16 February 2023

Newsletter Articles

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Welcome Mrs Templeton

I would like to welcome Mrs Natalie Templeton to our school as the Head of Special Education Services for the remainder of the year. Mrs Templeton was selected on merit across the Statewide recruitment process and was highly recommended. Welcome to Worongary!

Congratulations Ms Wales

Congratulations to Jo Wales on her promotion to AO3 Enrolment Officer at Foxwell State Secondary College for the remaining of the year. Friday will be Jo’s last day and we wish her every success in her new role.

Active school travel this week

We had our first active school travel breakfast to promote this positive be initiate. Again, thank you to the parents who attended by walking, riding or scootering to school. Also thank you to the volunteering staff who handed out healthy snacks and those who are in the background who are active school travel committee members. A huge thank you to Nerang Woolworths who again continue to support the healthy breakfast for our school.

To support this initiative, I am seeking the parents’ support on discussing safe travel with their children who ride their bikes or scooters to school. This includes wearing of helmets, using paths for travel and using the designated pedestrian crossings on their journey. We would all agree that the safety of our children is a priority in our school. Let’s work together to help our children stay safe.

Mr Adam Brandt
Principal

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) is a whole-school framework which promotes positive behaviour across our school and helps develop safe and supportive learning environments for all students. A PBL approach ensures that we teach positive behaviour strategies just like we would teach academic subjects.

Click here to view the PBL for Parents flyer

At Worongary State School, all of our school rules are aligned to our school expectations, which you can see around the school:

• Be Safe
• Be Respectful
• Be a Learner

We use a proactive and preventative approach to ensure all students are explicitly taught the expected behaviours. Each fortnight we focus on a particular aspect of the school rule matrix and students are explicitly taught this. Each fortnight the focus expectation will be shared with our family community. You can support your child, for example, by engaging in conversations around the dinner table or on the drive to school.

This fortnight’s expectation is Before School Expectations.

Shiree Salazar
Deputy Principal

Save the Date

District Trials Nominations

A reminder to return your nomination form ASAP to Mrs Donovan if you wish to be considered for a District Trial in any sport. Nomination forms were emailed home in week 2.

District Swimming Carnival

All the best to Mila M., Brianna C., Amelia H. and Lachlan H. who will be representing our school at the Oceanic District Swimming carnival at Somerset College on Thursday 16 February.

Well Done

Sending a congratulations to Thomas H. who competed at the Little Athletics regional championships at the weekend and won Gold in the High Jump and Bronze in the Shot Put. Thomas will be competing at the State Carnival in Townsville at the end of the term.

Catherine Donovan
HPE Teacher

PSYCHOLOGIST

Wellbeing psychology – Helping with change

The beginning of the school year brings lots of changes for children: new classrooms, classmates, teachers, and class routines, as well as all the new learning! Change is part of life for all of us. As adults we have a lot of experience to help us deal with changes.

Children have less experience with change, so at the start of the new school year, not only are they getting back into the business of formal learning, they also have to work hard to make sense of new environments, situations and people in their new class. You may have noticed your child having a mix of successes and challenges as they get used to their new learning environment and all the changes that this brings

Helping children with change

Parents and carers can help children to adjust to the changes the new school year brings. Below are some ideas on how to help children manage changes (from the “Be You” website):

• Plan – think about what might be easy and what might be tricky for your child when returning to school. For the parts that may be tricky, problem solving and talking to your child and teacher about how to manage these things can help. For example, if your child is shy, you might develop a plan for ways to feel more at ease around new people, or set up some play dates with new classmates
• Share optimism – promoting the positive aspects of change without downplaying the difficulties can help children adopt a positive yet realistic approach.
• Communicate – talk to your child about what is going well and why, what is tricky and what else they could try. Talk to your child’s teacher and read communications that come home from the class.
• Monitor progress – once you and your child have tried some things to help with the change, check in. Have a think and talk about what is working and what might need more work or problem-solving.
• Notice success – regularly make time to discuss with your child what they notice that is going well. Congratulate your child for what they have been able to achieve. Drawing attention to successes, helps children to see that they can navigate new situations.

For more information:

Child Mind Institute How can we help kids with transitions?

