Tropical North Learning Academy - Trinity Beach State School eNewsletter

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Principal Message

Year 5 - 6 News from the Deputy

Welcome to Week 3.

Last week we commemorated ANZAC day with a very moving service at the school. I am always proud to see how our Year 6 school leaders conduct themselves when running these events. It is good to know that our leaders will move into high school able to speak articulately in front of an audience and not only participate, but run formal events with a sense of purpose and confidence.

Swimming begins this week for some classes. All Year 6 classes complete a two-week swimming block. Consent forms will have been emailed home or sent through the QParents app. Young Scholars will still run during this time.

Over the last couple of weeks, we have had a focus on our school rule ‘Being Respectful’. Our focus skill is ‘Following Instructions’. We have wonderful staff who put our students first and demonstrate respect. The senior school can be difficult to navigate for some of our students as the expectations to be a good role model become higher and students start looking towards high school. I like to encourage our students to do the right thing, even if no one is looking, and that kind and respectful words & actions cost nothing.

Kind regards

Leanne Bell

Deputy Years 5 & 6

Year 3 - 4 News from the Deputy

What a great start to Term 2.

Our focus is embedding our school wide classroom expectations in every classroom across years 3 and 4. In order for every student to be learning and achieving, teachers are to teach to expected behaviours and reinforce every day.

Look at these examples of amazing bookwork in our classes!

Thanks to: Arav 3B, Karly 3A, TJ 3C, Penny and Madeleine 3F, Liliana and Alex 4D, Jaden, Frankie and Sumalee 4A, Francesca, Finn and Alexis 3E.

Thank you to students, staff and parents for your support over the past term. I am excited to let you know that I will be taking up an acting principal position from Wednesday the 3^rd of May at Gordonvale State School for a period of 10 weeks. Ms Brooke Carmody will be replacing me during this period.

I’m really looking forward to this opportunity to work with our 3/4 students. I previously worked at TBSS for 7 years prior to taking on a Deputy Principal position at Mareeba SS. I am excited to be back and look forward to getting to know students and families over the next 10 weeks.

Prep - Year 2 News from the Deputy

Welcome back to term 2!

Thank you to all parents and carers for making school a priority and ensuring all our students are at school every day. I can not say it enough times but Every Day Counts.

This term I am also adding another phrase of Every Minute Counts. Every day we have a large number of our P-2 students arriving late to school. School starts at 8.55am and for many of our classes, important lessons such as guided reading, spelling, Core English work as well as specialist lessons. It is so important that students do not miss these lessons and yes, every minute counts!

Enrolments now open

Enrolments are now being accepted for Prep 2024 along with Expressions of Interest for our Montessori program. If you have a young person born between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 they are eligible for Prep in 2024. Enrolment packages can be collected through the office or online at our school website.

Swimming

The first round of intensive swimming begins this week. Please make sure your child has returned their permission and payment at the office and has their swimming gear with them every day. Thank you to the P and C for their support in keeping the cost down for this important program.

Head of Inclusive Education News

Welcome back! It’s great to see so many smiling faces at school and to see so many children return to school after the holiday break.

Now we are into Term 2, school staff start to think about transition for all students, but particularly those who will be starting Prep or Year 7 in 2024.

The Autism Hub and Reading Centre has some great resources to support transition which are useful for all children with or without additional needs. If you have a younger child starting Prep in 2024, you might like to check out the online transition resource below:

https://autismhub.education.qld.gov.au/resources/online-transition-resource/information-for-families-of-children-with-a-s-d

The following tip sheets and templates can help prepare your child for school:

Families of students in Year 6 who will transition to Year 7 in 2024 will find the resource below very useful. It contains links to the Community Resource Unit resources and suggests a sample approach in planning for transition.

https://education.qld.gov.au/student/students-with-disability/supports-for-students-with-disability/Documents/transition-to-secondary-school.pdf

While many resources note a specific disability, many of these resources are suitable for use for children with and without additional needs.

If you would like to learn more about transition and inclusion at our school or discuss reasonable adjustments for your child, please make a time to see me in the Inclusive Education Centre.

Samantha Ilic

Head of Special Education Services

Year 3-6 Curriculum News from the Head of Deparment

Welcome back to school! I hope you and your families had a restful and enjoyable Easter break and are feeling recharged and ready to start Term 2.

As we begin this new term, I want to extend a warm welcome to our returning students, as well as those who are joining us for the first time. We are thrilled to have you as part of our school community!

Our dedicated and experienced teachers are ready to guide and support your children through their education. We encourage you to reach out to them if you have any questions or concerns.

Our school swimming program begins in week 3 for our prep, year 2, year 4 and year 6 students Please ensure you have paid and handed back your child’s swimming note to admin.

In addition to our academic curriculum, we offer a range of extracurricular activities, including sports which provide students with opportunities to develop their skills, explore new interests, and build meaningful relationships with their peers. Please keep an eye out in the newsletters and on the school’s Facebook page for information about upcoming programs and events.

Prep - Year 2 Curriculum News from the Head of Department

Welcome back to Term 2. Our students are already into the swing of their learning and ready to tackle what will be another busy term. Our Prep and Year 2 students will participate in swimming this term.

