27 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

Jingeri (Hi) ELSS families and community,

ELSS is a hive of energy, learning and events. In term 2 we have had Parent teacher interviews, school photos, National Simultaneous Storytime, Star of the School, senior badges, rewards day, ANZAC assembly, year 4 excursion, NAPLAN. Think you know cybersafe workshop with yr. 5/6. Art Therapy for selected students, Pirate Day, Science incursion, P&C day, yr. 2 geckos’ incursion, Sorry day and National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS)- this photo’s below is of all students hearing a book being read together across the school for NSS. Reading is a super power!!

Coming up we have - Kokoda Challenge, Reconciliation week, State-wide soccer cup, Junior Sports Day, u8’s Day, Music excellence strings, Senior Sports Day, Beenleigh Zone athletics, BUSHDANCE + 25-year celebration.

COVID-19. –We still need to be vigilant. Any students with symptoms are to be sent home with a RAT. Please respect our office staff as they communicate with families during this difficult time.

National Volunteer Week (NVW) is Australia's largest annual celebration of volunteering and was held on 16 – 22 May 2022. We are so grateful for our wonderful volunteers who contribute to our great school. All students wrote a message of thanks for our volunteers and a special shout out to the tuckshop team plus Edens Landing State School P&C Association

If you would like to volunteer please reach out to the school.

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 three major priorities for 2022 are Reading, Curriculum Access and Culture. Each fortnight I will share improvement strategies that we have actioned. An action for Curriculum Access is English and Mathematic warm ups across the school. Every day, our teachers lead students in revision of literacy and numeracy concepts in warm up sessions of up to 15 minutes. The purpose of warm ups is to:

• consolidate previously taught skills
• automatise learning so that the answer is known within the click of a finger, without time spent thinking
• move learning into long-term memory so that it is retrievable in the future, not forgotten

Warm ups cater for the range of students in the class with different parts the focus for different students

Today a READER, tomorrow a LEADER! This statement makes clear the importance of reading and students discovering a love for reading is very important. We launched the Premier's Reading Challenge 2022 - ELSS is registered and ready to read! The Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) is an annual state-wide initiative for Queensland state and non-state schools and home-educated students from Prep to Year 9, as well as children (aged up to 5 years) enrolled in an early childhood centre. The PRC aims to improve literacy and encourage children to read for pleasure and learning. ELSS will be participating in the challenge. Frequently Asked Questions:

Video:

Staff Learning Activities – ELSS staff are committed to BETTER and are active in Professional Learning Teams- English curriculum. Alignment to goal of 75% of students achieving C or above in English for semester 1&2. Planning. Moderation. Cross school moderation. School Improvement with Sharratt 14 parameters. Warm Up PD. Clarity Club. Watching others Work. Inclusive teaching of reading (ITOR). Zone of Regulation sharing. YXL Pedagogy PD.

Celebrations-

We are proud of our community. Well done. Thanks for partnership Melissa McMahon - MP for Macalister $964.40 going to The Kids' Cancer Project. Ahoy there Congratulations to our Student Council for raising $482.20 for the The Kids' Cancer Project. Melissa McMahon matched our effort to make an overall donation of $964.40. Well done me hearties!!!

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.

Yours in Education

Clint Curran
Principal

Deputy Principal’s News

Student Council Fundraiser

A huge thank you to everyone who supported the Children’s Cancer Foundation on Friday May 20. It was wonderful to see our crew of pirates raising awareness and much needed funds for childhood brain cancer research. Our school community raised $482.20. Thank you.

Our second fundraiser this term will be our Lob-A-Choc at Bush Dance on June 17. If you are able to help us on our stall on the night, please let the office know.

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.

Thank you to the staff and families who have already donated chocolates for this much-loved stall. We are asking for families to donate Chocolates (any size or shape is great) for the Student Council Lob-A-Choc stall and baked goods for our cake and coffee stall. If you missed the letters which were sent home soon, please ask your child’s teacher for details.

From the Year 3 Team:

English Assessment

This term the year 3s have studied Poetry. They have giggled and appreciated the fun play on words in poems. They have heard the variety of moods that are in the poems we have read/been read to.

They have two assessments to complete for English:

1. Poem Bubbles Students will read this to their teacher and then answer some multiple choice and sentence responses about the poem to demonstrate their decoding and comprehension skills.
2. Write a poem using their senses about the school garden. Students will use the knowledge they have gained over the course of the term, including using good describing words, to write their own sensory poem in verse form.

How can you support your child?

