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• 29 October

Day for Daniel

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• 30 October

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• 12 November

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• 12 November

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• 16 November

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• 29 November

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• 03 December

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• 09 December

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• 10 December

End of School Year

Welcome Message:

Issue 31

13th October 2021

Date Claimers:

Don’t forget our fete will take place this Saturday evening. I believe we will all be able to have the best time - amazing rides, lots of yummy food (all in different price ranges), interesting stalls and exciting entertainment which includes Courtney Marshall-Aitken and Jordan Friday singing. They are a magic combination! So generous of them to give up their time for us!!! Our own students will be also a major part of our entertainment. It is going to be fantastic!! Don’t forget if you buy the wrist bands before the fete they are only $30 but they will be $35 on the night. Don’t forget how important it is to follow our COVID plan ensuring that you use the Check in Queensland app and use physical distancing when possible. We will be ensuring enhanced cleaning processes are followed. Thank you to all those who have been involved with organising everything and also once again our staff who have been following through things behind the scenes. It is hugely appreciated.

Our students started their swimming classes this week and it seemed like all of the students are really enjoying the experience. It’s very important for all of the students to attend as it is part of their curriculum and may save their or someone else’s life.

Today we held another of our Pre-Prep transition mornings. On these days the Kindy kids come along and experience a typical morning session in prep. While the children explored daily prep routines, parents attended an information session with Julie Hemmett who is the Senior Speech Pathologist at the Ingham Health Service. She was joined by Jeanette Masters Ingham Health Service’s Child Health Nurse. We are very fortunate to be able to access their expertise. Parents were able to enjoy a coffee and communicate with other parents.

The Maraka Festival is coming up very quickly. On Saturday the 30th of October students will be able to be part of the celebration by joining Ingham State School’s float. Students have already received letters regarding their participation. This year’s theme is unexpected, it is ‘Aussie Halloween’. Remember that due to safety guidelines the number of students joining the float will be limited as there is only a certain amount of space available on the float. So, if you would like your child/ren to participate, please return your permission notes as soon as possible. We have quite a few returned already. Thank you!!! Don’t leave it until the last minute to send in the relevant form as once we have reached capacity, unfortunately we will no longer be able to accept permissions.

Marianne Mac Donald Principal

Our Purpose

is to provide quality learning environments in which students improve their academic and social development.

Our Focus

is on building a strong professional learning culture focussed on student progress.

Bank Account DetailsBank Account details:

NAME: Ingham State School

BSB: 064 810

ACCOUNT: 0009 0149

School Badges $ 2

School Hats $10

Homework Bags $10

Water Bottle Coolers $10

Call into the Office at any time to purchase.

Items for Purchase

Assembly

Held on Mondayafternoons commencing

at 2:00pm in the

Multipurpose Hall.

Covid safe protocols

apply.

EFTPOS available

Student Absences

If your child is absent from school, please advise via the following methods:

• Sending a text to the SMS number (0418 157 321)

• Phoning our Absence Line to leave a message (4776 9360)

• Phoning the Office (4776 9333)

• You may also email [email protected].

Please ensure you include your CHILD’S NAME/ CLASS/ DATE/ and the REASON FOR THE ABSENCE.

If no reason is provided, the absence will be recorded as “Unexplained’’.

School Drop Off and Pick Up

It is important that our school remains safe and maintains hygienic environments for all of our community. Parents are asked to respect and adhere to the following measures:

❖ Students and staff who are unwell must stay home.❖ Adults must not congregate in and around school grounds, car parks, school gates

and outside classrooms.❖ Parents are to use MP Hall area or STOP, DROP & GO area to drop students off in the

morning. There will be supervision from 8.00am. ❖ Students can be picked up from the STOP, DROP & GO area or BACK GATE area.

Please organise with your child/ren where pick up will be. Prep students will wait in the MP Hall each afternoon with their teachers.

LATE ARRIVALS –All students arriving late to School MUST present to the Office and collect a Late Arrival Slip before going to class. Please try to have your students on time for school.

EARLY DEPARTURES –If you are collecting your child from school early, you MUST attend the Office and sign the Early Departure Register. Your child will then be asked to meet you at the Office. If possible, please advise your child’s teacher or the Office beforehand. This is especially so when children are being collected at lunch times.

IMPORTANT –If you are arranging for someone other than yourself to pick up your child from School, ONLY those people you have listed as an EMERGENCY CONTACT may do so. Please call into the office to complete the relevant paperwork.

GUIDELINES FOR PARENT ATTENDANCE -❖ Remember to observe social distancing requirements. (1.5 metres for adults)❖ Please observe COVID safe practices while on the school grounds.❖ Maintaining good hand hygiene❖ Staying home when sick❖ Parents are allowed on the school grounds. Unfortunately, it is difficult to have

parents in the classrooms due to social distancing. Mornings and afternoons are also very busy times for teachers. If you have anything you wish to discuss with teachers, please make an appointment to ensure that any concerns/issues can be discussed.

