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Newsletter 5th November 2019 • Term 4, Week 5

Trinity Beach State School acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the country in which this school is located and pays respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Diary Dates

TERM 4: School of Origin, Holy Cross (date to be confirmed)

Thursday 7th November Ready Reading Parent Workshop

Tuesday 12th November - Thursday 5th December Prep - Year 2 Swimming

Thursday 28th November Student Disco

Thursday 5th December Carols by Candlelight

Wednesday 11th December Year 7 2020 Transition Day at Smithfield State High School

Thursday 12th December Year 6 Graduation

Friday 13th December End of school year

Tuesday 28th January 2020 School resumes 2020

Every Wednesday • School Banking Day • Tuckshop Special Meal Deal • Bike Bus (Smithfield route)

Every Thursday • Bike Bus (Clifton Beach route)

Carols NightDear Parents and Guardians,The Carols Night will be held on Thursday, 5th of December 2019 at 7:00pm. This year we will organise two areas where you can sit and enjoy the evening.The first area will be in the Hall. Some chairs will be supplied inside or you can bring your own seating. You will need your own seating for the second area which is located outside of the Hall. You can view all performances on the big screen outside.The BBQ starts from 6:15pm.If anyone would like to help with preparation of this event, please contact Mrs Walker via email [email protected] or in person before or after school in the Music Room.

Wednesday - Smithfield (Southern) Route

Thursday - Clifton Beach (Northern) Route

Bike Bus

Ready Reading Parent WOrkshopThursday, November 7, 2019

9:00 am to 1:00pm

Trinity Beach State School LibraryPRESENTER:

Sally Bailey-Styles (Regional Coordinator)

TO REGISTER: Click on the link below: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ready-reading-training-trinity-beach-state-school-tickets-76845798853?fbclid=IwAR2R9gTbvC5UrvNYa_LiIgEPp-GloNV74ahHWyU97Whw1WLbp0uAgUmbzpA

Limited numbers. Please register as early as possible.

https://trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au/


Attendance

Target attendance every day is 95%

Every day counts!

How to report an Absence: Email [email protected], orCall the school’s absence line 4057 1444, then press #1 and don’t forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, orSending a note to the classroom teacher on their return

Parents, did you know that you can notify the school of a student absence at any time using the QParents portal? You can also use QParents to quickly and easily let us know of any reasons for past absences that may be unexplained.

Enrolment Intentions for 2020

Parents and carers - Do we have your latest contact details?

Before School ReminderYour support is greatly appreciated in helping us forecast our student enrolments for next year. If any families are unfortunately leaving the beautiful northern beaches, or if your child is currently in Prep to Year 5 and is NOT returning to TBSS in 2020, please email administration [email protected] with your child’s name and current class. This will help us enormously in predicting the number of classrooms and teachers we will require for 2020. Thank you for your support.

There are times when we may need to get in touch with you. Do we have your most up-to-date details? If not, please contact the school on 4057 1444 or email [email protected] so we can update our records. These details include your name, address, phone numbers, email address and emergency contact details. Please remember to let the school know if any of these details change.

If at school before 8:30am, students are required to be seated in CPA 1 until the bell. If parents/guardians are present with their children before school on play equipment or on the ovals, please note while under your supervision, parents are responsible for their child’s safety and wellbeing. Trinity Beach State School adheres to the sun safety policy No Hat, No Play. Large ball games are not to be played before school in our undercover areas or around buildings unless students are supervised by staff in the designated areas. Parents are encouraged to also promote these messages before school if accessing these areas. Staff on duty may provide families with gentle reminders of the school expectations and policies as we consider consistency very important. However, it is ultimately the parents’ decision regarding their child’s safety during this time. We appreciate parents’ support with upholding our school expectations.

Yr 4

Year Level YTD Wk 4, T4 Prep 92.38 93.3Year 1 91.92 91.8Year 2 92.49 91.8Year 3 91.78 91.2Year 4 91.95 94.5Year 5 90.54 89.4Year 6 91.39 91.4Whole School 91.8%

Kicking goals for Week 4, Term 4: Year 4 - 94.5%

Week 4, Term 4 Attendance Data

Do you have a younger sibling due to enrol in Prep for 2020? Children born between 1st July 2014 and 30th June 2015 are eligible to enrol in Prep here at Trinity Beach State School for 2020. If you have a child who will commence Prep next year, or know of a family who will be enrolling a Prep child with us, then please remember to submit your enrolment forms soon. Enrolment packs can be collected from Administration.

