Term 2 Week 8 2022
Principal's Report
I have had a busy week at Victoria Point taking part in a school review. Taking part in school reviews forms part of my role and also allows me the opportunity to see other great schools in operation.
Under 8s Day
Today at our school we’ve had yet another fabulous Under 8s Day in the glorious sunshine! Under 8s Day is a bucket load of fun not just for the students but also our parents, teachers and the wider school community to be involved in. Each class teacher gets very creative in putting together a wide variety of crafty or fun activities that all of the students can take part in. There’s been dream catchers and bracelets, obstacle courses, bush crafts, mask masking and face painting to name just a few.
We’ve had students from Coolum High School join us to help on the various stalls, many being our ex-students who were more than happy to get amongst it to join in the fun. A popular station is always the emergency services with their police car and ambulance, the children love to have the opportunity to take a look around these fully kitted-out vehicles. We are very grateful to our emergency services for joining us today.
Our wonderful P&C have been non-stop on their stall serving delicious coffee and treats. Huge thanks go to the volunteer teacher aides and parents who turned up early this morning to help us get this awesome day all set up and ready to go. Thank you Coolum community for a brilliant morning for our Under 8s.
My New Gallery
Anthony Ryan
Principal
News from 1G
Bumping up our learning in 1G!
This term, we have been busy retelling cultural stories from all around the world. We discovered that when writing stories, they can be pretty boring if we don’t use awesome adjectives, vivid verbs and amazing adverbs in our sentences!
We needed to fix up our stories so that they were more entertaining for our readers. I decided it was time we learnt how to bump them up! We hope you enjoy reading our bumped-up sentences and that our sleepy sentences don’t make you snore. 😊
Student name | Sleepy sentences | Bumped up beauties! |
Olivia | The kangaroo ran. | The brown kangaroo ran away quickly. |
Bentley | The kangaroo got sticks. | The little kangaroo got a white stick and the big kangaroo got a brown stick. |
Zach | There was a kangaroo. | On a sunny day there was a wild big kangaroo who was very hungry. |
Jarvis | The was a kangaroo. | There was a big red kangaroo and a small white kangaroo. |
Tahlia | The kangaroos stood. | The two bouncing kangaroos stood looking for the honey. |
Knight | The kangaroos were fighting. | The big red kangaroo was fighting the small yellow kangaroo. |
Rosslyn | I saw a kangaroo. | I saw a light-coloured kangaroo hopping. |
Oskar | The kangaroo fights. | The white small kangaroo threw a sharp stick at the big brown kangaroo. |
Axel | It was a kangaroo. | It was a strong, brown kangaroo. |
Toby | There is a kangaroo. | The little kangaroo was looking for some yummy sugarbag and then he saw some bees. |
Ziggy | The two kangaroos fought. | The two angry kangaroos fought with two coloured sticks. |
Zoe | The kangaroo reached in. | The big red kangaroo reached in to get the yellow honey but he pulled out spiders. |
Marnie | The kangaroo fighted. | The red kangaroo was fighting with the cream coloured kangaroo over the delicious sugarbag honey. |
Jenson | The kangaroo is on the mountain. | The big kangaroo hopped on the rocky mountain to get some yummy honey. |
Blake | The kangaroo reached in. | The big red kangaroo reached for the delicious sugarbag but instead he pulled out spiders. |
Dash | The kangaroo was standing. | The orange kangaroo was standing on the big rock because he was really hungry. |
Sophie Miller | The kangaroo was wild. | The big brown kangaroo was super wild and wanted to fight the little kangaroo with a long branch. |
Sophie | The kangaroo stood. | The two kangaroos were fighting with some sharp sticks off the trees. |
Sam | The kangaroos fighted. | The angry kangaroos were fighting with wooden sticks. |
Lia | The kangaroo had a stick. | The giant red kangaroo had a white stick that he threw at the small kangaroo. |
Olly | It was a kangaroo. | It was a big brown kangaroo who was looking for lots of sugar bags. |
Cooper | The kangaroo got honey. | The little kangaroo got nice clean fresh sugarbag and the big kangaroo pulled out lots of creepy spiders. |
Ari | The kangaroo threw a stick. | The red kangaroo fought with the yellow kangaroo and threw a sharp stick that stuck to the big kangaroo. |
Megha | The kangaroo hops. | The red kangaroo hops. |
Luka | They were fighting. | The big kangaroo got a stick and the little kangaroo got a stick and they started fighting. |
Taya | The kangaroo hopped. | The tall white kangaroo was hopping to the cool refreshing lake. |
Thank you for reading.
