BayView State School - Term 3, Week 9

Deputy Principal, Mrs Ferrer

Indigenous Literacy Week 

Indigenous National Literacy Day is held on September 6, 2023. This initiative focusses on celebrating Stories, Cultures and Languages. 

BayView State School has celebrated this initiative by liaising with classes across P-6, to read books that links not only to local indigenous authors, but also to immerse in the reading of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander texts.   

Please don’t hesitate to see our friendly Discovery Centre staff, around accessing some of our First Nation resource books to lend and read! 

PLD-Promoting Literacy Development-Reading

Our staff in the early years sector have been developing further skills and strategies around PLD-Promoting Literacy Development.

This new introduction to a synthetic structured phonics program, has already shown great successes within our Prep cohort.

Our Prep Teachers, have also opened their practice for other staff and also our Cluster Principals, who have come along to watch and visit this work.

The next level of training for PLD has also started with our Teacher Aides and Inclusion Team, who have commenced a series of online learning modules.

Our Year 1 Teachers, are also beginning training in this space, with face to face professional development courses occurring for select staff.

For parents, interested in finding how to support their children in PLD, particularly in the areas of Early Literacy Development, don't hesitate to access the PLD forum. Similarly, every day skills such as reading a book and having conversations around a piece of text, is a simple way for students to engage in oral literacy development and later-readiness around learning to read. 

Shiolan Ferrer

Acting Deputy Principal, Ms Holzheimer

Prep 2024

It was wonderful meeting so many new families at our Parent Information Session on Tuesday. 

If you have a child starting Prep at BayView State School in 2024, please ensure you have filled in your Enrolment Application via Corporate Services. Once these are completed and returned, we will add you to our ‘Prep Parent 2024’ email group in order to receive the latest updates re interview bookings and other important information regarding Prep for 2024.
If you have any questions regarding Prep 2024 please email Vicki O’Sullivan our Enrolment Officer at vosul6@eq.edu.au

Julieann Holzheimer

Music News, Miss Ellis

Junior Choir!

Our Junior Choir will be commencing in Week 9 and 10 of this term – Thursday 7 and 14 September. Junior Choir is for students in Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 only. Rehearsals will be held straight after school from 2:40 – 3:20pm in the music room. A pink information note has gone home to the students who showed interest in joining choir. Please return the pink slip before attending.

Senior Dance Concert!

All Year 4, 5 and 6 students should have received both a paper copy and an email of the Dance Concert note. This included information the concert evening and costumes. We require ALL STUDENTS to return their dance form so that positioning can be finalised for each class. If your child cannot attend, please circle NO and return the form as soon as possible.

Sports News, Mr Beasley & Mr Robinson

Met East Athletics Carnival

Congratulations to our Bay View students who competed in the two day carnival. We had our most successful results yet at this level.

Results from the Carnival were:

Dane- 2^nd Long Jump, 3^rd 200m, 4^th 100m

Myles- 3^rd 100m, 2^nd 200m.

Kale- 9^th Shot

Te Tiare- 8^th Shot

Harper- ND

Ellis- AC Nom 2^nd 1500m, 1^st 800m

Queensland State Athletics Championships

Congratulations to our 3 boys who have been selected into the Met East Team to compete at the State Carnival in October.

Myles- 100m, 200m & Relay

Dane- 100m, 200m, Long Jump and Relay

Ellis- 800m & 1500m

Sharks Challenge AFL Carnival

Bay View SS is looking good for this years Sharks Challenge with a strong squad of boys and girls training after school on a Tuesday afternoon. Thank you to AFLQ for assisting with this training. The teams will be competing against cluster schools at Victoria Point SHS in October.

Sporting Schools Tennis

Our Prep-3 students have been enjoying before school squad coaching from Adrenalin Tennis this term. We look forward to offering the program next term, funding dependent. 

Cluster Hot Shots Tennis

A Bay View SS Team will be competing against Cluster schools on Thursday 5 October at the Redlands Lawn Tennis Club. We have Green, Orange and Red ball teams representing our school on the day.

Year 4 'Come Try it' Day 

Year 4 will be participating in a Cluster Day at the Redland Showgrounds on Friday 20 October. All Year 4 students will have the opportunity to try new sports and test their skills on the day.

Cluster Swimming Carnival

Invited year 4-6 swimmers will be competing in the Cluster Swimming Carnival at Cleveland State School Pool on Friday 27 October. This is a fun competitive carnival where each swimmer is seeded in 25m of each stroke.

Year 5&6 Cluster Carnival

This Friday will be the last Cluster Carnival in 2023 for our year 5&6 cohort. Students will be participating in various sports around the Redlands. Enjoy!

Dave Beasley

Student Achievements

Well done to Ilya, School Captain, who competed at the state championships 10-12 years girls softball at Redcliffe 24-27 August. 

