5 March 2021

Newsletter Articles

WHAT: Literacy- Greater than 75% of students will achieve a C standard in English.
HOW: Positive Relationships and High Expectations
WHY: Literacy is the key to a life of choice not chance

Principal’s News

Hi ELSS families and community,

There is a great energy in and around the school for learning. Our students are growing their strategies to be a learner. Families are sharing their child/ren learning journey and the great work by their teachers. Let’s continue our journey at Partners in Learning.

The ELSS Annual Improvement Plan and Investing for Success continues to focus on improving literacy for ALL students. At the beginning of 2021, we took the time to celebrate our work in high impact strategies that reflected growth in our students English Level of Achievement. Our target for Semester 1, 2021 is 75% of students achieving A-C English.

It was great to see parents and carers onsite for our meet the teacher. When the school and families become Partners in Learning- the growth and development of students can be significant. Another great strategy is students reading every day. Reading is a super power for a life of choice. Here are some images of our fantastic students using our Resource Centre for reading. Keep it up!!

Leading Learning Collaborative

This week six staff members and I attended two days at a Professional Development called Leading Learning Collaborative. Dr Lyn Sharratt, an educational researcher and consultant, led the sessions virtually. The two days were based on her work of “Clarity – What Matters Most in Learning, Teaching and Leading”. Many of our improvement strategies we have adopted at school originate from Dr Sharratt’s findings and are proving successful in building capacity in our staff and enabling our students to develop a deeper understanding of what they are learning about and why.

5 questions we ask students about their learning:

1. What are you learning about?
2. How are you doing?
3. How do you know?
4. Where do you go for help?
5. How can you improve?

Try asking your child/ren these questions about what they are learning about. These are also important questions that you can ask the teacher at your Parent Teacher interview in Week 10 regarding what your child is learning about and what their next steps are for improving.

School Uniform

Thank you to all who have ensured that their children have begun the year in the correct uniform. In ensuring we maintain high standards and whole school expectations; all students are required to wear the school uniform. It was wonderful on our assemblies to see the students wearing their uniform with pride.

Thank you for ensuring your children are wearing predominantly black shoes with white socks as per our school uniform policy. Our students look amazing!

Reminder

Our school supervision starts at 8.30am, please do not drop students at school early, we cannot ensure safety. To support this we have a wonderful before and after school care provider onsite YMCA. Police have been notified about ELSS students throwing rocks at cars and running onto the road between 7.30am and 8.30am. Let’s work together to ensure students have safe behaviours.

Stop Drop and Go area at the start of each year in EVERY school requires patience and understanding. New families learning the system, students learning our processes and lots of traffic. Outside the school gates is council land supported by Queensland Police.

Respectful relationships are expected on school grounds. Everyone is responsible to keep good order and a safe school. Please model being kind with words and actions. We ask Parents/Carers not to use the student toilets, there is a key available at the office and the available toilet to use is in the Middle Hall next to the Tuckshop.

2021

Our three school wide expectations are:

At ELSS I am SAFE, I am RESPECTFUL and I am a LEARNER.

Our school motto and expectations link closely, students can SOAR to success daily-

Families can help this through our STEPS to success at school: Had sleep – Breakfast - Healthy food - On time - In uniform - Ready to learn.

At ELSS we have an attendance policy that aligns with Education Queensland’s state-wide initiative ‘Every Day Counts’. We are committed to ensuring a 95% attendance rate for all students.

Message-

Our focus in 2021 at ELSS is about- “GROWTH”- We will build a positive culture for learning with focussed teaching and learning. The target is 75%+ of students achieving A-C in English. Three Priority Areas are: 1. Curriculum. 2- Data. 3- Culture.

Clint Curran
Principal

Deputy Principal’s News

Student Council Fundraiser

A huge THANK YOU to the familes and staff members who have very generously donated chocolates and Easter Eggs to kick start the prizes for our annual Easter Raffle. We still need lots more to reach our target of 30 prizes. If you would like to donate Easter items towards this fundraiser, please drop your chocolates and other items at the office.

A note has been sent home outlining when and how to purchase tickets. The raffle will be drawn on the afternoon of Wednesday 30 March. Winners will be notified and prizes will be ready for collection on the last 2 days of term.

