BayView State School - Term 1, Week 9

Principal, Mr David Cooke

End of term letter will be sent to parents next week.

Deputy Principal, Mrs Shiolan Ferrer

Term 1 has nearly concluded and what a term it has been!

For our senior students, they have experienced their Induction Ceremony where acknowledgements on being senior leaders was celebrated.

Our school captains, attended their first Connections to Country leadership program with other cluster student leaders, and continue to strengthen their knowledge around building indigenous perspectives in the school.

Our Year 6 students have also been involved in helping to lead initiatives through the Student Council body and have participated in supporting the Early Years sector with their passion projects and collective activities.

Recently, some students participated in the Cluster Speaking Leadership Day, which allowed participants to deepen their skills with oral conversations, presenting speeches to audiences and connecting with other like minded peers from other schools.

Across the Year 3-5 sector, our students have engaged in some form Accountable Talk, to help develop skills in oral literacies and building upon their comprehension skills, when embracing reading and literacy strategies.

The Reading Team and through the PLT process, our teachers have also been busily embracing the Version 9 of the English Curriculum, and building further knowledge and skills around the Science of Reading.

PLD Training

Recently, select members of our staff in the Early Year's sector attended PLD Training. Promoting Literacy Development, or PLD is a program that our school has adopted around the teaching of the simple synthetic phonics code & also improving instruction around the teaching of Reading and Literacy instruction.

Our Year 3-6 cohorts, are embracing elements of Accountable Talk, which helps support students to speak, understand, respond and comprehend different texts.

Students in these spaces explore questioning ideas from books, novel studies and/ or exerts from multi-media texts, where probing questions such as:

"I agree with ....because..."

"I would like to ask..."

"I disagree with...because..."

"I would like to add..."

"I learnt that..."

are applied in the classroom! When reading with your child/ren at home, please use these Accountable Talk Sentence stems as a way to engage in your child's curiosity around reading and building their literacy experiences.

Our Barna Jarjums are also busily applying their skills in building connections with peers, through bead making. Our First Nations students, have been working together, to get this project started in the school and will use the lunch breaks, to share in their understanding of People, Place and Country.

As part of continuing to generate ideas from our parent community, our school will be holding an afterschool "Come and Yarn" session for any First Nations families, who may be interested in sharing ideas, on how we can foster and grow in knowledge around promoting and building indigenous perspectives in our school! 

This will be held on Wednesday 29^th March, 2024 in the Staffroom from 2:50-3:40pm. Please contact Mrs. Ferrer, if you would like to be part of this process.

We have also formed connections with Cleveland District State High School and Victoria Point State High School, in supporting our Year 6 students with transitions into high school. Recently, our students attended the Cluster Leadership Day and Grip Leadership Day, with Cluster Speaking Day occurring this week.

With the Easter break falling upon all of us, may you all have a safe and wonderful break. Enjoy this time with family and friends.

We look forward to seeing and welcoming everyone again, in Term 2.

Shiolan Ferrer

Deputy Principal, Mrs Whalley

Prep 2025 Enrolments

Our Enrolments for Prep next year will open on Tuesday 16 April.  Parents are welcome to collect an Enrolment Application Pack from Corporate Services or download a copy from our web site.  Out-of-catchment applications will be via a link on our website which will open on 16 April.

Fruit Snack

We have a number of students coming to school without fruit for fruit break.   Could all families please remember to pack a fruit snack for their child everyday.

Before school reminders

All students are to wait in the undercover area before school. No student or parent should wait outside the classrooms before school unless they have a meeting with the teacher.

After school reminders

Parents are to wait until the bell rings to move to any classrooms. When parents wait outside, it disrupts our students' learning time. 

Please remember, no student should be on the playground before or after school as they are out of bounds. 

After School Pick up

I would like to remind all parents that, as the school bell goes at 2.40pm, all students should be collected by 2.55pm if they are not attending afternoon sport/choir.  If you are unable to collect your child, then other arrangements should be made.  Not only is this for the safety of your child, but it also allows the office staff to complete their end of day work.

The back gate no longer has staff on duty afterschool, so it is recommended for any young students to use kiss and ride as there are staff supporting this area.

Mrs Whalley

Head of Curriculum, Mrs Carly Blyth

Head of Inclusion, Mrs Skye Sitcheff

Guidance Officer, Mrs Robinson

Sports News, Mr Beasley & Mr Bennett

Met East Girls & Boys Netball Trials

Congratulations to Kyah, Lilli, Ellis and Benji on their performance at the ME Netball Trials. All four players were shortlisted. Ellis will represent ME at the Qld Championships in May.

