Tropical North Learning Academy - Trinity Beach State School eNewsletter

Principal's Message

Year 5-6 News from the Deputy

Welcome back for Semester 2. We have started this term with our Year 5 students going on a boating excursion at Holloways Beach Environmental Education Centre. Students were exploring marine creatures in their habitats and looking at the adaptations necessary for survival. This is related to their Term 3 Science unit. Students enjoyed their day outside of the classroom and thank you to the parents who also attended.

Year 6 students will be going off to camp next week- the highlight of their school year. Students will be ‘glamping’ at Camp Peterson where they will be engaged in a range of activities developing team building, independence and resilience. By now, your child should have a list of the necessary equipment they will need to bring. A reminder also that school will run as usual for those students not attending.

Congratulations also to those students who were selected to participate in the Young Scholars rotations this term for the first time. If you child did not receive an offer and would like to be part of the program, please arrange a time to meet with your child’s teacher to discuss the next steps towards achieving a place. Young Scholars is part of the Tropical North Learning Academy partnership between TBSS and Smithfield SHS and the criteria for participation has been developed as part of this partnership. If you would like more information about this, I can be contacted via email.

Kind regards

Leanne Bell

Deputy Years 5 & 6

Year 3-4 News from the Deputy

Hello,

Welcome back and happy term 3. Our team are so pleased to see so many happy faces returning and so many new students joining us. Term 3 is a busy one with students receiving their first semester reports and working towards their goals to consolidate past knowledge and improve on results.

This Term

In year 3 we are working on poetry for English with an exciting beach walk excursion scheduled for week 7. More information about the lovely morning out will be coming from teachers in the coming weeks. The year 4’s are excited about their advertising unit this term and look to produce compelling arguments to sell their product.

Infrastructure

We are very excited about the beginning of construction to create a new amenities block, under cover basketball area and tuckshop that has started this term. Unfortunately to get great new facilities we do have to be a little flexible. We are working through bumps that may temporarily disrupt learning as they arrive. This may result in some classes changing locations temporarily to other indoor or outdoor learning spaces. We will ensure that learning continues comfortably so that we can provide the best infrastructure for our outstanding students.

Trinity Beach State School is a brilliant School.

Kind regards,

Emma Taylor

Prep - Year 2 News from the Deputy

Welcome to term 3!

We are now well and truly into the school year. Expectations of students at school both in the playground and the classroom are well known and there should be no reason that we don’t have a wonderful and successful term 3 and 4.

Attendance

Attendance is so important. Every week on parade we put up the attendance rate for each class each week. It is so upsetting to see that many of our classes are highlighted RED which means that their attendance is below 90%.

We need our students here every single day that they are well. It is very difficult for teachers to catch students up when they are away. Many parents ask for work for their student while they are away on holidays etc and this is not always possible. Teachers are teaching new concepts in all learning areas every single day. If your child has not been taught these concepts in the required way, they will not be able to access the work that the students are consolidating their knowledge on. Please save your holidays where possible to during the school holidays and make every day count at school.

Junior Sports Day

What a fantastic last day of 2 term we had. It was so fantastic to see all the Prep – year 3 students participate in their race and also in the rotational activities. Thank you to Ms Powell, Ms Donovan and Ms Arthur for all your hard work to make this such a successful day. Thank you to all the parents that came out to support as well.

100 days of Prep

On Thursday the 28^th of July, the Prep students will be celebrating 100 days of Prep and being 100 days smarter! The Prep teachers (including Montessori) will be joining together to celebrate this milestone with an activity morning. Children are invited to come dressed as their 100 year old self and parents are also invited to join in the fun from 9.15am-11 in the Prep area.

Prep information session

Our 2023 Prep Parent Information session for both Prep and Montessori Prep will be held on Thursday the 4^th of August from 4-5.30pm. During this time there will be a presentations from both Prep offerings as well as a performance from the String instrumental music ensemble and a sausage sizzle. Please share this information with any families external to our school so that they can come along and see the amazing work being done in our prep classrooms and see that Trinity Beach State School is a brilliant school and the best choice for a world class education.

Excursions and incursions

There are a lot of exciting excursions and incursions happening this term. From Prep beach excursions to history and animal incursions in year 2. Thank you to our dedicated teachers for organising these exciting events. Please keep a look out for photos of these exciting events on our Facebook page.

Head of Inclusive Education News

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) happens every year in August.

As a parent, guardian or carer, what do I need to know?

Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, schools have an obligation to ensure that students with disability are able to access and participate in school on the same basis as their peers.

