School Newsletter - Term 2 Week 1 - 2024

Principal's Celebration

It was exciting to welcome students and families back to school on Monday morning, eager and ready for another great term at Rangeville State School!

Term One seemed to fly by and, with a busy calendar already, I imagine Term Two will be the same. Thank you for supporting our staff by ensuring your child comes to school prepared for the day.  

At the end of Term One, our whole school attendance rate was 93.1%.

Student Leaders attend the Mayoral Morning Tea

On Thursday, our Student Leaders, Cooper, Norah, Shawen and Rex attended the annual Mayoral Morning Tea.  

This year, 51 primary schools attended the event with Mayor Geoff McDonald, Cr Carol Taylor, Cr Kerry Shine, Cr Edwina Farquahar and Cr Trevor Manteufel. During Mayor McDonald's address, he gave three challenges to the leaders present. 

1. Think about your personal values

2. Consider a legacy the leadership team will leave

3. Celebrate your successes 

He reminded all present that leaders are looked upon by others, that we have two eyes, two ears and one mouth and we should use them in the same quantities. He shared his personal values connected with the acronym of GREAT  - Grateful, Respectful, Energetic Attitude, Trustworthy.

We also heard from Back Plains & Gabbinbar State Schools and Holy Name Primary School students and their thoughts on Leadership. Back Plains State School students Taylor and Imogen spoke of the unique opportunity of leaders to inspire others.    

Students also used this opportunity to interact with other leaders.  

Congratulations and thank you to Rex, Shawen, Norah and Cooper for being respectful and attentive representatives of our school.   

Music Immersion Day

On the last day of Term One, 38 of our students attended the CHSHS Music Immersion Day.  Special thanks to Mr Henry, Mrs Johansen and Mr Gray for their work with our students on a weekly basis. 

The concert on Thursday night was an absolute showcase of the incredible work that happens with our Music teachers across many schools and in particular through our partnerships with CHSHS. 

Thank you to our families who support students with practise at home, lessons and rehearsals at school.  Students are excelling!

Outstanding Efforts

I continue to be impressed by the extraordinary achievements of students at school, when representing our school and at outside school events. 

Congratulations to the following students:

Over the weekend of Week 9, Diego R won Gold medals in the 70m, 100m, 200m and 400m events and Bronze in Long Jump events at the State Little Athletics Championships.

On Wednesday of Week 10, Hugo W won the 10 years Backstroke at the State Swimming Trials, swimming a personal best.  He will swim at the Nationals Titles.  

Earlier this week, Danish P's entry in the Makers Empire monthly design competition was selected as the winning entry from nearly 4000 designs in the competition.  

Upcoming Public Holidays:

Toowoomba Show Holiday: Friday 19 April

ANZAC Day: Thursday 25 April

Calendar of Events

Prep Information Evening 2025

We are excited to announce the upcoming Prep Information Evening 2025, which will take place on Wednesday 1 May 2024 from 5:30pm. This event is specifically designed to provide parents and guardians with important information about all things Prep for the 2025 school year. We encourage all parents and guardians of 2025 Prep students to attend this informative evening.

Please meet at the paved courtyard on the eastern side of our administration building.

Please register for the event via the following link: https://forms.office.com/r/JS4nywesq6 

We look forward to seeing you at the Prep Information Evening and to starting this exciting journey with you and your child.

If you have a Prep aged child to enrol in 2025 but have not yet done so, please apply online as soon as possible here https://eq.sobs.com.au/en/parent.php?schoolid=70862 or feel free to collect an enrolment pack from the school office.

RSS ANZAC Day Service

The RSS ANZAC Day Service will be held on Wednesday 24 April at 9am in the Assembly Hall. Students in Year 1 to 6 are to please wear their formal uniform on this day. Parents and caregivers are most welcome to attend.

State Little Athletics Championships

Over the weekend of the 23rd of March, Diego R showcased his talent and determination at the State Little Athletics Championships held in Brisbane.

