7 November 2019

Domain and email change

Please be aware that the school’s domain name change for our school website address is now:

This domain name change also impacts upon the following email addresses, please ensure you have updated your contact lists:

principal@gracevilless.eq.edu.au
admin@gracevilless.eq.edu.au
newsletter@gracevilless.eq.edu.au
pandc@gracevilless.eq.edu.au
bsm@gracevilless.eq.edu.au
prepyear@gracevilless.eq.edu.au

Principal

Zoe Smith

Hello,

We are officially halfway through the term! Time is flying!

I would like to congratulate all of our shortlisted School Captain nominees for 2020. It was a privilege to hear their speeches on Thursday afternoon. The four School Co-Captains for 2020 will announced at an assembly on 14 November.

Monday the 11th is Remembrance Day. As a school we will take time out to create awareness for our students and reflect. We hope you are able to take the time on Monday, where ever you may be, to pause and reflect at 11am on Monday.

Next Wednesday night is our annual Music Concert. The music concert is a great night. I suggest arriving early to get a good seat. I am always amazed by the performances of our ensembles.

As you may be aware on Saturday 16th November, our school is hosting a movie night! Hopefully the weather will be great and we can enjoy a movie in the outdoors! I am looking forward to it! Please save the date and come along and have some fun with us.

In next week’s newsletter I hope to share some of the Affirmations from our school review. We greatly appreciated the participation of the students, teachers and parent reps in the process. We unpacked the review Affirmations and Recommendations as a staff this week and are feeling both happy and excited about what lies ahead for us in the next four years.

Have a great week,
Zoe

Newsletter Articles

Deputy Principal

Maree Hass

Remembrance Day 2019

Our special school assembly will be held in our school hall on Monday November 11 at 10:15am, everyone welcome to attend.

Get Set for Prep!

Our final Get Set for Prep is on Tuesday November 12, please see details below.

Date Claimers:

Get Set for Prep session 3: Tuesday November 12, 9 - 10:30am, Focus on Reading

Prep Orientation meetings: Thursday November 28 (A letter with information will come home soon)

Prep uniform selling morning: Thursday November 28, 8:15 – 12:00 and Wednesday January 22nd 2020 3-6pm

Below is the calendar for Junior Assemblies in Term 4. Everyone welcome, we are on from 2.15pm on these Tuesdays in the hall.

Deputy Principal

Lisa McKeaten

Is your child in Year 5 in 2019 ?
(not the Enhancement class)

You are invited to a Parent Information Session on Thursday 14th November
in the current 5G & 5H classrooms
in Q block

Dear Parents

We are inviting you to a Parent Information session on Thursday 14th November 8.00-8.30am in the current classrooms for 5G & 5H in Q block (top floor).

The Parent Information session is specifically focused on how team teaching currently operates in Year 5.

It is important to note no decisions have been made about staffing or classes for 2019. Despite this, Mrs Anne Hornstra and Mr Billy Guthrie are willing to explain team teaching and how they currently operate.

If you would like to attend please RSVP for this event by Wednesday 13th November by phoning the office (3716 2777).

To ensure the session meets your needs, can you please send any questions you would like answered in this session to me (Lisa McKeaten – lmcke46@eq.edu.au) by Tuesday 12th November.

Music News

Naomi Lindh

Next Wednesday 13 November, many of our music students will be rehearsing during the day for the evening music concert, including the Senior Band, Beginner/Junior Strings, Senior Strings and Junior Choir. The Junior Band and Senior Choir will rehearse on their usual rehearsal days next week and not on Wednesday during the day. Please ensure your child brings their music and instrument for these rehearsals. Due to the practices and the concert, there will be no Senior Band rehearsal after school (next Wednesday 13 November) and no rehearsals for Senior Band after the evening concert. All of our music students in ensembles and choirs will be performing at this concert on Wednesday 13 November at 6pm. Families and members of the school community are warmly invited to attend our annual music concert. Instrumental students should arrive at 5:30pm for tuning next Wednesday night and choir students should arrive by 5:45pm. We look forward to sharing our music with you at the concert!

