Beaudesert State School Newsletter

Our Year 6 students attending Beaudesert State High School are invited to attend a Year 7 transition day on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd December. Students make their own way to and from the school each day. Our Year 6 team will be at the high school supporting students on the Monday and will return to our school for Tuesday. If you have any questions about the high school transition days, please contact the high school.

All students in Year 1-6 who participate in Religious Instruction are invited to attend a Christmas Play in our Hall on Tuesday 2nd December. This event is free. 

In 2026 our school is growing from 22 classes to 24 classes. We are working with the Southeast Regional Facilities Team to partially demolish the Tina Street side of B Block where we will lose 3 classrooms and replaced with gardens. This work is expected to commence in Term 1.

Because of this, we have the majority of staff moving classroom locations for 2026. You may have even seen some teachers moving their personal items out of classrooms already.

Introducing our 2026 classroom teaching team:

Prep A                                 Alyse Kelly

Prep B                                 Rachel Payne 

Prep C                                 Mikaela Karo

Prep/1D                             Judy Smith

1A                                          Katrina Mobbs

1B                                          Michelle Ahrens

1/2C                                     Kate Moloney

2A                                          Crystal Palliser

2B                                          Mia Nichols

2D                                         Cielle Becerra

3A                                          Amy Griffin

3B                                          Lauren Wood

3C                                         Hannah Russell

3/4D                                     Megan Heit

4A                                          Sharon Myles

4B                                          Jackie Diamond

4E                                          Jo Williams and Cathy Meehan

4/5C                                     Erin Joseph

5A                                          Neika Cooper

5B                                          Jess Martin

6A                                          Kim Foster and Henry Pellinkof

6B                                          Georgia Witte

6C                                         Melissa Ainsworth

6D                                         Matt Lourey

The Arts                                             Judy Russell

HPE                                                      Ed Brimelow

Technologies                                  Toni Wallace

Languages                                       Jacinta Becerra

A full list of our staff will be released early in the new school year. 

This year has been a fun, memorable and amazing time for us as school captains. We have come across many challenges, new experiences and completed them all with pride. As captains this year we have done many jobs including making sure everyone is safe, responsible, and respectful. We have also run important parades, laid a wreath in honour of our school at the dawn service, and helped out anyone at anytime we possibly could. Our favourite highlights of 2025 was definitely camp and social. At these astonishing activities it was a great time to bond with others and take many photos to create life lasting memories. We have had an exciting past couple of years at Beaudesert State School, however its sad to say that our time here is coming to an end.

We also want to say a big thank you to all teachers and staff members who have helped, encouraged and supported us throughout our journey here at primary school. Best wishes to our fellow year sixers good luck for their new chapter of their life at high school. Even though we are going to miss primary school, at the same time we are also excited to move on and have a fresh start at high school.

This next one is to the 2026 year six cohort we hope you have a thrilling year like we did! We know for sure that you will be great leaders and role models of Beaudesert and have no doubt you will put in 100% effort like we did throughout the year.

Goodluck,

Your school captains, Bronte and Claudia

The Preps have had a huge term so far and are preparing for the big transition to Year 1. We have been exploring the school during play times, eating lunch with the Year 1’s and 2’s and helping with transition days for our Preps of 2026. We’ve had swimming lessons, pancake day and a Halloween disco.

In the classroom we are working hard too! In English we are writing descriptive sentences about a fictional character using phonetic spelling, capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. We are also reading decodable texts with more confidence and fluency. In Maths we are learning about capacity and partitioning numbers to help with our adding, subtracting and equal sharing. In Science we are learning how things move and having lots of fun creating Rube Goldberg Machines.

With the year coming to an end, we are looking forward to celebrating a hugely successful year for our Preps. We also want to send a big thank you to the parents and caregivers of our Preps of 2025 for all your support during the year.

Please enjoy some recent photos of all the fun we have been having!

