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Issue 8 - 24 July, 2020

PRINCIPAL'S REPORTPRINCIPAL'S REPORT

Hello all,

Welcome to week 2 of term 3.

This termThis term

Term 3Term 3

I hope everyone is travelling safe and ready to get back to sometype of normality with schooling. The operating guidelines forschools continue to remain in place with social distancing andhygiene practices being our major roles to play. Thank you toeveryone by adhering to these guidelines.

For our students we can get back to normality with classroomlearning, parades, intra school sport (only having sport withinthe school and no interschool sport), excursions (which meetthe COVID safe guidelines).

Our teachers will be keen to start meeting with parents thisterm. We have currently scheduled these to begin in week 5(10th of August) although some teachers will run these earlier.

Report CardsReport Cards

Last Friday report cards were emailed home. If you did notreceive a copy of this please see our office ladies.

NAIDOC weekNAIDOC week

Traditionally NAIDOC week is run in the first week of term 3.Due to the pandemic NAIDOC week has been moved to 8 to15 November.

ParkingParking

Please be reminded that around our school we have areas,which are no standing/parking. These areas are designated thisfor the safety of children. The areas included are the bus stop inGregory Street and the Earnshaw Street entrance. The Councilhas asked me to remind our parents of this as they will beregularly patrolling these areas.

Until next time

Greg

COMING SCHOOL EVENTSCOMING SCHOOL EVENTS

EVENTEVENT DATEDATE

Parent Teacher InterviewsParent Teacher Interviews 10 August to 18 September10 August to 18 September

P&C MeetingP&C Meeting Thursday 13 August at 6pmThursday 13 August at 6pm

Father’s Day StallFather’s Day Stall Thursday 3 SeptemberThursday 3 September

Student Free DayStudent Free Day Friday 4 SeptemberFriday 4 September

P&C MeetingP&C Meeting Thursday 10 September at 6pmThursday 10 September at 6pm

Year 6 CSHS Experience DayYear 6 CSHS Experience Day Wednesday 16 SeptemberWednesday 16 September

Last day of term 3Last day of term 3 Friday 18 SeptemberFriday 18 September

• 31st July: First round of yr 5/6 Intra schoolsport

• 13th August P&C meeting 6pm

• 19th/20th August Prep vision screening

Queen’s Birthday HolidayQueen’s Birthday Holiday Monday 5 OctoberMonday 5 October

School resumes for Term 4School resumes for Term 4 Tuesday 6 OctoberTuesday 6 October

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL - MARK WINDSORDEPUTY PRINCIPAL - MARK WINDSOR

Hi families and welcome back to Term 3. A muchsmoother start to the school term than last whichis good for everyone. It is really nice to have thingssuch as before school meetings with years 5 and6 back and running, an intra-school sportscompetition planned to commence next Friday, cookingunderway and schools parades back up and running as well.

There are still restrictions to parents being on-campus, we willcommunicate to parents about when these change. A few shortmessages below:

AttendanceAttendance

Our current whole-school attendance is sitting at 92.7%, verysimilar to the end of last term and this time last year, a greatresult though still a little under our goal of 95%. I presentedto the year 4, 5 and 6 students the following data at ourfirst parade on Monday. I also issued the students with thefollowing challenge: To increase attendance on Fridays to thesame percentage as Monday – Thursday.

To explain a bit more, currently the School (Prep – Year 6)attendance rate sits at 92.7% for this term. From Monday –Thursday the School attendance percentage is 93.31%, onFridays this drops to 89.3%. I have placed the year 4, 5 and 6attendance data in the table below to make it more readable:

Year Level Average Monday –Thursday

Friday

Year 4 92.2% 92.98% 87.5%

Year 5 94.5% 95.12% 91.1%

Year 6 92.3% 93.4% 85.9%

With assistance from families, I am confident we can improveon Friday percentages. As always, if your child is displayingflu-like symptoms or another illness, please keep them at homeand if you are having difficulty getting your child to school,please let your child’s teacher, myself or our Guidance Officerknow so that we can help support you.

High School TransitionHigh School Transition

Enrolment forms to Caloundra State High School have gonehome this week. These enrolment forms are to be returnedto Caloundra State High School NOT your child’s teacher.Enrolment information including forms for Meridan StateCollege and Kawana Waters State College are available fromtheir websites.

With the new high school opening at Aura in 2021, pleaseensure you check which high school catchment you reside in todetermine your 'in-catchment' secondary school.

