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- Across the Principal's Desk
- Parking and Consideration of Others
- Enrol Now for Prep 2026
- From the Deputy Principals
- Harmony Week
- Disco Night Thursday 20th March
- Parent Teacher Meetings & Show and Shine
- School Photograph Days
- Cross Country Running Carnival and House Spirit Fun Run
- Fancy Hat Parade
- 2025 Brisbane City Schools ANZAC Ceremony- A proud tradition
- Windsor Week 7 and 8 Award Winners
- 5 Keys Collector Card - Celebrations! Sharing the Smiles!
- Congratulations Sporting Representatives
- 2025- Positive Student Recognition
- Teaching and Learning
- Music with Mrs Fanning
- Japanese with Sensei Brandis
- Ruby's Round Up!
- Library News
- The Sustainable Garden
- Extension and Enrichment Opportunity
- Olympian Visit- Olympics Unleashed
- Parades & Assemblies @ Windsor State School Term 1 2025
- Queensland Engagement and Wellbeing Survey- Term 2
- Consent to Administer Medication Forms
- QParents
- Family and Community Support
- P AND C Events
- Seawolves
- Uniform Shop
- YMCA Windsor OSHC
- Tim Nicholls Easter Colouring Competition
- Community Noticeboard
- Athlete's Foot supports Windsor State School
- P&C - Crown Hotel Partnership
Dear Windsor Community,
The sun is shining, and our students’ learning progressions are evident right across our school. Next Tuesday 25th March, teachers will provide parents with an opportunity to share student growth, both academic progress and personal and social capabilities. These parent teacher interviews are now nicely backed up by Windsor’s Show and Shine afternoon to be held on Monday 31st March. Our Show and Shine initiative opens classrooms and allows children to share and talk about their own learning with a parent or trusted adult. The excitement across our school on this afternoon is wonderful to watch.
For those families still moving through the recovery phase of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, please note that Commonwealth Govt website https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/qld-ex-tropical-cyclone-alfred-mar-2025-australian-government-disaster-recovery-payment includes information regarding eligibility for financial support.
Harmony at Windsor
Harmony Week presents an opportunity to teach our children about global citizenship. Our annual whole school parade was brough to life by our students, who confidently shared their stories in front of a large school community audience. The importance of listening and learning about others is our message to students as they grown into an ever-changing world. The theme, Everyone Belongs continues. Please enjoy more photos within the newsletter.
ANZAC Day
The Windsor SS commemoration is always a very special event. Weather permitting, this outdoor school service held on ANZAC Terrace (upper oval) highlights the significance of the day to our students. Any families who do, or have worked in Defence, are invited to contact the school, so that we may acknowledge you. During our service there will be an opportunity for families and community members to lay their own wreath should they wish. We will gather at 9am on Thursday the 24th of April. Thank you to Adam Tull and our sustainability gardening students for adding some Rosemary plants to prepare and enhance our cenotaph. Although its location has changed over the years, this statue is 100 years old this year!
Lutwyche Road Drop off Zone
We are almost there! The weather is keeping us on our toes as the last few days of work continue. We have an official opening date of next Tuesday 25th March. We will also have early access to car parks this coming weekend, if the rain stays away.
Below is a map (you may need to squint to read it) that helps show the flow for traffic from Constitution Road through to Lutwyche Road. It also clearly shows the only entry and exit point for students into our school from this drop off area.
The last two weeks of term one offer many opportunities to come together. I look forward to seeing you at our discos tonight or community Colour Run on Saturday.
Yours in Education
Shona
We know that parking around schools in all metropolitan areas in Brisbane and more broadly, poses a challenge. However, in order that our neighbours are considered and treated with common courtesy, we kindly ask that anyone seeking a park in the streets adjacent to Windsor State School always consider a couple of key things.
1. Please take heed of driveways and leave these spaces clear so that local residents can come and go as they require.
2. Please take heed of all parking signage and avoid parking in no-standing zones
We know that the community appreciate those parents and carers who think about others and show courtesy and respect in their driving behaviours.