BE SAFE

BE RESPONSIBLE

BE RESPECTFUL

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THE SCHOOL DAY

Morning First Bell 8.40am

Second Bell 8.45am

First Session: 8.45am –10.45am

Lunch Eating Bell 10.45am

Play Bell 11.00am

End of Play 11.25am

Second Session: 11.30am –1.30pm

Afternoon Tea Eating Bell 1.30pm

Play Bell 1.40pm

End of Play 1.55pm

Third Session: 2.00pm –2.50pm

End of School Day 2.50pm

Stars of the Week

Mikayla Prep DPMacey Prep ASIsabella 1KKJosie 2CPDeacan 2WTMax 3TJCorbin 3MBAndrew 4KNConnor 4ESJorja 5ECShinika 5ECAmelia 6LNToniah 6SEMaylee 6SE

100 Nights Reading

Eli Prep DPChace 1SP

Monday

18 October 2021

Talking Tuckshop

$2.50

Hi everyone,

Fete:Thank you to everyone who has sent in onions.

Roster for the Fete is still in need of extra volunteers to fill the various areas. BBQ Cooks –Cameron, Glen and Lee. More cooks required.Chips -Brad and Sonia. More volunteers required.Servers Front Counter –Kay and Rikki-Lee. More volunteers required.Serving Steaks –Wilma and Christina. More volunteers required.Serving Pork Rolls –Amanda and Nadine. More volunteers required.Serving Chips –Tanya. More volunteers required.Cashiers -Melissa and Trista. A relief cashier required.

If you are able to help on any of these rosters please let me know at school as soon as possible.

Help will be needed on Friday afternoon after school and Saturday morning around 8.30a.m. to set up the food area. Help will also be needed for cleaning up Saturday night when finished.

The Food Stall this year will be held in the Tuckshop Area. Please make your way across the Basketball Court to the Tuckshop.

Message to Tuckshop volunteers :If any of you are free on Friday to do Tuckshop (even if only for a couple of hours) your assistance would be most appreciated.

Thank you to Tuesdays Tuckshop Crew. I couldn't havemade it without you.

More hands make light work so please volunteer for our Food Stall.

Mrs Byers Tuckshop Convenor

MONDAYS

Prep DP, Prep AS, 1SP, 1KK, 6SE

TUESDAYS

6LN, 3TJ, 3MB, 4KN

WEDNESDAYS

4ES, 5EC, 5SC, 2WT, 2CP

Birthday Buckets are $10.00 and include a Zooper

Dooper for each student and the teacher in your

child’s class and a birthday balloon and a small

party gift for the birthday child.

20th October

Year 6 Graduation

Fundraiser

Cadbury Chocolates to Sell!

Year 6 PARENTS–

Please call in to the office

to collect a box.

Green STEM News

Day 1

The first day was a fun and interesting experience! The first lesson was a team building challenge to help introduce

us to the other school students. This day we didn’t do very much but we did watch some informational

documentaries and slideshows. The second lesson didn’t really go as planned because it rained when we were meant

to make a life size replica of a Humpback Whale with chalk. The end of the day we concluded with an environmental

speaker talking to the group about their organisation and how we can make a difference.

By Annaliece

Day 2

The second day of our STEM excursion was very exciting. We started off in the science room talking about the day’s

events. We then proceeded to run a mock survey of sea turtles, we coded our drones to fly to each picture of a sea

turtle and take a picture. After this we started to talk about the kinds of seagrass that we would find and how we

were going to do the survey. We walked to Rowes Bay, had a quick morning tea break, changed into our wet shoes

and then continued to walk onto the mud flats to begin the survey. Three teams were chosen and they would each go

to their measuring line and half of the team would use small pipes to look for a seed but unfortunately, we did not find

many seeds. The other half of the team would use the metal square outline at each five-metre interval to check for the

amount of seagrass in the outline, the sea life in the outline etc. After the first half of the team had finished half of the

seagrass survey, the two halves of the team would swap what they were doing. After lunch we had a sand sculpture

building contest, the objective was to create a sea animal that was endangered and eats seagrass. Our team built a

life-sized leather back turtle with plastic around its neck and it was stuck in oil on the beach. We walked back to

Belgian Gardens SS and discussed day three.

Overall, we had lots of fun and we were all excited for the next day.

By Chaya

Green STEM News

Day 3

On the third day of Green STEM we arrived at Belgian Gardens State school with our homemade tools and we

met in the science room with the other schools. Mr Murphy talked about our day and we walked to Rowes

Bay. After that we split up into two groups, and we went our different ways and started to pick up rubbish.

There were two different types of rubbish, marine debris and community rubbish. Marine debris is any rubbish

that doesn’t belong in the ocean that is in the ocean or on the beach and community is rubbish that is not on

the beach. We picked up all the rubbish we found, put it into bags and then we met up with the other group to

sort out all of the rubbish we had found. We all took turns sorting the rubbish and then counting it, we found

around 800 pieces of rubbish in one and a half hours. Then we walked back to Belgian Gardens SS and ate

lunch on the tennis court. We then had a zoom call with a Reef HQ worker who talked to us about the turtle

hospital. Mr Murphy talked about our last day, where we will snorkel at Magnetic Island.