Library News, Mrs Carter

Wow! What a fantastic result from our Book Fair! Total sales were $2895.00 and because of those sales we now have $868.50 to spend on resources for the school.

Thank you so much for your support of our Book Fair. It was lovely to see the children excited about the books and looking forward to reading them when they arrived.

Happy Book Week! We have lots of fantastic things happening this week for Book Week. Pop in to the Discovery Centre and see our display on the theme Read, Grow, Inspire.

Julie Carter

Classroom News

Teacher Aide Appreciation Week

We appreciate all of our amazing Teacher Aides, thank you for all that you do!

Prep Team: Mandi Gale, Sangeeni Kumar, Nichole Murphy, Wendy Osman and Norelle Thomas.

Inclusion Team:  Tanja Beard, Julie Burge, Jenna Daley, Jacci McDonald, Michelle Mowbray, Bree Tesch, Nikki Teale and Coralie Herron.

Targeted Learning Aides: Elke De Block, Sandra Heathcote, Treena Hunkin, Sandy MacArthur, Naomi Sharp, Kathy Martin and Brooke Duignan.

Discovery Centre:  Julie Carter and Natalie Taylor.

IT Support: Sarah Templeton.

(We look forward to celebrating all of our non-teaching staff in week 10 and World Teachers Day on 27 October.)

Father's Day/Someone Special Celebrations in Prep

Book Week 2023

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Book Week 2023 celebrates the theme 'Read, Grow, Inspire'

One of the Shortlisted books for Book Week this year was Bev and Kev.  

Bev is tall and Kev is small.
An unlikely pair!  Could this be the beginning of a very big friendship?
A heart-warming tale about learning to love yourself, acceptance and the value of a true friend.

The shortlisted books for 2023 can be found here: https://www.cbca.org.au/shortlist-2023

National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence

The NDA is Australia’s key bullying prevention initiative for schools, encouraging whole-school communities to work together to implement evidence-informed positive and proactive solutions to prevent and address bullying.

In 2022, 68% of Australian schools joined together to say Bullying. No Way! The NDA is an opportunity to create a shared understanding of what is bullying, outline your bullying prevention policies and show support to students who may be experiencing bullying.

The NDA theme for 2023 is 'growing connections'. This theme supports research findings that strong school community connections and social skills are protective factors in the prevention of bullying and help enable positive, help-seeking behaviours in students.

Above:  Prep Red had paper hearts and listened to a story... and every time there was a mean word, they would crunch up the heart, but when there were nice words, they would try and flatten them out again. 

Year 6 - Positive Peer Relationships

Positive Behaviour for Learning

The value this week is 'Be Inclusive - I will recognise that everyone learns differently.'

Wellbeing News, Mrs Tully

A busy group in the well-being room today working on their colouring-in competition. This is led by our student leaders at lunch time!

Our social emotional girls group has been working on friendship, communication and gratitude. They recently cooked tacos for the teachers who have impacted them positively in the last few years and shared with them what they were grateful for. 

Cafe News

Corporate Services News

Advising the School of an  absence

If your child is absent without explanation, you will receive an SMS asking for a reason for their absence.  When replying, consider these handy hints.

• Please ensure you select the child’s name you are explaining an absence for.
• Please respond on the day (or following day) that you receive the SMS message.

If you would like to advise the school of an absence, please use one of the following methods:

• Phone the student absence line on 3206 5266.
• Email absence@bayviewss.eq.edu.au
• Use QParents.
• Please do NOT send an SMS message unless you are REPLYING to our message.

If you have any finance questions throughout the year, please contact our Accounts Receivable Officer, Kelli Franklin, kfran89@eq.edu.au or Vikki Lord, Business Manager,  vlord1@eq.edu.au.

We are happy to help with any queries regarding invoices, payment plans, financial hardship or general student account questions.

Voluntary Contributions

Parents are invited to participate in a Voluntary Resource Contribution Scheme of $100 per student per year. If you haven’t received a form, please contact Kelli Franklin at kfran89@eq.edu.au.  These valuable contributions go directly towards the costs involved with providing your children with a wide range of Literacy, Numeracy, ICT and Creative Arts resources.

Fruit Snack

Students are encouraged to bring a piece of fruit from home every day to promote healthy eating.  Students will have a short break before 1^st break to enjoy their fruit snack.

Lost Property

Please ensure that jumpers, hats and lunch boxes are clearly named, so they can be returned to your child as soon as possible.

School Hats

A number of students come to school without their hat each day.  Please ensure that your child brings their school hat to school everyday.

Uniform Shop

Don't get caught in the rain! BayView Umbrellas available for only $28.00. Order via Flexischools.

Please see attached link for the Uniform Shop Price list.

