As of 2024, we will be returning to a booklist for all students in Years 1 - 6. Updates to the Student Resource Scheme policy have made continuing to use this scheme, impractical for our school.

What does this mean for families?

Later in the year, the school will send home booklists for students entering into Years 1 to 6 in 2024. The booklist outlines most of the items each child needs for the year. You can then choose one of the options below:

• Tick that you would like to order all items indicated on the booklist, pay for it, and the company then delivers it all to your home.
• Tick selected items from the booklist and pay for those selected items and have them delivered to your door. Shop for other items individually.
• Find another provider/s to source all of the items on the booklist. If this is your choice, please ensure they are providing quality. 

You will be responsible for labelling / covering your child's booklist items. 

Please note that some items cannot be supplied through a booklist. A costing will be supplied in the term newsletter for these.

This term students in Prep, Year 2, Year 3 and Year 6 are participating in Dance lessons every Wednesday or Thursday.  Students in these year levels will learn two choreographed dances, that they will perform in front of family and friends in the last week of term.

The performances will be held in the school hall on Wednesday 21st June at the following times:

Year 3: 1:40pm - 2:00pm, Year 2: 2:00pm - 2:20pm,  Prep: 2:20pm -2:40pm, Year 6: 2:40pm - 3:00pm 

Have you got a child starting Prep next year?

If yes, have you filled out an Expression of Interest form from the office? 

If you are in our school catchment area, have you also picked up a Prep enrolment pack for your child and booked an enrolment meeting time?

We are currently processing our Prep enrolments for next year and have started out enrolment meetings with in-catchment families.  Getting your child's completed Expression of Interest/Enrolment form in early, ensures you will be added to our email list for communications pertaining to Prep for 2024.

Every family is different, and will have their own ideas around what’s considered ‘normal’ or acceptable use of digital devices. Technology is everywhere in our homes and parents and carers play an important role in helping children to develop digital intelligence — the social, emotional and practical skills needed to successfully navigate the digital world. 

Please ensure you make the time to check in with your children and ensure appropriate security settings are in place. Managing the way your children use digital devices at home is to ensure you are informed and have developed some rules of your own. Check out the following resources and information available - https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents 

Digital Technology Guidelines for Parents 

1. Know what the rules and expectations are at school 

Our school digital device policy and guidelines make a great starting point for families. Make sure that you and your child know what the rules are at school. Importantly, support the school and keep your own expectations in line with the schools. 

2. Specify hours for digital use 

Set the ground rules for when your children can use their devices, and when they need to shut them off. It’s just a smart way to build a habit for the whole family so it becomes ingrained and just the way things are done in your home. 

3. Consider a digital device ‘contract’ 

Clearly set out your digital device usage guidelines, and print them in an agreement that you and your children can both sign. If there are any disputes, then you both have the expectations in writing. The goal is to set clear boundaries. You can develop the guidelines together and they should be reasonable rather than excessive. 

4. Talk about respectful relationships, safety and inappropriate websites 

Do not let your children loose in the digital world without having several conversations about how to stay safe online, how to show respectful behaviour and be aware of inappropriate websites. Each of these topics is a separate issue on its own, but each is deeply affected by the virtual, boundary-free nature of digital technology. 

5. Change the rules if necessary 

Be prepared to keep evolving your rules based on your children’s behaviour, maturity, sleep habits, their tendency to leave homework or chores unfinished, bullying or any number of issues that will invariably crop up to ensure they are clear around your expectations. 

6. Keep digital devices out of the bedroom 

This is one rule that you should stay firm on. 

7. Have a ‘digital detox’ one day a week 

The only way that this idea will work is if you join them in making one day a week a digital device-free day. They will probably not like it, and neither will you, but the point of having one day off is to prove that they can live without their digital device, and involve them in different forms of communication and entertainment. 

