21 June 2019

Newsletter Articles

UPCOMING EVENTS

JUNE/JULY

PAYMENTS DUE

PRINCIPAL’S NEWS

Music Night

Congratulations to the music and choral students who delighted the school community with their performances at the recent Semester One Music Evening. The quality of the performances was simply outstanding! I would like to thank Mrs McIntryre, Ms Jabs and Mr Pearson for their dedication, excellent tuition, and the precise feedback that they give to the students, which enables them to achieve a high quality performance.

Mrs McIntryre is seeking more boys to join the Boys Choir in Semester 2. Please advise  your child to see Mrs McIntyre if they are interested to join in the choral fun.

A special thank you to Mrs Melissa Knight and Mrs Eileen Healy, our Friends of Music, for their dedicated assistance and organisation of the event. I wish to thank Morris Bros Music Store; Qld Youth Orchestra; Qld Symphony Orchestra; Qld Arts Theatre; Kylie Farrelly, Artist; Kids Music Beat; Brisbane Planetarium; and Harvest Rain, for their kind donation of raffle prizes. All funds raised on the night supports the music program. 

School Sport and Recreation Facility Upgrade Program

This week we received notification from the Office of the Lord Mayor, Brisbane City Council that Aspley State School has been successful in a submission to the Brisbane City Council’s School Sport and Recreation Facility Upgrade Program 2018-19. The grant will fund $23 150 (GST exclusive) towards the replacement of the pool blanket, install a motorised roller and upgrade the pool lighting. This is indeed exciting news for our school community to receive this financial assistance to replace the facilities equipment at the Swimming programs at Aspley State School pool.

School Annual Report

Each year on the 30 June, state schools publish their School Annual Report, which details the key achievements of each school. The School Annual Report, 2018 is now available on the school website for the Aspley school community. Please take time to read about our school achievements in 2018.

In Memorium

Today, I take the opportunity to recognise the significant contribution of Ms Maureen Liddy, Speech Language Pathologist, who passed away on 15 June 2019. Ms Liddy’s life was celebrated today with family, friends and colleagues at her funeral. Ms Liddy dedicated her life dedicated to her profession and supporting young children to be able to successfully develop their language and communication skills. Ms Liddy has supported many children through their speech challenges and is fondly remembered for her warm caring nature, love of travel and the arts. Ms Liddy was highly regarded in the Metropolitan Region as an authority in speech language acquisition and therapy. Many children and families are ever grateful for her care and speech language therapy support.

The Aspley State School Foundation

As the end of the financial year draws to a close, I invite you to consider to give a tax deductible gift to the Aspley State School Foundation which is a not for profit organisation that supports the building and maintenance at Aspley State School. This year the Aspley State School Foundation is seeking to raise valuable funds to enable the instalation of shade sails over the new junior play area and the tiered seating near the oval. Please consider to give generously to the Aspley State School Foundation. See the website:

Semester One Summative Reports

The Semester One Summative Reports (report cards) which detail student achievement, attendance, effort and behaviour will be available on QParents  and will be emailed to parents/ carers on Friday 28 June 2019. Please ensure that your email address is up to date. If you need to amend your details, please do so on the QParents app or contact the school office at admin@aspleyss.eq.edu.au
Please note the delivery time for report emails is in the early evening of the last day of term and may vary as per the network traffic.

Happy Holidays

I wish all students, staff and their families a happy and safe school vacation. I look forward to students and staff returning to school on Monday 15 July 2019.

DEPUTY PRINCIPALS NEWS

Assembly 22 July 2019

Lucas Proudfoot will be sharing some of his songs at assembly on July 22 next term. On this same day, the students who have nominated to attend their class session will get the opportunity to listen to stories, sing and dance with Lucas while he shares his ‘Circular Rhythm’ with them.

Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 Sports Carnival

The children are excited, as they have been involved in some of the sports practices already with their class teachers and with Mr Schmidt. They have also had a go with marching – the first time for some of them.

Our sports carnival is on Thursday 27 June from 11.30am to 1.30pm.

The agenda is as follows:

11.30am March Past
11:45am Running races (including snack time/ toilet time)
12:15 pm - 1:30pm Tabloid Sports

Please ensure that your child is well prepared with the right shoes (closed shoes), broad brimmed school hat or bucket hat, sunscreen and water bottle.

We invite all parents and caregivers to attend the event to see their Prep – Year 2 students actively involved in their events.

