20 August 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,

What an interesting 4 weeks we have had since the last newsletter. We will continue to communicate the impact and changes of COVID-19. My overall message is clear- We are partners in learning and will work our way through this together. I thank you for supporting health changes to our structures and way of working. Whilst this is a time of constant change, we are developing resilience in our students. Be kind to yourself and each other. ELSS is a great school with a great community.

Our students are at the heart of everything we do. Just look at these learners engaged, inspired and empowered to a life of choice.

During the recent lockdown, we again went back to our 3 C’s for remote learning-

Connection- Daily Interaction between CT and families. Seesaw/Email
Clarity- Accessing the Partners in learning packs, 2-3 hours each day, scheduled by families.
Care- Wellbeing of YOU, students/families.

The below photos highlight the connection between school and home. Thanks ELSS TEAM!!

Reminders-

• Please focus on students arriving to school on time and not leaving early as this impacts learning for your child and all students in the class.
• Parents/carers and visitors will now be allowed back on school sites, with the requirement they adhere to the ongoing direction regarding the wearing of masks. This means masks must be worn by all adults inside school buildings (unless they can stay 1.5m apart from other people) but may be removed outdoors, as long as they can keep 1.5 metres apart from other people.
• This means Prep and Year 1 classes will finish at the normal time of 2.50pm. Parent/Carer school access times go back to the same as term 2: Morning 8.30am-8.50am to drop off at gates or undercover area. Afternoon between 2.40pm-3pm to pick up from undercover area or gates.
• If parents choose to come onsite to pick up students, the gates will open at 2.40pm and parents must not congregate outside classrooms.
• • Meeting with any ELSS staff member is still by appointment only. If you wish to meet with a teacher, please contact them directly. If you wish to meet with a member of the Administration team, please contact office during business hours or email office@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au
• Check in QR codes are displayed at all entry gates and other central places around the school. If you haven’t already, please download the check in app so you are ready to use it if coming into the school.

Welcome to our new Adopt-a-Cop, Senior Constable Mitch Collins. Mitch was introduced to our Prep students on their 100 days of Prep. Mitch works at the reopened Edens Landing Police Beat. You can contact him on edenslanding.beat@police.qld.gov.au

Attendance, Uniform and celebration-

Whole school yearly attendance in 2021 is still below average at 88%. Shout out to Year 3 who have shown improvement. Our school goal is 93%. All COVID-19 and lockdown leave doesn’t impact these figures.

Prep- 85
Year 1- 87
Year 2- 88
Year 3- 89
Year 4- 89
Year 5- 88
Year 6- 90

Uniform reminder notes will be sent home to families of students who are out of uniform. We have worked closely with the P&C to build a strong focus on pride and unity through our uniform. We welcome any family to discuss financial hardship if this is a barrier to full school uniform. We are happy to support and help. We are partners in learning.

Look out for an end of term Pizza and Disco for students who have an attendance rate 95% or above and 0 major behaviour incidents in this term. A new 95-0 student celebration.

Reminders-

SeeSaw/Email communication:

Communication between home and teachers is a crucial feature of Partners in Learning. Please ensure this communication is kept between work hours and allow for a 24-hour response time by staff.

2021 School Priorities-

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.

Parents are a child’s first teacher. School staff are a child’s second teacher. Our learning walls are a child’s third teacher. Together we are Partners in learning.

Clint Curran
Principal

Deputy Principal’s News

Parent/Teacher Interviews Term 3

Our Semester 2 2021 parent/teacher interviews will take place over weeks 8 & 9 this term. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, we will once again have phone interviews this term. The 10-minute interviews will run in a similar format as face-to-face with the teacher calling at the allocated time. Teachers will call the number recorded in Oneschool twice so please ensure you book a time where you can answer the phone and make sure your phone number is updated with the school. Schedule will be as follows: Mon 6 September–Year 6, Tues 7 Sept-Prep, Wed 8 Sept – Year 3, Thurs 9 Sept – Year 2, Mon 13 Sept- Year 1, Tues 14 Sept – Year 4, Thurs 15 Sept – Year 5.

Bookings for interviews are open and will close on Tuesday 31 August.

TO BOOK INTERVIEWS Go to - Link is available school’s web page

Enter the following code to access bookings and press go: y2fgv

From the Year 3 Team.

Year 3 are working hard learning how to write a persuasive letter. I think you will agree that they are doing a wonderful job. Flynn has definitely convinced me that a pet fish is a great idea for their classroom. The final assessment task this term will see our Year 3 students writing letters to Mr Curran.

From the Year 4 Team

During our Year 4 specialist rotations day, Year 4 students had the opportunity to learn how to program and use Edison Robots. These little robots are a wonderful way of teaching students the practicalities of coding while having a lot of fun. Working together they were able to move their robots all around the maps.