• Reading lots of interesting poems would encourage them to understand the form that a poem has- and how it is different to a narrative
• Name some plants, etc you would find in a garden and practice describing -what they look like, how they smell, and how they would feel.
• Why not visit your own back garden or go and explore someone else’s!

From the Year 4 Team:

In English this term we have been learning how to write a procedure. We have been reading different procedural texts to understand that there are various types of procedures. We have also been exposed to ‘real world’ experiences to aid us in our writing, for example, cooking in the kitchen.

In week 4, students made chocolate crackles and week 6 they made scrumptious pancakes. These experiences will help students when writing their own procedures at the end of the term. We all had so much fun!

From the Year 5 Team:

Year 5 are doing two English assessments this term. The first is our written Scientific Report. Students will be conducting an investigation into a property of liquid and explaining what they have learnt about the process. They will be assessed on their understanding of the structure and language features of this report, along with their spelling, grammar, punctuation and editing skills.

Our second assessment is a reading comprehension task. Students will be reading a narrative passage and answering 'Right There', 'Think and Search' and 'Author and Me' questions to show their understanding of the events, characters, setting and author's intent of the text.

From the Year 6 Team:

This term, Year 6 are learning to write a magazine article that includes an image and a catchy headline to capture an audience’s attention. The students will research about a topic of their choice and then present a point of view in their magazine article. Each child's article will then be compiled into a class magazine.

From the Specialist Team:

The Arts

Year 1: Students will create a painting of a crazy critter or marvellous machine using a number of 2 Dimensional shapes (square, rectangle, triangle, diamond, circle, oval)

Year 2: Students describe what happens in drama they make, perform and view identifying some elements of drama (role, space, voice, movement/action, facial expression)

Year 3: Students will design and create a hand puppet using a number of different paper craft techniques they have learnt.

Year 4: Students compare a number of commercials and identify the persuasive techniques used in those advertisements and explain why they are persuasive referring to images, sound, text, special effects and music.

Yours in education
Cheryl Gibson
Deputy Principal
cgibs2@eq.edu.au

Deputy Principal’s News

We are more than halfway through the term and it is amazing to see how much the children have learned so far this year. For our younger students the greatest learning is around regulating big feelings – such as frustration, anxiety and excitement. At Edens Landing SS we use the Zones of Regulation to help our children develop the language and skills to help them be in the Green – Learning Zone. As partners in education I encourage families to use the Zones at home. These links may help.

Zones at Home

Junior Sports and Under 8’s activity day

This coming week is going to be busy – we have decided to make our Junior Sports Day a fun day by finishing with Under 8’s activities. Parents and sibling s are welcome to participate.

From the classrooms

Prep

This term for English in prep, students are describing animals using words, phrases and sentences. They are also reading CVC words and familiar words and phrases.

Year 1

This term Year 1 students are writing a retell of a familiar story. They will sequence their ideas and write about the beginning, middle and end of the story. Students will also share a preference for a character with a reason.

Year 2

Task:

To use factual language features and informative text structures to create a multimodal information report about a chosen animal that includes an image that supports the meaning of the written text.

Include:

• a title
• headings to organise the information (classification, appearance, habitat, diet, reproduction)
• factual information about the topic
• noun groups to add detail
• topic-specific vocabulary
• simple sentences and compound sentences using co-ordinating conjunctions to connect ideas.

To engage the children in their learning, the Geckoes wildlife incursion and chicken egg hatching has been very successful.

Helping children to cope with stressful world news.

It is hard to avoid children being exposed to the news of traumatic events from around the world. The ABC have an article to help parents with ways to help children cope with and process disaster-related news coverage

1. Do limit viewing time, but don't try to keep it a secret
2. Be with them when they are seeing or reading stories
3. Remind them good things happen too
4. Provide comfort and affection
5. Distract them with a game or new activity

For the full article

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 5 - 6 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 7 & 8: I am safe when I use Talk, Walk, Report to solve problems.

Over three weeks, teachers will unpack each part of Talk, Walk, Report with students.

Talk Friendly

Speak clearly and calmly
Use eye contact
Say “Stop it, please.”

Talk Firmly

Speak clearly
Say “STOP! I don’t like it.”
Use confident body language and an assertive voice
Restate, I said …
Say, “If you don't stop, I am reporting it to the teacher.”

Walk Away

Walk away confidently
Stand tall, head high
Walk towards an adult on duty

Report

Speak to the teacher on duty
Look confident
Bystanders should be upstanders and support and report.

Office News

Parent Debtor Statements will be emailed to parents on 31 May 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

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.

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 Wednesday 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 here

(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

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

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