To ensure this, students with disability may receive adjustments or support, depending on their functional needs, to access and participate in education.

Parents, guardians and carers have an important role in their child’s education. They work collaboratively with the school to ensure that the school understands their child’s needs and that appropriate adjustments are made to enable access to education.

The NCCD is an annual count of students who are being provided with adjustments to address disability. All Australian schools and approved authorities for schools participate in the NCCD each year.

Fact sheets for parents, guardians and carers about the NCCD

If you would like to learn more about the NCCD, further information can be found on the NCCD portal https://www.nccd.edu.au or visit the Inclusive Education Centre/Administration Office.

Kind regards,

SAMANTHA ILIC

HEAD OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

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.

This term is jam packed with a range of events for students to participate in! We have started the term off with NAIDOC week celebrations, students have been able to participate in lots of different activities from visual art rotations, story time around the camp fire, writing their own acknowledgement of country and NAIDOC parade where we enjoyed seeing students from our school present Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dances.

Later this term we will hold Book Week 2022 and Scholastics Book Fair, this will be throughout week 7. More information will come out closer to the date!

Guidance Officer News

Sometimes I am asked “What does a Guidance Officer do in a school?”

It’s a good question, because it involves a lot of different tasks!! Sometimes I do some one on one or small group work with students, sometimes I work with families to link then with supports outside of the school. I complete some work with specific students to complete Cognitive Assessments, and I work with families and staff to help students cope with any social / emotional issues which may be impacting on their time at school.

I also organise (or support) the planning of special days within the school, which focus on building awareness and support of groups of people. One of these is coming up soon, called “Wear It Purple Day”- this will occur on Friday the 26^th of August, 2022. This day is to show support for students, families and community members who LGBTQIA+. We aim to use this day as an opportunity to foster a supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environment in our school.

As diversity is so important in our school, we invite families to also support this day. We will invite staff and students to add a splash of purple to their clothing on this day, and show their support.

For more information on this event, you can visit the website on https://www.wearitpurple.org/

Office News

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.

QParents allows you to access and manage information online about your child.

You can access information about:

Attendance details
Report cards
Pay invoices, view outstanding payments and payment history
View past and present report cards
Update student medical conditions

How can parents get help with QParents?

Parents can seek further information, assistance with registration, advice on how to use QParents or help with technical issues by:

visiting the QParents help page or downloading the QParents user guide (PDF, 8MB)
contacting 13 QGOV (13 74 68).

Reporting a Student Absence:

either:

SAVE THIS NUMBER IN YOUR CONTACTS : Text (SMS) 0428 621 921 - this is the preferred method of reporting your child’s absence. Please note SMS line does not take calls & no emoji’s please
Email: attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au before 9:00am.

Be ready to provide us with:

Child’s name
Class, reasons for absence and expected duration of absence

My child requires medication at school:

You will be asked to complete and sign the Consent to administer medication form consent-administer-medication-form.docx

To request that the school administer medication to a student you need to:

Complete Section A of the Consent to administer medication form
Provide the school with the medication in the original container with intact packaging
Provide the written medical authorisation (e.g. completed pharmacy label, medication order, action plan) competed and signed by the prescribing health practitioner.

N.B if your child requires more than one medication, you will need to complete a form for each medication.

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 ‘Respect people’s personal space’.

Pop into parade on Monday from 2:15pm to see our new TBSS Breaking News segment thanks to the Mr Terry’s Drama Extension team. Each week the news team helps our students understand our Behaviour Focus.

Focus

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Swimming Year 4 and 6

The Intensive Swimming Program for students in years 4 and 6, will begin week 9 of this term. More information will be provided to families throughout the term.

Students of the Week

Week 10

Week 1

Week 2

Bike Bus News

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Bike Bus North and South are now on every Wednesday.

Have great start to the day by riding safely to and from school. Join our north and south side bike bus.

The numbers are building.

Congratulations to Max and Sharaya for winning this week’s Bike Bus Award. Both students have received a tuckshop voucher thanks to our amazing sponsors at Poolwerx.

P&C News

How good are our school jackets on a chilly morning?

They are proving to be quite popular. Thank you to our P&C Association for endorsing the jackets. Jackets can be purchased from the uniform shop.

