13 November 2017

Newsletter Articles

Contact Details

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PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE TO UPDATE YOUR DETAILS

Phone 3826 0333 or Email office@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

Important Dates to Remember

Visit the ELSS website for all calendar events:

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Office News

Report Student Absences

In the event that your child will be absent from school please call the student absence line on 3826 0360 to leave a message. Alternatively you may also use the absence email - absences@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au. Please record your child's name, class, date of absence/s and reason for absence.

Late Arrivals

Students who arrive to school after 9:00am must report to the office windows for a late slip prior to going to class.

Excursions

When your student is involved in an excursion or activity at school which requires payment an invoice is issued by our system. Some families currently receive their invoices via email which not only helps to alleviate the amount of paper used but also provides all the required information for our preferred payment method BPoint.

The invoices will be sent directly to parents’ emails, we are asking that you ensure your details are current and that you have active email addresses listed at school on your child’s file. Payment of these invoices is only required if you wish for your child to attend the excursion/activity.

OVERPHONE or ONLINE CARD PAYMENT SYSTEM

PHONE: 1300 631 073
To access the QLD State School Card Payment System. Use the CRN and Invoice number located on your invoice.
Or Visit the link below

Biller Code: 1002534 (Department of Education and Training)

*CRN and Invoice number can be found on your invoice Or by contacting the office on 3826 0333

*Please note: Due to changes in departmental handling of credit card payments we are no longer able to take credit card payments over the phone at school*

Change of Details

Please email the school on office@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au stating your child’s name and class to confirm your email address and if applicable advise of any contact details that may have changed, to ensure we are able to contact you in an emergency.

Thank you for your continued support

Kim Minter
Business Manager

Principal’s News

It has come to my attention of late that the Stop, Drop and Go Zone at the front of our school is experiencing safety and traffic congestion issues in the afternoons. My concerns have been mirrored by the parent community, our teaching staff and our local adopt-a-cop Police officers, Luke and Jade.

To address these issues and increase the safety of the 2 minute Stop, Drop and Go Zone for our students and community members, we are going to trial a Stop, Drop and Go Registration system for the rest of the school year.

If you use the zone to pick up your child in the afternoon you will need to register and agree to the conditions of use, by returning the attached form to the office. Once registered you will receive a name card, which will have your child’s family name on it, to display on your car windscreen visor. You may request a 2nd name card if you have more than one person or more than one vehicle that collects your child.

How does the Stop, Drop and Go Zone and Registered Name Card operate?

1. Students are to wait in the appropriate area on the school grounds for their parents/carers to arrive at the Stop, Drop and Go Zone.
2. Parents should ensure that they have a registered name card placed on their sun visor, attached by two elastic bands and ensure it is visible for teachers supervising the Stop, Drop and Go Zone. Parents/carers are requested to stay in their car at all times.
3. Students should be listening for their family name (the one displayed on the registered name card) to be called by teachers and can then proceed to the awaiting vehicle in the Stop, Drop and Go Zone.
4. NO PARKING in the Stop Drop and Go Zone! Cars will be asked to move on after 2 minutes if their child is not ready to be picked up.
5. In the mornings the same rules apply – parents/carers are to remain in their car while children get out of the car. Please do not use the Stop Drop and Go Zone if you need to park and assist/walk your child to class in the mornings. The same rule applies to our general carpark – if you are not parking and getting out of your vehicle to drop off your child then please use the Stop, Drop and Go Zone.
6. I thank you for your assistance in making our Stop, Drop and Go Zone a safer place.

Gail Quigley
Principal

Deputy Principal’s News

GRADUATION FOR YEAR 6 STUDENTS 2017

At the end of this term our Year 6 students will graduate from Edens Landing State School. Notes have gone home in the next 2 weeks informing parents of the arrangements for graduation on the 5th December. This year we are holding the event at the school to reduce the cost to parents and to offer graduating students a dance after the ceremony.

