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A Wondall School Day – school begins at 8:50am – please be on time!
Stop, Drop and Go Zone – please adhere to signage and safe usage.
Gardening Club – look at what we grew!
Bravehearts’ DITTO Show – Prep-Year 1 students learning about personal safety
Queensland Child Oral Health Study - Oral Health Study- look out for your invitation to participate.
Learning Walls at Wondall
At Wondall, we encourage students to be ACE students.
The E in ACE stands for ENGAGED. We encourage students to own and take responsibility for their own learning. One of the ways in which we help our students to own their own learning is by providing a Learning Wall in every classrom, which is a purposeful, co-constructed, active display reference. Its purpose is to aid students in:
- knowing what they are learning and why;
- developing an understanding of how they are learning;
- monitoring their own progress and knowing what they need to do to improve;
- understanding what they need to do to achieve success.
We encourage families to talk with their children about how they use these walls to own their own learning.
A Wondall School Day
Our school hours are 8:50am-3:00pm. Teaching and learning begins at 8:50am, please ensure students are at school and ready for learning by this time.
Please read the schedule to find out more about our school day.
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8:00am |
School office opens |
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8:30am |
Students may arrive at school Students who arrive before 8:30am, must report to outside the Administration Block to wait quietly. After 8:30am students must go to the Arena for supervision. This includes students accompanied by a parent. Students will be released between 8:40-8:45am to move to their classrooms. Prep parents must follow current pick up/drop off advice from the school. (Students arriving prior to 8:15am must attend WOSHC.) |
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8:45am |
Class preparation bell for 8:50am start |
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8:50am |
Morning Session commences for all year levels |
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10:00-10:10am (time varies for classes) |
Brain Break - Students are encouraged to bring a healthy snack such as cut up fresh fruit or vegetables or a boiled egg. The purpose of brain break is to refuel our brain for learning and to encourage healthy eating. |
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10:50-11:30am |
First Break – (10mins eating; 30mins play) |
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11:30am |
Middle session commences |
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1:00-1:40pm |
Second Break - (10mins eating; 30mins play) |
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1:40pm |
Afternoon session commences |
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3:00pm |
School day finishes Parents/carers collect students from waiting areas – follow current advice from the school. WOSHC commences Motorists may collect children from Stop, Drop and Go (2-minute parking only, supervised until 3:30pm). |
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3:30pm |
School office closes – answering machine activated. |
Stop, Drop and Go Zone
Just a reminder that the Stop, Drop and Go Zone is a 2-minute loading zone between the hours of 8-9am and 2:30-3:30pm on weekdays. Please do not park and leave your vehicles during these times for the safety of our community.
At the start of the year, we also know there is a significant increase in vehicular traffic at our school during pick up and drop off times. It is the responsibility of all road users to ensure our students are kept safe during these busy times. We therefore ask:
- That you park only in designated bays and where legally allowed to- avoid solid painted lines and keep disabled parks available for those with authorised permits.
- The Stop, Drop and Go is supervised in the afternoon. Ensure you follow the instructions from our staff and do not call your children to enter your car before directed.
- A great tip is to write your surname on the left-hand sun visor for our staff to quickly read and then send your children to your car. EG: WRIGHT
- Consider delaying by 5. The Stop, Drop and Go remains supervised until approximately 3:30pm. Let your children know you will arrive at 3:15pm rather than 3pm (peak time).
Gardening Club
Well done to our Gardening Club, led by Mr Haworth and Mrs Arora – the crops are in and they are looking wonderful. Thank you to the P&C for helping fund the Gardening Club, they appreciate your support!
Braveheart’s DITTO Keep Safe Adventure Show
This year Wondall Heights SS P&C are proudly sponsoring all of our Prep-Year 1 students to attend the Ditto Keep Safe Adventure Show presented by Bravehearts on Tuesday 28 February. The Ditto Keep Safe Adventure Show teaches children personal safety skills in a live, interactive 40-minute performance starring Bravehearts’ mascot ‘Ditto’. It includes song, dance, and easy-to-remember messages about personal safety. These songs and messages were written by Bravehearts’ professional educators and child psychologists and are developmentally appropriate for your child’s age group.
If you would like to learn more about how to talk to your child about personal safety, download Bravehearts’ FREE PERSONAL SAFETY PARENTS AND CARERS GUIDE from the Bravehearts website. Just go to:bravehearts.org.au/personalsafety.
Queensland Child Oral Health Study
Wondall Heights State School is pleased to partner with The University of Queensland and Queensland Health to conduct the Queensland Child Oral Health Study (QCOHS) 2021-24. This is an opportunity for a free dental check-up at school while helping dental care research in Queensland.
Children will be randomly selected to participate, and families will be asked to fill out an online questionnaire as a part of the process.
The invitation emails will be sent to parents shortly. Your participation in this project is voluntary and you are free to withdraw from the research at any time.
If you would like your child to participate in the study, please follow the links in the invitation email to complete the consent form and online questionnaire. The research team will be in contact with you to confirm when the dental check-ups will occur.
Oral Health Study- look out for your invitation to participate
Dates: 6, 7, 28, 30 March
PBL Focus Weeks 5 and 6 – Safe
Our focus for the next two weeks is, ’Wondall Learners are safe when they keep their hands and feet to self’. The objective of this focus is to increase student awareness around safety; not using hands and feet to touch or hurt others' bodies; using knowledge of emotional regulation and strategies to identify appropriate behaviour choices.
In class, students will discuss:
- What safe hands and feet looks like, sounds like, feels like.
- Why is this safety important for everyone at WHSS? (with a focus on the importance of not being physically rough/aggressive in play or when angry).
Students will explore the concept that we are all allowed to feel angry/frustrated/upset; however, it is the way that we manage these feelings that is important. By recognising how our body feels and triggers that upset us, we can use strategies to make better decisions around how we react.
‘Our brain is in control, not our feelings’.
Students revisited the emotional regulation concept of ‘Flipping the Lid’ with a focus on learning about brain science, gaining an understanding that our brains are in control of our bodies/actions, in order to help prevent rough play/physical altercations.
Teachers will be looking for students to reward with Double Dougies when they are seen to be being SAFE by keeping hands and feet to themselves.
Reward Session
This Friday, students will celebrate their outstanding engagement at school with a DOUGIE REWARD SESSION. All students who have reached 50 Dougie Points will participate in the reward. If your child has not reached 50 Dougie Points your child’s teacher will have been in contact with you to discuss alternate arrangements.
Congratulations Wondall!!!!
Active School Travel
Thank you to all the students, staff and families who turned up for our Active School Travel Scavenger Hunt Park’n’Stride. We had a great turnout and enjoyed giving away some year level prizes to student attendees.
On our first Active School Travel day, we had 50% of our students actively travelling to school. Don’t forget to walk, ride, carpool or use public transport on Fridays!
| EVENT | DATE |
| Prep Vision Screening | 23 and 24 Feb |
| Assembly | 27 Feb |
| Bravehearts DITTO (P-2) | 28 Feb |
| Prep Vision Screening | 01 Mar |
| Yr 3 Street Science Incursion | 02 Mar |
| Prep Minibeasts Incursion | 08 Mar |
| Schools with Pools - MBC | 10 Mar |
| Assembly - AST Performance | 13 Mar |
| P & C Meeting | 14 Mar |
| NAPLAN | 16 Mar to 27 Mar |
| Yr 6 MBEEC Immigration Excursion | 23 Mar |
| Assembly | 27 Mar |
| Parent Teacher Interviews | 28 Mar |
| Inter-house Cross Country | 29 Mar |
