Term 3 Week 5 School Newsletter

Upcoming Events

Principal Message

Year 5 - 6 News from the Deputy

Year 3 - 4 News from the Deputy

Hello parents and carers. I can’t believe that we are already at the halfway point Term 3! There are so many exciting things happening in the Year 3/4 cohort and both students and teachers are working hard to make it yet another wonderful term!

Curriculum

Students are halfway through their English, Maths and Science for Term 3 and have made a start on their HASS which goes across both Term 3 & 4. I have already seen many wonderful pieces of work from students and they continue to amaze me with the work they produce each and every day and the learning is still not done, you should be very proud of their efforts.

Excursions

Both Year 3 and 4 have excursions coming up in the coming weeks. Our Year 3 students will be visiting the Beach as part of their Poetry unit in Week 6 and Year 4 the Waste Management Centre in Week 8. Year 3 parents, if you haven’t done so already, please be sure to return your child’s permission forms asap so they are able to attend.

Thank you for your continued support, have a lovely second half of the term,

Brooke Carmody

Deputy Principal Year 3 & 4

Prep - Year 2 News from the Deputy

What a busy and exciting term 3 we have been having. Year 1 have had the Fire Department out running their Fire Safety Course. Year 2 have had Zoo to You visit for their science and English units as well as the Cairns Museum incursion to learn about our past history for their HASS unit, and earlier this term, Prep celebrated 100 days of being at school. On the last day of this term P-2 will come together to celebrate everything great about being Under 8 with our annual Under 8s day celebration. All families with children under 8 are welcome to join us on this special day.

Prep Enrolments 2024

Enrolments for Prep 2024 are well underway with enrolment interviews about to start along with booking in for Stay and Plays at the start of term 4. To access these transition activities, you will need to have completed your enrolment paperwork requirements and have handed them in at the school administration. If you have a child born between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2019, please complete your enrolment form as soon as possible to ensure your child is a part of all our transition activities.

Head of Inclusive Education News

As parents and carers you play an important role in your child’s education and social emotional development, including supporting your child through the highs and lows and helping them feel positive 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.

The organisations listed below can provide additional resources and information to support you and your child’s engagement at school:

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) projects helps parents and carers of children and young people with disability to be valued partners in their child’s education. 

CRU help families:

• Develop a clear plan for your child’s school years
• Learn about inclusive education policies and supports
• Develop communication skills so you can work with your child’s school
• Build support groups with other families

CRU give free:

• Useful information, handouts, booklets and videos
• Workshops across Queensland (morning tea and lunch provided free of charge)
• Travel funding to help you attend if you live a long way from where a workshop is happening
• Online Zoom workshops
• Telephone information and help service

Their next online (Zoom) workshop is on Wednesday 30 August from 10 – 11:30am, the topic is ‘Valued Roles at school – finding a way to belong’.  You can register by calling CRU on 07 38442211, emailing cru@cru.org.au or register at cru.org.au/events 

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

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.

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.

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.

Kind regards,

SAMANTHA ILIC

HEAD OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Year 3-6 Curriculum News from the Head of Deparment

We are now half way through the term and our students are well into their learning in their units of work. Over the coming weeks, teachers will be beginning assessments, please let your child/s teacher know if your child will be away for extended periods of time.

We have lots of excursions happening in the 3-6 space with the year 3’s going to the beach for their poetry unit, year 4 going to the Cairns Regional Councils waste recovery station and our year 6s going on their reef trip. Please ensure you have signed your child/s permission letter for these excursions and have paid.

Prep - Year 2 Curriculum News from the Head of Department

We are now halfway through the term and have already had lots of exciting things occur in Prep – Year 2.

In the past weeks Year 2 have had a “Roaming Wild” incursion. Students got to learn about, explore and feel “real animals” They then used this experience to further develop their information report writing.  

The Fire Department visited recently to teach Year 1 about fire safety.  Students learnt safety messages like “Get down low and go,go,go” and “Stop drop and roll”

Prep have been humming along with their sentence writing this term. They have been learning to share their opinions on books they have read.

Book Week is almost here!

We have an exciting Book Week planned for week 7. There will be lots of activities across the week including:

Costume Parade – Monday 21 August 9:15

Book Fair – open Monday 21^st through to Friday 25^th

Mystery Reader – a ‘mystery reader’ will read a story outside the library at 1^st breaks

Guidance Officer News

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

As you may have already read in previous notices, we have lots of positive things happening around behaviour and social and emotional learning at Trinity Beach in Term 3. These changes are all thanks to parent, staff and student feedback. We were fortunate enough to have a Social Worker Barbie join our team in Term 3 to help support student and both Barbie and our Guidance Officer Jenny are running an intensive 10 week Social and Emotional learning program for some of our students. In addition to this, we are also utilising our 2 Youth Support Workers to run programs for students targeting these areas as well. To ensure that all students have the opportunity to gain these skills, from Week 6, we are introducing the “Pause Program” in each of our classrooms. Some information has already gone out about this to parents about this and a parent information session will be advertised in the coming weeks for those who wish to learn a little more about the program and use some of the language and strategies at home. As we know, the link between home and school is critical to the development of children and together we can support them to become the best version of themselves 😊

Students role playing this weeks Focus Skill “Follow Before School Expectations”.

