Term 3 week 4 2021

Principal's Report

What an amazing few days with so many changes. Who would have thought this time last week that we would be conducting online learning this week?

I have been glued to the Olympics cheering on our Australian team across the last two weeks. I must mention two stories that I think typify values we try and instil in our students.

Firstly, Alex Porter who was racing in the men’s cycling Team Pursuit on Monday afternoon and crashed at 68km per hour after the handlebars detached from his bike. Alex was extremely lucky and was not injured. After five years of daily practice, monitoring his nutrition, monitoring sleep and focussing upon winning Olympic Gold, the gold medal had slipped away in one crash that he had no control over. Alex then displayed resilience by not giving up. Despite a number of injuries and the extreme disappointment of missing the gold medal due to the crash, he re-joined his team with a new bike and rode again. The team worked hard to finish mid field.

Another example of perseverance came to us in the swimming pool. Ariarne Titmus, our ‘adopted QUEENSLANDERRRR” travelled to Japan to compete against one of the most accomplished female swimmers in the world - the American Katie Ledecky who held 17 individual Olympic and World Swimming event gold medals. Once again Ariarne showed perseverance to keep attending training each day and reviewing her data with her coach. Whilst we are asleep in the early morning cold, Ariarne would be in the pool. She demonstrated perseverance, commitment and effort over many years to win gold in Japan. She also dealt with the extreme pressure of racing arguably the most successful female swimmer in this modern time.

Hopefully these two stories emphasise to our children that whilst medals are acknowledged, the values and effort that sit behind the medals are the things that we truly celebrate.

Thank you also for your support over the last few days as we moved our school to learning at home mode.  At this stage the lockdown will remain until 4pm Sunday 8 August 2021. Once we have further information we will communicate this to you. We will continue to email and also post on our Facebook Page. Should the lockdown be extended next week, hard copy learning materials will be available from the School Rd drop off zone from Midday. If you have questions about the learning that has been planned please contact your class teacher by email. Many of our staff are working from home and will be able to respond quickly via this medium.

We are aiming to keep our home learning as self-directed as possible. We have taken on board your feedback from last time about developing work that reinforces previously learning from earlier in the term. Please do not panic if your child does not complete all work. I can assure you that once we all comeback together onsite, we will work together to continue our learning.

I encourage you all to stay informed of the latest health developments relating to COVID-19 by regularly visiting the Queensland Government Website.

I once again thank all parents and carers for your support and understanding during this lockdown. I look forward to bringing our whole school community back together again as soon as we are able to safely do so and welcome your wonderful children back to School.

My New Gallery

News from 2Z

2Z had a great start to the term, refreshed from a winter holiday we were ripping into informative texts, multiplying and dividing, exploring changes in transport throughout history and then……..lockdown. As I write, the way the next few weeks will go is uncertain, so we are hoping everyone is staying safe, well and wondering if we will be ‘2Z at school’ or ‘2Z remote learning’. We are looking forward to the rest of the term if things return to normal because we have so much to do!

Here are a couple of photos of 2Z tackling some problem solving challenges from the past weeks

News from 4W

4W have been looking at life in London in 1787. 

Here are some language features we use to help add detail to our writing. 

Noun groups 

* dirty,  filthy clothes

* starving belly

* horrid master

Adverbial phrases

* cried noisily

* laughed loudly

* crept quietly

Prepositional Phrases

* under the deck

* among the vendors

* behind the houses

Time Connectives

* two seconds later

* following that

* at long last

It is also our foyer display this week,  so due to learning at home and no one being able to see it, here are some pictures. 

Well done wonderful 4W

Prep 2022 Enrolments now open

Do you have a child that is eligible to enrol in Coolum State School in 2022?  If so, please see our Enrolments Officer Katie in the office to collect your enrolment pack.

Prep 2022 Open Day scheduled for 8 Aug has been Postponed

Sport

Noosa District Trials

Over the last two weeks 42 of our athletes competed at the Noosa District Track and Field Trials. We kicked off the trials on Wednesday 21 July after school, with the 1500 metre event. Seven of our students represented the school in this event over various age groups.  We received a first place in both the 10 years girls (Millie) and 12 years girls (Livy). Discus was then held on Friday 23 July after school and we had seven students representing our school in this event.  We received a first place in the 10 years boys (Riley), first place 11 years boys (Mitchell), first place 11 years girls (Lucy) and a second place in the 12 years girls (Ziggie)

On Tuesday 27 July we headed off again for the whole day carnival. The morning started off with the 800 metre races. A cracking pace was set by all our athletes and we came away with second place in the 10 years girls (Millie) and boys (Jonty).  Our 12 years girls came home with a first, second and third place (Ellie, Belle and Livy).

