Carbrook State School eNewsletter

Wishing all our Carbrook Community a happy and safe holiday break. School starts back on Monday 17 April 2023. Please see Carbrook's Date Claimer for Term 2 below.

School Watch

Principal - Sonya Wilson

Dear Parents and Carers

School Carpark after school

Thank you to families for your assistance with the school carpark and the movement of traffic through the pick-up zone each afternoon. With the change to exiting via the second gate, vehicles have been moving quickly through the area reducing the wait time for collection. Special acknowledgement of our students too, who have been watching and waiting for their parent's cars and proceeding promptly to the gate to wait and transition safely to their vehicles.

Logan City Council have provided brochures, regarding carpark expectations, please find copies included in this newsletter and on display in the under cover area.

Changes in the OSHC – YMCA location in the school

Over the past weeks we have been in consultation with OSHC - YMCA to relocate the service within the school. From the commencement of Term 2, OSHC will be based in the Prep Demountable and the hall. The alternative space will provide OSHC with a dedicated kitchen and office space, a quiet area with a homelier feel and an alternative open indoor space for movement games in the hall.

Access for drop off and collection with occur through the Prep Demountable with access via the carpark directly in front of the Administration building on Beenleigh Redland Bay Road. The OSHC will continue to have access to the playgrounds and outdoor play areas before and after school. With the additional space the school has requested that the students transition to school in a manner similar to those arriving at school and waiting in the undercover area, this means using the hall space for OSHC students to sit in cohort groups with something to lock their eyes, such as rubrics cubes, cards, colouring-in or a book to read. This will provide students with an opportunity to settle and focus prior to transitioning to class. For those students requiring a quieter transition they will be able to access the Prep Demountable and a dedicated chill space assisting their transition to class.

Proposed Reporting Changes

Two scheduled meetings have been offered, before and after school, for the purpose of consulting with parents regarding planned changes to report cards.

The proposed changes include

- A descriptor in each key learning area describing the learning undertaken and how the students have been assessed. The achievement rating will communicate students’ achievement, and an effort rating will be provided. The comment on individual student attainment will be removed.

- General comments will continue to be personalised for each child, communicating as was the model for Semester 2 in 2022, a comment relating to student engagement in learning, an area of strength, and an area of improvement and a concluding comment will be provided.

- Behaviour comments will report on student demonstration of the school values, be safe, be responsible, be respectful and be a learner, in the classroom and playground context.

Feedback from parents via the attached Academic Reporting: Written Report Cards survey would be appreciated as we seek to finalise and implement these changes for the next reporting period at the end of Term 2.

Wishing families, a safe and happy holiday, we look forward to catching up in Term 2.

Kind regards

Sonya Wilson

Parent/Carers Feedback: Academic Reporting: Written Report Cards

Deputy Principal - Liz Cook

And just like that, Term 1 2023 comes to an end today!

The last two weeks of the term have been busy, with the teachers taking on the role of learners and engaging in curriculum and planning days lead by myself. This professional learning opportunity provided teachers to collaboratively dive deeper into their planning for Term 2 and the Australian Curriculum to strengthen the clarity of the content that will be taught and assessed for the remainder of Semester 1.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the community of Carbrook State School for a fabulous first term as Deputy Principal and wish you all a safe and relaxing break with your loved ones over the holiday period. I look forward to returning refreshed in Term 2 for another successful term.

Kind regards,

Liz Cook

Deputy Principal - Jane Tuckett

FAVOURITE BOOK SURVEY

To everyone who have completed our Favourite Book Survey, thank you. If you haven’t had a chance yet but would still like to share your opinion, the survey is still open, so please complete the survey using the attached link.

At this stage the survey has indicated that most of the people who completed the survey could remember they had a favourite book as a child. Some of their favourite books included: Micky Mouse’s Picnic, Spud, Scenes from the Life of Dragons; Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Pippi Longstocking, Wombat Stew, Hairy Maclary, the Encyclopedia Brown series, The Faraway Tree series and books written by Enid Blyton.

Some of our children’s favourite books included: Down by the Bay, Possum Magic, A Sausage Went for a Walk, Koala Lou, Noni the Pony, Belinda, Chu’s Day, I’m Going on a Bear Hunt; Room on a Broom, Who Sank the Boat, Rainbow Fish, the Famous Five series and books written by Pamella Allen, Mem Fox and Nick Bland.

Some of the suggested books for us to include in our Home Reading Program included: Hairy Maclary, Who Sank the Boat, Ten Things I Love About School, Rainbow Fish, The Bus to the Zoo, Oi! Frog, Lion in the Night, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch, Diary of a Wombat, Mr Archimedes’ Bath, Bin Chicken and books written by Mem Fox, Alison Lester, Pamela Allen and Eric Carle

I have been working with QBD Loganholme and Scholastic to locate quality literature for our Home Reading Program and you will find many of our community’s favourite or recommended books included.

I hope that you and your family find lots of time to read over the holiday break.