Diego secured Gold medals in not just one, but four events – the 70m, 100m, 200m, and 400m. Additionally, he earnt a Bronze medal in the Long Jump event. Well done, Diego and congratulations! 

State Swimming Trials

Congatulations to Hugo W who swam a personal best of 38.14 seconds to win the Gold medal in the 10 years boys backstroke on Wednesday of Week 10 at the State Swimming Trials. Hugo will now compete in the National Titles. Well done, Hugo and congraulations!

Maker's Empire Celebration

We have had many students excitedly using the Maker's Empire software to create designs in 3D. One of our students has won the monthly competition. 

The judges were impressed by Danish's 'A Sunda Island Tiger' entry in the Wonderful Wildlife Makers Empire competition. Danish's entry showed great design skills and attention to detail. His tiger design is fantastic and definitely shows an animal that needs our help to survive.

Danish's design was selected from nearly 4,000 designs entered in this competition.

Great effort Danish and congratulations!

Music News

There are a number of upcoming performances for the music department this term which are detailed in the table below.  More information with finer details will be emailed home to parents.

Guidance Officer News

Please see attached article regarding "Working Memory Strategies for Home and School", courtesy of our Guidance Officer, Peta Shevlin.

Carbal Hearing Health Screening

Carbal Health will be providing hearing screenings at Rangeville State School on Wednesday 1 May 2024 at 9:00am.

We invite you to take advantage of this opportunity by completing the consent form and submitting it to the school office no later than Monday 29 April 2024. Copies of the consent form will be available from the office.

Invoices from Carbal will be sent home with participating students.

For any additional information or enquiries, we encourage you to contact Carbal directly on 1300 379 558.

Parking at Peak Times

As our school community continues to grow, parking around our School, especially during peak times, can become quite challenging. We kindly ask for your cooperation and mindfulness, particularly when parking on Loveday Street.

While we understand that space is limited, it's essential to be considerate of our neighbours and their accessibility. Please refrain from blocking driveways and ensure that you leave enough space for others when parking.

Thank you for your understanding. It helps us maintain positive relationships with our neighbours and ensures the safety and convenience of everyone in our community.

Centenary Heights SHS

Not receiving our emails or SMS messages?

If you've recently changed your contact details like email address, mobile number, home address, family circumstances, workplace, or emergency contacts, please reach out to us at admin@rangevilless.eq.edu.au or give us a call at 4617 7333. This way, we can ensure your information is current and keep you in the loop. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated!

QParents

QParents  is a secure, online portal that has been created by the Department of Education to provide parents of Queensland state school students with 24-hour access to their child's information. The portal allows you to securely access information about your child and communicate directly with your child's school.

QParents provides secure, online access to student information such as:

• attendance details
• consent forms
• payment of invoices
• payment history
• behaviour
• report cards and assessment dates
• upcoming events
• timetables
• student photo

In addition to the information provided, it's important to note that the QParents portal only sends invoices to the parent/carer who is responsible for 100% of the student's school fees. This means that if there are multiple parents or carers who share responsibility for fees, only one of them will receive the invoice through the portal. It's important for parents and carers to communicate and coordinate payment arrangements if they are sharing the responsibility for fees. 

We encourage you to register for QParents. To do this, simply express your interest by emailing mllew16@eq.edu.au or by phoning 4617 733 and Mrs Llewellyn will email you an invitation to register (which includes your log-in code) and your childs unique EQID. Your child's EQID can also be found on your child's Semester Report Card.

Rangeville State School P&C Association

There will be a meeting on May 14^th at 6:30 pm in the Resource Room.  We welcome you all to attend. 

To access reports and minutes please click on the link below:

Rangeville State School P&C Minutes and Reports (padlet.com)

If you are interested in joining the P&C team, membership forms are included below and are available from the website www.rsspandc.com.au or email us at secretary@rangevillestateschoolpandc.onmicrosoft.com 

We have a very active and involved P&C here at Rangeville State School. We would love to meet you and have a chat about the many different ways you can be involved and how we can assist you.

