EMU PARK STATE SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Newsletter No: 19 in 2015

Web Site: www.emuparkss.eq.edu.au Phone: 07-49254333 Fax: 07-49254300

- IMPORTANT DATES - • Sunday 6 December: Community Carols By Candlelight at EPSS Hall (6.30p m) Choirs Perform • Tuesday 8 December: Lunch Time Music Concert at EPSS Hall (11.15am-11.4 0am) Band & Choir • Tuesday 8 December: Year 6 Graduation at EPSS Hall • Wed 9 & Thurs 10 December: GALA Days • Friday 11 December: Diamond Parade and Last Day of Term 4 • Wednesday 27 January: First Day of Term 1 - 2016

A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRINCIPAL: Dear Parents The school year is almost complete as students finalise their assessment to inform report cards and start to enjoy the fun and creativity around our Gala days. Report cards will be emailed out to families late next week assuming there are no technical problems. This is your last chance to ensure your email address is correct. I encourage you to take the time to sit down and discuss your child's achievement and celebrate the successes. We say good bye to the following staff members: • Mrs Tait who is retiring after many years of contributing to the development of children in Emu Park. • Mrs Playford who is retiring… again… I don’t think we can entice her back this time. • Mrs Wright who transfers to Merrimac State School • Mrs Doyle who is taking maternity leave • Mrs Harrison who completes her contact in LOTE • Mrs Dodds from the office. We welcome a number of new staff • Claire Lawrence who has been appointed Head of LEAP • Sally Bendeich as a classroom teacher • Kim Dell as a classroom teacher • Kellie Olarenshaw as a classroom teacher • Sharne Willoughby as a classroom teacher • Tracey Thompson returns as our LOTE teacher Many of you will have already noticed the small classroom that has been dropped in to our school. This is not a permanent building and is here only to get us through until the four new classrooms are built. Due to the expected student numbers next year we also need to turn our current IPad room into a classroom. We will still have IPad lessons but they will be held in existing classes. At this point we are expecting to grow from our existing 19 clas-ses to 21 classes in 2016. Late next week every child from Year Prep to 5 will be given a personalised letter. This letter will contain each stu-dent’s Education ID. This EQ ID can be used to keep track of their class, teacher and room for next year. This year will be the first time we will be trialling posting the entire roll class structure onto our web site. Student’s names will not be included, instead they will be replaced by your child’s Education Qld ID. Your child’s EQ ID can be found on the very bottom of their “State School Report Card”. The link to the class list can be found on the front of our web site or by following this link. https://emuparkss.eq.edu.au/Supportandresources/Formsanddocuments/Documents/Classes2016.pdf Over the holiday break there will be a number of students moved across all of the classes to compensate for the movement of students in and out of the school. Each time the list is updated we will notify you via a text message using the QParents app. If you do not have the QParents app follow this link for more information. http://deta.qld.gov.au/about/app/qschools-app.html I wish you and your family a happy and safe holiday. Before signing off for the year I acknowledge the incredible work and commitment of Kerry Gilmore, our Acting Head of LEAP. Kerry has played a key role in the creation and development of this key initiative over the past years. Kerry finishes in this role and will continue her work as part of the team leading programs for talented students. Wayne

A MESSAGE FROM OUR HEAD OF L.E.A.P: A huge thank you to all Staff, Parents and Students who attended the LEAP gala showcase evening on Tues-day night. It was an amazing sight to see more than 250 people in the hall looking through the wonderful works from LEAP Students in 2015. A big thank you to all the LEAP teachers, teaching staff, teacher aides and volunteers who created displays and helped with the mammoth task to set up the hall for the night. There was an amazing response to all the work displayed by students and I personally heard many positive comments about how talented students at Emu Park State School are. Kerry A MESSAGE FROM OUR TEACHER COACH: Holiday Fun and Games – 10 Tips to a Top Holiday: Looking for cheap and fun activities to help make the holidays be an enjoyable time for parents and children. 1. There is no app for a LAP! – read a story every day. 2. Encourage your children to make gifts for other family members. This is an inexpensive way to give gifts

and it is amazing what you can think of. 3. Make a CD or Track list of their favourite songs. 4. Make a batch of their favourite biscuits or slice. 5. Create a book of vouchers they can use for month of January e.g. This voucher entitles you one car