No Playgrounds Before School
A reminder that students are welcome onsite form 8.30am for supervision in the undercover areas, or can be standing or sitting with parents/carers on school grounds. There is no access to playgrounds before school for any student, unless enrolled and participating in the YMCA before school care programming. This message is reinforced to children throughout the year, but we would also like to take this opportunity to remind all parents and carers that if onsite waiting for the bell with your child, please ensure that they are sitting or standing near you and not on the playgrounds.
Developing Good Character in our Kids- Positive Parenting Article
Parents and carers, in line with the values of Harmony Week, we wish to affirm that in order to develop strong character and make appropriate ethical decisions, kids also need a moral compass and they need practise in how to use it. We can’t always be by their side to guide them in relationships, choices or risk taking, but as their first teachers, we can role model good character and talk about our family values. If our kids know where we stand, they can work out where they do…To read a research-based article on positive parenting, please click here.
Thank You students for sharing- Diversity = Strength
Harmony Week is a very important opportunity to celebrate the strength that diversity brings. The message is clear- "Everyone Belongs."
At our whole-school Harmony Day Assembly on Monday 17 March, we were very privileged to have Bella C, Thomas N, Charlotte H, Ryan S-H, Leo T very bravely offer to step in front of the community and share their proud and diverse cultural heritages with the school community.
They were also joined by Mrs Olivieri and Mrs Burns from the teaching staff ranks, who proudly shared their culture.
The Windsor State School community is supportive, connected and kind. It is also a community in which respect for others is shown daily and Harmony Week helps us consolidate and re-iterate the key message that "Everyone Belongs."
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Family Education: FREE Special Guest Presenters- YSafe by Quoria- Internet Safe Education (School Disco Night)- Register via the Link Below
As previously advertised, this Thursday 20th March, we will be hosting our Term 1 Student Disco in our school hall.
Prep-Year 2 = 5:00-6:00pm
Year 3-6= 6:15-7:15pm
Parents & Carers who would like to stay on site during the disco are welcome to either bring a picnic rug and relax on ANZAC Terrace during their child's disco or if present during the senior school disco, attend the STEM Room from 6:15-7:15pm for the free Internet Safe Education Family Education Evening (if attending, please register here).
The cost for the Disco will be the usual $5.00 per child or $10 for a family of 2 or more. Tickets will be available for purchase, via cash or card, in the Junior School Precinct on Wednesday 19th March and Thursday 20th March from 8:30am.
Tickets are also able to be purchased at the door on the evening, via cash or card, but please be mindful that long lines often form on the evening. Please have the correct amount of cash or your card ready for your child's ticket purchase.
On the evening of the disco, we also ask that you send your children with small denominations of coins or notes so they can purchase food easily.
Food available to be purchased at the disco will be:
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Pizza slice |
$3.00 |
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Popcorn |
$1.00 |
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Chips |
$1.00 |
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Killer Pythons |
$1.00 |
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Mixed lolly bag |
$1.00 |
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Tiny Teddies |
$1.00 |
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Bottled water |
$2.00 |
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Sugar free soft drink/ Juice Poppers |
$2.00 |
The theme chosen by our student council is “I’m a Celebrity, Get me to the Disco!”
Prep and Year 1 parents and carers are welcome to have a seat in the back of the hall during the Prep-Year 2 Disco if your child requires reassurance. However, as we encourage increasing independence in our students, we ask that the parents and carers of other year levels (and any Prep & Year 1 parents whose students are able to independently attend the disco) please drop their student/s at the North-Eastern Corner of the hall, to be welcomed inside by staff.
At the end of each disco, students will be seated in class groups, before parents and carers are then invited inside, to collect their student/s. Students will not be permitted to leave without a parent or carer there to collect them.
We are looking forward to hosting an event that will put a smile on student's faces, and of course raise some funds to support our Year 6 Canberra Trip this year.