Classroom News

Year 6 Senior Representatives

Above: photos show the hard work year 6 students are putting into being valued role models at BVSS.

The cohort are recognising each other for being excellent senior representatives, senior students of the week, and running PMP. 

PBL - Positive Behaviour for Learning

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 Business Manager, Vikki Lord 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 Corporate Services admin@bayviewss.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.  We are always happy to accept donations of fruit.

Lost Property

Please ensure that all clothing, hats, drink bottles and lunch boxes are clearly named, so they can be returned to your child as soon as possible.  Our lost property trolley is located outside of Corporate Services each day.  

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.

Q Parents

We encourage ALL BayView families to join QParents as soon as possible.  This will enable us to roll out Consent Management via QParents rather than sending notes home.  If you haven't received an email invititation, please contact Corporate Services.

Cafe News

Uniform Shop

What's on at BayView

Tucker Truck Thursday

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Phones Away for the day

Phones are now away during the school day. As parents and carers, you play an important active role in helping your children have a safe and positive online experience.

The Phones away for the day website has a number of resources and strategies to help you be proactive in protecting your children online as well as ways you can support them if things do go wrong.

To find out more, visit qld.gov.au/PhonesAway. 

Community News

2024 Multicultural Queensland Awards

Nominations for the 2024 Multicultural Queensland Awards are now open! The awards recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements of individuals and organisations working towards an inclusive multicultural Queensland.

This includes notable contributions by newly arrived Queenslanders, remarkable individuals and organisations who have helped others find belonging, and exceptional multicultural sector efforts that demonstrate inclusion, innovation and positive intercultural connection.

To find out more about the awards and submit a nomination, visit: https://www.qld.gov.au/MQA. Nominations close at 5pm on Sunday 7 April 2024.

Foster Carers

Foster carers come from all walks of life, but no matter who they are, they all have one thing in common; a place in their heart for a child who needs support and understanding. Fostering starts with care. It’s not always easy, but training and support is available.

Fostering needs people with extraordinary hearts. People just like you.

Visit www.qld.gov.au/fostercare to learn more and submit an expression of interest. If you would like to speak to someone about becoming a foster carer call Queensland Foster and Kinship Care on 1300 550 877.

Look  Before You Lock

Look Before You Lock is an important reminder to routinely check that no child is left unattended in a vehicle. Get in the habit of checking your backseat every time you get out of the car. Check even if you know your child is not with you. This will help make Look Before You Lock part of your normal routine. This simple action can save a child’s life. When we are busy or distracted, one shortcut on safety can have devastating, lifelong consequences. Learn more about keeping children safe at www.qld.gov.au/lookbeforeyoulock

School zone safety – advice for motorists, parents and carers

We need to keep safety top-of-mind when travelling through active school zones and around our school community.

School zone times have been standardised in Queensland to help motorists remember when to slow down. The standard operating times for most school zones in Queensland are 7–9am and 2–4pm, with some operating all day between 7am–4pm.

Speeding remains a significant concern, contributing to fatalities and injuries, and police will be on the lookout for speeding motorists. Keeping below the signed speed limit in school zones helps keep everyone safe. This simple adjustment may have minimal impact on travel time but has the potential to significantly contribute to saving lives.

Children's crossings are identified by children's crossing flags, displayed near crossings before and after school hours. 

When the crossing is supervised, you, as a motorist, must:

• Wait until all pedestrians, bicycle riders, or personal mobility device riders have crossed the road and the crossing supervisor has returned to the footpath.
• Abide by the direction given by the School Crossing Supervisor.

Please keep our children safe by staying alert, slowing down and obeying our school crossing supervisors who are there to help kids cross the road safely.  

You can also help children become more road safety aware by:

• Showing them how to look for vehicles coming in and out of driveways and discourage them from playing behind parked cars, or with toys or balls when walking to school. 
• Ensuring your child knows the safest route to and from school. This is usually the way with the least traffic and the fewest roads to cross and teach your child to always walk on footpaths. 
• Showing your child how to cross at traffic lights when the green 'walk' sign is showing at pedestrian crossings when vehicles have stopped and at supervised school crossings when the supervisor has signalled it is safe to do so. 
• Accompanying children when walking or riding to school until they are old enough to understand road safety (usually around 10 years or older). 
• Teaching your child if they catch the bus to never cross in front of or behind a bus; wait until the bus goes before crossing the road. 
• Making sure wheeled devices (bicycle, scooter, skateboard, or rollerblades) used to travel to school are well maintained and that the appropriate protective and safety gear (for example, helmet, visible clothing, knee and elbow pads) are used. 

Visit the Street Smarts website for more information about what to do at pedestrian and children crossings.