See our P&C website www.rsspandc.com.au for more details around our businesses and helpful information for families.  

Contact details:

www.rsspandc.com.au

Email: pandc@rangevilless.eq.edu.au

Phone: P&C Ops Office:  07 4617 7354

P&C Facebook page - Rangeville State School P&C: https://www.facebook.com/rangevillepc

Rangeville P&C are running a Pie Drive

We are looking for volunteers for set up, collecting orders and pack up for Wednesday 15th May 2024 between 1:30pm to 4:30pm.

If you can help (even if for a short time) please reach out OR complete our form below:

https://forms.gle/EvGTA7sytM1WdcZM7

We thank you for any orders.

The profits from this event will go towards the tuckshop refurbishment.

Rangeville Outside School Hours Care Services

Rangeville Outside Hours School Care services are available for families if you need before school care, after school care or vacation care.  If you want to know more about what is available, please contact the staff located in the Big Hall (W Block). There is also information on the P&C website  www.rsspandc.com.au  or email at roshc@rangevilless.eq.edu.au 

P&C Facebook page - Rangeville State School P&C

Did you know that we have a Facebook page? We would love you to follow us so that you can hear all about what's happening around Rangeville State School.

https://www.facebook.com/rangevillepc

Tuckshop News

We would like to thank all our volunteers that turn up to assist at the Tuck shop each week. We are always looking for volunteers so please let us know if you are interested.  

For those who are new to Flexischools and need help navigating the system, please click the link below for further instructions.

Flexischools Instructions

Uniform Shop

2024 Operating Hours

If you are interested in volunteering in the uniform shop, please contact us via the P&C Facebook page or phone Nicky on (07) 4617 7333.

Rangeville State School P&C Association Outside School Hours Care (ROSHC)

Vacation Care

We explored many different areas of imagination, creativity, active sportsmanship, spontaneous play, relaxation, problem solving, researching and investigating and finding new found confidence all throughout the vacation care period. Whether it was children’s first time being at vacation care or they had been many times before, there was something to keep every one busy or as busy as they chose to be. Many of the children enjoyed having the time to relax and read a book, others were happy to be as active as possible and get involved in every activity planned. Children had a fun escape to Sunset Superbowl in the first week. This day filled up extremely fast when it went out and it was easy to see why when you looked at the children’s faces as we geared up to go bowling. There were so many laughs, funny excited little dance moves, lots of excited jumping as so many of the children got a strike or a spare and just a lot of fun was had, it was a great morning out had by all.

We have been chatting to the children about the June/July holidays and starting to gather activities that interest the children to come up with some fun days full of activities to interest all children.

If there are any parents/caregivers have any activities they would like to see the children doing or maybe wanting to do an activity with the children please come and talk with the office educators we would love to see some more community input in our programmed activities.  

New enrolments for Term 2 or updating enrolment

If you are wanting to enrol children in ROSHC please send our office an email at roshc@rangevilless.eq.edu.au and we will send you through our enrolment forms, fee structure, parent handbook, children’s handbook and the booking app xplor information. If any of your personal information has changed, please email all changes through and we will update them in our system. Also, if you are wanting to change your permanent bookings or create permanent bookings, please also email that information through to our roshc office.

Absentees

If you have a booking at the service and your child goes home early from school, is absent or not coming for either BSC or ASC please let us know via your Xplor app (preferred option) or email roshc@rangevilless.eq.edu.au as soon as possible.

Lost Property

Please remember, if your child has misplaced any items such as jumpers, hats, lunchboxes, or water bottles, they may be found near the Uniform Shop on the verandah.

We kindly ask you to clearly label these items, as our volunteers assist in sorting and returning them to their respective classes.

Any valuable items, such as glasses or watches, will be securely stored in the office for collection.

News from the Community

Please note that although the following notices may be included in the school’s Newsletter, they are published in good faith and do not necessarily have the school’s endorsement.