By the students of 1G and Mrs Gers.
Susan Gers
Teacher of class 1G
News from 3G
This term year 3 have been learning all about living and non-living things and environmental destructions.
Last week, 3G and 3J visited Sea Life in Mooloolaba. We learnt many interesting facts about sea animals that we would love to share!
To tell the difference between rays and sharks, look at their gills. Sharks have gills on their sides, rays underneath their bodies.
When a shark is pregnant with several babies, only the strongest baby survives. It eats all of its siblings. Sharks are cannibals.
When turtles see plastic bags, they think they are jellyfish and eat them. The bag fills with air making the turtle float to the surface of the water. Their shells become sunburnt. Sadly, last week a baby turtle died at Sea Life. He had swallowed too much plastic.
There are 18 species of penguins. Sea Life has little blue or fairy penguins. They poo every 15 minutes!
Sea dragons are the most expensive animals to look after at Sea Life because of their diet.
Jellyfish have been around for 650 million years, longer than sharks or even dinosaurs!
Sharks don’t have bones, instead they have cartilage, like our nose and ears. It keeps them light in the water.
My New Gallery
Courtney Granger
Teacher of class 3G
2022 Premier’s Reading Challenge
We are delighted to invite all Coolum State School students to join in the 2022 Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC).
The PRC is not a competition but a way to encourage students to develop a love of reading for life. Students are encouraged to select a range of fiction and non-fiction books suited to their reading ability and record books read during the reading period, between 9 May to 26 August.
To complete the challenge:
- Prep to Year 2 must read or experience at least 20 books
- Years 3 and 4 must read at least 20 books
- Years 5 to 9 must read at least 15 books.
Experiencing books can include shared reading, listening to stories, or reading picture books. The aim for the 2022 challenge is to engage more students to read than ever before! Last year saw more than 168,000 children from around the state participate.
Key dates | Activity |
9 May – 26 August | Reading period for Prep to Year 9 students |
29 August | Student reader record forms submitted to teacher |
Every student who completes the challenge will receive a Certificate of Achievement signed by the Premier. We look forward to seeing as many of our students as possible take part in the 2022 Premier’s Reading Challenge.
Reading record forms will be sent home with your child next week.
Happy Reading!
P&C News
Comedy for a Cause
Thank you to everyone who attended our Comedy for a Cause evening last Friday night, supporting wellbeing initiatives for students at Coolum State School. It was a side-splitting success and a wonderful catch-up for parents and carers in our school community.
Denise French
P&C Manager
Enough is enough: Community campaign to get shovels in the ground
Ninderry MP Dan Purdie and community leaders have said enough is enough, and are calling on Transport Minister Mark Bailey to fast-track funding and start construction on long overdue road safety upgrades in Coolum.
Mr Purdie, together with Coolum State School P&C and Coolum Business and Tourism are urging the community to sign a petition calling on the State Government to allocate funding in the upcoming State Budget.
Mr Purdie said fixing the roundabout to improve safety and bust congestion had been his top priority since he was elected in 2017.
“While we welcome the State Government’s investment of $1.75million for further planning and consultation, enough is enough - the time for action is now,” Mr Purdie said.
Mr Purdie said the State Labor government had first announced plans to address the traffic congestion and upgrade the Motorway back in 2008.
