24 June 2022

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From the Principal

What a semester at Worongary State School!

It was a challenging start to the year with delays to the school start, flooding closures creating changes to the normality of schooling as we know it. These changes were sudden and we all had to change our plans suddenly. Thank you for your support during these changes and understanding that these were out of our control.

This week we were able to share and congratulate students on their academic efforts and performance over the semester. Congratulations to all students who try their best every single day to improve their learning and skills at school. Families – you should be very proud.

Thank you for the support as we engage in the Active School Travel program and supporting the community by reducing the congestion around our school. Students and parents are scootering, riding, walking and carpooling their way to school. Local parks also have seen an increase of cars with students and families are parking a little away and walking to school. Thank you! Next term we will have another breakfast event to celebrate travelling to school actively.

This semester, our focus has been on deepening the staff understanding of the Australian English Curriculum with a focus on writing improvement. Every week, every teacher from every year level, has been taken off class to meet in professional learning teams. They collaborate and discuss the best next steps in student outcomes. This work is based on the text “Learning by Doing” and the work of DuFour in professional learning communicates. The calibre of conversations and professionalism of our teachers is outstanding. This work will continue into next semester as we continue to focus on writing and a collaborative culture in our school community.

Please have a safe holiday and I look forward to welcoming staff and students back rested, refreshed and ready to learn for semester two.

Adam Brandt
Principal

PREP 2023

Save the Date

FROM THE MUSIC ROOM

AND THAT’S A WRAP!

And just like that, Term 2 is nearly complete!

Last week our Music students impressed all with their performances at the Worongary Music Concert. Many thanks to the families that attended – your support is genuinely appreciated. Many thanks also to the wonderful Worongary Staff that assisted in making the concert such a success. The raffles raised nearly $250 supporting our Year 6 Kokoda teams in their upcoming challenge. Thank-you Worongary!

REHEARSALS TERM 3

Mr Ugarte and Miss Jones are very excited to continue as our Instrumental Music Teachers in Semester 2. Rehearsals and lessons will start back Week 1 of Term 3.

Beginner Strings and Beginner Band will continue with weekly after-school rehearsals.

Please note a change to the Junior Choir rehearsals – now Tuesday mornings.

There are numerous events planned for Term 3. More details will follow next term!

TERM 3 ENSEMBLES TIMETABLE - MUSIC @ WORONGARY

• Worongary Voices (Singers Years 3 – 6) Wednesday mornings 7:45am - 8:45am, Band Room

Worongary Piccolos (Singers Years 1 – 2) Tuesday mornings 7:45am – 8:45am, Music Room (new day)

• YR 5 & 6 Band Ensemble Thursday mornings 7:45am – 8:45am Band Room
• YR 4 Beginner Band Thursday afternoons 3:00 – 3:45pm Band Room
• YR 4,5 & 6 String Ensemble Monday mornings 7:45am – 8:45am Band Room
• YR 3 Beginner STRINGS Monday afternoons 3:00 – 3:45pm Band Room

Ms Katheryn Jones: mailto:kjone@eq.edu.au
Instrumental Music Teacher Strings and Classroom Music Teacher

FROM THE P&C

FUNDRAISING

CAN COLLECTION

Term 3 collection dates

• 15th July
• 29th July
• 12th August
• 26th August
• 9th September

In TERM 3 our fundraising efforts are going towards buying more home readers for our School. Please help us reach this initiative and please bring your eligible containers to the Blue Wheelie recycling bins located at the flagpole area near the school admin building.

FYI

TERM 1- Monies raised towards our Stem library was an amazing $330.00! Thankyou!

TERM 2 – monies raised for Robotics Classroom Packages for our new STEM Innovation Hub. With the contribution from the RAW Challenge, we raised a whopping $470.00 towards buying Robotics for our school. Well done and thank you!

We will post photos of the items once purchased to our WSS P&C Facebook page soon.

Remember; If every student in WSS donated 5 eligible containers per collection, we could have;

671 students x 5 items=3355 items

3355 items x 10c = $335.50

$335.50 x 5 collections per term = $1,677.50 per term

4 terms per year = $1677.50 x 4= Total $6,710 towards extra items for our school.

Our Scheme ID if you wish to directly contribute at a recycling facility is C10179198

or C10265867

BATTLE OF THE SCHOOLS - CAN COLLECTION

We have registered our school for the Battle of the Schools Express Recycling Initiative. We already recycle, Let’s take it up a notch or ten from 11th July to 16th September 2022. Get your extended family, friends, and work mates/ establishment to assist our school.

We love recycling, we would love to have a chance at winning an additional $500.00 towards our schools 'Cool School Initiative Projects'. If you need a recycling Bag, they are available in the yellow wheelie bin in the courtyard of the Administration building.

There you will also find our Big Blue Wheelie Recycling Specific Bins. You can drop off your eligible containers any time during school hours or you can alternatively attend the Local Express Recycling Depot located at 5 Indy Court Carrara and donate your containers to our Scheme ID C10265867.