All proceeds from the evening will be donated to support applying subsidies to our Year 6 Canberra Trip for 2025.
Parents & carers from across the school who wish to make a donation in multiples of $40 to support our Year 6 families may do so via the Qkr! App by accessing the below payment path:
School Payments – Camps – Camp Support Fund- Benevolence Donations.
Please also note, that we are happy to accept any "tips" via the EFTPOS machines that will be operating at the ticket sales section and at the canteen in the lead up to and during the disco, if you would like to make a smaller contribution to support the 2025 Year 6 Canberra Trip fundraising cause.
Looking forward to a great night on Thursday night.
Online bookings for Term 1 Parent Teacher Interviews are now open. To book, please follow the below link. Please note that bookings will close on Sunday night. Sessions are 10 minutes in length and held in the Windsor SS hall on Tuesday 25th March from 3.10pm – 8.00pm.
https://windsorss.schoolzineplus.com/view-session/47
Last year we held our first Show and Shine afternoon, during which teachers and students welcomed a range of special adults – parents, carers, grandparents, aunties and uncles, into classrooms for students to show some of the learning they have engaged with throughout the term. We will again open our classrooms this term for this experience on Monday 31st March. Following some feedback from last year, we have made some adjustments to start and finish times across the school. Please note the following start times:
Years 2-6: Show and Shine in classrooms from 2.15pm
Years P-1: Show and Shine in classrooms from 2.30pm
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In order to ensure that all of our wonderful students can run their cross-country (Year 3-6) or their house-spirit fun-run (Prep-Year 2) in the cool of the morning session, we are updating the dates of this year’s middle-distance running events.
- Year 3-6 Cross Country
- Thursday 27 March
- 12 Years Events from 9:15am
- 11 Years Events from 9:35am
- 10 Years Events from 9:55am
- 9 Years Events from 10:15am
- 8 Years Events from 10:35am
- Thursday 27 March
- Prep-Year 2 ‘House Spirit Fun-Run’
- Friday 28 March
- Year 2 Events from 9:20am
- Year 1 Events from 9:40am
- Prep Events from 10:00am
- Friday 28 March
The focus of the Prep-Year 2 events will be on participation and house spirit. These are non-competitive events.
The Years 3-6 events are competitive events. The top 5 placegetters in Years 3-6 will be selected to represent the school at the City Districts Cross Country event which will take place in Term 2.
For students in Years 3-6 who are seeking to get fit and in-shape for the upcoming cross country, we are offering a free before school run club, which will meet on the cricket pitch at 8:30am on Tuesday and Friday each week from now until the City Districts Cross Country Carnival in Term 2. Parents and carers who would like to join in on some laps of the oval are most welcome to join us.
Prep, Year 1 & Year 2
On Friday 4th April, we will be celebrating the end of term with some fun at the annual
P-2 Fancy Hat Parade. A special guest may even be hopping along to Windsor SS for the parade!
The children from Prep to Year 2 are invited to participate in the parade on this morning. The Easter Fancy Hat Parade will begin at 9:15am in the Hall, and will be finished by approximately 10:15am. Parents and families are welcome to attend.
The parade will feature a song performance from each of our year levels, as well as a procession of fabulous Easter hat creations.
Please note that the hats are to be made at home. Parents/carers are asked to assist their child as required to make these wonderful creations at home.
We are aware that some families have made travel plans for this day. If you do intend to leave school with your child after this parade, please ensure that they have been signed out with their class teachers before leaving the school grounds.
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We are proud to take our Year 6 cohort annually to the Brisbane City Schools ANZAC Ceremony. We will do so again this year on Wednesday 23 April 2025.
This is a free event, but requires the permission of Year 6 Parents and Carers to enable their student to participate with their peers and teachers. To provide permission for a Year 6 student, please head to your QLearn Account and seek the consent section.