From the Year 5 Team

2022 Senior Shirt

As an acknowledgement of the final year in Primary School, the Year 5 students have the option to purchase a 2022 Year 6 Senior Shirt. Our senior shirt helps to foster a leadership culture within all Year 6 students. Edens Landing State School believes that every student in Year 6 has the shared obligation to lead the Primary student population and the senior shirt signifies to others in our community that they hold this responsibility. The cost for each shirt is $36.50. This is the only opportunity to purchase a senior shirt for 2022 so please respond to the SMS and get your orders in. Parents may order as many senior shirts as they wish, however, once the order has been placed with the supplier, no further orders can be made. Final day for payment is 15 September 2021.

This year we are trialling SMS ordering. You received an SMS on Monday 26 July with the information you require to purchase a senior shirt. Parents will need to enter in the parent notes section: your payment receipt number, the size of shirt your child needs and the number of shirts you want. You then hit the accept button and the order is sent directly to the school. If you are unsure of the size, enter the size you think is correct. You can then come and try on the shirts with your child and we can alter the size if needed once parents are able to come onto school grounds.

This year we are very excited to launch our new senior shirt design. The artwork on the shirt was inspired by one of our Year 4 students, Charlie, who is a proud Bundjalung child. His art work has been interpreted and embedded into the new design. I am sure you will agree that our 2022 Seniors will look amazing in the new design.

Year 5 Camp

The payment deadline has now passed for the Year 5 camp which will take place this term. This is a valuable opportunity for students to experience a short stay away from home, and to build strong leadership skills. Camp is designed for encouraging personal growth and building resilience in all students. The camp also covers a large part of the Year 5 curriculum. Notes have been sent home and payment is closed.

Students not attending camp will be supervised at school by teachers running an alternate program.

From the Year 6 Team

This Term, our Year 6 students have been enjoying their technology lessons with Mr Tuckett and Mrs Harding. They will be making a portfolio of work using the design process of plan, make, test and reflect that suits an environmental need. This will be based on their knowledge of electrical circuits. The students will be designing and producing a prototype of an electrical security device. They will also try to incorporate Micro:bits into their design. The Micro:bits are miniature computers that students can code to light up and sense movement. You can see that they are already engaged and working hard to master the programming required for this task.

Yours in education

Cheryl Gibson
Deputy Principal
cgibs2@eq.edu.au

Deputy Principal’s News

Hello Everyone,

Before Learning@Home we celebrated 100 Days of School. The prep students had a great day with activities all around 100, such as counting beads, counting in tens, drawing 100 and painting. The day was finished with a visit from our local policeman who reminded the children how to be safe learners. Seeing how all our children have grown and developed, becoming more independent over the last 100 days of school is a great joy.

It is wonderful to see all our students back at school after learning from home. Class teachers shared some of the exciting activities and learning the children did during that time.

This week a letter and flyer was sent home about Book Week for 2021. The theme this year is Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds. The children will be doing activities through the week such as door decorating, book covers, scavenger hunts finishing off the week with a parade on Friday morning when the children can dress up as a character from a book.

Please remind any friends or relatives that they can begin the enrolment process for prep in 2022 by filling in the intention to enrol and they the office can book in a time for an interview. We are already discussing play dates and transition days to help our new little Edens Landing SS students start confidently in 2022.

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.

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.

Rule of the Week

Weeks 7 & 8 Term 3: I am a learner when I am organised with my own equipment ready to learn

Being organised is a complex, yet essential life-long skill required to function in our everyday world. When a child can stay organised for school, it contributes to their increased independence, efficiency, self-confidence, higher academic performance and a deeper understanding of the job to be completed. Some children are naturally gifted organisers, while others need some considerable extra support.

Being organised is an important executive functioning skill and involves the child being able to manage their thoughts, actions and emotions to get a task done. It is important to understand that being organised involves several high-level thinking skills which include:

• Knowing what you want to achieve
• Knowing where to start
• Understanding the sequence of events that need to occur for the task to be achieved
• Sourcing materials or resources to carry out the task
• Persistence to carry out the task without distraction
• Ability to achieve the task in the required timeframe

The first step to students being able to organise their thoughts in readiness for learning, is to have the physical equipment they need to start and complete the task. Having equipment ready to hand, frees students thinking to engage in learning.

Parents can help their child with this essential skill by practising organisational skills at home, showing the importance of being ready to start a new activity or project.

Office News

Student statements were sent via email to parents this week, if you have any queries relating to the statements please email the office : office@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

Excursion/ Incursion permission system

The school is currently trialling a online permission form system, some of you will have already have used it. Parents will receive a text message asking to click on a link, then it will give you the information about the excursion/ incursion via pdf format and an option to give permission. The benefit of this system is parents will have instant access to the information on their phones and not having to look for forms at home. Invoices for payments will remain the same sent via email, bpoint is our preferred method of payment.

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

P&C News

Father’s Day Stall- 2 September.

Go online to Flexi schools and purchase prepaid dollar amounts for your child/ren to purchase items at the stall, see letter attached.