There will be a disruption to IM lessons in week 6 due to rehearsals but lessons will continue in week 7. Senior Strings will continue to have lessons and rehearse in week 8 as they will be preparing for their performance including Christmas songs at the Grandparents Concert on 27 November at 10am.

Our Grandparents Concert is scheduled for Wednesday 27 November at 10am. Students in the Junior Choir, Senior Choir and Senior Strings will be performing at this concert and will be able to invite their grandparents/special guests to attend the concert. After these performances they will sing some Christmas carols together followed by a shared morning tea. The invitation for guests and information notes are attached and will be handed out to students at rehearsals over the next week. If you are able to assist with the morning tea (from 9am - 11:20am on Wednesday 27 November) please let me know via email (nclos1@eq.edu.au).

On Saturday 30 November our choir students are invited to sing at the Christian Riverside Church Community Carols evening. Please find the note attached regarding this performance. This will be a combined choir of any students in the Junior and Senior Choirs who are able to attend. The performance from our combined choir will be at 5:30pm. As there has been disruption to the normal Senior Choir rehearsals with the public holiday and PFD this term, any students in the Senior Choir who would like to join Junior Choir rehearsals for some additional practice of the songs we will be singing for this performance are welcome to join at 8:15am (on Wednesdays in the music room)

Monday 7:45am - 8:30am Senior Choir (year 4,5 and 6 students) Ms West Tuesday 7:30 - 8:30am - Junior Band - Mr Kukulies Tuesday 10:45 - 11:20 - Senior Strings - Mr Thomas Adeney Wednesday 7:45am - 8:30am - Junior Choir (year 2 and 3 students) Mrs Lindh Wednesday 10:45am - 11:25am - Beginner/Junior Strings - Mr Thomas Adeney Wednesday 2:50pm - 4:00pm - Senior Band - Mr Stiller

Music teacher contact details...

Alex Grodecki - agrod3@eq.edu.au (at Graceville Thursdays)
Thomas Adeney - taden3@eq.edu.au (at Graceville Tuesdays and Wednesdays)
James Kukulies - jkuku2@eq.edu.au (at Graceville Tuesdays)
Steve Stiller - sstil2@eq.edu.au (at Graceville Wednesdays)
Julie West - jwest269@eq.edu.au (at Graceville Monday/Tuesday)
Naomi Lindh - nclos1@eq.edu.au (at Graceville Wednesday/Thursday/Friday)

Important dates to note...

13 November - Annual Music Concert at 6pm - all choral and instrumental music students will be performing at his concert
27 November - Grandparents' Concert at 10am - students in the Junior Choir, Senior Choir and Senior Strings will perform at this concert for their grandparents/special guests
30 November - 5:30 - Christian Riverside Church Community Carols - all students from the Junior and Senior Choir students are invited to sing (performance scheduled for 5:30pm)

We look forward to performing for you at our upcoming concerts!

Naomi Lindh
Music Teacher and IM Coordinator (Wednesday - Friday)

P&C Update

Graceville State School Movie Night | Small Foot

Food from 5.30pm | Movie from 6.30pm

Sat 16 Nov

Bring $$$ for BBQ, Drinks, Popcorn, Lick Ice Cream & Gingerbread Men

Voluntary Contributions

If you haven’t made a voluntary contribution yet this year, you can still contribute to help fund technology resources at Graceville State School.

You can make your Voluntary Contribution of $100 per student (or your preferred amount) by transfer to the P&C account, at the School Office or in $10 instalments online at the link below.

The P&C account details are:

Account name: Graceville State School P&C Association
BSB: 064-111
Account number: 000900130
Ref: VC “Child’s name”

P&C meeting

Please join us for the final of the year at 7:30pm on Wednesday 4 December.

Tuckshop News

Tuckshop Roster for week ending15 th of November 2019

Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers.

That’s week 5 done for term 4. Only 4 more weeks of Tuckshop left for 2019.

They’re baaackk!!! Gingerbread men are back on the menu for the last few weeks of term. Order through S24 for only 80c and have them in your order from this Friday.

Please keep in mind that Week 9 is the last week of Tuckshop. We close the shutters this year on Friday, 6 December.

All orders for Friday, 6 December must be placed on S24 by noon on Thursday, 5 December.