It has been great to see some photos rolling in of students celebrating receiving their first of up to five different "5 Keys Collector Cards" for 2025. We would love to see photos of students celebrating their achievement, each time a collector card goes home!! Should you wish to share, feel free to email us at:
5_Keys_Collector_Card_Celebrations@windsorss.eq.edu.au
During Harmony Week, there will also be a special opportunity for students who are demonstrating Kindness and Community Mindedness to collect a limited edition collector card- the ‘Windsor Warrior Collector Card’. These cards will only be available at select times during the year. We would love to see some celebrations of students who are acknowledged with a limited edition collector card, should they be awarded one during Week 8.
Representatives- City Districts Netball and AFL Selection
A huge congratulations goes to all students who have been successful in attaining City Districts Swimming Selection in 2025.
Laura K, Archie G, Vivienne M & Georgia K have been selected in the City Districts Swimming team.
We also congratulate Connor G & Jacob S who have been selected in the City Districts AFL team.
Most recently, Annabel W, Atticus W (Netball) and Laura K (AFL) have also been selected as key members of their district teams to compete for selection in the Metropolitan North Regional Team to compete at the upcoming state championships.
As always, it is great to see our Windsor State School rising stars shining brightly on the sports arena! A huge thank you to all parents and carers who strive to provide sporting opportunities for their students to get active and healthy!
The Windsor Way & the revised Student Code of Conduct
In 2024, we reviewed our Student Code of Conduct, as is good practice and a requirement of the Department of Education at regular intervals.
The 2025-2028 Student Code of Conduct is available on our school website, here.
As part of the review, stakeholders helped re-define our ‘Windsor Way’ poster, which consolidates the core values, character traits, social-emotional keys to success and daily conduct that helps us set our students up for success. This is imaged below, and a printable copy, for families that wish to print one for the fridge at home is available here.
Working in line with advice of acclaimed psychologist, Karen Young (https://www.heysigmund.com/) who has spoken to our school community on numerous occasions over the years, alongside guidance from the work of William Glasser (Choice Theory), there have been some adjustments to our code of conduct in line with moving towards a connected approach to recognition. We will no longer have a public badge system for Gold and Silver nor will you see charts in rooms with levels of behaviour on them.
However, we will still take numerous opportunities to celebrate students and provide positive acknowledgement of the values, character traits, keys to success and conduct that we wish to continue to strongly embed across our school.
The most notable and exciting update for 2025 is the commencement of a set of ‘5 Keys’ annual collector cards, which are pictured below.
Teachers will take opportunities throughout the year, to recognise students who are demonstrating the 5 keys to success by making a special presentation in class to students, recording their name on the back and enabling the student to take home their collector card to cherish.
We would love to share some images of families celebrating students bringing home a card during the year by making a photo collage of celebrations, however they may look in your household. If you would ever like to share an image of either one-card coming home, or a completed set, we would love to see them shared via the below email address!
5_Keys_Collector_Card_Celebrations@windsorss.eq.edu.au
Our weekly Gotcha Awards! (including Grill’d Burger Certificates) and You Can Do It Awards on assembly will still be a regular feature. We will continue to celebrate student achievement at our ACE Awards also, which take place at the end of each Semester.
Lisa Heard (Head of Curriculum)
As you know, at Windsor, we use evidence to inform our understanding of how students learn, which in turn informs how we teach. Teachers have anywhere between 20 and 30 students in front of them at any one time, and that requires that the most effective strategies for that context are used.
Below is the model of memory we use to think about how learning happens (environment, attention, working memory, long-term memory, forgetting), which has been adapted to show how teaching should then occur to accurately reflect the model. This week, let’s take a close look at the Environment. The environment in this hierarchical model, includes selecting curriculum, creating the conditions for learning and securing attention.
Selecting curriculum is mostly taken care of as we have a national curriculum to implement (not all countries have this). However, we do a lot of work in the background to ensure the sequence and delivery of that curriculum is carefully thought through and implemented using the best practices. It comes to us as a set of standards with many teaching suggestions; we then turn those standards into unit plans, lessons and assessments.