Prep Enrolments for Prep 2020

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Year 4 Gratitude Gift BoxesThis year, the Year 4 cohort will be collecting items as part of Gratitude Gift Boxes. This cause supports women and children who are otherwise unable to be in their own homes.

Let’s work together to make this a special time of the year for everyone!

Simply pick an item to contribute such as a shoebox or gift box, sample sized moisturizers, nail polish, perfume, notebooks, shampoo, conditioner, candles or any small gifts that you yourself would like to receive. We will compile the boxes at school, place a positive affirmation in the box add in a piece of ribbon for it to be wrapped prior to being gifted.

If you prefer, you can supply items to create a children's bag (drawstring style bag) that will be filled with colouring books, pens, colouring pencils, stickers, small toy, books and please include a toothbrush and hairbrush. If you wish to make an entire box or bag, please send the completed box to your child’s teacher to be complied for collection. Please send all items by Wednesday 11th December to allow time to create the boxes prior to their collection.

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CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

GRATITUDE GIFT BOXES 2019for Ruth’s Women’s Shelter Cairns

Drop Off Point: Trinity Beach State School

Gratitude Gift BoxesGrab yourself a box and fill with:

Shampoo Conditioner Toothbrush & Toothpaste Brush/Comb Deodorant Moisturiser Hand Cream Nail Polish Notebook & Pen Lip Balm Candles Trinkets / Gifts

Write out a Positive Affirmation and attach a Ribbon around the box

Children’s Bags (Library Style)Toothbrush

Brush / Comb / Hairclips / Hair TiesBook / Soft Toy / Toy

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Prep - Year 2 SwimmingPrep – Year 2 swimming is on this term. The cost of the program is $67.00 which includes bus transfers, pool entry and payment for instructors.

Trinity Beach Outside School Hours CareBookings for December/January vacation care are open. Please email [email protected] for any booking enquiries. Secure your spot and avoid disappointment - places will fill fast. Existing and new families welcome.



Tuckshop News

Breakfast: 8.30-8.50am Lunch: 11.10-11.45am 2nd Break: 1.30-2.00pm

SENIOR SHIRTS: NOW REDUCED - 10, 12 only $20 (Save $15!)

NEW TO THE EXTRAS (EVERYDAY MENU) BEEF CROQUETTE $1.50 Also we are collecting “PLASTIC BOTTLE TOPS” from Milk, Soft Drink and Water Bottles for the Scouts so they then can be made into Prosthetic Arms and Hands.

Please note: Our PREFERRED way of ordering Tuckshop is through www.flexischools.com.au. Alternatively you can buy a packet of lunch bags from any supermarket and pre-write your lunch order at home, place the money into the bag and it will come down via the Class Tuckshop basket.

Cheers Leanne, Donna, Shannon & Manfa

DESPERATELY SEEKING PARENT HELPERS If you are able to spare an hour or two we are always looking for more Tuckshop helpers. Remember if you can butter a piece of bread, enjoy a good cappuccino and a chat, then pop over and see us - we’d love to meet you.

VOLUNTEER ROSTER Wednesday 06/11 Jin-hee & Lesley Thursday 07/11 Lesley Friday 08/11 CynthiaMonday 11/11 HelenTuesday 12/11 HELP NEEDED

Save the date! Tuesday 12th November - Pizza Tasting Day!WE ARE THINKING OF SWAPPING OUT FISH FRIDAY FOR PIZZA FRIDAY SO... Next Tuesday 12th November from 11:30am we are going to have a TASTING DAY of 2 types of PIZZAS that we are going to be offering instead of FISH on a Friday - CHEESE and BACON or HAM and PINEAPPLE. There is going to be only one type offered and the most popular will win! The price will stay the same as fish: $3.00.

