School Newsletter - Term 3 Week 7 - 2024

Principal's Celebration

Book Week

Today brings us to the end of Book Week for 2024.  

This week has been a wonderful opportunity to have a spotlight on the incredible power of reading.  It is not just a fundamental skill but a doorway to new worlds, ideas and possibilities.  

It was such a treat to have so many of our school community come together this morning to celebrate books and the joy they bring.  Thank you to those who were able to join in for our magic carpet story time.  

Special thanks to Jacqui Mohr who has planned and coordinated our Book Week activities.  Thank you to Danielle Clowes for Potion Classes this week, Tori Watson for being our mystery magician and to Troy Stanton, Deb Horncy, Kath Farmer and Matthew Henry for ensuring our paved area looked and sounded fantastic. 

Thank you to all staff for their commitment to fostering a love of reading in our students.  

In the words of Dr Seuss, "The more that you read, the more things you will know.  The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

Darling Downs Athletics

Congratulations to this week's SPORTING STARS!

Representing our school with pride and demonstrating outstanding team effort:

• Georgia
• Ava
• Roman
• Thomas
• Patrick
• Sam
• Diego
• Tui
• Marcus
• Cooper

Next week's whole school events:

Student Council Fundraising:

• On Monday, all students are invited to ‘wear your PJ’s to school' to fundraising for the Pyjama Foundation.  Please send along a gold coin donation. 
• On Monday, we begin our can collection for The Base Toowoomba.  Baskets will be set up outside the office beginning Monday morning for your donations.  

Thank you for supporting these worthy causes.  

Student Free Day:

• Just a reminder that next Friday is a Student Free Day.  

Special thanks to Nicky, Sarndra and Merryl, for their speedy and efficient move this week to allow our Tuckshop renovations to begin. 

I appreciate the time and effort that Nicky and her amazing team of volunteers puts into ensuring we have a great tuckshop menu and service for our school community.  We are all excited to see our new tuckshop once the renovations are complete!

Students of the Week 

Each week, we celebrate our Students of the Week.  

Congratulations to our Week 6 and 7 recipients:

Get Set for Prep 2025

Don't delay, enrol today!

Children born between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020 are eligible for Prep in 2025.  

Please apply for enrolment online as soon as possible at: https://eq.sobs.com.au/en/parent.php?schoolid=70862 or collect an enrolment pack from the school office. We are interviewing now for Prep 2025.

Calendar of Events

Parent Teacher Interviews

Parent Teacher Interviews will be held from 3:05pm on Tuesday 3 September in the W Block Hall.

Communication regarding how to book through our School Online Booking System (SOBS) will be sent home next week via email. Please keep an eye out as bookings fill fast. If you do not secure a time with your child's teacher but still wish to discuss their progress, please email your child's teacher directly to arrange a mutually convenient time to meet.

ICAS Dates and Times

ICAS assessment for our students from Year 2 to 6 are taking place from the 5th of August to the 30th of August. 

ICAS ASSESSMENT TIMES

Week 8:  Mathematics - Monday 26 August

Students who are away on the day of testing will have opportunity to catch up during the week the assessment is meant to happen.

Thank you for your co-operation and support.

ICAS co-ordinator Judy Keightley

Sports News

Darling Downs Trials

A fantastic day was had on Wednesday by all both on and off the track!  

On the track we did so well!! 

Diego R- 1^st place in 200m, 100m and Long Jump

Ava T- 1^st Place in 100m and 200m

Sam W- 1^st Place in High Jump

Marcus B- 2^nd Place in Shot Put

Georgia G - 2^nd Place in combined event

Our students were well-behaved, competed strongly and represented the school and community very positively.

Mr Morris

Class News

6T - Term 3 certainly has been busy in 6T! We have enjoyed starting our day in the sunshine with our class morning circle. Following morning circle, we begin with number facts and fluency.

In this picture, we were using the divisibility rules to determine the number properties of larger numbers. In Maths we have been exploring integers and made a 6T number line.

During English, students have been researching a holiday destination to write a persuasive text about. We were lucky to have Mrs Horncy join us this week when we were co-constructing a persuasive text. Adding to the excitement of Book Week, 6T students had a magical time creating potions during a lunchtime activity.

Toowoomba Teams Chess Championship

The Toowoomba Teams Chess Championship is on Tuesday 27 August. Parents and carers are responsible for transport to and from the event on the day. Please see attached for further details.

Please email Mrs Prue Cunningham at pcunn1@eq.edu.au with your child’s name and class if you are interested in the lessons or competition.

2024 Solid Pathways STEM University Experience Day Southern Queensland University Toowoomba Campus

Rangeville Solid Pathways students joined with several other schools, in our region and participated in a fabulous day filled with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba Campus.

Sharon Williams

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Pyjama Day

Student Council is fundraising for the Pyjama Foundation on Monday 26 August. We are asking all staff and students to wear pyjamas to school and bring a gold coin donation if they are able. 

