Thank you for a wonderful Term 2. Please enjoy your winter school holidays and we will see all our smiling faces again when school returns on Monday 10th July.
Our assessment and reporting phase of the semester is well and truly underway with our Semester 1 report cards sent home via your personal email address on the last day of this term. Please register your email address with the front office as soon as possible, if not already completed via your enrolment forms. We are always happy to supply paper copies of your report cards. Please let the front office staff know directly. If your family requires your child’s report card to be emailed to two adults in the family, please also let us know.
As always, our teachers encourage you to make an appointment with them to discuss your child’s learning. This can be organised directly with your class teacher at a mutually convenient time.
I’m really disappointed to report that we have had an increase in break ins across our school, mostly on the weekends. If you see suspicious activity in or around our school grounds, please call the police. This is incredibly important as we enter the school holidays. Our cleaning team are often cleaning up vapes and alcohol that has been left in the school grounds before our students arrive for the day. I’m sure you all join me in thinking that Beaudesert State School children deserve their school to be looked after by our community.
This term we have seen as increase in incidents of online bullying and harassment in the upper school via social media, particularly Tik Tok, Facebook and Snap Chat. It is against the law for students, usually under the age of 13, to have access to this social media content and the decision falls to the parent to remain actively supervising their child and to cease access. Students do not have access to these platforms using school devices. Bullying and/or harassment via social media is to be reported to the police, however, in the event we have any bullying or harassment that occurs in school, please report to your class teacher. Our annual ThinkYKnow program, recently completed in Term 1 this year, in conjunction with the Australian Federal police and our local police station, helps to raise awareness of using social media safely when they are of age, but we need our parents and community to continue to raise awareness and set boundaries on its usage at home.
As we near the end of the term, it is timely to remind our community that we do not tolerate physical or verbal aggression in any form at our school, between any parties who are here. Our students are always taught to solve problems with their words and to seek assistance from an adult where required. It is never appropriate, nor is it tolerated, that a child is physically hurt at our school. Please help us by reiterating this message at home.
A reminder that our school day begins at 8:40am and finishes at 2:50pm. Please ensure your child arrives to school on time to maximise learning and to notify the office on 5540 1111, not teacher, if you are running late for pick up.
In Term 3, our local Show Holiday will fall on Monday 14th August. There is also a Pupil Free Day on Friday 1st September. Our school will not be open both days.
In conjunction with Camp Australia, I am really excited to announce that our school will be providing holiday care via Camp Australia for the June/July school holidays. This is called the ‘Rocketeers program’. The operation times will be 6.30am - 6.00pm and the cost to families will be $58.00 per day, however, with the maximum CCS applied this can be reduced to $8.73 per day depending on each family’s personal circumstance. All Beaudesert State School students are most welcome to attend. Further information will be released via Camp Australia in the coming weeks.
I am seeing increased amounts of students bringing toys to school. Please remember, that toys are not permitted at school as they are often lost, stolen or broken. This also includes stuffed toys, trading cards, specifically Pokemon and sports trading cards. Our teachers are encouraged to confiscate these items and bring to the office for parent collection at the end of the school day.
A reminder that all mobile devices must be signed in at the front office upon arrival to school. This includes, but not limited to, iPads, mobile phones and watches with the capability to ring and/or take photos, regardless if this mode can be switched off prior to coming to school. The devices are safely stored and are easily collected from the office at the end of the day. If you need to contact your child through the day, you can do so by contacting the front office.
Our school continues to have confirmed cases of COVID and Influenza. All staff and students who are symptomatic must remain at home until well. I understand this contradicts our messaging around attendance and every day counts, however, I’m sure you can appreciate the need to maintain a healthy school environment for all. We ask that you return your child to school as soon as they are well again to minimise the disruption to their learning. We ask that all families avoid non-essential time off school so that we maximise learning every day. The below diagram outlines the impact on a student’s learning when they are absent.