As required, please sign in when you are on the school premises for security and safety reasons.

BOOST NEWS

The Year 1 and Year 6 students have had 5 weeks of BOOST with reading strategies (inferencing) for Year 6 and reading goals for Year 1.

BOOST is a short, sharp high yield strategy where the focus is year level identified.

The Prep classes will commence BOOST reading fluency for the first 3 weeks of Term 3.

Congratulations!

Congratulations on reaching reading targets at Aspley Reading Club.

Instrumental Music Teachers

The following information was sent home to parents of students in the Instrumental Music programme to explain the Semester One report cards:

Queensland State School Instrumental Teachers (through the Queensland Teachers’ Union) are currently negotiating with the Queensland Department of Education regarding the review and/or renegotiation of a current Memoranda of Agreement (MOA). This is an industrial agreement that outlines and clarifies professional work requirements and conditions.

The current Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) is over a decade old. During this period of time, there has been significant changes to the work of Instrumental Music Teachers including work intensification, hours of work and the introduction of a new curriculum requiring new ways of teaching, new assessment, moderation and reporting practices.

Although industrial discussions have been underway for some time, a negotiated agreement is yet to be achieved. From November 2018, the Queensland Teachers’ Union consulted Instrumental Music Teacher members then issued a directive requiring them to ‘work to’ the current Memoranda of Agreement (MOA). Given the age of this agreement, various more recent educational initiatives and practices are not included.

Instrumental Music Teachers (and Instructors) will not be providing A – E reporting to students in Semester1, 2019. An Instrumental Music report will not be included with the Student Progress Report issued at the end of the semester. Students will receive feedback on their assessment as well as a copy of their Instrumental Music Assessment Task Sheet. Should more clarified student progress be sought, a parent may speak with their child’s Instrumental Music Teacher as they have done so during the semester or by making contact through the School Administration. Acknowledgement of student participation in ensembles and within the Instrumental Music Immersion Programme will continue to appear in the extra-curricular section at the bottom of the Student Summative Report Card for Semester1, 2019.

Aspley State School is proud to support the Instrumental Music Teachers in their efforts for an updated industrial award. The brilliant opportunities the teachers provide Aspley State School students is second-to-none.

Please contact the school if you have any queries.

Assembly – Class Show Case

2K were the Show Case Stars on assembly, highlighting an investigation into sustainability and the environment. They challenged us to be more disciplined with recycling, reusing and caring for our environment at school.

2/1T demonstrated how to be mindful when interacting with others and how to be mindful for ourselves. They gave us some very interesting ideas.

Year Six Canberra trip

A reminder for parents of students attending this year’s Canberra trip of the final parent information session. This information session will be held in the school on Wednesday 26 June from 6:00 – 6:45pm Topics for discussion on this night include the itinerary, spending money procedures, medication procedures and communication.

School start times

We would like to remind parents and caregivers that lessons begin at 8.45am in the morning at Aspley State School. Please make every effort to ensure that students are here on time as consistent late arrivals impact on students accessing instructions for learning and valuable learning.

CURRICULUM NEWS

Outdoor Learning

Teachers and students have been taking advantage of our beautiful winter mornings and utilising the outdoor learning spaces around the school.

This group of students is discussing a text read. Warms the heart on many levels!

Inquiry Learning

It has been encouraging to see our students developing skills for inquiry and research. The natural curiosity students have is nurtured through the International Baccalaureate's (IB) Primary Years Programme's (PYP) framework. As a candidate IB school, we are exploring the Learner Attributes recognised by IB as necessary to develop internationally-minded people who help to create a better and more peaceful world. When a learner is curious, questions are generated. All students have been generating 'wonderings' that link to the units of work planned using the PYP framework. These wonderings are linked to important 'big ideas'. One of our year 2 students posed a wondering, " Which is more important, the environment or reading?" after investigating a unit of work based around environmental issues. His explanation of why both are vital showed a critical analysis of the knowledge he had available to him. Teachers are thoughtfully crafting the term 3 unit of work to be implemented around the transdisciplinary theme of 'How We Express Ourselves'. The Curriculum Overviews that are published early next term for each year level, highlight the intended learning as linked to the Australian Curriculum. Please have a read through this document to see how you may assist your child's learning.

Term 2 Science

This was a very exciting journey of discovery for all the year levels. Please see below for the topics covered in each cohort.

