Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues

With only ten school days remaining for the term, please make sure that, if your child is well, that they attend school on time, every day, ready to learn.  

Report Cards 

We will be preparing report cards across the next few weeks but they will not be sent home until Week 3 of Term 3.  This process has been suggested by the department as schools try to reconstruct their systems following the five week home program period.  The reports will be slightly different in the amount of information that they contain but as always, if there is anything you wish to query, please contact your child's teacher.  At this stage there is no option for face to face parent meetings.

Cash payments at school are no more

Our office is now going cashless as a result of COVID 19 and restrictions.  The payment window will still operate but will only be managing EFTPOS and credit transactions.

Electronic banking is still available but the BEST option is called BPoint.  This is available through the Q Parents app.  The BPoint link is also located on the bottom of each invoice.

School website

We are currently upgrading our website.  This will take another couple of weeks but once it is ready I will let everyone know.

Good at Learning - Good at Life

Thinking globally

We are citizens of the world and we need to connect with others so that we create a deeper and stronger understanding of others and develop an empathy for them.  Many of our classes and students have been  making some amazing connections.  

Some examples of work happening in and around our school include our students:

• Designing a questionnaire to interview family members around the impact of COVID on their life and recording this using technology.
• Interviewing a parent in Wales to explore how the home learning journey has been from her perspective.
• Interviewing teachers and students from 30 countries around the world to gain an understanding of their perspective and compiling the information in a book to be published.
• The creation of a personalised learning program for students so they can participate in activities which target their interests.
• Designing surveys to ask local businesses and workers how COVID has impacted on their company. From this, students will design a solution which could support them more in moving forward.

Acting locally

Well done to Chloe, Jorja and Anna from 6K. The girls have been giving up their lunch breaks across the past week to work on creating character stick puppets for next term's Year 1 English unit.  Retelling familiar stories is going to be extra fun for our Year 1 students, knowing their Year 6 buddies made the puppets especially for them.

Kind regards

Vic Graham

Principal

Congratulations to this week's 'Excellence Awards' recipients.  

Prep and Year 1

Year 2&3

Year 4

Year 5&6

This week saw some sensational achievements and we enjoyed celebrating learning with stickers and even some handball.  Well done to everyone who earned recognition this week.

This week at OSHC we have introduced a new and exciting change to our after-school routine. Typically, each age group stays with the same educators for their entirety of the afternoon rotations.

Throughout the week we have been trialling a new routine where educators are assigned to either homework, afternoon tea or active play. This change means that the children are given the opportunity to see all of the educators throughout the afternoon instead of staying with the same ones! So far, this revised routine, has been a major success! With positive feedback, along with critical feedback, we have adjusted our rotation times so that it suits our educators and also the children. In addition to this we have also adjusted our rotation times, it allows the children a chance to have more play time, craft time and they are also able to socialise with their friends and siblings that may be in a different grade. We love seeing the bright, smiley faces at OSHC every day, but since we have changed our routine, we see even bigger and brighter smiles!

This routine change will be sticking around for a while, with more improvements and fun to come!

Coomera Rivers Outside School Hours Care is now taking bookings for our Winter Vacation Program.

Vacation care bookings are open to ALL families of schools. You do NOT have to attend the before and / or after school service to be able to attend Vacation Care. Enrolments for Vacation Care are very welcome form all of our Coomera Rivers families.

There is no minimum number of days that you need to attend - just book for the days you need. Bookings for primary school aged students are encouraged so please share with friends and family that may be looking for an exceptional school holiday care option.

The details of the upcoming program are attached.

For bookings or further enquiries please contact us:

Phone: 5596 8377
Mobile: 0455 968 377
Email: croshc@coomerariversss.eq.edu.au 

The next general meeting of the P&C Association will be held on Thursday 18 June at 3:00pm.  This is a new 'trial' time for this month.  

We understand that some parents may have children with them so we will have access to an area for children during the meeting.

If you have an agenda item please email the secretary with the details by no later than 9:00am Tuesday 16 June.  

P&C meetings are a great way to keep up to date with what is going on around our school - especially given the current circumstances around managing in this coronavirus period.  The meetings also provide our families with an opportunity to have input and feedback on matters relating to school and community life. Meetings are open to all families and we encourage families to come along and contribute to your school community which forms a vital part of your children's educational journey.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The coronavirus restrictions have affected the School Locker uniform shop too.  The opening times for the shop are now

• Monday and Friday mornings from 7:45am to 10:30am.  

The shop is open for collection of internet orders and exchanges.  Please make an appointment if you wish to try on items otherwise the customer line gets very long.  Please try to use the internet ordering system where possible.  Click here to visit the School Locker site.  

Do you want your children to be able to cope better with life’s ups and downs?  Would you like to give them the skills to help prevent and deal with cyberbullying? Then come to the free Raising Resilient Children (Focus on Cyberbullying) – Online Triple P Seminar (via Zoom webinar) Wednesday 22 July 2020 from 7:00pm-8:00pm.

Don’t miss out – free to book - Click here    

We also invite you to like our Facebook page if you haven’t already had a chance to do so. We have lots of fun and interesting content, and you can share it with parents in your community.