Newsletter 19 - 15 June 2022

From the Principal

Hi everyone,

Congratulations to all of our Budgie Cup Touch Football participants on a successful gala day last Friday. Our Junior Silver and Senior Maroon played in the minor finals - Our Junior Maroon Team in the Major Final- bringing the treasured Budgie Cup back to Buranda! Well done students on a terrific performance.

Congratulations to Eva M and Anice U- who ran in the Metropolitan East Cross Country event in the past fortnight. Both girls finished just outside the top 10 in their age groups and gave their all. Well done girls on your achievements this year.

This Saturday is the Winter Solstice Event- hosted by the P&C. Please find  further information with this newsletter. It will be a fantastic afternoon and evening.

Please find School calendar updates in Schoolzine:

https://burandass.schoolzineplus.com/calendar/1

Staffing has continued be a challenge at times this term, we thank you for your understanding and patience throughout the year.

Please be aware that Maree Healy (Business Manager) is on leave for the remainder of the year. Please direct all  business/finance  inquiries to admin@burandass.eq.edu.au

Our year 1/2 teacher Kate Bryant will be taking maternity leave in term 3 & 4. We will provide a full staffing update with the newsletter next week.

Next week is the last week of term 2. The sports day information is included further in this newsletter.

Have a great week .

Simon Vaseo - Principal

Budgie cup and Cross Country

Head lice alert

Head lice have been detected in the school. 

It is extremely important for you to check your child’s head for head lice and/or eggs TODAY.  Keep checking every 2 days until there are no head lice found for 10 consecutive days. 

If you do find head lice and/or eggs, commence effective treatment immediately and be sure to complete the process of treatment. This will help prevent head lice from spreading. Teachers will reduce head-to-head contact activities while head lice are known to be around.

If for any reason you are having difficulties treating the head lice on your child effectively, please contact the school on 3435 1222.

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. Any students arriving late must collect a late slip from the office. 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.

SPORTS DAY SAUSAGE SIZZLE

The P&C will be running a sausage sizzle for sports day. Orders can be made via Qkr! See P&C section for more details.

SPORTS DAY PROGRAM

Morning Session

8.55 - Report to classrooms for roll marking (late arrivals must collect a late slip from the office)

 9.15 - March Past

 9.30 - Sprints (heats and finals are necessary in some age groups)

10.25 - Longer distance race (1-2 one lap oval, 3-4 three laps, 5-6 six laps of oval)

10.45 - Tug of War

11.00 - First lunch 

11.45 - 200m (2010, 2011, 2012)

11.30 - Relays

- Senior teams  Yr 4-6  (6 members)

-  Junior teams   Yr 1-3  (6 members)

12.30 - Tug of War

 1.00 - Tug of  War

 1.15 - Second lunch

 1.45 - Tabloid Events (rotation of 9 activities)

 2.40 - Tug of War (yr 6’s v teachers & parents)

 2.50 - Clean up area and announce champion team.

  ***Presentation of Shield to winning House***

Julie Wain - PE teacher

From the P & C

Winter Solstice - Saturday 18 June

We have made great progress preparing for the Winter Solstice this coming Saturday (18 June 2022). We’re super excited about it. Fingers crossed that the weather is kind to us.

We still need more helpers (e.g. for serving soup or popcorn), so if you haven’t already, please sign-up to volunteer at this link.

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

Entry to the Winter Solstice is free and we’ve lined up the School Choir and a great band, plus lots of yummy food.

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. If you want to join us, wear sensible clothes and bring a pair of gardening gloves if you have them. We’ll have tools available but most things we’re doing, like weeding, just involve a pair of hands.

Uniform shop convenor & opening hours

The P&C welcomes Ludivine Mahoney as our new Uniform Shop Convenor.

The uniform shop hours of opening for the remainder of term 2 will be Wednesdays 8-9 and Thursdays 3-4. Parents are welcome to come and have their children try on uniforms, as well as pick up uniforms, during those times.

Uniform prices are shown on the Qkr! App when purchasing but you can also view them online at the P&C website.

Orders on the Qkr! App can also be delivered to the classroom each week, so that parents do not need to visit the uniform shop during its opening hours.

Tuckshop - Friday 17 June

This Friday (17 June) is the first Sushi Friday and you can order sushi on Qkr! until 6pm today (Wednesday 15 June).

Next week (Friday 24 June) for the sports day on the last day of term we will have a sausage sizzle, which can also be ordered through Qkr! Meat, vegetarian, halal and GF options are available.  

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

Volunteers

The School now has a simple sign-on procedure for all volunteers for both P&C events and helping in classrooms. I did it recently and it takes only a few minutes.

Here is what it involves:

• sign in at the office as a “volunteer” on the school’s ipad (in case the school has an emergency and needs to know who is on site)
• the ipad will also request you show your Covid-19 digital certificate, so bring your phone
• there is a booklet in the office containing mandatory training “key messages” must be complete prior volunteering – it is valid for 12 months.

Chris McGrath - P&C President

E: president@burandasspandc.org.au

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

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

Home bake

Thank you to Year 5/6C for their donations of home baked goods today.

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

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