Term 3 Week 5 School Newsletter
- Principal's Message
- Year 5-6 News from the Deputy
- Year 3-4 News from the Deputy
- Prep - Year 2 News from the Deputy
- Head of Inclusive Education News
- Head of Department Curriculum Year P-6 News
- Guidance Officer News
- QParents
- PBL - Positive Behaviour for Learning is our Whole School Approach for behaviour.
- Focus
- Students of the Week
- Bike Bus News
- Prep Enrolments are open for 2023
- Book Week
- MS Readathon
- Under 8's Day
- Swimming Year 4 and 6
- School Performance The Boy with the Longest Shadow
- Year 6 Camp
- 100 Days Smarter - Prep
- Year 2 History Incursion
- Year 2 - Roaming Wild Incursion
- Netball Carnival
- School Magazine
- Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program
- Around the classroom
- Instrumental Music
- Thank you!
- Sports News
- Tropical North Learning Academy Partnership
- Smithfield State High School News
- Community Notices
Principal's Message
Get Set For Prep: From Prep to PhD
Instrumental Music students opened our Get Set for Prep community event last week. This was a highly attended event that has seen our Prep enrolments skyrocket. Speakers included our extraordinary Prep Teachers, Principal, Deputy Principal and School Council Chair Mr Ian Stone. At Trinity Beach State School, we place students at the centre of our work. Over the last 18 months we have renovated all Prep classrooms, purchased the latest phonics and decodable learning resources while enhancing opportunities for our learners to participate in hands on learning. At Trinity Beach State School under the Tropical North learning Academy, we are in a position to provide a seamless transition from Prep to PhD as we connect strongly with Smithfield State High School and JCU. Enrolments are open and we may consider out of catchment in some instance. Please express your interest now.
Stop Drop Go… Keeping Children Safe
Please assist our school and families by following the directions of our signs located on the STOP< DROP & GO fences. Parking and stopping the flow for extended times can pose as a risk for our students. Please continue driving around our school block to ensure you are not causing prolonged stoppages and safety risk. Please contact the Queensland Police Service if you are concerned about road safety issues. Thank-you for your support.
Focussing on the little things to avoid the BIG ones… A culture of high expectations
Our calm and focussed culture is a direct result of our collective high expectations across our school that are underpinned by our global expectations of Safety, Respect and Learning. Please continue to discuss with your children how they can play an active part in supporting our school rules every day.
Every Day Counts!
Attending school every day and on time is vital for a quality education. Please ensure your child attends as regularly as possible unless they are sick. Students who attend regularly develop better social skills, have stronger friendships groups and academically achieve better. If you have any barriers impacting on your child’s attendance, please contact our school to discuss.
Before and After School Playground Use:
Playground use after hours is always problematic for schools as we do not have active supervision. Unsupervised use of school facilities is not endorsed. This said, families who actively supervise their children may use the playground if done in accordance to our rules. This is simply, quietly, safely and respectfully in particularly in areas close to classroom where teachers are working. Thank-you for your understanding.
Year 5-6 News from the Deputy
Our Year 6 students have returned from a very successful camp. Students engaged in a range of activities including canoeing, orienteering and navigating a water obstacle course. The Tableland’s overnight cold was severely underestimated though which resulted in a call out for blanket donations. Thank you to those parents who volunteered their time to assist with the groups. The next excursion for our Year 6 students will be the reef trip which ties in with the student’s Science report on mitigating threats to the Great Barrier Reef. Permission forms have already gone home – if you are yet to see one, check your child’s bag or request another from the class teacher.
Our Year 5 students are preparing for their own camp in Week 10 at Lake Tinaroo. This is an opportunity for students to develop team and leadership skills in preparation for being our Seniors in 2023. Permission forms have been emailed to all families, if you are yet to receive one please check your Junk mail or contact the class teacher.
Also a reminder that any student in Year 6 planning on attending Smithfield SHS in 2023 will need to attend an enrolment session at the school. The next session will be held on October 19 at 5pm. Enrolment packs will be given out at these sessions.
