Term 2 - 2024 Week 4 Newsletter
- Principal's Message with Mr Ionn
- Permission forms/consent
- Sickness at school
- 2025 Prep Enrolments Now Open
- Library Matters with Mrs Sutton and the Library Team
- Scholastic Book Fair at Wynnum SS
- P-2 Science and Technology with Mrs Crowe
- National Simultaneous Storytime
- Sports Report with Mr. Blair - PE Teacher
- Student absence process
- P&C News
- PCYC - Before & After School Care
- School Facebook Page
- Qparents
- Absentee Line
- 2024 School Term Dates
- School Bus Services
- Community News
- AFL Auskick @ Wynnum SS
- Chess Mates
- World Freestyle Rock & Roll
Principal's Message with Mr Ionn
Review
In week 3, we welcomed the Department's School Review Team, to undertake our whole school review. As mentioned, this review takes place every four years, and is an important component of building our next strategic plan – a plan that outlines our 'big work' for the next four years.
You may have been one of the parents /carers asked questions at the gate by the team. Over 139 people were involved in conversations about our school improvement journey.
The review report will be made available to school and community in three to four weeks.
However, for school staff, the review team presented four major affirmations and five improvement strategies at the end of the three days. The affirmations centred on our learning culture, our work in culture and community and explicit understanding of our improvement agenda. The affirmations validated our recent work as the right work, and assists to make the next strategic plan a defined next step for the school. Our improvement strategies did not come with any surprises, complementing what we believed to be our next steps. PBL features heavily, but so to our work to establish an evidenced based approach to capturing our signature practices, supporting our professional learning teams and embedding whole school practices.
The improvement strategies will take four years, and builds a roadmap in that time frame, to ensure we are in a state of never-ending improvement.
Student Leaders Badge Ceremony
It was an honour to present our school leaders with their badges and hear their collective pledge at our recent student leaders' badge ceremony.
May is Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month
This May, we join with all Queenslanders in saying ‘No’ to domestic and family violence. Not all domestic and family violence involves physical abuse. Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviour and can include financial, social and emotional abuse. For help and resources visit the Domestic and family violence website: https://www.qld.gov.au/community/getting-support-health-social-issue/support-victims-abuse/domestic-family-violence/my-situation-is/how-do-i-help-my-community-understand-domestic-violence/domestic-and-family-violence-resources
Permission forms/consent
Your child’s educational journey is enhanced through excursions and incursions, essential components of the state school curriculum. However, participation depends on parent/caregiver consent. Completing permission forms promptly via Qparents or requesting a hard copy from the office ensures they don’t miss out on valuable learning experiences.
Remember: No consent = No participation.
Thank you for your ongoing support of our school processes.
Sickness at school
If your child is feeling unwell or is beginning to develop symptoms, we kindly request that you keep them at home from school until they have been symptom-free for a period of 24 hours.
For further guidance on school exclusion periods and related matters, please refer to the attached chart below.
Thank you for your cooperation in safeguarding the well-being of our school community.
2025 Prep Enrolments Now Open
Library Matters with Mrs Sutton and the Library Team
Just under four weeks to go until our WSS Year 6 Readers’ Cup team compete in the regional Bayside competition. Run by the Children’s Book Council of Australia, the competition is open to state and private schools and will be held on Monday 10 June at Victoria Point State School. Our team of five passionate Wynnum Warrior readers are, Emily C, Evie J, Clara S, Charlie O and Mila G. These students are currently reading through the five selected books that will be the focus of questioning on the night. The competition challenges students to read widely, strive for accuracy, work interdependently while continuing to develop their love of reading. Thank you, Mrs Lakeman, for coordinating this school event.
“Unbeelievable! Has it been one year since our last World Bee Day on the 20 May?” Can’t wait for Mrs Crowe’s all-day event in the Science Lab. You might like to check out this digital reading of, Please Please the Bees by Gerald Kelley and bee ready the buzz!
Fun fact…It takes a single honey bee approximately one million trips, from hive to flower to produce a standard jar of honey!!!!!!
Just keep reading…
Scholastic Book Fair at Wynnum SS
The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to Wynnum State School!
It will arrive on Thursday 16 May and be here until Monday 20 May. Come to MEGA Central at 2:45pm onwards to support our school whilst getting your hands on the best new children’s books! 📚
P-2 Science and Technology with Mrs Crowe
Chemical Science challenge for Year One this week was to work interdependently, in groups of three, to build ‘Spaghetti and Marshmallow Towers’ (not as easy as it sounds!).
Questioning, problem solving, creating, imagining and innovating together was very evident as each group manipulated the tricky materials to produce their tower. Even if the tower did not eventually stand up, each group learned that persistence is so important for success. Expressions of ‘Wonderment and Awe’ echoed from the Science Lab when the towers were successful!
World Bee Day is coming! This coming Monday 20th May, Junior Science Lab and Library will BEE alive with amazing interactive learning about bees and their significance for our future survival.
