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COLOUR RUN- time is running out to fundraise or register.
BOOK WEEK- Thanks to the community for their participation!
PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS- 12 September – book through SOBS
STUDENT FREE DAY- Friday 1 September.
2024 STUDENT LEADERHIP- Applications are now open.
PREP 2024- Enrol by 31 August so you can be in the draw to win some awesome prizes and receive invites to special Prep Transition events.
PBL- Wondall Learners respect others by using kind and polite words
RUOK? DAY AST WALK- Friday 8 September
BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL PROCEDURES - a reminder of where students should be at the start of the day and prompt departure.
PERSONAL ITEMS AT SCHOOL- we do not support students bringing personal items from home to school.
School Review Key Affirmation Sharing
We look forward to sharing our key affirmations with the community from our recent school review. There is so much to be proud of, with the educational opportunities available at our school.
Staff, students and parents express a strong sense of pride and belonging in their school.
Positive and caring relationships are valued by staff, students and parents. Parents acknowledge positive interactions with staff. They comment favourably on the relationship between home and school and opportunities to be genuine partners in their child’s learning. Many parents express pride in the positive reputation the school has earned within the local community. Staff proudly share anecdotes of significant progress in students’ learning and levels of engagement. They discuss a shared understanding of the importance of developing rapport with each student and ‘knowing their learners’ and how this leads to improved outcomes. Students comment that staff are caring and ‘know what we need’.
Colour Run
There are only a few days left of fundraising or to book your child’s (or adult) participation in the Colour Run to be held next Thursday!!! Please dig deep as all funds raised go towards our students. There are great prizes for fundraisers and don’t forget the 5 top fundraisers also get to ‘slime’ Mr Wright!
Our P&C are always looking at fundraising ideas for our school, if a colour run isn’t a preferred activity and you have some other suggestions, please get involved and share these with the P&C. Tuesday night 29/8 at 6pm is the next meeting and all are welcome.
Book Week Dress Up Day
A big thankyou to all students and staff that made the effort to dress up on the day!
Our classes have done a fabulous job of creating canvases related to the Book Week Theme of Read, Grow, Inspire to turn our Library into an Art Gallery! Each class had their own creative flair and ideas to make their canvas stand out. Don’t forget to pop into the Library to see our great gallery.
Parent Teacher Interviews
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 12 September, from 3:30pm – 8:00pm in the Hall. Entry to interviews will be via the foyer and exit via the opposite side (carpark side).
There is no supervision provided for children.
Bookings will be via SOBS (our online booking system) from Friday, 25 August 6am and will close Friday 8 September at 6pm. SOBs can be accessed via the school’s website or the link below.
https://eq.sobs.com.au/pt3/parent.php
We look forward to meeting with you to work in partnership to best support your child!
Student Free Day
A reminder that Friday 1 September is a Student Free Day and the school will be closed.
2024 Student Leadership Applications
Applications for 2024 Student Leadership positions have been released this week. Year 5 students who are ACE students (have high attendance, confident and engaged learners) are encouraged to apply! Next year Wondall will have 2 additional new positions- PBL Captains! These applications for all leadership positions are due back to Mrs Cocciolone Term 4, Friday Week 1.
Before and After School Procedures
A reminder of our before and after school procedures.
- Students arriving at school before 8:30am are to wait outside the office. At 8:30am, they will move under the direction of a staff member to the Arena and wait here until released to their class line up areas.
- Students are NOT to wait outside classrooms, play on playground equipment or join with WOSHC unless they are booked in.
- At the end of the school day, students are encouraged to promptly leave the school grounds.
- Playgrounds are NOT to be used before or after school - these are part of WOSHC facilities at these times.
Thanks for your support of these procedures.
Personal Items at School
At school, we do not support students bringing items from home to school, unless they are explicitly asked for use in classrooms, which staff will advise.
This includes (as an example):
- Toys
- Sporting equipment
- Playing/Trading Cards
- Lego
- Games
- Electronic devices (these are to be signed in at the office on arrival at school and collected at 3pm)
- Non-school uniform clothing items
During breaks, students have access to appropriate school resources to decrease personal items being lost, damaged or behaviour incidents.