In Year 1 this term we have been very busy with lots of fun learning. In English we have been using Pig the Pug books and Bluey books to create our very own dog character to add into the stories. The students have loved being creative, giving their characters funny names and creative fur colours. In Maths students have been learning how to give and follow directions with their peers and also use location vocabulary to describe where objects are. The students enjoyed collecting data and representing the data in graphs. Finding out what ice cream flavour and sport is everyone’s favourite. As the year comes to an end, we are excited to celebrate a wonderful year of growth and achievement for our Year 1 students. We are so proud of all they have accomplished! We would also like to extend a sincere thank you to the parents and caregivers of our 2025 Year 1 cohort for your support and partnership throughout the year. Your involvement has played an important role in their success.

Year 2 have enjoyed their swimming lessons in Term 4. Students’ have been developing their water confidence and swimming skills whilst having fun at the same time.

In English this term, Year 2 students have been writing a new event for the story ‘The Wishing Kites’. It has been exciting for our Year 2 students to be involved in the co-construction of their success criteria.

In Mathematics, students have enjoyed learning to identify, describe and create transformation instructions.

In Science, students have been learning about Earth’s precious resources and how to conserve them. They have also been observing their class plants growing in different kinds of soil.

In HASS we have created a digital narrative. Following on from last term’s excursion to the Ipswich Railway Museum, this digital presentation focused on how train technologies have changed over time and how these changes affected people’s lives. Our students used the language skills they have learned to describe the passing of time, in conjunction with the media skills of how we can use composition and sound to help tell a narrative using story principles in a digital format.

Enjoy the fun photos as we wrap up an amazing year, and wishing you a Merry Christmas and safe holiday break.

What a fantastic and busy few weeks it has been in Year 3! Our students have been diving into exciting new learning across all subjects and showing wonderful curiosity, creativity, and enthusiasm.

This term in English, Year 3 students have explored the wonderful world of poetry. Students have been writing their own poems while experimenting with rhythm, rhyme, alliteration and onomatopoeia. They particularly enjoyed creating their own sensory poem about a setting from the narrative Charlotte’s Web.

In Mathematics, students have been working hard across several key concepts this term. They have been building fluency with times tables and learning strategies such as equal groups, arrays, and repeated addition to solve a range of multiplication problems. Students have practised reading simple maps, following directions, and creating their own map of familiar places. The classes also explored 2D and 3D shapes, identifying their features and sorting them based on sides, vertices, and faces. Finally, Year 3 students learned how to recognise and represent fractions as equal parts of a whole.

This term, Science has been a particular highlight for Year 3 students —especially the delicious experiment! Students investigated how heat can be produced and move from one object to another.  To put this into practice, Year 3 made s’mores using a handmade solar oven. It was a tasty and memorable way to connect scientific concepts with real-world experiences.

Holy Guacamole here we are, almost at the end of Term 4, the end of 2025 and the end of the Year 4 phase of our Primary School journey!  Congratulations to our Year 4 legends who have worked so hard to get here – woo hoo, what a ride!

Our Year 4 Camp at Currumbin Valley (https://currumbinvalleyeec.eq.edu.au/ ) was of course a highlight for everyone who attended!  The challenges, teamwork, chance to make new friends and the opportunity to connect with, not only our peers, but the Currumbin Staff and of course to nature was awesome and will no doubt hold a special place in our memories of primary school.

Creating the extra chapter (short story) for the Twits text has been hilarious, a little cheeky, and loads of fun – we admit it,  we went a little wild on this one!  Closely connected to this was our Art focus where we had a crazy, creative time, producing our own front and back covers for the Twits books - Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake are so clever (and just a ‘little’ mischievous we think too, which of course we love! 😉)!

In Mathematics we have been challenged by the world of fractions, decimals, multiplication & division – some of these are very tricky topics (of course loved by those ‘maths brains’ amongst us!) and we will need that holiday break for sure!!

Our Science focus - Living Things: Life Cycles & Food Chains was fascinating!  We enjoyed planting our Sunflowers, observing them grow (or not…), most interesting was learning a wide range of new vocabulary, while investigating how groups of living things are connected and how they impact the existence and very survival of one another!

In HASS we explored ‘all things’ mapping: creating, reading and following co-ordinates and of course learning all about the different aspects of a map – we explored our school (actual paper!!) Atlas’s checked out Google earth and looked at Egypt and Brazil in some depth, which was fascinating.

