• 16 – 27 August

Book Week

• 18 - 19 August

Barnes Cup

• 22-23 August

NQ Cricket Trials (Boys)

• 23 August

Prep Experience Day #2

• 23 August

Staff Book Week Dress Up

• 23 – 27 August

Surf Life Saving

• 27 August

Frank Fraser School Finals

• 30 August

Book Week Dress Up – Whole School

• 31 August

NQ Athletics Trials – Red Track

• 03 September

Pupil Free Day

• 05 - 06 September

NQ Cricket Trials (Girls)

• 13 September

P&C Meeting

• 15 September

District Touch Carnival

• 17 September

End of Term 3

• 04 October

Public Holiday

• 05 October

Start of Term 4

• 06 October

School Photo Day

• 16 October

P&C Fete

Welcome Message:

Issue 25

18th August 2021

Date Claimers:

P&C NOTICE OF

GENERAL MEETING

Monday

Time – 6:30pm

Venue: Staff Room

Everyone welcome!

Tea and coffee available.

13th September 2021

So much has been happening in the last few weeks with Arts Festival, Prep Open Day and training for Barnes Cup. Barnes Cup is going to be huge. All children will be participating tomorrow and the children are either really excited or a little apprehensive. The paperwork around ensuring all children have permission to attend the Barnes Cup and Surf Lifesaving has been complex. Parents please try to ensure that when forms are sent home they are completed and signed fully as failure to do this causes extra work for the school and a disruption for parents.

To ensure the safety of all of our students, all students will remain under our school tents unless they are competing or have received a toilet pass from the relevant teacher. They will return to that teacher with that pass. We are asking that children not sit with their parents as we want to ensure that we know where our students are at all times. We have teachers stationed in the tents, first aid and medication will be there as well. A teacher will be situated near the toilets also. Parents are able to bring food to the students but children will not be able to leave the tents to buy food except for specific times where this will be supervised and that will be decided on by teachers depending on activities.

Students are also really excited about the lifesaving days coming up next week. It is such a great opportunity for our students and through grants applied for and other school funding has meant that this amazing program will be at no cost to any student. We are trying to ensure that all of our students have access to a well-rounded curriculum. Please make sure you send these forms back so that your child does not miss out!

It is expected that all students from Prep to Year 6 will be at school every school day, for the whole day. They cannot afford to miss any school unless they are genuinely unwell or there is another acceptable reason. As a guide, activities such as shopping, haircuts, visiting family and friends, or tiredness are not acceptable reasons for student absences, even in Prep. You are welcome to talk to your child’s class teacher, or to Admin if you are unsure when it’s acceptable to keep your child at home or arrive late.

By law, all student absences are required to have an acceptable explanation from a parent/carer. This communication may be in the form of a letter/note, phone message, email admin@inghamss.eq.edu.au or conversation with the Class Teacher or Admin. If your child is sick enough to miss school for a few days, we strongly urge you to obtain a medical certificate. If you feel that your child is having problems with school or you would like some ideas on how to help get your child to school, we invite you to come and see us. The school is only too willing to work with parents to ensure that all students are learning at school every day, all day. We look forward to seeing all students at school more often.

Thank you to all our wonderful parents who are putting their hands up to help with our fete!

Marianne Mac Donald Principal

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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

Library/Swim Bags $ 5

Call into the Office at any time to purchase.

Items for Purchase

AssemblyHeld 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 admin@inghamss.eq.edu.au.

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

Sonya Prep DPRyan 1KKCharlie 1SPHarry 2CPBlake 2WTBraddi 3MBLogan 3TJCooper 4ESJesse 5ECJenna 6LNFaith 6SEMataya 6SE

LOTE 4KN

100 Nights Reading

Charlie 1SPKorbin 2CPOliver 2CPAdele 4KNEden 4KNChloe 4KNMadison 4KN

We are still awaiting a number of Online Services Consent Forms. Please return to the Office as soon as possible.

Forms requiredPHOTOS –

WEDNESDAY 6th OCTOBER 2021TERM 4 – WEEK 1

Prices as follows:Class Group Photo $18.00Child Individual Photo $12.00Family Group Photo $12.00Year 6 Whole Group $15.00Year 6 Whole Funny $15.00

Please complete an envelope for each child and return with monies prior to Wednesday 06th

October as no monies will be accepted on the day.

No EFTPOS facilities will be available for photos.

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Talking Tuckshop

$2.50

Hi everyone,

Tuckshop will be closed this THURSDAY 19th August for Barnes Cup. Qkr! App will also be shut down for Thursday so no orders can be mistakenly placed. Students and Staff will be attending Barnes Cup. Everything will operate as normal on Friday20th August.