wash. …sweep of the kitchen floor etc. 6. Visit the library and check out the free activities they have organised for the holidays. While you are there

borrow some books, it is free to join. 7. Visit an elderly neighbour or friend and help them set up their Christmas tree, bake them a gift or help

them with a job they need doing. 8. Take a walk on the beach in the afternoon when its cooler and spend some time looking in rock pools. 9. Make some decorations for your tree. Have your children research different ornaments on the internet. 10. Make a 2016 Calendar using your favourite photos from 2015 and your home computer. 11. If you are travelling have the children track your journey on a map. Work out how many kilometres they

will/have travelled. Read about the towns they may pass through or visit. Have them prepare trivia ques-tions for the journey.

12. If you are going camping look for the apps that find and explain the constellations. At night you can see how many you can find. Read about the animals or special features you might see or find while you are there.

13. Create your own coverings for back to school books. Cover the books with brown paper and let you children decorate them using stickers, photos or drawings, then cover them with clear contact.

Most of all have a safe, enjoyable and restful holiday. Lastly, congratulations to Miss Williams and 3W on having the highest attendance record for November. Ellen

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A MESSAGE FROM OUR P.E. TEACHER: Congratulations to Emma who recently represented Queensland at the Pacific School Games (International competition not only featuring all states and territories of Australia but the countries of Fiji, China, India and New Zealand). Emma came away from the Games with two bronze medals (4x50 freestyle relay and 200m IM) as well as one silver medal in the 4 X 100m freestyle relay. Con-gratulations Emma on an outstanding achievement! Emma will also join Aleisha at the Qld State Swimming Championships held in Brisbane next weekend. Good luck girls! Alarah has just returned from the National Cheerleading completion in Melbourne as a national title holder, with her team taking out 1st place in Australia in the ‘Tiny’s’ (Cheerleading routine). She also achieved a 5th place nationally in the ‘Tiny Pom’ division. Another outstanding achievement! Some students from our school recently attended and achieved some great results at the Yeppoon Gymnas-tics Closed trials. A number of the students moved up to their next level with Sally and Hutch both taking out their respective levels with the overall win. Congratulations to all who competed. I would like to take this time to also remind parents that swimming will be taking place in Term 1 next year for our Yr. 3 – Yr. 6 students and notes will be handed out in the first week back next year and the cost will be approximately $25. Luke A MESSAGE FROM OUR MUSIC TEACHER: Concert Time! Prep Mini Concert: On Wednesday, all prep classes performed in a mini-concert. They did a marvellous job and it was great to see them so excited to perform. Thank you to the prep students for your enthusiasm and parents and Prep teachers, Miss McCray, Mrs Doyle and Miss Pye for supporting this event. Carols by Candlelight - Junior and Senior Choirs: Both choirs will be performing this Sunday night at the Carols by Candlelight in the Emu Park State School Hall. The Carols begin at 6:30pm with the choirs singing at approximately 7:30 pm. Could students remain with their parents during the Carols and meet Mrs De Sou-sa Roque at the rear of the hall at 7:15pm to get ready to perform at 7:30pm. Hope to see you there! Attire for the students is festive clothing!! It should be fun. Lunchtime Music Concert - Band and Choirs : Parents and students please come and see our Junior Band, Senior Band, Percussion Group and Choirs perform next Tuesday . We will be holding a lunchtime music concert in our school hall from 11:15 am to 11:40am. Students have been working on some fun new items. Instrumental Music: Yesterday letters of offer to join our 2016 Instrumental Music Program went out to our current Year 3 students. Students who applied to the program were offered a school instrument to hire next year. Mrs Blackwood (Woodwind/Brass and Percussion Teacher) and Mrs De Sousa Roque (Strings) are looking forward to teaching students next year and further expanding our Instrumental Music Program. If you have any questions regarding the offer, please contact Mrs De Sousa Roque. Sarah DSR

Senior and Junior Drama Students Performed at the LEAP Gala Showcase Evening on Tuesday

