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Hello Parents and Caregivers

We have had another busy fortnight since our last newsletter with many events and activities happening in our school. 

I would like to wish all of our fathers a very happy Fathers’ Day for Sunday! I hope you have a great day! 

Please remember this Friday, 2nd September is a Student Free Day. 

Eisteddfod 

Congratulations to our strings, bands and choirs who performed exceptionally well over the past few weeks at the Gold Coast Eisteddfod. Thank-you to Miss Carter, Mrs Chandler and Miss Kesting for their hard work getting our students ready for these performances. Thank you also to the staff who attended eisteddfod to assist with organising our students. 

Also, a big thank-you to the parents and caregivers of these students for assisting with the hours of practice required and coming along to Eisteddfod to support your kids and our ensembles. 

The students performed very well and were excellent representatives of our school. 

We achieved the following results: 

Strings: Silver 

Junior Band: Silver and 3rd place 

Senior Band: Silver

Junior Choir: Gold and 3rd place

Senior Choir: Gold and 2nd place 

Book Week

Last week we celebrated Book Week. This year’s theme was Dreaming with eyes open. It was a fantastic week with activities on everyday including our book week parade, bookmark making, reading outside at lunchtime and culminating with the production of the ‘Stellaphant’.

The students enjoyed the week tremendously and there was great excitement across our school. 

A massive thank-you to Mrs Burrage and Mrs Kaiser for organising our Book Week activities. They did an amazing job!

Student Achievement 

Congratulations to Maddie Dunemann in Year 6 who has made the 12 Years Girls Queensland Touch Team. This is a huge achievement! Maddie will represent Queensland at the National Championships in Wagga Wagga in October. We wish her the very best! 

Year 6 Camp 

This week our Year 6 students attended camp at Noosa Habitat. Students enjoyed a range of activities and had an amazing time. A big thank-you to our staff who spent time away from their loved ones to give our students this opportunity. 

Pyjama Day 

This term Student Council is holding a ‘Pyjama Day’ on Tuesday 13th September. On this day students can wear their pyjamas to school and bring a gold coin donation. All money raised will go towards various projects around the school. Please make sure all pyjamas are sun safe, appropriate for school and closed-in runners are worn on the day.  

School Uniform  

At Palm Beach State School, we take great pride in our school. The wearing of school uniform promotes this pride and sets the high standards expected of all students. 

The below is from Dress Code and Appearance Policy. 

All students are required to wear fully enclosed black shoes, preferably black jogger style shoes with black laces and white socks. Due to Workplace Health and Safety, thongs or sandals are not permitted.

• ALL students are required to wear the uniform correctly, are encouraged to take pride in their appearance and to keep their uniform clean, neat and tidy

• Underwear, sport underwear e.g skins, t shirts (long sleeve and short) are not permitted to be worn if observable and showing from under the uniform

• Hair must be clean, neat and tidy. Styles and colour should be appropriate for school.

- Mohawks, spiked multi-coloured/coloured hair, rats tails, tracks, razor cuts are not permitted.

- Students with long hair are required to have it tied back.

- Ribbons, clips, scrunchies and headbands etc are to be in school uniform colours blue, white, black or natural hair colours.

• JEWELLERY is not appropriate at school and is not permitted. Students may wear a watch.

Students with pierced ears may wear gold or silver studs or sleepers. No other facial piercings are permitted. During sport, for safety, only studs may be worn and watches need to be removed.

• MAKE-UP and coloured finger nail polish are not appropriate at school and are not permitted. 

Have a Great weekend 

Kind Regards

Scott