Year 1: Schoolyard Safari
Year 2: Push and Pull
Year 3: Heat it Up
Year 4: Material World
Year 5: What’s the Matter?

Year 1

The students in Year 1 had a visit from Queensland Emergency Services on the 6 June and 13 June 2019. They learnt about fire safety and also learnt that when a firefighter enters your house in their suit, they aren’t scary. The Year 1 students were given a task. They were asked to check with their parents if they have fire alarms and an evacuation plan. They also got to see the fire truck and had a go at using the hose. It was a great experience!

Saudi Arabian Educators Visit

On Wednesday 19 June, Aspley State School hosted a group of 22 experienced teachers from Saudi Arabia. The teachers have been sponsored by their Ministry of Education to participate in a year long training program in Queensland. Many of the teachers have brought their own families to Australia for this experience and we learnt that some also have their own children attending Queensland State Schools. In partnership with University of Queensland and Education Queensland International the teachers visited a number of classes at Aspley State School to gain practical knowledge in how teaching and learning is delivered in Queensland. Teachers and students welcomed the teachers into their classrooms and shared their learning.

6D wrote and presented a letter to the teachers visiting their classroom.

Explanation of classroom practice:

We love visitors and engaging with our community so much that earlier this term, we Face-Timed Australian architect, Michael Lavery, so that we could learn about how architects contribute to Australian society in meaningful ways.

To take action on our learning, our multi-media biographies were displayed so that people in our community had the opportunity to learn about the contributions that Australians have made to Australian society.

In 6D, we create a visual display of our inquiry-based learning journey

In 6D, we have learning walls to scaffold our learning and to help us self-manage.

Digital Resources

Our Student Resource Scheme is a great way to ensure your child has easy access to learning materials. Keeping home reading going over next week and through the holidays is easy using digital programs such as Sunshine Online and the e-book library. Literacy Planet also have a library of texts and offer Word Mania, a fun word building game that assists spelling and vocabulary development. Don’t forget to use Mathletics and IXL for great maths consolidation! Happy learning!

FINANCE NEWS

Excursion Deadlines

Last week we had an unfortunate situation of students not being able to attend excursions due to failure to provide permission slips and/or finance by the due date. On each excursion form there is a published due date. This is also published in our school newsletter. This is the date where the excursions are closed and venue and buses organised. Our system integrates the processes of excursion planners, risk assessments, permission letters, invoice statements and finance payments. Once the due date is reached, it is not possible to re-open to account for late payments. We choose the due date to allow families the maximum time to complete forms and make payment. There is no provision to accept late payments unless prior consultation and a payment plan has been entered into before the due date has passed.

The due date is necessary so we can ensure our obligations are met. Students need to be registered on OneSchool for legal purposes before they can leave the school grounds. Families cannot indemnify the school of their legal obligations because they forgot to submit a form and/or make a payment by a due date.

Due dates must be adhered to. We would like to avoid having disappointed students missing opportunities. We encourage families to meet consent and payment deadlines so every child can enjoy the amazing opportunities on offer.

From Term 3 2019, if a consent form and/or payment is not received by the due date, affected students will be unable to participate in the excursion/incursion.

Payment Methods

Aspley State School has reviewed the process of receiving payments from students and their families at the school.

I ask, where possible, that parents / carers use QParents or BPoint to make payments. These two methods can accept payment using your credit card. The security and safety of your financial data is paramount. These methods are widely accepted as the most secure methods of payment.

The school will also accept direct transfers into the Aspley State School bank account, or a cash deposit at any branch of the Commonwealth Bank. Please ensure you use your Childs name as a reference so we can easily identify who the payment is for.

Aspley State School Bank Details are: BSB: 064-151 Account Number: 0090 1234 Account Name: 0610 Aspley SS GA

Please use your child’s name as a reference and pay be the due date identified on the permission note. Payment MUST be paid by the due date.

By paying through Q Parents, B Point, Electronic Bank deposit or Cash at Bank deposit you will assist the school to:

• Reduce the amount of cash students / parents carry to school;
• Minimise cash or cheques kept on the premises and reduce the risk of theft;
• People will receive a receipt for the payment at the time of payment;
• Reduce the risk of a student losing money or cheques;
• Reduce the administration time of processing of payments;
• Remove the responsibility for children to be responsible for amounts of cash;
• Keep your financial details private and safe;
• Follows the Dept of Education Qld guidelines for cash collection and cash storage.

