Term 3 Week 9 School Newsletter
- Upcoming Events
- Principal 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
- Year 3-6 Curriculum News from the Head of Deparment
- Prep - Year 2 Curriculum News from the Head of Department
- Guidance Officer News
- PBL - Positive Behaviour for Learning is our Whole School Approach for behaviour
- Focus
- Q Parents
- Under 8's Day
- Run Club
- Sports News
- Student Leaders
- Year 3 Beach Excursion
- School Improvement Focus
- Parent Teacher Interviews
- Book Week
- The Variety Bash
- Year 6 Reef Trip
- Gifted Global Green
- Year 1 Fire Eduction Incursion
- Instrumental Music Performance and Information Session
- Student Free Day
- Student of the Week
- Attendance Award
- Golden Garden Gnome Award
- Around the Classroom
- In the Playground
- School Grounds Officer
- Musical News
- Bike Bus News
- OSHC News
- P&C News
- Paradise Pals Playgroup
- Paradise Playgroup
- Prep Enrolments Open
- Smithfield State High School
- Community News
Upcoming Events
Principal Message
Year 5 - 6 News from the Deputy
We are fast approaching the end of a very busy term. Our Year 6 students have only last week spent the day out on the Great Barrier Reef, researching the health of the reef in order to complete their Science assessments. Despite the weather and swell, students enjoyed the day out of the classroom. Those of our students heading to Smithfield State High School in 2024, should have brought a subject selection form home. It is important that families have completed the enrolment process to ensure that students receive their first preferences in elective subjects. Subject Selection forms need to be returned to the high school.
Next term our aspiring Year 5 leaders will have the opportunity to nominate for 2024 school leadership positions. Students who would like to be considered will bring home a permission form in Week 2 which also outlines the election process. We are encouraging all inspiring leaders to have a conversation with their parents/ carers and teachers regarding what leadership looks like and the qualities that make a good leader.
Our awards night will also be held next term. While most awards will be determined by academic results and teacher nomination, students will be required to self-nominate for citizenship awards and sporting awards. Any student who has volunteered their time to assist the school or community is eligible for a citizenship award. Sports awards are awarded to a student who has been selected in a Peninsula, FNQ, State or National Team. Nomination forms will be sent home early next term.
Have a safe holiday and we will see everyone back Term 4.
Year 3 - 4 News from the Deputy
What an exciting term of learning and events we have had this term. Excursions, the Variety Bash, Bully No Way Day just to name a few. Only 1 more week to go until school holidays! What a beautiful time of the year it is, I hope you have something enjoyable planned for over the spring break 😊
Curriculum
Students and teachers have been working extremely hard the last couple of weeks to finalise assessments for English, Maths and Science. Both Year 3 and 4 students were lucky enough to have excursions linked to their units this term, enhancing their learning experience. All students in attendance had an amazing time and I’m sure families heard all about it. A big thank you to all of the parents who volunteered their time to attend, we really appreciate your support.
There are plenty more fun and exciting things happening throughout Term 4. Be sure to keep an eye out for Year Level Overviews in Week 2 next term, these will provide information about all of the units of work that students will be completing for the final term of the year as well as important dates.
Once again, thank you for all of your support over Term 3, it’s been another wonderful term 😊
Brooke Carmody
Deputy Principal Year 3 & 4
Prep - Year 2 News from the Deputy
Ditto Show
Next term we will be hosting Bravehearts’ Ditto’s Keep Safe Adventure show for all Prep-2 students.
The Ditto’s Keep Safe Adventure show is age appropriate, interactive, entertaining, thoughtful and engaging. Ditto, the star of the show, along with an education facilitator, bring children on a fun journey of personal safety education through music and relatable characters.
The show is underpinned by the following six principles of personal safety:
- Differentiating safe and unsafe feelings
- Recognising the bodies warning signs
- Identifying private body parts, public body parts, and private and public places
- Helping children identify language and feelings associated with secrets, and to identify adults to Go and Tell for their Safety Team
- Reinforcing that there is no secret that children cannot tell someone
- Knowing what to do if they feel unsafe or unsure
Ditto’s 3 rules for keeping safe!
- We all have the right to feel safe with people
- It’s ok to say NO if you feel unsafe or unsure
- Nothing is so yucky that you can’t tell someone about it
Parents are welcome to come to the free show in the hall.
Date: 24th October 2023 Prep – 11.45am
Year 1 and 2 – 2.05pm
Further information will be emailed home by your class teacher.
