Term 4 - 2024 Week 1 Newsletter

Principal's Message with Mr Ionn

Welcome Back

It was great to see our students returning to school with big smiles after the spring break. We are looking forward to a busy yet rewarding term with many events on the agenda.

Farewelling Tanara Turvey

Wynnum State School farewelled our friend and colleague Tanara Turvey at her service this week.

The school appreciated the high level of support and messaging from community partners in our P&C, PCYC, school community and other community groups during this time.

I would like to acknowledge the efforts of staff that remained at school on Wednesday, many doing additional duties. We had great support from our cluster schools in both pledges of support and providing teachers and other staff members. This level of collegiality and support enabled close to 40 staff members being able to attend Tanara's Service. Staff provided a guard of honour as a mark of respect and acknowledgement.

Always in our hearts.

One More Term Year 6

The final term for our Year 6 students will be a mixture of excitement and sadness as they prepare to farewell their primary years. I know they will continue to be the role models they have generally been all year, as they make the most of the opportunities provided this term.  I am looking forward to celebrating their success.  

2025 Enrolment Confirmation

Enrolment numbers determine school funding, including how many teachers we have. This is why it is imperative that if your child/children are NOT going to be attending WSS in 2025, please notify the front office ASAP. Also, if you have a Preppie for next year, please let us know, so the enrolment process can be completed, and your little Wynnum Warrior can come along to the Prep Transition Sessions and Meet the Teacher sessions!

Celebration Ceremony Invitation

School Swim Program

2025 Prep Enrolments Now Open

Library Matters with Mrs Sutton and the Library Team

Brisbane City Council Libraries Gold Star Reading Club

Children across the city will discover the joys of reading when the Gold Star Reading Club program commences in Council libraries on Saturday 5 October 2024.

The Gold Star Reading Club is designed to encourage and develop reading and literacy skills in children.

There are four great reasons for children to get involved in the 2024 Gold Star Reading Club.

1. Membership to the Gold Star Reading Club is FREE!
2. The Gold Star Reading Club can help children improve their reading and literacy skills.
3. Children will be rewarded for their reading efforts with a medallion and certificate of achievement.
4. It’s FUN! Children will have fun sharing their reading experiences with family and friends.

How the program works – it’s easy and free!

• The Gold Star Reading Club is a 6-week program for children aged 6-12 years.
• From 5 October 2024, register for the Gold Star Reading Club online at brisbane.qld.gov.au/libraries or at your local library. Your child must be a library member to join Gold Star – signing up for library membership only takes a couple of minutes and is free. Each child’s parent or guardian must bring photo identification or proof of signature and proof of their address to any Council library, and you and your child can become library members in a matter of minutes. It’s that easy.
• From 5 October 2024, Gold Star members can visit their local library to collect a Gold Star Reading Club reading tracker that features a ‘book stack’ progress chart.
• By reading for just 10 minutes each day, completing as many books as you can and colouring in one book for each book read on your reading tracker, you will earn a medallion and certificate of achievement to be awarded at your local Gold Star Reading Club awards ceremony.

For more information about the Gold Star Reading Club, visit your local library or call Council on (07) 3403 8888.

P-2 Science with Mrs Crowe

Welcome back to our final term for 2024! Next Tuesday 8 October is the 134^th annual celebration of “International Arbour Day”.  This is traditionally a day for celebrating and planting trees and to educate students about the importance of trees. Arbour Day is a great day to follow up our learning from “National Tree Day” held in Australia every July. P-2 Scientists will engage in further study of trees and planting experiences.

Term Four will be an investigation of the concepts of Physical Sciences. Every time our young scientists visit the Science Lab they will be immersed in the wonders of movement and forces in our world!

Prep: On the Move (Physical movement of objects and body)   

Year One: Look, Listen (Sensing Light and Sound)

Year Two: Push and Pull (Force and Gravity)

Sports Report with Mr. Blair

Swimming has started during Physical Education Lessons, and I want to thank Rachel, Elliot and Jemima from Bayside Swim School who will be working with me this term. We have been lucky with some sunny days to start the term off.

Thank you to the WSS community for your cooperation to start swimming during week 1 and allowing as much teaching/ practicing in as possible before the swimming carnivals, which are tentatively scheduled on the 21^st and 28^th November. More details to come.

We are approaching Nedd Brockmann’s Uncomfortable Challenge this month and some inspiring teachers, along with our students, have already pledged their own challenge. Kudos is contagious and I hope that our teachers inspire you as they have me.

The next run club date is scheduled for Thursday 10^th October.  A circuit with obstacles will be set up on the oval from 8am-class time. All ages are welcome!

Guidance Officer Update with Mrs Manning

P&C News

Gold Sponsor Announcement - 

We welcome our P&C Gold Sponsor - Allied Interest PTY LTD Thank you for partnering with us. 

Exciting News for Wynnum State School!

