School Newsletter - Term 4 Week 10 - 2024

Principal's Celebration

As we come towards the end of the 2024 school year, I would like to express my gratitude to the Rangeville State School students, staff and families.  It has been a busy year and I am thankful for the continued support, partnership and dedication to our shared commitment of nurturing and inspiring our students. 

It is with absolute delight that I advise I will be returning for the 2025 school year.  I look forward to continuing our journey of learning, achieving and growing every day.   

We wish our Year 6 students all the very best as they move into the next exciting stage of their learning journey.  We are so proud of the growth, resilience and accomplishments you have achieved during your time at Rangeville. 

To our departing families, thank you for your contributions to our school community.  We appreciate the trust and support you have shown throughout your time at our school.  We appreciate the opportunity to partner with you for your child's time at primary school.  Thank you for being part of daily school activities and events and your encouragement of our staff and students.  

Wishing all of our families a wonderful and safe holiday! We look forward to welcoming you back on the first day of Term One, Tuesday 28 January 2025.  

Instrumental Music Concert

On Monday 18 November, we enjoyed an incredible afternoon and evening of music at the Term Four Instrumental Music Concerts. Thank you to families in attendance. 

Special thanks to Mrs Johansen, Mr Gray & Mrs Jensen for another thoroughly enjoyable music event. 

We are so very proud of the music program at Rangeville and these concerts were yet another celebration of the work happening every week!

Year 6 Tallebudgera Camp

On Monday, we waved off our Year 6 students for their 5-day camp at Tallebudgera.  They had a fantastic week of team building exercises at the beach!  Mrs Hagley, Mrs Griffiths and I enjoyed attending the camp throughout the week and seeing our students shine in this alternative setting.  Thank you to our amazing staff who attended and supported students:  Mrs Bothmann, Mrs Briese, Mr Talbot, Miss Tonkin, Mrs Hall, Mr Quilty, Mrs Clarke, Mrs Mohr, Mrs Fraser, Mrs Murphy & Chappy Tiff.

Final 2024 Assembly

Today, we held our final assembly for 2024.  Thank you to Mrs Peters and the choir for performing a Christmas Carol.  What a wonderful way to finish our last assembly for the year!

Week 11

Week 11 at Rangeville will operate as a normal school week with all students welcome to attend until the final day of term, Friday 13 December.  

All curriculum delivery was concluded at the end of this week and students will engage in learning experiences appropriate to their age in Week 11. 

In the event student attendance numbers are reduced in Week 11, classes will be combined. 

If you choose not to send your child to school in Week 11, please advise us via QParents, phone or in person at our Office to ensure absences are explained and approved.  Explained absences during Week 11 will not impact student's overall attendance.  

Please contact the office if you have any questions regarding Week 11.  

2025 Classes and Teachers

We are excited to announce our 2025 Class Structures and Teachers.  On Tuesday 10 December, all 2025 Prep - Year 6 students are invited to attend their new classrooms with their new teachers.  During this visit, students will receive a letter from their teacher with the 2025 Booklists.  This information will be emailed to parents of absent students.  

On Wednesday 22 January 2025, all classrooms will be open from 1:30pm to 2:30pm to allow families to drop off student books and equipment and visit the uniform shop as required. 

We have some staff who aren't returning in 2025.  On behalf of the staff and community, we wish them all the very best on their new adventures:

• Mr Ben Crowley
• Mr Traill Howman
• Mrs Robyn Page
• Mrs Freya Worrall
• Mrs Wendy Tonkin

Congratulations to Mrs Judy Gough, Mrs Di Grundy and Ms Deb Minic who are retiring at the end of the year.  

Welcome to Mrs Maisie Kumar and Mrs Cherise Ashburner who will be joining our teaching team in the new year.  

2025 Leadership Positions

Our 2025 Student Leader candidates participated in interviews with Mrs Hagley and myself (Captains & House Leaders) or Mrs Johansen (Music Leaders). 

Thank you to Mrs Hagley for her efforts in planning and implementing a rigorous process for our Student Leader positions. 

Congratulations to all applicants for demonstrating exemplary attitude and effort as they engaged with this opportunity.  