Prep 2024
We are encouraging everyone who has a child born between 1st July 2018 and 30 June 2019 to complete your enrolment paperwork and submit it to the school administration. Enrolment interviews are well underway and Stay and Plays are not that far away!
Don’t miss out on these key transition opportunities.
If you have any questions please call the Julie, our Prep Enrolment officer.
Under 8s day
The biggest most exciting day in the P-2 calendar is almost here… Under 8s Day!!! On Friday the 15th of September, under the JLC and 1/2 oval will come alive with exciting activities and displays.
We invite everyone who is under 8 (and their parents/carers) from not just our school but our local community to come and join us and celebrate everything great about being under 8! Huge thanks to Ms Hanley and Mrs Passfield for all the hard work putting this event together!
Head of Inclusive Education News
As Term 3 comes to a close, Inclusive Education Team members begin to focus on transition planning. Planning for transition supports students as they move through the various stages of learning and assists with student wellbeing and engagement.
At Trinity Beach State School, we offer focussed and intensive transition support for students with disability and students with additional needs to address barriers they may experience to successfully start school through our Early Years Pathways program, moving to secondary education in conjunction with local high schools, and moving within the school to different year levels.
Transition planning strategies for students with disability and additional needs consider the needs of students and their families, enabling staff at our school to identify and provide reasonable adjustments and supports so students can access and participate in their education at all learning stages.
Organisations such as Raising Children (www.raisingchildren.net.au) and Positive Partnerships (www.positivepartnerships.com.au) offer some great online resources to support student transitions. The Autism Hub (https://autismhub.education.qld.gov.au) also offer a number of resources to support students with autism to participate in transition.
Please visit the Inclusive Education Centre (access and parking via Huon Street) if you feel your child may require additional support to transition to our school (Prep), within our school (year level to year level) or from our school (Year 6 into 7).
Kind regards,
SAMANTHA ILIC
HEAD OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
Year 3-6 Curriculum News from the Head of Deparment
As we come to the end of Term 3, our amazing teachers are working hard to get all assessments marked and give feedback to the students about how they can continue to improve.
This week I have had the pleasure of meeting with teachers to moderate work samples from the year 3-6 cohorts to ensure consistency in marking across all classes. Through this process, I have seen some amazing travel brochures from our year 6 students, in depth analysis of historical poems from the year 5, incredible cereal box designs from year 4 and beautiful poetry about their trip to the beach from our year 3 students.
On top of all this amazing work we have had an extremely busy term with whole school events and excursions. The Art showcase presented by Mrs Graham and our instrumental music teachers was a great success with brilliant pieces of art and musical performances form our Junior and Senior strings and concert bands. Excursion wise, we had our year 6 reef trip, year 4 trip the Portsmith Waste Management Facility, the year 3 trip to the beach and the Box Jellyfish Co performance.
Thanks to all our teachers and teacher aides who make all these amazing opportunities possible for our students. I look forward to seeing our students back ready to continue to impress us all in Term 4.
Prep - Year 2 Curriculum News from the Head of Department
As we near the end of term 3 classes will be finishing up their unit work and starting their assessments. These assessments provide teachers with valuable information about what students have learned, how well they learned it and areas to focus on next.
Diving deeper into spelling
The Prep to Year 2 teachers have been engaged in professional learning over the past few weeks aimed at further building on the many components of spelling.
We explored:
Morphology – the study of meaningful word units such as prefixes, bases, roots and suffixes.
Etymology – the study of the origin of words and Syntax
Syntax – The study of the grammatical relations between words and other units within the sentence.
Book Fair
Thank you to all who came to the book fair in week 7. Every purchase made at book fair equates to Scholastic dollars for the school to spend on books and resources. Your purchases have contributed to approximately $1500 worth of new books for our library. These books will be hitting the library shelves soon.
New Furniture for the Library
Thanks to a donation from our amazing P&C, we have been able to source some new library furniture. We purchased some new shelves and book tubs to house our growing number of books and some tables for activity centres. The students especially love sitting and reading at our new ottoman tables.
Guidance Officer News
Hello everyone!! With the school holidays fast approaching, I’m aware this can be a time of high stress for students. Sometimes, we do not see the impacts of this at school, but you may be seeing it at home.
If you have concerns about your child’s wellbeing over the school holiday period, here are some things you can do.
- Make an appointment with your GP for your child (and you) to attend together. If a face to face appointment is not possible, Telehealth (over the phone) appointments can also be a good option. Discuss your worries with your GP, and see what supports / ideas they can offer. All GPs have training in assessing mental health and wellbeing.
