31 October 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,

There is a great buzz around the school as I talk to parents at drop off/pick up, engage with students in classrooms/playground, and learn alongside staff in rooms/meetings. All stakeholders have contributed to our great school. I thank the parents that completed the community INPUT survey as this form’s important opinions into our strategic planning. The feedback is clear-

Keep- Our amazing culture and opportunities.

Polish- Even more communication to families.

Phrases that sums up ELSS- ‘Amazing’ ‘Community’

World Teachers day celebration is on Friday 28th October- Happy World Teachers’ Day to my amazing teachers at ELSS. I am very proud of you all. Thanks for your hard work to Engage, Inspire and Empower EVERY student to do more and be more. Daily I see your commitment to our students and community. We are a great school because we have great teachers leading our great students. Special shout out to those parents that thanked their teacher or brought in food for our morning tea.

Many budgets within our school funding are based on enrolments. It is at this time of the year that families are advising that they are moving away from the area and a change of school is necessary. If you are planning to leave our school for the 2023 school year, I ask that you advise the office in writing as soon as possible and complete our Exit Form to ensure we have the most up to date enrolment information. Please share this with friends who are leaving or those you may know are enrolling. If your circumstances change over the upcoming months and a change of school is necessary please let us know.

Our students across the school are soaring to success with their growth and learning. The Leadership Team are in classroom daily. Our teachers use a range of teaching strategies for every child’s learning growth. Here is evidence-

Congratulations to one of our past students, Jonty Hasenkam who was selected as a 2022 Australian Olympic Change-Maker Award recipient, following a nomination by Windaroo Valley State High School!

The Australian Olympic Change-Maker program recognises students who demonstrate the Olympic spirit through leadership and driving positive change in their communities.

Jonty also received the 2022 ACE Person of the Year Award, a Bronze Award for district cross country and a gold award for QLD stae Athletics.

Jonty represented his school at the south coast regionals at Qld State Athletics two weeks ago I high jump, javelin and received a silver medal in pole vault with a PB of 3.8m.

He also competed in the Chemist Warehouse Australian Championships in March this year for under 17s Pole Vault placing 6th in Australia.

This is a clear example of how ELSS prepares students for future success through effort and attitude. We are proud to see our past students soaring to success.

Yours in Education
Clint Curran
Principal+

Deputy Principal’s News

STUDENT COUNCIL FUNDRAISERS

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in our Day for Daniel by wearing red and donating a gold coin. Our school raised $394.75 towards this very worthwhile charity.

WORLD TEACHER DAY

Thank you to all of the families who sent messages of appreciation and offerings for morning tea this week. The teachers were very touched by the generosity and kindness shown by our amazing families.

CAROLS BY TORCHLIGHT

Please watch for the Carols by Torchlight invitation. This is a great community event which brings our families together to celebrate our amazing school community and the end of another successful school year.

This year we will run a ticket system for purchasing food and glow sticks etc. $2 a ticket, available from the Kitchen (the same as Bush Dance).

From the Year 3 Team

Reading:

We are going to read an information text that has a labelled diagram about an insect and answers a series of questions about it. It will inform us more about a particular insect. It means that the children have to read and think about their responses to select the correct answer.

You can assist your child with reading any information text (that is in a child friendly -form from a library book or on the internet). Ask them some questions with answers that they have to think about with their general world knowledge- not just straight from what they have read. A question starter like: Where have you read about another insect that did this? What other ways could this insect have protected itself? will assist your child.

Writing:

We are writing an information report about an insect we have learnt about in class. The Year 3s will have a choice to write about from: ant, bee, or a butterfly.

You could assist your child by researching these insects at home or from your local library- or even from the back yard! Point out what these insects are doing and ask your child to tell you what they know about them. The more they talk about what they will write about, the better their final writing outcome.

From the Year 4 Team

In English this term we have been exploring a range of humorous poems and the word play within that makes them entertaining. We have been practising using alliteration, onomatopoeia, spoonerisms, neologisms, nonsense words and puns to add humour to our poetry writing. Students have been interacting with our class Bump It Up Wall and English learning wall to help guide them during practise writes.

