PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

2020 AIP focus: ‘Positive student engagement, connected learners’ Dear Parents, Caregivers and Community Members, Welcome to Week 8 of Term 4 – this week swimming continues for P-3 and Year 5 students. Thank you to all our parent volunteers who were able to make it to our Volunteer Appreciation Morning Tea last Friday morning. It was wonderful to be able to acknowledge your valuable contributions to our school. The next few weeks will continue to be busy with our Green Rewards Celebrations, Year 6 Graduation, Year 6 Transition Day, Year 6 Riverway Excursion and Gold and Silver Awards to name but a few events. Reminder: School finishes for the 2020 school year on Wednesday, 9 December. The school office will re-open on Monday, 18 January, 2021 until 22 January, 2021, be closed 25/01 (Student Free Day) and 26/01 (Australia Day Public Holiday) and then will re-open again when school commences on 27/01/2021. 2021 Class Teacher Meet and Greet and Stationery Pack Drop Off The first day of school for 2021 is Wednesday, 27 January. Families are most welcome to come into school the previous week on Thursday, 21 January, 2021 between 1:30pm to 2:30pm to locate their child’s 2021 classroom, meet the teacher and drop stationery packs off. This is a great way to remove some of the ‘busy-ness’ and anxiety often associated with the first day of a new school year. With COVID-19 adult social distancing requirements anticipated to still be in place in early 2021, it is also an important measure to reduce adult numbers and time on site on the first day of school. It would be appreciated if possible, that families take advantage of the opening of school on Thursday, 21/01. Please remember however, as with every year, no class grouping is definitively able to be finalised until after Day 8 when classes may change due to varying enrolment numbers and subsequent staffing allocation adjustments by the Department of Education. Teaching and Learning – Report Cards Teaching and learning will continue to be our focus right up until the end of the school year. You can assist your children to “finish strong” by ensuring they are in full attendance, read every day and complete their homework when required. Bohlevale State School will be emailing Report Cards again this semester. To ensure all parents and caregivers receive their child/children’s Report Cards, it is important that the school has your current email address recorded in OneSchool. If you are unsure that the school has your correct current email address, please ring/email the office to confirm. Report Cards will be emailed to the parent/caregiver recorded as ‘receives correspondence’. If a duplicate or printed Report Card is required, please also notify the office of this. Gold and Silver Awards We look forward to acknowledging the hard work and successful learning of students who have achieved an ‘A’ standard (or equivalent) in their Semester 2 results in one or more learning areas in our Semester 2 Gold and Silver Awards assemblies. Silver Awards Assemblies will occur for Prep on Friday, 4 December at 8:45am and for Year 1 and 2 on Friday, 4 December at 9:30am. Year 3-6 Assemblies will occur on Monday, 7 December – Year 3 and 4 at 8:45am and Year 5 and 6 at 9:30am. Invitations will be issued by Monday, 30 November for these events.

REMINDER: Please collect your child’s medication from school before the end of year Remember to collect your child’s medication from school before the holidays begin. Advice about storage of medications such as asthma inhalers and adrenaline auto-injectors (for example, EpiPens) is available at the NPS Medicinewise website. Please also check expiry dates before bringing medications back to school after the holidays.

25/11/2020

P&Cs Qld Parent Talk Publication P&Cs Qld is the peak body supporting and representing more than 576,000 state school parents and wider school communities throughout Queensland. They support the achievement of quality educational outcomes for students through fostering parental and community engagement in the state education system.

