Term 2 Week 9 School Newsletter

Upcoming Events

Principal Message

Year 5 - 6 News from the Deputy

Year 5-6 news from the Deputy

As I write this, our students are finalising their assessments for reports and looking forward to the holidays. It is hard to believe that we are halfway through the year. This has been an action packed term for our senior students.

Gifted Global Green Project

This week our Year 5 Gifted Global Green students, Salvatore, Jasmine & Adam, presented their environmental sustainability initiative at an industry forum. Students are working on a project to clean up the creek at Bluewater with the help of Ms Kidney our Digital Technologies teacher and Cr Olds. Their project presentation highlighted why they have developed this project, the project objectives and targets, their methods, how they will evaluate the success of the project, their   progress so far and what they still need to undertake to complete their project.

Following their presentations, the students were provided with feedback from industry mentors.

Young Scholars

Our Young Scholars are completing their Term 2 projects and rotations. The ‘Philosophon’ competition at JCU between our Philosophy in Action students, Caravonica SS & Yorkeys Knob SS is always a highlight of the term.

Offers for places in Semester 2 will occur next week. Placement in Semester 1 does not guarantee a place in Semester 2. Offers are made based on academic performance, meeting high standards of behaviour and attendance.

Busted Being Brilliant

Over the last couple of weeks, we have had a focus on our school rule ‘Being Respectful’.  The focus has been on respectful talk – no swearing and not back chatting or arguing. Students who are seen out in the playground being respectful to both their peers and our staff will be rewarded with a “Busted Being Brilliant’ ticket which then goes in the draw for tuckshop vouchers.

Kind regards

Leanne Bell

Deputy Years 5 & 6

Year 3 - 4 News from the Deputy

Welcome to Week 9. What an exciting time of Term 2 it is with the assessment period ending and our School Sport Carnivals to look forward to next week! My term has been absolutely amazing getting to know the students and parents and I appreciate your support throughout the term.

REPORT CARDS

Report cards will be emailed out in Week 10. Mid-year is when you will receive a formalised update on how your children have progressed through the first half of the school year. It is an opportunity to see all the hard work they have been doing throughout this time and to celebrate their achievements. Please take this time to discuss your child’s learning with them and engage in rich conversations regarding this and discuss what their focus may be moving into the second half of the year.

CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS

We have a high standard of classroom expectations at Trinity Beach. Over the past couple of weeks, the Year 3 and 4 students have been working hard to ensure they are following these day in, day out and their efforts should be commended. At the end of next week, one class from Year 3 and one class from Year 4 will be chosen to enjoy a pizza party with myself to celebrate their continued commitment to maintaining a calm, clean classroom.

CURRICULUM

Our Year 3 & 4 students have had some exciting units of work throughout the first semester. This will continue into Semester 2 so please keep an eye out in Term 3 around what exciting things your children will be learning about after the winter break.

COMMUNICATION

Our teachers are dedicated to keeping the line of communication open with parents and students. Please do not hesitate to book an appointment with your child’s class teacher should you wish to discuss anything with them. Our teachers are often busy preparing for the day before school so they may not be able to give you the time you need if you show up unexpected to have these discussions but by making an appointment, this ensures the necessary time is available to do this with fidelity.

Have a wonderful winter break, stay safe and I hope you get some quality family time throughout this period. I look forward to seeing you all in Term 3 😊

Prep - Year 2 News from the Deputy

Being ready to learn

Every family has their own values and beliefs that they uphold in their household. These values and beliefs help to guide our little people into being who they are as adults. School is a place where all of these values come together and as you can imagine, they don’t all align, hence why we have school rules to ensure a culture which is supportive and clear to all students as to what is expected, when they come through the gates to school. They may seem like seven simple words – Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be a Learner but they encompass so much.

