Please note that activity dates and times may change

Term 1

Please note that events may be affected by weather or other school activities   

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Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues

It has been a busy week at school once again especially given the range of opportunities available to children at Coomera Rivers.  The list of extra-curricular options is long, especially as the students progress their way through the school.  I applaud the additional efforts of our school staff in providing these.  Well done.

Clean Up Australia Day

We recognised Clean up Australia Day this week.  Thank you to the Environmental Warriors who have led this activity at our school.  Ms Landers and her staff team have been super in promoting it.  Every piece of litter we manage to get to the bin is one less threat to our environment.

What we will get better at this year is:

Reading

Being a strong reader is central to being Good at learning.  Each day at school I am visiting classes during reading lessons.  I must say that the skills of our teachers are amazing!  These sessions are a true highlight for me as I watch the children learning.  Sometimes it is whole class lessons on sounds - other times I see the great work theyr are doing with comprehension and spelling.

On-time attendance

Every day at school is another great day of learning opportunities.  We need all of them to be Good at learning.  It doesn't make sense to me that some children don't come along.  They should only ever stay home if they are unwell.  

While missing one day of school each fortnight doesn't sound like much, it will really add up quickly.  This will equate to 20 days across the year or, to look at it another way, four weeks of learning time missed.  If this pattern was maintained across primary school, the students will miss 140 days of school or the larger part of one entire school year.  Kids who miss school are significantly disadvantaged.  

Remember, our attendance target is:

Character

Character is a cornerstone of being Good at life.  At Coomera Rivers, we teach it and talk about it all the time.  Respect for self and others, respect for rules and standards are just some of the things we aim to instil.  

   

Story dogs

Kind regards

Vic

With Ms Waide

Student Excellence Awards 

Prep gallery

Congratulations again to these students whose photos weren't able to be included in our last celebration newsletter.

Sofia - Prep Mc, Zali and Sonny - Prep SK, and Calvin and Amber - Prep H.

With Ms Waide

Student Excellence Awards 

Congratulations again to Zara whose picture wasn't able to be included last Celebration issue.

Gallery

With Mrs Gatti

Student Excellence Awards 

Gallery

2S Celebration of Learning

For the last two weeks, we have been busy learning about fractions! 2S became chefs, designing and making pizzas with toppings carefully divided amongst eight slices. We also became artists and made wonderful fraction art using halves, quarters and eighths.

With Mrs Gatti

Student Excellence Awards 

Gallery

3H Celebration of Learning

We had a creative time in 3H this week with symmetry! We looked at right angles and other angles that were bigger and smaller than 90 degrees. We had a good time listening to upbeat songs about angles and getting the opportunity to make some patterns with colourful shapes that we found the lines of symmetry on! Next time you see us, ask us to show you the lines of symmetry that are all around us.

With Mrs Gatti

Student Excellence Awards 

Gallery

Swimming success

Ashtiva had a successful swimming carnival at the Broadwater Districts last Thursday. She achieved 2nd place in both the 50m and 100m Breaststroke events and 3rd in 100m Backstroke and has qualified for the South Coast regional swimming trials next week.

Brisbane Olympic Games is the goal for our top skateboarder

Congratulations to Louie in Year 4 for placing 2nd in the OPEN Division of the Skateboarding competition, Bowlzilla, held at the Gold Coast held last weekend (https://www.bowlzilla.net/). This is a huge achievement for Louie, at 9 years of age, competing against adults who have been skateboarding their whole life!

Watch Louie's amazing run here - https://youtu.be/M60ravY3C40 

We look forward to hearing more stories of Louie's success in the future!

4E Celebration of Learning

Over the past few weeks in Year 4, we have been hands on-in our Science lessons, investigating Contact and Non-Contact Forces through some super fun experiments. Students have loved testing out push/pull and friction with our marshmallow catapults and tried to beat Gravity with our student-made ‘ball in a cup’ games.

With Mr Meijboom

Student Excellence Awards 

Gallery

5L Celebration of Learning Week 5

5L Celebration of Learning Week 6

We welcomed Miss Pointer to our class, for the next 6 weeks. She is studying to become a teacher.

5M Celebration of Learning

With Mr Meijboom

Student Excellence Awards 

Gallery

6T Celebration of Learning

Choir

Choir students in Years 1-6 have had their trial week and are sounding absolutely beautiful! These songbirds have been singing ‘1 bottle of Pop’ and ‘I am Australian’. Information about their first performance ‘Busking at the Cafe’ will be sent home soon.

Drama

The Senior Drama Club for Years 5 & 6 has taken off with students involved playing drama games and experimenting with voice and characters. Next week they'll move towards working with scripts and collaborating in small groups for mini performances. 