Their Parent Talk magazine is a parent focused publication published on a quarterly basis. It is circulated throughout Queensland state school P&Cs as a resource to provide parents and school communities with regular news and information on a wide range of topics relevant to parenting and education. Research confirms that where parents and community are engaged in their children’s education the outcomes vastly increase. All editions of Parent Talk can be viewed here - P&Cs Qld Parent Talk Publication. Bohlevale SS P&C News The final P&C fundraising opportunities for the year will be the Christmas Raffle and sale of Bohlevale Community Cookbooks - all support would be most appreciated. Green Rewards Lunch

Green Rewards Lunch – For eligible students (no more than 1 major or 3 minors for the semester) This has been scheduled for Tuesday, 1 December. Eligible students will be invited to attend. Students will be treated to a sausage sizzle and icy pole. Please advise if you do not wish your child to be provided with these food items. 2020 Booklists These will be made available on the Skoolbag App and the school website in the near future. Hard copies of the booklists will also be sent home with students in Week 10. Collecting children from school early A reminder to all parents/caregivers collecting children from school before the conclusion of the school day. Please attend the school office to sign your child out and obtain an early departure slip before proceeding to your child’s classroom to collect them. Social distancing guidelines between all adults on site must continue to be adhered to. Bohlevale State School 2021-2023 Student Code of Conduct Over the course of the 2020 school year consultation and training has occurred with staff and students around the various components of the new Student Code of Conduct. The P&C were also provided with a DRAFT document to peruse and provide feedback on. The DRAFT document was uploaded to our school website for viewing by all. Thank you to everyone who took the time to engage with this document and contributed feedback. The Bohlevale State School 2021-2023 Student Code of Conduct was presented at the final P&C Meeting on Monday, 16 November for final discussion and ratification. This document will now be forwarded to the NQ Regional Office and uploaded to our school website. Year 6 Graduation Ceremony and End-of-Year Excursion Notes have now been distributed to all Year 6 students regarding arrangements for the Year 6 Graduation Ceremony to be held on Wednesday, 2 December, the Year 6 End-of-Year Excursion on Thursday, 3 December and Year 6 Fun Day on Friday, 4 December. Please contact the school office if your child has not brought home a note as yet or you have any queries about these events. Water Safety and Swimming Program – Term 4 – concludes this week Students who participate in this program have the opportunity to learn entries and exits, buoyancy, submergence, swimming for survival, survival sequence, rescue and lifesaving and water safety knowledge. Final lessons will be held this week until Friday, 27 November.

Enrolments 2021 We are currently enrolling students for 2021. If you or someone you know intend on enrolling a child or children at Bohlevale SS in 2021 please contact the office to make a booking for an interview.

Is your Prep-Year 5 student transferring to another school in 2021? We have now commenced the process of organising class composition for 2021. We would appreciate early notice if your child, or children, will be transferring to another school in 2021. Please inform the office by phone on 47 293 555 or email admin@bohlevaless.eq.edu.au at your earliest convenience. If you are leaving, please consider donating any old uniforms to the school. Furthermore, if your child will not be present during the first week of school in 2021, but you are definitely intending to return next year, please also advise the office. Accurate enrolment records are crucial to determining future school funding, class and staffing decisions. Message from Sunbus Students going from Year 6 to Year 7 in 2021 must re-apply for a bus pass (if still required) as they will be removed from the Sunbus and Department of Transport and Main Roads databases at the end of 2020.

Applications are available from the school office and can be returned as follows:

• Via mail to Sunbus, PO Box 546 ,Aitkenvale 4814

• Handed to a school bus driver

• Scanned or photographed (pages 1-3 only and concession card if applicable) and emailed: tsvschoolsadmin@sunbus.com.au

Roll Marking and Absences from Learning

Please ensure you contact the school to notify the reasons for any absences. SMS messages will be sent to all parents

prior to 10am for all unexplained absences. Please be advised enforcement of compulsory schooling processes will also

continue to apply.

Let’s work together to ensure students access their teaching and learning opportunities at school as much as possible.

Our current Semester 2 attendance is 88.7%.

During Term 4 we will once again be implementing our weekly class ‘Super Attenders’ reward system and for the whole term a pizza party for the highest attending classes in P-2, 3-4 and 5-6.

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Week 8-10 Rule Focus Over the next fortnight of Term 4 our PBL school rule focus will be on encouraging students to finish the year strong by doing their part well. Your support in reiterating these messages with your child as well is much appreciated. Term 4 Calendar A copy of the Term 4 Parent Calendar is attached at the end of this newsletter. We encourage parents to continue to review this calendar for dates of significance for their children. Have an enjoyable week.