Being Safe means that all students have the right to be safe at school and when each child keeps their hands and feet to themselves, everyone should be feeling safe. I often hear from parents that I give permission for my child to hit back, use self-defence. This is not the stance we take here at school. Physical aggression is not accepted and is always followed up by the school with consequences. We talk with students about assault and that outside the school gates these behaviours are followed up by the police. The ‘One Punch Kills’ has seen many lives ruined by one laps of judgement so here at school we teach through our behaviour follow ups, what is accepted in society and what is not.  Being safe is also about making good choices that will keep you safe – like not sliding down the JLC steps. As fun as this can be, it is a long way to fall and there is nothing worse than calling parents to let them know that an ambulance has been called for their child.

Being Respectful is another important life skill that will transfer to adulthood. All of our staff are highly capable professionals that need to be respected. Swearing, talking inappropriately or talking back to adults, are not values that we accept in our school environment. This is also true between students. Manners are a universal and still widely required and it is important that these are instilled and acknowledged. We have many beautiful respectful children in our school.

Being a Learner is what we are all about. Being open to learn, showing learning behaviours. Often, we see the impact on learning when students come to school without a good breakfast in their bellies. The impact food can have on our students ability to think and behave is massive. Hangry is a real thing. High Sugar foods also have a significant impact on behaviour and can lead to students not being ready to learn and disrespectful and unsafe behaviours. Sleep is also another factor that impacts being able to learn. Students who are tired are not ready to learn.

These expectations are there not only to make sure that our students are “Ready to Learn” when they come to school, but that our teachers are enabled to do their job of teaching all students.

We are focused on behaviour and students following the school rules to ensure our school values and culture is maintained. Trinity Beach State School is a Brilliant School, and we want this to maintain. Students are given behaviour expectation reminders on parade, in their classrooms both through scheduled lessons on behaviours and incidental reminders, as well as visual reminders everywhere in our school.  If your child is not ready to learn by being unsafe with physical aggression, or using repetitive disrespectful language towards adults consequences will be put in place. It is important that school and home are working together, in a consistent approach, to ensure that students understand that appropriate behaviours are required at school. We thank you in advance for working with us to ensure that all students are Safe, Respectful Leaners.

Athletics Day

Next Wednesday (21^st June) is the P-3 Athletics day! Students are to go to their own classrooms for roll marking and will then move down to the oval with their class.

9.05-11.00am – March past and Sprints

12.00-1.30pm- Rotational activities

Preps and year 1s will be running 60m and the year 2 and 3 students will be running 80ms with the order of sprints as below

1. Prep – Boys than girls
2. Year 1 – Boys than girls
3. Year 2 – Boys than girls
4. Year 3 – Boys than girls

Report cards

Report cards will be emailed out towards the end of week 10. Please make sure that your email address is up to date with the office.

Prep enrolments for 2024

Prep enrolments are open for 2024. If you, or someone you know has a child born between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019 they are eligible to enrol in Prep. Enrolment packages are available via the office or on our website. Next term, on Thursday 3^rd of August we will be holding our 2024 Prep Information Session from 5.00- 6.30pm.

Thank you for a busy yet productive term. Please enjoy a safe and fun holiday with your children and we look forward to starting term 3 together.

Martina Jackman

Head of Inclusive Education News

Throughout the year school staff collect information and data about students with disability at school.  Early in Term 3, our school will come together to moderate and finalise our NCCD data.  An important part of this process is sharing information about NCCD with our families.

What is the NCCD?

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) takes place every year. All schools in Australia must collect information about students with disability. The NCCD is a collection that counts:

• the number of school students receiving an adjustment or ‘help’ due to disability
• the level of adjustment they are receiving to access education on the same basis as other students.

Students are counted in the NCCD if they receive ongoing adjustments at school due to disability. This ‘help’ allows them to access education on the same basis as a child without disability. The NCCD uses the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act 1992. Schools provide this information to education authorities.

What is a reasonable adjustment?

