friends – because self-regulation gives your child the ability to take turns in games and conversations, share toys, and express emotions in appropriate ways
• become more independent – because self-regulation gives your child the ability to make appropriate decisions about behaviour and learn how to behave in new situations with less guidance from you.

How and when self-regulation develops

Children develop self-regulation through warm and responsive relationships. They also develop it by watching the adults around them.

School-age children are getting better at controlling their own wants and needs, imagining other people’s perspectives and seeing both sides of a situation. This means, for example, that they might be able to disagree with other children without having an argument.

Pre-teens and teenagers are better at planning, sticking with difficult tasks, behaving in socially appropriate ways, and considering how their behaviour affects other people. For example, your teenage child might think about your perspective when they’re negotiating with you about their curfew.

Helping children and teenagers learn and practise self-regulation:

Here are practical ways you can help your child learn and practise self-regulation:

Staff Spotlight

Winter Big Play Concert

Our Winter Big Play showcase concert last Thursday was a wonderful celebration of music. Over 130 Yeronga students performed across the five string ensembles and concert bands- congratulations to all students involved. Highlights included the confident sound from the Stradivari Junior Strings and the crowd favourite Senior Band performance of Oompa Loompa from Wonka. A big thank you to the support from the tuckshop, parent volunteers and Yeronga High School student volunteers in helping to make the night run smoothly. 

A big thanks also to the parents who support their children in their music making with consistent practising and getting them to the early morning rehearsals.

Southside Junior Strings and Band Workshops

Year 4 instrumental music students are finishing off the term with some regional workshops. Year 4 band students have their Southside Junior Band workshop at Yeronga State High School in week 9 and year 4 strings students will be attending the Southside Junior Strings Workshop next week at Coorparoo State School. 

Choir Dates

Tuesday 18^th June – Junior choir rehearsal

Friday 21^st June – Junior choir singing at under 8’s day celebrations

                                NO senior choir rehearsal

Monday 8^th July – Chamber choir rehearsals commence for Term 3

Tuesday 9^th July – Junior Choir rehearsals commence for Term 3

Friday 12^th July – Senior choir rehearsals commence for Term 3

Hi everyone,

My name is Katherine and I am the new Student Wellbeing Officer. I am super excited to be part of Yeronga State School working with students to support their wellbeing.

I have worked with young people for many years with a focus on supporting mental and physical health and empowering them to make positive change.
I will be working on Tuesdays and Thursdays and here to support students socially and emotionally, provide educational support and establish community connections.
I’m super keen to start a breakfast club as of Term 3 from 8:30am every Tuesday and Thursday. Watch this space for more exciting things to come!

YSS Junior School Sports Day 2024

The classes from Prep to Year 3 will participate in the Junior School Sports Day on Monday 17^th June. Please use the timetable as a guide (please note times may vary). The students will participate in their class groups. This carnival is based on participation, development and fun.

Junior Sports Day Timetable (Please note these times are just a guide).

Prep and Year 1.

*Prep/1W Grade one students will join their buddy classes.

Year 2 and Year 3

11:50am Meet at main school oval (covered sheds at top of the oval).

YSS Senior School Sports Day Wrap-up

House Champion Placing:

First: Lawson

Second: Kendall

Third: Evans

Fourth: Paterson

Age Champions:

Records:

Other Sports News

Running Club

Running club will continue until the end of the year unless the weather makes it impossible to run safely or public health restrictions return. Sessions will be held on Mondays, from 3:15 to 3:45 and Wednesdays from 7:45 to 8:15 with Mr Bateman. Mr Sutherland will be holding his sessions on Fridays from 7:45 to 8:15. Remember that all of these sessions will occur on the main, or years 3-6. Parents are most welcome to participate.

YSS Athletics

Congratulations to Lawson. They have completed 2/3’s of their third consecutive grand slam or triple crown. Can any house stop them? Congratulations to all of our age champions and record breakers. It’s been an exciting period with many very high quality performances. Big thank you to Mr C and Mr S who have been prime movers in making events possible and run smoothly.

District Athletics

We are at that stage of the year again when Mr C and I will be selecting the squad for this event. The criteria generally include bettering a district or regional qualifying time or distance and being in the top two or three, in the case of bettering a Regional qualifier. Be prepared for a suite of forms to come your way, including permission to participate, permission to publish a student’s name (QRSS) and possibly permission to compete in discus. If these can be completed and returned rapidly, where applicable, it would be most appreciated.

Qld AFL Carnival

Mollie W and Abraham C competed at the Qld AFL championships with distinction. Mollie, however, was able to complete a unique double following her participation in the Qld Touch championship. She is the first student I can remember to be selected in two state team in different sports and within two weeks. It is an amazing achievement which shows her athleticism, but also a lot of game sense and intelligence. Well done to Mollie and congratulations to her and her family on an extraordinary achievement.

Football Goals

Please remember, that although these goals are metal, they are not built to be climbed upon. Please do not climb on them as you will be endangering yourself, damaging the goals and be the unhappy recipient of a white slip.