Kind regards
Leanne Bell
Deputy Years 5 & 6
Year 3-4 News from the Deputy
Hello,
Our term 3 is now running at full steam with students fully engaging in their learning.
Year 3 Beach Excursion
Don’t forget to get your permission slips back for our week 7 beach walk. Our teachers and students are excited for this lovely day in the sunshine.
Book week ‘Dreaming with open eyes’
Exciting times ahead with our annual book week celebrations coming up in week 7. Follow our school Facebook page to stay up to date with upcoming events. Remember our character dress up day is Tuesday.
Welcomes and Farewells
We are pleased to welcome Ebony Hopkins back to our year 4 team. Ebony has returned to her 4B class working with Julie-Ann Kentish. Ebony is an experienced, passionate teacher and we appreciate having her back on the team. We are also sending our appreciation to Greg Okulov for filling in for Ebony while she was on leave. Hopefully we will still see Greg regularly in our school
Trinity Beach State School is a brilliant School.
Kind regards,
Emma Taylor
Prep - Year 2 News from the Deputy
It has been an exciting few weeks in the Prep to year 2 area!
2023 Prep Parent Information Session
Last Thursday we held our 2023 Prep Parent information sessions for both Prep and Montessori Prep. We had a great turn out! Thank you to the String ensemble and Mr Wilkins for playing at this event. It was great to be able to showcase our instrumental music program to our new preps and their families.
Roaming Wild/ Cairns Museum
Year 2 have had their incursion with Roaming Wild over the last two weeks. This has been an amazing opportunity for students to get up close and personal with some beautiful animals and also learn about life cycles as a part of their science unit. The year 2s also had another incursion with the Cairns Museum bringing in items from the past for students to learn about for their HASS unit. Thank you to the teachers for organising these wonderful opportunities for the students.
Prep Beach Excursion
The Prep students had a wonderful excursion to the beach a couple of weeks ago. Thank you to the parents/carers that were able to join them on this exciting day. This excursion was for their HASS unit. Thank you also to the Prep teachers and teacher Aides for making this excursion happen!
Playgrounds
A reminder that our school playgrounds are out of bounds before and after school and that parents are responsible for their children from 3pm. There are no staff on duty in the playground areas.
Attendance
I was excited to be a part of the 2F Pizza party for attendance! Well done 2F. The attendance rate in P-2 in on the rise which I am very happy about. Thank you for working with us to ensure that Every Day Counts.
Head of Inclusive Education News
I’m often asked by families to recommend inclusive resources for students with additional needs, so have included some here for you to access. As parents and carers you play an important role in helping your child feel positive about school. Students with additional needs may feel a combination of emotions about school. Some days children may feel happy and confident. At other times, they may appear sad, anxious, tired or overwhelmed. These are all typical responses as children grow and adjust to the school environment, while learning routines and expectations.
Autism Hub
The Autism Hub https://autismhub.education.qld.gov.au/ is a Queensland Department of Education and works with school leaders, teachers and parents to improve the engagement and education achievement of students with autism in all Queensland schools. The Autism Hub provide information and deliver professional learning that supports educators to include, retain and engage students with autism and empowers parents to partner with schools and teachers in their child's education. The Autism Hub also has a useful online transition resource for various stages of transition – it can be found here: https://autismhub.education.qld.gov.au/resources/online-transition-resource
Community Resource Unit Ltd (CRU)
The Community Resource Unit Ltd (CRU) is supported by the Queensland Department of Education to provide information to families about inclusive education . A range of resources are available, including a fact sheet (PDF, 761KB) about advocacy and meetings. This may help you when consulting with school about support services available.
CRU's "Families for Inclusive Education” (FFIE) project is in its third year of funding by the Department of Education with the aim to build the capacity of families to advocate for, nurture, and sustain their child’s successful participation in inclusive education. This project:
- supports families to have a clear vision for their son or daughter and become more informed about inclusive education and current inclusive education policies,
- helps families develop communication and advocacy skills so they can work effectively with their child’s school,
- builds families’ confidence and support networks so they can sustain their efforts as valued partners in their child’s education,
- provides information and resourcing to service providers including schools.