An adjustment is an action to help a student with disability take part in education on the same basis as other students. Adjustments can be made across the whole school (eg ramps into school buildings). They can be in the classroom (eg adapting teaching methods). They can also be for individual student need (eg providing personal care support). The school assesses the needs of each student with disability. The school provides adjustments in consultation with the student and/or their parents, guardians and carers. Schools must make reasonable adjustments if needed. The Disability Standards for Education 2005 define ‘reasonable adjustment’ as an adjustment that balances the interests of all parties affected.

How is NCCD data used?

The NCCD data informs funding and work by schools and sectors. It ensures that support for students with disability becomes routine in the day-to-day practice of schools.  The NCCD also supports students in the following ways:

• The NCCD helps schools better understand their legislative obligations and the Disability Standards for Education 2005.
• Schools focus on the individual adjustments that support students with disability. This encourages them to reflect on students’ needs and to better support students.
• The NCCD facilitates a collaborative and coordinated approach to supporting students with disability. It also encourages improvements in school documentation.
• The NCCD improves communication about students’ needs between schools, parents, guardians, carers and the community.

You can find additional information about the NCCD on the NCCD Portal https://www.nccd.edu.au/ If you have any additional queries or questions about the NCCD, please contact me by phone on 40571444 or email silic2@eq.edu.au

Enjoy the holiday break!

Samantha Ilic

Head of Inclusive Education

Year 3-6 Curriculum News from the Head of Deparment

What a busy term we’ve had at Trinity Beach this term!

With one week to go assessments have now been complete and our amazing teachers are finalising their reports to be sent home via email on the Thursday of week 10 (22/06/23).  Please ensure your contact details are up to date with our admin staff.

Next semester, your child/ren will continue to work through their year level of the Australian Curriculum with their classroom teachers as well as experiencing new learning with their specialist teachers.

I hope all our students have a fantastic holiday and come back to school ready to learn!

Prep - Year 2 Curriculum News from the Head of Department

Heggerty Phonemic Awareness

The P-2 Sector has been engaged in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness this term.

What is Phonemic Awareness? Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate phonemes (letter sounds). Children learn to become aware of how the sounds in words work, and this can then help to develop and strengthen skills like reading and spelling. Students are enjoying the fast-paced lessons and fun hand actions.  

Montessori

The Year 1/2 Montessori teachers have been busy planning out their next units using the Australian Curriculum and the Montessori philosophy of learning.  

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The school holidays are a great time to attack your Premier’s Reading Challenge books. How many will you read over the holidays? Additional record forms are available from the library.

Guidance Officer News

Here is some helpful information for families:

The Smith Family offer financial supports to assist with educational costs.  To be eligible, you must have a health card or a pension card, and provide a copy of that card along with a completed application form.  Students are expected to have regular attendance in order to be eligible.  Forms are available from Lisa at the front office.  For further information about this and other support programs they run, check out https://www.thesmithfamily.com.au/

Online Safety continues to be a concern for a number of families.  If you’re not sure how to have this discussion with your child, the parent esaefty site at https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents has some wonderful ideas.

https://www.esafety.gov.au/young-people is the student-specific site, if you want to have a look at this one with your child.

Date Claimer – Mental Health Week and our Belonging Breakfast (Week 2, Term 4) for studets, families and staff to attend - more information to come, event supported by our P&C.

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

As you will have noticed some exciting things have been happening around the school to celebrate all of our students that continue to follow schoolwide expectations of being safe, being respectful and being a learner. We have launched our “Busted Being Brilliant” campaign focussing on students following the playground expectation and it has created a buzz around the school! Your children are very proud when they receive an entry into the draw for this campaign as they should be. At Trinity Beach we continue to celebrate and encourage all of our students in becoming socially and emotionally ready to tackle the world ahead of them. Be sure to keep an eye out via out Facebook page to see who our lucky winner is for Week 9! Our Focus Skill posters for the week are provided via our Facebook page each week to allow you the opportunity to continue to reinforce school expectations at home.