Caloundra SHS is going ahead with the High School ExperienceDay in the last week of this term. The flyer for this event isbelow, as you can see it is just an outline, more information willfollow. Also below are key dates to assist with transition to highschool.

https://goldenbeachss.schoolzineplus.com/_file/media/1450/cshs_high_school_experience_day.pdfhttps://goldenbeachss.schoolzineplus.com/_file/media/1451/junior_secondary_key_dates.pdf

Golden Beach SS are finalizing names for the Music Arts andDrama (MAD) day being put on by Caloundra State HighSchool, parents will receive information about this soon.

Parent Teacher InterviewsParent Teacher Interviews

Parent teacher interviews will take place. With the disruptionthat has already occurred this year, a number of parents havealready requested interviews with teachers. Our timeframe forinterviews is below:

30th July – Letter emailed home to parents with details of howto make a booking

7th August – Interviews closed to parents

10th August – Parent Teacher Interviews commence

Parent teacher interviews are a great way to connect withyour child’s teacher and discuss their learning and how it isprogressing this year.

Bottle Cap DriveBottle Cap Drive

Golden Beach SS is currently participating in a bottle capcollection. The box is located outside of the tuckshop and weencourage all students to place their used bottle caps into thebox. The collection is part of the work by Visionary OceanWarriors who work to reduce marine debris, and protect ouroceans while supporting Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital and theTangaroa Blue Foundation. Please support us by placing allplastic caps into the box.

Lots of information there, as always, please ensure that youremail details are up-to-date and that you “Like” Golden BeachState School to stay connected with everything that ishappening around the school.

See you out and about – Mark

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL - BRENDAN BAILLIEDEPUTY PRINCIPAL - BRENDAN BAILLIE

We’ve kicked off the first two weeks of TermThree with a bang. Students and teachers havereturned refreshed and reinvigorated to attackthe next ten weeks of learning and fun.

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At the end of the first week all families will have received anabbreviated report card highlighting the learning that took placeduring an interrupted semester. Students participated in amodified program to reflect the COVID disruptions and I wouldlike to strongly encourage families to participate in theParent-Teacher interviews that will soon be advertised. Ourteachers are continuing to work on the explicitness of ourcurriculum delivery and the construction of ‘Learning Walls’ inclassrooms; please ask your kids about what the wall does andhow it helps them to track their learning.

The last two weeks have also seen the recommencement ofjunior parades, albeit without any visitors to watch. Ourpreppies attended their first parade in week one and did anoutstanding job of sitting and listening and mumbling throughthe National Anthem. In coming weeks we are hopeful of gettingour visitors back to watch the weekly parades.

Our Prep enrolment processes have kicked into gear over thelast couple of weeks as well. If you are aware of any familiesintending on coming to GBSS in 2021 please ask them tocontact the office so we can start reviewing enrolment numbersand class placements.

Enjoy the next couple of weeks

BJ

BOUNCE BACKBOUNCE BACK

This week’s Bounce Back Skill is: Otherpeople can help. It’s important for ourchildren to develop a safe ‘web’ of support.Key support people in your child’s life couldbe an uncle, sister, aunty, teacher or friend.Try debriefing with your child using thisweek’s video as a discussion starter. You canview the video by clicking on the link -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKSoNS2p_nc

Nathaniel BrownGuidance OfficerGolden Beach State School

YEAR 2 PYJAMA DAYYEAR 2 PYJAMA DAY

Do you believe that we had…. PYJAMA DAY!!! I woregrey, long pyjamas with littleblack spots with a stickersaying, “Look at my hood”.

By the way, when I waswalking to school everyonewas looking at me. It was soembarrassing! It was theworst feeling ever!

I had so much fun wearingmy pyjamas because it wasso comfy and nice, I lovedpyjama day so much.

Nat

Today is pyjama day. On thiscool and fresh morning, MsHarris started the day with arelaxing lullaby story. I got towear my favourite dark blue,velvet onesie. I also haveblack fluffy slippers withround pom poms on theback.

Isaac

Can you believe that wewore our pyjamas to schooltoday? I was a bit

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embarrassed becauseeverybody kept staring atme. In the afternoon, we willwatch a movie with popcorn.When Ms Harris said that wewere going to have a moviewith popcorn, I got allexcited. I wore Dalmatianpyjamas and my dressinggown and my sweet dreamsslippers.

Louisa

Today is pyjama day. Canyou believe we are so luckyto be warm on this cool, coldday in our pyjamas. I haveblack and white checkedpants with my groovy Lolgirls pyjama shirt. I am alsowearing my favourite fluffypink unicorn slippers.

