Newsletter 18 - 8 June 2022

From the Principal

Hi everyone,

It is a really busy time in term 2.

This Friday is the Budgie Cup - Touch Football at Coorparoo Secondary College for selected students in years 4-6. All schools have had limited preparation time due to the very wet spell we’ve had this term. I wish our students all the best this Friday- play hard and play fair. Students will travel via Train to Coorparoo Station-participating students need to be at school by 8:15am on Friday to change and walk to the train.

Students in prep to year 2 attended the Ditto Keep Safe Adventure Show today- children learned about essential personal safety skills.

Please find  information for parents in online awareness. This booklet offers advice to support your child with having a positive and safer online experience. The internet access provided to students at school is generally very safe in that the departmental network is very carefully managed, this may not be the case with web based applications that children may access from home (via computer, tablets or phones). Please take some time to peruse the comprehensive information within this document. Later this year, we will arrange information sessions for parents to assist managing children’s safe internet usage.

Next Tuesday students in year 4/5H, 5/6C and 6BA will see the German Movie- School of Magical Animals at the Palace Barracks Cinemas.

Next Thursday 16 June- our students have an opportunity to participate in a school funded activity with the Dreamtime Games group. Dreamtime Games delivers fun and educational Indigenous games and provide insight into past and present cultural heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Have a great week - go Queensland!!

Simon Vaseo - Principal

Excursion due dates

Finalise orders by Friday 1 July

Sports Day - Friday 24 June

Sports Day will be held on Friday 24 June. Students will go to class as normal for roll marking at 8.55am. Children are to wear sunscreen, school shorts and a T-shirt in their house colour plus school hat. Coloured ribbons in hair and coloured zinc may also be worn.

• Aristotle – blue
• Plato – green
• Socrates – yellow

Please pack a water bottle and a towel to sit on and ensure all items are clearly labelled. Parents and grandparents are welcome to attend and spectate from the creek side of the running tracks or the undercover area. Please do not stand on or near the finish line.

Julie Wain - PE teacher

From the P & C

The next major P&C event is a working bee to weed the school garden and the Winter Solstice on Saturday 18 June 2022. Entry to the Winter Solstice is free and we’ve lined up the School Choir and a great band, plus lots of yummy food so we’re super excited about it. Make sure you put it in your diary.

The working bee will start at 2pm and the Winter Solstice will run from 4-7pm.

If you can help with the Winter Solstice (e.g. serving soup or popcorn), there is a sign-up sheet for volunteers at this link.

The working bee to clean up the school garden will hopefully enable the school garden to reopen in term 3, once QBuild complete some repair work to the drainage system in the garden.

Uniform shop convenor & opening hours

We’re delighted announce that school parent Ludivine Mahoney will be our new uniform shop convenor.

We’ll advise of regular weekly opening hours in the next weekly newsletter. For this week, the uniform shop will be open on Thursday 9 June from 3-4pm if anyone wants to try on uniforms.

Tuckshop

We still don’t have a tuckshop convenor but, we’re going to start a weekly Sushi Friday, allowing kids to have a regular tuckshop with sushi that is delivered by a commercial provider with parents distributing the sushi at the school (so there is no menu or cooking to organise, which is the background work that the convenor normally does).

We are planning to trial it next week (Friday 17 June) then roll it out in future weeks and next term. You can place tuckshop orders on Qkr! from tomorrow (Thursday) until 5pm next Wednesday, so you have a week to order.

We’d love parent volunteers. Email the P&C President on the email below if you have a few hours next Friday to help with tuckshop.

For the sports day on the last day of term (Friday 24 June) we plan to have a sausage sizzle, which can also be ordered through Qkr!  

Next term we plan to continue with regular Sushi Fridays with volunteer parents distributing the sushi at least until we find a regular convenor.   

Chris McGrath - P&C President

E: president@burandasspandc.org.au / M: 0432899097

P&C website: https://www.burandasspandc.org.au/

P&C on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BurandaPandC

Helping Hands

Vacation Care bookings are now open! Please make sure you register as soon as possible.

We have a great school holidays program for the kids - see program below.

Sue Chiswell - Helping Hands Co-ordinator / 0429 528 206

Helping Hands - Vacation Care Flyer

Community

TIGER CUB NETBALL CLINICS

Registrations are now open for the school holiday TIGER CUB NETBALL CLINICS on Tuesday 28^th June. 

The clinics will be held at Mansfield State High School Stadium, Ham Road, Mansfield. 

The cost is $30 per player for the 2 hour session and both boys and girls are welcome to attend.

2pm - 4pm:  6 & 7 year olds  (born 2016 and 2015)

2pm - 4pm:  8 & 9 year olds  (born 2014 and 2013)

4.15pm - 6.15pm:  10 & 11 year olds  (born 2012 and 2011)

We will be advertising on our social media platforms very soon but would like to give pupils from our local schools advance notice as registration numbers will be capped. Please share this information with the pupils from your school.

More information is available on the Brisbane East Netball website CLINICS tab

Kind regards,

Brisbane East Netball