Principal's Message

Hi Everyone,

Wasn’t the International Breakfast just incredible??  I am still salivating just thinking about it!  Thank you so much to our International Breakfast committee and our P&C Executive who oversaw the organisation of this massive event! Thank you to our wonderful volunteers who prepared all the beautiful food and served it or set up and packed down.  Thank you to all our staff who helped too.  I just loved it all!  What an amazing event to bring us together as a community.  Thank you so much everyone!!

Mrs Tara Griffin, Mrs Gillian Bishop, Mrs Kristen Curtis and I were able to attend Education Queensland's Reading Symposium on the first day back at school. One of the key agendas for Education Queensland this year and beyond is reading and ensuring that every one of our students becomes a reader for life.  There was an incredible line up of presenters at this conference and it was outstanding professional development.  The evidence to support how reading is taught effectively is clear and we will be reviewing our teaching of reading practice, to ensure it is completely aligned with the evidence.

We came together as a whole school for assembly on Friday which was lovely and we were able to celebrate our extraordinary children who have participated in Mathematic competitions last term  -  we are so proud of their achievements and so grateful to Mr Chow, Mrs Lee and the teaching staff!

We also were able to celebrate our Junior Cross Country runners and hear who our overall winning house was for both Junior and Senior Cross Country  -  congratulations to Cook!!

Last but not least, we were able to congratulate our record breakers!!  Amazing!

This week on Friday 17th October, we have the 4-6 Merit Assembly and we will be entertained by the Intermediate Strings!

Coming up this week:

• Year 5 Camp  - Tyalgum  -  Wednesday 15th October  - Friday 17th October

• STEM Celebration Evening  -  Thursday 16th October at Wilston State School

• Religious Instruction begins Friday 17th September

We welcome back to our wonderful volunteers who deliver Religious Instruction in our school. We are very grateful to the volunteers for providing this service. 

It is lovely to see that our STEM team have a night of celebration coming up this Thursday night at Wilston State School  - very well earned!

I am going on the Year 5 camp this Wednesday to Friday at Tyalgum and I am very excited to get out into nature with this great group of children and staff and have some fun.  Thank you to Mrs Tara Griffin in advance for being the principal in my absence and supporting me to go to this fantastic camp. 

Have atruly wonderful week!

Yours in Education,

Angie Kelly

Principal