School Newsletter - Term 4 Week 1 - 2024

Principal's Celebration

Term 4

It's hard to believe Term 4 has started!  I am looking forward to another term of learning at Rangeville SS.  

Congratulations to students for their extraordinary efforts at the Centenary Heights State High School Spring Music Showcase.  On Friday evening, it was my absolute joy to listen to the culmination of their efforts.  

Special thanks to CHSHS Principal Dan Lindenmayer, HOD Heidi Law, RSS Instrumental Music teachers Jess Johansen, Naden Grey, Leia Jensen and Matthew Henry.  

We have a busy Term 4 ahead of us.  Please check out the Calendar of Events in this newsletter as it provides an overview of planned events for the term.  This will be updated as required through our newsletter each fortnight.  

Student Superstars

Congratulations to Diego - Darling Downs School Sport Most Outstanding Male Athlete.

Congratulations to all students who participated in the ICAS testing in Term 3.  We will continue to present these students with their certificates on parade as we receive them.  

Swimming

We are so fortunate to have a school pool to access swimming twice each year in our PE lessons.  

Our Term 4 Swimming Blocks are as follows:

Swimming Carnivals

This term, we will have all of our Swimming Carnivals to ensure we have our Zone nomination information for children born 2012 - 2015 ready for Week 2 Term 1 2025. 

To support our Term 4 swimming program, Mr Morris will be inviting selected students to squad swimming training to begin in Week 4.  Further information from Mr Morris will be sent in the coming weeks. 

Crossing Safety

Please help us to keep children, parents, carers and staff safe by following the speed limits, drop-off, pick-up and parking rules and directions from crossing supervisors.  

Students of the Week 

Each week, we celebrate our Students of the Week. 

Congratulations to our Term 3 Week 10 and Term 4 Week 1 recipients:

Get Set for Prep 2025

Thank you to those families who were able to join us at our Get Set for Prep morning today.  We had a great time completing Nursery Rhyme Olympic activities.  

We warmly invite you and your Prep 2025 child to our next Get Set for Prep morning on Thursday 31 October starting at 9:15 am.

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. 

Deputy Principal - SWD Message

Special Events - Planning for Success

Specials events such as camps and excursions can be exciting but also challenging for neurodiverse children. With new environments, unpredictable schedules, and unfamiliar sensory experiences, it’s essential to prepare in ways that ensure a positive and supportive experience. Here are some strategies that may help your child to thrive during these events:

• Talk about the special event, defining when they are going, where they are going and how they are going to get there.
• Research the location, downloading maps and pictures, so that that they can familiarise themselves with the place.
• Liaise with the classroom teacher and talk about the planned activities and who will be the staff member in charge of their group.
• Talk about what they may eat or where they will sleep, if staying overnight.
• Discuss how they are going to feel, giving a physical description. Talk through some ‘what will you do if’ scenarios.
• Talk with staff re bringing a small comfort item that can provide a sense of security and familiarity in a new setting.
• Praise your child for their efforts and resilience, as this will help to build their confidence and foster a positive association with future events.

By planning ahead, building support systems, and offering reassurance, special events such as camps and excursions, can open doors for learning, social growth and adventure.

Term 4 Calendar of Events

Year 6 High School Transition Program: CHSHS

Year 6 students are invited to attend a transition program aimed at familiarising students with high school processes and routines. Students will be attending Centenary Heights State High School on Tuesday 8, 15 and 22 October. 

Invoices for the cost of the bus have been sent, with payment due by 18 October. 

Rangeville SS Art Featuring in Singapore

Gardens by the Bay, a tourist attraction in Singapore is currently showcasing Toowoomba's Carnival of Flowers to the locals and visitors, which is featuring some painted ornaments created by from some Rangeville students.

Check out their website: https://www.gardensbythebay.com.sg/en/things-to-do/calendar-of-events/carnival-of-flowers.html#accordions-3a39046d13-item-26edc75bbb

Some pictures taken by Mrs Tay's family when they went to visit on Sunday. 

Book Club

Issue 7 is here - and it's a BIG one!

Welcome to this year's BUMPER issue with an additional six pages of must-have reads to inspire holiday reading. 

We believe that books make the best gifts, so we're bringing back our FREE BOOKS OFFER for one last time this year. Every LOOP order over $20 gets to choose a bonus title from the 'free book list'. PLUS, every order on this Issue will receive a $5 promotional code to spend on Issue 8.
Orders will close 21/10/24.

Term 4 Swimming

Daily lessons will occur in one week blocks as per timetable above and will commence in Week 3 of this Term.  

Students will need to bring with them the following labelled items in a suitable swimming bag:

• Togs
• Goggles
• Towel
• Swim shirt
• Swimming cap
• Sunscreen

Please keep an eye out for the Swimming Consent Form, which will be emailed home soon. Swimming is a valuable part of our PE curriculum, but if your child is unable to participate for any reason, kindly send a note from home.

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.

Carbal Health Hearing Screening

Carbal Health will be providing hearing screenings at Rangeville State School on Tuesday 15th October. 

We invite you to take advantage of this opportunity by completing the consent form and submitting it to the school office. 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.

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.  

Thank you to these many sponsors for the Musical Raffle a total of $4000 was raised.

There will be some upcoming Fundraisers in Term 4, so keep an eye on the Facebook and through the newsletter.

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 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 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

Please remember if your child/ren has misplaced a jumper, hat or lunchbox and water bottle it may be located near the Uniform shop on the verandah.  We encourage you to please clearly name the items as we have volunteers who sort and return to classes. 

Any items of great value such as glasses, watches etc will be handed into the office for collection. 

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

Vacation Care: Spring vacation care was busy and exciting as the children enjoyed an array of activities both planned by the Educators and spontaneous daily activities driven by the children’s imaginations. We had a few different incursions to enjoy with Jumping for Joy- jumping castle, Bubble Soccer - by Bub Soc Bubble Soccer hire. The wonderful Toowoomba Warriors Softball Team came and conducted a training and information session with the children, and the Wondering Banana - an adventure around the world with presenter Jodie. These incursions were all given great feedback from the children for the new companies used, as well as Jumping with Joy which is always a big success. Thank you to all the families that joined us. We will be starting to gather information from the children for the upcoming December/January holidays. Please forward any ideas to the ROSHC educators as this holiday break requires a lot of forward planning to fill each day.

Public Holiday: Roshc will be close for the Kings Birthday holiday Monday, 7^th October 2024. We hope you all enjoy the long week end.

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.

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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