Next up we had  shot put. The 10 years boys placed second and third (Saul and Riley), 10 years girls third place (Abby) and  11 years girls second place (Ploy).

We then came back to the track with the 200 metres. Again, our athletes did our school proud with some amazing results. We had 10 students make it through to the finals for the 200 metre, with a first place in the 10 years boys (Marcus) and 12 years boys (Zeph), second place in 11 years boys (Mitchell)  11 years girls (Jordan) and our 12 years girls came away with second and third (Belle and Ziggie).

It was time to go back to the field events with some jumping giants to compete in  Long Jump and High Jump. We received a first and second place in 10 years boys Long Jump (Marcus and Jonty), second in 10 years girls (Mahala), another first for 11 years girls (Jordan), 12 years boys third place (Zeph) and 12 years girls a second and third place (Ziggie and Belle). In the High Jump we came away with a second place in the 10 years boys (Riley), 11 years girls second place (Tilly) and  12 years girls a second and third place (Ziggie and Ava).

Finally, it was back to the track for our last event of the day with our sprint stars ready to go in the 100 metres. Eight of our athletes made it through to the finals and we came away with a second in  10 years boys (Marcus), first in  12 years boys (Zeph) and our 12 years girls came second and third (Belle and Ziggie).

Overall Coolum State School came out on top and won the Noosa District Carnival!  Our athletes represented our school with so much pride, a big congratulations to all our athletes that competed throughout the day. We now have 16 students going on to represent Noosa District at the Regional Trials, to be held at USC on 1 and 2^ September - Saul, Riley, Millie, Mahala, Marcus, Jonty, Ploy, Tilly, Jordan, Lucy, Mitchell, Belle, Ziggie, Ellie, Livy and Zeph. We wish these students all the best at the Regional Trials. 

Bucket Filling

What is bucket-filling?

Bucket-filling is a term used in education to refer to positive attitudes and behaviour.

It relies on the analogy that every person carries with them an invisible bucket. 

This bucket contains a person's feelings and emotions. 

When the bucket is full, this represents us feeling happy and contented. 

However, when it is empty, we feel low, upset and dissatisfied. 

Bucket-fillers are those who act in a way that fills another person's bucket and refers to those who practise kindness and good behaviour.

The analogy comes from the book How Full Is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton.

All students at Coolum State School have been introduced to the idea of bucket filling.  We have watched videos on parade and we have been promoting our poster competition.  When we are back at school students will vote for posters entered in this competition.  There will be two winners, one from Prep-Yr 2 and one from Yr 3-Yr 6.  These posters will be printed and displayed in all classrooms, as we continue to promote bucket filling throughout the school.

(Beth Sharry-Deputy Principal)

Coolum @Home Learning

A big thank you to all Coolum families for being supportive and flexible with our @home learning. By now you should have received a learning plan providing work up to and including Friday 6 August. If you haven’t received the plan you can either contact your child’s classroom teacher or you can access learning plans via our Student Space SharePoint (see details below). We have aimed to put together a plan with a mixture of online, and pen and paper activities. Each Year level plan will clearly outline learning activities with relevant hyperlinks to websites and supporting documents.  Your child might like to keep all of their work together in a book or folder. This will enable them to share their work with their classroom teachers or classmates when things are back to normal.

Coolum SS Student Space: https://qedu.sharepoint.com/sites/1571/studentspace

This site provides you with resources to support your learning. Should you have questions about the work included contact your class teacher. Please login using your school username and password, and tick the checkbox to agree to the conditions of use and privacy.

Music Achievments

Congratulations to Sophie and Lucy who represented our music department at the Griffith University Young Conservatorium State Honours Ensemble Program (SHEP), in Bundaberg last weekend. The State Honours Ensemble Program is an educational program for music students that helps extend and encourage their pursuit of musical excellence.

Both girls enjoyed playing in the culminating concert on Sunday afternoon at Bundaberg Christian College, with their conductor Mr David Law.

Eisteddfod News

Group Speaking Ensemble: Eisteddfod 2021

Congratulations to the Year 4 Group Speaking Ensemble who travelled to Buderim to compete on Friday 30 July. We performed an excerpt from Alice in Wonderland, as well as a poem written by myself. We were very lucky to win Third Place!! The group was absolutely amazing and so brave to go against very professional teams from other schools. We were very impressed with the performances from the other schools and felt very lucky to actually get a prize. We looked amazing in our beautiful formal uniforms (thanks to Helen and Denise in the Uniform Shop). Thank you also to Ms Kylie who came along with us, she was very impressed by our performance too. Thank you also to the parents who came to watch. Well done to Coolum!

