2 May 2022

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,

Welcome back to school for Term 2. I hope everyone enjoyed the Easter break with family and friends. It is always nice to switch off the alarm and have a more relaxed start to the day. I enjoyed some beach, fishing and family time.

Daily in my classroom walk throughs, I see students engaged in their learning. Our amazing staff have built positive relationships and high expectations for EVERY student to be a learner and make progress in their learning.

The ELSS 2022 improvement plan has the watermark GROWTH. We will focus on building a positive culture for learning with focussed teaching and learning for EVERY student to succeed at ELSS =

GOAL is 75%+ A-C English in semester 1.

The ELSS ANZAC assembly was an amazing event that brought our students, staff and community together. We hosted Blake Wright, Lieutenant of the 25th/49th Battalion, The Royal Queensland Regiment, to address the students was a moving tribute to the current and past service men and women. I am proud to share that our students showed respect during this event.

The below photo shows our school staff, student and families marching together at the Beenleigh ANZAC service. We are partners in learning! Thank you to everyone involved.

Celebrations-

We have celebrated student effort and attitude to many different aspects of development. From student of the week, safe/respectful/learners, attendance, positive behaviour, sporting achievements, academic, kindness and having a growth mindset are just a few. Congratulations to those students but also congratulations must go to the families that support schooling, trust the ELSS processes and prioritise education.

School Uniform and attendance-

Thank you to the amazing families that have prioritised full school uniform and high attendance rates. We still have students out of uniform attending school. From coloured socks and shoes to incorrect shorts, hats and coloured jackets. Girls who wish to wear tights or leggings must wear their shorts/skirt over the top. Please reach out if you are under hardship for support. We are happy to work with you to ensure your child/ren are wearing the correct uniform with pride, displaying self-confidence and a sense of belonging to our wonderful school. Our uniform goal is to have 100% students in full school uniform.

Our whole school attendance percentage is sitting at 88% for term 1. Our target of 93% is based of research for student learning and growth. Every day missed is critical teaching and learning that promotes growth and development. Attendance figures are discussed at Parent/Teacher interviews and appear on report cards.

Clint Curran
Principal

Deputy Principal’s News

Welcome back to what is shaping up to be a very exciting and busy term. Students have slipped back into learning seamlessly, and it is encouraging to see so many wide-eyed, happy faces when I enter classrooms.

Student Council Fundraiser

This Term our enthusiastic student council will host two fundraisers.

The first is for the Children’s Cancer Foundation on Friday May 20. They are inviting students to dress up like a pirate, bring their treasure (gold coin donation) and raise money for kids’ brain cancer research. Pirate Day is a fun way to raise awareness and much needed funds for childhood brain cancer research.

Pirate Day was established by the Colgan Family to support childhood brain cancer research following the diagnosis of their son Conor when he was 5 years-old. In 2022, Pirate Day will be managed by The Kids’ Cancer Project with funds raised going towards research into finding better treatments and ultimately a cure for childhood brain cancer.

Dress up and donate a Gold Coin to help research for Kids’ Cancer!

Our second fundraiser this term will be our Lob-A-Choc at Bush Dance on June 17. We will send more information home closer to the date requesting donations of chocolates for this much-loved stall.

BUSH DANCE IS BACK IN 2022!

Please mark Friday June 17 on your calendar for our Annual Bush Dance. Every class will be performing a dance and the Ran Tan Bush Band has been invited back to perform. Once again, we will have a smorgasbord of entertainment, food and activities for the whole family. Please watch this space for more information across the term.

We are looking forward to seeing all of our families enjoying the Bush Dance and joining in the fun.

We are asking for families to donate Chocolates for the Student Council Lob-A-Choc stall and baked goods for our cake and coffee stall. Please watch out for letters which will be sent home soon.