From the Year 5 Team

This term in English, our students will demonstrate their understanding of persuasive texts by creating a convincing text arguing for or against the statement, "Students should attend school six days a week." This topic is sure to create some great discussions.

In addition, there will be a reading comprehension task to determine the students' understanding of a persuasive discussion text.

From the Year 6 Team

This term in English, students will be creating written information report that explains natural disasters for their final Year 6 English assessment. They will choose to write a report about either an earthquake or a volcano. Students will brainstorm, plan, draft and edit their report before publishing their final report.

From the HPE Team

Prep-This term, students will demonstrate practices and protective behaviours to keep themselves safe and healthy in different situations.

Year 1-This term, students will demonstrate basic fundamental movement skills within tennis activities and games.

Year 2-This term, students will examine health messages from a breakfast cereal and also describe how to keep themselves healthy and physically active through lifestyle choices.

Year 3-This term, students will investigate how emotional responses vary and will use decision-making and problem-solving skills to understand how to interact positively with others.

Year 4-This term, students will perform basic golf movement skills and elements of movement to perform a shot.

Year 5-This term, students will perform specialised AFL skills such as kicking and passing and will combine movement concepts and strategies in game situations.

Year 6-This term, students will perform specialised volleyball skills such as digging, setting, serving and spiking. Students will combine volleyball movement concepts and strategies in game situations. Students will demonstrate fair play and skills to work collaboratively during volleyball activities and games.

Yours in education
Cheryl Gibson
Deputy Principal

Deputy Principal’s News

For the past few weeks we have been explicitly teaching, and acknowledging the children for using kind words.

It is interesting talking to some of our younger students about using our manners. In one conversation in prep a child asked me why we say sorry. It had not really occurred to me that some children do not see the need to say ‘sorry’ or ‘thank-you’ as they do not understand how their words and actions affect others. We teach manners to our children to help them develop empathy and the understanding that if we want others to be kind to us, we need to be kind to others.

For some ideas on teaching manners and kindness please visit the following links

PREP Playdates are just around the corner – if you have a child who is ready to start 2023 then please contact the office for details.

FROM THE CLASSROOMS

Prep

This term in prep, students are writing personal recounts of events that have happened to them. Over the last couple of weeks, the Prep students have been engaged in a variety of fun experiences ranging from exploring the garden, to growing plants and going on their first school excursion. The students then had the opportunity to write about their experiences and discuss what they liked and did not like about the experiences.

For the past few weeks we have been explicitly teaching, and acknowledging the children for using kind words.

It is interesting talking to some of our younger students about using our manners. In one conversation in prep a child asked me why we say sorry. It had not really occurred to me that some children do not see the need to say ‘sorry’ or ‘thank-you’ as they do not understand how their words and actions affect others. We teach manners to our children to help them develop empathy and the understanding that if we want others to be kind to us, we need to be kind to others.

For some ideas on teaching manners and kindness please visit the following links

In Prep/1A we are learning to write a procedure to tell someone how to do something. This week, as a class, we have been creating a procedure on how to make fairy bread. We have been focusing on writing simple steps that start with a capital letter, have finger spaces and end with a full stop.

Year 1

This term we have been learning to write sentences with rhyming words.

We have been learning how to identify and write words that rhyme.

We are able to use our success criteria to identify what we need in our sentences. We are able to use our bump it up wall to improve our work and use verbal or written feedback to bump up our work.

We have been learning to work together in small groups showing teamwork in creating sentences with rhyming words.

Year 2

This term in English year 2 students are learning to write and present procedures. A procedure details the steps or instructions to do or make something and gives you a list of ingredients, materials, utensils or equipment needed. Students will choose ideas from Roald Dahl’s book George’s Marvellous Medicine and create a procedure for George to make something for his Grandma. They will then use their written procedure to create a multimodal presentation (such as a poster or performance) and present it to their peers.