We are thrilled to announce that our P&C has won the Queensland Mental Health Week grant! This will contribute to an exciting new activity being organized by Ms. Gibbons, kicking off in October. Stay tuned for more details as we approach Mental Health Week.

In other fantastic news, our school has been named a finalist in the 2024 WasteSMART Brisbane Awards in the School category! Now we need your support to win the People's Choice Award. Rally your family, friends, and community to vote for Wynnum State School! Voting is open to the public until 5pm on Monday, 14 October. Every vote counts, so be sure to cast yours here: VOTE FOR YOUR SCHOOL HERE!.

A big thank you to our Vice President, Kelly Rusbatch, for preparing these grant and award applications for our school!

Wynnum State School Colour Run is Coming Soon!

Get ready, because our official Colour Run launch day is just around the corner! Look out for information coming home this week, and stay tuned to our social media pages for all the updates.

We have some amazing prizes lined up for this year's event:

• The Top 10 individual fundraisers will win special prizes!
• For every $10 raised, you'll receive an entry into the lucky draw, where a host of incredible prizes will be up for grabs.
• The top 3 fundraising classes (by percentage) will win these awesome rewards:
  • 1st place: Pizza Party
  • 2nd place: Cookie Party
  • 3rd place: Zooper Dooper Party

There will also be incentive prizes to be won leading up to the event, and lucky prizes on the day! A Huge Thank You to Our Sponsors!

We are incredibly grateful to our amazing sponsors for their generous support of Wynnum State School!

A big shout-out to Nigel Wesley Photography, Urban Extreme, Skateaway, Riverlife Adventure, SparkLab - Queensland Museum, Ginger Factory, Lions Football Club, Bendigo Bank, Joan Pease MP, Brisbane City Council, Victoria Park Golf, Jungle Adventure, Qi Flow, Laser Force, Wheel of Brisbane and Australia Zoo for contributing prizes!

Your support helps make these events possible, and we couldn’t do it without you!

We can’t wait to see everyone get involved. Be sure to keep an eye out for more details!

Wynnum Wahoos Season 2024/2025 officially gets underway this Friday October 4th. 
Registrations are now open at the new and improved https://my.swimlynx.com.au/ 

• Our new season starts this Friday. Gates open 6pm at the pool for 6:30 races start.
• Season pricing is as per attached info pack.
• You can share the attached flyer to your school group or other networks so we can continue to grow our awesome club.
• We are accepting QLD Govt FairPlay vouchers. To use the vouchers, simply register as normal via swimlyx, but instead of completing payment there, email through your FairPlay voucher to wynnumwahoos@gmail.com and list the name of the child you are registering and we will process the voucher and mark you as paid in our system.
• Once you are registered, remember to nominate for events for this Friday

A couple of new things this season;

• Swimlynx has been updated a bit this year, with a slightly revised look and its also a bit faster. There is a "resources" section on the page that has useful info about the club that you can see when you login. At the moment is has the season flyer, club handbook and also instructions for how to be a lane timer. We hope to expand the resources available there through the season. 
• We have new lane timing gear.  🎉HOORAY. The old clunky timers have been replaced by a simple app browser based app on your own phone. This should remove most of the tech problems we had towards the end of last season. To help be a timer each Friday night, just bring your phone and we will set you up on the night
• Online volunteer signup forms to help plan - We are encouraging more parents/guardians to give it go and volunteer at the canteen, marshalling lane timing. We are trialling a simple online volunteer form so you can pre-plan when you can volunteer to help in the canteen, lane timing or mashalling. We need those volunteers each night or we can't run the races, so the form should help you plan out when you can volunteer. 

Lane Timer, Starter and Marshall Volunteer form - volunteersignup.org/7H9W4 

If you have any questions, please email to wynnumwahoos@gmail.com

 Exciting News! 

Wow! We are thrilled to announce that Wynnum State School P&C has been nominated for the Bayside Community Fund Awards 2024 under the Outstanding Community Service category, sponsored by Bendigo Bank!A huge thank you to everyone in our community who took the time to nominate us. We are truly honored to be recognized alongside so many amazing individuals and organizations. We do what we do because we love seeing our community grow and come together to be the best we can be.In addition, we’re proud to share that two of our incredible executive team members (Angus Gorrie and Kelly Rusbatch) have also been nominated for their outstanding service in the individual category. And don’t forget to check out the Best Educator category, where two of our fabulous school teaching staff (Rhye Moore and Hayley Clarke) are nominated as well!If you’d like to cast your vote, check out the links below. Let’s show our support for our amazing community!Thank you once again for this incredible recognition. Together, we’re making a difference! 

Vote Links are Here:

https://www.baysidecommunityfund.org.au/outstanding.../

https://www.baysidecommunityfund.org.au/outstanding.../

https://www.baysidecommunityfund.org.au/best-educator/

Casual School Cleaning Position - Apply Now!

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

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 

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