Peachester State School

As a parent, you know your child better than anyone else does. Your child’s teachers will want to get to know your child too.

When you have a strong and respectful relationship with your child’s school and teachers, you’re in a good position to give them information to help your child get the most out of education. You and your child’s teachers can work together to support your child’s learning and wellbeing.

When everybody is working together in the best interests of your child, your child is likely to reap academic and social benefits, like:

• regular school attendance • positive school results
• a positive attitude towards school
• good social and relationship skills
• a sense of wellbeing
• school completion
• progression to post-secondary education like TAFE, university or an apprenticeship.

Book Week is 19th - 25th August and 2023’s theme is ‘Read, Grow and Inspire’. 

This year we are celebrating Book Week with a special parade to be held in the Undercover Area on Friday 25th August at 9am. Students can come dressed as a favourite book character and will have a chance to show off their fantastic costumes and share a story as we celebrate together.

Our Prep 2024 students are welcome, along with any younger siblings of our current students. Parents are also encouraged both to come to the parade and to participate in the dress up fun.

Why not come in costume and dress up as a family team? We are excited to see how creative you can get!

Camp Day

Last week we had Camp Day at school while the older classes were away. It was a great day. The classes were split into four multi age groups and each group was helped by one of our older students not on camp. It was lovely to see the older children and the Year 3 students helping out younger students at the different activities.

The children enjoyed a variety of activities including cooking pikelets, leaf rubbing, water colour painting, and out door games. They were also very lucky to have a great time down in the garden with a walk through the Indigenous Bush Walk, boomerang throwing and some songs around the camp fire. A very big thank you to our fantastic Groundsman Steve for setting this up for us.

Fire Station Visit

This week we also had the firefighters from Beerwah Fire Station visit for our fire safety talk. They spoke to children from Prep- Year 2 about the importance of fire alarms, an escape plan and what to do in a fire.

The students learnt about Stop Drop and Roll if you catch on fire and Get Out and Stay Out – if you are in a burning building. They also got to see and hear a firefighter dressed in the safety clothes. The visit ended with a look at the fire trucks and a chance to squirt the fire hose. 

In science we have been exploring how to make a toy roll. 

We investigated Pushing or Pulling the toy on lots of different surfaces to see how well it will roll. 

Soon we will make our own toy and try to build it so it will roll far.

We have been exploring pushes/pulls in science through a variety of mini games. The activities included ‘high bounce, low bounce’, ‘ball in the hoop’, ‘tunnel ball’ and near kicks, far kicks’.

This fits perfectly with National Science Week activities happening across the school this week. We made improvements to paper planes and got to test them in class. 

This week in maths, we have been learning about angles. We took our learning outside and reinforced what we have been doing in the classroom out on the soccer field.

Students were asked to make angles using cones. They then had to pass the ball along the angle created by the cones. Students were asked to make an acute angle, obtuse angle or right angle. 

Interschool Sport

Girls Team Wrap Up!

On both Fridays the 4th and 11th of August, our Girls team went to BeeGees Sports Grounds to play Interschool Touch.

We played against teams in the B Grade competition. On the 4th we played our first day of games. We drew 2 and won 2 games. On the second week we played the rest of the B Grade girls, and we tied one game and won the other two. We made the play off final for 1st and 2nd place which we won against St Michaels College 1. That meant we brought home the Touch B Grade Girls Competition Trophy for 2023.

By Tynisha, Amelia, Violet, Makenzie, Celine, Isabelle, Carys, Sophie and Sevennah.

Boys Team Wrap Up!

On Friday the 11th and 4th of August Peachester State School 5/6 class participated in the Boys B Grade Interschool Touch Football.

On the 4th, the Peachester Boys won all their games.

On the 11th they also won all of their games. Sadly, with no finals on offer it came down to points difference. At 33+ we were looking good but unfortunately Elimbah had 48+ after their last game. Peachester did a fantastic job to win every game, played well as a supportive and competitive team. They did a fantastic job!

Zayden, K-Diss, Liam, Connor, Micah, Beau, Zailey, Jack, Ryder and Josh.

Camp 2023

Camp at Mapleton was loads of fun. Here’s some of our thoughts!

At camp we got to capsize a canoe and play games like basketball and “yeehar and moo”. They were very funny to play with each other. – Zayden

At camp I loved the giant swing. It was scary and fun at the same time. I went all the way to the top and it was terrifying. The canoeing was really fun and I got really wet. I bunked with Liam, Ryder and Beau. Camp was fun and we had a good time. Connor

We went on camp I had a fantastic time. We went canoeing, did low ropes, GIANT swing, campfire experiments and at night we had a campfire and the other night we watched a movie. My personal favourite was the giant swing and the canoeing.  In the canoeing we played games in the canoe, then we capsized the canoe. The giant swing was AMAZING we were 15 metres high up in the air. – Celine

My favourite activity was the giant swing and the canoeing, it was awesome.- Tynisha.

I liked archery because of shooting at the swinging milk bottle. I loved my cabin and hanging out with my cabin mates. - Beau

Group B went and did the giant swing which was amazing. When your group pulled you up really high and let go of the rope you dropped over the mountain escarpment. We went kayaking and Sophie and I accidently capsized the kayak. - Makenzie

Camp was really fun but the activity I think I enjoyed the most was the canoeing where we got to pair up with 1 other person and played lots of games on the canoes.  When we had finished the canoeing we got to capsize our canoe. All of the rest of the activities were really fun too. – Carys

Last week year 5/6 went on camp. Out of all the activities I liked the giant swing. – Zailey

Camp was awesome! We got to do epic activities like the giant swing, canoeing, low ropes and lots more. The food was great and I had an all-round awesome time. – Josh

Camp was fun, interesting and also enjoyable. We did lots of fun things like kayaking and we also went on a giant swing. The giant swing was not really a giant swing it was a HUMUNGOUS swing! Camp was really fun and I would go back anytime – Ryder S.

Camp was really fun. My favourite activity was the giant swing where you got harnessed up and your friends had to pull you up and then let you go. I had so much fun experiencing new things. My least favourite thing about camp was when I got capsized in the canoe. - Sevennah

From my perspective camp was a fun and amazing experience. All the instructors were funny and really nice. The activity I enjoyed most was the big swing. So, you got pulled up a 15m pole and then you dropped and swung into the bush. It was very fun and all the activities were very enjoyable. – Sophie

On camp we did some team activities, and we went canoeing. We went on a giant swing. The giant swing was my favourite activity. – Peytonn

Camp was an excellent experience. I was nervous at first but we were taken good care of so I really enjoyed it. The giant swing was terrifying at first but so joyful in the end. We also did low ropes archery bush skills and canoeing which I enjoyed a lot. Camp was amazing and I hope more people will learn from it. -Isabelle

Come and see the talented Merindi (Year 4) perform with her sensational mum, Deline Briscoe!

If you need a little sunshine in your life, put the weekend of September 2 and 3 in your diary because Eumundi’s family-friendly music festival SUNSHINE SOUNDS is back for 2023 as part of the Horizon Festival.

P.S. Tickets are strictly limited due to hall capacity, so we recommend getting in quick to secure your seats.