YEAR 6 BIG DAY OUT

As is our Tradition, our Year 6 students will be having their “Big Day Out” on Wednesday the 6th of December. This year we will once again be heading to Brisbane’s South Bank Parklands to go to the movies (Son of Big Foot), have lunch and a quick swim. This is an exciting day and one that will create many memories for our senior students. Please fill out the permission forms which have been sent home and utilise the payment options indicated to ensure your child’s place on the day. If you don’t have the note, please see attached or contact the office.

Regards
Cheryl Gibson
cgibs2@eq.edu.au

Deputy Principal’s News

Making the early years count - a wonderful imitative from the Queensland Government

Did you know 90 per cent of a child’s brain development takes place in the first five years?

Babies and young children are developing both physically and mentally at a rapid rate in the early years. They are learning every day, through every experience. From day one, parents and families play a vital role in providing love, attention and interesting experiences to stimulate a child’s development. As a parent, you are your child’s first teacher, and there are so many ways to make the early years count.

On The Early Years Count home page you can find information and activities specific to your child and family, based on age, relationship, location and activity preferences. If you’d prefer to look around and see what else is here, you can check out the five ways to get started for tips and information on supporting your child’s early learning and development through play, care, encouragement, numeracy (read & count) and literacy (talk & listen) or sort by age to find content relevant to your child.

Anthea Grant
Years Prep- Year 1 Deputy Principal

Deputy Principal’s News

2018 Classes

We are currently working on 2018 staffing and classes. Please ring the school office if you know your child will not be attending ELSS next year. If we are kept informed it often avoids the inevitable Day 8 class changes in 2018 when DET calculate staff vs student ratios that may have changed over the holiday period.

Our Teachers Thank You

On the 27th October we celebrated World Teacher's Day. We had a wonderful morning tea with food supplied by the parents and carers. The food was amazing! Our sincere thanks to all who helped on the day and it was much appreciated by all of our wonderful staff. Edens Landing is lucky to have such a dedicated school community.

Before School Procedure

A reminder that the preferred before school arrival time for students is 8.15 - 8.30am. On arrival ALL students are to sit in the hall. At 8.30am the Prep to Year 2 students move to the Junior Covered Area. At 8:45 the students will then move to their classrooms to begin their learning. The YMCA is available for before school care if parents are required to drop their children off for work reasons earlier than 8am.

Tamra Murray
Year 2 & 3 Deputy Principal
tmurr24@eq.edu.au

Year level news

Quizmaster Kids

This exciting general knowledge competition will see Edens Landing State School competing against Mount Warren Park, Eagleby and Beenleigh State Schools to see who will be crowned 2017 champion.

Teams of four students compete in team questions and beat the buzzer speed questions in an exciting and action packed competition everyone will enjoy! Each team of four only competes in one round only.

If your year 6 child would like to represent Edens Landing State School and has not already signed up please see Mrs Brookes in class 6B. Each team only competes once.

The Beenleigh Mall has again agreed to sponsor this event and have donated the prize money:

1st Place
$1000

2nd Place
$500

3rd Place
$300

4th Place
$200

This is a really exciting community event and we hope to see you outside Coles in the Beenleigh Mall:

Round Five 16th November
6:00pm
Eagleby V Beenleigh
6:30pm
Mt Warren Park V Edens Landing

Round Six 23rdNovember
6:00pm
Mt Warren Park V Beenleigh
6:30pm
Eagleby V Edens Landing

Finals 30th November
6:00pm 3rd V 4th
6:30pm 1st V 2nd

Have a wonderful week!
Rachel Pope

P E News

School Swimming Program

School swimming has commenced. See the timetable below for the program.

Year 3 & 4 SWIMMING TIMETABLE (MONDAY-WEDNESDAY)

6/11-8/11
13/11-15/11

Year 1 & 2 SWIMMING TIMETABLE (MONDAY-FRIDAY)

20/11-24/11
27/11-1/12

School Swimming Carnival

At the start of the term, a note was sent home asking for swimming nominations. Based on the number of nominations received, it has been decided that the carnival will not proceed.

Interschool Sport

The Interschool Sport Competition has come to an end. A big thank you goes to all staff and parents for their time and effort coaching and umpiring games. Students must be congratulated on their sportsmanship and behaviour. A special must go to the Senior Boys Touch Team who placed second.