Creating conditions for learning is a larger aspect of the classroom than most people might realise. This means ensuring students feel a sense of belonging and feel safe learning, which includes making mistakes, failing, being vulnerable and seeking help. Creating the right classroom climate is something we are very proud of as a school – our teachers have student well-being at the heart of all that they do and work hard to create positive classroom cultures.
Conditions for learning also involves establishing consistent routines so that students have predictability about what to expect day-to-day and can work through classroom tasks with automaticity, creating a smooth flow within the room. It even matters how the room is decorated; displays should be minimally stimulating to avoid distraction (only displaying what is required to assist learning and including a lot of student work), and students should be seated in a manner that is most conducive to learning. This usually means forward facing rows.
The majority of our teaching is explicit and even when students are working independently, in order for them to avoid distraction and to ensure we can secure attention, we seat them so that they are not facing other students or having to turn significantly to see the teacher teach. If students are distracted and/or talking to other students during the direct instruction phase or during independent practice of a skill, they are less likely to engage in the deep thinking required. This is in line with the research that shows that we are not actually good at multitasking. Whilst we may think we can talk and ‘do’, we will actually be doing one thing better than the other (and in students’ cases, this is usually talking). Think about when you are driving with the music blaring or deep in conversation; when you are in an unknown area and you need to concentrate more closely on the traffic and directions, you will usually turn the music down or pause the conversation – that’s because it is distracting your ability to concentrate. This is no different to students trying to concentrate in the classroom, especially the younger students. This is why you will notice our classrooms across the school are set out in rows rather than group formation. Again, it is what the evidence suggests is most conducive to learning. When students need to discuss a topic or rehearse some part of the learning, they ‘turn and talk’ with an elbow buddy or two as appropriate. When they need to collaborate on a group task, desks are quickly turned into groups of four or they may stay that way for a period of time as required. So, even the way we seat our students is based on evidence to give students the best chances at success.
Next newsletter, we can look at more securing attention strategies as well as the importance of considering working memory.
For further information on ‘Environment’ or to follow the evidence, check out the following websites:
AERO (Australian Education Research Organisation)
The psychology behind a great seating plan (Inner Drive)
Now, let’s take a look at what the Year 3s students have been up to as well as an update on Term 1 Music goings on.
Year 3
Time flies when you’re having fun! Year 3 have had a busy first term adapting to new routines, classrooms and immersing in the curriculum.
The year 3 teachers and students love a story, and in English we been enjoying reading and examining a number of narratives. Comprehending these stories students have been developing an understanding of the narrative structure and how language features and images can add meaning. We had a lot of fun reviewing stories and expressing our opinions about our favourite texts with others. Year 3 were informed and inspired at an incursion with a published author which further developed skills in creating texts for purpose.
Is it living or non-living? This is the question we have been asking in Science in order to group things by their observable features. What better way to put this into practice than to venture outside where the grounds of Windsor SS offer an abundance of both living and non-living things to observe. 3D were lucky enough to catch Mr Logan preparing some off-cuts from the cyclone for replanting. This caused a rich discussion about what an off-cut would need to start the living process.
After a busy week, 3A headed to the garden to wind down and relax. We have been studying ‘living things’ in Science and decided to sketch a favourite plant that we could find. The banana tree and succulents were very popular!
I absolutely LOVE teaching music. I love the way students become engaged in activities such as playing the ukulele, drumming with drumsticks, rhythmic basketball, Auslan sign language and even keeping the beat on a huge piece of stretchy lycra – all while learning important elements of music such as beat, rhythm, and timbre.
Here are some pictures of some of the year levels in classroom music.
Year 5
Did you know that Tokyo is now one of the most visited cities in the world by Australian tourists? That is good news for any of our Grade 5s planning a trip to Japan in the near future because we are learning all about how to order food at a fast-food restaurant. Our students can now confidently order a hamburger or fries (or two!) as well as learning specific Japanese phrases like ‘Let’s eat’ (Itadakimasu) and ‘Cheers’ (kanpai). Perhaps the most useful phrase we have mastered this term is ‘Sumimasen – Excuse Me’, very helpful to get shopkeepers attention.