We are not quite done yet though - a reminder that we have our annual Christmas Concert – Week 9, Friday 5th December and our annual Swimming Carnival - Week 10, Tuesday 9th December.

Mrs Myles & Miss Diamond, Miss Wood & Mrs Joseph would like to wish all of our Year 4 students the very best as they prepare for their transition on to Year 5 – we look forward to seeing them all next year and hearing about their experiences throughout 2026!

Have a very merry, safe and wonderful Christmas holiday period making heaps of lovely memories with family and friends everyone!!

The Year 4 Team 😊

What a busy and exciting term it has been for our Year 5 students! We have packed so much learning into these past weeks, and we are incredibly proud of the growth, determination and creativity shown by every student.

Here’s a little look back at what our students did in Term 4: In English, students explored the wonderful world of poetry - experimenting with literary devices, crafting and presenting their own imaginative pieces. In Science, we investigated the fascinating ways living things adapt to survive in their environments, making connections between structure, function and survival. Our HASS unit took a deep dive into the characteristics of places and the important interconnections between people, environments and natural processes. Students focused on exploring bushfires, examining how these events shape communities and landscapes. Our understanding was enriched through invaluable visits from the Fire Brigade, Firesticks, and the local council, who shared real-world knowledge about bushfire management in our local area. In Mathematics, students worked hard to strengthen their skills in division, mass and capacity, and collecting and presenting data. They especially enjoyed learning how to create graphs using Excel, adding an important digital skill to their toolkit. A highlight this term was the impressive media artworks students created by combining technology with their HASS learning. Some students role-played news segments and used digital programs to stitch their scenes together, while others crafted air-clay mascots, transformed them into digital posters, built dioramas with accompanying digital storyboards, or produced powerful public service announcements.

Alongside classroom learning, students took part in a variety of special days and school events. We enjoyed a fantastic Halloween dress-up and disco, supported a pancake fundraiser, and saw our Year 6 leadership nomination process take place. Some of our boys were involved in the JC Action Sport Character Development Program, and we strengthened our knowledge of personal safety through Day for Daniel and an accompanying Police Safety Presentation. Students also learned important digital safety messages during the ThinkUKnow online safety session with QPS, and we proudly watched several classmates perform in the Instrumental Showcase.

We can’t believe we are already at the end of the year. The progress each student has made is truly remarkable - they should all be incredibly proud of how far they’ve come. As we wrap up assessments, we’re looking forward to some festive fun with Christmas activities, including preparing for our Christmas concert, and taking time to consolidate all the wonderful learning from throughout the year.

Thank you for a wonderful journey in 2025! We hope you all have a safe and wonderful break over the Christmas and New Year period.

From all the Year 5 teachers. 

Hi Parents/Carers,

What a year we’ve had! Finishing off this year, we’ve had a few different events!

Social

Last week the students were able to enjoy a fun night with their closest friends, scrubbing up quite nicely, enjoying a scrumptious meal and hilarious entertainment. This event was an opportunity to get dressed up and celebrate their achievements and closing the chapter on primary school. Check out the photo gallery below to see some of the fun from the night.

Japanese Day

On Friday, 28th November, students were given the opportunity to immerse themselves in many aspects of Japanese culture. They took part in a traditional tea ceremony, enjoyed rounds of sumo wrestling and karate, and even had the chance to test their musical and rhythmic skills on Taiko drums. It was a fantastic day that concluded with a tasty bento box for lunch.

Graduation and Transition Day BSHS

Week 9 will be a busy one! We begin with BSHS transition days on Monday and Tuesday. Later in the week we have our farewell parade on Wednesday and our graduation is on Thursday night. The kids are so excited to formally celebrate their achievements with their closest loved ones. We are so thoroughly proud of all of our students and cannot wait to see their growth in many years to come!

 We wish all year 6 students a wonderful end to the year, a safe holiday and magnificent transition to high school in 2026!