- Link with phone or online services to get some ideas on promoting wellbeing for your child. A range of excellent websites and phone services are available – here are a few links to get you started.
Parentline – phone 1300 301 300 or online at www.parentline.com.au
Kids’ Help Line – phone 1800 551 800 or online at https://kidshelpline.com.au
Beyond Blue – phone 1300 224 636 or https://healthyfamilies.beyondblue.org.au
- Speak with services to get some support for you / your child / children – some options include:
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
Act for Kids – Family and Child Connect – Families can engage with this service in order to be linked with appropriate support options for their children – Ph 4033 8500. The FACC worker linked with our school is Holly Haste – she is happy to be contacted directly on her work mobile, which is 0458 735 738.
PBL - Positive Behaviour for Learning is our Whole School Approach for behaviour
A few weeks ago, we started our new Pause Program at TBSS in years P-6. This is a program that teaches students about social and emotional well-being and strategies regulate their behaviour. Students have been learning about the 3 main parts of the brain, the Pre-frontal Cortex, the Amygdala and the Hippocampus and how these all work together. Students also created their very own Mind Jar which is a tool that students use as part of the Pause Strategy to help them to calm their thoughts and regulate their emotions again. Students are very enthusiastic to learn about the brain and the science behind it and word getting around is that many students have already been educating parents and family about this too!
A parent session will be offered early in Term 4 to share with parents a little more about the Pause Program and ways that this can be used at home as well as school. Keep a look out on our Facebook page for more information regarding this.
Focus
Week 7
Week 8 & 9
Week 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
Under 8's Day
Run Club
Another Run on the board. Run Club is a foot in the right direction thanks to Nyah and our generous sponsors.
Rebel sport
Grill’d Cairns Central & Smithfield
Woolworths Smithfield
Sports News
Ty Williams Cup
On Thursday 31 August our Year 3/4 Rugby League team played in the annual Ty Williams Cup at Jones Park, Cairns. Despite having very little opportunity to train, what with wet weather and oval closures, the team put in an outstanding performance on the day. This is a non-competitive event with an emphasis on team work and promoting school sport, although naturally each team plays to win! This is what the Coach, Mr O'Grady (Instrumental Music Teacher) said about the carnival:
"It was a great day for the team going undefeated with four wins and a draw. Very proud of the effort, teamwork and sportsmanship of all the players. Huge thank you to the parents who were there to come and support the players."
We want to give a big thanks to Mr O'Grady for giving up his lunch times to train and for attending on the day. As a local Ivanhoes player himself, it is very fortunate we can have him as our school footy coach too!
Words from the players:
Eli Dacey: We had lots of fun and made new friends!
Oliver P: I want to thank all the other schools that came and played - but they just weren't good enough to beat us!!
Zane: I loved getting a day off school to play lots of footy!
Great work to all players on the team!
Year 3 - Archer F, Arthur, Harvey, Lachlan M, Eli Dau
Year 4 - Beau, Oliver B, Zac, Zane, Eli Dacey, Lennox, Christian, Seb H, Jett L, Alex P, Oliver P, Justin and (absent) Julius
A good day for the under 12 competitive division. They played 7 games and only lost one so just missed out on the final.
We had 3 teams representing Trinity Beach Star School in the Fowlers Cup netball competition. Each team showed exceptional sportsmanship when they played against teams from all around the district. A huge thank you to Kiralee, Lauren and Samara who umpired our games for us.
Under 12 soccer team at the FNQ Soccer Championships.
Won 3 games.
Drew 1
Lost 1
A fantastic achievement by all 7 boys.
Congratulations to the TBSS Ty Williams cup team who were undefeated with four wins and a draw. Big thanks for all the parents who came to support and help out!
U10 Boys at the Jamie Gosling FNQ School Soccer Championships. We came 5th overall out of 15 teams.Akira received the golden boot award for scoring 11 goals in total and also received the 3rd highest points for MVP.
Student Leaders
Student Leaders attend the Principal’s office each Monday to plan and prepare for our weekly Parade. Parade occurs Monday afternoons from 2.15pm. See you there!
