Term 2 Week 2 School Newsletter

Principal's Message

Year 5-6 News from the Deputy

Welcome back for Term 2.  I hope every has had a relaxing break and is excited about the new term.

Last week our school captains attended the leadership camp at Holloways Beach Environmental Education Centre. Our captains have designed a project that will benefit our school environment. This will be showcased at the end of the year and I look forward to seeing the outcome.

Young Scholars has also resumed for Term 2. Each of our groups have begun new rotations in Science, Sustainability, Philosophy, MakerSpace and Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow. All students should now have their Young Scholars badges and it is great to see students wearing them with pride.

As part of our focus on improvement, teachers have been working with your child on creating individual reading goals for the term. Please discuss these, and their reading, with your child.

Year level newsletters will go out next week with an outline of the learning for the term and the assessments that students will be working on. We also have Year 5 & 6 camps coming up soon, there will be more information on these in the newsletter next week.

Kind Regards,

Leanne Bell

Year 3 - 4 News from the Deputy

Hello and welcome back for Term 2,

The whole 3-4 team are looking forward to a great new term with 10 weeks to work through this term’s curriculum. In English the year 3’s are working on a narrative task telling interesting stories focusing on an engaging conflict. In year 4 they are working on analysing poetry including puns and other poetic devices, time to dust off the old dad jokes.

In week 4 our year 3’s and 5’s will engage in the National NAPLAN assessment. To see what this assessment includes please visit the NAPLAN Parent Platform https://nap.edu.au/naplan/parent-carer-support. NAPLAN is a point-in-time assessment that allows parents and carers to see how their child is progressing in literacy and numeracy against the national standard and compared with their peers throughout Australia. At the classroom level, NAPLAN provides additional information to support teachers’ professional judgement about student progress. To assist your child during this period, encourage healthy lunches, lots of water and plenty of sleep.

Our PLD Systematic Synthetics Phonics Approach that was rolled out at the start of the year is already showing success with most students achieving a term of improvement for a term of engagement. A PLD Systematic Synthetics Phonics Approach supports students to become expert decoding reader’s able to tackle complex and unfamiliar words by identifying the phonemes.

Trinity Beach State School is a brilliant School and I know that 2022 will be a great year for your child’s education.

Kind regards,

Emma Taylor

Prep - Year 2 News from the Deputy

What a wonderful start to Term 2!

Prep to year 2 students are to be commended for their behaviour during our ANZAC parade last Friday. Students were very respectful throughout our service. Well done also to those students who were wreath bearers.

There is so much amazing learning going on in our classrooms. We are so lucky to have such dedicated and enthusiastic teachers in our Early Years. I am so proud of the amazing lengths they go to every day to ensure that students have a wonderful learning environment. Thank you, Teachers!

Crazy Hat Parade

Congratulation to all the students on their wonderful Crazy Hats at the end of last term. What a wonderful way to celebrate the end of term 1 2022. Thank you to all the parents who attended and joined in the fun and celebrations.

Cross Country

What a spectacular day we had for the P-3 Cross Country. Well done to all the students for participating and having a go! I was so proud of all the P-3 students as they ran their own best race. We had a huge parent turnout so thank you for coming and supporting your children and our school. Thank you to Mrs Donovan and Miss Powell for organising such a wonderful event.

Sleep

Schools are such a busy place and there is always so much going on. It is so important that students have a full night sleep and a good breakfast in the morning to set them up for a successful day at school.

Most children fall asleep within 20 minutes of going to bed. How long it takes children to get to sleep can depend on how sleepy their bodies are, and also on their daytime and bedtime routines. Bedtime routines help children wind down before bedtime, so they can fall asleep more easily. Some tips for better sleep for children from Raising Children website (www.raisingchildren.net.au) are below.