P&C News

Get your colour on BayView!

The Colour Explosion School Fun Run will be on 13 October 2023 starting with Year 3-6 students 12pm-1pm, the Prep-Yr 2 students 1.30pm-2.30pm and the Year 6 Colour Explosion at 2.30pm.

Not only are we hosting an awesome explosion event, students can win up to 15 awesome automated incentive prizes by fundraising via online sponsorship donations.

Students have received a sponsorship book with instructions on setting up their cybersafe, online fundraising profile at www.australianfundraising.com.au. This is an entirely online fundraiser; all cash donations must be converted to online donations to redeem your prizes.

Extra Incentives to Fundraise:

• Online Golden Coins – complete fun online tasks to redeem an extra $75 towards your prize credit.
• Monty the Monstar’s Bonus Prizes – achieve milestones to unlock Monty’s bonus prizes.
• $10,000 JB HI FI Spending Spree for one organisation’s highest fundraising student – it could be you!
• Our school will win an extra $5,000 if we have the highest average fundraised amount per student in 2023.
• A Play Station 5 Gaming Bundle – see your child’s sponsorship booklet for more!

For more information, please contact Bree Tesch at bayviewfundraising@hotmail.com.

Happy fundraising!

What's On at BayView

Community News

Qld Child Protection Week

Most of us recognise that child protection is key to ensuring that children in our communities, families and schools are safe, nurtured and protected.  Sometimes this means acknowledging that children are neglected or harmed in these same places.  That is hard to acknowledge.  As such, children continue to experience child abuse and neglect in our society.

In order to stop child abuse and neglect and ensure child protection in our society, we all need to play our part by assisting families who struggle and by speaking out about abuse when we see it or hear about it.  Often children tell us what is happening to them through either very clear statements or in subtle ways.  Our role as adults is to pay attention regardless of the way children tell us what is happening for them.  Another role we can play is in hearing parents when they say they are finding their role of parenting difficult and offer assistance.

When children speak out or adults speak out on behalf of children they need those involved in the wider child protection system to be well trained and available to pay attention to what they are saying.  This includes the Queensland Police Service, professionals such as Social Workers, Psychologists and Psychiatrists as well as Teachers who are often in the key position of being able to note difficulties for children and their families.  Family members and friends also play a crucial role in such disclosures in terms of hearing what is stated and offering support and friendship. When unable to offer such support or when such support isn’t accepted, family members and friends can contact community organisations of the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services to seek further assistance for the child/ren and family.

Who to contact

Child abuse and neglect only continues when those able to do something, do nothing.

Fact Sheets:

Responding to disclosures of child sexual abuse:

https://bravehearts.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Counselling_RespondingtoDisclosuresofChildSexualAssault_2014.pdf

Queensland Domestic & Family Violence fact sheets:

https://publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/domestic-and-family-violence-resources

Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research:

https://noviolence.org.au/resources/

Children and Young people’s rights:

Charter of rights books describe the core rights that apply to every child and young person who is subject to the custody or guardianship of the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services. The Charter of rights books are distributed to all young people entering care in Queensland and include:

Kids Rights is aimed at 4 to 10 year olds and is in the form of a children's story book.

My journey in care is aimed at 10 to 18 year olds and uses a notebook style layout with cartoons and photos, including Indigenous artwork from a young person in care.

Support Services for children, young people and parents:

The Family Relationship Advice Line: 1800 050 321

Kids Help Line: 1800 55 1800

https://kidshelpline.com.au/

Lifeline: 13 11 14

https://www.lifeline.org.au/

Parentline: 1300 30 1300 from 8am-10pm, 7 days a week.

Headspace:

Find a centre: https://headspace.org.au/headspace-centres/

https://headspace.org.au/schools/headspace-in-schools/

Headspace Schools is a national workforce that supports, engages and partners with education and health sectors across Australia, to build the mental health literacy and capacity of workforce's. It is fully funded and free for schools.

REDLANDS / BAYSIDE SUMMER JUNIOR FUTSAL COMP.

ANNOUNCING. 5-a-side Indoor Soccer (Futsal) summer season for juniors, ages 6-15. We have training and games for 6-8 yr. olds, & 11-12's on Thursdays.  On Tuesdays: 9-10's, and 13-15 yr. olds. Training Academy on Thursday nights.

Location: Capalaba State College, senior campus, School Rd, Capalaba.

Season starts 3 & 5 October. More info: www.ausfutsal.com/redlands  

Register a team or as an individual player!

Want more volleyball? Well look no further, at Sharks Volleyball we have programs for all! At Sharks Volleyball we offer programs for school aged students of any skill level. Our programs run both during the school term and the school holidays.   If you want to find out more visit our website today!

https://sharksvolleyball.com/sharksvolleyball

Crime Prevention Corner