From Term 3 2019, Aspley State School will only accept cash payments between the hours of 9.30am and 10.30am on Tuesday and Thursday at the administration office. Credit Card over the counter transactions will also be accepted during this time. Payment envelopes will not be required for these transactions. By paying during these times you will be provided an immediate receipt. Please note in term 3 the office drop boxes will only be used for returning permission forms. No Cash will be accepted through the office drop boxes.

STUDENT ABSENCES

ABSENCE TEXT MESSAGE MOBILE NUMBER – 0427 286 794

ID Attend help’s us to streamline absence notifications for students. We now have a mobile number that parents can send a text message to, so we are notified of upcoming absences.

Please put this number into your mobile phone as “Aspley SS ID Attend Absences” and send the school a text message for any absences (including future absences) with the following information:

Name of student
Class
Reason for absence (for example… sick, family reasons or holiday, etc)
Date of absence/s

This new text messaging line is the preferred method to notify the school of student absences.

The existing school absence line, email absence address and Q Parents are still functioning.

We appreciate your help with this matter to ensure all students are attending school and safe.

ROAD SAFETY

MUSIC NEWS

CONGRATULATIONS – SEMESTER ONE MUSIC PERFORMANCE EVENING

Congratulations to our young musicians and choralists for a very special evening of musical performances at the Aspley Music Departments Semester One Music Performance Evening. Ms Jabs, Mr Pearson and Mrs Macca are so very proud of the Aspley young musicians and choralists – congratulations to you all for creating and sharing with the wider Aspley community such a magical evening of music making!

On behalf of the Aspley Music Department, thank you to the many people who supported and helped in creating such a magical musical event for our young people.

EDUCATION QUEENSLAND SINGFEST – SENIOR/BOYS CHOIR – THURSDAY 29 AUGUST

Senior and Boys Choral Members in Years 4 to Years 6 ONLY have received an invitation to participate in the 2019 Education Queensland SingFest to be held in Term 3 on Thursday 29 August 2019. SingFest is an annual massed choral music event for Education Queensland Primary and Secondary School students. Singfest 2019 will feature over 1500 students from across the Metropolitan Region coming together over seven separate days to workshop selected choral repertoire previously learnt at school. Students will then participate in a one-day workshop with Guest Conductor, Katherine Ruhle.

Please note that Aspley State School has been allocated 58 positions to attend SingFest for 2019. Thus we are offering this excursion to the first 58 students to return the Expression of Interest slip attached to the parent information letter. Students who return their slip after the 58th placement has been received will be placed on a waitlist and notified in order if more positions become available to attend this excursion.

A reminder that expression of interest letters (no payment required with this form) are to be returned to the school office no later than Tuesday 25 June 2019.

Invoices will be raised and sent to students who are allocated a ticket. These must be paid promptly to secure your ticket.

This truly is a wonderful opportunity for your child and I encourage our wonderful senior and boys choralists to participate in this memorable event.

CREATIVE GENERATION ONSTAGE – YEAR FOUR EXCURSION - FRIDAY 19 JULY 2019

Creative Generation – State Schools Onstage is an annual event celebrating Queensland’s largest youth performing arts event being held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Southbank on Friday 19 July 2019. More than 1800 students from Prep to Year 12, will be performing on stage, for what promises to be an exciting and spectacular show.

Aspley State School would like to extend the opportunity to attend this excursion to all students in the current Year 4 co-hort. All Year 4 students have now received a parent information letter regarding this exciting opportunity.

With only 45 tickets available, this opportunity will be available on a ‘first in, first served’ basis. A signed and completed permission form MUST be delivered to the school office by 9.30am Friday 21 June to register your intent to purchase a ticket. Any forms received after the first 45 forms will be placed on a waiting list.

Invoices will be raised and sent to students who are allocated a ticket. These must be paid promptly to secure your ticket.

We look forward to a very special day at this State Schools On Stage event.

CURRENT AND UPCOMING MUSICAL EVENTS - TERM THREE 2019

Please take note of the Music Departments important dates for Term Three 2019 and ensure that you place these dates in your calendars.

