SPRINGBROOK STATE SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

Springbrook SS

2327 Springbrook Rd

Springbrook Q 4213

Phone: 55483333 Fax: 55483300

E-mail: admin@

springbrookss. eq.edu.au

Website:

www.springbrookss. eq.edu.au

Principal:

Tilleea Hoskins

principal@

sprinbrookss.

eq.edu.au

Next P&C Meeting:

GENERAL MEETING

Wednesday 8th May 3:15pm

Newsletter Date: Friday 3rd May, 2019

From the Principal... Welcome to Week 2! We have had a busy and now wet start to the term so far.

Every Day Counts

Every day of term is important, missing days in the beginning of term students are missing

important new skills taught. If your child/ren must be away please ensure the

school/classroom teacher is told in advance to ensure we can have assessment completed.

Every minute of every day also counts. We have had a few late arrivals recently which is not

only causing disruptions to the learning of students who are on time but those students

who are late are also missing the beginning of lessons.

Our current attendance rate is 92.1%, our school goal is to be at 94%.

Contacting Teachers

We are here to help and support the development and learning of every student in our

school. For a quick chat, before or after school is always welcome but, to ensure we are

giving you our full attention, for lengthy discussions please arrange a time to meet. Class

time is class time and we will be teaching your wonderful children and unable to discuss

anything with parents other than an emergency at that time. Junior room parents, message

books are a great way to pass on a quick note or ask a question.

ANZAC DAY Thank you to the wonderful P&C for the effort before, during and after the Gunfire Breakfast on Anzac Day. It was fantastic to see so many of our students marching and attending the community service this year. All students were on their best behaviour and this was noted at the end of the service. Thank you John Craufurd for putting together all parts of the day. STEM Challenge STEM or Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is an important part of our curriculum and will be important in the workforce for students in the future. We teach each of these subjects separately but will be putting them together to provide students with more exposure and experience to the problem solving side of STEM. On Friday afternoons from 2pm—3pm students will be engaging in a STEM Challenge. It will not be reported on but will be valuable for their learning in this area. Springbrook is hoping to put an environmental focus on our challenges to keep it relevant to our students and community. I will be providing more information shortly. School Resource Scheme A quick reminder that School Resource Scheme payments were due at the end of last term. If you have outstanding payments or are unsure, please see Sue Northam in the office on Tuesday or Friday. An invoice will be sent to those families with outstanding payments next week. Sandpit Update THE SANDPIT IS COMING! Demolition of the old sandpit is to begin Tuesday 7th May with construction of the new sandpit commencing the following week. The area will be fenced and we have strict Health and Safety measures in place. The area is out of bounds to all students, siblings and adults at all times.

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This week we will be concentrating on “using appropriate words”.

We have been teaching students that we not only need to use

kind words but also appropriate words. If we don’t want to say it

in front of our grandmother, we shouldn’t be saying it at school. It

is natural for children to experiment with language however, as

adults we need to continue to reinforce which words we shouldn’t

be saying. At school, swear words and rude gestures are definitely

inappropriate and we have told students if they hear someone

else say them, we need to report it to an adult straight away.

We are continually working on “thinking about other people’s

feelings as well as your own”.

Student of the Week! Congratulations to:

Lachlan

Isabelle

IMPORTANT!!!!

BE STORM PREPARED!

To receive emergency text messages and

information during severe weather events

please send your names, mobile phone

numbers and address to:

springbrookLDMC@bigpond.com

DATES TO REMEMBER…

06/05/19 Labour Day Public Holiday

10-05-19 Mother’s Day Stall 11:00am

14/05/19 to 17-05-19 NAPLAN for Years 3 and 5

P&C NAPLAN Breakfasts 8:00am

18-05-19 Election Day BBQ and Bake Sale

02/06/19 P&C Bunnings BBQ

28-06-19 Term 2 Ends

15-07-19 Start of Term 3

10-09-19 Hinterland Small Schools Raw Challenge Numinbah Valley

This term P-2 are learning about the Earth’s Resources and how we can conserve them. We will be studying the affects weather and other factors have on broccoli plants we are growing. This week we have planted our broccoli and observed night and day time changes to the sky. Thank you to those families who recorded their night sky observations and returned it to school as a part of our homework.

From the Junior Room

From Your P&C

Congratulations to the P&C for yet another wonderful ANZAC Gunfire breakfast. It is

amazing to see so many parents, friends and family pitching in with planning and

preparation, ordering and picking up supplies, and turning up at such an early hour for

this wonderful community event. A huge thank you to everyone involved.

We are set for a big few weeks and are putting the call out for help once again.

Remember - the P&C exists to support our school and its students and it cannot run with-

out help from everybody, even if it's just an hour of your time, every little bit makes a

difference.

Upcoming events:

P&C Meeting Wednesday 8th May 3:15pm

Mother’s Day Stall Friday 10th May 11.00am

- donations of small items for students to buy at the stall

- help with serving at the stall

NAPLAN Breakfast (all students in every year level invited) Tues 14th, Wed 15th, Thurs

16th and Fri 17th 8.00am

- help with purchase of food, preparation, cooking, serving and clean up

Election Day BBQ and Bake Sale Saturday 18th May 7.00am—4.00pm

- Donation of baked goods packed in $2 packs in ziplock bags with ingredients list

- Volunteer to help on the stall

- Help with purchase of food, preparation, set up and clean up

- Donation of prizes for a raffle

Bunnings BBQ Nerang Sunday 2nd June 7.00am –4.00pm

- Volunteer to help cook/serve on the stall

- Help with purchase of food, preparation, set up and clean up

A SignUp Genius link will be available very soon for us to lock in a time on the roster for

some of these events. Please help out where you can.

Grateful thanks for your support!!

All school age children have access to free dental check ups and treatment at

a Gold Coast Health Clinic or Mobile Dental Van.

Under school age children are able to get a referral from a GP to then be

eligible to access this same treatment.

If this is a service you would like to access, please call the number above.

Dental Care Service