Focus

Week 4 & 5

Week 6

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

Year 6 Reef Trip

Year 4 CRC Waste Resource Recovery Tour

Year 3 Beach Excursion

Student Free Day

Bullying No Way Day

Art Showcase

Art Fundraiser

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.

School Opinion Survey

The School Opinion Survey is open until Friday, 18 August 2023.To have your say, check your email for an invitation from the Department of Education titled School Opinion Survey for parents and caregivers, 2023.The survey can be completed as soon as the invitation is received and will take approximately 5 minutes using a computer, tablet or smart phone.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.

Disco

Book Fair

Book Week

Book Club

Book Club occurs before school and is a quiet respectful space to read for enjoyment.

Run Club

Recycling System

Year 6 students Zoe, Willow, Keira & Aisa have supported our student council with the installation of red bins that collect plastic containers. If everyone can follow the simple visual directions on the bins, we can get 10c and raise money for our school. There is one under the JLC, SLC and COLA areas. Well done team!

Environmental projects

Environmental projects are flourishing at Trinity Beach State School Tropical North Learning Academy. These initiatives are 100% student driven in their lunchtimes and designed in their own time. Maileh, Maddy and Anastasia from 3F share with our Principal Mr Hollis their messages about saving the planet and how they want to promote awareness across our school community.

Sports News

Elizabeth represented North Queensland in the Surf Life Saving Queensland State Championship for Pool Rescue on the weekend of 22 July. Being held in Cairns, this is the first time the event has been held outside of SEQ. She came away with two silver medals and competed in multiple individual and team events. The North Queensland team also won the 2023 Pool Rescue Teams Classification.

Congratulations Elizabeth for showing great sportsmanship, steadfast dedication to your training (10 sessions a week!) and commitment to her team.

She had a fantastic time. 

Liam Stewart TCN - High Jump 

Alaina had a wonderful time representing TBSS at TCN she came 4th place in the 800m.

Ethan TCN - 1st place 

Keira TCN - 1st place 

Keira and Willow - TCN

Ruby TCN

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Pipper TCN - 2nd Place 

Jacob TCN

Heath and Edward represented 800m in under12s.
Heath making a sprint at the end.

TCN - Track day 

Brock competed at the FNQ short course championships recently at Tobruk. It was a big 2 days of racing for all swimmers.

Brock was awarded the 8 years boys champion for the championships.

Brock was awarded another special award (The Joyce Leeon Perpetual trophy) for being the fastest 8-year-old across all 4 strokes in Far north QLD.

Congratulations Brock

Netta Carnival on Friday

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Our Netball team is ready for game 1 | Go you legends!

Prep Information Session

Come Together

Come Together… was a huge success as the Trinity Beach State School Tropical North Learning Academy students worked with the Smithfield State High School Tropical North Learning Academy team.

This was an opportunity for our young students to realise their aspirations, motivations, beliefs and successes in Choir, Concert Band and Instrumental Music. Thank you to Ms Fallon Head of Department Arts for enabling everyone to share this beautiful evening together. Thank you to Smithfield State High School for supporting our partnership.

Don’t miss our Trinity Beach State School Instrumental Music Information session on 30 August from 5.30pm in our school hall.

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Year 1 Fire Education Incursion

Student of the Week

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Attendance Award

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Golden Garden Gnome Award

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

MS Readathon Book Swap

Congratulations to Tora her book swap was a huge success, thank you to all those students who participated and donated money we raised $88 to go toward the MS Readathon.

Around the Classroom

Year 6 students in Mathematics are exploring properties of 3D shapes by making shapes out of pipe cleaners.

4C demonstrate very responsible library behaviours on their weekly visit to the Library. Did you know that reading with your child each night can expose them to 1000s of extra vocabulary words each year!

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Visual Arts with Mrs Graham continues to astonish our community as you enter our Administration building. Year 3 art work has focussed on implied texture. You have to feel it to believe it! Join us for our Arts Showcase 30 August from 3.30pm in the Hall.

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3C are using poetic skills to write poems and work towards their individual goals.

Super engagement in our our Year 1 & 2 classrooms. There is high quality learning occurring across all classrooms. Thank you to our teachers and the students for your commitment to learning.

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In the Playground

With six coloured sides, 21 pieces and 54 outer surfaces, there are over 43 quintillion that's 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 to be precise, different possible configurations. Year 6 students are challenging themselves in the mornings with Rubix cubes. Can you match the colours?

Our P&C Association leads lunchtime activities |

Thank you to our passionate P&C team who are leading lunchtime activities during recess. Stay tuned for updates. If you would like to volunteer your time and support our school, please make contact.

Great to see the rains clear! First time in 10 days…Who needs a weather radar?

Bike Bus News

Award winners for week 3

Stop Drop and Go

Thank-you for safely using our Stop Drop and Go on both Madang and Wewak Streets.

Remember no parking and leaving your vehicle. This can be a safety risk for our students. Please refer to our signage to guide the flow.

Dangerous parking or driving can be reported to police via this link https://www.police.qld.gov.au/policelink-reporting

Thank you

Thank you to our NAIDOC Volunteers. 

OSHC News

Any new enrolments at OSHC for our September Vacation Care need an enrolment form completed by week 7 of this term. Please email oshc@tbsspandc.com.au to enquire and receive further enrolment information.

Paradise Pals Playgroup

Paradise Playgroup

Prep Enrolments Open

Smithfield State High School

Community News