As I write this newsletter to-day, I am excited because every single one of our stu-dents is at school! Thank you parents for supporting your children’s education by get-ting them here.

You may have noticed that students have not come home with our GRIP awards this year. There are two rea-sons for this.

Firstly, we have changed our school expectations to Ready, Respectful, Safe and so an update was needed to our awards.

Secondly, as a staff, we no-ticed that the certificates we were handing out had lost their value for many stu-dents.

We want to be able to share with parents when their chil-dren go over and above and ensure that we always posi-tively recognise student ef-fort, service and achieve-ment.

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Principal: Mrs Rebecca Cavanagh Ph: (07) 5466 1259 Fax: (07) 5466 1576 Email: admin @granthamss.eq.edu.au

Grantham State School

P e r s o n a l G r o w t h , Re s p e c t , In t e g r i t y , P r o b l e m s o l v i n g Issue 2

16 February 2021

Important Dates

2021

FEB

18/02 P/1/2 Swimming (1)

17/02 Book club due

22/02 P&C AGM

25/02 P/1/2 Swimming (2)

MARCH

04/03 P/1/2 Swimming (3)

05/03 Year 5/6 Emu Gully Challenge

11/03 P/1/2 Swimming (4)

18/03 P/1/2 Swimming (5)

25/03 P/1/2 Swimming (6)

APRIL

01/04 Last day of term 1

02/04 Good Friday

19/04 School resumes term 2

22/04 Anzac Parade 9am

We have asked students to cre-ate designs for a new acknowl-edgement process—the good news note home. This will be sent to parents to let them know that their child has gone over and above, or has given lots of effort in their school endeavours. The selected de-signs will be sent to the print-ers and when they are ready they will be sent home.

In the meantime, teachers will use their own ‘note home’ to acknowledge student effort, service and achievement. If you have any feedback for us about this process, feel free to come along to our P&C meet-ings, send us an email, or have a chat to your child’s class teacher.

Last fortnight, we indicated there would be a welcome back BBQ. For a number of rea-sons, we weren’t able to go ahead last week. However, we will be rescheduling this and sending home an invitation soon.

Ready, Respectful, Safe

SAME DAY NOTIFICATION

If your child is away from School for any reason, it would be appreciated if you give the school office a call and leave a message before 9:30am to advise of the absence.

Parents please remember, you will need to sign your child/children in/out at the office if they arrive after 9am or you need to collect them before 3pm.

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MEDICATIONS

Grantham Playgroup invites parents/carers to come along

for a morning of art and craft activities for children to enjoy. Our playgroup caters for chil-

dren aged from 0-5 years. Playgroup runs on a Wednes-day morning in the multi-

purpose room from 9-10:30am.

BOOKCLUB

The school uses the loop system which means that ordering is done online and nothing needs to be sent back to the school. When ordering, please select the whole school instead of classroom teachers. The books ordered will then come to the school and be handed out to students. If you are not able to access online payments please see the school office.

Book Club orders for Issue 1 are due back by Wednes-day, 17 February.

When crossing the road please use our Crossing !!!

Parking— please do not park in the no standing zone in front of the school as this can be danger-ous for our students.

REMINDERS

5/6 Emu Gully permission notes are due back by Friday, 19th February. If you require a payment plan please see the school office.

P-2 SWIMMING THURSDAYS

Swimming for students in P/1/2 starts this Thursday, 18th February. Please re-member to send along swimmers, sun screen, sun smart shirt, towel, goggles and a cap.

Medication will only be administered at school if it is prescribed by a doctor. It must have a doctor’s pre-scription pharmacy label attached and a signed per-mission form must be filled out. (These are available at the office). This includes any asthma medication.

Any over the counter medi-cation must also have a doctor’s prescription label on it. A pharmacy label is no longer accepted for medications such as Pa-nadol, cough mixtures or any antihistamine medica-tions.

COVID PRACTISES

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CLASSROOM MUSIC

Welcome back everyone to another great year of music at Grantham State School.

I am looking forward to working in classes and with the Choir at this great School, and look forward to developing the skills of your children.

I would ask you to take note of a couple of points for families as we start the year:-

CHOIRS: Signup for the choir occurred last week with an Agreement letter sent home to be signed and returned, and the choir will start rehearsing in this week, with very good numbers anticipated for the year’s work.

All children interested in singing are invited to become part of the Choral program, and audi-tions are not held. Children from Grades 3 –6 are invited to sign up and enjoy the excitement of singing together.

I would normally be confirming all performance dates at this point in time, but due to the uncer-tainty of the COVID-19 restrictions and how this will further impact on our choir performances, I am unable to do so at this stage. When and if this changes, I will advise you in due course.

A display folder is required for music / lyrics for practicing, and a sharp pencil is to be brought along too, please.

RECORDERS:

ALL students in Grades 3– 6 will be having recorder lessons with me in line with Education Queensland’s Classroom Music Curriculum, and ALL are expected to arrive for class lessons with their named recorder in the class basket.

If your child will be starting the year without one, I would ask for a note to come to the Office to let us know when this will be rectified.

Thank you for noting these.

Brett Gredig.

Classroom Specialist and Choir Conductor.

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Instrumental Music lessons are being held on Mondays this year and lessons commenced on Monday, 15 February.

Please note– if you are providing your own instrument, the annual base cost is $55.00. If you are borrowing an instrument from the school, the annual cost is $164.00, which in-cludes the $55.00 base cost.

Participating students should have received their instruments this week. Please remem-ber to bring your instrument to school EVERY MONDAY.

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Prep – Year 2 Amaroo Environmental Education Centre Excursion

Wow! What an adventure we had on Friday! Cam and Mr Dave (the educators from AEEC) were great. We had a bush walk and we saw tracks from animals. We found out how indige-nous peoples used bark and trees for different things in their life, and we did craft and dance. We sat in yarning circles and wrote in our books from our pockets (imaginary) to remember all the things we learned.

Absence Note : Grantham State School

My child ___________________will be away on ___________________

Reason : ____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

Parent Signature__________________

Date______________________

P & C AGM 2021

All parents are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Grantham State School Parents and Citizens Association. If you would like to nominate for one of the Executive positions, or you would just like to come along and give your input and support to the school, the P&C plays an important role in providing parent voice in decision making processes and policy development for the school.

All Welcome

When: Monday 22 Feb, 3:15pm.

Where: Multi-purpose room

Uniforms can be purchased from the school office on Mondays and Fridays. If you are in need of uniform items through the week please call the school on 0754683777 or email the school office.

(admin@granthamss.eq.edu.au)

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