Term 3 Week 8
Mr Micheal Grogan
Once again, we have had an eventful and fulfilling fortnight here at BCSS. Our Book Week parade and activities were a great celebration of literature across our school, and I thank the school staff who coordinated the events and you, our community who wholeheartedly supported it.
Today we have been working with our staff to deepen our knowledge around version 9 of the Australian curriculum as we reviewed our current curriculum plans and associated programs of inquiry and started our planning for 2024 implementation.
School Review
In the second week of term 4 we will be participating in our 2023 School Review. The review will occur from Tuesday October 10 – Thursday October 12. The review is an opportunity for our school to receive external and independent feedback, identifying our strengths and the opportunities for next steps.
Attached to this newsletter is some further information for parents and families about the School Review process and their purpose.
Dress Code
Attached to this newsletter is a draft of our updated student dress code. This will be voted on for implementation at our next P&C meeting. If you have any suggestions or feedback, I encourage you to email myself (principal@brisbanecentralss.eq.edu.au) or the P&C (pandc@brisbanecentralss.eq.edu.au). The dress code will be tabled at our P&C meeting on September 11 for endorsement. If you have ideas or suggestions to assist our school community in ensuring the dress code meets our communities needs and expectations, I encourage you to put them forward as soon as possible.
Once the P&C endorses the dress code, we will begin working with all in our school community to support students and families to comply with the updated dress code. There is normally a six month phase in period for new dress codes to provide families time to make the required adjustments (if any).
School Vision
Our school has been working to re-write our school vision this year. We are now at the draft stage and a copy is attached for community consultation. The ideas within have been voted on by our staff after consultation with our school community and staff. This phase of the consultation process is about ensuring the beliefs, values and mental models underpinning the ideas within the vision are clearly articulated.
The vision will guide our work for the next four years and your input is appreciated and valued.
Mr Nick Dargusch / Deputy Principal
Prep Interviews
With the first week of 2024 Prep interviews completed, it has been lovely to meet and welcome the new friendly faces to the Brisbane Central community. We still have another round of interviews to complete in October and look forward to meeting all of our new Prep cohort for 2024.
Transition Days on both the 10th and 24th of November are a great opportunity for our new students to meet their peers and teachers, as well as our new parents networking and hearing from our Principal, Head of Curriculum, Head of Inclusion and support staff. More information will come early Term Four.
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Maths Competition
On Monday 28th August, two teams of Year 6 students attended the annual maths tournament held at Albany Hills State School. Of the 45 teams in attendance, our students managed to place 2nd and 18th, with our team taking second place only missing first place by 1 point. All students in the group should be commended and proud of their efforts and the way they represented BCSS. Thanks to Mr Davis for coaching our young mathematicians!
Congratulations to our Year 6 competitors:
Devlin H
Derek L
Smyaan N
Nicholas T
Kai M
Aghishek P
Emma Y
Safeena K
Amelie B
Gala Days
Training is underway for our upcoming interschool Sports Gala Days.
Gala Sports Days are an important school event that builds children’s ability to work as a team, whilst enjoying physical activity.
This term we have the following sports on offer;
- Touch Football
- Cricket
- AFL
Ms Lyons and Ms Maile have additional training sessions for those wishing to finesse their skillset for their chosen sports. Please ensure that you have registered your child and completed the digital permission form:
https://brisbanecss.schoolzineplus.com/form/17
Think U Know - Cyber Safety and Security Presentation
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Brisbane Central State School will be hosting a ThinkUKnow presentation on Wednesday, 13th September and all parents, carers and teachers are encouraged to attend.
ThinkUKnow Australia is an evidence based education program delivered nationally to prevent online child sexual exploitation.
ThinkUKnow Australia is a partnership between the Australian Federal Police, Microsoft Australia, Datacom and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The program is delivered in collaboration with policing partners New South Wales Police Force, Northern Territory Police, Queensland Police, South Australia Police, Tasmania Police, Western Australia Police, as well as Neighbourhood Watch Australasia.