Positive Partnerships
Positive Partnerships (www.positivepartnerships.com.au) is about working together with parents, carers and educators of school-aged children on the autism spectrum to provide current, relevant and evidence informed information through workshops and online resources. They also offer free workshops around Australia to provide information and strategies to support your child’s learning.
Raising Children Network
Raising Children Network (www.raisingchildren.net.au) provide free, reliable, up-to-date and independent information to help your family grow and thrive together. Raising Children Network is funded by the Australian Government, reviewed by experts and is non-commercial. It is designed for busy families and full of tips and tricks for you to try, content is easy to find and easy to digest. Articles, videos and interactive resources are tailored to different ages and stages and ability levels.
Healthy Families
Healthy Families is another useful resource https://healthyfamilies.beyondblue.org.au/age-6-12 and is all about giving you the information, knowledge and confidence to support the young people in your life – whether you’re a parent, guardian, grandparent, a favourite uncle or an awesome auntie. Healthy Families can also help you take care of your own mental health and wellbeing, especially if you’re a new parent or about to become one.
If you would like more information about any of the online resources listed above, please feel free to contact me in the Inclusive Education Centre (temporary Administration area).
Kind regards,
SAMANTHA ILIC
HEAD OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
Head of Department Curriculum Year P-6 News
The term is well underway and students are engaged in learning! This term is jam packed with a range of events for students to participate in! During NAIDOC week students were invited to enter a competition to write their own acknowledgement of country, we received so many excellent submissions from individuals and classes. The winner will be announced at parade on Monday week 7.
There is a exciting opportunity for students to join the Trinity Tinkerbells, a garden club which will run every Friday at 1.30pm. This club will supporting the upkeep of our school garden beds that are used in conjunction with teaching the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program. If your child is interested please contact Ms Wilton Technology Teacher.
Throughout week 7 we will be celebrating Book Week 2022 with a variety of activities running at lunch time and a dress up parade on Tuesday, where students are invited to come dressed as their favourite book character.
Guidance Officer News
A note from the Guidance Officer….
One of the skills that our children often struggle to build is resilience.
What is resilience? It is defined as ‘a child’s ability to cope with ups and downs, and bounce back from the challenges they experience during childhood’. Building resilience has long term health and mental wellbeing effects.
Resilience starts at home, but it can be difficult to work out where to get started. In order to assist your child to be more resilient, you can focus on:
- Building supportive relationships (with family and others, friendships, and having empathy).
- Building your child’s independence, problem solving skills, decision-making and responsibility.
- Helping your child to understand, regulate and manage their emotions.
- Allowing your child to experience challenges that they may find difficult – to build the confidence that they CAN succeed.
- The use of positive and encouraging ‘self-talk’ in their minds.
For more information, check out the following websites:
https://healthyfamilies.beyondblue.org.au/healthy-homes/building-resilience
https://www.parentingforbrain.com/resilience/
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:
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:
PBL - Positive Behaviour for Learning is our Whole School Approach for behaviour.
Trinity Dollars are issued to students for consistent positive behaviour.
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 ‘Helping Myself and Others to Learn’.
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 4
Week 5
Week 6
Students of the Week
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Bike Bus News
FAQ
What is a bike bus?
A bike bus, also known as a bike train or a cycle train, is a group of people who cycle together on a set route following a set timetable other than for sporting purposes. Cyclists may join or leave the bike bus at various points along the route. Most bike buses are a form of collective bicycle commuting.
At TBSS, we have a bike bus which operates every Wednesday at 8am. Our Northern bike bus starts at Poolwerx, Clifton Beach. This route follows the path along the highway all the way to our school. Our Southern route starts at Eat Street Cafe, Trinity Park, and goes down Roberts Rd, loops around Reed Rd to connect us to school. We run return trips to take students home in the afternoon.