Busted Being Brilliant is a new incentive where safe play and respectful recess behaviour is the focus. Families please encourage children to continue their outstanding behaviour to go into the draw to win a $10 tuckshop voucher for each sector of the school (P-2, 3-4, 5-6)

Focus

Week 6

Week 7 

Week 8

Week 9 & 10

Q Parents

To continue to streamline the school’s sale for all items – school fees, excursions, performances, instrumental music we are moving to a cashless school.  This allows our school to reduce the time, effort and expenses required to collect and follow up payments from parents and students.  When you receive an invoice payments can be made online via BPOINT or QParents.

We are proud of being a relatively-cashless school and thank you for moving online with us!

QParents

QP is an online portal helping the school move toward a cashless and paper friendly school. 

• The QP portal allows Parents and Carers to grant participation consent online for activities such as swimming and excursions which reduces our need to print out paper consent forms
• Also, the QP portal enables Parents and Carers to make payment online for school activities and viewing unpaid invoices payment history.

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

Young Scholars – Information for Year 4 students & aspiring Year 5 & 6 Students

The Tropical North Learning Academy (TNLA) is a strategic partnership between Trinity Beach State School, Smithfield State High School and James Cook University. The Tropical North Learning Academy’s mission; Engaging young minds to meet the challenges of the future, by offering unique, world-class education programs from the early years to university and beyond, is met by providing signature programs which enable students to access innovative excellence programs. The goal of these programs is to drive a culture of aspiration and success with an expectation of high academic achievement.

One of the programs is the “Young Scholars”.  This program incorporates the subjects Philosophy in Action, Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow, Sustainability, Adventures in Science & Makerspace (STEM).  Year 5 and 6 students travel to Smithfield State High School to participate in these subjects, delivered by Secondary teachers throughout the year. 

Children are identified through school academic, attendance and behaviour data. The expectations for Young Scholars are to maintain:

• High levels of academic achievement and engagement
• High levels of attendance and behaviour
• The values of the Tropical North Learning Academy – motivation, aspiration, belief and success.

Across Year 5 & 6 there are four opportunities to join the Young Scholars. Participation in the program is reviewed in each semester based on students continuing to meet, or having met the above expectations.

Offers are made on a semester basis based on the current reporting period. Year 5 Young Scholars for  Semester 1 2024, will be selected on their Semester 2 2023 Year 4 reports and data.

Year 6 students who are not Young Scholars and are aspiring to be, can still be offered a place in Smithfield SHS Junior Learning Academy based on Year 6 Semester 2 2023 data.

Lost Property

Lost Property is overflowing | From lunch boxes to drink bottles and more…Please send your children the Lost Property area outside the Hall to check if it is their property.

Athletics Week

The Trinity Beach State School ‘Athletics Week’ is fast approaching. We encourage students to come dressed in their sports house coloured shirts (AGINCOURT SHARKS, UPOLU CROCS, MICHAELMAS MANTA-RAYS and SUDBURY STINGERS) and wear the appropriate footwear. Being a sun smart school, all students must bring and wear their school hat, apply and reapply sunscreen and stay hydrated throughout the day by drinking plenty of water. A healthy breakfast, followed by an adequate morning tea and lunch is also essential in providing your child with the best opportunity to perform well. We welcome our parents, carers and wider community to this event. Below is the athletics week schedule:

Monday 19^th June:

• 9:00-11:00am: 1500m (nominated students only born in 2013, 2012 and 2011).

Location: School oval

Tuesday 20^th June:

• 9:00-11:00am: 800m (nominated students only born in 2013, 2012 and 2011).

Location: School oval

• 12:00-3:00pm: High Jump (selected students born in 2013, 2012 and 2011 as per class trials).

Location: Sports hall

Wednesday 21^st June:

• 9:00-9:30am: March past and war cries (Prep – Year 6)
  Location: School oval

• 9:30-11:00am: 60m / 80m sprints (Prep – Year 3)
  Location: School oval

• 12:00 – 1:30pm: Rotational activities (Prep – Year 3)
  Location: School oval/basketball courts

Thursday 22^nd June:

• 9:15 - 11:00am: 100m (Year 4-6 students) and 200m sprints (selected students born in 2013, 2012 and 2011 as per class trials)

• 12:00 - 3:00pm: Field and novelty rotational activities (Year 4-6 students)

Location: All events on this day will be held on the school oval/basketball courts

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the HPE teachers.