Save the date and start looking for your orange shirts - Our annual Say No to Bullying ‘orange’ Day this year is on Friday March 19. Please watch for further information closer to the date.

Year 3 Team

In HASS our Year 3 students have been learning about the role of rules in the community as well as how individuals participate in and contribute to their community.

As a summation of their learning students were asked to show something they have learned in a photo still. Korbin is demonstrating how police can direct traffic. We follow their rules to stay safe. Aiden is demonstrating how volunteers donate books to charities. Anna and Saskia are demonstrating the importance of guide dogs which are raised by volunteers, in helping people with vision impairment.

Year 4 Team

Our Year 4 students have been keen Mathematicians investigating mapping. They are reading and designing their own maps. They are including features such as legends, compass directions and scale. After students design their own map with written directions they then give the map to a friend to see if they can follow. They are also learning about different types of angles: acute, right and obtuse angles. They have been using their bodies to show the different types of angles.

Year 5 Team

The entire Year 5 cohort is looking forward to their March excursion to the Planetarium, where they will get to view an epic ride through our galaxy to discover more about ‘Our Place in Space.’

Light pollution dulls the night sky and hides the brilliant sparkle of the stars. If we are lucky we can see one or two stars fighting to be seen but star gazing in the city and suburbs is limited.

Thankfully, we have a wonderful planetarium that reproduces the night sky with breathtaking visuals and intriguing information for our students to study and learn about the night sky. Once students are settled and the lights go off, the night sky appears right before their eyes and the audio and visuals make them feel as if they are experiencing it in real life. Students will get to see the most famous constellations, learn about how humans perceived the skies in the past and learn more about the galaxy that surrounds us.

The Botanic Gardens offer students the opportunity to study the surrounding animals and plants for their next unit of work exploring adaptations of animals and plants.

Year 6 Team

Last week out Year 6 students headed for the pool for their Leadership Big Day Out at the Bethania Aquatic Centre. Students participated in leadership activities throughout the day that involved co-operation, team-building and building self-esteem and persistence. The students reported a very exciting day filled with activities both in and out of the pool. These moments in our senior student’s year have certainly created memories and strengthened friendships as they head into their final year at Edens Landing State School. These events would not be possible if it wasn’t for the teachers who go above and beyond to make the day happen. I am sure you join me in saying a big thank you to the Year 6 team.

This week saw our school captains attend the Primary Captains Leadership Summit 2021. Participants were chosen based on their exceptional leadership capabilities and were involved in a number of team activities and planning sessions designed to build their skills and to further develop teamwork amongst their peers. Our leaders represented their school with pride as they embraced the opportunity to work with students from our neighboring schools to develop self-confidence, communication, self-reliance, cooperation, leadership, and team work and life skills.

Yours in Education
Cheryl Gibson
cgibs2@eq.edu.au

Deputy Principal’s News

The children are really getting into the swing of learning, and we are seeing some amazing work

All the students in Prep to Year 2 have also been doing daily practice of letters and sounds through a phonemic awareness program called “Heggertys”. Each day the children learn to manipulate the sounds in words, blending and chopping. This will help them in both reading, writing and spelling.

Children’s behaviour in the Early Years

At this stage, children are developing and practising skills and abilities that help them meet new people and make friends. This includes self-regulation and the ability to see other people’s points of view. These skills are great for getting along with others at school.

It is normal for children to be involved in conflicts, as they are learning to be social as much as they are learning to read and write.

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 emotions like frustration or excitement
• calm down after something exciting or upsetting
• focus on a task
• refocus attention on a new task
• control impulses
• learn behaviour that helps you get along with other people.

In Health and PE the children have been learning about the ‘Zones of Regulation’ to help them learn about their emotions and how to self-calm.

For more information of Self-regulation follow the link

Children learn about self-regulation and emotions in their HPE lessons, building their emotional tool boxes and resilience.

Acting Deputy Principal
Wendy Williams

PBL News

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING (PBL) AT ELSS

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) is a whole-school framework used in our school to promote positive behaviour. PBL helps us to develop a safe and supportive learning environment, build positive relationships and improve student learning outcomes.