Education Qld Starting at a new school

Raising children Starting school: preparing children

If you have questions about helping your child cope with change, please email me: Julie O’Brien, Wellbeing Psychologist, jobri360@eq.edu.au

Kind regards

Julie O’Brien
Psychologist
Work Days: Wednesday - Thursday

JAPANESE

Jingeri Japanese

Konnichiwa Everyone.

Culture Vultures…

On February 3, Japan celebrated ‘Setsubun’ or ‘Bean Throwing Festival’. It is held to mark the official end of winter and the beginning of spring according to the old lunar calendar. This festival is closely tied to New Year celebrations. Rituals are held on this day to drive away evil spirits and welcome good fortune for the year ahead. This is done by throwing roasted soy beans, known as ‘Mamemaki’. Another custom is to eat ‘Ehomaki’ (or ‘Lucky Direction’ sushi roll), a unique type of sushi roll. Usually only eaten around this time, it consists of 7 ingredients, which may include any combination of salmon, tuna, crab meat, salmon roe, prawns, eel, egg, cucumber, avocado, tofu, carrots, shiitake mushrooms and lettuce. It must be eaten all at once, facing the ‘lucky’ direction to bring good luck for the year.

Sensei

HEALTH ROOM

Welcome to 2023! It is fantastic to be back at school and to see our students bouncing around with happy faces. Students are sporting new uniforms, clumpy black school shoes yet to be worn in and fresh haircuts all round. Lovely.

If your student has a medical condition could you please advise us if there have been any changes to their condition, no matter how minor. This could be due to their medication requirements, a change to their asthma plan or any new diagnoses that may have occurred recently. Keeping your student’s health records up to date assists us to help your student/s when they visit the health room.

Having your contact phone numbers current and an emergency contact available is also vital should we need to contact you if your child is unwell or needs to go home.

Thank you.
Miss Kath – Health Room

P&C NEWS

GENERAL

Welcome, & welcome back, to all our school families & students, for another year of schooling. Woohoo!

The WSS P&C are a small group of dedicated volunteers working together to improve the facilities and opportunities available at our school. We do this by operating the tuckshop, uniform store and fundraising events. These events have been Discos, Colour fun runs, Trivia nights, Special end-of-term meal deals and many other fundraising spectaculars.

The monies fundraised during these events goes towards making our school, a cool school, and we don't mean for air conditioning! - We've done that!! We mean, cool/hip/fun, but without being 'Too cool for school'... if you know what we mean.

We strive to make the schooling experience better for your children and our own. Hence our motto 'Working together for our children'.

If you are keen to get involved and volunteer with the WSS P&C, please do not hesitate to email Tracy at pandc@worongaryss.eq.edu.au.

Please join our Facebook page at the below QR Code. You will be in the know for everything WSS P&C Related.

Existing Families - As we have started a new year, it is very important that you sign into your QKR! App and update your children/s class and year details. We still have many children who have either not received their tuckshop, or by the time they receive it it may be cold/warm as a result of them going to the wrong year level or class. To avoid this, we are asking all families to follow the below instructions to ensure this is updated -

1. Sign into your QKR! account/ Open QKR! App.
2. Tap 'Profiles'
3. Tap the child's name under 'manage Profiles' of whose details you wish to edit.
4. Tap the 'year' and select from the drop-down menu the new year level.
5. Tap 'class' and select from the drop-down menu the new class level e.g 4D
6. Tap update profile at the bottom of the page to save changes.
7. Repeat the process from #2 onwards for other children in your family.

New Families - We use an online ordering system for all your tuckshop, uniform store or fundraising needs. This system is called QKR!. It looks like the below icon.

How to Start up/ set up in QKR;

1. Download QKR! App from your app Store
2. Search for and select Worongary State School
3. Create an account profile (parent) and a profile for each of your child/ren
4. Add one or more payment cards
5. you should be ready to order for Tuckshop or Uniform store.