“Since then, our population has grown exponentially, and too many lives have been lost on our roads.
Coolum State School P&C President Shane Urban said the safety of students was paramount.
“The 1000+ students of our 100-year-old school along with parents and guardians, teachers, staff and citizens of the greater Coolum area, are all being negatively impacted by the transport infrastructure that hasn’t kept in line with the remarkable growth in our region,” Mr Urban said.
“We appreciate the consultation that authorities have had with our school community including surveys and our own ST Travel committee but to keep our students safe, we would like to see a commitment to the start of the construction of the duplication of the Motorway.
Mr Urban said the duplication is expected to be from the Mudjimba interchange to the Peregian Springs roundabout including the southern access from the motorway to Suncoast Beach Drive and fixing the bottlenecks of the two roundabouts leading into Coolum from the Motorway.
He said this would serve to not only assist Coolum State School traffic movement, but also Peregian Springs State School, St Andrews College, Coolum State High as well as Coolum Christian College and Peregian Beach College.
It would also take the stress off local residents using the only Motorway access to and from Coolum which runs directly past the primary school, he said.
“We ask that a priority be placed on these works to best protect all of our road users.”
Coolum Business and Tourism President Mark Cameron said the local road network could no longer sustain the rapid growth of the population, and the regional economy.
"Since 2006 the community has been pleading for these road improvements, not only to improve safety but to meet the needs of a fast growing Coolum region. It's time to get this off the 'To Do' list and just get it done,” Mr Cameron said.
The petition will be tabled in Parliament during Budget Week, in two weeks time, and is available at https://queensland.typeform.com/to/wcUHTWC7
QParents
Did you know that the QParents portal is available for Coolum State School? QParents enables schools to offer parents secure access to information about their child. Parents can communicate directly with the school and update their child’s address and medical conditions, submit reasons for absences and make online payments for school invoices.
QParents is available to all families and not just our new families! If you would like to receive your unique invitation code and child's EQ ID please email us info@coolumss.eq.edu.au to request this.
Contact details
Have you changed your mobile number recently? Have you moved house?
It's important that we hold up to date contact details for you and your nominated emergency contacts. If you would like to update your details please pop in to the Administration Office or email us at info@coolumss.eq.edu.au .
Dates for your diary
| Event | Date |
| School Disco | Tuesday 21 June |
| Year 4 Camp to Noosa North Shore | Wednesday 10 August - Friday 12 August |
RideScore Active Schools
REGISTER NOW!
- Do you live close to school?
- Do your children have a bike or scooter?
- Would you like peace of mind knowing your children have safely arrived at school?
If you answered YES to these questions, then RideScore is for you!
We are one of nine Sunshine Coast schools that have been invited to trial the RideScore Active Schools Program in 2022.
What is RideScore?
RideScore is an incentive-based program delivered by Sunshine Coast Council and We Ride Australia to increase active travel to and from school. The program is open to all students who ride a bike or scooter to school, as these can easily be fitted with beacons.
Participating students will receive a personal sensor (beacon) to attach to their bike or scooter. The school bike storage facility will be fitted with a Bluetooth reader that detects the signal from the beacon and sends a notification to the nominated contact that the student has arrived at or departed the school gate. Please note that the beacon is not a tracking device, it only records school arrivals and departures.
Data is collected by the online platform, enabling incentives to be offered at certain milestones.
Activities will also be planned throughout the school year to promote and encourage active travel, including cycling education classes for all Year 4 students.
How do I register?
Step 1 - Download the RideScore App (Search for ‘RideScore’ in the App Store or on Google Play)
Step 2 – Receive your sign on bag (will be distributed via the classrooms) that includes:
- Your child’s beacon & instructions on how to pair and fit
- Bike Lock
- Scorecard
- Road Safety Information
Step 3 – Start riding or scooting
Step 4 – Visit the RideScore website for great resources and safety tips
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