We have invited other teachers and staff to try our instructions. Mr Curran tried to cut the bread with his hand!

So we had to re-write our instructions to tell him to use a knife!

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

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.

Weeks 5 and 6 Term 4: I am a respectful when I listen to and follow instructions

Following directions is one of the most important social skills that children develop. Be it in the classroom, at home with the family or on the sporting field, a child who can listen, understand and then follow instructions and directions will go a long way.

We all know that children don’t always follow directions so it is helpful to know how to teach children so that they understand the why following directions is such an important skill to have.

Children don’t follow directions for a number of reasons.

They may not be paying attention when the direction is given or they may not understand some or all of the language used. They might find it hard to see the reason for the direction or perhaps they find it hard to remember what is said or the order of things they are being asked to do.

It may just be that the directions were poor.

To help give your child the best chance of following directions, here are some things you can do.

Gain your child’s attention

To help, try to remove as many distractions as possible; use a signal if necessary rather than raising your voice; wait until your child or children have shown that they are attending; call your child or children by name; make eye-contact and don’t hand out equipment or other things before giving the direction.

Give clear directions to follow

Organise your directions in a sequence to avoid confusion. Ensure that you give verbal instructions using your child’s vocabulary level not your own. Include no more than two directions at a time. Repeat directions as many times as necessary in a calm, positive manner and provide a physical demonstration if necessary. Routine directions can also be displayed visually.

Check for understanding

Ask your child or specific children to repeat the directions and/or demonstrate the directions.

You’ll be able to understand if there are issues following directions if those same directions aren’t clearly spoken back to you.

Monitor your child’s progress and provide feedback

Keep an eye on how quickly and efficiently your child or children complete set tasks. If in a classroom situation, keep moving around the classroom, providing continual feedback to groups and individual children.

Remediate if necessary

Even with the best directions, there may be children who don’t follow directions for some reason. Check to see who is having problems and repeat/reteach if necessary. Help your child complete directions if necessary.

HPE News

Representative News

Congratulations to Nixon who placed 1st at the Queensland State Athletics Championship for the 100m. A fantastic achievement!

School Swimming

Gala Sport

Gala Sport is at the halfway mark now with teams well into their competitions. It’s been great to see many students enjoying themselves, developing skills and working together as a team. With two weeks to go, we encourage families to come and support our teams play.

Boys touch- Bill Norris Oval
Girls softball- Noyer Park

A reminder that training will continue while gala sport is running. All students who are a part of an interschool sport team need to ensure they attend training sessions.

Touch Football-Thursday and Friday mornings 8am
Softball- Monday and Tuesday mornings 8am

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.

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. If your child/ren is unable to take part in a lesson due to an injury or medical reason, please provide a note.

Sporting Events

Gala Sport- 14/10. 21/10, 28/10. 5/11
Swimming- Grade 1 and 2- 21/11-25/11, grade 3 and 4 28/11-1/12 (1 day only for each class)
Swimming carnival- 7/12 (grades 3-5)

Yours in Sport
Ken O’Donnell & Leo Hopkinson
Health and Physical Education Teachers

Social Worker News

Please contact Andrew (Social Worker) or Andrea (Guidance Officer) for more info.

It’s free and all parents and carers are most welcome.

Thanks heaps

Andrew Rienecker
Social Worker | AASW

Office News

Enrol for Prep 2023 now, please contact the office 3826 0333.

Payment Window is open Eftpos only from 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

TUCKSHOP NEWS

We are offering Chicken Tender Wraps Meal Deal for a trial time. They are crumbed chicken tenders with spinach and sweet chilli sauce. We use the Masterfoods sweet chilli sauce which is child friendly. Flavours may change, so keep an eye out on flexischools for them. They will only be available on certain days, at this stage it is Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

SUSHI WEDNESDAY

Sushi for 26 October was cancelled due to the low number of orders and we did not reach the minimum amount to be able to submit an order. Orders were cancelled and notifications were sent to parents on Tuesday 25 October

These dates are open for ordering now for the last two sushi days for this year – November 9, 23. You can order now for either of these dates.