Look out for our Term Overviews next week which will outline the learning your child will engage in this term.

Guidance Officer News

Mentoring for students / Support for families – Stride is an organisation which is new to servicing our area. They have current availability for mentoring, early intervention to support children and families, and are able to do home visits if needed. The attached brochure given more details about their services. Families are able to self-refer for this service if they like – Stride can be contacted via phone on 4036 9000 or by email at take2@stride.com.au

Counselling supports are also available through:

Uniting Care Counselling – Provide 1:1 counselling for children and adults, and can do this at school for children if needed, families can self-refer – Ph 1300 096 203

Centacare counselling – Provide 1:1 counselling for children and adults, and can do this at school for children if needed, families can self-refer – Ph 4044 0130

Family support and assistance is also available through:

Family and Child Connect – This service visits the school each Tuesday afternoon (from about 1pm – 3.30pm), and Holly Haste is the worker designated to our school. This service also operates over school holiday periods from their main office, in Cairns city. Families can engage with this service in order to be linked with appropriate support options for their children. Families can self-refer during holiday periods, or anytime via Act for Kids’ main office in Cairns city (Phone: 07 4033 8500) or Mobile: 0458 735 738 (Holly’s work phone).

PBL - Positive Behaviour for Learning is our Whole School Approach for behaviour

Our ‘deliberate’ approach to intentionally teaching focus expectations at our school is seeing significant results. This is achieved weekly at full school parade through student made videos from Trinity TV, role plays and visuals. This is also taught within all of our classrooms on a weekly basis.

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.

Last week our focus skill was 'Play in the Correct Area'. This is an important message to share with our students as we are seeing a slight rise in wrestling games at school that don’t fit with our school rule to ‘Be Safe’

This weeks focus skill is 'Follow Directions'. Our school wide expectations in both classroom and playground environments to ensure safety, learning and respect.

Focus

Week 1

Week 2 & 3

Q Parents

Thank you to all those parents who have registered for QParents. This means every registered parent now has the opportunity to access to their children’s student records at their fingertips, anytime, anywhere. Haven’t received an invitation from us yet? There’s still time! Please let us know immediately. Or if you are simply looking for further information, videos and FAQs on QParents, visit https://qparents.qld.edu.au

Swimming Timetable

Reminder - please sign consent forms and make payment.

Thank you to our P&C for funding over $20,000 to subsidise the cost of swimming for our families.

Walk Safely to School Day

NAIDOC Week

Student of the Week

Week 2

Around the Classroom

End of term math activity 5D

Each student in 5D was given $1,000,000 to spend as they wished! The rules were simple: your total MUST be $1,000,000, you must buy more than 11 items and you may not buy more than one of the same items.

The problem solving has been spectacular to say the least!

Visual Arts - Year 3 artwork showing the element of Space and one point perspective.

Strong engagement in learning across the classes with our Year 1 students. Students are using a series of hand gestures to count the syllables, manipulating words and segmenting word sounds to unpack their spelling and reading skills. We are super proud of our students and the work our teachers are achieving to support them.

Mrs Graham’s Visual Arts students are producing beautifully detailed art. Visual Arst is a Specialist subject offered in 2023 at TBSS. Watch the Administration building entrance display board for updates of our student’s outstanding Visual Arts. Thank you Mrs Graham for supporting our learners with their creativity.

Year 2 students continue to rigorously engage in our Science of Reading focus. Trinity Beach State School has hosted 5 visiting schools in recent months to demonstrate the work our teachers are conducting with our students. Our improvement data is tracking positively.

Thank you for the continued support from our P&C Association for purchasing resources to support reading within our school.

In the Playground

Our new Covered Outdoor Area was in full swing as it is open for play. There was a great deal of excitement in the air as the Year 3 & 4 students used this new space. A big thank you to the Department of Education and the Queensland Government for this magnificent addition to our school.

New e-scooter rules and fines
New rules and increased fines have been introduced for riders of e-scooters, eskateboards and similar devices that aim to make riders and everyone they interact with safer.
Visit Streetsmarts Qld for a quick and easy to understand listing of the new and existing rules, including:

• Lower speed limits of 12km/h on footpaths and shared paths, and 25km/h max elsewhere unless signed otherwise.
• Increased fines for mobile phone use ($1078).
• Increased fines for speeding and riding on prohibited roads.
• Mandatory helmets (bicycle or motorcycle) and bells for devices with handlebars.
• Age limits:
o Only those aged 16+ can ride e-scooters and e-skateboards.
o 12-15-year-olds can only ride with adult supervision. Adult supervisors must have close direct oversight of the juvenile PMD rider at all times to provide direction, guidance and potential intervention.
o Primary school aged children, under 12 years, shouldn't be riding escooters or e-skateboards. They can ride low powered electric scooters, which have a maximum speed of 10 km/h or less and are powered by a small electric motor capable of producing 200W or less. These are considered wheeled recreational devices and have a separate set of rules to PMDs. More information is available on the Department of Transport and Main Roads website.
• No passengers - one person only at a time per scooter.
• Where to ride:
o Paths - footpaths, shared paths, separated paths and bike paths
o Local streets (speed limit of 50km/h or less, no dividing centre line)
o On-road bike lanes (where the road speed limit is 50km/h or less, or where the lane is physically separated from the road).