Our next newsletter for Term 4 will be issued on Wednesday, 2 December. Warm regards,

Michelle Donn Principal

Important Information

HOW DO I FIND OUT ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING AT BOHLEVALE STATE SCHOOL? Our main forms of communication are: 1. Our weekly newsletter – Links – which is published every Wednesday through our Skoolbag App, on our

Facebook site, on our website and by email (request to be added to distribution list). A hard copy of the newsletter is available from the office.

2. Alerts/messages forwarded through the Skoolbag App

3. Letters/permission notes for activities/excursions/programs which are sent home to parents with relevant students.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS:

18th – 27th Nov Swimming Lessons (excluding 20th Nov)

2nd Dec Year 6 Graduation

3rd Dec Year 6 Excursion Day

4th Dec Gold and Silver Award – Prep, year 1 & 2

7th Dec Gold and Silver Award – Years 3-6

Term 4, Week 7

Prep A Noah Going up 3 reading levels!

Prep B Taitum Learning all magic 300 words

Prep C Izabella Having a great first week back at Bohlevale State School

1/2A Ryan Using our vocab word ‘carrion’ in his recipe for “Disgusting soup”

1B Braxton Making a huge improvement in reading

1C Ariana Exceeding the end of year reading benchmark

1D Rohan Always trying his hardest

2E Rhys Making an effort to be a kind and responsible class mate

STLaN Mackenzi Completing her magic 200 words during Sightword Superstars!

Bus Karlee For following bus rules

3A Kaia Being a kind and respectful member of our classroom

3B Brandon Performing you speech in front of your class. You are so brave!

3C Riley Being a motivated learner and great helper in the classroom

3D Tijuana Being a kind and helpful peer

3E Jasmine A great effort in English

4A Ethan Great engagement in all learning areas

4B Willow Putting in 100% effort in her English assessment

4C Isabelle Caring for other and the school environment

5/6A Cailin Always doing her best in every task

5B Lionel Working hard on his assessment tasks

5C William Working hard on assessment

5D Kimberley Monique

Great improvement in classroom focus Huge effort in assessment

6B Sienna Looking out for her classmates

6C Maddison Using feedback to improve her English

6D Neyonte Putting in a great effort to complete all tasks to the best of her ability

6E Dean An amazing panel discussion on Author Style

STLaN Jake Fantastic effort during literacy

Bus Shayla For following bus rules

Prep A Lily 4A Rohan

Prep B Izaac 4B Corey

Prep C DJ 4C Shawn

1/2A Youssef 5/6A Jake

1B Isaiah 5B Clea

1C Cooper 5C Esaiah

1D Roxanne 5D Shaelah

2E Jayde 6B Jett

3A Zane 6C Taylor

3B Hope 6D Maddison

3C Jaxzyn 6E Monique

3D Tyler

3E Sandra

Year 6 End of Year Celebrations

COVID continues to shape the way schools and the community can conduct events in 2020. As a school we have been consulting with external providers and Department of Education guidelines to ensure we are complying with current regulations, whilst allowing our students to celebrate the end of their primary school journey. Throughout week 9 of this term we are organising a range of events for our year 6 students. Please find below a timetable of what will occur. We thank you for your patience and understanding. Transition to High School – Wednesday 2nd December, 8am – 3pm (dependent on individual school times). All yr6 students enrolled at a State High School for yr7 in 2021 will attend the school they have enrolled in. Year 6 Graduation – Wednesday 2nd December, 5pm – 8pm. Graduation will be split into two separate ceremonies. Each student will be allowed 2 guests only, due to COVID. 6B and 6C and guests can have photos taken by photographers from 5pm and their ceremony will begin at 5.30pm. 6D, 6E and 6A and guests can have photos taken by photographers from 6pm and their ceremony will begin at 6.30pm. End of Year Excursion – Thursday 3rd December 8.30am – 2.30pm. Students will attend school in the morning then travel by bus to Reading Cinemas to watch a movie. After the movie students walk to Riverway for a swim. Students will return to school by bus by 2.30pm. COVID-19 guidelines will be adhered to. Celebration Day – Friday 4th December. Students will attend school and during the day will be given lunch and a drink and will participate in wet activities.