All orders are to be placed on Flexischools by Tuesday, 12 noon. As the Sushi is ordered from an outside company, orders cannot be cancelled after 12 noon Tuesday, as the order is placed just after the cut off time. If the minimum order is not reached, any orders placed will be cancelled.

If you order Sushi for your child/ren and they are absent from school on the day, please contact the tuckshop (0482 175 646) to arrange collection. The Sushi orders can be kept until Thursday if your child is away on the Wednesday but after Thursday if they are not collected, they will be disposed of.

Information and reminders will be on our Facebook page regularly about Sushi Wednesday.

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.

Tuckshop relies on volunteers to run. If we do not have the volunteer base to carry out daily tuckshop tasks, then menu items have to be streamlined to accommodate the amount of help we have. There are no special skills required to help in the tuckshop. Some of the jobs you may be asked to do are, make sandwiches/wraps, process bags, help pack food into bags and class tubs, wash up, staple bags, filling fridges and freezers. This list is not exhaustive but gives you an idea of what sort of things you might be asked to do to help. If you think you can help on a regular basis, please contact the tuckshop. The only requirement from the school is you complete the mandatory training in the office prior to starting to help. Anyone other than the parents of a child ie grandparents, aunts/uncles must apply for and have Working with Children (Blue) card before starting.

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.

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

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

*THE UNIFORM SHOP IS ALSO COMPLETELY CASHLESS
WE ONLY TAKE CARD/EFTPOS AS PAYMENT IN THE SHOP

PREP 2023

A Prep 2023 Class has been made on Flexischools so your able to start placing your orders via Flexischools now. Please remember that this is a pickup service and orders will need to be collected on the day of ordering from the Uniform Shop between 8:30am-9:30am Tuesday or Thursday. If your order isn’t collected between those times, it will be available to collect form the office between 10:00am – 4:00pm on those days.

Any more questions please email the Uniform Shop. uniform_shop@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au.

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.

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 and follow our Tuckshop & Uniform Shop Facebook Page for any updates. We post on our Facebook page about what is going on in those areas and it is also a platform for you to communicate with the Tuckshop & Uniform Shop besides our emails and the Phone number.

Flexischools

Getting online is easy and only takes a few minutes to register.

Simply visit the link below and 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 off

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.

Outside School HOURS CARE- OSHC

Important Dates to Remember

Contact Details

• Have your contact details changed?
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• 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

Community News

Edens Landing Police Beat

The most wonderful time of the year is almost here! Christmas is just around the corner. Every child deserves to experience some Christmas magic. Unfortunately, some children may not be able to.

This year, Edens Landing Police Beat is asking for your help.

YFS is a locally run Logan based charity, that provides support to vulnerable children. This could be children who are victims of domestic violence situations, homelessness and other vulnerabilities. YFS have been providing support to the Logan community since 1983.

Edens Landing Police Beat’s Christmas Light Display will be operating every night from 1st November 2022 from 6pm.

We are asking for your help and generosity in gift donations that will be donated to YFS, to provide children who may be in a vulnerable situation this Christmas season, and spread a little bit of that Christmas magic to them. Gift donations may be left under the Christmas tree at Edens Landing Police Beat drop off point, which will be delivered to YFS throughout the Christmas period so that they can give these children some positive Christmas experiences. The following requests have been made by YFS, to allow for an effective process:

Please do not wrap the gifts, as they need to be checked for suitability by YFS as to how best distribute (Gift bags are suitable). Please no weapons, or mock weapons. Please only new items in packaging (for health and safety reasons).

While donations will be accepted during the light display each night, you may also make donations at any time during the day at the Edens Landing Police Beat.

For more information on YFS and the work they do, or if you are in a vulnerable situation and in need of assistance, please check out their website at YFS.org.au.

We thank you for any contribution you can make to help these vulnerable children’s Christmas experience, and hope you enjoy the light display this year at Edens Landing Police Beat.

Merry Christmas,

Senior Constable Mitch Collins.