Go to the website for more information https://www.worldbeeday.org.au/
National Simultaneous Storytime
On Wednesday May 22 our school will be participating in the National Simultaneous Storytime. To promote the event and create a fun atmosphere across our school, our Student Council will be holding a ‘Bowerbird Blues’ free dress day where students can come to school wearing blue, bringing a gold coin donation to raise money for our Student Council and resources for our amazing library!
In line with National Simultaneous Storytime, students are invited to the library during break times to participate in some fun activities with our Student Council.
Sports Report with Mr. Blair - PE Teacher
Districts Cross Country
On the 1st of May, 13 of our Wynnum Warriors competed at the districts cross country carnival in Capalaba Regional Park.
- Azalea T
- Anastasia L
- Emily C
- Edison f
- Conan C
- Henry D
- Ava W
- Frankie D
- Evie D
- James J
- Oliver P
- Elise L
I’d like to thank Rebecca McKeown for being out school’s official on the day as well as Shannon and Kristopher for helping with transportation. It was great to have all the families cheering and supporting our team. All of our competing students ran their 3km and 2km races with tenacity and finished strong- as can be seen in the photos taken at the last corner before the finish. It was a great day out and I was thankful to be part of it.
Student absence process
Each parent of a child who is of compulsory school age has the legal obligation to ensure their child is enrolled and attends school every school day unless the parent has provided the school with a explanation for absence.
If your child is going to be absent from school, please report to admin via one of the following options (remember to include student name, reason for absence and length of absence):
- Qparents (attendance tab)
- Text our absentee line - 0429 467 361
- Call and leave a message on our absentee line - 3893511 (press 1)
If your child is going to be absent for more than 10 consecutive days please ensure to make contact with the office staff to complete an exemption form.
Thank you for your cooperation with our student absence processes.
P&C News
Our P&C meeting is scheduled for Thursday 16th May at 6:30pm.
In the school admin block, all are welcome to attend.
Save the date - more information to come
- Winter Disco 7th June
- Adult Trivia Night 27th July
2023 Colour Run
The proceeds of the 2023 Colour Run are now complete with the school receiving a wide selection of decodable readers, reimbursement for the online subscription and as an added bonus, over 200 chapter books for the school library.
These books were a combination of requests from the students, particularly in years 4 - 6, the teaching staff and the library staff. These books can be found in the library and are available for students to borrow. A selection is pictured below. Thank you to all who contributed to make this amazing project happen and to all our Wynnum Warriors, Happy Reading!
Containers for Change
Wow what an incredible term 1 of Containers 4 Change recycling by our wonderful Wynnum Warriors.
Some FAQs:
Can I bring in containers from home?
yes please! if you comment below or send us a message we can send home a white bag to help.
Where are the bins located?
In Mega Central near the tuckshop. The closest school gate is the Wynnum Rd entrance.
Which containers are accepted?
Containers that have the 10c refund symbol are most welcome.
Can I bring glass bottles?
Glass bottles are welcome BUT please have an adult bring and place directly into the LARGE green bin. It is important to keep all our children safe. Alternatively, you can return to the centre directly and use our member scheme ID.
Can I recycle coffee cups?
No, unfortunately the P&C do not have a coffee cup recycling option so please do not place in the green bins.
Will the bins be available at the upcoming events?
Most definitely, please keep an eye out for them at the P&C disco and trivia night.
For those who prefer to take their containers to a container recycling centre themselves are member scheme ID is: C10062108
PCYC - Before & After School Care
School Facebook Page
Please visit the page via this link https://www.facebook.com/WynnumStateSchool and click Like!
Qparents
Have you downloaded the Qparents app?
QParents is a secure, online portal that has been created to provide parents/carers of Queensland state school students with 24-hour access to their child's information.
Qparents allows you to securely access information about your child and communicate directly with your child's school.
Features of Qparents:
- attendance details
- report cards
- invoices
- payment history
- excursion permissions
Currently we have roughly 80 percent of parents/carers on Qparents. If you haven’t already made an account with Qparents, new invitation codes have just been emailed home.
Any further questions please contact the school office.
Absentee Line
To notify the school of your child's absence, please text your child's name and reason for absence to 0429 467 361.
2024 School Term Dates
| QLD school term 2024 | QLD school term dates |
|---|---|
| Term 1 QLD | Monday 22 January 2024 - Friday 28 March 2024 |
| Term 2 QLD | Monday 15 April 2024 - Friday 21 June 2024 |
| Term 3 QLD | Monday 8 July 2024 - Friday 13 September 2024 |
| Term 4 QLD | Monday 3o September 2024 - Friday 13 December 2024 |
School Bus Services
Just a reminder that we have a bus service that runs from Wynnum State School. Below is a link to both services.
https://jp.translink.com.au/plan-your-journey/timetables/bus/T/815
https://jp.translink.com.au/plan-your-journey/timetables/bus/t/819/outbound/2022-05-31
A Go Card will need to be purchased to be able to utilise this Translink bus service. The following link lists retail outlets of where to purchase a Go card https://translink.com.au/tickets-and-fares/go-card/locations
Community News
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