How to sleep better for children: tips

1. Set up a bedtime routine
   A regular bedtime routine starting around the same time each night encourages good sleep patterns. A bedtime routineof bath, story and bed can help younger children feel ready for sleep. For older children, the routine might include a quiet chat with you about the day then some time alone relaxing before lights out.
2. Relax before bedtime
   Encourage your child to relax before bedtime. Older children might like to wind down by reading a book, listening to gentle music or practising breathing for relaxation. If your child takes longer than 30 minutes to fall asleep, your child might need a longer wind-down time before turning the lights out to go to sleep.
3. Keep regular sleep and wake times
   Keep your child’s bedtimes and wake-up times within 1-2 hours of each other each day. This helps to keep your child’s body clock in a regular pattern. It’s a good idea for weekends and holidays, as well as school days.
4. Make sure your child feels safe at night
   If your child feels scared about going to bed or being in the dark, you can praise and reward your child whenever they’re brave. Avoiding scary TV shows, movies and computer games can help too. Some children with bedtime fears feel better when they have a night light.
5. Check noise and light in your child’s bedroom
   Check whether your child’s bedroom is too light or noisy for sleep. Blue lightfrom televisions, computer screens, phones and tablets suppresses melatonin levels and delays sleepiness. Bright light in the hour before bedtime can have the same effect on young children.

It helps to:

• turn off devices at least one hour before bedtime
• keep screens out of your child’s room at night
• dim the lights an hour before bed for children of preschool age and younger.

If your child uses a night-light, choose a dim, warm-coloured globe, rather than a bright, white, cool-coloured globe.

1. Avoid the clock
   If your child is checking the time often, encourage your child to move the clock or watch to a spot where they can’t see it from bed.
2. Eat the right amount at the right time
   Make sure your child has a satisfying evening meal at a reasonable time. Feeling hungry or too full before bed can make your child more alert or uncomfortable. This can make it harder for your child to get to sleep. In the morning, a healthy breakfasthelps to kick-start your child’s body clock at the right time.
3. Get plenty of natural light in the day
   Encourage your child to get as much natural light as possible during the day, especially in the morning. Bright light suppresses melatonin. This helps your child feel awake and alert during the day and sleepy towards bedtime.

Have a great week

Martina

Head of Inclusive Education News

We’ve had a busy start to Term 2 in the Inclusive Education Centre having strengthened ties to the community in the Early Years space thanks to our partnership with The Benevolent Society and the Far North Region Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) team.  We are now hosting two playgroups each week in the Inclusive Education Centre (IEC) and play area. 

Trinity Beach Paradise Playgroup is for children 0 - 5years and their families and runs on Tuesdays from 9:15am until 11:00am and is facilitated by IEC and Benevolent Centre staff.  Please see the flyer below for more information.

Trinity Beach Explorers Playgroup is for families with children 0-5 years with a disability or developmental delay.  This is facilitated by The Benevolent Society Child and Family Practitioners and Therapists and runs on Thursdays from 9:15am to 11am.  Please see the attached flyers for more information about our playgroups.

This term our staff our working with the State Schooling Nursing Team to ensure their knowledge and skills are up to date to support students Medical and Health Plans in readiness for Year 5 and 6 Camp.

Now we’re into Term 2, it’s time to ensure your child’s Medical and Health Plans are up to date so that our staff know what to do in the event of a medical emergency. 

If you would like to know more about our Inclusive Education Program, please feel free to stop by and say hello to our friendly team, we are located on the Huon Street side of the school, close to the Junior Learning Centre.

Kind regards,

Samantha Ilic

Head of Department Curriculum Year P-6 News

It’s wonderful to see students back after their break ready to engage in learning! Term curriculum overviews from each year level will be sent out next week to all families, these provide a snap shot of what students are learning in class. An assessment schedule is also included in the overview so parents and carers are aware of when students will have assessment tasks occurring throughout the term.  

From the 10to 20 May, Trinity Beach State School Year 3 and Year 5 students will participate in NAPLAN (National Assessment Program, Literacy & Numeracy) testing. During this period, our students will participate in a total of four tests; Numeracy, Writing, Reading and Conventions of Language (grammar, punctuation and spelling). NAPLAN is now completed online, meaning students will complete their testing on computers rather than paper tests, with the exception of Year 3 Writing which is still completed on paper. If you want any further clarification with regard to NAPLAN or the implementation of it at our school please contact me.