Our school community has worked together to establish simple, clear and explicit expectations for behaviour. Student behaviour improves when students know what is expected of them and when good behaviour is recognised.

Our school takes a proactive, preventative approach, ensuring that all students receive the appropriate level of support to help them to succeed. Our PBL team constantly works to ensure that all students benefit and identified students receive additional support when needed.

Find out more about PBL in this video.

Over weeks 6 and 7 students will be learning about classroom and school transitions.

What is a Transition at School?

Put simply, a classroom transition is the process of moving from one lesson, space, or event to another during the course of the school day. They happen several times a day and often involve moving locations and collecting or swapping books and equipment.

Some examples of classroom transitions are:

• moving from carpet time to desk work
• rotating from one small group activity to another
• shifting between learning areas
• coming back into lessons after lunch
• attending or returning from a specialist lesson
• going to another area of the school, such as the library, hall, or kitchen/garden

Edens Landing State School has CC (Captain Courageous) as our mascot. He helps to remind students of our expectations.

Week 6 & 7 Term 1:

Edens Landing is a PBL School. This means that we explicitly teach students about the behaviour we want to see repeated. The rules are explained on assembly each Friday and teachers follow up with lessons and activities in class.

Office News

Cash Payment No Longer Accepted

The payment window will be open as usual on Wednesday and Friday mornings, 8.30am – 10.30am, for EFTPOS payments. BPoint is the easiest way to pay for school activities. Payment information and a hyperlink are on the bottom left-hand corner of each invoice. The hyperlink makes the payment process very easy, providing a simple and quick link to the payment portal for that individual invoice.

Report Student Absences

Text message your childs absence to 0429 904 926

Text first and last name of your child, date, duration and reason of absence.

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 8.50am must report to the office windows for a late slip prior to going to class.

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

Charmaine Johnson
Business Manager

PE News

Program Delivery

Health and Physical Education is delivered in a one hour block. Students will be exposed to a range of health and physical activities which are aligned to the Australian Curriculum, To cover this content, the school has been broken into 2 sectors (P-3 and 4-6). Mrs Michelle Goulding will be teaching prep to grade 3 and Mr Ken O’Donnell will be teaching grades 4-6.

Should you need to discuss anything related to HPE, please contact the following

Ken O’Donnell- kodon30@eq.edu.au (grade 4-6)
Michelle Goulding - mhlin0@eq.edu.au (prep to 3)

School Representative Sport

Over the course of the year, students have the opportunity to participate in a range of sporting trials. This is offered to students who are born in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and are wanting to excel in their chosen sport/s and represent at a higher level for example Pacific Rim, South Coast and Queensland School Sport.

It is expected that any child wishing to undertake these trials has experience and demonstrated skills and knowledge in the chosen sport, generally having participated at club level.

All information needed to attend the trial will be handed out closer to the date. Please note that some sports have age and gender restrictions due to safety and number of teams being selected. A nomination note has recently been sent home and this must be returned as soon as possible as trials for certain sports have started. If your child hasn’t received one and interested in pursuing this pathway, they must collect a form from the office.

Interschool Sport

As our students prepare for interschool sport, training sessions have been scheduled for those involved. It is crucial that students attend sessions to ensure they are up skilled before attending the competition in week 7.

Rugby League- Thursday, Friday mornings 8:00-8:40am
Soccer- Monday, Wednesday mornings 8:00-8:40am
Touch Football- Wednesday, Thursday mornings 8:00-8:40am
Netball- Tuesday, Friday mornings 8:00-8:40am

Good luck to all teams that commence games next week. Family members will be able to watch matches. Venues will be released closer to the dates.

Representative News

Congratulations to Joseph who was selected in the Beenleigh Zone Rugby League Team. He will now take part in the Pacific District Trial in the coming weeks. Good luck Joseph!

Sporting Achievement Shout Outs

Our school would love to hear about any sporting achievements your child/ren have made. It could be as simple as competing at a ballet performance, player of the match, a new personal best or an action shot playing a game. We are always looking to celebrate student success. Please send photo and a short comment of their achievement to kodon30@eq.edu.au

Sporting Clubs

Softball- This year, a softball club will commence. This activity is offered to all girls in grades 4-6 who is interested in developing and improving their skills required to play a game of softball. Students taking part in this club, will also have the opportunity to represent our school at future competitions.