Office News

As the end of the year is quickly approaching it would be appreciated if any payments due for outstanding accounts be paid by the end of this week - Friday 27 November. Many thanks,

PE News

Soccer Bluewater Invitational On Friday 27th November our Soccer teams will head to Bluewater for a 6 A-Side Tournament. Schools that have been invited include Rollingstone, North Shore and Bohlevale State School. Teams will play each other in a round robin format, with games starting at 09:30am. Congratulations to the following students who have been selected into one of the 4 teams.

1. Oliver 2. Jett 3. Cooper 4. Patrick 5. Hayden 6. Hayden 7. Liam 8. Zayden 9. Dominic 10. Kobe 11. Hadley 12. Zypher 13. William

14. Deacon 15. Chase 16. Blaze 17. Ewan 18. Kai 19. Holly 20. Naseerah 21. Charlie 22. Hamish 23. Mathew 24. Jai 25. Hayden 26. Nate

27. Defence News

Hi everyone! Wow What a busy few weeks!!! Remembrance Day, Naidoc Week, Sharon Franklin Memorial Garden opening with Kirwan High dancers, Year 5 Leadership speeches, farewells and Christmas activities. The kids and I are counting the days until Christmas and the end of school. Exciting but also very sad as we are talking about the changes that are happening, postings, holidays and moving. I am sad to say my “see you laters” to my faces I see every day. Kids Club just won’t be the same without you but we are still having fun until then… We are still doing activities for the students with parents away on Covid assist. Please let me know if there is anything I can help your family with. Geckos Family Centre, DCO and DFA are also available and have support if you need it.

Miss Mel - Defence School Mentor mcoss11@eq.edu.au

Tuckshop News

The tuckshop will be winding down in the next couple of weeks and will be closed on the last day of school, Wednesday 9 December, 2020, for stocktake and cleaning. Over the counter orders and online orders will not be available on this day. With this in mind some foods may run out before then, however, we will fill the lunch orders with substitutes as close as possible to what was ordered. Thank you, in advance, for your understanding. Don’t forget to download the Flexischools online ordering system which is very popular with a lot of parents, access it on your phone using the app or on your computer. Thank you to everyone who has helped out at the tuckshop in any way during this very unusual year, your assistance is invaluable and always greatly appreciated. Tuckshop Convenor Rowena Emmitt

P&C News

As the school year winds down, I would like to take this opportunity to thank our school community who have supported the P&C, the Tuckshop, Uniform Shop and also BOSHC. Thank you to Mrs Donn and all of our wonderful school staff who have all supported and helped facilitate our fundraising activities, have come along to meetings or passed on ideas. This all ensured the swimming carnival BBQ, Father's Day stall, the introduction of the school backpacks and homework folders, the launch of our community cookbook and also the Christmas Raffle were successful. Everything we were able to accomplish this year would not have been possible without our wonderful volunteers-thank you all for your time and help. There is only ONE MORE WEEK until our Christmas Raffle is drawn and our 4 very lucky winners are announced!!! Don't forget, raffle money needs to returned to the tuckshop on Monday the 30th November. Raffle will be drawn on Wednesday December 2nd. $2 will get you one entry and a chance to win one of the awesome prizes that make up our AMAZING prize pool totalling over $1,500. Thank you to our wonderful sponsors Rollingstone Beach Front Resort, The Meat Barn Currajong, Kruger Crafts, Reading Cinemas, Billabong Sanctuary, Sk8way and Inflatable Kingdom for their generous support of this fundraising project. Cookbooks are now only available for purchase by cash over the counter at the tuckshop for the rest of this year (flexischools for cookbooks is not available). Cookbooks are $25 each or 3 for $70. These make great Christmas presents for family and friends and are a beautiful keepsake. Thank you to our amazing sponsors for supporting this very special project.

Have a great week, Mel

Bohlevale Bumblebees

LAST WEEK FOR FROZEN CUPS!!!