From your Year 6 teachers,

Mrs Foster, Mrs Witte, Mr Lourey and Mrs Wilkie

 Please be sure to contact the office to update your details if anything has changed i.e. phone numbers, email addresses, home address & emergency contacts. It is crucial that we have the right information on the system should we need to contact you.

The office is open Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm and can be reached on 5540 1111.

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The preferred payment method is BPOINT which can be done online at https://www.bpoint.com.au/payments/dete , on your QParents app or by phoning the school on 55401111 and selecting option 2.

You can also make payments at the school office on Mondays & Tuesdays from 8:30am - 3:00pm

This term in the arts, the students have been doing their drama, dance and music assessments.  The students have performed their creations in front of their classes. 

 Below are what your students have been doing. 

Preps- Creating their own journey stories 

Year 1 & 2 - Creating wild and calm dances and music

Year 3 - Perform a disco song using a xylophone and body percussions

Year 4-6 – Musical Theatre

It has been wonderful getting to know all the students across the school this semester, as I stepped into the Arts teacher role.

Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who was involved in the sporting carnivals, trials and events held at our school and in the district this year. It is very heartwarming to know we have people in our community which sacrifice their time and effort to improve the experience for everyone involved.

Secondly, I would like to pass on some information about the upcoming Swimming Carnival:

-          The event is on December 9th

-          Students born 2016-2013 will be attending. All other students will have a regular day at school.

-          Students arrive at the school (normal time) with their swimmers underneath their school uniform.

-          Students will have their name marked off by their teacher then will walk down to the pool.

-          Once the day is complete, students will walk back to the school.

-          No canteen for students.

-          Please do not order tuckshop as it will not be delivered.

And lastly, please read below an opportunity presented by the Beaudesert Kingfishers.

🖤💙💖 PLAY LIKE A GIRL IS HERE! 💖💙🖤

A fantastic opportunity is coming up for girls interested in rugby league!

The Beaudesert Kingfishers have launched their new Play Like a Girl program — an all-ages, all-abilities development program designed to help girls build skills, confidence, and knowledge of the game in a supportive environment. 💙🏉

Starts Thursday, Jan 22 | 6-week program

• U6–U11: 5:00pm–5:45pm

• U12+ and Seniors: 6:00pm–7:30pm

👉 Seniors also have the option of a second weekly session with regular season coaches.

The program covers skills, game knowledge, defence, nutrition, strength & conditioning, fitness, and injury prevention, and will be led by Mick Hancock, NRLW players, Emily Hall (Strength & Conditioning Coach), and a dedicated team of coaches and mentors.

📆 Registrations open Dec 8th!

• Included in season fees for current Kingfishers players

• Open to all — no transfers or permits required (just the cost of insurance)

• Every participant receives a Play Like a Girl polo & water bottle!

👉 Learn more at: https://beaudesertkingfishers.com.au/play-like-a-girl-2026

This is a great chance for local girls to get involved in sport, learn new skills, and be part of a supportive community. 💪🏼

If you would like your child’s school sporting achievements outlined in the newsletter, please contact the front office on 5540 1111. A reminder that the P&C offer school sporting sponsorships which can be applied for via the front office. The application can also be found on our school website under Support and Resources / Forms and Documents. 

This term in Japanese, our classes have been learning more hiragana which is the Japanese writing system. I am really impressed with how well the students know how to read and write them.

We have also been exploring some Japanese sports and games, both traditional and modern. Our Year 5 and 6 students can read and write sentences such as “I play football everyday”. Doraemon has been visiting the classes that have shown the best participation and behaviour during lessons. Congratulations to the following classes so far this term: 4A, 6B, 5A, 5B, 3A, 4/5C and 3/4D.

Doraemon had a lot of fun in 5A – check out the photos below.

Good job everyone! YOKU DEKIMASHITA よくできました。

Becerra Sensei

It has been an exciting and productive term across Digital Technologies, with students from Prep to Year 6 exploring how the digital world works and building the skills they need to use technology confidently and safely.

Prep students have been busy investigating the data all around them. Using iPads and the Seesaw program, they have recorded information, explored personal vs. public data and discussed what information is safe to share online. They have also developed important early digital skills, navigating iPads, searching, and using the keyboard to type, backspace, enter, and add spaces.