Mackenzie

Do you believe that I woremy pyjamas to schooltoday? Well I did. All of the

Year 2’s wore pyjamas. Itwas fun. I felt embarrassedwhen people were looking atme.

I wore my pink dressinggown with white love heartson it and I didn’t brush myhair. I just put it in apony-tail. I also wore someblack pants with colouredfluff and an orange t-shirt. Ican’t believe we got to wearpyjamas. I felt embarrassedwhen people were looking atme.

We got to hear a bedtimestory, it was a SesameStreet story. We got to laydown and listen. We also gota photo of our classpretending to sleeping.

Jade

Would you believe that Iwore my pyjamas to school?Well I did because it was

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pyjama day. My pyjamashave cheetah patterns andare bright pink. Let me tellyou something from thismorning. I was so scared towear my pyjamas to schoolbecause everyone wouldstare at me.

Hailie

FREE TREESFREE TREES

CHAPLAIN'S CORNERCHAPLAIN'S CORNER

Bunnings BBQ FundraiserBunnings BBQ Fundraiser

Golden Beach State School Chaplaincy has been given theopportunity to host the first sausage sizzle at CaloundraBunnings since COVID-19 shutdown earlier this year! Pleasecome and visit us on Saturday, 25 July and say “Hi!”, whileenjoying a delicious sausage-in-bread and drink. We will beserving from 8:30am – 2:00pm.

Chappy Col

UNIFORM SHOPUNIFORM SHOP

Shop hours:Shop hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 8:00am to 9:30am

WINTER JACKETS HAVE ARRIVED!WINTER JACKETS HAVE ARRIVED!

‘SOLD‘SOLD OUT’OUT’ -- STOCKSTOCK ORDER:ORDER: with many products currentlysold out, note that an order is in place for these items. Pleasebe patient as we are experiencing some supply issues whichare now unavoidable due to the Covid19 situation we have allbeen experiencing the last few months.

LOST PROPERTY- PLEASE CLEARLY NAME ALL ITEMSLOST PROPERTY- PLEASE CLEARLY NAME ALL ITEMSThe lost property box is located outside the school office. Theprocedure to cope with the amount is:• Each Thursday morning the box will be emptied.• Anything named will be returned via Teachers’ pigeonholes.• Anything that is not named but is school uniform will be soldas second hand in the uniform shop.• Anything that is not named and not school uniform will bestored in the Uniform Shop for a short time before beingdonated to a charity.

2ND HAND UNIFORMS – ALWAYS NEEDED2ND HAND UNIFORMS – ALWAYS NEEDEDWe accept clean donations of good quality items. They arealways needed & appreciated. Please leave any clean goodquality donations in the uniform shop.

SCHOOL BANKING – HAS RESUMED TERM 3SCHOOL BANKING – HAS RESUMED TERM 3About the School Banking programEstablished in 1931, School Banking has been teachingmoney-management skills to generations of primary schoolAustralians.

Students participating in School Banking will get weeklyhands-on saving practice when they bring their deposit toschool in their Dollarmites deposit wallet on School Banking

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day. They will also receive a token/star each time they make adeposit, which they can redeem for a Treetop savers reward(maximum one reward per item). For the full list of reward itemsvisit School Banking. Not only does it teach crucial money skills,it’s also a great way for schools to engage with parents and thebroader school community.

How School Banking works:How School Banking works:

It's easy as 1,2,3:

1. Bring your deposit to school in your Dollarmites depositwallet on your weekly ‘School Banking Day’ to collect a silverDollarmites token

2. Once you collect 10 tokens (if receiving physicaltokens)(maximum one token per week) you can choose areward by placing the redemption slip or card and 10 tokens inyour Dollarmites deposit wallet and bring in on School BankingDay

3. Kids can track their savings progress in the CommBankYouth app

Our Term 2 and Term 3 Rewards are now available to order.Our Term 2 and Term 3 Rewards are now available to order.

The stationary set packaging is made from sustainably sourcedpaper and the contents are functional and multi-use. Theever-popular handball is back again, in new colours, and isideal for outdoor activity. Our Tomato seed kits are perfect forplanting in early spring- towards the end of the term. The Magicmist bottle will be refreshing when the weather starts to warmup. All items were designed with multi-use and sustainability inmind.

CLEANER POSITIONCLEANER POSITION

https://goldenbeachss.schoolzineplus.com/_file/media/1449/golden_beach_ss_vacant_cleaner_position_information_pack.pdf

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