Year 3 Beach Excursion
School Improvement Focus
The single biggest predictor of academic success is reading to children. Not worksheets, not flash cards, not iPad apps, not fancy private schools or blinking toys. It is mum, dad or carers taking the time every day or night (or both) to sit and read them wonderful books
. Thank you for supporting our improvement focus for your children at Trinity Beach State School Tropical North Learning Academy…
Parent Teacher Interviews
Parent Teacher Interviews | Thanks for connecting with us. Thank you to our sensational P&C Association for cooking a free BBQ! Thank you for voting for what movie to watch on our oval next term.
Book Week
Book Week activities are happening across our school. Mr Hollis our Principal disappeared from the office and we found him reading one of his favourite books with a small group.
TBSS teacher and International Impact Book Award Winning Author, Ms Timena Rhodes-Scott, was the Mystery book week reader under the Tree Stage today.
The Variety Bash
The Variety children’s charity rally cars. Approximately 100 rally cars and 400 fundraisers were here at around 12.15pm. The TV crews arrived… Parents welcomed! Our P&C Association catered for the event contributing 1000s of dollars to our school.
Variety is a children’s fundraiser supporting sick and disadvantaged young people. The rally finish line 
was Trinity Beach State School Tropical North Learning Academy. The energy and excitement was heard from afar. What an experience that won’t be forgotten!
Trinity Beach SS P&C Association… you are nothing short of amazing! We are the luckiest school in QLD. Thank you to all the parent volunteers and our Operations Manger Jodi Brown for leading the team to cater for over 350 Variety Rally members.Variety organiser Bear informed the Principal (seen in a rally car lapping the oval…
) that this was the most successful conclusion to the rally fundraiser they had witnessed in 15 years. When asked why, the response was… “respect from the 1000 students was nothing like they had seen and the food was amazing!” 
From Trinity Beach State School Tropical North Learning Academy we thank you. #ourschool.
Year 6 Reef Trip
Gifted Global Green
Gifted Global Green students Jasmin, Salvatore and Adam shared their environmental initiative with Mr Hollis and Mr Paterson today. They have designed coasters with an important environmental message on them to share with a local business. Great work team!
Year 1 Fire Eduction Incursion
Instrumental Music Performance and Information Session
Thank you to the staff, students and families who attended and performed.
Student Free Day
Student Free Day Agenda | Enabling our staff
Today we focus on the following priority areas in alignment with our improvement focus:
Understanding Trauma - Quest PD
Surface to Deep Reading Comprehension
Diving Deeper into spelling
Social Emotional Regulation approach in classrooms
First Aid training
Student of the Week
Week 9
Attendance Award
Week 9
Golden Garden Gnome Award
Week 9
Around the Classroom
Year 6 | Precision focused learning in Year 6 has our students producing pleasing results in Mathematics and English.
3B working hard on their poetry assessments with some assistance from our parents 
2D have been learning about the brain in their Social Emotional PAUSE lessons. They had to use their brains to build a “brain hat”. Fun fact they learnt- the right side of your brain controls your left side of your body and vice versa. Fantastic hands-on learning
Prep B and 3B Buddy Reading |The younger students are so proud to be reading to the year 3s.
In the Playground
Prep students model respect for our environment as they help maintain our beautiful school grounds.
Montessori prep successfully grew cucumbers and tomatoes, with the sale of tomatoes to families we purchased some new plants for our garden.
Scarlett and Sienna Year 3E soaking up the beautiful weather.
Reeve and Matilda in Year 4 are using their lunch breaks to further their studies in the Languages subject Chinese.
The gardens are thriving due to the weather and the assistance of our dedicated green thumbs…
We love our school!
School Grounds Officer
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Musical News
A wish upon a star coming true 
Watch this space…. Tickets available now!
We’re breaking free! Come along and see us challenge the status quo https://www.trybooking.com/CKNFN
We just won’t stop, til we reach the top! 
https://www.trybooking.com/CKNFN
Bike Bus News
Award winners for week 3
OSHC News
P&C News
Our P&C Association should be nominated for a showcase! Our P&C continue to support lunchtime clubs for students. We thank you so much for placing students at the centre of our collective efforts.
We thank the most amazing P&C Association in the state….pssst it’s the Trinity Beach SS P&C Association for the volunteers who supported our Father’s Day Stall today.. Again, you add so much to our school culture with your inputs. We thank you .
Paradise Pals Playgroup
Paradise Playgroup
Prep Enrolments Open
Smithfield State High School
Mr Brunetto and Mrs Winter from Smithfield State High School Tropical North Learning Academy attended our school to inform Year 6 students about subjects selection for 2024. Please contact Smithfield State High School for further information in supporting your child with transition.
Community News