STEM ELECTION BBQ

We recently held a Stem Election BBQ fundraiser, to help showcase our Stem Robotics and fundraise for more eRobotics Kits for our school Classrooms. We would like to proudly advise, that it was very successful. Thank you to all who were involved behind the scenes and who assisted on the day. We are very excited to advise that we raised a grand total of $1,130 towards our Robotic Kits!

JELLY BEAN GUESSING COMPETITION.

We had many guesses of how many jellybeans were in our big glass jar at the election BBQ. We would like to announce that the (first) closest guesser was the SPAIC family. Congratulations you have won yourself a very large glass of Jellybeans to enjoy over the school holidays! Guess was 1425 and there were 1418 jellybeans in the glass jar!

BREAD BAGS RECYCLING

Worongary SS Families assist by collecting Bread bags you use each week from now until September 2022. This initiative is for any soft plastic specifically for containing Bread, from loaves/ buns etc can be collected. Use one empty Bread bag to collect a bunch of other empty bread bags and then drop them off to the WSS

Tuckshop where we will do the rest!

It’s that easy, you can get the whole family in on it too!

**NB** it is important that the Bread bags are not contaminated by other products, if we can also ensure that they are free from crumbs to reduce any further contamination. They do not need to be washed. Just empty the crumbs outside for the wildlife to munch on and collect the bags for WSS.

Not only are we doing extra recycling for our environment, but we have the chance of getting more sporting equipment for our school and going in the chance to win us our very own REPLAS Exercise Circuit that is made completely from recycled soft plastics! Woah!

This Recycling incentive is only for the soft plastics specifically from containing bread, however, you can continue your general soft plastics recycling by either dropping your soft plastics (other than the bread bags) to the specific collection bins at Woolworths or drop them to your nearest REDcycle soft plastics recycling centre.

We have had an awesome response to this, thank you to the families who have contributed so far. Keep them coming

HELPING HANDS- Nerang RSL

DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE HELPING HANDS MOVEMENT?

Nerang RSL welcomes Worongary State School to the Monday Night Helping Hands Initiative. Students, Parents, Teachers and families affiliated with the school are invited to join us (Nerang RSL) for dinner in Gallipoli restaurant on Monday nights. For every main meal you purchase (valued over $15.50), we will donate $5 to Worongary State School on your behalf!

Just make sure you tell our staff in the Gallipoli restaurant at the time of ordering/paying that you're supporting the Worongary State School and they will take care of the rest. Get behind our school today and enjoy dining in Gallipoli this Monday night.

It’s so easy!

GRANTS

We are still waiting to hear if we are successful for the Triple S grant & Community Gambling Fund Grant (100K for both) that the WSS P&C President submitted for our playgrounds. We hope to hear the final result by the end of July 2022. Fingers Crossed!

The Nerang RSL Grant- We are happy to announce that we have been successful in this grant, and we are soon to be the proud owners of our very own 3 flag foyer display stand -Australian, Aboriginal & TSI Flag for our school assemblies and formal acknowledgements like Anzac Day, Naidoc week etc. We are very proud to have won this amazing feature.

UPCOMING P&C EVENTS

DISCO – Term 3

We have confirmed our Disco Date as Thursday 4th August! The WSS P&C are working with the WSS Student Council. Please stay tuned for more information about costs, theme and what we are fundraising to assist with. Tickets will go on sale through QKR! App during the school Holidays. We will announce this on the WSS P&C Face Book page.

TUCKSHOP NEWS

The State of origin Meal deal occurred on 8th of June, we had 91 Student/families support this meal deal which raised a further $179.00 towards our fundraising efforts for WSS sports equipment. We are proud to work in collaboration with the Student Council and will be compiling our monies raised from this meal deal with their free dress day and we will be liaising with Mr Jay on what specific equipment is needed for our school. Congratulations and thank you all for your support.

FYI-

Stem BBQ from Last day of Term 2 Meal deal. We had 39 Students that supported this meal deal initiative for STEM Robotics. We raised an additional $78.00 towards our robotic classroom.

UNIFORM NEWS

SENIOR SHIRTS 2022 & 2023

It was a magical moment to see all the 2022 year 6 students very excited to receive their Senior Shirts. They look amazing and you all look very dapper!

2023 Senior Shirts will go on pre-sale from the end of term 3 into term 4. Keep an eye on for the correspondence that will be sent home at the end of term 3. We are hoping to get the shirts delivered by end of term 1 2023.

WINTER STOCK

We have just had a shipment of Trackpants and Zip up jumpers – so we are fully stocked to assist you in your winter school uniform needs.

MUSIC POLOS

We are out of stock of many smaller sizes at the moment in Music Polos, however an order was placed a number of weeks ago and we are waiting for them to arrive early term 3.

LOST PROPERTY

If your students have lost any jumpers of late, please visit the Lost property yellow wheelie bin, located outside the Tuckshop and check to see if they are there. The lost property bin is overflowing with jumpers. The WSS P&C will take them home over the school holidays and wash them, they will be available to view in the uniform store thereafter if you have lost something.

We wish you a very happy and Safe Holiday Break and we look forward to seeing you again in term 3.

SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM

EXCURSIONS

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