2024 Term 1 Week 2

Mr Micheal Grogan

Welcome back. I would like to begin officially welcoming all of our new students and families, I trust that you have all had a positive experience so far at our great school. I would also like to extend a very warm welcome back to all of our continuing families.

Our current enrolment is 507 students across our 22 classes. A list of our teaching staff for 2024 is listed below.

Classrooms are well and truly into their daily routines and engaged in the curriculum. Please make sure you purchase all items on the year level book list to allow for class routines to run smoothly.

Welcome to our New and Returning Staff

Our new teachers for 2024 are Shiobhan Lim, Chantel King, Keiren Abel, Heidi Everingham and Joshua Easterbrook and we welcome back Misha Desai and Sophie MacMahon.

We are very fortunate to have been able to recruit such a diverse, experienced and highly capable group to join our expert teaching team here at BCSS.

I am pleased to say that all of our staff have settled back into school well and are already making positive contributions to the learning of our students.

Assemblies

Assemblies this year will begin on February 9^th and will include introducing our Student Representative Council to our school community. In 2024 we will continue with whole assemblies each fortnight. This year they will be in the odd weeks of each term.

Pick Up and Drop Off Routines

I would like to thank everyone for your patience, consideration and support as we have started the new school year. The Pick Up and Drop Off times are getting better by the day as we all begin to learn the new routines and locations. For 2024 we are asking all students who are travelling by car to come to Gate 6 in the afternoons.

2024 Student Leaders

At the end of 2023 we selected our School Leaders for 2024. Today we held our Leadership Investiture and had the pleasure of welcoming Councilor Vicki Howard to our school to help with the induction. We would also like to thank and acknowledge Hon Grace Grace for her ongoing support for our student leaders.

I would like to extend a warm congratulations to all of our student leaders and also to all of the students who nominated. We are extremely lucky here at Brisbane Central to have a student body who all demonstrate leadership qualities in multiple ways every day. This contributes to the success our school leaders have in their roles each year and ensures that our younger students always have appositive example to aspire to.

Parents & Citizens Association

Our first P&C meeting will be held on Monday 12 February. It would be great to see as many parents and community members as possible come along and I am sure everyone will make a positive contribution to our school. We have a great P&C and it can only be enhanced by the active involvement of all of our parents and families.

This year our P&C is looking for Parent Year Level representatives to assist with coordinating one event for the year for each year level.

Mr Nick Dargusch / Deputy Principal

Welcome back everyone. Welcome to all our new families.

We have many new faces around the school. It has been a hot start to 2024 and I know that teachers have all been busy welcoming our new students into their classroom routines and expectations. As we move towards embedding our daily routines, we all want our children to have a safe, healthy and fulfilling school expereince.

For young people fulfilment is created by being actively engaged in learning.

Most students with higher resilience levels value success for themselves, are motivated to learn, report feeling highly engaged in school, have good levels of social skills and don't think violence is a good way of solving problems.

Here are 10 ways to encourage your child's learning according to Dr Andrew Wicking:

10 tips for encouraging your child’s learning

1. Involve your child in extra-curricular activities such as sports teams, performing arts, debating;
2. Model the value of learning by learning new things too;
3. Take an active interest in your child's homework and schooling;
4. Encourage your child to complete their homework each night;
5. Talk to them about their schoolwork and do some tasks with them;
6. Encourage your child to care about their school friends and care about school;
7. Join your child in reading for pleasure; talk about books, films and ideas that interest them;
8. Develop a positive view of their future life and connect this with their schoolwork;
9. Set high standards and expectations for your child;
10. Teach them new practical skills such as cooking, washing, managing money, gardening.

Leader’s Investiture

Congratulations to our 2024 Student Leaders who were inducted into the Student leadership team. These 22 students take on a new level of responsibility and will equip them with skills they will carry on into their future schooling. We look forward to seeing and hearing their ideas on how to improve the schooling experience of all students at BCSS.

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Playgroup

We welcomed back our first group of young students and families to BCSS Playgroup this morning. Ms Maile had a very energetic and excited group of young learners and we look forward to welcoming many more eager learners through our doors.

PBL Newsletter

Prep Red

Prep Red have been having so much fun in our first 2 weeks of school. We enjoy beginning each day with our good morning song and dance, practising our counting whilst exercising, playing in the Prep Playground and participating in mindfulness activities in the classroom to help us focus and get ready for learning.

This week we have been focusing on developing our fine motor skills. This includes practising our pencil grip as we learn to write our names, learning how to cut with scissors and practising using glue. During our art lesson this week we used our imaginations to create Prep Red creatures. Our creatures were created using a range of different materials including ribbon, paper, wool, sequin stars and googly eyes. Learning is fun in Prep Red!
Mrs Duck / Classroom Teacher

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School Fees

School fees for Brisbane Central School are for extra-curricular activities such as excursions, camps, swimming, cross country etc. we invoice prior to the event for all extra-curricular activities

and payment must be received to allow the student to attend.

We also invoice for a contribution to Mathletics / Reading Eggs which is an online learning space the students use in the classroom both of these programs are used throughout

the school and are invoiced yearly.

During Term 3 an invoice will be processed for a Dance/Drama lesson to enhance our delivery of The Arts Curriculum cost will be determined at a late date.

Yr.3 Jnr Choir

Mrs. Shephard would be most pleased to welcome all students in Year 3 to join our Junior Choir for 2024. Please return the completed sign up form either through email directly to Mrs. Shephard lshep2@eq.edu.au, or to the Office to be placed in Mrs. Shephard's pigeon hole.
Rehearsals will commence on Tuesday Feb. 20^th at 8am.  Junior Choir is currently open to Year 3 students in Semester 1. If vacancies exist, it is anticipated that Junior Choir will be extended to Year 2 students in Semester 2. We look forward to our first rehearsal for 2024.

Yr.2 City Hall Excursion

Yr.2 families please ensure you complete and pay the invoice sent to the fee paying parent for your student to attend the year level excursion. 

https://brisbanecss.schoolzineplus.com/form/15

Uniform Shop

BCSS P&C

Our school P&C need your help, if you can spare a small amount of time each term/fortnight/week to help with tuckshop, uniform shop or other P&C events the staff and students would appreciate it, the money raised from these areas help our students with the extra resources required to provide a strong learning environment. See flyer below to register your time.

Book Club

Q Parents

After School Activities

Coach Max

Code Camp

Martial Art

AusKick

Chess Club

Communify

St James College

On behalf of my Acting Principal, Ms Kristina Johnson I would like to invite you to our first Enrolment Information Night for 2024.