Follow our Facebook page - Edens Landing State School P&C Association.

Should you ever need to ask questions please drop us a line at our Facebook page or you can email us - PandC@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

The next P&C Meeting will be held on Monday at 6:15pm in the staff room. This is a great way to come along and discuss changes we can make to the school that benefit our children’s learning and make the community better. It also a great way to get the heads up on fundraisers, meet new people and make friends.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Tuckshop News

There will be some price increases after 1 September on items that we supply with plastic cutlery. As the ban on single use plastic items comes into effect on 1 September, I will no longer be able to supply or source plastic cutlery to be provided with our items. The replacement items are more expensive to purchase and unfortunately prices will have to rise to cover these inevitable cost increases. Once the price is confirmed Flexischools will change to the new price.

If you have ordered your children items from the before school menu, please let them know to come to the tuckshop from 8.30 am to collect these. If your child does not collect the items, the order slips just sit here and by the end of term are disposed of.

If you order tuckshop for your child/ren and they are absent from school on that day, PLEASE contact the tuckshop on 38057999 by 8.30 am to have the order cancelled. If you do not make contact or make contact after 8.30 am the order will stand and there will be no refund. Please do not contact office staff or leave a message on the absent line. Contact the tuckshop directly.

If there is an issue with money on your flexischools account or anything relating to funds, any technical problems with flexischools, contact them directly. I am unable to access your accounts. I only can deal with the food side of flexischools.

Please be aware of how much food you are ordering for first break (11 am) The children have a limited time to eat and keeping food until later in the day that should be consumed hot or food that should be consumed cold is less than optimal for your children.

Tuckshop is needing help on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10.30 am to around 11.30 am on a regular basis. This time of the day is only packing orders into bags and class boxes and handing out the boxes. Our tuckshop relies on volunteer help and cannot continue to operate each day at full capacity without the regular help. If you think you can commit to regularly helping, please get in contact with me.

Reminders

• Ordering for tuckshop is only via flexischools and daily lunch cut off time is 8 am
• Tuckshop does not have EFTPOS facilities
• Sushi is available on Tuesday, order on flexischools by Mondays 12 noon cut off time
• Contact tuckshop if your children are absent from school and you have ordered lunch
• Birthday buckets – please allow one weeks’ notice to make sure ice blocks are available

Ways to contact the tuckshop

• Phone – 38057999
• Email – tuckshop@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ELSSPandC

Thank you for your continued support. Any important information regarding tuckshop will be on our Facebook page, don’t forget to like and follow us.

Annette Honnery
Tuckshop Convenor
38057999

Uniform News

Uniform Shop open, Tuesday and Thursday 8:30am- 9:30am.Appointment only

Please email uniform_shop@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au , call office or message the link below to book an appointment.

*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.

New jumpers are here! They have the new logo on them, which looks fantastic!

Jumpers with new logo are now priced at $34.00.

Jumpers with the old logo are $31.00 and still available in some sizing. When they are gone, the new jumper with the logo will replace them.

Pricelist:

A new price list is being organised and will represent any new price changes and will be advertised ASAP.

Sports Shirts:

What stock we have left is now up on flexischools and ready for purchasing. Please keep in mind that this is all we have, once gone there is NO MORE coming in. They are $30.00 each and are in sizing 14 and above across the house colours some only have 1 or 2 sizing available which you can see on flexischools.

Flexischools:

Getting online is easy and only takes a few minutes to register. Simply go to the link below 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 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.

Uniform Policy sharing directly from the school’s official website.

Please take note of the sections regarding:

• Footwear
• Socks are white ankle socks (available in the uniform shop.)
• Winter Uniform
• Jewellery/Hair/Makeup

Please contact the school office if you need further clarification on the policy at: office@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

Outside School HOURS CARE- OSHC

Due to COVID 19 restrictions we have place the sing in/out IPAD outside the Hall. Please do not enter the Hall.

FACE MASKS ARE MANDATORY INCLUDING ON SCHOOL GROUNDS

If your child is attending an extra curricular activity you will need to sign a YMCA permission form.

Absences

Please ensure you email, text or call the service if your child will be absent for after school care.

My Family Lounge app

NEW ENROLMENTS

To enrol your child please email the service ael@ymcabrisbane.org

Or follow the OSHC links to register on the YMCA Website

Information for Families

Family and Child Connect – 13 32 64 or visit the link below

If you feel that you’ve lost your way or been side-tracked, Family and Child Connect can give you a hand to get back on track.

Important Messages

Reminder to parents and families regarding parking.

Parking is not permitted in the top administration staff car park or in the teachers/staff 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

Contact Details

• Have your contact details changed?
• Have you moved address?
• Do we have your current phone number in case of an emergency?
• Are your emergency contacts still current?
• Are you receiving our newsletters by email?
• Do we have your current email address?

PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE TO UPDATE YOUR DETAILS

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