Sessions will be held on Tuesday afternoons from 3-3:45pm. The program begun on Tuesday 9 February and will continue throughout the year. Students attending must ensure they have appropriate footwear, hat and water bottle. Students will need to be collected from the bottom gate at 3:45pm. If your child wishes to take part in the softball club, please complete a form and return it to the office.

Running Club

This term, running club has commenced. This activity is offered to any student in grades P-6 who is interested in developing and improving their fitness. Sessions will be held by Mr Vergers on Wednesday mornings from 8:00am to 8:30am. If your child wishes to take part in the running club program, please complete a form and return it to the office.

Hats

Over the course of the year, lessons will be held on the oval. It is essential that your child/ren has a suitable school hat for all lessons. A note will be issued to students who fail to bring a hat to lessons. If your child/ren is unable to take part in a lesson due to an injury or medical reason, please provide a note.

School Sport Dates

Junior Sports Day (P-2): 6 May (please note change)
Senior Sports Day (3-6): 7 May

Spectators at ELSS sport- COVID safe plan

Term 1 plan approves one adult per family member onsite for sporting clubs/events and training sessions

$150 Fair Play Vouchers

Edens Landing has been successful in receiving Fair Play Vouchers.

Parents, carers, guardians can apply for a voucher valued up to $150 for their child which can be used towards sport and active recreation membership, registration or participation fees with registered activity providers.

There is a limit of one voucher per child per calendar year

You can apply if your child

• is a Queensland resident aged from 5-17 years at the time of application
• did not receive a Fair Play voucher this year
• experiencing financial hardship
• holds, or whose parent, carer or guardian holds a valid Department of Human Services Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card with the child’s name on it.

Please contact kodon30@eq.edu.au for links to apply for the voucher.

Yours in Sport

Ken O’Donnell & Michelle Goulding
HPE Teachers

P&C News

Edens Landing State School P&C Association

We have just had our first meeting for the year on Monday 15 February 2021 and the AGM for the year was held afterwards. We were successful in electing (2) two Executive members for 2021, Sky Marshall as President and Caitlin Dayman as Treasurer. We still have (2) two to positions available on the Executive team, Vice President and Secretary. Their roles are in the images below.

We also have sub-committee positions available:

• Fundraising Committee/Team – help organise events eg. Mother’s & Father’s Day Stall, Bush dance BBQ, Christmas Carols BBQ and Raffles, and other Fundraising ideas throughout the year.
• Grant Committee – write and apply for grants to help raise money for school projects.

The P&C supports and works with the school and community to achieve our future goals as a united team. These visions cannot be reached without your help and support.

All committees have the full assistance of the executive team as all events are a group effort, we cannot do it alone – “Many Hands make light work” – John Heywood.

We also need help to assist with events held during the year. Our first one this year is handing out ice blocks at Cross Country on 5 of March 2021 as each year level finishes, they receive an ice block. If you are here on the day and want to lend a hand while you are watching your child, please contact us and let us know.

So far this year we know we have the following events. We still need to have all the dates confirmed yet, at the moment it is all still under advisement:

• Mother’s Day Stall in May
• Bush Dance BBQ Stall June/July
• Father’s Day Stall in September
• Carols BBQ Stall and Raffle Table in November

If you can assist, please email us at: pandc_exec@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au or contact us via our Facebook page:

Our Next P&C Meeting is on the 15 March 2021 at 6:15pm in the staff room. Everyone is welcome and it is fine to bring your children if you need to. Meetings roughly go for a 1 hour. Although, we understand everyone’s time is important to them, if you cannot stay for the whole meeting and need to leave, that is fine.

We look forward to seeing you.

Tuckshop News

Sushi at the Tuckshop

For a limited time only on Tuesday’s we are offering Sushi as part of our tuckshop menu. Orders for Sushi need to be placed by 12:00 noon each Monday. No late orders can be taken for this, as the Sushi is ordered from an outside company. All orders are to be placed on Flexischools as this is the only way to order Sushi and Tuckshop. Scroll across (on the APP) or click the arrow across (on website) to find the Sushi option.