The presentation will be delivered by a local law enforcement member and an industry volunteer. The presentation is pro-technology and addresses topics including self-generated child abuse material, online grooming, sexual extortion, and importantly encourages help seeking behaviour.
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to learn more about young people and the online environment, and how you can help them to be safe and responsible users of technology.
For more information, you can visit www.thinkuknow.org.au or contact Mr Dargusch (ndarg5@eq.edu.au).
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Register at: https://brisbanecss.schoolzineplus.com/form/18
Mrs Jo Gawne / HOI
Debating
Brisbane Central State School is continuing to host the Queensland Debating Union’s Primary School Round Robin competition again this year. Our debating teams are well and truly into the debating season this year. The second debate on Thursday saw Year 5s thrashing out the topic “That we should develop railways rather than roads” and Year 6 teams arguing “That we should ban tolls on roads and bridges”. What a sterling job they all did! Congratulations to all teams!
Mrs Maureen Kelly / HOC
ICAS Assessments – Results and certificates
At Brisbane Central Sate School we offer parents the opportunity to have their children sit the ICAS assessments and this information is shared in the school newsletter. Only students registered by their parents participate in the tests. The ICAS assessments are complete for 2023.
When will results be ready?
- Once the testing window closes, allow between 10 business days* for your results to appear on the online results portal.
- Writing will take between 4-5 weeks because it is manually marked.
- Parents can access the online results portal for their child using the TAP ID and PIN printed on previous year’s certificates.
- Subjects which are yet to be published will still have the status of ‘not purchased’.
- ICAS have created a TAP-ID and PIN request form that parents can use to access their TAP-ID and PIN, rather than requesting it directly from your school or waiting for their certificate to arrive.
- Hard copy certificates and results will be mailed to the school about 3-4 weeks after the end of the testing window.
- The school has not received any ICAS certificates at this stage and will distribute the certificates as soon as practicable once they arrive.
If you have any questions,please feel free to email Maureen Kelly, Head of Department Curriculum, mkell83@eq.edu.au.
2023 Premiers Reading Challenge
Congratulations to all the students who participated in the Premier’s Reading Challenge. The challenge is now complete.
Last chance to hand in the student reading record and consent form for the Premier’s Reading Challenge 2023.
Due to the library by: Friday 8 September
Certificates will be distributed in November as part of the Premier’s Reading Challenge Celebration Week.
Library
The Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Week theme for 2023 was "Read, Grow and Inspire". Our students started preparing for the Book Week parade and library display on the first day of this term. The students thought of the ideas for the library display. They chose a leaf to represent ‘Grow’ and a snow globe for ‘Inspire’. The students requested the butterflies they had made for NAIDOC week remain in library so that they could hang their leaves in between and inspire everyone to fly and think about what or who has filled them with confidence and desire to do something great or be a better person. As for the reading boxes they were covered in pages from books that needed retiring - recycled books into reading boxes to promote ‘Read’.
Every student in the school made and displayed a butterfly, leaf, snow globe and glued one page onto their class reading box to make a reading wall. The Play Group children also contributed to the Book Week library display. Fifteen volunteer students used their creative licence to magnificently decorate and produce a ‘bespoke’ letter for the words ‘Read, Grow, Inspire’ that were used as centre pieces for the Book Week library displays.
Before book week started the library team Mrs Maureen Kelly and Nida Mateen purchased a wide range of exquisite CBCA shortlisted books and set up a CBCA display. These books are now available for loan and hopefully they will be in your home over the next coming weeks to be enjoyed by your family. During Book Week staff volunteered to read one of these CBCA books to the students during both lunch times. Owlie was so excited that on one lunch break some lucky students saw and heard an Owl read a book.