Health Plans for Students with Asthma and Allergies

It is our desire to provide the best possible environment for the health, well-being, and safety of all students. Good management of your child’s asthma and allergies is important to his or her success at school. Clear communication between you and your child, your health care provider and school staff is the key to managing asthma and allergies at school. If the school does not currently have a formal Asthma or Allergy Action Plan for your child, please provide one as soon as possible. A written Asthma or Allergy Action Plan developed by your health care provider and shared with the school will help keep your child safe at school. Following the Action Plan will enable your child to participate fully in school activities. If your child is able to administer his or her Asthma medication without any supervision or assistance, an Action Plan is not required. If this is the case, please send a written note or email stating this to the school promptly. Likewise, if your child’s allergies do not impact their schooling, please notify the school that an action plan is not required. Thank you to the many families who have already done this.

From the Year 3 Team.

Overview of work to be covered in term 2:

English:

Poetry: Students are learning to use descriptive language to write an engaging poem that is in the same style of another poem. They will refer to body senses (see, smell, hear, and feel).

Mathematics:

• Exploring place value to 1000 and beyond
• Quick recall of single-digit addition and subtraction facts
• Telling time to o’clock and half past
• Counting collections of dollars and performing simple transactions to whole dollar amounts.
• Number patterns to 100. Working out the differences and completing the pattern.

Science: This term, students will be able to distinguish and explain what makes day and night. They will also explore how the Sun moves in the course of a day, based on observable features.

From the Year 4 Team

English: To write a detailed and accurately sequence multimodal procedure that include images to explain how to complete a food-based task.

Maths: Exploring place value up to 10 000, angles, fractions, measurement (length, area, and volume), multiplication and division facts and unknown quantities in number sentences involving addition and subtraction.

Science: We are learning to identify natural and human activities that cause weathering and erosion in our local area.

HASS: Exploring aspects of life in Australia before, during and after the European settlement.

From the Year 5 Team

Science:

This term we will be learning about the 3 states of matter; solids, liquids and gases, and how temperature affects the relationship between all three. In particular, we will be focusing on the different properties of liquids. Towards the end of term, students will be planning an investigation into viscosity, and how it is affected by temperature.

English:

Our genre this term will be Scientific Report, as a complement to our science unit. Students will be learning how to hypothesise, describe and explain different scientific experiments and investigations. This is a fun unit with lots of hands-on science activities included. In addition, daily reading groups focus on fluency, comprehension, language conventions and daily writing.

Mathematics:

Continuing with a strong number focus this term, we will be covering units on multiples and factors, rounding and estimating, problem-solving, operations and decimals. We will also be exploring angles and how to measure them. As well as whole class lessons, we are including weekly hands-on maths activities.

HASS:

We are continuing with our unit on the Australian Gold Rush this term. Concepts include how the gold rush affected the environment, Aboriginal Australians, Chinese diggers and the Australian democracy. Towards the end of term, students will be working together to create a presentation demonstrating what they have learnt.

From the Year 6 Team

English:

This term in Year 6, students are learning about Magazine’s and their articles. Students are learning to write using a magazine article structure. For their assessment, students will write an article on a topic of their choice using the upside-down pyramid. Students will need to include traditional magazine elements such as an interesting heading, by-line, images and captions.

Mathematics:

Students will be exploring a range of mathematical concepts including identifying properties of square and triangular numbers, reading and interpreting timetables, making connections between equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. Students will also be learning how to work out unknown vertically and opposite angles and how to solve problems involving length and area.

Science:

Students will explore how electrical energy can be transferred and transformed in electrical circuits and how it can be generated from a range of sources. Students will gather data and make predictions using evidence.

HASS:

Students will continue working on their pop-up museum whilst learning about Australian Federation and the Australian government. This will include why we are a democracy, the structure of the three levels of the Australian government and process in which laws are passed.

From the Specialist Team

The Arts

Year 1- are continuing Visual Art using paint this term. They are learning to use shapes to create and share an artwork.

They are learning about using 2D shapes in their art and identifying them in their own and others artwork.

Year 2 -are learning to perform and respond to drama using a picture book as a stimulus.

Continuing from term 1, students are focusing on their drama skills (expressive voice, facial expression and movement) in preparation of their performance.