Our year 6 students are currently in the midst of planning an upgrade for the year 6 eating area. In the very near future, we hope to add a basketball half court, decking around the tree and some sandstone blocks. 

For this to happen, we need funds and so we are collecting eligible bottles, cans and poppers through 'containers4change'. We have equipped our students with bags and over the last 2 weeks they have brought 24 FULL bags of eligible containers for our collection. 

If you can help by donating eligible bottles, cans and poppers, please gather a collection and bring them to the senior undercover eating area before school any day. We would be so grateful! 

We also have a SCHEME ID (see attached flyer) if you'd prefer to drop them at one of the  'Containers4Change' drop off points - the closest being at Arana Plaza. 

Thanks for helping our school and the environment!

Miss Molineux 

As part of our Student Council's fundraising efforts to support Childhood Brain Cancer research, students have been asked to come to school dressed as a pirate on Thursday 15th June, for a good cause and with a gold coin donation.

Starting Friday this week (9th June) and every morning leading up to Pirate Day, our Student Council will also be selling Pirate Eye patches to further help in their fundraising efforts.

Pirate Eye Patches will be $2 each and will be available for sale from 8:15am, just outside the student entrance to the office.

This year our Senior Athletics Carnival will be held at Arana Little Athletics (Leslie Patrick Park) on Tuesday 20 June. Thursday 22 June has been set aside as a back up day, in case of wet weather.

Students will have their names marked off their class roll at 8:30am and the first event will commence at 8:45am, with the day finishing at 3pm. Supervision of students by admin staff, in their designated class groups, will commence from 8:15am. There will be an administration tent set up for first aid and for students to sign in, if they arrive after rolls have been marked.  Parents who take their children home early from the carnival, will need to sign their children out at this tent as well. 

Due to the carnival being held offsite, a consent form for permission to participate in the Senior Athletics Carnival has been uploaded to QParents for all students in Years 3 to 6.  Please complete this online consent form to give your child permission to attend the carnival.  If your child will not be attending, please select DO NO CONSENT and this will indicate that your child will not be in attendance on the day. 

We are looking for parent helpers to help set up on the day with setting Sports House Marquees and equipment for events. (we are aiming to start setting up at 7:00 - 7:30am). Also, if you would like to help with officiating and running of the events on the day, we would really appreciate your help. Please contact Mr Rogers via email (droge13@eq.edu.au) if you are available.

All children are required to be dropped off and picked up from Leslie Patrick Park Arana Hills by parents/guardians for an 8:30am start. If your child attends OSHC on this day and you are unable to drop them at Leslie Patrick Park or pick them up, please contact the school office on (07) 3872 1888 to organise transport to and from the venue.

The “Pats Gift” race (Fastest 100m runner from each age group), and medal presentations will be held on Friday 23 June (The last day of Term 2). Times and further details will be sent out at a later date.

“You have to try and reach for the stars, or try to achieve the unreachable. Never give up until you have reached your goals”

- Cathy Freeman (Olympic 400m Gold Medalist)

WHERE:  Pats Road Oval

WHEN:  4pm - 8pm

WHAT:  Food Trucks, Popcorn, Glowsticks, Lolly Bags, Hair Colour and Tattoos, Family Movie, & the Thirsty Curlew P&C Bar!!

WHEN DOES THE MOVIE START:  6pm

HELPERS NEEDED (sign up here: volunteersignup.org/MDJJX):

Set Up - 1pm-4pm (still need 6 people)

Bar Shift 2 - 5.30pm-7pm (still need 4 people)

Bar Shift 3 - 7pm-8pm (still need 3 people)

Tickets Shift 1 - 3.45pm-5.30pm (still need 4 people)

Tickets Shift 2 - 5.30pm-7pm (still need 4 people)

Popcorn & Glowsticks Shift 1 - 4pm-5.30pm (still need 1 person)

Popcorn & Glowsticks Shift 2 - 5.30pm-7pm (still need 3 people)

Popcorn & Glowsticks Shift 3 - 7pm-8pm (still need 4 people)

Pack Up - 7.30pm-8.30pm (still need 6 people)

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE:  trybooking.com/CIPYN

BYO: chairs / picnic rugs to sit on, and also your warm blankets, beanies and torches so you can stay warm and get back to your car safely.