The website features new videos demonstrating where you can ride e-scooters and at what speeds, as well as other helpful safety tips.
Visit StreetsmartsQld for more details.

Families for Inclusive Education

Run Club

Infrastructure Update

New Tuckshop grand opening was on Tuesday 18 April thanks to the amazing P&C Team.

All students arriving to school in the morning are to remain in the new Covered Outdoor Area and be seated. Playgrounds are not to be used before school.

New school signage has been Installed to reinforce our school global rules of Safety, Respect and Learning. Small groups are also using the outdoor learning areas to support reading groups as PA are seen doing here. We are so lucky!

Congratulations to Lucas and Kalani for winning this week’s Bike Bus Attendance Award. Both students have won themselves $5 tuckshop vouchers sponsored by Poolwerx Clifton Beach.

Bike bus is on every Wednesday and the Super Southerns are catching up to the Mighty Northerners.

Cancellations due to poor weather conditions will be posted on our Facebook page prior to 7am Wednesday morning.

See you on the road kids

Tuckshop News

Grand opening of the new Tuckshop.

A big thank you to the P&C Association, the Operations team and the parent volunteers for your help. Luckiest school ever!

Paradise Pals Playgroup

Paradise Playgroup

What a wonderful day to finish up our term at Paradise Playgroup. Thank you to all of our amazing families who joined in the fun.

Prep Enrolments Open

Sports News

Congratulations to Skye for making the Peninsula Netball Team, she will be heading to Caloundra for the state titles at the start of June!!

Michaelmas takes out first place for the 4-6 Cross Country. Go Michaelmas! Go the Manta Rays!

TCN trials this morning TBSS came 5th overall.

Congratulations to the following students who made the TCN team and will now progress to the Peninsula trials;

- 10 Years Boys: Knox Pilgrim 6th
- 10 Years Girls: Alaina Chappel 10th (Shadow)
- 11 Years Boys: Jacob Massimissa: 2nd
- 12 Years Girls: Skye Parslow: 6th

Visual Arts Donations

Book Club

Student Leaders 2023

Smithfield State High School Anzac Ceremony:

Our student captains and Mr Hollis attended a very respectful Anzac Ceremony at Smithfield State High School. It was a great opportunity to support our partner school under the Tropical North Learning Academy to pay our respects. Lest we forget.

This year, Trinity Beach State School joined more than 350,000 students across the nation to ride, walk, scoot and skate to school. It was a day full of fun where students, teachers and parents discover the joy of riding and kick-start healthy habits for the future.Thank you to Tony and the team from the Trinity Beach Night Owl for supplying fresh fruit for our RIDE2SCHOOL participants. And thank you to our very own TBSS breakfast club - Janelle Thorn - for supplying the delicious muffins A big shout out must also go to all the teachers, parents, and student leaders for donating their time to make this day possible

Video National RIde 2 School Day 2023

Year 6 Camp

Book Fair

Thank you for supporting our Book Fair.

Look at all the books we have been able to get to re-stock our library as a result of all the bookfair sales.

Attendance Celebrations in Prep D.

A party with the Principal and Deputy Principal proudly sponsored by Event Cinemas Smithfield Shopping Centre. This included popcorn, ice-creams, vouchers and music to dance to.

Every Day at School Counts!

Thank you to all of the effort put into some amazing crazy hats. The students were so excited and had a great time. We even had a visit from a fluffy bunny…

We have superstar teachersOur staff have been reviewing the progress of our improvement focus on the science of reading and the use of decodable reading resources school wide. It is showing pleasing results. Well done team!

Cross Country Year 4-6

Celebrating our diversity at Cultural Day today. Thank you to our families for supporting the shared morning tea and effort put into the children’s clothes from different cultures and nationalities. We are a lucky country and community to share this diversity and respectfully acknowledge our differences.

The Anzac spirit lives on in the hearts and minds of all Australians as we acknowledge the courage and sacrifice of those who contributed so much in shaping the identity of this proud nation.

Thank you for all who attended.

Lest We Forget…

Keeping the Anzac spirit alive in the hearts of the future. Outstanding turnout from Trinity Beach State School.

Smithfield State High School

Community News

ADF Equip – 9-12 year olds – Wednesday 31 May 2023

DMFS Cairns will be running DMFS' ADF Equip program, which helps ADF kids adjust to the unique challenges they experience as a member of a Defence family.

This session focuses on parental absence and is for ADF children 9 - 12 years old.

Being held on the junior campus of Redlynch College, the program is tailored to be delivered in an age-appropriate way. These sessions offer an opportunity for children and young people to have some fun, learn, support and bond with peers in similar circumstances

Where: Redlynch College, Jungara Rd, Redlynch

When: 3.30pm-5.15pm Wednesday 31 May 2023

Registration: Eventbrite – ADF Equip Cairns

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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