24 July 2019

Newsletter Articles

Across the Principal's Desk...

Semester One Report Cards & Term 3 Student Conferences

In 2018, we introduced a ‘new look’ report card with a reduced number of comments at the end of the Semester 1 and Semester 2 reporting periods. It has been affirming for the staff to hear many positive comments from families across the school following the release of the Semester 1 reports last week.

The report card were accompanied by a Semester 1 Curriculum Overview that provides information about the Curriculum content, skills and learnings from all subject areas. The Semester 1 Curriculum Overviews are available on our school’s website. Also available will be a fact sheet for parents/carers about ‘Assessment and Reporting’. You can access these resources by clicking here.

Over the next 3 weeks, we will conduct our Student Led Conferences in the hall. During these interviews, students will discuss Learning Goals and their individual progress/feedback with the opportunity for both teachers and parents to discuss their learning. These discussions will help establish the remaining 6 months of learning is set up for success and any concerns are highlighted/plans are developed. Teachers and students will be preparing for these discussions over the next several weeks.

The intent of the Student Led Conferences is to help build students’ metacognitive strategies to help them develop awareness of their own learning, to self-regulate and to drive and sustain their motivation to learn. Research shows that this approach has an impact equivalent to 8 additional months of progress (effect size). The following fact sheet provides further detail about the impact of building such metacognition in students. You can view this fact sheet below.

Term 3 Student Led Conferences are scheduled for:

An email was sent to all year 5 & 6 families this week with details on how to book an interview, using the booking process via ‘SessionKeeper’.  A link will be sent to all other year levels in the week prior to the student lead conferences.  Please contact the office on 3866 4333 if you have any questions.

Raising Your Child in a Digital World | Tuesday 10 September | 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Parents, carers and community members are warmly invited to attend our seminar by Dr Kristy Goodwin on “Raising your Child in a Digital World”.

Dr Kristy Goodwin, a digital parenting educator, author and researcher (& mum who also deals with her kids’ techno-tantrums), translates the latest research about how technology is shaping childhood into essential information for confused and concerned parents. Dr. Kristy helps parents make informed decisions about how to best manage screen-time at home (so that it doesn’t always end in ‘scream time’)... and no she won’t suggest that you ban the iPad, or unplug the TV!

Parents will understand the latest risks to kids’ online safety (including current cyber-safety threats, pornography exposure, introduction of phones and social media, as well as the health and learning implications of young kids (4-12 years) growing up in a world of screens. Dr Kristy will share her simple formula to calculate healthy screen- time limits and will arm parents with a host of strategies and ideas to prevent techno-tantrums and to help kids develop healthy technology habits. Dr Kristy will explain how technology is impacting kids’ learning, sleep, social, language, play, physical skills and their vision, hearing and posture and will arm parents with practical strategies about how to best raise kids in a digital world. Parents will learn how to get the most out of their child’s screen- time so they can finally ditch the guilt and guesswork.

Tickets are $20 per person and can be purchased here.

* Please note that this 2 hour interactive session has been designed for adults only and is not appropriate for children.

Cooling The School Solution – COMPLETED!

Over the June/July 2019 school holidays, the final stage of the Cooling Solution was installed for the remaining 3 classrooms in E Block, the library, computer room and the hall. This now completes this long-term project installed over 4 stages across the past 18 months, with much work done leading into the install. This project ended up costing approximately $550k, of which the P&C raised $130k through events and donations, with the balance coming from Funds secured during the Officeworks negotiations during 2017. A great team effort to get this done!

Building Our Future - Officeworks Site

A project team (consisting of DET representatives, architects/designers, project managers and School/School Council and P&C representatives) has been formed, and met twice since the last P&C meeting in June.

Detailed design of G Block (being a new building on the site, parallel to the hall) is well advanced, including input already obtained from staff, students and community. The design builds are on the approved 2018 Master Plan (a copy of which is on the School website). The design of Block G is in keeping with the budget released as part of the Qld State Budget in June 2019. Look out for further information (e.g. timing, process, design) in future publications from the School, including Newsletters.

2019 Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme

How are we going?

The 2019 Voluntary Contribution is used to supplement educational resources and programmes at Windsor. Our school welcomes your contribution as it will significantly improve the equipment and material made available to all of our children at the school. Every child will benefit from the equipment provided by the Voluntary Contribution funds, which are in addition to the funds we receive from the Department of Education. Please note that this is a purely voluntary scheme, so your participation is not in any way mandatory. I have attached below the 2019 Voluntary Contribution letter that was recently endorsed by the P&C. Many thanks in anticipation.