HONOURS MUSIC CAMP

Congratulations to Liesel, Kate B, Shivani, Emma, Kate F, Raphael, Harper and Hue for their acceptance to attend the Metropolitan Region Northside Honours Music Camp to be held in September at Wavell State High School. Congratulations must be extended to all auditionees – the standard of audtionees was exceptionally high this year with 300 students auditioning for 150 positions! We wish our young musicians the best of musical luck for this very special camp and we look forward to hearing all about their amazing experience.

LESSONS AND REHEARSALS

All lessons and ensemble rehearsals will be on with Ms Jabs and Mr Pearson for Week 10.

JUNIOR BAND ASSEMBLY PERFORMANCE

Junior Band will perform on Assembly on Monday 24 June at 2.15pm. Please remember your instrument and music, and meet Ms. Jabs at 1.45pm in the hall.

Thank you music families and the wider community for supporting the Aspley Music Department throughout semester one and have a safe and restful holiday.

Happy Music Making
The Aspley Music Department

LIBRARY

Woolworths Earn and Learn

The Woolworths Earn and Learn program is scheduled to finish next Tuesday, 26 June. Thank you to the many families who have brought in their stickers. Please keep them coming as we are planning to use the opportunity to purchase more mathematics equipment for students to use in our classrooms. The more stickers we collect, the more equipment we can buy.

Boxes for you to bring either your stickers or your completed sheets are available in both the school office and library. We also have collection boxes at our two closest Woolworths stores; Aspley Hypermarket and Chermside Marketplace centres. If you have any questions, please contact Linda Hamilton in the library.

Last Day for Borrowing This Term

As the end of Term Two approaches, we remind parents that all books need to be returned to the library by Wednesday 26 June. Today was the last day for borrowing for the term and overdue and current loan notices will be given to teachers on Monday. Please assist your child in locating any overdue or missing books so that they are able to borrow their full allocation of books next term. If you are unsure if your child has any overdue books, please email the library staff on library@aspleyss.eq.edu.au

Brisbane City Council School Holiday Activities

As there is no borrowing from the school library over the school holiday period, we would encourage students to continue to read through the access to DET online books, home collection or visiting the Brisbane City Council libraries for borrowing. The link to find your nearest BCC Library is

The Brisbane City Council also has a range of activities available over the school holidays. The link is below.

Caring For Our Books By Always Using a Waterproof Library Bag.

One of the easiest ways we can care for our library books is to always have a waterproof library bag when borrowing and returning our library books. Your support in ensuring that your child uses a waterproof library bag rather than a calico/cotton bag, plastic shopping bag or a plastic folder, is appreciated. Books and resources will not be borrowed to students unless they have a waterproof library bag with them at the time of borrowing. The Uniform Shop sells the recommended library bag (green) for $15.00.

Student and Class Borrowing

Students who have their waterproof library bag, and are not on Restricted Borrowing due to overdue library books, are welcome to borrow from the library before school from 8am, during play at second break and after school until 3:15pm. The timetable for classes, who are scheduled to come to the library, is included below for your information.

How Many Books Can My Child Borrow?

How many books your child can borrow largely depends on their year level. As students show a greater degree of responsibility, so their loan limits increase.

Prep students - two books for seven days:

• 2 Junior Fiction Books

Year 1 students (Terms 1-3) - four books for seven days:

• 2 Fiction (Junior Fiction and Junior Chapter Fiction)
• 2 Home Readers (levels 1-30)

Year 1 students (Term 4) - six books for seven days:

• 2 Fiction (Junior Fiction and Junior Chapter Fiction)
• 2 Non-Friction (Non-Fiction and Magazines)
• 2 Home Readers (levels 1-30)

Year 2-3 students - six books for seven days:

• 2 Fiction (Junior Fiction, Junior Chapter Fiction and Fiction)
• 2 Non-Friction (Non-Fiction and Magazines)
• 2 Home Readers (levels 1-30)

Year 4-5 students - ten books for fourteen days:

• 4 Fiction (All Fiction excluding Senior Fiction)
• 4 Non-Friction (Non-Fiction and Magazines)
• 2 Home Readers (levels 1-30)

Year 6 students - ten books for fourteen days:

• 4 Fiction (All Fiction including Senior Fiction)
• 4 Non-Friction (Reference for seven days, Non-Fiction and Magazines for fourteen days)
• 2 Home Readers (levels 1-30)

Linda Hamilton
Teacher in Charge of the Library
library@aspleyss.eq.edu.au

ICAS

International Competitions and Assessments for Schools, (ICAS)

This year, Aspley State School will once again be offering students in years three to six the opportunity to participate in the International Competitions & Assessments for Schools (ICAS). The format for the assessments is changing and all assessments, with the exception of the writing task for years three and four, will be conducted online. Parents will be required to nominate and pay for their child’s assessment online.