Other Events

Year Level News

READY, SET, WRITE

All students have been participating in our Ready, Steady, Write program across the school.

Every day after second break students participate in 10 minutes of writing in response to a stimulus. The purpose of this is to increase student’s enjoyment of writing and writing stamina.

It has been wonderful to walk around the school and see everyone engaged in writing.

PREP

The aliens crashed into Prep H’s classroom last Monday. They left a huge mess and underwear was strewn everywhere. The site had to be secured and made safe by Ms Grant and Mr Steve before the children could clean it up.
The children then decided that people needed to be told about this event, so they wrote letters to Constable Jade, Mrs Quigley, their parents, Mr Steve, Mrs Grant and Spider girl. This formed the letter for their assessment. The writing in these letters was amazing, with children writing for a purpose to inform others.

YEAR ONE

This term Year 1 have been exploring persuasive writing. We have been trying to persuade Miss Pinner to get us a class pet, wear free dress, to be the teacher for the day and to give us extra iPad time. We love learning how to use persuasive language.

Written by Brooke 1P.

P & C News

School Banking

Remember, WEDNESDAY is school banking day!!

Term 4 Rewards!

After making 10 school banking deposits Children can now choose to redeem, the Epic Earphones and the Pencil & Tech case.

Please note that children can only order rewards from the current and previous terms.

Keep track of savings and tokens with the CommBank Youth app.

To help enhance the financial education of children, we’ve introduced the CommBank Youth app, available on any iOS 9.0+ device from the App Store. This innovative banking app gives kids hands-on experience in learning real-life money skills in a safe and fun digital environment. It also provides a new way for School Bankers to keep track of their Dollarmites tokens.

Getting involved in School Banking is easy!

If you would still like to open an account, it's never too late! You can open an account for your child in one of two ways:

1. Online Visit: www.commbank.com.au/schoolbanking and click on the link to open a Youthsaver account.
2. In branch Visit a Commonwealth Bank branch with identification for yourself and your child, like a driver’s licence and birth certificate.

Thank you and keep up your great saving habits.

Regards,
School Banking Co-ordinators

P&C News

The P&C General Meeting for November will be held on the 21st, at 6pm in the staffroom. Please come along and support the school community. If you have anything you would like added to the agenda, please email pandc@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

Christmas Carol Sausage Sizzle and Raffle.

Friday 24th November, our school holds its annual Christmas Carols. The P&C run the sausage sizzle and raffles for this event as a fundraiser.

We are looking for donations of items that could be included as raffles prizes. If you have a business, or know someone with a business, that has a product or service that could be donated as a prize, please contact the P&C at pandc@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au. Any donation will be greatly appreciated.

AGM 2018

It’s that time of year again, time to start thinking about the next P&C executive to take over!

The AGM

Please consider joining the P&C as a member, or as an Executive Committee member. Executive positions that will be available are President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. There are other also other roles, including a fundraising coordinator and grants officer.

If you have any enquiries about these positions, please come along to a meeting, and we will be more than happy to talk with you about these roles, or alternatively, email the P&C pandc@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

If no executive is formed, services run by the P&C may cease to operate. The most important of these being the uniform shop and tuckshop.

Regards,
Edens Landing State School P&C Association.

Any concerns or you would like to help us out please contact us on:

fundraising@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au or on our Facebook page.

Thank you from,
Fundraising

Please keep an eye on our P&C Facebook Page for any new fundraising events or information on book club or anything P&C related.

Uniform Shop Hours are Thursday’s 8:15am – 9:15am we are no longer open on Friday’s. If you need to contact the uniform shop please email: uniform_shop@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

Order forms are available from the school office or the uniform shop.

Thank you,
Peita-Marie Winsor
Uniform Shop Convenor

Don’t forget to keep an eye on out P&C Facebook Page for Updates on many things we post about.

Tuckshop News

Annette Honnery
Tuckshop Convenor
tuckshop@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au
PH:3805 7999

Any important information regarding tuckshop will be posted on the official Edens Landing State School P&C facebook page

Outside School HOURS CARE- OSHC

YMCA Edens Landing OSHC
P: 07 3805 1233
M: 0459 899 887

agd@ymca.org.au