Yeronga State School (YSS) District Trial Selection (Years 4 to 6)

The representative pathway for school sport is for students aged 10 to 12 years. Yeronga is part of a very strong district which consists of 28 schools (Eastern Taipans District).

In most sports we are encouraged to send only 2 students from the school that demonstrate a very high level of ability. The majority of these teams are under 12 teams. A good guide for this is:

• A representative club player
• A top performer in your sport outside of school
• Playing in higher age groups
• Consistently demonstrating outstanding performances in interschool sport fixtures and training sessions in the highest division.

In order to be considered to attend a District Trial students should make themselves known to either (Mr Bateman or Mr Curness) at least 2 weeks prior to the trials.

Important Sporting Dates Terms 3, 2024

12 July 2024 - Eastern Taipans 10-12 Years District Boys & Girls Cricket Trials

15 & 16 July 2024 - Eastern Taipans 10-12 Years District Athletics Trials

23 July 2024 – Met West 10-12 Years Regional Girls Cricket Trials

24 & 25 July 2024 – Met West 10-12 Years Regional Boys Cricket Trials

27 & 28 August 2024 – Met West 10-12 Years Regional Athletics Trials

Premier’s Reading Challenge

Premier’s Reading Challenge is on! Please download the reader form and have your completed form  into the library by 23 August. Prep to Year 3 students need to read or have 20 books read to them and Year 5 – 6 only need to read 15 books. All our students can easily make this and earn them selves a certificate.

ICAS

Yeronga State School will be offering students the opportunity to participate in ICAS English, Mathematics, Science and Spelling. Unfortunately, due to clashes in our school Calendar we will not offer Writing and Digital Technologies. All tests will be run before school between 7:45 and 8:45. A final timetable will be sent out once we have numbers confirmed.

Window for sitting dates:

What is ICAS?  

ICAS is an online academic competition that gives students the opportunity to challenge their higher order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics, Science, Writing, Spelling Bee, and Digital Technologies.

Every student who participates is celebrated and recognised with a printed certificate in each subject area, and an online results report to track development each year. Top performers are eligible for one of the highly coveted ICAS medals.

To learn more about this year’s exciting ICAS competition, visit: (icasassessments.com/products-icas/)

How to participate in ICAS  

If you wish for your child to participate in ICAS this year, please:  

1. Read about ICAS subjects and prices here: (com/products-icas/) 
2. Read the Privacy Collection Statement below.
3. Read the terms and conditions here: (com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-ICAS-Assessments-Schools-TsCs_S2023.V6-1.pdf) 
4. Go to the Parent Portal to sign up to chosen subject areas here: (icasassessments.com/pages/pps)  
5. Enter our school’s access code –EPM691  
6. Enter your child’s details, select the subject areas your child would like to participate in, then proceed to payment.  

Please note that the ICAS subject areas shown for selection are at the school’s discretion.   

After payment is made via the Parent Payment System, you will receive an order confirmation email, please keep this for your records.  

ICAS results and certificates
All assessments will be conducted online, at school. We will notify you of the date(s) that we will run ICAS assessments, and when your child’s ICAS results are ready. Your child’s ICAS certificates will be delivered to school. Once we have received them, we will present them to your child to bring home. The back of the certificate will show your child’s ICAS results and the login details, “TAP ID and Pin”. - Use these to enter the Results Portal orti.icasassessments.com/ortiStudent. 

Privacy collection statement  
The following information is a privacy notification about how your child’s data is kept private and secure.

ICAS Assessment is owned by Janison Solutions Pty Ltd (We, Us, Our).

To deliver assessment products, Janison will require your child’s School to obtain your consent to provide Janison with certain personal information of students. Janison will collect, store, use, disclose and otherwise deal with such personal information in accordance with its privacy policy (below). We are aware of our responsibility to protect personal information related to children and students from being disclosed when we deliver an ICAS Assessments product. Unless you, as the child’s legal guardian consents, we will not:

• collect any personal information or data of children other than the information we need for the successful completion of an assessment, test, or exam.
• transfer any personal information we obtain from a child in the delivery of assessments and tests to any jurisdiction outside of Australia.
• share any personal information relating to children with any third parties (except for those third parties necessary for us to carry out our Services or provide our Products e.g., medal engraving).
• use any personal information or data relating to children for marketing purposes.

You can view our full privacy policy at https://www.janison.com/privacy-policy/.

We may retain personal information and data relevant to a child for their future purposes or for research purposes by Janison for the duration of the school life cycle of the child. However, if you or your child at any time wish to have their personal information or data removed from our systems, they or you may opt out by simply contacting our Privacy Officer at privacy@janison.com or by contacting icasassessments@janison.com.

We are excited to be offering ICAS to our students this year and look forward to celebrating their achievements. Please do not hesitate to contact the school office if you have any questions.  

Kind regards,

Debbie Cowie

Teacher Librarian

Special P&C FORUM - Tuesday 18^th June - Curiosity Centre

The P&C are holding a special forum this coming Tuesday, 18th June, to seek parent and community views on the use and safety of online learning tools and devices within YSS.