Outstanding numbers for bike bus. A big thanks to the parents who participated - it’s a big help to have your support. The staff and kids were wheelie grateful 
Bike Bus is cranking..
Lucas in Year 2 and Bertie in Year 5 received the tuckshop vouchers for their participation and safe riding last week.
Bike Bus is on Wednesdays from 8am.
It was a beautiful morning for a bike bus and record numbers for 2022.
20 participated on the Southside.
24 participated in the Northside.
Prep Enrolments are open for 2023
Prep Enrolments are now open for 2023
Under the Tropical North Learning Academy we can consider out of catchment. Please express your interest.
Come and join one of the fastest progressing schools in the region.
Book Week
MS Readathon
Tora in 5F continues to inspire others with her selfless efforts and outstanding public speaking skills!
Tora is encouraging others to sign up for the MS Readathon. It's happening this August. Please join and support this great fundraiser.
(From Tora)
It is a charity to help people with Multiple Sclerosis. The MS Readathon supports camps where children and their parents can go to have fun and support each other while doing fun things to make them happy that they would be unable to do otherwise as their parents become affected from this disease.
Under 8's Day
Swimming Year 4 and 6
In a state like Queensland, where water activities are part of our lifestyle, the safety of our children and families in and around the water is paramount. Water safety is a life skill, which starts from the moment a child comes into contact with water through all stages to adult life.
For this reason, the Year 4 and 6 students at Trinity Beach State School will be involved in a swimming program during weeks 9 and 10 of this term. Students will be involved in 8 , 45 minute lessons aligned to the Australian Curriculum by qualified swimming instructors from the Northern Beaches Swim School, Learn to Swim. Students will be travelling by bus to The Sun Pacific College in Kewarra Beach where they will be enhancing their skills and knowledge they need to be safe in and around water.
Permission consent and medical forms will be sent out to families.
School Performance The Boy with the Longest Shadow
Permission letters will be sent to families soon.
Year 6 Camp
100 Days Smarter - Prep
Thank-you families for your support as we work together for these little precious Prep legends who are now...
'100 Days SMARTER'...
Prep enrolments open now
Year 2 History Incursion
Year 2 - Roaming Wild Incursion
Netball Carnival
School Magazine
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program
Around the classroom
Goal Setting at a new level:
Setting goals in 4D with Mrs O'Kane. Mrs O'Kane has showed Mr Hollis and Mrs Taylor how she is enabling her students to achieve their goals in a creative way. Well done!
1C Mrs Yeabsley's students show precision focus in writing 
during their learning time. Awesome 
work!
IEC Design Technology with Ms Devlin
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program
Tomato, Spearmint and Lettuce
Our relentless focus on early reading progress.
The goal of reading is to understand and gain meaning from text. Our students through the use of systematic synthetic phonics engage in age appropriate teaching to support their understanding of letters and the sounds they make.
Thank-you to our outstanding teachers for embracing this approach...
Instrumental Music
Instrumental Music:
Mr Nicholls supporting students with their instrumental music progress.
Thank you!
A big shout out to all our amazing volunteers who are covering our new books for our students to read.We say thank you
Sports News
Sports House Mascots Go Live
No longer are our sports houses just reef names and colours. They now have a few aggressive animals attached to them that can be found in our beautiful marine areas of the tropical North...
We can't wait to see the creative mascots from families at our next sports day!
The starfish, dolphins, angelfish and tadpoles didn't make it over the line as mascots...
Tropical North Learning Academy Partnership
Strong connections, strong partnerships.
We have a unique ability under the Tropical North Learning Academy partnership to ensure learning between a primary and secondary setting is seamless, engaging and productive.
Recently our team met with Smithfield State High School staff Head of Dept. Mrs Bell and motivated teacher Ms Gryg to share learning with a focus on improving reading engagement.
Smithfield State High School News
Community Notices