Mrs Donovan, Miss Powell and Ms Arthur

NAIDOC Week

Students this week were engaged in traditional art activities creating resources for NAIDOC celebrations in Week 1 T3.

Free Dress Day

Year 2 Incursion Roaming Wild

Year 2 Incursion Cairn Museum ‘History on the Move’

Indah's fundraising event

One of our students, Indah, at 11 years old, will be the youngest Australian to summit Mt Kilimanjaro to raise funds for cancer research.

Premier's Reading Challenge

We’re participating in the Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2023. An email outlining the information and the reader record form has been sent home.

As a school we’ve set ourselves the goal of reading 5,000 books!! If you haven’t already, start reading today.

Reader record forms can be picked up from the library and completed forms can be returned your class teacher or the library.

Run Club

At run club there were 76 students who participated.

We would like to thank Marcus from Rebel Sport Cairns Central for coming over and joining us, all of the kids who come along and participated and the parents who helped out and brought fruit for all of the kids to snack on.

See you at Run Club on Thursdays.

Run Club | Student led initiative is a step in the right direction |Over the years we see many students leading with a vision to create exciting initiatives and opportunities in our school. I would like to acknowledge Year 6 school captain Nyah O’Mahony and her very dedicated mother Bec.

I am so impressed with Nyah’s passion, drive and enthusiasm. There are over 100 students participating in Run Club each Thursday morning from 8am and multiple sponsors supporting our school. Well done Nyah for your exceptional leadership skills at such a young age.

Mr Hollis,

PRINCIPAL

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Run Club report from Nyah

Yesterday was the best day ever at Run, we had 109 kids running. The police also stopped by, and they were yelling out encouragement as we ran. They also kept flashing the lights for us!We asked them to join us but they said unfortunately they can’t because they are on duty.

Paul at Woolworths gave us extra fruit, we had 12 kg of oranges and 6 kg of apples and everything was eaten.

Next week is going to be an EPIC end to the term and I’m working on making term 3 even bigger and better!

Readers Cup

In total over 450 schools across QLD competed today in different regions. The FNQ region has the biggest participation rate in all of QLD with 48 schools attending and competing with TBSS at St. Andrews Catholic College in Redlynch.

Students had to read 5 novels over the past few weeks, they were asked 10 questions per novel with 30secs to discuss and write each answer.The teamwork and collaboration shown by our team was exceptional and we are very proud of their dedication and effort.

Congratulations Ari McAlister, Alice Solomonides, Sahara Bruceand Tora Bennison.

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National Simultaneous Storytime

The Speedy Sloth is ready! National Simultaneous Storytime.

It was finally time for the event of the year, the students couldn’t believe it National Simultaneous Storytime was here!

The book was read by a speedy sloth in a suit and students made some craft that looked rather cute.

5/6 read the Speedy Sloth, we watched the Auslan reading, the students made connections between the Non-Manual-Features of Auslan and how they use verbal expression and emphasis to do the same thing. Then we researched and discovered some crazy facts about Sloths and wrote about what we'd do if we were a sloth for a day.Facts:

- Avocado's wouldn't exist without sloths.

- Sloths are 3 times stronger than humans.

- Sloths are faster in water than on land.

- Sloths can fall over 30m without injury (and fall that far from trees weekly).

- Sloths have 'rod monochromacy' which means they're nearly blind in the day (one reason they move so slow).

- Sloths have the slowest metabolism of any mammal, it takes them 30days to digest ONE leaf.

- Sloths one poop once a week and can shed 1/3 of their body weight when they go (they also do a weird 'poop' dance everytime and scientists have no idea why.

- Sloth's fur contains a whole ecosystem! The average sloth has 950 beetles and moths living in its fur, there are some invertebrates that can only be found in a sloth's fur.

