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Dear Families,
Welcome back! I do hope you enjoyed the extraordinary weather over the holidays. It has been delightful to touch base with the students and hear of their many varied experiences enjoying the outdoors over the break. Richard and I enjoyed our regular camp on Straddie Main Beach. This time with our eldest granddaughter Ollie, joining us for her first beach camp. Many hours were spent pretending to be kangaroos jumping about the dunes!
The open classrooms for Instrumental Music, Classroom Music and Art Studio were very well attended by parents on the last Wednesday of Term 1. It was a wonderful informal opportunity to get a glimpse of the curriculum demands for these really important and enriching subjects (curriculum areas).
Similarly, the Junior School Cross Country was as delightful as ever and so lovely to see the Year 6 student leaders helping out and running alongside the children. Our House Captains and little participants really earned those snow cones! A huge thankyou to the PandC volunteers who made that lovely and much anticipated treat happen once again.
The Easter Raffle was a highlight as was Chappy Jen’s Hula Hoop competition! This simple competition really instigated a joyful vibe throughout the school and a reminder how a simple physical activity with a dose of personal challenge is a very good thing for body and soul. It brought children together and all were happy and amazed at the accomplishments of others. Congratulations Remy – 54 minutes and 30 seconds of uninterrupted hula!
The removal of K Block in the junior school has finally been completed over the break. The final touches will be limited to finishing off and making safe and suitable the area for students to play on. Down the track there is opportunity to consider the entire junior school outdoor play and the potential refurbishment and upgrade of the area.
This term ends with the Semester 1 Student Reports to parents. At Yeronga State School our teachers are focussing intensely on improving student outcomes through assessment for learning processes. We aim for our students to respond to the following questions with clarity and understanding at any point during the teaching and learning cycle.
What are you learning?
How are you going?
Where to next?
When students take ownership of their learning and next steps, progress is rapid and lasting.
Have a great week,
Eunice
This term the whole school focus in our inquiries will be based around the big concept of ‘Cause and Effect’. We look forward to seeing the wonderful work the children engage in this term.
Under 8’s Day
Prep – Year 2 parents are encouraged to join their children to celebrate being under 8. The theme for this year is ‘PLAY - You, me and our communities’. The children will start the day off in their classrooms and then at head out to the lower school areas to participate in engaging learning activities. Due to the amount of activities that we are providing we have decided to extend the session until 11am!!
It is such a lovely way to stay connected with the community, so the more parents that attend the better.
Please look in your inbox for the Under 8 invoice that will come soon with the fee of $5 – this payment assists in the resources we use on the day.
Prep Vision Screening
Prep parents as the online permission link has closed, please ensure that you have completed a paper copy of the consent form for Prep Vision Screening.
These are available from the office and need to be returned by 26th April.
Community ANZAC Ceremony Invite
All community members are welcome to join us for the ANZAC Day ceremony on Friday 21st April at 9am on the main oval. Students are required to wear formal school uniform.
We also extend an invitation to all community members to join us for the ANZAC Day March on Tuesday 25th April. We will assemble near the tennis courts at 6:45am and March down Honour Avenue to the cenotaph.
Upcoming Events
We would love to see you at our upcoming events during this term – Weeks 1 to 10
They include:
- Whole school Anzac Day Ceremony (Friday 21 April at 9:00am)
- Year 4 & Year 5 Big Bang Incursion (Week 2)
- District Cross Country (Wednesday 26 April)
- Gala Day (Friday 28 April)
- Prep Big Bang Incursion (Tuesday 2 May)
- Prep 2024 Information Session (Tuesday 9 May at 6pm)
- Crazy Hair Day Year 6 Fundraiser (Wednesday 10 May)
- Gala Day (Friday 12 May)
- Gala Day (Friday 19 May).
Tracy Freeman and Stef Kirk
Deputy Principals
Inquiry Learning at Yeronga State School
Have you asked your students what they are inquiring into this term? The whole school will be focusing on the concept of ‘cause and effect’ over the coming weeks.
Cause-and-effect thinking, or causality, allows us to make inferences and reason about things that happen around us. Causality helps us understand things as simple as "If I don't water plants the'll die" to things more complicated such as other people's intentions and behaviours. When children understand cause and effect, they also begin to understand the operation of mechanisms, which allows them to understand causal relationships"
(Ashley Bailey-Gilreath, 2015)
The table below is an overview of the focus areas in each year level for Term 2.
Students continue to build their learning asset skills of thinking, collaboration, research, self-management, communication and contribution. We encourage and give opportunities for students to build their learner agency. The statements below show how students might demonstrate learner agency.
(Kath Murdoch, 2019)
(Kath Murdoch, 2019)
Congratulations and well done to all students who participated in the year 6 school camp. It was a great experience for all of us.