The timing for each assessment is included below. Letters with instructions on how to nominate and pay, as well as the payment cut-off date, will be going home this week. We will notify students individually of the venue for each year level and assessment once we receive final numbers.

CAMP AUSTRALIA

Excitement levels are high at Camp Australia as new furniture has been arriving and we have slowly but surely started re decorated the room. Our OSHC kids are so helpful and creative with their ideas. During the week we have had Lego challenges on Tuesday, Bay Blades on Thursday and early movie on Friday. Please feel free to come check out the room and share your ideas.

This Week

This week on Friday we have International Yoga day. We are focusing our theme on the beautiful country and culture on India. We are making Nan bread this week and decorating Hena Hands. A large group of children are also working on a new welcome sign for the room, they are doing a wonderful job.

Holiday Club

School holidays are approaching fast! We have so much planned for these holidays; movies, science experiments and mini Olympics are just some of the activities. Jump on line at the link below to check out the program and enroll you children online. We look forward to seeing you and your kids in the Holidays. I hope you all have a relaxing and well needed break.

We look forward to seeing you and your family soon!
Kind regards,
Aspley OSHC Team

P&C NEWS

As we come to the end of another term, I’d like to say a big thank you to our community for supporting the activities of the P&C this term. It was a super busy term with the Mother’s Day Stall, Year 3 to 6 Sports Day Sausage Sizzle and Bake Stall, Election Day Sausage Sizzle and Bake Stall, Trivia Night, Music Night support and Raffle, and next week’s P-2 Sports Day Sausage Sizzle and Bake Stall.

And that’s not all – we continue to collect oral care waste for the TerraCycle Garden Challenge (continuing until September), as well as support the Prep Tote Bag Fundraiser, the Aspley Foundation Annual Appeal (more details below), conduct a Working Bee, and continue organising the Term 3 School Disco and Father’s Day stall, and the Term 4 Community Pop Up Garage Sale and Movie Night.

The P&C is also sending 3 delegates to the annual P&C’s Qld Conference being held at the Sofitel Brisbane on September 6 and 7. If you have ever wondered about the value of P&C’s in schools and what we can contribute, and would like to be a part of the bigger picture, then please contact me – I’d love to share this experience with you.

Aspley Foundation Annual Appeal

The Aspley State School Foundation is an initiative of members of the Aspley State School P&C. It was established in June 2018 to create a reliable income stream to be used for the maintenance, improvement and construction of buildings at our school. Last year, the Foundation, through the generosity of our community, was able to replace the carpets in the 5 Prep classrooms and install blinds in Year 6 classrooms.

This year, we would love to see the building of shade over the new Maundrell Tce playground and the grandstand over the main oval. The Appeal hopes to raise $20,000, which will allow the School to release the equivalent monies to support the project. At the time of writing this, our generous community had already contributed $2000 to the Appeal. We know that $20,000 will not be enough to cover the actual costs of both builds, but I am keenly aware that this has been on the wish list of the parent body for a while now and the P&C will support these two projects wholeheartedly to provide additional funds (check out the P&C meeting Wrap Up further down to see just how much we’d like to contribute to start with!). The P&C has already contributed nearly $70,000 towards the new playground area over the past 3 years, and we cannot wait to see it covered to ensure all children have a sun-safe place to play for many years to come. The covering of the oval grandstand will ensure children and spectators can be sun-safe, and provide another option for outdoor learning.

Just $50 from each family will help the Annual Appeal reach its target. Any donation over $2 is tax deductible. We hope that all families will consider making a tax-deductible contribution before June 30 so that we can see this project come to fruition before the Summer begins. Please give now at:

GO GREEN DAY – Friday 28 June 2019

The P&C are proud to support the school’s gardening programs and sustainability initiatives. To help continue this support, students are invited to wear anything green or floral on the last day of term, Friday 28 June, and donate a gold coin towards these projects.

