Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues

Thank you to everyone who has responded so well following my email & Facebook messages earlier this week regarding adult access at school.  I could see that we were becoming complacent with procedures.  Complacency comes from, among other things, being comfortable, and while I want everyone to feel that way about coming to school, we must remain vigilant with our social behaviours and hygiene.  The consequences could be tragic if all of us don't do this.  In his concert video, Bruce Springsteen (Born to Run) states that 'Nobody wins unless everybody wins' and this could not be a better analogy for the covid situation.  

I will not allow us to drop the ball at school around the strategies we have in place to promote excellent health and safety for everyone.  We will continue to take advice from Queensland Health and respond where necessary.  Our school strategies to maintain health and safety include:

• Day cleaning of facilities
• Regular cleaning of equipment
• Hygiene practices and supplies
• Restricted access for parents with gate passes / uniform shop passes
• Social distancing of adults
• Controlled staff and P&C meeting group sizes
• Controlled volunteer access
• Early departure options to reduce the size of the 2:30pm departure group
• Regular WHS meetings and inspections

Coronavirus testing:  You will notice that I have not been informing families of instances where members of our community have undertaken covid testing.  This is because the policy for passing this information on to families has changed.  If your children are tested for Coronavirus, please inform the school and follow your doctor's advice on quarantine, and then pass on the test results to us.  We will always maintain your family's privacy with care and compassion.  I am only required to inform the department of any positive test returns should there ever be one.  

Stay well, stay safe and stay vigilant.

Use the Kiss n Go to get gone sooner

The Kiss n Go can be a very efficient way to drop and collect students from school.  However for this to be the case, all needs drivers to:

• Join the back of the traffic line and never push in - even if you are just using the car park area
• Keep moving forward to the top of the Kiss n Go lane.  Stopping at the main gate keeps the line from moving smoothly.

Good at learning - Good at life

There have been some impressive activities and achievements at school this week.  

Summer is published

The Mysterious, Magical and Mystical Forest

“Woohoo! I’m a published author! #Dream come true!” This was the comment on Seesaw made by the author herself! Summer is the first official Apple iBooks Author from Coomera Rivers!

When assessment has a purpose, this is the excitement you receive. Selecting a picture prompt from pobble365.com imagination was ignited and from there the drafting and writing flowed smoothly for this budding author, Summer.

An immense amount of effort went into the writing process but after some tight editing came the best part... PUBLISHING! A picture book? No. An iMovie? No. An animation? No! Summer outdid herself by choosing to type her narrative then illustrate the pictures both digitally as well as using watercolour painting. What she created was nothing short of a masterpiece and now an ACTUAL digital book YOU can download and read from the apple iBooks store!

As her teacher, I am so proud and rate it 10/10 so see for yourself and download it!
(Mrs Wager - 6WC)

Year 6 students help in Prep

Year 6D visited Prep O this week and explained what the school rules were. They all chatted, read stories and spoke about different ways to problem solve.  Well done Year 6.

Day 10 this week

Year 6 spend every tenth day at school this term investigating a range of interests and passions.  From cooking, stand up comedy, various sports, leadership, teaching, photography, whacky science and dance are just some of the options available to explore.  Great job teachers!

Have a lovely weekend

Kind regards

Vic

Congratulations to these students on an excellent week at school.  Wow!

Prep and Year 1

Year 2 and Year 3

Year 4

Year 5 and Year 6

The Good Start program recommenced at school this week and will continue on Wednesdays after school in the senior precinct. This government program, which works with Maori and Pacific Islander students, has been extended to include students from all year levels - Prep to Year 6 - and we have some places left for those interested in joining.  If you would like further information or a permission form for your child to attend, please click here to email Ms Angela Waide.

Expressing our gratitude and respect to our indigenous culture was our focus at OSHC this week!  Our appreciation and admiration for the traditional custodians of our land runs deep within our children at OSHC.  Miss Rae did an amazing job putting together our craft activities, which included cardboard boomerang dot painting, dot painting of the traditional aboriginal animals, using very long cardboard tubes to decorate and transform them into didgeridoos, and getting very messy with using our hands to imprint a giant snake!  All of our children thoroughly enjoyed being able to use their hands and fingers rather than using a paintbrush to create their indigenous masterpieces.

OSHC will always continue to pay respect and recognise Australia’s traditional owners. We are excited to learn more about our indigenous culture.

The School Locker (our school uniform shop) will be open on:

• Mondays from 7:45am – 10:30am,
• Wednesdays from 1:00pm – 3:30pm and
• Fridays from 7:45am – 10:30am.

Please remember to pick up your gate pass from the main gate or school office so you can access the shop.

ZigZag Theatre would love to offer young people in Years 1 – 6 the opportunity to have a FREE DRAMA WORKSHOP conducted at the Coomera Community Space, Coomera.

If you’d like to take up this amazing offer please email info@zigzagtheatre.com to secure a date or alternatively call 0477843134.