TUCKSHOP UNDER THE TREES will be held next Thursday 26th August.

Everyone purchasing Tuckshop will need to have their orders in on time before 8.45a.m. Tuckshop will be collected from under the trees near the garden. All students will eat their lunch under the trees and sit around the garden.

Mrs Byers Tuckshop Convenor

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Major Sponsor Barnes Cup 2021

Barnes Cup Program

This term Year 2 students have been working hard writing facts about Australian

animals. Some of the animals that the students have been focussing on are the koala,

kangaroo and platypus. Currently, they are learning about the life cycle of Loggerhead

Turtles and writing information facts about these. Last Friday we had a visiting

Science Teacher, Mr Murphy from Belgian Gardens State School consolidating learning

of life cycles of a cockatiel and Loggerhead turtle.

Year 2 Class News

English Unit 5 - Information Text

Science Unit 3 - Good To Grow

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Last week, the Year 3’s learned a new technique called “Glissando” and I’m sure the children will love

demonstrating it to you at home! The Year 4’s are working on their “Staccato” playing at the moment and doing a

great job with this new technique. It was great to have all the Year 5 string students back last week and trying out

some new longer songs which requires lots of stamina!

Have a great week!

Kind Regards,Lynda Wright

Instrumental Music – Woodwind / Brass / Percussion (Multi)

Congratulations to the multi instrumental music students who performed in the Ingham Arts Festival last week.

Our Year 6 instrumental students performed together in an ensemble section, and were awarded first place for

their performance! We also had Lara, Samantha and Lucas who were very brave and nominated to perform a solo

on their instrument at the Arts Festival, and were awarded first, second and third place in their section! A special

thank you must go to Mrs Wright, who kindly offered to accompany our instrumental students on piano for the

Arts Festival – we appreciate you giving up your time to come to school and have extra rehearsals with our music

students.

Please remember that there will be no before school band rehearsal or lessons this Thursday, due to the Barnes

Cup being held.

Mrs Gunston

Instrumental Music – Strings

Congratulations to our Year 6 string students, Jenna, Summer and Chaya who performed at the Ingham Arts Festival

last week. The girls performed brilliantly and won 1st prize in their Trio section. The girls were incredibly brave by

each playing a solo as well. They did a clean sweep of the prizes with Jenna in 1st place, Summer in 2nd place and

Chaya in 3rd place. The adjudicator commented on how she thoroughly enjoyed all the performances and strongly

urged the girls to keep playing together. Well done girls, I am very proud of you!

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Performing Arts

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Performing Arts

Choir

Congratulations to all students in the school choir, who performed in the Arts Festival last Wednesday. The

choir was awarded first place in the Folk Song section, and second place in the Unison section! Thank you to

Mrs Rita Phillips, who gave up her time to attend our choir rehearsals to accompany the choir in the lead up

to Arts Festival. The choir has been working extra hard over the past few weeks, coming to extra rehearsals to

make sure we were prepared for our performances at Arts Festival. The choir was given this week off

rehearsals, but we will be getting back into rehearsals next week, as we begin to prepare some new songs for

some upcoming performances towards the end of the year!

Ingham Arts Festival - Art and Craft Display

The Art, Craft, Photography and Literary display is still available to view at the Tyto Regional Art Gallery. The

display will be open until Thursday 26 August, between 10:00am and 4:00pm daily. At the end of next week,

all of the art work, photography and literary items will be returned to Mrs Gunston and handed back to

students at school.

The certificates for those students in Prep – Year 5 who received a placing in the Art, Craft and Photography

sections will receive their certificate on assembly next Monday 23 August. As the Year 6 students will be at

Forrest Beach on that day, they will receive their certificates on assembly on Monday 30 August.

Date: 16th – 27th August

Place: Resource Centre

Times: 8:15am – 8:45am1:40pm – 2:00pm2:50pm – 3:20pm

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Ingham State School Playgroup Birthday Buckets

A Birthday Bucket is a great way to help celebrate your child’s special day at school.

Birthday Buckets are $10.00 and include a ZooperDooper for each student and the teacher in your child’s class and birthday balloon and pencil for the child. If you wish to order a bucket for your child, you will need to email the P&C Secretary –secretary@inghamstateschoolpandc.onmicrosoft.comor send a text to Lauren on 0421 432 186.

Please submit your order by Friday the week prior to when it is required. Details for payment will be provided once we receive your order.

We will need to know:• Birthday child’s name• Child’s class e.g. 4KN• Date bucket is required

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