Come on Pats Road!  Let's have some fun and make some memories with our kids!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to the beautiful, incredible, amazing, lovely Jayne Hughes who put her hand up to be the 2023 Father's Day Stall Convenor!!  You have single handedly saved the day ... thanks to you our Pats Road kids will be given the opportunity to go shopping for their dads and pick something super special just from them to give on Father's Day.

Phew!  We can rest easy now :-)

OMG how good was DONUT DAY last Friday!!  Thanks for supporting the Tuckshop in this little special treat day.  Next special event in the Tuckshop is Senior Sports Day (Tuesday 20 June).  There will be a limited menu (snacks only) available to pre order through Flexischools for children in Year 3-6, and the Tuckshop will operate a pop up shop at the carnival with drinks, snacks and ice blocks (no substantial lunch items).  Kids in Prep to Year 2 will have the normal Tuesday menu available (get your sushi orders in!!).

FINAL FEW WEEKS OF THE TERM ... HAVE YOU TRIED BEING A TUCKY ANGEL YET?

Please consider putting your name down either once a week / fortnight / month / term.  Come and join the fun, meet some new people, get involved in your child's school.  Volunteer shifts are 9am - 11.30am, but if you can only stay for an hour, or want to stay for longer then that's ok!!  Every minute helps!!  No experience necessary, we'll teach you everything you need to know (but just quietly, if you can stick a label on a bag then you've already nailed it ;-)  )

Sign up here:  volunteersignup.org/JYKEB

Week 9 Volunteer Roster:

Tuesday 13/06/23:  Steph Brown

Wednesday 14/06/23:  HAVE YOU GOT A SPARE 2 HOURS?

Thursday 15/06/23:  Shari Oakley

Friday 16/06/23:  HAVE YOU GOT A SPARE 2 HOURS?

Hi Everyone,

The Senior Athletics Carnival is coming up! Get your team colours ready with our house polo shirts along with ribbons and scrunchies in red/green/blue.

If anyone is interested in making scrunchies or other hair accessories for the uniform shop, please get in touch via email or phone: uniform@prss.com.au Ph: 38721844. We would love the help.  Also, I'm always on the hunt for some lovely helpers in the shop.  Please consider coming to play for an hour or so on a semi-regular basis.

Stay warm!

Nina

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Great news Term 3 Enrolments are Now Open!

Are you unsure if your child will be progressing to a new level in Term 3?

Please reach out to your child's Term 2 coach or contact Head Coach Shane shane@puretennis.com.au to discuss.

Direct Debit Students:

Your child will automatically rollover to the new term. If your child needs to move day/time or programs in Term 3 please advise Leanne at leanne@puretennis.com.au so that she can update the Term 3 enrolment.

*Should you wish to cancel the direct debit please be aware that we do require 3 weeks notice via email.

To secure your child's spot please click on the link below:

https://fernyhills.intennis.com.au/secure/customer/registration/v1/public/select-program

Term 3 enrolments will open to the outside community from the 12th June!

For general enquiries please contact proshop@puretennis.com.au

Don't forget bookings are filling up fast for our upcoming June/July Holiday Camp program. 

We look forward to seeing everyone again in Term 3.

Did you know you can signup for parent membership each term when your child is enrolled into the current term?

Not only is it a great way to spend time together but will also help your child's progress. As they say the more balls they hit the faster their progression. Chat to their coach on how you can help.

I could go on why to sign up for a parent membership but really you will see the benefits when start hitting with your child.

Click on the link below to check out our parent membership.

https://fernyhills.intennis.com.au/member/signup