(Laura Morris – 4M Teacher and Group Speaking Coordinator)

Cheerleading

COOLUM ALLSTARZ DANCE TEAM

Last weekend, Saturday 31 July the Coolum AllStarz performed at their first live competition, the Australian Pinnacle Dance Challenge.  It was held at St Teresa’s Catholic College in Noosaville.  The girls did an outstanding job and placed in all categories.  They received:

1^st place Pom

1^st place Hip Hop

1^st place Musical Theatre

1^st place Lyrical

1^st place Acro

2^nd place Contemporary

2^nd place Jazz

Congratulations Coolum AllStarz and thank you to all the families and friends who came along to support the girls.  Our Coolum AllStarz were also commended on their impeccable manners and behaviour at the event.  Beautiful work girls!  You made us all very proud!  Well done!

2020 Olympics-Olympic Connect

2020 Olympics In Japan and Olympic Connect - tomodachi

It is great to see both the host nation Japan and Australia doing so well in the Olympic games. In the spirit of the Olympic games uniting the world, Year 5 and Year 6 students from Coolum State School have been communicating via video conferencing with students from Tatsuichi Elementary School in Nara city Japan. The program “Olympic Connect Tomodachi” (which means friend in Japanese), was created by the Australian Olympic committee to celebrate the Olympic spirit and forge positive long-lasting international relations between participating schools.

Coolum students shared greetings and interests in Japanese as well as presented on topics such as; their home town, school life and sports.

Fortunately, the program will continue post Olympics with the focus moving beyond just language exchange into cross cultural collaborative projects.

With globalization rapidly increasing there is a need for students to relate to and communicate across cultures, especially the cultures and countries of Asia. In doing so, students become active and informed citizens developing an appreciation of and respect for social, cultural diversity, and a sense of global citizenship.

Japanese Word of the Week

Japanese : がんばれ!!　

Romaji    :  ganbare!!

Meaning :  Go go go !! / Do your best! / Good luck! 

Book Fair

Colouring in competition results:

Prep-  Lia (PRD)

Year 1- Parker (1B)

Year 2-Goldie (2S)

Year 3- Arwen (3A)

Year 4-Layla (4P)

Year5/6-Lydia (5M)

Dental Van News

The school dental van is currently seeing Preps, Year 1’s and Year 6’s for check-ups and subsequent dental treatment if required.

Medical history/consent forms have now been handed out through class to all Year 5’s. If you would like your child to be seen please return the form to their school teacher or the office.

All other year levels will be offered access to the dental van throughout the year.

For any concerns or enquiries, please contact the dental van on 0408 008 154.

(Lori Lacey-Dental Therapist)

2022 Year 7 : Coolum High School Enrolment

Finance

To ensure your child is able to attend any excursion, incursion or participate in an extra curricular activity please make payment prior to the due date. 

Payment can be made by cash, EFTPOS or using the hyperlink on the invoice emailed to you.  If you are experiencing finacial difficulty contact the office to arrange a meeting with the Business Manager, Sharyn O'Brien .

If you require further information about any activity please contact the office on 5471 9300.

Facilities

The Plaza Refurbishment
We have been given approval for the blue stage area of the Plaza to be refurbished.  The blue astroturf will be removed and the stage area will be cladded with ecodeck.  We look forward to these works being completed over the coming months.

Water Mitigation Works
The school is working with various key stakeholders to address the water that lays towards the western end of the school.  Engineers have been engaged to look at solutions to assist in ensuring that the water flows away from buildings and classrooms are more accessible in heavy rains.

Air Conditioning Update
AIr Conditioning to the classrooms will commence next week!!!  These works are expected to extend beyond the September holidays. 

Student of the Week

Community Notices

School Information

School Year 2021

Term 3 – Monday 12 July to Friday 17 September

Term 4 – Tuesday 5 October to Friday 10 December

Remember to update your details by email or with the Office if you have –

• a new phone
• moved house
• started a new job
• changed your contact details

School Contact Details

Address               PO Box 374 School Road, Coolum Beach.  4573
Phone                  5471 9300

Website               www.coolumss.eq.edu.au

Email                   info@coolumss.eq.edu.au

Parades              Senior – 8.40 am           Junior – 9.20 am

Tuckshop          Wednesday to Friday

QParents App & Facebook
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Uniform Shop Hours
The Uniform Shop is located at the P&C Room and opens every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 2.00 pm – 3.15 pm.

Monday and Friday 8.00 a.m. – 9.00 a.m.

P&C Association   
Meetings are the fourth Tuesday of each month, in the P&C Centre at 7.00pm. All welcome

Outside School Hours Care
 6.00 am to 8.30 am and after school from 2.40 pm to 10.00 pm

 Phone: 5446 2026

Email: admin@coolumafterschoolcare.com.au