Guidance Officer News

Each school has a Student Support process in place – at Trinity Beach State School, we call this process the Student Engagement and Wellbeing Process (which we call SEWP for short). 

SEWP is a process whereby teachers and parents work together to identify students who may need some additional assistance in the school setting – and information is presented by the student’s class teacher at a meeting.

During this meeting, our school Leadership Team, as well as the Speech Language Pathologist, EAL/D teacher, and two Support Teachers (Literacy and Numeracy) consider information that is presented by the class teacher.  Specific actions and supports to assist the student are discussed during this meeting, and these are put into action.

If your child’s teacher mentions our SEWP process to you, it is to work on putting additional supports in place for your child.  This will help us (staff) to understand your child’s needs better, and give them the nest change of thriving in a school environment.

A Message from the Defence School Mentor

Hello Trinity Beach State School!

My name is Rikki Bradley and I have recently joined your school community in the role of Defence School Mentor (DSM). My role is to support the children and families of Australian Defence Force members, particularly during times of transition, such as postings, into and out of school and to new locations or through parental absences.

I am a defence family of over 25 years. My husband serves in the Royal Australian Navy, we have lived and schooled around Australia with our four daughters and we’re currently MWD(U).

A letter of introduction will be going out to our defence families and I look forward to meeting with the students prior to commencing a weekly get together during lunch.

The letter of introduction will be sent to all families identified as Defence by the school. If you do not receive a letter and believe you should have, please contact me through the school and I will get one out to you.

I have been a DSM for over 5 years and am excited to have the opportunity to introduce the Defence School Mentor Program into your school. I look forward to meeting you and your children. I will be available on Tuesday and Wednesday from 8:30am to 1pm. As soon as my space is ready I will notify our Defence families of where you can find me. Please feel free to come by and say Hi!

I look forward to meeting and working with the staff, students and community of Trinity Beach State School.

Office News

Reporting a Student Absence

Please text, call or email before 9:30am.

Be ready to provide us with:

• Child’s name (please spell out clearly)
• Class, reasons for absence and expected duration of absence
• your phone number

either: Text (SMS)*:   0428 621 921 or call the absence Line: 4057 1444 (press #1) or Email: attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au

My child requires medication at school

Please contact the school office

Please note: School staff will only administer medication that:

• Has been prescribed by a qualified health practitioner (i.e. doctor; dentist)
• Is in its original container
• Has an attached Pharmacy label

You will be asked to complete and sign Section 1 of the Administration of medication at school record sheet N.B if your child required more than one medication, you will need to complete a form for each medication.

QParents:

QParents is a user-friendly portal accessible via app or web browser, providing parents with secure online access to information about their child’s schooling.

Once registered, parents can:

• View and update attendance records
• View behaviour information
• Pay invoices, view outstanding payments and payment history
• View past and present report cards
• Update student medical conditions

Visit QParents at https://qparents.qld.edu.au with your unique invitation code and identification ready, so you can discover a more convenient and easier way to interact with us. For assistance with registration, please contact administration on 4057 1444.

PBL - Positive Behaviour for Learning

PBL – Positive Behaviour for Learning is our Whole School Approach for behaviour. The fundamental philosophy of PBL is that we cannot assume that our students know how to behave at school if they haven’t been explicitly taught the expectations required. Each fortnight our PBL team meets to analyse the behaviour data to determine what needs to be taught or revised in regard to our school expectations. These expectations are then taught as focus skills in the classroom and on parade. The language is used by all staff and the posters are displayed around the school and on our school’s FaceBook page so that they can be reiterated at home. This week our focus skill is ‘Whole Body Listening and next week we are looking at ‘Communicating Respectfully’. We are also very excited to present our behaviour incident data over the last 4 years which shows a significant drop in behaviour incidents in term 1 this year. This is due to our teachers, their classroom expectations and high impact teaching and of course our students and the efforts they are putting towards following our school rules.

Thank you

Focus

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Students of the week

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Parking around our school

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