WSS Snowsports Team

The QLD Interschools Snowsports Championships were held at Perisher on 8-12 July. Combined with the Northern NSW Interschools Snowsports Championships there were over 3000 competitors.

The WSS Snowsports team, consisting of Charlotte & Joshua Margetts, competed in 5 events. The weather conditions were challenging with high winds, a snowstorm and a day of rain. The team had a great time and achieved the following results:

Charlotte Margetts

Silver Medal Division 5 Alpine
Silver Medal Division 5 Skier Cross
Silver Medal Division 5 Moguls

Joshua Margetts

Gold Medal Division 6 Alpine
Gold Medal Division 6 Skier Cross

Congratulations to Charlotte, who has now qualified to compete in the Nationals for all three events!

We would love to have more competitors in the WSS Snowsports Team next year. The next event is scheduled for 7-11 July 2020.

Please contact Nikki Margetts at nikki_margetts@yahoo.com.au if you would like further information.

Message from Brisbane City Council -
Term 3, 2019

School Zone Parking Enforcement

Brisbane City Council is committed to pedestrian and child safety around schools. This term Council Officers will be attending our school to promote safe parking and ensure that motorists are complying the 2 minute zone and with local traffic conditions.

As you are aware, child safety and illegal parking around school zones remains a concern for parents, children, local residents and our school. Parking spaces during pick up and drop off times are at a premium and subsequently, competition for these spaces can lead to poor driver behaviour and potentially dangerous parking practices.

While it is certainly not Council’s intention to make parking near schools an overly onerous task, regulating parking and 2 minute zone activities is necessary to promote safe driving during pick up and drop off times. More importantly it ensure that safety of our students.

Throughout term three, Council Officers will be conducting patrols around our school to ensure safe parking and correct use of the 2 minute zone. Parking fines will be issued in cases where illegal parking is observed.

I would like to thank our parents in advance for safe driving practices around our school. If you are unsure of the 2 minute zone rules, please do not hesitate to come the school office as we are very happy to explain the rules to you.

Enrol for Prep 2020!

If you have a child born between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2015 please see the office to complete an Enrolment Form or you can visit:

Grant Baker
Principal

From the Deputy Principals’ Desks…

Is Your Child Procrastinating?

Research Tells Us

Recent research has focused on illuminating differences between high and low procrastinators in terms of their emotional states and patterns of thinking. Some kids who procrastinate are likely to have a fear of failure that includes anxiety about meeting the expectations of their parents, teachers, and friends, a lack of self-confidence and assertiveness skills, as well as low self-esteem.

An even larger group of students procrastinate due to the unpleasantness of the task. Rather than worrying about not being successful, these kids are turned off by the boredom and frustration they experience while working on the task. High academic procrastinators can experience more anxiety, and are more likely to attribute their success to external and fleeting circumstances rather than their own ability and effort. They often lack a strong belief in their ability to be successful at the homework they’re putting off, and appear to have less control over their emotional reactions.

Ripping Up Excuses

If your child keeps putting off doing schoolwork:

• It’s very likely that he or she is pretty talented at making up excuses for why they haven’t done the work.
• They’ve made up the excuse so they don’t have to feel guilty about procrastinating.
• An excuse is often a rationalisation to protect them.
• The most popular excuse is : ‘I’ll do it tomorrow’
• By making an excuse, kids lull themselves into a false sense of comfort and security by imagining the task will be done tomorrow.

Techniques to teach kids who are putting off doing their school assignments or homework

