Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues

What an amazing week this has been.  Our Arts Department showcased the very young talent we have at Coomera Rivers with their end of term concert this week.  It was sensational.  While my favourite was the dance troupe, I though every act was really entertaining.  I am so proud of our students and their teachers.  

Story time this week

Term 3 calendar of events

This newsletter shows the initial events for Term 3.  Please make a note of the events and dates.  The details change on occasion as circumstances determine so please check the calendar and newsletter often.
        

Hollywood disco

Thank you to our P&C and staff for hosting a wonderful disco tonight.  It was a lot of fun.  It was also the first one we have held in the hall, and it was very enjoyable indeed.

Sports Fun Days are next week

Make sure that you are ready for the sports fun days next week.

• Tuesday (Senior Sports Day) (Years 3-6)
• Wednesday (Junior Sports Day) (Prep to Year 2)

The carnivals are focused on participation and fun.  We want every child to participate and earn points for their house.  It is all about 'team' next week.  

Please wear your house colours on your sports day.  Parents are encouraged to wear theirs too.  Please contact your child's teacher if you need house information.

Report cards 

Report cards for Semester 1 will be emailed home next Thursday.  Please check your junk boxes as some systems will detect the bulk mail out as spam.

I encourage all parents to not only focus on academic achievement, but to consider effort and additional involvement in extra-curricular activities at school.  

2024 Anti-bullying Week of Action

We will be recognising the National week of action against bullying (12-16 August) again this year.  While it is great to unite in our efforts to put an end to bullying across the week, it is always important to remember that we need to be watchful of our children each day, in case they still experience it.  

Bullying does happen at school - despite our best intentions and efforts.  In fact, it can happen anywhere.  If you feel that your child has been subjected to bullying, please contact us.  We investigate every report.

Schools use the Bullying No Way website for consistent definitions and resources.  Please refer to the definition closely as a lot of that parents may feel a behaviour is bullying, but it can turn out to be conflict.  This is still not ok, but it is managed differently.

The resource section of the website is excellent for families and schools in their efforts to help children.  

Kind regards

Vic

These students have been brilliant!

Awards gallery

Celebrating Prep

Our prep students have been practising their skills to get ready for their first every sports fun day. We hope to see lots of parents come along for what is sure to be a fun day. Prep S honed their mindfulness skills by tuning in to the sounds around them outside. And as always they have been busy praticising their sound knowledge in many ways. 

Celebrating Year 1

Year 1 students been puttin their knowledge of insects, which they have been learning about over the term, their habiats and where they live and what they need to survive - to create minibeast colleges. 

Celebrating Year 2

In 2H we have read the book Bower Bird Blues by Aura Parker. We listened to the story and discussed and talked about our understanding of the book. We went on an adventure outside and collect things of a certain colour to make a PicCollage just like the Bower bird collected blue items in the story. Then we read the book on another day and talked about the Bower bird need for connection and community. We decided to as teams to build a bower just like in Bower bird. We collected things from nature and tried to construct bowers and we add some blue items to the bowers. The construction was a little more difficult than we anticipated but we still had lots fun. In the end we had a lot more respect for the talent of bower birds and their expertise building bowers with their beck. 

GEM (Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness)

Mid Year Arts Showcase

An outstanding performance was put on by our very talented Arts students this week.  The range of acts and the quality of performances were impressive and the audience was very entertained.  Thank you sincerely to the staff whose time and efforts were clearly evident across the evening.

mySpeak Competition

Congratulations to all the students who impressed with their speeeches this week at the annual mySpeak competition. Our guest judges Mr Rod Dixon, Mrs Francesca Thorn and Mr Mark Hunter had the difficult task of choosing place winners. Well done to all involved.

Queensland Representation

Zara (6P) and Tae (6T) have been selected to play for Queensland at the National Touch carnival in October. This is a HUGE achievement. It’s a nice reward for their hard work.  Good Luck!!

     

Broadwater Sport

Good luck to Honor, Shayla and Rina who will trial for the U12s Female Broadwater Rugby League team next Tuesday afternoon.

Athletics

Good luck to all students who will participate in our Coomera Rivers Athletics Trials Day on Monday. Check SeeSaw messages to see the students who have qualified for each event. If students win the event, or beat the qualifying time / distance, they will be invited into the Coomera Rivers team to attend the Broadwater Athletics Carnival in Term 3.

The school dental van is based at Coomera Rivers.