This will allow us to order exact produce for the last day of service in 2019 and avoid storing excess product in freezers over the Christmas break.

We will remind you about this each week, once via the newsletter and once via a S24 email on a Monday.

Tell everyone you know and thank you in advance for your co-operation.

Finally, don’t forget our Thank you Dinner for all our Volunteers has been scheduled to take place on Thursday, 12 December. This will be a combined event to farewell our outgoing Tuckshop and Uniform Shop Convenors and welcome our new Convenors for 2020.

If you’d like to come along and join this fabulous celebration and celebrate everyone’s general fabulousness, please drop us a line at tuckshop.gss@gmail.com

Thanks.

Uniform Shop

Fiona Fryer

Opening Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Friday 8.15am - 9.00am

The last day to purchase uniforms will be Monday 9th December.

Uniform Roster

Term 4

Prep Selling Days

Thursday November 28th 2019 8.15-11.30am
Wednesday January 22nd 2020 3-6pm

Families that are already at Graceville State School are encouraged to come during normal uniform store hours as the prep selling days are much busier than usual.

Stock Update

We have great quality swimming bags for $12 and swimming caps for $10 in various colours.

We have a lightweight microfibre jacket in royal blue and gold for $33. Size 6 microfibre jackets are now out of stock until next year.

Size 8 dresses are out of stock until the end of the year.

School colour hair accessories are available, there are headbands, hair ties, bows and clips.

We will need some new volunteers in the store for next year, if you are interested please send an email or come and see me in store.

As of 1st July 2018, stores stopped providing free single use bags therefore the uniform store will no longer provide plastic bags so please make sure you bring your own if required.

Donations of 2nd hand uniforms are always appreciated, please keep them coming in but can you please make sure that all items are washed and in a good and saleable condition.

Please be advised that refunds will ONLY be given if you have the original receipt and items should not have been washed or worn.

Order forms are available on the school website and can be emailed to the uniform shop at the below address, the items will be sent to the classroom via the teachers pigeon hole in the main office.

Email address for school uniform store is:

uniformstore@gracevilss.eq.edu.au

Active School Travel

Happy Week 5! Thank you to everyone who decorated their hats and helmets for this morning’s special event. We had a great turnout with everyone enjoying the fruit and muffins put on by Cr Nicole Johnston.

Congratulations to the winners of the decorating competition!

School Holiday Tennis Coaching

CHRISTMAS SCHOOL HOLIDAY TENNIS COACHING CLINICS

MONDAY 16th, TUESDAY 17TH, WEDNESDAY 18TH DECEMBER, AND

MONDAY 20th, TUESDAY 21TH, WEDNESDAY 22TH JANUARY

GRACEVILLE STATE PRIMARY SCHOOL

Christmas School Holiday Tennis Clinics are now open for enrolments. Positions are available for all school students aged between 5-9 years.

DECEMBER HOLIDAY CLINIC - RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN 5-9 YEARS OF AGE

8am – 10.30am at Graceville State Primary School (Oxley Road, Graceville)

JANUARY HOLIDAY CLINIC - RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN 5-9 YEARS OF AGE

8am-10:30am at Graceville State Primary School (Oxley Road, Graceville)

Coaching clinics are suitable for everyone as children are divided into groups according to both age and ability. Each session includes plenty of coaching and games, with coaches ensuring regular breaks and snack time, especially for the littlies!

Holiday Clinic positions are limited - Our last school holiday program booked out well before the end of term so please enrol early to avoid disappointment!!

For further details or to enrol, please click the link below - or contact Tennis For Kids at info@tennisforkids.com.au or on 0408 187 741

School Plus

Week Four of the term began with a fresh start to the OSHC room with a camping scene. It all began with a tent and a barbecue, from here the children used their imaginations and creativity to extend on this. The before school care children decided to have a look for some food that you would take camping and then added those to their collection. In addition to the barbecue the children made a fire to cook on and then made some marshmallows to cook over the fire. It has been a great addition to the room as there are so many ideas to explore!

Outside this week we have been busy making a new worm farm, enjoying our musical statues and games of handball in the quad. Our current favourite activity is embracing our gymnastic skills on the gym mats.

It has been a great week full of learning and creating!

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