WORKING BEE – Sunday 30th June, Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd July (School holidays)

The Year 6 students are busy writing a list and checking it twice for a few small (and biggish) jobs that we’d like to achieve over the holidays. We invite families to come along and help get the Sensory Garden underway and spruce up the Sports Shed. Just a few hours on Sunday 30th June; or Monday and Tuesday 1st and 2nd of July would be greatly appreciated. If you would like to help, please email PandC.AspleySS@gmail.com and we’ll give you further details. Otherwise keep an eye out on our Facebook page for more info!

TUCKSHOP NEWS

• Tuckshop Opening Hours – 8.30am to 1.45pm Tuesday to Friday. The Tuckshop WILL be open for both breaks on the last day of term. Please note, as we wind down, the Tuckshop menu may be limited to ensure the lowest amount of food wastage occurs. We appreciate your understanding.
• NEW IN TERM 3: As of Term 3 Week 1, Year 1 students will be asked to collect their orders from the Tuckshop. The students will take their orders back to their eating areas; and then return to the Tuckshop counter to collect any ice blocks ordered. Tuckshop volunteers, teachers and parents are asked to remind students not to throw away their bags if they have items to collect.
• Prep to 2 Sports Carnival – Thursday June 27 – the Tuckshop will be offering meal deal offers on this day, which is available to ALL students (Prep to Year 6). Years 3 to 6 students can collect their orders from the tuckshop. Please order via Flexischools by 1pm Wednesday June 26. Honey Badger Coffee will be on hand again to keep our spectators warm. Volunteers needed for the BBQ and Bake Stall – please sign up!
• VOLUNTEERS are needed to ensure our Tuckshop costs are kept low. If you can assist with any task, we’d appreciate you. We most need people Thursday and Fridays 8 til 9.30am and 12.30pm to 2pm ;but any time you can give Tuesday to Friday is appreciated.
• We are still missing several reusable pots. If they have ended up at home, please send them back (clean is preferred!).

DID YOU KNOW? The majority of items served in our Tuckshop are made from scratch? We are proud of our Aspley menu. If you’d like to give feedback or would like to see how food is prepared, please join us for a morning of volunteering. We welcome new helpers and you never know, you might learn how to perfect your pikelets or find out Jane’s secret YUM cake recipe!

UNIFORM SHOP NEWS

• Normal operating hours (Mon 8-9.45am and Thurs 3-3.45pm)
• Gala Sports Uniforms are DUE BACK by the END OF WEEK 10. Please return the washed shirt with your child’s name and class attached, either to the office or the Uniform Shop (during opening hours). Your co-operation is greatly appreciated. Please note, any shirts not returned will incur an invoice from the school, for the full replacement cost.
• The uniform shop is looking for a regular volunteer who can assist one hour per week – if you can help, please drop in to see Jodie, or email Uniforms.AspleySS@gmail.com
• Reminder: If you cannot get to the uniform shop during the opening hours, Jodie is happy to arrange for your order to be delivered to your student via the classroom teacher. Order via Flexischools for convenience. Email: Uniforms.AspleySS@gmail.com if you have any questions.

CONGRATULATIONS – to past Aspley SS P&C President Tony Lee

A special shout out to Mr Tony Lee, for recently being recognised in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Tony received a Medal of the Order (OAM) for his contribution to youth through his work with the Australian Air Force Cadets. Tony was president of the Aspley SS P&C Association from 2008 to 2013 (our longest serving President I think!) and contributed greatly to the success of the P&C and the school. If you look up as you walk down to the classrooms, down the path by the pool, you will see the walkway is actually named in his honour – Tony Lee Way. So, on behalf of Aspley SS P&C – Congratulations Tony – you continually volunteer your time to the community, and we acknowledge and thank you for your valuable contribution!

COMMUNITY NEWS

Coding Club

Come and learn how to harness your inner creativity to solve complex problems and make awesome digital creations!

Please see attached information about the Coding Kids, Aspley Holiday Hackafun!

Chermside Farmers Markets

Top Chess

Coaching days & time: Friday afternoons (3:00–4:00pm).
Venue: Library – Aspley State School.
Dates: Term 3 – July 19 to September 13.
Price: $99 per student (9 weeks total - GST inclusive).
Fee must be paid upfront and in full. Payment received-
after week 3 of the program will incur a late penalty fee of 20%.
Experience: The Chess Club caters to all levels of play from ages 5 to 13 years old (primary).
Disclaimer: The fee is based on a class full of students, so there are no refunds for absences.
Note: Students can join ANYTIME during the term. New students are welcome for a trial lesson.

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