In Years 1 and 2, students have focused on representing and processing data. They have explored what data actually is, identified examples in their everyday lives, and practised sorting, organising, and presenting information. A big part of their learning has been understanding the difference between personal and non-personal data and why it’s important to protect information that belongs to them.

Our Year 3 and 4 students have just completed their semester unit by creating their own multimodal PowerPoint presentations. Throughout the term, they explored the many forms data can take; text, numbers, images, audio, and video and how the same information can be represented differently depending on its purpose. Students also investigated how data travels between digital systems, building their confidence in both understanding and using everyday technologies.

Finally, Year 5 and 6 students wrapped up their unit on digital systems through a comprehensive multimodal PowerPoint project. They have developed a strong understanding of how digital systems work together, how data is represented including binary code, and how information is processed and transmitted. This unit has strengthened their ability to use digital systems securely and deepened their understanding of how binary underpins the representation of text, numbers, and images in the digital world.

Over the past four terms, twelve chosen students that were picked last year participated in STEM, learning how to strategise, create, and construct.

We have built many creations over the thirty-five weeks, some of them being robotics, woodworks, and paper manufactures. In term one, we learnt how to build robotic figures with LEGO, mastered in how to control them and participate in races between each other. We made paper helicopters and frisbees in term two, which is what’s we called Flight. Term three, we were able to all go to a historical museum where it held most of Australia’s history with trains and steam engines, we all enjoyed and valued our time at the Railway Museum very much.

 On the last day of term three, nine STEM students and three grade sixes (Jesse, Myah, and Cooper) went to an E-sports competition. We all had been practising for the five weeks before that. Our lovely vice principal Miss Gauld drove us 1 hour to the Marsden State High School to compete. Karla and Myah competed in Crash Team Racing, Poppi and Ella competing in Just Dance, Braxton competing in Brawl Hala, Jessie and Cooper competing in Rocket League and NBA, Harvey competing in FIFA. Our school won the schools cup with the most points even though it was our first time competing in an E-sports competition. Jessie and Harvey both won the best gamers award, with them both coming in the quarter-finals in Rocket League, NBA and FIFA , Braxton and Myah making it to the semi-finals in Brawl Hala and Crash Team Racing, and Ella making it to the grand-finals in Just Dance.

 Term four was our last term, and considering we only had five weeks, there was a bunch of fun activities. We worked in teams to save Sir Harley Houndstooth the third, building him huts that weren’t able to survive cyclone Alfred 2.0 and a bridge to get food. On the last week, Mr O’Brien bought us our chosen snacks so we could have a last week party.

I speak for the other eleven STEM students when I say this, we thank you very much for giving us the opportunities of participating in this program and wish for the future STEM kids to have just as much fun as we did!

Jorden

Quotes

 Stem has been an amazing experience for my year six journey, I have enjoyed spending time with all the STEM students and Mr O’Brien and Mrs Wallace. I am very grateful that I’ve been able to experience all the stuff we have done this year. -Karla

It was a great time learning  and working with others. -Sophie

I am incredibly proud of all our STEM kids this year. They have put their best foot forward throughout the year and it has been an absolute pleasure to work with the group in 2025. -Mr O’Brien

I liked having to use a different part of my brain to solve problems and it challenged me to think a different way. -Chase

STEM was fun and entertaining. -Bayley

STEM was challenging but fun. -Harvey

What a fantastic group of students we’ve had in the Year 6 STEM program this year! They approached every challenge with enthusiasm, teamwork, and plenty of smiles. Whether working individually or in groups, they never gave up, even when things didn’t go to plan. Our excursion was a real highlight, everyone represented the school beautifully and made it such an enjoyable day. It’s been a pleasure working with this group, and I wish them all the very best for the exciting futures they have ahead of them. – Mrs Wallace

To attend our program, you must register your child. You can register an account with us at Camp Australia - Parent Portal or by downloading our Camp Australia smartphone app from the Apple App Store or on Google Play. Once registered, it's easy to make bookings and manage your account.