The three main topics which will be discussed and moderated by a facilitator, will be the  Parental and Educator involvement in:

1. Cyber safety at home, before and after school, and during school hours;

1. Digital competencies with the Australian Curriculum and implications for Yeronga State School

   c. Mental health and wellbeing of primary school children in the digital age;

The monthly general meeting - which will be a shortened meeting - will occur at the special time of 6.30-7pm. The Forum will then commence at 7pm.

We would love as many people to attend as possible to hear from our school leadership team and contribute to this very important discussion.

Any motions that may arise from the Forum can, however, only be voted on by P&C Members.

To join up, please fill out our online form - P&C Sign UP

It takes 30seconds!

Junior Sports Day Sno Cones

The P&C will be selling Sno Cones at the Junior Sports Day for a gold coin donation. 

If you are able to help out - even for a little while - between the hours of 10.30 am- 12pm  or 1pm - 2pm , we would love to see you! Meet under B block and ask for Kristy!

2nd Hand jumpers at Uniform Shop

As the weather has turned decidedly chilly over the past couple of weeks, we'd like to let parents know that the uniform shop currently has second hand jumpers on sale for $5. Pop in and see Anthea on Monday mornings or Thursday afternoons if you need some extra warmth for your kiddo!

Lost Property Layout

There will be an opportunity to come and sort through any lost property from 745am on the last  Friday of the term.  We will be laying out everything  in the undercover area next to the uniform shop and offering assistance for anyone looking for missing items

This will be the last opportunity to come and search for any lost items before everything is donated or repurposed before the start of next term.

Uniform Shop Price Rise

Due to rising supplier costs, there will be a slight increase on some uniform items from Term 3. 

There has been a concerted effort to keep the price rise to a minimum and a lot of items will remain at the same price.  

Zooper Doopers Last Day of School

The P&C will be selling $1 Zooper Doopers outside of the Grade 1 area and also at the Tuckshop from 3pm on the last day of school. Stop by, say hi and grab your end of term sweet treat!

Available Roles Within the P&C

Are you looking for a way to make your impact on our kids experience at school and to have a voice at the Yeronga P&C! This is your opportunity!

The P&C is still seeking a secretary to join the fun and friendly team. There is loads planned and would be a great opportunity to be part of shaping this and contributing to the school community.

Please contact Alex at President@yerongasspandc.org.au to learn more.

Thank You

Finally, another massive thank you to our wonderful school community who have supported the P&C through several events this term - if you sent a gold coin with your child for sno cones, bought an ANZAC Day Posy, purchased a Mothers Day gift, helped move dirt for the Tuckshop garden or volunteered your time in any way, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Every dollar raised by the P&C goes straight back into supporting our kids and our school.

We'd also like to thank the amazing Tracy, Annabel and Laina in the Tuckshop and Anthea in the Unform shop for their ongoing excellent care for our students and school community.

Have a wonderful break!

Alex, Amy, Teresa and Kerri

Yeronga State High School News

YERONGA SHS PRESENTS – THE GREAT GATSBY (SCHOOL PRODUCTION)

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! Yeronga State High School is proud to present The Great Gatsby musical! Tickets are now on sale via Eventbrite!

Click on the links below to purchase your tickets! Scan the QR Code on the image or click on the link below to get your tickets! Get in quick to get the best seats in the house!

Thursday 20 June

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-great-gatsby-tickets-891297724487?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Friday 21 June

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-great-gatsby-tickets-891310041327?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

ENROL NOW

Please email our Enrolment Officer at enrolments@yerongashs.eq.edu.au to make an appointment for an enrolment interview session. For enrolment interviews, please bring:

Your child that is being enrolled

Birth certificate/passport/travel documents

Most recent school report card/NAPLAN reports

Enrolment application documents

To watch the Yeronga State High Video, please click the link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxI0tsaM6Ss&t=2s

To watch Y Yeronga (Why Yeronga Video) please click on the link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYNam89UzIY

Y-TOUR ENROLMENT INFORMATION SESSION

Our next Y-Tour session is on 12 June 2024 at 3.30pm. Join us for an immersive experience at our Y-Tours! We eagerly anticipate the opportunity to welcome you and your family, providing a firsthand look at our exceptional facilities, introducing you to our esteemed leadership team and student leaders, and showcasing the unique Yeronga difference.

Please click on the link below to secure a spot at one of our Y-Tours.

https://yerongashs.schoolzineplus.com/form/48

This event is not just a tour—it's a chance for prospective parents to engage in meaningful discussions about subjects, explore aspects of the school, and gather essential enrolment information.

All families are warmly invited to attend. Upcoming Y-Tour sessions will be shared on our Facebook page External link, Instagram page External link and school website.

Should you have any questions or require further assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at enrolments@yerongashs.eq.edu.au.

Looking forward to sharing the Yeronga experience with you!

YERONGA SHS ACADEMIES

Please click on the link below to find out more about our Academies. Enrol now for 2025!

https://yerongashs.eq.edu.au/curriculum/specialist-programs

Click on the link below to watch a video on our academies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk6R_wfrp5M&t=54s

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