DID YOU KNOW:

• All tuckshop orders for same day delivery must be processed and confirmed by 08:30am.
• If your child is sick on the day and you had ordered tuckshop, you can jump into QKR! and cancel the order to obtain a credit- must be completed by 08:30am.
• After this time, you will need to contact Paul or Caitlin in the tuckshop on 55024426 to advise. If contacted early enough- the order will be moved to another day of your choosing. Unfortunately, If the order has already been made/cooking/cooked (mainly hot food and fresh sandwiches/wraps), then the order is forfeited. Unless you are able to collect at the time you collect your child from school. Please ensure you contact Paul or Caitlin by the below times:
     o First break orders - Advise by 9.30am
     o Second break Orders - advise by 11am
• Online Uniform orders are processed every Thursday and a slip is given to the teacher for your child to collect throughout that day. If you have not received your online order, please attend the Tuckshop during opening hours 8:30am- 2pm to collect your order.

FUNDRAISING

We have our Containers for change collection every fortnight. You can drop off your eligible containers at the flagpole area near the admin building on the specified dates. Or alternatively attend a depot and donate the cash for your containers to our school scheme ID C10179198.

We have many collection bags available to take home to assist with collecting and transporting them to school. Please feel free to email Tracy at pandc@worongaryss.eq.edu.au for one or two to be delivered to your child's classroom to bring home. Or alternatively, collect one from the yellow wheelie bin inside the courtyard area of the admin building.

Collection Dates are -

Friday 17 February
Friday 3 March
Friday 17 March
Friday 31 March (Last day of school)

DISCO

We have our first disco for 2023 on Thursday 23rd February 2023. 'OUT OF THIS WORLD' is the theme. Come dressed in your own interpretation of what out of this world is to you! Some ideas we have been given are: Space, Astronaut, Aliens, Fairies/Gremlins/ elves, Superhero, crazy/kooky/weird & wonderful. Or simply just dress as you!

Juniors 4:00pm- 5:30pm (Prep- Yr 2)
Seniors 6:00pm - 7:30pm (Yr 3-6)

We have opened the QKR app for presales for both, only entry & meal deal.

Choice of 'Entry Only' $6.00 Or 'Entry + Meal Deal' Option $10.00 Both Meal Deal option & Entry only include 1 x bottle of water.

Other Drinks: Glee, Juice & other soft drinks available for purchase on the night $3

Treats: Lollies, chocolates, Fruit Bombs available for purchase on the night ranging from 50c- $3

PLEASE HELP SUPPORT WSS P&C & STUDENT COUNCIL.

Volunteering; If you wish to volunteer at either or both of our Discos, we would love your help! Come assist your WSS P&C and School teachers who volunteer their own time to ensure the discos are a successful and mostly fun event.

If you wish to assist with volunteering on the night please go to:

Juniors-  volunteersignup.org/HB78L
Seniors-  volunteersignup.org/E3MAA

Duties include: Over the counter Sales, Meals service- BBQ, Cleaning up & Supervision

Stay tuned for other fun and exciting fundraising events happening soon!

TUCKSHOP

Paul has updated some new menu options in the online menu in QKR! App. Some specials are day specific, please check it out.

We have introduced Sushi to the menu for a specific day, this is a trial. Our hand rolls are fresh cooked oven chicken breast with cucumber- and they're yummy!

Throughout the year we will have special food days/events per term. To be in the know, join the Worongary State School P&C Facebook page!

If you want to help the WSS P&C however time is an issue, there are many ways you can assist. One of them is by donating food items to the tuckshop pantry.

UNIFORM STORE

The Store is open every Thursday between 8am and 9:30am. We do not take cash, or do I.O.Us . We do have eftpos facilities available or alternatively you can order all your uniform needs through the QKR! App.

We have a large selection of uniforms available for your purchasing needs. Our entire back to school Uniform order came in and our cupboards are bursting at the hinges!

Senior shirts for 2023 presale have closed (Friday 10th Feb 2023) All orders have been collated and sent to the manufacturing company. We have been advised that the shirts will be here prior to the end of term 1. YAY.

Reminder, due to Student Protection policies - Unfortunately, we no longer print the students' names on the rear of the shirts. However, this year is a special year, it is our 30th Anniversary and the shirts are having a change in design and have a 30th year anniversary symbol on them. The year 6 students have seen and voted between two designs, they do not know which design won. They will just have to wait and see.

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