Invites have now been sent to our compulsory Enrolment Sessions later this term. To receive your invite, you MUST be enrolled.
Notice of Intention to Attend Wondall Heights State School in 2024
We are currently looking at Wondall Heights State School’s planning needs for the 2024 school year. Part of this planning is considering the number of students we will have enrolled in the school. If your child is of Prep age for the 2024 school year and you are considering enrolment at Wondall Heights State School, can you please let us know your intentions by contacting the school. This is not binding and the catchment area and enrolment requirements still apply. The enrolment process will begin in Term 3 and will be communicated shortly. Early forward planning will help to make 2024 as successful as possible, for all our students.
Enrolment Process
In catchment students can currently enrol at the office during office opening hours.
Out-of-catchment students can join the wait list, please contact the office.
A decision will be made for out-of-catchment enrolments in Term 3, you will be invited to attend the Prep Enrolment Sessions in September if you are successful in securing a place at Wondall Heights State School.
Prep Enrolment Sessions will consist of a group interview where parents will be presented information and asked to fill in questionnaires whilst their children interact with our teachers, in a group setting. From there, enrolled 2024 Prep children will be invited to multiple orientation days where they will meet our Prep staff, use our Prep spaces and begin to become familiar with each other. This Prep transition process is vital in preparing your child for a great start to school!
Please share this information with family and friends living in the catchment area!
Our focus for the next two weeks is, ’Wondall Learners respect others when using kind words’. This objective aims to guide our students towards enhancing their respect for one another, especially among their peers. We want to emphasise that while feeling angry or frustrated is normal, it is our approach to managing these emotions that truly matters.
In class, students will:
- Discuss what respect looks like,
- choosing words that reflect kindness
- avoiding yelling when communicating with our peers
- being patient when interacting with our peers
- making your own choices and not controlling the choices of our peers
- listening to our peers and giving them space if they need it
- taking responsibility for mistakes made and apologising
- Active participation in role-play exercises, which allow students to navigate various scenarios and practise respectful behaviour;
- Discuss feelings associated with respectful behaviours and acknowledging moments when they have experienced kindness from their peers;
- Viewing a PBL video that showcases exemplar behaviour, providing students with a clear model of appropriate behaviours.
Students will continue to explore that being respectful means showing kindness and consideration to others. They will deepen their awareness of how respectful interactions involve refraining from using offensive language, name-calling, or hurtful words.
Our focus this fortnight is ‘Wondall Learners respect others by using kind and polite words.'
It is important to emphasise with our students that the tone we use, the volume we use and the words we use can affect others.
Reading at Wondall
Our fourth group of teachers are attending Sounds-Write professional development this week. The completion of this round will see all our Inclusion Teachers, including Mrs Moscoso our Head of Inclusion, trained in this methodology to support students learning to read across the school . We will also have teachers in Years 3, 5 and 6 beginning to implement the program in their classrooms.
Parents can support their children using their decoding skills to read at home. Sounds-Write has a free parent training webinar that can be accessed at
https://www.udemy.com/course/help-your-child-to-read-and-write/
This webinar is designed to show parents how they can support their children with decoding at home using similar techniques to those used in a Sounds-Write lesson.
This week we presented every teacher on staff with a copy of ‘The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading’ (Christopher Such, 2021). We will read and discuss this text as a professional learning team book study. This book study will support our teachers to develop a deeper understanding of the Science of Reading (SoR) linking evidence-based practices for the teaching of reading with neuroscience to understand how children best learn to read. We will use our learning to underpin our school’s Reading Framework as we transition to Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum and support every student in our school to learn to read successfully using evidence-based best practice.
| EVENT | DATE |
| First Contact 4A & 4B | 30th August |
| P & C Colour Run | 31st August |
| Student Free Day | 1st September |
| Learning Celebration | 6th September |
| Life Education Yr 3 | 8th September |
| Parent Teacher Interviews | 12th September |
Parents and Carers please help support a sustainable environment by promoting Wrapper Free Wednesdays! Our Eco-Marines take time each Wednesday to observe which classes are the most sustainable in supporting this cause. Each fortnight there is a chosen winner and this is announced at assembly!