Special $7.50 Meal Deal

Available Wednesday 6/11/19

Roast Beef & Gravy Roll Dessert: Banana Cake

+ Drink of your choice

Piano Tuition at TBSS in 2020Dear Parents / Guardians, Are there any students from Year 1 to Year 6 (in 2020) who are interested in learning the piano (keyboard) at TBSS in 2020? If so, or you have any queries, please contact Mrs Maori Forsyth: [email protected] You will need to pay $25 each weekly half hour lesson, and your child will need a keyboard or piano to practise on at home.I look forward to hearing from you! Maori Forsyth

Competition!Well, we are giving students the opportunity to be the Principal for 1 lesson, but that’s not all… Mr Denzin will become a student for that lesson and will sit in your class and do classwork!

How to enter

Please tell us in 25 words or less why you would like to be the Principal at Trinity Beach State School. Submit your entries into the Front Office no later than 29th November.

Principal CompetitionEver wondered what it would be like to be the Principal of TBSS?



Year 1 - You Can Do It!

Red light feelings Green light feelings

In Term 4, the Year 1's have continued to explore and identify their feelings; in particular sadness, anger and worry. The students have identified situations that make them feel these emotions. We have named strong anger, sadness and worries as ‘red light’ feelings and less severe degrees as ‘green light’ feelings. Students discovered that others can have the same experience but feel very differently about the situation and that is okay.

We are also beginning to learn about Rosie Resilience. We will discover how Rosie faces challenges: she knows how to stay calm, not fight or run away, calm down and wash off negative feelings.

We will continue to talk more about Positive and Negative Habits of the Mind and how we can change our negative thoughts/feelings and move to more positive thoughts and feelings.

Stay cool and calm

The sponge absorbs the

water just like absorbing

negative feelings.

The water washes of the

ducks back just like negative

feelings don’t worry us.

Hey Summer, are you okay?

You look really worried.

We have a test today and I am

just a little worried but I think

I will be fine.

I want to play with my other

friends today.Oh okay. That makes me feels a bit sad but I will play with some other friends.

I’m so angry because my pencil broke!How bad is it re

ally?

Hi Cooper. What’s up?

We have a test today and I am worried that I will get the

answers wrong.



Bike Bus - Term 4, Week 5

NORTH ROUTE: THURSDAY Morning Afternoon

8 am depart Poolwerx at Clifton Beach shopping centre

3.15 Depart Huon Street Bike racks at TBSS

8.10 Clifton BP 3.20 Trinity Beach road

8.15 Rudder Street 3.30 Polo Cross grounds

8.20 Poolwood Road 3.35 Poolwood Road

8.25 Polo Cross grounds 3.45 Rudder Street

8.40 Huon Street Bike Racks TBSS 4.05 Poolwerx at Clifton Beach shopping centre

SOUTH ROUTE: WEDNESDAY 8 am depart Smithfield Village shopping centre

3.15 depart Huon Street bike racks TBSS

8.05 Norwood Crescent park 3.20 Roberts Road

8.10 Reed Road shops 3.25 Bluewater Boat carpark

8.12 Bluewater Boat carpark 3.27 Reed Road Shops

8.15 Roberts Road 3.29 Norwood Crescent park

8.20 Huon Street bike racks at TBSS

3.30 Smithfield Village

Bike Bus - Term 4, Week 5

The Superstar Southerners have proven just how SUPER they are and have overtaken the competition! Well done to all the South side Bike Bus team members! Persistence pays, you are leading the way! Look out…. The Mighty Northerners missed out on Pizza last term and are hungry for victory… Watch this space for weekly updates!

Please remember to following: Keep an eye on Facebook if the weather looks

doubtful. Any cancellations will be on the TBSS Facebook page by 7am.

Both rides leave their first destination at 8 am sharp.

Parents are to supervise their child/ren until the Bike Bus arrives and once it departs. The Bike Bus will at times run late if we experience any minor accidents or mechanical failures.

Thank you for your understanding and support. Without our amazing volunteers and sponsor, Bike Bus wouldn’t be possible.

Week NORTH SOUTH

1 16 92 25 373 30 264 17 24TOTAL 88 96

TUCKSHOP AWARDS For being super Bike Bus team members:

North: KIRRA

For being a delightful and caring Bike Bus team member.

South: Year 2 Girl

For being a super Bike Bus team member!

Proudly Sponsored by Poolwerx Clifton Beach



Application packs are now available on our website or from the school office. Please complete the application form and return to the school office by Tuesday 29 October 2019.

Audition times will be allocated once application forms are completed. For more information, please contact our school office:

from the following day.