By Jackson

Green STEM News

Performing Arts

Instrumental Music – Strings

I was so happy last week that the majority of children remembered all their instruments and music for their lessons. Please remind your child to keep their fingernails short, as long fingernails are not appropriate for string playing.

String ensemble is on this Friday at 8:00am for all year 4-6 children. We are looking forward to performing a song at the fete so please make sure your child is at the rehearsal this Friday.

Kind Regards,Lynda Wright

Instrumental Music – Woodwind / Brass / Percussion (Multi)

It was great to see that most of the instrumental music students remembered to bring their instruments on Monday! A reminder that before school band rehearsals and lessons will now be held on Monday’s for the rest of the year. It is very important that all students attend before school band rehearsals and lessons, as we prepare for upcoming assessment tasks and end of year performances.

The Year 6 instrumental students attended their first before school band rehearsal with the high school band last Friday morning at Ingham State High School. All of the students had a great time, and enjoyed playing some new music! Students will attend the before school band rehearsals up until, and including Friday of Week 7 (19 November).

The Year 5 and 6 senior instrumental students will be performing at the Fete this Saturday. We are the first performance in the concert, so all students will need to meet Mrs Gunston in the Music Room with their instrument and music no later than 5:15pm.

Mrs Gunston

Choir

All students in the school choir will be performing a song at the Fete this Saturday. The choir will be performing at approximately 6:30pm. All students in the choir will need to meet Mrs Gunston at the side of the stage area at approximately 6:20pm.

Mrs Gunston

ISS Fete 2021

Concert Programme

Please note that times are approximate only!

5:30 pm ISS Concert Band – “Star Wars”

5:35 pm Preps – Speech Poem “My Neighbours Dog Is Purple”

5:40 pm Year 1 – Song “Gary Galah”

5:45 pm ISS Strings Ensemble “Kings Of Stone”

5:50 pm Ingham Gymnastics Display

6:00 pm Year 2 – Song “Can You Click Your Tongue”

6:05 pm Year 3 – Speech Poem “Sick”

6:10 pm Year 4 – Song “Whack-A-Roos”

6:15 pm South Pacific Taekwondo Display

6:25 pm Year 5 – Speech Poem “Just Practising”

6:30 pm ISS Choir – “Put A Little Love In Your Heart”

6:35 pm Year 6 – Speech Poem “Willie’s Wart”

6:40 pm Special Guest Performers –

Courtney Marshall-Aitken and Jordan Friday

Fete News

Bottle StallCo Ordinator: Adeline Holzberger

Times Name Name Name

4pm-5pm Kym Sadd Danielle Pappin Adeline Holzberger

5pm-6pm

6pm-7pm

7pm-8pm

8pm-9pm

Jar StallCo Ordinator: Alicia Cavalli 0409 482 170


4pm-5pm

5pm-6pm

6pm-7pm

7pm-8pm

8pm-9pm

ISS FETE STALL - VOLUNTEER REGISTERPlease indicate where you can help

Include your name and contact phone number

Fete Set Up Friday Co Ordinator: Nicole Oats 0419728142


From 3pm

Home Corner and Cake StallCo Ordinator: Kirri Serra 0409 725 349


4pm-5pm Ella K & Abby P Kirri Serra

5pm-6pm

6pm-7pm

7pm-8pm

8pm-9pm

Softdrink StallCo Ordinator: Annika Kraaz


4pm-5pm

5pm-6pm

6pm-7pm

7pm-8pm

8pm-9pm

Lucky BagsCo Ordinator: Lauren Kopeshke 0421 432 186


4pm-5pm Lauren Kopeshke

5pm-6pm

6pm-7pm

7pm-8pm

8pm-9pm

BarCo Ordinator: Shawn Hague 0403 705 030


4pm-5pm

5pm-6pm Luke Giudicatti




Plant StallCo Ordinator: Belinda Musumeci 0409 056 862


4pm-5pm Belinda Musumeci

5pm-6pm Sarah Healy

6pm-7pm

7pm-8pm

8pm-9pm

Fete Clean Up Co Ordinator: Nicole Oats 0419728142


Friday night

Sunday from

9am

Food StallCo Ordinator: Rhonda Byers

Set UpTimes Name Name Name

Friday

from 3pm


Clean UpTimes Name Name Name

Saturday night

Fairy FlossCo Ordinator: Sophie Parker 0409 826 882


4pm-5pm

5pm-6pm

6pm-7pm

7pm-8pm

8pm-9pm


CookingTimes Name Name Name

4pm-5pm

5pm-6pm

6pm-7pm

7pm-8pm

8pm-9pm


ServersTimes Name Name Name

4pm-5pm

5pm-6pm

6pm-7pm Rikki-Lee Cook




CashiersTimes Name Name Name

4pm-5pm Melissa Dickson

5pm-6pm Melissa Dickson Trista Kopeshke

6pm-7pm Melissa Dickson Trista Kopeshke



If you have any questions about these stalls and what is required, please contact the coordinators.

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