They describe what happens in drama they make and perform, identifying some elements of drama.

Year 3 are making hand puppets in Visual Art this term.

We are learning to use different techniques to make and share hand puppets.

They are then creating a short skit using their puppets.

Year 4 are learning to make a television commercial advertising a school event in Media.

Continuing from Term 1, students are adding sound effects, music and written text to complete their advertisements.

Students are then analysing a number of advertisements identifying positive and negative images, music and text. They then reflect on their own media artwork and identify the persuasive devices used.

H.P.E

Prep - This term, students are learning to identify different settings where they can be active and how to move and play safely. Students will identify and describe the different emotions people experience in different scenarios.

Year 1- This term, students are learning the different skills such as passing, catching and dribbling which are required in a game of basketball.

Year 2 - This term, students are learning the skills of passing, catching and shooting required to play a game of netball.

Year 3 - This term, students are learning to apply movement concepts and refine fundamental movement skills in a variety of Oz Tag activities.

Year 4 - This term, students are learning the skills of soccer such as dribbling, passing, and kicking to implement these into a game.

Year 5 - This term, students are learning to recognise the influence of emotions on behaviours and discuss factors that influence how people interact.

Year 6 - This term, students explore the concept of health and the importance of food and activity. They identify good habits and the concept of mental fitness. They will identify how activity and good food contribute to overall health and mental fitness.

Japanese

In preparation for their assessment tasks in Japanese this term, the Year 5 students are continuing to develop their speaking and listening skills within the context of self-introduction, by combining formulaic statements to share information about themselves. Year 6 students will continue to practice using familiar language patterns to about location (where), participants (who) and means (how), to share and gather details about daily-life, routines, movements and plans.

Yours in education
Cheryl Gibson
Deputy Principal

cgibs2@eq.edu.au

Deputy Principal’s News

Welcome to the second term of the school year. As I walk through the classrooms I see smiling students engaged in learning. The teachers work hard to make the learning meaningful and fun.

Though I am enjoying our long weekends I know that many parents are experiencing difficulties in getting their children back into the routine of coming to school – some children ( and parents) are even demonstrating signs of anxiety. The Australian Government supports the Raising Children Network – and there are so many ideas for parents to help their children in the area of anxiety, such as using the STEPLADDER approach --

They have also developed a free app - for families to use – available on Google Play or App store

From the classrooms

The prep children are learning about the seasons and the weather – In science they are

choosing how to dress appropriately for different types of weather - In English they are learning and practising their sounds and experimenting with how to write sentences.

The year one classes are learning how to read and write facts

Reading O’clock and Half past on an analogue clock. They made clocks to show set times during warm ups.

Year two

Charlie 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25 Increasing by 3

Anthea Grant
Deputy Principal

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 .

Go for Gold Day

Students are working hard to achieve enough tokens to attend ‘Go for Gold Day’ which is our rewards day at the end of each term. With so much on offer it is sure to be an amazing day.

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

Week 1 - 4 Term 2:

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.

Week 1: To start the Term, all teachers revisited our school expectations – I am Safe, I am Respectful, I am a Learner.

Week 2: I am safe when I use Talk, Walk, report to resolve problems. Staff revisited the messages deliverd during our say no to bullying day, teaching students strategies to deal with conflict.

Week 3 & 4: Staff will explicitly teach how to use Zones of Regulation to help students know how to regulate their feelings, energy and sensory needs in order to keep themselves and other safe.

HPE News

Senior Sports Day (3-6): 3 June

Junior Sports Day (P-2): 2 June

Running Club Wednesday mornings 8.00-8.30am Prep – Year 6.

Yours in Sport
Ken O’ Donnell

Office News

Parent Debtor Statements will be emailed to parents on 29 April 2022 for outstanding student invoices not paid. Please email the office for any queries office@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au.

Payment Window open Eftpos only 8.30am-10.30am Wednesdays and Fridays

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

"Welcome to term 2 and there a few exciting events happening this term.