Year 6
This term the students have explored the very Japanese topic of ‘Mottainai’ – or ‘Don’t Waste It’. We have explored the evolution of Japanese kanji symbols for various nature words, from their picture origins to how they are written today. It was amazing to see the students match the picture to the correct kanji before they were even taught. We have looked at basic forms of kanji that are straight pictographs – kanji symbols that are used to express literal things, which has been great for visual learners. Year 6 students also had the chance to make these characters in play dough which was lots of fun and then apply their knowledge in a scavenger hunt in the Sustainability Garden where Sensei made sweet potato mochi, harvested direct from the garden, for those who completed the challenge.
Not my favourite fortnight of the year. Due to the cyclone and NAPLAN, I have had to stay at home and not come to school. Even though I tried looking my Mum in the eyes and really showing her that I wanted to go to work. I would give great pats at NAPLAN but my Mum says because it is a once-a-year assessment all the children really need to concentrate on what they are doing and not be watching me.
I did get to come for a few days and it was great when some children, who may not be as confident around dogs to start with realise that I am very soft and gentle and really fun to pat. I also attend parent meetings some days with my Mum and the other teachers. Look at me sitting up paying so much attention to what was happening this day. I put myself up on the chair my Mum was not so sure.
Therapy dogs Australia recently used this quote in answer to the question what does a therapy dog do. “Because of a dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift” (Mary Oliver)
To finish my fortnight off I got to go to one of my favourite parades of the year, Harmony Day. I wore my orange t-shirt and joined in with the theme of "everyone belongs".
Love Ruby
International Women’s Day in the Library
To celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8), we have organised a silhouette guessing competition. The silhouettes represent staff from Windsor SS. Students were encouraged to come along and guess who belongs to each silhouette. We also celebrated this very important day by giving students the chance to draw and use adjectives to describe important women who matter to them. Please come along and have a look at their contributions.
Harmony Week March 17 – 21
This week is Harmony Week. This is a time to celebrate and recognise how our diversity brings Australians together from all different backgrounds, creating a sense of belonging for all. This year, the Library has celebrated Harmony Week by allowing students to ‘find their flag’. Students can identify the flag from the country they were born in and add their name to it. Students are also welcome to borrow books from the Library display to share with their family.
Overdue Books
Please start returning any overdue books. We have sent notes out this week for students with overdue books. Please return them to the green return box inside the Library (on the circulation desk).
Did you know? ...
Students and their grown ups did a great job securing the garden for the storm. On Wednesday Garden club were hard at work putting the garden back to normal. Rebuilding the Indian garden, greenhouse, and bean tepee.
Did you know? ....
When it rains it sounds like worm predators so worms often come to the surface to escape. It is also easier to travel on wet ground for them. So of course, students had to check on the worms on Wednesday. They were right as rain.
Have a Great 5Rs Week!
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Year 3-5 Students- Kedron Infuse Program
This year, Kedron SHS is proud to deliver four exciting offerings for the INFUSE for Primary Program.
- Once again, the popular INFUSE STEAM (Engineering) will once again be offered to Year 3 & 4 students in Term 2 over a 5-week period. The program sees students working through a project from the creation stage, to development to finally producing it themselves. Any students who love or have an interest in STEAM will love this program.
- INFUSE Creative Writing is back! Students will have the opportunity to build an interactive creative narrative. In this program, students will hone their creative writing skills by creating a text-based interactive narrative, supported by multimedia elements, that invites their reader to explore the story in unique ways. This will be aimed at Year 5 students in Term 2 over a 5-week period.
- INFUSE Visual Arts also returns this term. Year 3 & 4 students will have the opportunity in Term 2 to work in our Visual Arts student to create a take home piece of art that showcases their creativity.