Your library captains Angela Duron and Savanna Salangsang were creating a Book Cover design competition box, preparing their speech for the Book Week Parade and distributing Book Week flyers and student certificates that were designed by our secret graphic artist Mrs Jamie Colborne. Both our captains were wonderful hosts at the parent/carers and guests’ morning tea which was sponsored by our generous P&C. It was a delight to see such an enormous number of parents/carers and guests visiting the library, enjoying their morning tea and viewing all student’s creative works and the library space.
The Student Representative Council were all hands-on board. The Music Captains Keilaan Sugawara and Nicholas Tio selected, arranged and played all the music for the book parade. The Environmental Captains captured all the paper cups that were used during the morning tea. Thank you to Brooklyn Webb for saying Welcome to Country and thank you to ‘Captain Underpants’ for your brave appearance and being the announcer.
In every classroom before and during Book Week teachers and students were very busy participating in a wide range of engaging Book Week activities – the excitement and enthusiasm over the past weeks was certainly being ‘Inspired’ by our teachers and inside the snow globes the majority of the students wrote that their teachers or their parents were their inspiration. Thank you to our parents/carers for all the time and effort you put into helping the children read books, design a book cover, get involved with the in-class book week activities and finally dress up for the Book Parade. Photographs of the Book Parade were taken by our in-house photographer Mrs Mahtab Nowrouzi.
A Design a Book Cover of your favourite book competition, a very original idea from two of the Book Week Team members Ms Erin Wheeler and Mr Brian Fisher was inundated with entries which are all on display in the library. Thank you to the parents who gifted the extravagant new books so that three books were able to be given to students as prizes to each year level plus some for highly commended for the Book Cover competition. The CBCA Book Bingo challenge by Mrs Karen O’Connell is still going and there are beautiful book marks for students as prizes.
See you all next year!!!!!!!! Thanks for everything we had fun.
PBL Newsletter
Yr.4 Excursion
On Wednesday 4th October, 4 Blue, 4 Green and 3/4 Gold students will be participating in a St Helena Island Day Trip to explore Australia’s colonial past as part of our English and HASS program.
Students will engage in a dramatic first-person interpretation of the island’s history. The tour company’s group of professional actors will use participation, roleplay, and drama conventions with students to bring to life St Helena prison in 1904. Students will learn about the past through interacting with ‘people from the past’.
This activity will take place at St Helena Island; however, arrangements have been made for transport from school. The total cost of the excursion (including transport) is $44.50 per student which has been invoiced to parents (please note this covers the bus to Manly, the ferry to the island and the guided tour).
Please complete the following permission: https://brisbanecss.schoolzineplus.com/form/19
Sustainability
We are your sustainability team at BCSS. We are trying to reduce food waste by collecting some data about food waste at home. We want to gather some delicious recipes that has our communities most wasted foods in them so that we can hopefully help reduce food waste. There is only 6 questions and it should only take you 2 minutes 😄. Help us to help the community!
Prep 2024
Active School Travel
Every Thursday is Active School Travel Day at Brisbane Central State School. We currently have 65% of students travelling actively and we need YOUR help to reach or goal of 70% by the end of 2023. Walk, ride, scoot, skateboard, carpool or catch public transport to promote healthy lifestyles for our children and reduce the traffic in our area. And remember, “part of the way is okay!”
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Innovation Sports
Innovation Sports Team Challenge
Looking for a fun, creative activity for your kids during the September school holidays?
We are looking for creative 9-15yr old Mine-crafters!
During the challenge, participants will demonstrate their creativity, problem-solving abilities, and teamwork as they work together to create impressive builds and unique solutions to challenges, using creative mode in Minecraft.
Very limited spaces so get in quick! 🏃♂️🏃♀️
Thursday 28 September 📅
9.30pm – 1.30pm ⏰
The Precinct, Level 2/315 Brunswick Street Fortitude Valley
FREE 🎟
Register👉 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/689062222657?aff=oddtdtcreator