Kind regards,

Jane Tuckett

Favourite Book Survey

Date Claimer Term 2, 2023

Please read the attached date claimer for Carbrook State School Term 2, 2023. This information can also be found on the school's website carbrookss.eq.edu.au

Carbrook_State_School_Term_2_Date_Claimer.pdf

iHUB

iHUB News - Year 4

This Term, Year 4 has been engaging in a social skills program focused on self-awareness and social awareness. Students have explored the influence that our own behaviour has on the emotional responses of others. They have also identified the positive and negative emotions that we can feel in the classroom and playground, and described the influence that people, situations and events can have on their own and others’ emotions. The students are working together to investigate how emotional responses can vary in depth and strength, and identify how their actions can have a positive effect on others.

It has been encouraging to watch the students engage so enthusiastically in some of the following lessons:

Silent ball, ship/shore game, life raft game, bean bag toss – games to learn honesty, collaboration, team work and reflect on our emotions.
Role play – what do different emotions look like?
Rating our emotions on an ‘emotions thermometer’.
Creating positive intentions or goals for our class and for ourselves.

We look forward to more positive learning opportunities next term as we build well-developed social and emotional skills.

SORA

This year we have signed up again to the Education Queensland E-Library called SORA.

SORA is a state of the art reading experience that gives students the opportunity to access a wide variety of e-books such as comic books, graphic novels, picture books and more.

Selected texts also have professional narrations so the students can follow along with the text.

SORA also has the ability to adjust settings to different font styles (Including dyslexic font), font size and lighting settings too.

The flyers below show how to access SORA at home on an tablet or computer.

Sora_Getting_Started.pdf

Poster_Sora_Primary.pdf

Arts - Kat Boobyer

This fortnight students are reflecting on their artworks created or performed.

Below is just a small sample of the emotive self-portraiture students in Years 1 and 2 (and the 2/3s) have produced. All the fabulous works will be yours for the viewing during our Celebration of Learning in Term 3. But for now, I think it best if I just let the art do the talking!

PLM - Lara McDonald

The Preps have had a wonderful finish to Term 1. We are continuing to work on our social skills. The students have particularly enjoyed balloon relays. Thank you for providing the fruit for our Maths patterns, another activity enjoyed by the students.

Happy and safe Easter!

Shailer Park State High School Visit

On Wednesday 29 March the Year 6 students were visited by Mrs Kate Isager (Deputy Principal Junior Secondary) and three past Carbrook State School students (Zach, Gowan and Alexis) from Shailer Park State High School. Some Year 6 Carbrook students remembered Zach, Gowan and Alexis as their Year 6 Buddies when they were in Prep.

During the visit Mrs Isager spoke about high school in general and some specific opportunities offered at Shailer Park High. Zach, Gowan and Alexis were then asked a variety of questions by our students around high school and their experience.

It was a great opportunity for all of our Year 6 students to get a picture of their continued learning journey after they graduate from Carbrook and hear the experience of students who have been in their position before. There will more opportunities throughout the year to connect to the high schools in our area so keep an eye out for updates in the coming terms.

Gala Day

Gala Day is a combined school's sports day where the some Year 5 and 6 students travel to other distinations to play team sports. Students who stay at Carbrook play team sports on the oval. We will add more photos to our newsletter as they come available.

Ditto Show

Prep to Year 3 students, had a special visit from our good friend 'Ditto' this week.

Ditto is our Brave Bear who helps deliver the important message about ‘Private Parts’ in a Personal Safety Education program.

Ditto reinforced the importance of safe and unsafe feelings and private parts. If we have an unsafe feeling we need to ‘run and tell someone’.

Year 2’s were especially lucky as they got to have their own photo with Ditto himself!

Creative Dance

Term_2_Dance_at_Carbrook.pdf

YMCA Carbrook OSHC

I can’t believe it is already the end of Term 1, I suppose time flies when you’re having fun and we are always having fun at YMCA. At YMCA we are getting ready for an exciting Autumn School Holidays fun with our vacation care program. To find out more, enrol or make bookings for our school holiday program please email us at acb@ymcabrisbane.org and we would be happy to tell you all about it.

We would also like to extend a warm welcome to all our new families joining us this year at YMCA Carbrook OSHC and to all our wonderful families returning for another year.

Please remember if you have previously enrolled with us, this year we switched over from StoryPark Manage to QikKids and we kindly ask that you complete your child’s enrolment through the QKenrol website. If you need any further help please don’t hesitate to call or email us.

For those of you in a rush, did you know that YMCA serves breakfast every morning from 6am to 7:45am with a variety of options that suits everyone’s taste? It’s a well-known fact that children learn better with a full stomach and we are happy to provide breakfast, afternoon tea and a late snack to children each day as well as an engaging and inclusive play-based program.

We have also started a community pantry so please feel free to come in and take some essentials, no questions asked. With the rising costs of living, YMCA is here to support the families of Carbrook State School in any way we can – please reach out to us if we can support you in any way or if you have any feedback or suggestions for our team.

We hope you all have a safe, lovely and enjoyable break!

Warm Regards,

Natalia Alonso

YMCA Carbrook Assistant Coordinator

511-535 Beenleigh Redland Bay Road, Carbrook 4130