We are delighted to announce our 2025 Students Leaders:

School Leaders:

Thomas Bayfield, Lorelai Gillis, Georgia Grohn and Sally Lindenmayer

Music Leaders:

Isla Fea and Bonnie Skerman

House Leaders: 

Brady Bidgood, Alexis Freeman, Henry Johnston, Munro Grover, Sadie Pendlebury, Charlie Lynam, Hugo Weedon & Diego Ryan.

Student Super Star!

Congratulations to Fletcher who won 1st place in the Rookies division at the Ipswich City Dirt Karts Club Championship last weekend.  What a trophy!  

Swimming Carnivals

Congratulations to ALL students who participated in the Junior, Intermediate and Senior Swimming Carnivals last week. It was wonderful to see so many students participating in the events.  We were very fortunate to have fantastic weather for the Junior and Intermediate Carnival with some rain for our Senior Carnival. 

I would like to acknowledge our staff for their extraordinary efforts towards ensuring our carnivals went ahead last week in Mr Morris' absence.  What a fantastic team!    

Special acknowledgement to our Year 6 students who competed in their final primary school carnival and our Prep students for competing in their first primary school swimming carnival.  We were very proud of your engagement and efforts!

Please see below for the results across the carnivals:

Students of the Week

Each week, we celebrate our Students of the Week. 

Congratulations to our Term 4 Week 9 recipients:

Parade VIPs

Congratulations to students who used their Roar Paw points to be our Week 7 & 10 Parade VIPs.

Deputy Principal - SWD Message

ACCESSIBLE COMMUNICATION

The theme for National Disability Action Week centred on the importance of ‘Accessible Communication’. ‘Connect’, Include, Empower’ reminds us of the transformative power of communication and its role in building stronger, more inclusive communities. Accessible communication means ensuring that everyone, whatever their needs, can connect, participate and thrive. It’s about removing barriers to create an environment where everyone can contribute and be heard.

Term 4 Calendar of Events

Timetable for PBL Reward Swim Term 4

Collection of Student Medication - Important Information

We are getting closer to the end of the school term, and this means we need to ensure there is no medication left at school over the Christmas holidays. This includes prescribed medications, asthma puffers and Epipens.

Parents/Carers are required to collect all student medication from the office by the end of the last day of term, Friday 13^th December 2024. You will be asked to complete a new Consent to Administer Medication Form when you handover medications on the first day of term, Tuesday 28th January 2025. You are welcome to fill in the form at the office or find it below.

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

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

P&C news 

Our next meeting will be 11^th February 2025.

The reports can be found here on the padlet:  

Rangeville State School P&C Minutes and Reports 2024 (padlet.com)

If in the next few months there are any enquiries or questions or you need to contact the P&C and we will respond as soon as possible. You can email secretary@rangevillestateschoolpandc.onmicrosoft.com or to the PandC@rangevilless.eq.edu.au 

Thank you for all your help and support with events this year, we look forward to what we can do for the school community in 2025.

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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

Please note that the uniform shop will be closed on Wednesday 11th December but will be operating with extended hours on Tuesday 10th December from 8:30am - 10:45am during transition morning.

2025 Back to School Trading Hours

We have some exciting new Rangeville State School products for our students that can be ordered online! Please have a look at the flyer below for more information or follow the link.

https://harlequinkids.com.au/your-school/rangeville-state-school.html

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 Bookings: The program for the upcoming summer holidays will be posted and sent to families this Friday, 29/11/24. Please keep an eye out for this and be sure to check your junk emails. When booking vacation care days remember to send all dates through the xplor app and be sure to check them off in your shopping cart. If you are making cancelations for vacation care, please be advised that 7 day’s notice is required to avoid charges. Bookings for Preps starting in 2025 at Rangeville State School t will be taken from January 2025 and no earlier.

ROSHC will be closed for a two-week period, from Monday 23^rd December 2024 to Friday 3^rd January 2025. We will reopen on Monday 6^th January 2025 for three weeks of fun activities to keep everyone busy before the school year starts up again. We look forward to seeing you all.

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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