(some of the classes responses).

If I were a sloth for a day......

I'd would swim and jump all day, then lay down to digest my one leaf....

I'd challenge the humans to a pull up competition and then make them build me an Avocado Shrine when I won....

I'd jump off the SLC over and over and over again because it would be fun and I wouldn't get hurt....

I'd get laser eye surgery so I could run really fast and actually beat the animals in the race....

I'd keep jumping off taller and taller things to see how high I could jump and not get hurt....

I'd try to do a million pullups and accidently fall from the tallest tree and not be scared....

I'd buy a whole collection of cool sunglasses so I could see in the daylight....

I'd lounge around and eat my single leaf then swim in crystal clear water....

I'd challenge all my mates to a pull up and a swimming competition....

I'd start charging all the beetles and moths rent so I could retire.

Student Leaders

Students give back to our community |

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give…”

Our student leaders attended Caravonica Waters Retirement Village to give back to our community. The warmth in the heart of our students and the smiles they achieved on the elderly’s faces is something to be proud of.

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Prep Families Morning

Prep Connect | Thanking families for supporting our learners for a thriving start to school. A sensational turn out in our new Covered Outdoor Learning Area. Thanks for the continued support of our school. Family and connection to school means a lot in the journey of learning whether you are dads, mums, aunties, uncles, grandparents or carers we thank you

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Disco

Disco Time! (Student Council)

It’s Disco fever here for the Years 3-6 students. Lots of sugar, dance moves and energy for our parents at home time… 

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GGG Presentation Night

Student of the Week

Week 6

Week 7 

Week 9 

Attendance Award

Week 6

Week 7

Week 9

Golden Garden Gnome Award

Week 6

Week 7 

Week 9

Around the Classroom

5A students continue to uphold the high standard of learning in their class. Students are using the laptops to support reading activities in their classroom.

6C have just started their science unit exploring electrical circuits and how they work.

Prep A Writing Superstars!Check out the independent writing four Prep A students brought to show Mrs Jackman! Well Done Everyone!

Sphero space rover engagement in Digital Technology studies.

HPE | Students are fully engaged in practical activities during their sport lessons.

It is an absolute pleasure to walk through our classrooms and observe passionate, committed and confident teachers working with our students. We are so lucky at Trinity Beach State School Tropical North Learning Academy. Our students are responsive and engaged. Thank you team

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Prep C Independent writingStudents from Prep C came to share their “On the weekend” independent writing with Mrs Jackman. They are using their letter sound knowledge to sound out their words when spelling!

Great job!

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More beautiful Visual Arts presented in our Administration building from Mrs Graham’s Visual Arts classes. The latest instalment is visual illusions by Year 5.

Technology Design (TD) | Using QR codes and Coding

Mrs Kidney’s TD Year 5 students have been designing tropical biome gardens, creating QR codes to research the facts and designing quizzes using coding. So much innovation occurring in our classrooms.

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Year 3 students are deeply engaged with their writing tasks from sizzling sentence starters to the introduction of poetic devices.

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6E students have to plan a teacher for session activity to present to their class. Today Madeline and Elizabeth assisted the class to create terrariums with succulents. Very exciting!

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4A playing various games to consolidate their understanding of contact and noncontact forces. With their knowledge students were able to adjust different types of forces to win the 60 Second Slam Challenge.

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In the Playground

Prep Fun Club |

Classes are awarded 2 x Prep Fun Club tickets for making good choices and being a safe respectful learner. Today’s Fun Club involved gardening in the Prep area with the new equipment Mrs Jackman has organised for the students.

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Another beautiful day in the playgrounds of Trinity Beach State School Tropical North Learning Academy

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Year 6 students are modelling safe and respectful behaviours by following the rules for safe play on our Tornado Swing…(P&C Association funded )

It all starts with pride and respect.We have so many brilliant students at our school who care, take responsibility and look after each other and … our gardens. This is our botanical garden here at Trinity Beach State School Tropical North Learning Academy. Thanks little green thumbs

You have to love a good game of Checkers to start the day…

Junior School Choir

Junior School Choir melts the hearts of the school!