At Camp Goodenough we enjoyed a variety of challenging activities that required an abundance of enthusiastic, respectful teamwork. We constructed and tested a functioning billy cart; learning mechanical engineering and how to work together efficiently. Crate stacking also proved to be a difficult challenge. It involved a great deal of balance and we had to brave our fears of heights as well as place our lives in others hands. One group had it especially rough when a rainstorm struck mid activity making their work even more intense.
Camp Goodenough made us stronger and more confident in our communicating and collaborating skills than ever before. We would like to thank all the staff who organised and attended camp. The time we had there was unforgettable and every participant came back with a huge smile on their faces.
Andrey, Piper and Olive
First Term was a busy time in the library.
The students, learned about appropriate behaviours to use in the library.
Were encouraged to use book/library bags to care for our communal books. Any clean, dry bag is suitable for use as a book/library bag. It can be as simple as a clean, dry pre-used shopping bag. We value your support with this practice.
Learned about Autobiographies and Biographies and where to find these books in the school library (hint: on the wooden trolley on the Nonfiction side of the library)
Celebrated the following topics: Our families, Harmony Day, International Women’s Day, International Day of Mathematics, and Easter.
Term 2, 2023 in the library
We are currently acknowledging Anzac Day.
This term we look forward to the return of the Scholastic bookfair on 30 May. Students will be able to look at the books and create their wish lists during school. Buying of books with be
Thursday – 1 June: 3:00pm – 5:45pm
Friday – 2 June: 3:00om – 5:30pm
Monday – 5 June: 3:00pm – 5:30pm
While we do have a cash float we prefer payment by card or online.
Term 3, 2023
We are inviting Where the Wild Things Are Bookstore in for their first bookfair at Yeronga. They will host a bookchat for parents towards the end of term. Term 3 is also bookweek. More information will follow.
Term 4, 2023
Schoolastic Book fair will return just before Christmas holidays for any parents who would like to add books to their stocking fillers.
We would like to thank our parents for their continued support of Book Club. The points that we earn from book fair and book club helps us keep up with our well stocked library.
TUCKSHOP
The tuckshop is DESPERATE for volunteers on Thursday’s and Friday’s from 9-11am. If you can spare a couple of hours to help out (it’s fun and EASY – no experience necessary!) please email Tracy at tuckshop@yerongasspandc.org.au ASAP
MOTHER’s DAY STALL
The annual P&C Mother’s Day Stall will be held on Thursday 11th May and will offer the students a chance to purchase a special gift for the female carer figure in their life.
Donations of small gifts ($5 or under) can be handed in to your classroom teacher. Alternatively monetary donations can be made on Flexischools. Just click on the Mother’s Day Stall tab and choose your amount.
We would LOVE your help to wrap gifts and / or work the stall! Volunteer days in the weeks leading up to the stall will be Wednesdays 3rd + 10th May, Friday 5th May, Tues 9th May after drop off 9 - 11am in the curiosity centre. If you have the capacity to help, we'd love to see you (It's fun, we promise!!). No need to sign up just come along.
We could not do this without YOU!
YSS 2023 FUNFAIR – Only 5 WEEKS TO GO!!
Got your ride band yet? No!?
Get them here: https://events.humanitix.com/yeronga-state-school-2023...
Volunteered for a food stall yet? No!?
You can do that here: https://signup.com/go/otokSRO
Can’t wait to see you on May 20th!
YSS Fun Fair - 20 May 2023
Only a few weeks to go until the biggest P&C event of the year so far. The first ever YSS fun fair will happen on the school oval, Saturday 20 May 2023, 12:00pm - 6:30pm.
This will be an amazing day for all the school students, parents, caregivers and the local community with fairground rides, inflatables, food stalls, food trucks, craft stalls and a disco.
We really hope as many of our school community can attend as possible, and we can't wait to see everyone on the day.
Get your ride bands now
Ride band sales are now open - book you tickets early here: https://events.humanitix.com/yeronga-state-school-2023-fun-fair
Ride bands give you 5 hours of unlimited rides on 6 awesome rides, 2 jumping castles, 2 inflatable assault courses, laser skirmish, and the animal farm. Follow the link above for all the details.
Volunteers needed
A huge thank you to everyone that has already signed up to volunteer, we are looking really good for help on some stalls now. But some still have quite a few spots available. If you can spare an hour or two on a stall that would be fantastic!
Please sign up here if you can: https://signup.com/go/otokSRO
Thank you to our sponsors
Thank you so much to our event sponsors:
Premium sponsor ATLAS - thank you for very generously sponsoring our ice-cream stall!
Premium sponsor Indigo Soul Wellness - thank you for very generously sponsoring our BBQ!
Premium sponsor Quadric - thank you for very generously sponsoring our sushi stall!
Thank you to Graham Perrett MP, Federal Member for Moreton and to the Hon Mark Bailey, Qld Member for Miller for their generous support.
The 2023 YSS fun fair is also supported by the Lord Mayor's Community Fund and Councillor Nicole Johnston for the Tennyson Ward.
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