GENERAL NOTICES: Emu Park Lions Club and Emu Park Combined Churches “Carols By Candlelight”: Emu Park State School Hall on Sunday 6th December, starting at 6:30pm. Sausage Sizzle and Soft Drinks available from 5:30pm. Featuring EPSS Junior Choir and EPSS Senior Choir, Rockhampton City Band, Local Artists. Safe Candles sponsored by local businesses will be available. School Dental Clinic: All students should now have received a dental consent form. Spare forms are avail-able from the school office. A consent medical form must be completed every year for each child and re-turned to the office. All children aged 4 years until the end of year 10 with a Medicare Card are eligible for free Queensland Health dental services. The mobile dental clinic is too large to fit in the school grounds and will be located at the new Yeppoon Hospital, 8 Hoskyn Drive Yeppoon. Please remember that a check-up appointment usually only lasts for 15 mins and will not require the student to be absent for the entire day of school. Emu Park State School and local Kindergartens will be offered treatment from November 17th and continue over the Christmas School Holidays and into Term 1, 2016. The clinic is open Mon – Thur 8am – 2.30pm PH: 0408 771 129. Thankyou – Kim Lee Dental Therapist Yeppoon State High School Uniform Sales: Uniforms will be available from the Yeppoon State High School Tuckshop on Wednesday 20 January (9am-1pm), Thursday 21 January (9am-1pm), Friday 22 Janu-ary (9am-1pm), Saturday 23 January (9am-1pm). Uniforms can also be purchased at the Tuckshop during the school term every Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 2pm or by appointment 49251316. A MESSAGE FROM OUR TUCKSHOP CONVENOR: Hi everyone, Well it's all over for another year. I'd like to take this oppor-tunity to thank everyone who has helped out in Tuckshop this year. Without your help things wouldn't run so smoothly and coming to work wouldn't be as enjoyable. Tuckshop will operate as normal right through to the last day, with Friday being a “chicken nugget” day. I hope you all have a very Merry Xmas and a prosperous New Year. See you all again next year. Heidi COMMUNITY NOTICES: Emu Park Christmas BONANZA! Emu Park CBD. Saturday 5 December from 9am. Discounted Christmas Gift Shopping, Town Crier, Sausage Sizzle, Discount Hair Cuts, Buskers and Entertainment, Meet and Greet Santa, Santa Photos, plenty of giveaways for adults and children. Come along and enjoy a great day! Holiday Booster Blocks & Stroke School: We will be running two Booster Blocks of Learn to Swim les-sons over the upcoming school holidays at the Emu Park Swimming Pool – 4th to 8th January and 11th to 15th January. These blocks are open to ages 3 years and up with lessons scheduled in the afternoons. We are also running Stroke School on the same dates and this is tailored to swimmers of junior stroke development squad level. The cost of a Learn to Swim Booster block is $55 and Stroke School $30 for each 5 lesson block. Book now to secure your spot! All enquiries phone 4930 2205 or email con.aquatics@bigpond.com.

School Holiday Boredom Buster: The Mill Gallery in Yeppoon will be holding 6 different chil-drens’ art workshops during January. Clay sculpture, Aboriginal inspired painting, painted calico bags (great for a new school library bag next year!) and sketchy drawing skills - all for kids aged 7-12 years. Linoprinting and artist book making for older kids aged 12-16 years. Vis-it www.themillgallery.com.au/workshops for details and to enrol online or email millgalleryworkshops@gmail.com for more information.

Anglican Church Community Christmas Tree Festival: Friday 11 December, 5pm-8.30pm at Yeppoon Town Hall. Gold coin donation for adults, children free. Wear your Christmas outfits. Raffles, Auction, Wine and Cheese, Supper, Tea, Coffee and Juice. Christmas Stalls and Christmas Carols. If you would like to en-ter a tree phone Lorraine 49392483 or Shirley 49392105. Capricorn Coast Brazillian Jui Jitsu: Traditional submission based grappling. Mondays and Thursdays. Juniors: 5.30-6.30pm, Seniors: 5.30-7.30pm, Emu Park State School Hall. Free! More info: Ryan 0437327158. The Keppel Kraken Water Play Area Official Opening at Yeppoon Main Beach: Sunday 13 December 12pm-4pm. Enjoy free face painting, free balloon art, free sausage sizzle, free slushies, free ice creams and free rides. Stay on for carols by the beach. Come dressed as your favourite underwater character.

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