- INFUSE History and Geography also makes a return. Students will have the opportunity to delve into significant historical events, landmarks and people and their geographical contexts. Within the program, a mix of multimedia components and digital technologies will be used to enhance the exploration of historical events and geographical concepts in an engaging way.
The application process for Term 2 programs is open now! Please use the following link to apply for a spot in the 2025 INFUSE for Primary programme.
Year 5 & 6 Students Computational & Algorithmic Thinking Competition
Our Year 5 & Year 6 Students who are seeking extension and enrichment are able to register to compete in the 2025 Australian Maths Trusts' Computational and Algorithmic Thinking (C.A.T.) Competition.
To find out more and/or register your child's participation, please click here.
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Kalinda Robinson will be connecting with Year 4; Year 5; Year 6 students on Friday 21 March at 10:00 AM, as part of a national "Olympics Unleashed' initiative. The students will learn from Kalinda Robinson's Olympic journey, how to build resilience, the importance of setting goals and how to find what you are passionate about. Students will hear firsthand from Kalinda Robinson about how they overcame challenges to compete in their chosen sport at the very highest level, and how some lessons they learned in sport can help students to be the best they can be at school, at home, on the sporting field or with friends. |
As always, we welcome community members to join us on campus for school parades/ assemblies throughout the course of the term. Please see below for the “planned” parade/assembly schedule for Term 1 2025:
Information for parents and carers
In Term 2, students in Years 4-6 will be asked to take part in the Queensland Engagement and Wellbeing (QEW) Survey.
We know that wellbeing and engagement are important parts of your child’s life at school. The QEW Survey is designed to measure how students view their wellbeing and engagement across different topics. The information we get from the survey helps us better understand and support our students.
If you have any questions, please contact the school. More information, including FAQs, can be found on the Education website: (https://qed.qld.gov.au/publications/reports/statistics/schooling/students/queensland-engagement-wellbeing-survey).
You can contact the QEW Survey team by email: QEWSurvey@qed.qld.gov.au.
Please note, that if your child requires to have school staff administer medication for them whilst they are at school, you will be required to follow the processes embedded within the below hyperlink for each child and for each medication that requires administration:
Please Check Accounts Weekly for Payments and Permissions
QParents is the main portal for school payments and for school event permissions. The first residential parent listed in One School is invited and the parent who nominated 100% responsibility for fees during enrolment will see any amounts outstanding in QParents (unless you have approached the school to request a split agreement, eg. 50-50 responsibility).
We greatly appreciate those parents who regularly check into their QParents accounts to provide any permissions outstanding and to address any invoices outstanding.
If you need help setting up your QParents Account, we are happy to assist at admin@windsorss.eq.edu.au
For assistance, go to: Q Parents help page: https://qparents.qld.edu.au/#/help or phone 13QGOV
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Oneplace is an online community service directory for Queensland parents, families and professionals looking to find support.
It can be accessed at: https://www.oneplace.org.au/
Oneplace lists a large number of support providers for families, from parenting groups to domestic and family violence support services.
If you provide a community support service, you can list your service in Oneplace.
Family Colour Fun Run
The Family Colour Fun Run is this weekend! We hope all the children (and big people) are getting very excited!
Important Information
When Saturday, 22 March 2025 @ 2pm.
Where Please ensure you arrive by 2pm for the event safety briefing.
What to bring
- Wear white clothes that can get wet and colourful
- Enclosed shoes that can wet and dirty
- Eye protection (see below)
- Sunscreen
- A towel and a change of clothes
- Named water pistols / Super Soakers
- Water bottle
- Hat
Food and refreshments will be available throughout the event. P&C will have the smoker cooking up pulled pork burgers, fries and snags, and they will also be operating a Snow Cone machine. A selection of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages will be available to keep everyone refreshed.
Wrist bands
You will need to exchange your ticket/s for a wrist band before the fun run. You can do this either:
- Friday 21st March: From the school hall between 2:30-3:30pm
- Saturday 22nd March: From the registration tent any time from 1:30pm- 3pm
Eye protection
All participants in the fun run will require eye protection such as sunglasses. You can bring your own from home or purchase via Humanitix using the QR Code. You can collect your pre-purchased sunglasses from the school hall on Friday 21st March or on the day form the registration tent.