• Knock-out technique. The harder and more boring the work, the better it is to do it immediately. Help to identify the homework where this technique can apply.
• Worst-first approach. Identify the most difficult aspect of homework and do that first. Sometimes kids won’t do the easiest part of the homework due to anxiety about having to do the most difficult. Ask your child to describe what he has to do and tell you which activities are the hardest and make a start on these immediately.
• Bits and Pieces approach. Kids can easily feel overwhelmed by homework, especially if they’re a perfectionist. Encourage them to make a start, and work from there, doing more and more until homework doesn’t seem so impossible.
• Salami technique. Just as salami tastes better eaten in small pieces, so two a large project broken down into simpler pieces.
• Remember-forget technique. If your child is forgetting what to do in homework, teach her that whenever she remembers forgetting to do something, to do at least some of it immediately.
• Five-minute plan. Getting started is easier if kids work on something for five minutes. Ask them to agree to work for another five and then another five. After fifteen minutes, they’ll be well into the homework.
• Switching. Switching encourages kids to learn to take the momentum they’ve gained from doing one activity they enjoy to immediately switching over to one they’ve been putting off. Time playing an app, to time doing homework.
• Premack procedure. As distinct from Switching, the Premack Procedure (names after the scientist who discovered it) involves kids selecting an activity they really enjoy and not allowing themselves to participate until after they’ve finished their homework.
• Referenting. Kids who procrastinate tend to think about the upside of not doing work and the downside of doing it. In Referenting, they reverse this pattern by writing down all the good things that will happen from doing work and all the bad thing from not. This list may need reviewing regularly!
• Establishing a set time. Encourage your child to schedule a set time to begin work ahead of time.
• Establishing priorities. Kids need to know which aspects of homework are most important and which are least. Ask your child to write down all the work due for completion in the next week. Then write down all the things he wants to do after school and on the weekend. Place a 1 next to most important, 2 next to fairly, and 3 next to not very.
• Isolation. Remove distractions, particularly any electronic devices. If they need to use the computer, sit with them and oversee.
• Visible Reminders. These can be printed notes on the bedroom door or electronic reminders. I can do it; Do it now; Put off putting off.

And finally, it almost goes without saying that if we as parents put off doing things we find boring or frustrating, our kids will learn from our example. So, be a good example your kids will learn from – put off, putting it off.

Check out the below website for more expert parenting advice from Professor Michael Bernard.

When Our Kids Get it Wrong - Why Criticism Won't Work, And What to Do Instead

by Karen Young, psychologist

One of the things that makes parenting so tough is that we don’t always see the effects of what we do straight away. Sometimes, getting it right can look the same as getting it wrong, and other times they can masquerade as each other. Are our boundaries too loose? Too tight? Do our words nurture their growth? Make them question their worth? Is this a time for consequences? Connection? How do I have both?

Read more of Karen’s article at…

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:

• year of schooling
• category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
• level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.

This information assists schools to:

• formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
• consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
• develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy.

Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal.

If you have any questions about the NCCD, visit the below website or please contact the school.

Student Council Disco

The Student Council welcomes everyone back to the new semester with a Disco on THURSDAY 8th AUGUST.

The theme for this disco is: WILD WILD WEST!

Students are invited to dress up in their Wild Western gear… let your imagination run wild!

Tickets will be available in the Early Years Precinct, before 8:50am in the week leading up to the Disco ($5.00 single ticket; $10.00 family ticket- 2 or more). Pre-purchasing tickets makes it quicker and easier to get into the disco.

The Disco times are as follows:

All Prep-Year 2 students must be accompanied by their parent/guardian at all times during the Disco. Parents/Guardians, you are responsible for your own children. Teachers will supervise at the Year 3-6 Disco. Parents are not required to stay at this Disco, but must collect students promptly at 8:30pm. Food and drink will be on sale at the Disco.

School Opinion Survey

The annual suite of School Opinion Surveys will be conducted from 29 July to Friday 23 August 2019. All families, school staff and a random sample of students will be invited to participate. We encourage you to take this opportunity to have your say about what this school does well, and how this school can improve.

This fortnight, access details for the Parent/Caregiver Survey will be sent home with students. The survey can be completed via computers, tablets or smart phones with an internet connection. School computers will be available, upon request, for parents/caregivers who are unable to complete the survey at home.

Survey queries or requests for translations can be directed to admin@windsorss.eq.edu.au or (07) 3866 4333.

Buddy Program

The buddy program at Windsor State School is a wonderful way to strengthen our school community. It develops positive cross-age relationships and contributes to our respectful and caring school culture.

Working with buddies enables our younger students to feel safe and cared for while older students feel valued and respected. The images below are a wonderful example of this.

Reminder - Playground Before and After School!

A reminder that children are not to play on the playgrounds before school. If in the Early Years’ area, students are to wait with their parent/carer before school until the bell rings. No students are to be on the playground at this time. If your child has a younger sibling, please be aware that our Prep and Year 1 students are working hard, so seeing younger children playing on the equipment outside the classroom windows during class time can be quite a distraction during learning time.