Click here to purchase at Event Brite

Click here to Purchase on Flexischools

Tuckshop News

The new numbers are:

JLC Kitchen 4057 1494

SLC Kitchen 4057 1496

https://volunteersignup.org/JHM47

Book Club

Book Club is due back by the 1^st August.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program

Prep Enrolments are open for 2023

Enrolments filling fast.Secure your place at one of Cairns' fastest progressing schools.From Prep to PhD

Under 8's Day

MS Readerthon

Young Tora from 5F is so inspirational. Tora is working with our staff to make a MSReaderthon Team!Join our school team with all funds raised going to support families with multiple sclerosis.

https://www.msreadathon.org.au/homepage

School Opinion Survey

Your feedback helps our school improve.

To have your say, check your email for an invitation from the Department of Education titled School Opinion Survey for parents and caregivers, 2022.

Can’t find your invitation? If your family has more than one parent/caregiver, check that they haven’t received the invitation and/or check your junk email folder.

Survey closes 12 August 2022.

Stop, Drop and Go

School Magazine

School Magazine Advertising

Would you like to promote your business to over 700 local families and 120 staff members in our community which is an exposure to over 2,500 people?

Trinity Beach State School is offering a Marketing Opportunity to your business. We are currently in the process of developing our school magazine for 2022. We will be distributing these out to all our families at the end of the year.

In order for our school to offer this to our families free of charge we are looking to local business’s to fund this project through advertising. This is a wonderful opportunity to promote your local business to our school community.

We will be offering 2 option types of Advertising in the magazine, information and pricing is as follows;

Option 1:

Business directory –2 page spread with the heading Business Directory. It will have 20 x business card size spaces available at a cost of $100 (plus GST) per space. (Please see attached example of the layout)

Option 2:

Half Page advertisement– 4 x A5 size spaces to purchase at a cost of $750(plus GST) per space. (Please see attached example of the layout)

All business that advertise in the School Magazine will also feature on our Facebook page and website throughout the year, please click on the links below to see how we advertise your business.

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/trinitybeachss/videos/587384695744810

Website https://trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au/supportandresources/formsanddocuments/documents/2022%20school%20magazine%20sponsors%20v7.mp4

If your business would like to advertise in our School Magazine or if you would like further information please feel free to contact me via email on jmcni29@eq.edu.au or calling the office 40 571 444.

Around the classroom

4D is planning out the planting of the garden beds using the area of the beds and the plant spacing requirements of each plant.

4D also helped attach the base of the native bee hive and they located it facing 45 degrees North East (ideal direction for bees).

4D Interactive learning with their maths concepts – the length challenge was to make the longest bridge using a piece of bluetac and 30 matchsticks.The multiplication relay had them form 4 teams and students had to relay to add the answer for a multiplication fact on the paper OR change an incorrect answer by someone else in their group. The winning team managed 103 correct answers out of 144 in 30 minutes.

Improvement Agenda Focus: Reading

Prep C practised decoding using phonics knowledge and high frequency word recognition during buddy reading with 6C. Our senior students always enjoy their time with our youngest learners.

Instrumental Music

Instrumental Music can enhance student focus, increase engagement and better educational outcomes.

Instrumental Music is available to students in Years 3 to Year 12 though request of EOI. Our Instrumental Music Information session will occur early Term 4

Parade

Full School Parade under one roof.

Each Monday from 2.15pm we come together to celebrate achievement and share school-wide messages. All families are welcome .

We love our school..

Athletics & Sports Days

1500m

Years 4-6 Sports Day!

Great work team!

Infrastructure Update

Lost:

We have found a large Tonka digger in the sandpit. Not really! The demolition of the ammenties block, under cover area and tuckshop is near complete. Let the construction begin...Only the best infrastructure for our outstanding students. Thank-you DoE and our Far North Regional infrastructure team .

The improvements keep on coming for our students. 3 sets of football (soccer) goals are now sitting pretty on our ovals for students from Year 1-6. Mr Russell is pretty happy too and thank-you to Mr Russell for assembling them.

NADIOC

Thank-you to everyone who has supported our NAIDOC week of celebrations. Embedding indigenous perspectives is valuable for our whole community and thoroughly enjoyed by our staff and students.

9 May	Parade Year 3 - 6 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

9 May	Student Council Meeting 11:00 AM - 11:40 AM

12 May	Parade Prep - Year 2 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

12 May	P&C Meeting 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

16 May	Parade Year 3 - 6 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

16 May	CPAC - Ratburger excursion Year 1 & 2 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

19 May	Parade Prep - Year 2 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

21 May	National Simultaneous Story Time 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

23 May	Cross Country Prep - Year 3 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

23 May	Parade Year 3 - 6 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

23 May	Student Council Meeting 11:00 AM - 11:40 AM

26 May	Holloways Beach Environmental Centre Year 5 excursion 26 May 2025 - 30 May 2025

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