Mother's day is just around the corner; the stall for years Prep -Yr 5 will be held on the 4th May - a particular time slot for year 6 and others who can not attend on the 4th is arranged for Friday the 6th May.

Ticket sales close at 5pm 29th May.

Please send your child with a pillowcase to help keep their present for you a surprise.

We wish all the mothers a happy mothers day.

There will be a pie drive taking place this term; we will be running from weeks 5-9 and pick up will be in week 10, watch this space for further information.

Bush dance is only half a term away; we need volunteers to help hand out food and drinks. If you can help, don't hesitate to get in touch with the fundraising team at edenslandingssfundraising@gmail.com or via Facebook or by contacting the office.

The next P&C meeting will be held at 5:15 pm on the 16th May in the staff room.

There will be supervision for children, so please bring the kids along and have your say. The school community can shape our school.

We look forward to seeing you at these events, and remember if you can help out, even if it is only for 30 mins, it would be so appreciated.

Cheers
The P&C Fundraising and Executive committees

Tuckshop News

NEW PHONE NUMBER FOR TUCKSHOP

The tuckshop has a new phone number - 0482 175 646. Please update your contact details for the tuckshop to include the new number. The old number has been disconnected and no longer in use.

We are excited to again be offering Hot Cross buns for Second break up until the Easter Holidays. They will be available on Flexischools, so hop to it and get your order in.

We will also be adding Gingerbread Students to our snack menu.

Children absent from school

If you have ordered tuckshop for your child and they are not attending school on that day, PLEASE call the tuckshop DIRECTLY on 0482 175 646 by 8.30 am to have their order cancelled. PLEASE DO NOT contact the office staff to ask them to pass on a message to the tuckshop. PLEASE DO NOT leave a message on the absentee line/email that you want tuckshop cancelled. If you do not contact the TUCKSHOP by 8.30 am your order will stand and will not be cancelled.

If your child’s order has been cancelled you will have to reorder when you want them to have tuckshop, there is no ability to hold over orders.

Birthday Buckets

The Tuckshop offers Birthday Buckets for $16. Your child will receive a Quelch Fruit Ice 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 to be assured that the ice blocks are available and frozen. If you order the morning or day before, the ice blocks may not be in stock or frozen, that is why a weeks’ notice is needed. Click on ‘LOAD MORE DATES’ to find the date and day the following week that you want the Bucket. Please contact the Tuckshop (0482 175 646) 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.

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 https://www.facebook.com/ELSSPandC

Any information about tuckshop will be posted on our Facebook page and or sent via the Flexischools App.

Annette Honnery
Tuckshop Convenor
0482 175 646

Uniform News

Uniform Shop is open Tuesday and Thursday 8:30 am - 9:30 am.

Yes, you can come in without placing a Flexischools order or making an appointment. Yes, you can come in during open hours and pick up your Flexischools order you placed.

Delivery of orders to classrooms has ceased.

Flexischools orders must be collected from the Uniform Shop by Student or Parent. If cannot pick up your order, please email the Uniform Shop and we can arrange to have the order left at the office for collection the same day. You will receive and email reminder message for your order on the day and you can reply to that email with any questions or if you need it left at the office.

*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 all 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 www.flexischools.com.au 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. 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.

If you have any questions, Flexischools provide a great help desk on:

(Online): Any time, at our parent contact form which can be found from the link below

(Phone): Between 8am - 12pm (AEDST) on Weekdays, at our parent phone line (1300 361 769).

Flexischools has a cut off time of:

Monday 4:00 pm for Tuesday orders each week,
and
Wednesday 4:00 pm for Thursday orders each week.

Any other questions please email the Uniform Shop and we will be sure to answer them 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.

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

Outside School HOURS CARE- OSHC

If your child is attending an extra curricular activity you will need to sign a YMCA permission form.
Please book via the app or alternatively email the service.

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

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 School 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

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PLEASE CONTACT THE OFFICE TO UPDATE YOUR DETAILS

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

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