AN INVITATION Enrolment Information Sessions

Jazz Academy Auditions

Thursday 7 and Friday 8 November 2019

Between 3.30 pm and 6.00 pm

Venue: Smithfield State High School Q block

All interested students can get the

application form from Mrs Walker.



AN INVITATION Enrolment Information Sessions

The purpose of the day is to: familiarise students with key staff, students, procedures and facilities demystify any concerns regarding Junior Secondary School ensure students feel confident socially about the learning environment and are clear about the

expectations for next year.

The details for the Transition Day are as follows: Students arrive at Q Block (Performing Arts building) in primary school uniform at 8.45 am for

a 9.00 am start. Lunch is BYO. Snacks and drinks will be available for purchase from the canteen. Please bring a pencil case, colour pencils and hat. Students can be picked up from the school at 2.30 pm. We look forward to welcoming all our newly enrolled students on that day

Year 7 2020 Transition Day Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Venue: Smithfield State High School

For more information, please contact our school office: [email protected]

Phone (07) 4058 4333



assist children to understand their own strengths and engage in strength-based coping.

KEY FINDINGS

� When parents adopt a strength-based approach, they seek to deliberately identify and cultivate positive states, positive processes and positive qualities in their children. In other words, parents are building up their children’s resources.

� Although toxic stress has debilitating effects on the well-being of children, not all stress is damaging.

� Positive stress has the potential to help children learn, grow and adapt if it is successfully managed.

� Children are more likely to use their strengths to effectively cope with minor stress in their life if they have parents who adopt a strength-based approach to parenting.

THINGS YOU CAN DO

ü Parent authoritatively – encouragement, warmth, boundaries, limits, consequences.

ü Encourage independence in your kids. They’re never too young to be responsible for small things.

ü Role model resilience and other strengths, such as persistence, commitment, organisation, getting along.

ü Allow kids to suffer consequences and learn from them.

ü Teach kids stress management strategies and calming techniques – deep breathing, thinking of happy times, talking to a friend.

ü Have fun with brainstorming and alternative ways to solve problems.

ü Help build your child’s confidence and self esteem.

ü Accept your kids for who they are, make time for them and accommodate their interests.

ü Believe in your kids and let them know you do.

TAKEAWAY

FROM PROFESSOR MICHAEL BERNARDUNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNEFOUNDER, YOU CAN DO IT! EDUCATION

Strength-based parenting is a style of parenting that is warm, supportive, and authoritative. SBP connects children with their own strengths so that they will naturally use these to cope effectively with a stressful situation, rather than engaging in avoidance or aggressive coping responses.

youcandoiteducation.com.au© The Bernard Group 2018

Source: The Relationship between Strength-Based Parenting with Children’s Stress Levels and Strength-Based Coping Approaches. Lea Waters. Psychology, 2015, 6, 689-699 Published Online May 2015 in SciRes. http://www scirp.org/journal/psych http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/psych.2015.66067

youcandoiteducation.com.au

Strength-based Parenting and the Impact on Children’s Stress Levels

ParentingWorksResearch-based parenting articles

Is there a relationship between Strength-based parenting (SBP) and kids’ stress levels and their approaches to coping?

Findings from a new study by the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University ofMelbourne, show that parents may make a positive difference on their children’s stress levels.

Strength-based coping is a particular style of coping where the individual makes the best use of their personal strengths, their skills, their emotions, and their family and social resources to deal with stress.

A registered psychologist and researcher conducted a community sample of Australian upper primary schoolaged children (aged 10-12) with participants recruited through a stress-management workshop run for children.

The study examined the role of parents in helping children to overcome and reduce their stress. The study focused on positive, everyday stress and adopted a positive psychology approach to the research inquiry. In particular, the study examined the role of SBP on stress levels in children.

Levels of stress were identified as toxic, tolerable and positive and given that stress results from an imbalance between demands and resources, SBP is likely to help children to deal with stress because it builds up the child’s resources (their strengths), fostering a better balance between the demands placed on the child and the strengths the child has to meet those demands.