Estimated event schedule
- 2:30pm: Prep (and younger siblings)
- 3:00pm: Year 1
- 3:30pm: Years 2 and 3
- 4:00pm: Years 3 and 4
- 4:30pm: Years 5 and 6
- 5:00pm: Mrs Arneil and Parents
Purchase your tickets
Tickets are still available! ?️ ? $15 for a single child ? $30 for multiple children. Click here or scan QR CODE below. Thank you to everyone who purchased Early Bird Tickets!.
Join our raffle for a chance to win amazing prizes! The prizes include a $200, $100, and $50 voucher for the Crown Hotel, Lutwyche. Tickets are just $5 each, or grab 3 for $12. Available via humanitix using the QR Code or link above.
Winter Stock Has Arrived!
All items are currently in stock - order through QKR or visit us in the shop on Friday mornings between 8.15am - 9.30am
If you have any queries please reach out at retail@windsorsspandc.com.au
Thanks,
Arianne and Mel
Hello Everyone
We are excited to announce that vacation care bookings are now open! YAY!
Please find the attached flyer for more details. If you had previously made bookings in advance, please note that these may not have been confirmed due to updates from our head office. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
You can make bookings through our app or website. We do not accept booking requests via email or text; all bookings must be made through the website or app.
Please remember that all bookings made after Monday, March 24th will be charged at the casual rate. To secure the discounted fee, we encourage you to book before that date.
If your child has a medical condition, please ensure that all medical plans and medications are up to date; otherwise, your child will be unable to attend Vacation Care.
Thank you for your understanding!
To celebrate Easter, Tim Nicholls Office has launched an Easter Colouring competition with a winning prize of an Easter Egg basket valued at $120.
- Entries Close Friday 11th April 2025
- Winner Drawn Monday 14th April 2025
- Prize to be collected from Tim Nicholls Clayfield Electorate Office
- Entries can be scanned and emailed through or a picture taken and emailed through to – clayfield@parliament.qld.gov.au or handed in out the Clayfield Electorate Office
- Age for entries 4 years to 12 years
Colouring entry forms can be collected from the office.
The Hon Tim Nicholls MP
State Member for Clayfield
Minister for Health and Ambulance Services
Phone: (07) 3638 9100 | Website: timnicholls.com.au
Address: Shop 1, 729 Sandgate Road, Clayfield QLD 4011 | Postal: PO Box 281, Clayfield QLD 4011
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The Athletes Foot stores at Chermside and North Lakes support local schools by donating $5.00 for every pair of shoes purchased to a nominated school registered for their Schools Program. Windsor State School is registered, so if you purchase your shoes from Athletes Foot don’t forget to mention our school to have $5.00 donated for each pair of shoes.
Note: This donation is not restricted only to school shoes, it applies to any shoes purchased from the Athletes Foot Chermside or North Lakes stores. Click here to view the Athletes Foot flyer.
Should you have any queries regarding the Athletes Foot Schools Program please email the P&C via pandc@windsorsspandc.com.au
Support the school whilst having a meal at The Crown
The partnership for 2025 has been extended with The Crown Hotel for another year, which means the Windsor State School community can continue to wine and dine and support the school.
How does it work?
Simply order your food and drinks via the App, and ensure you have entered the code: WSS in the backend.
The app can be used at all Aus Venue Co locations and WSS will continue to earn money as part of the agreement. Other venues include Port Office Hotel, The Regatta, The Boundary Hotel, Everton Park Hotel, just to name a few...
App Rewards & Benefits
> $10 Welcome credit for all new members
> 10% off at The Crown Hotel
> Earn 10 points for every $1 spent on the app
> Earn 2000 points and convert for $20 credit
The best part is - every dollar you spend helps to support Windsor State School!
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