National Pyjama Day is all about wearing your favourite pair of PJ's to help The Pyjama Foundation raise much-needed awareness and funds for children in foster care.

With the money raised from National Pyjama Day, you’ll be helping offer learning skills to more than 1000 children, fund educational resources and help provide stable, positive relationships.

Prep Vision Screening

Good vision is important for a child’s educational, physical and social development. Vision screening checks for common eye conditions that may impact your child’s ability to see and therefore impact their learning and development.

A Registered Nurse will be visiting the school on  15^th, 17^th & 18^th October 2024 to conduct vision screening for children in their prep year.

 If you wish to have your prep child participate in this FREE vision screening program, please complete a consent form, this can be done online until Monday 8^th May (Midnight) or paper forms can be handed in up until and including screening day morning.

Participation in this free vision screening program is not compulsory. If you do not wish for your child to participate in screening, please complete the consent form and indicate that you wish to decline screening.

Parents do not need to be present for screening, however if you would like to be, please contact the school to arrange this.

If you have concerns about your child’s eyes at any time, please take your child to see an eye health professional (optometrist/ophthalmologist).  

For further information, please scan the below QR code to visit the Program website or contact the Primary School Nurse Health Readiness Program on 1800 687 372.

Online consent forms will available from 5th June or you can find a paper copy in the school office.

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

The next meeting date for the P&C will be Tuesday 8^th October.

We welcome you all to attend. 

Membership forms will be available.  

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

If you are available to help us sell tickets at the Junior Sports Day on Thursday 5th September, please let us know. 

Click on this google form link to register: https://forms.gle/TSwmAYAP1ewmrc948

Thank you to our generous Musical Raffle sponsors so far!

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 Renovation

Our Tuckshop is undergoing a long-awaited renovation! Whilst work is being undertaken, we kindly ask that staff, students and families not approach the tradesman whilst they are working at the Tuckshop to help minimise disruption. We welcome you to direct any questions to the office or via email admin@rangevilless.eq.edu.au 

To ensure that we can continue to offer nutritious meals to our students, we have temporarily moved the Tuckshop to P Block. We'd like to acknowledge Nicky and her wonderful volunteers Sarndra and Merryl who spent countless hours relocating stock and supplies and coordinating the removal of ovens, fridges and warmers to P Block, thank you! A big thank you to our specialist teachers in P Block for warmly welcoming their new neighbours!

Due to reduced capacity in our temporary location, some menu items may become unavailable. However, Flexischools will remain up to date for placing orders. If an item is unavailable, it won't be listed for purchase.

We would like to thank all our volunteers that assist at the Tuckshop 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.

https://community.flexischools.com.au/parents 

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.

Lost Property

The Uniform Shop verandah is currently inundated with winter jumpers, tracksuit pants, lunchboxes, and water bottles. Due to the recent rain activity, unfortunately a lot of items are now wet. If your child has lost a jumper this winter season, please have them visit the Uniform Shop to retrieve it as soon as possible. At the end of the Term, any unclaimed items are removed.

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.

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

ROSHC Closure: Please be advised that ROSHC will be closed the pupil free day Friday 30^th of August. We do apologise for any inconvenience this may cause for families.

Reminder for Parents and Children:

If your child has a mobile phone or other important device, we ask that you kindly hand it into the Educators when they arrive at ROSHC. They can collect it when they go home. 

We need to keep these items safe and secure.

Bookings: Before and After School Care booking session can be made by the account holders or an authorised nominee. This can be done via email roshc@rangevilless.eq.edu.au or via the Xplor App.

Casual bookings will only be available where the service has approved places available.

Permanent bookings will take a priority over casual vacancies.

Casual booking requests must be made via Xplor. If placement is not available at the time the request is made, the request will be placed on a waiting list.

Cancellations: Parents/guardians must notify the service of cancellations to a session booking via the Xplor Home app or if having difficulties with the app please email:  roshc@rangevilless.eq.edu.au.

After the 3rd incident of not reporting a cancellation or absence a $5 fee will be applied to the account. Children are not to ring or email to cancel or make a booking.

If a cancellation is made less than 24hrs prior to the booking, full fee applies. If cancellation is made between 24hrs and 48hrs prior, half-rate fees apply.

Where the notice is less than 30 minutes, parents (or authorised nominees) are required to confirm these changes via phone also.

Vacation Care: Vacation care program is in the finishing stages of gathering resources and ensuring all paper work is in order. Please keep in mind that the program and permission forms will be emailed to all active ROSHC accounts at the end of week 8. We can’t take any bookings before the email gets sent so, please keep an eye out for it and check your junk emails as it may go into there. When booking vacation care remember to send all of these through the xplor app and make sure you have checked them off in your shopping cart.

Recyclable Items: If you have any recyclable items at home that you don’t need, we'd love to take them off your hands. Many activities we plan use lots of recyclable items, and we are always running out so any plastic bottles, jars, boxes, bottle caps, paper plates, containers and any other recyclable item that is not broken or damaged, we will happily take them.

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!

News from the Community

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