Dance

Students interested in dancing have auditioned this week for some afternoon workshops with Mrs. Ellison. They are working towards a small end-of-term project and are focusing on dance techniques for musical theatre. 

Broadwater swimming carnival 

Well done to Blake, Flynn, Kaea, Mylah and Ashtiva who swam at the Broadwater Regional trials last Tuesday. Ashtiva, Flynn and Blake will now compete at the South Coast Swim trials next week – good luck to each of our swimmers.

South Coast touch trials 

Congratulations to Scarlet, Zara, Tae and Paycin who were at the South Coast Regional Touch trials on Tuesday.  Scarlet was also selected in the South Coast team. She will travel to Cairns for the Queensland State Champs. A huge effort! Well done, Scarlet. 

South Coast basketball  

Good luck to Kiahna, Kiani, Leah, Tiyahn and Ryder who will be at South Coast Regional Basketball trials on Friday. We have our fingers crossed for you. 

Coming Broadwater trials at school:

• Hockey: Monday Week 7 (6 March)- Paper nominations  
• Rugby League: Tuesday Week 7 @ 2nd break (7 March)  * Mouthguard is mandatory  
• AFL: Wednesday Week 7  @ 2nd break (8 March)  * Mouthguard is mandatory 
• Netball: Thursday Week 7  @ 2nd break (9 March)  
• Rugby Union: Tuesday Week 10 @ 2nd break  (28 March)  

Interschool sport  

Interschool Sport teams have begun training and are preparing for the carnivals in Term 2. A reminder that final payment is required by Tuesday 18 April.  

Season dates:  

• Day 1- 9 May, Week 4, Term 2 
• Day 2- 16 May, Week 5, Term 2  
• Day 3- 23 May, Week 6, Term 2 

Cross country  

The cross country is scheduled for Week 9 on Thursday 23 March. Now is the time to start preparing for the big race. See map and distances below.

As you know, school photos were held this week

Orders are still open! Please visit Leading Image and use the Access Key W35HW5P6.

Individual  / Class images

Families have until 4pm Thursday 9 March to place orders for individual and class images / packs.

All students will have an individual photo taken on Photo Day regardless if they are ordering or not

Need more time?

Orders for individual / class images / packs will remain open for 6 months after the photo shoot however, if ordering after 4pm Thursday 9 March, these orders will incur a postage charge and be sent directly to parents.

If you have any questions or need help ordering please call Leading Image on 1300 084 586

This Term our P&C is holding a Kripsy Kreme fundraiser. We apologise now if you are already drooling in anticipation! 

Orders are open now via School24 and close at 4pm on Friday 10 March at 4:00pm.

Pick up will be Thursday 30 March from 1pm - 3.30pm.

Please see the flyer below for all the details on how to place your order.

Students will also receive a paper order record form from their classroom teacher on Monday. This form will help you collate any orders from your friends and family so, after collecting your order, you know how many and to who you need to deliver to.

The class, in each year level, that purchases the most cartons of Krispy Kreme's will win a class party!

So ask your friends, tell your family and start collecting orders today! 

If you have any questions, please email the P&C

We need to fill two parent positions on the school council through re-election.

Our school council provides a valuable strategic focus for our school.  It helps me, as Principal, link the department priorities to those of the school and community.  It is a consultative group that meets each term and investigates our plans, considers our improvement data and achievements, and keeps our school focused on our goal.  It is different to the P&C.  While playing another vital role in the school and community, the P&C is more focused on consultation and forms the direct link between the school and the community. 

     

Make-up of the school council

Our school council has three parent positions – the selection of each of each is determined through an election process.  We have been careful to ensure that not all three positions become vacant at the one time. 
Of the three parent positions on the School Council, TWO of those positions are up for re-election this year.

If you are interested in nominating or know someone who may like to be nominated, please read on.

   

Process 

Nominations Open:      FRIDAY, 17 FEBRUARY.  Nominations forms are available from Corporate Services between 8:00am and 3.30pm or by emailing the returning officer - Leonie Jenkins

Nominations Close:     FRIDAY 10 MARCH 3.00PM Nominations must be received by the returning officer, via Corporate Services, before the deadline. These can be emailed to returning officer or delivered to Corporate Service between 8:00am and 3.00pm school days.

Election Date:         TUESDAY, 28 MARCH

Election Time:        Polling booth is open from 8:00am - 9.30am and 1.30pm - 3.00pm on TUESDAY 28 MARCH

Election Venue:      CRSS Corporate Services Interview Room

Thank you for considering this information and your possible involvement in the process.

The Annual General Meeting of the Coomera Rivers State School P&C will be held on Monday 28 April at 5.30pm in the Corporate Services building of Coomera Rivers State School.

A general meeting of the association will be held directly after the AGM.