Thank you Mrs Walker for leading the choir students and allowing the students to sing to our staff, students and parents at full school Parade on Monday.

School Musical Update

We’ve got our head in the game! Check out these Wildcats!

Bike Bus News

Bike bus Award recepiant week 6 

Sports News

On Friday 26 May our Year 5 and 6 AFL players attended the annual AFL Q Schools Cup Carnival at Watson's Oval, Manunda. They played four games in their pool and another game against their equally placed team in the second pool. Their last game was victorious! All played their best and represented our school well. Thank you to Mr Paterson for coaching the team at school in lunchtimes (weather permitting) and on the day. Thank you as well to Mrs Brinn for supporting the team and the players and also the parents who were able to be present. 

Team Players:

Year 5 - Finley, Knox, Jackson G, Jackson H, Kaleb, Jacob M, Seb T, Max T, Reggie, Carter

Year 6 - Max H, Jacob T, Jonny, Heath, Noah, Casey, Oliver S, Jara, Rhys K, Kade

Congratulations Charley for being named Captain of the peninsula team and leading her team to the best they have ever done in the history of this age group by making the semi-finals.

Charley was awarded most valuable player for her team for the whole carnival.

Charley was also the only girl from Peninsula to be selected to represent the Queensland side at the state championships!

OSHC News

Paradise Pals Playgroup

Paradise Playgroup

Prep Enrolments Open

Smithfield State High School

In order to manage attendance, bookings must be made through our online booking system (SOBS)

https://eq.sobs.com.au/pt3/parent.php?schoolid=70160

Community News

Smithfield Shopping Centre 

I Spy Ocean Animals:

Join us for The Great I Spy Ocean Animals Scavenger Hunt these School Holidays. Find all the ocean animals, collect stamps, and get a FREE Donut from Donut King Smithfield. Plus, we'll donate $1 to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation for every participant.

Customers can also find out about The Great Barrier Reef Foundations new video game app that converts points to cash so anyone with a smartphone can help protect the Great Barrier Reef

Dates:

Saturday 24 June – Sunday 9 July

Times:

Mon – Fri: 9 AM – 5 PM

Sat: 9 AM – 4 PM

Sun: 10 AM – 4 PM

Link >>  https://www.smithfieldcentre.com.au/whats-new/events/the-great-i-spy-ocean-animal-scavenger-hunt/

Let’s Shell-abrate:

Unleash Your Inner Mermaid/Merman with personalised seashell keychains. Kids will receive a keychain each to design with a range of seashells and beading.

Dates:

Saturday 1 – Sunday 9 July

Times:

10 AM – 1 PM

Link >> https://www.smithfieldcentre.com.au/whats-new/events/kids-seashells-key-chains/

Be Part of the Smithfield Community Reef:

Collect a recycled plastic bottle cap & apply to a reef-inspired artwork designed by Melanie Hava. Together let’s watch it come to life! All bottlecaps have been collected from the Smithfield Palm Tree Recycling/Containers for Change.

Dates:

Saturday 24 June – Sunday 9 July

Times:

Mon – Fri: 9 AM – 5 PM

Sat: 9 AM – 4 PM

Sun: 10 AM – 4 PM

Link >> https://www.smithfieldcentre.com.au/whats-new/events/bottle-cap-mosaic/

Melanie Hava’s Coral-Themed Artwork enhances Food Court:

From Saturday 24 June, a beautiful piece of artwork in the Food Court will be installed thanks to Aboriginal Artist, Melanie Hava. Melanie’s work is influenced by her diverse cultures and experiences in the outback, rainforest, and reef country. 

Link >> https://www.smithfieldcentre.com.au/whats-new/editorial/melanie-hava-artwork/?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SchoolHolidays&utm_content=cta-image-melaniehava