Term 2 Week 6

Principal's Report

Excursions

Today we have year 3 and year 5 students on excursions to Sealife and the Wetlands. Excursions are an important component when we are planning our curriculum. The benefits of school excursions and incursions are:

• Provides another dimension to class-based learning and helps reinforce what has been taught in the classroom - students may get to learn in a new environment with new teachers or instructors.
• Students are excited and energised by the anticipation of leaving the classroom and school environment. Fun school excursions will help students retain the information they have learnt on their trip.
• Children have the opportunity to learn about and see new things in a less structured environment with more learning styles available - student learning can be hands on or interest-driven and they may be excited to learn something from someone new who is an expert in their field.
• Exposure to new experiences - outside the classroom, students have the opportunity of being exposed to new experiences and observe new things that are not available at school, such as rare and exotic wildlife and plants, different cultures and tours/visits to iconic buildings and areas.
• Social skills - getting out of the classroom gives children an opportunity to spend time with each other in a new environment without the structure of the classroom. School excursions often require students to spend time in small groups, observing, chatting and learning.

Thank you to the teachers, parents and our community that support our students during these learning opportunities.

Label Clothing

With the cooler mornings and warmer days many students take off the jumpers by mid-morning. Please ensure jumpers and hats are clearly labelled in order that they be returned to their owner.

Anthony Ryan
Principal

🎵 🎤 Choral Fanfare! 🎤 🎵

Tomorrow we have 3 of our school's amazing choirs performing in Choral Fanfare ... "Choral Fanfare is a biennial statewide program celebrating talented choirs in Queensland state schools. The program showcases the outstanding vocal talents from state school choirs through an emphasis on improving the quality of and promoting the highest possible standard of performance, striving for excellence and encouraging participation"

We are so excited to have our 🎵 Junior Voices (Year 2/3) 🎵 Beat Boys (Year 2/3) and 🎵 Senior Voices (Year 4/5/6) represent our school. And based on their performance on parade last Friday, we know they are going to sound simply sensational and do our school, and themselves very proud. 

Roz Mackay
Music Teacher

Athletics Important Dates

Thursday 1 June and Friday 2 June

Year 3 – Year 6 House training and selections

Thursday 8 June

Year 1 & 2 House practice

Friday 9 June

Year 1 & 2 House practice

Year 3 – 6 House Challenges for students absent with sickness on June 1 & 2

Monday 19 June

Year 3 high Jump

9yrs High Jump

12yrs High Jump

9yrs championship Shot Put and Long Jump

Tuesday 20 June

10yrs High Jump

11yrs High Jump

Wednesday 21 June

Junior Sports Day – Sports Captains to assist

Thursday 22 June

Senior Sports Day

Ben Moody
PE Teacher

Chess News

Last week some of our awesome Coolum chess players went to Mountain Creek State School to be involved in the Sunshine Coast Age Championship Chess Tournament.  There were over 300 other excited chess players ready for a challenge. Enzo, Sam, Remy R, Cayden, Reeve, Remy F, Isabella and Riley were up for the challenge.

Chess games are full of highs and lows. One minute you think you have your oppositions king cornered, and the next minute a knight jumps over the pawn to wreck your plans and you have to rebuild and plan your attack again. Chess takes patience and resilience, it’s not so fun when you are on a losing streak, but all of the Coolum students who attended on the day showed these qualities in abundance.

Our team faced opposition from other coast schools such as Buddina, Mountain Creek, Sunshine Coast Grammar and Nambour Christian College, to name but a few. Throughout the day, all of our players showed determination and persistence. There were some wins and some losses but they all left with a smile and great sportsmanship.

Special mention goes to Cayden in 5K and Sam in 6G who both received special mentions for their success on the day. Cayden was only ½ a point off a trophy and Sam got into the top 10 in his age group.

Students at Coolum can play chess every day, should they wish, at second break in the Japanese room. Our club meets each Tuesday to help people to learn and improve, also in the Japanese room. Everyone is welcome.

Judith Moore
Chess Club

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P-2 STEM Extravaganza

On Friday 5 May, nominated students from Prep to Year 3 took part in a fun-filled day of STEM investigations, experiments and activities. It was great to see students so engaged in their learning. One student even said it was ‘the best day of my life’ which Richard and his dedicated team from the Sunshine Coast Environmental Education Centre, who facilitated the day, certainly appreciated. Congratulations to all students who attended!

Andrew Grummitt
STEM Teacher

News from 2G

The reasons that the students in 2G love their mums…

Zion – She walks me to class each day.

Jarvis – My mum always cares for me and buys me new video games.

Honour – She cooks me dinner.

Lincoln – She makes dinner and she lays in bed with me at night.

Wyatt – Mum walks with me while I ride my bike.

Olive – I love my mum because she fills my heart with lots of joy.

Roslyn – My mum always gets me new toys.

Axel – She lets me live under her roof.

Ashton – She takes me on adventures.

Taylor – She helps me go on trips to new places.