If you order Sushi and your child is away from school on Tuesday, please contact the Tuckshop by 8.30 am to arrange collection. Your child can have the Sushi on Wednesday but after Wednesday the Sushi will be disposed of as it will no longer be fresh. There is no ability to refund the Sushi once you have placed an order.

Happy Birthday Buckets

This year the Tuckshop is offering Birthday Buckets for $16. Your child will receive a Fruit Icy Stick for every child in their class (plus one for the Teacher/Aide) and they will also receive a balloon to take home. When ordering please allow one weeks’ notice. Click on ‘LOAD MORE DATES’ to find the date and day the following week that you want the Bucket. Please contact the Tuckshop (38057999) on the day you have ordered the Birthday Bucket to confirm the child is at school. The Birthday Buckets can be found in the First Break option in Flexischools. Any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Menu

This year’s menu was sent home with students this week. If you child has not bought one home, please contact your child’s teacher. Attached to the menu is a small flyer on how to sign up to Flexischools and order. Everything on the menu is on Flexischools except for the Sushi as it for a limited time only at this stage.

If you have not signed up for Flexischools or need help registering please pop up to the tuckshop on either a Tuesday or Thursday morning between 8:30 am – 9:00 am for us to help you set Flexischools up or email the tuckshop at tuckshop@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au or message the P&C Facebook page

Annette Honnery
Tuckshop Convenor
38057999
tuckshop@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

Uniform News

The Uniform Shop is open on Tuesday mornings from 8:30am – 9:30am on the following dates.

9 March, and 16 March 2021.

It is also open on Thursday mornings from 8:30am – 9:30am every week during each of the terms.

• The Uniform Shop is also completely cashless we only take card/EFTPOS as payment in the shop.

When coming into the Uniform Shop please follow all the schools Covid Safe plan as stated in the newsletter also on their official Facebook page.

Make sure you like our P&C Association Facebook Page for any updates as we post on there a lot about what is going on and it is also a platform for communication with the P&C.

Flexischools:

Getting online is easy and only takes a few minutes to register. Simply go to click “Register”. You will be sent an email with further instructions on how to complete the registration. Once registered, you can start placing orders immediately. If you have any questions, Flexischools provide a great help desk on 1300 361 769 (unavailable at the moment so please email them), or you can contact them via their website. There is a variety of payment options supported, including Visa, MasterCard (credit and debit) and Bank Transfer. The system operates via a pre-paid account.

Flexischools has a cut off time of:

Monday 4:00pm for Tuesday orders each week,

and

Wednesday 4:00pm for Thursday orders each week.

If you want to order something and it is not available on flexischools you will need to come in and or contact the uniform shop to see if it is available. Flexischools cannot be watched 24/7 so sometimes items are removed when the stock is low, so no one misses out. Our discontinued lines once off most likely well not have the stock available.

Any other questions can be emailed to the Uniform Shop and will be answered as soon as possible. uniform_shop@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

*If you have any uniforms your children have outgrown but that are still in good condition.

You can donate them to the Uniform Shop, we need items so families can still feel like they are purchasing a uniform and not missing out. Thank you.

Outside School HOURS CARE- OSHC

Welcome back to a new school year!

REMINDER: Families need to log in to My family Lounge and resubmit their childs Enrolment form. Booking requests also need to be made. Bookings from 2020 do not roll over to the new year. (Must log in on computer or laptop)

Please use the app to book casual places or Mark as absent.

Permanent bookings will need to be requested via your online account.
Please use the app to book casual places, Mark as absent
And make any cancellations.

NEW ENROLMENTS

To enrol your child please email the service ael@ymcabrisbane.org
Or follow the OSHC links to register on the YMCA Website

Important Messages

Reminder to parents and families regarding parking.

Parking is not permitted in the top administration staff car park or in the teachers car park at any time

Outside School HOURS CARE- OSHC

Opening times:

Monday to Friday
Before school: 6am – 9am
After school: 2.30pm -6pm

Pay as little as $3.50 per session after ccs

YMCA Edens Landing OSHC

P: 07 3805 1233
M: 0459 899 887
ael@ymcabrisbane.org

Important Dates to Remember

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