The current results suggest that parents may play a role in assisting their children to cope with everyday, minor stress by parenting in ways that

© The Bernard Group 2018

POSITIVEParents & Children

Powerless Parenting

Exercising your authority It’s pretty clear from the above scenario who wields the power in this family. You’re no doubt shocked that a parent lets their child get away with not wearing a helmet, when this is a legality. Just because the kids are riding in the park and not on the road is no excuse for not exercising safety precautions and abiding by the rules. You’re probably wondering whether you even want your child to have a play day with this family. You turn to your child, who already has her helmet in place, praise her for doing so, and suggest to her friend to do the same. At this point, the ball is well and truly back in the court of the other parent, and you’re left wondering what will happen next.

I want my kids to like me For a variety of reasons, some parents today feel helpless to influence their children’s behaviour. When children are younger, some parents feel uncomfortable and anxious about exercising their authority because they know that if they do, their kids will get upset and angry and may reject them. As a society, we are more tolerant of excess and less tolerant of authority today than previous generations. There seem to be fewer role models in the public eye today who are prepared to advocate that it’s OK to say ‘NO’ to your kids and mean it.

Empowered or OverpoweredStrong-willed kids can be pretty smart when it comes to challenging and abusing the implicit authority of their parents. About the age of two, most kids push the autonomy button. The minute they feel challenged a battle of wills begins than can last through childhood and into teenage years. When parents react by overpowering their child, the child is likely to feel powerless and either give in or fight back to regain control, often through destructive or negative behaviours. Unless we, as parents, effectively and positively deal with power struggles from the beginning, kids will quickly learn to take control themselves.

Imagine this scenario. Your child has been invited to a friend’s for a play day. The friend ‘s mother has suggested your child bring her bike, as her child will have hers and together the girls can ride in the park opposite the house. You know that helmets are mandatory, so you pack it and drive child, bike, helmet and a healthy afternoon tea to the friend’s home. When you arrive, your child’s friend is already on her bike ready to go across the road to the park. She is not wearing a helmet. You ask the friend’s parent why and her response is “I can’t always get her to put one on….it always ends in her throwing a hissy fit…”

youcandoiteducation.com.au© The Bernard Group 2018

Firm parenting brings out the best• Control vs influence. Parental discipline is

not a matter of always getting our own way. Persuading our kids to live within our rules and values is preferable to insisting things must be as we want them to be.

• Decide which battles are worth it. Accept that you will win some, lose some, compromise when needed, and let the small stuff go.

• Give your kids practise at being powerful in useful and appropriate ways. Put them in charge of particular chores, encourage age-appropriate independence.

• Offer acceptable and reasonable choices. Rather than narrowing down the choice to only this or that, keep choices open but reasonable. An alternative choice should never be a punishment.

• No is often an invitation on the child’s part for us, as parents, to enter into the power struggle. Distraction, negotiation and side-stepping the issue, can provide the circuit breaker needed to work on the underlying reason for ‘no’.

• Work towards a win-win. This is probably easier when a child is older and can see the value of negotiation. But even small children can get the idea that yes, they can do this, and you can also do that, and everything will be OK. There doesn’t have to be a winner or a loser.

youcandoiteducation.com.au© The Bernard Group 2018Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be a Learner. 3Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be a Learner.


Saturday 16 November9am to 1pm

61 Windarra Street, Woree

Disaster co-ordination centre open day

Cyclones, flooding, heatwaves, fire. What can we expect this year?

Find out HOW TO BE PREPARED AT THE

Give aways

Sausage sizzle

KIDS SUNHAT COMP

CAIRNS YOUTH ORCHESTRA

Auditions for 2020

Sunday 10 November 2019 9am to 2pm

Trinity Bay State High School Music block $5 audition fee per person

Multiple instruments welcome

All orchestral instruments – strings, woodwind (incl. saxophones), brass,

percussion, piano

We are in particular need of: violins, string bass, trumpet, trombone, tuba,

drummer (must be music reader)

All playing abilities and ages welcome!

Rehearsals: Friday afternoons Darts Hall, 40-42 Macnamara St, Manunda

Enquiries:

Leesa Cooke (Co-Musical Director) Text: 0422 368 620

Email: [email protected] Or contact us via our Facebook page

Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be a Learner

Contact Us...Wewak Street (PO Box 142), Trinity Beach QLD 4879 Ph: (07) 4057 1444 Fax: (07) 4057 1400

E: [email protected] www.trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au / Trinity Beach State School

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