Rafael – She gives me kisses every day.

Tate – My mum teaches me how to do boxing.

Zoe – Because we always get family time together.

Luke – She plays AFL with me.

Sophie – She makes me laugh!

Asha – She makes pancakes for me.

Hamish – She gives me hugs and tickles.

Islah – She always gives me a nice tickle on the back to help me go to sleep.

Indie – She makes me pancakes and she makes me laugh.

Finley – She packs my lunch.

Allanah – She is the best!

Fox – I love my mum because she helps me read in bed.

Harry – I love my mum because she does some things I want and she does what is best for me.

Reuben – She organises fun trips.

Nefeli – she takes me on splendid holidays!

Happy Mother’s Day to all of our beautiful mums!

Angela Greenland
Teacher of 2G 

News from 5W

Wow, Term 2 is almost finished, half way through year 5 already.

This year we have already had so many wonderful things happen. Here is a graph of our favourite highlights.

We also work very hard to be kind to others.  Here is some bucket filling from 5W.

Sophia shouts out to Arwen as she always shares her popcorn when I’m hungry

Alice S - Stella for letting me play with her when I was upset

Bonny  - Alice C for letting me use her stuff

Riley – George and Oliver for being a really good friend

Reef – Miles for letting me borrow his hat

Zack – Dylan for sharing his textas

Maya – Isabel for always helping me with my work

Asher – Maya for always boosting my confidence

Tiernan – Reef for being a good friend

Micah – George for letting me sit and play with him

Lani – Asher for always including everyone

Harry – Jarvis for always being a good friend

Oliver – Sunny for sharing with me in sport

George – Micah for playing with me at lunch

Scout – Sophia for being a good friend

Stella – Scout for letting me use her pens

Miles – Mrs Withell for letting me be in a class with my friends

Isabel – Lani for always sharing

Ivy – Coco for always coming over and working with me

Dylan – Riley for being a really nice friend

Reef – Zack for being super fast and a great friend

Maya – Delilah for making me laugh

Asher – Mr Russell for being funny

Arwen – Bonny for being a good friend

Alice C – Alice S for being a good friend

Miles – Eddie for being really nice and funny

Reef – Harry is a super good friend

Scout – Tiernan for being really sporty and a good person

Bonny – Ivy for being kind

As you can see, 5W really have some great friends.

KJ Withell
Teacher of 5W

Japanese Word of the Week

メニューをください (menu o kudasai) : Please give me a menu

Say this when you want to see the menu. You can change the word with whatever you want and ask “~ o kudasai” (Please give me ~).

If you want to ask for an English menu, ask "Eigo no menu wa arimasu ka?” (Do you have an English menu?)

Brad Yaxley
Japanese Teacher

Containers for Change at Coolum

Meet Coolum State School’s semester one’s, Container for Change Boys from 6Q. Finn, Curtis, Finnlay,  Mikhail, Malachi and Lochie.

Each week these awesome students help raise money for our school. How do they do that you ask? Well at Coolum we ask our students to throw a variety of containers marked with the 10c recycling logo into our special container collection bins. This is part of our containers for change recycling project operated by the PCC. Sadly, it’s more than just containers that go into our bins, so this wonderful team from 6Q volunteer to ensure only the correct items go to the recycling facility so that our contributions will be accepted.

Each Friday they sort through the bins removing leftover liquid, straws and rubbish from the container bins before they are sent to the Containers for Change depot. You can imagine what an unpleasant job this can be, but rarely a complaint is received.

This term they are working with the school Environmental Team students to learn about recycling and what should actually be being put in the recycling bins around school. The aim is to develop and educate other students in school to make sure that only the correct items are placed into the bins.

You can help the boys too! Before you put your drinks cartons, bottles and cans into the container for change bins

• Pour any leftover liquid into a sink or bubbler and then rinse it away.
• Put straws and lids into a normal bin
• Put all other rubbish in the general waste bins.

Watch out for updates from the Environmental Team about classroom recycling bins, do you know what should be put into those?

Thanks for your help!

Coolum Environmental Team

P&C News

Our next P&C meeting is Tuesday 30 May at 6.30pm in the P&C Centre. We also welcome your attendance on Zoom, from the comfort of your own home - notify your online attendance by emailing: pandc@coolumss.eq.edu.au by noon on Tuesday 30^th May and we'll send you the link. 

Thank you for supporting our Mothers Day Stall and the Italian Day in the Tuckshop

Denise French
P&C Manager

Other News and Events...

Reporting your child's absence

If your child is absent from school it is important that you notify us as soon as possible. To report your child’s absence please either complete the short form available on the website at https://coolumss.eq.edu.au/our-school/absences or telephone us on 5471 9300.

Absences may be reported both on the webform and on the telephone in advance for planned absences.

We thank you for your assistance.

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 and submit reasons for absences.

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 . 

RideScore Active Schools

REGISTER NOW!

1. Do you live close to school?
2. Do your children have a bike or scooter?
3. 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!

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