From 8.30am, students are supervised under Main Building (in the warmer months) and near the 5 Keys (in the cooler months). With the exception of before school programs, if your child is to be dropped off to school prior to 8.30am, she/he will need to be enrolled in before school care.

If supervised by a parent/carer, students are welcome to use the play equipment after school until 3.30pm.

Helping Hands uses these spaces for their afternoon programming, so it is important that these play spaces are cleared by all students and siblings by 3.30pm.

Responsible Behaviour Plan 2019-2022

In 2018, our School Culture committee reviewed the Responsible Behaviour Plan for 2019-2022. The final document will be endorsed by the School Council and P&C at their first meetings of the year. The updated plan is embedded below for all parents/caregivers to read and will be uploaded with all attachments to the school website post endorsement. Please take your time to read the embedded document carefully and have conversations with your children at home. Thanks for your support!

Pastoral Care: Social Emotional Learning @ Windsor SS

Universal Support for Students

Through our Whole School Pastoral Care program, we teach and assist children in developing the 12 Positive Attitudes (previously known as Habits of the Mind) and 5 Social-Emotional skills (Getting Along, Organisation, Persistence, Confidence and Resilience) they need to reach the top of the triangle. The ultimate goals (see above) are for all children to achieve to the best of their ability, develop positive relationships and behaviour and experience the highest levels of wellbeing.

For all young people to reach the Goals at the top of the triangle, they need to also have moral Character; that is, possess Values/Strengths, positive attitudes as well as social and emotional learning skills. Values generally indicate the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining what actions are best to do or what way is best to live, or to describe the significance of different actions. The 6 Strengths are what positive psychologists refer to as ‘Virtues’; categories consisting of different character strengths (see the below website). There are 24-character strengths (virtues) that are incorporated under the six categories:

1. Wisdom and Knowledge: creativity, curiosity, judgment, love of learning, perspective
2. Courage: bravery, perseverance, honesty, zest
3. Humanity: love, kindness, social intelligence
4. Justice: teamwork, fairness, leadership
5. Temperance: forgiveness, humility, prudence, self-regulation
6. Transcendence: appreciation of beauty and excellence, gratitude, hope, humour, spirituality

Environment is extremely important; therefore, the efforts of family, school and community are recognised as important in helping young children to attain positive outcomes. The unique contribution of this YCDI! Education is in strengthening the mindset and social-emotional strengths all children need to realise their full potential.

Connie Confident; Oscar Organisation; Pete Persistent; Gabby Get Along; Ricky Resilient help students understand the positive attitudes they need to be successful

The You Can Do It! Education Social and Emotional Learning frameworks (see “The Windsor Way” below) address aspects of the psychological functioning of young people that lead to poor learning, behaviour and social and emotional outcomes. Negative Attitudes and under-developed Character (values and strengths) create negative Social-Emotional Blockers (Anger, Worry, Feeling Down, Procrastination, Not Paying Attention).

Symmetrically, the frameworks also represent the corresponding Positive Attitudes and Character (values, strengths) that support five essential Social-Emotional Skills all contributing to positive Social-Emotional Skills (Getting Along, Organisation, Persistence, Confidence, Resilience). It is important for students to fully understand both sides of the framework to be able to counteract the blockers and develop the positive attitudes and skills (see below).

“The Windsor Way”- based on YCDI Education! Social & Emotional Framework

Code of Conduct @ Windsor SS

Behavioural Expectations

Behaviour at Windsor State School is NOT simply related to compliant/obedient children, our goal is to fully develop all positive attitudes and social emotional skills. Behaviour results on end of semester report cards are directly linked to each student’s ability to achieve a particular Behaviour Level (A = Gold; B = Silver; C = Bronze). Students are encouraged/coached to use the Code of Conduct criteria sheet to strive for positive growth and excellence.

The behavioural expectations criteria (see WSS Code of Conduct below) are used by teachers to teach, encourage, reinforce and coach students to improve and become happy and successful. Teachers use these criteria to directly assess and assign a Behaviour rating at the end of each semester. (see our new Code of Conduct & Positive Behaviour poster below)

The school acknowledges positive role models of behaviour in many ways throughout the year (merit badges; public acknowledgements). This year, we will celebrate students’ efforts and achievements in class and at special parades throughout the year.

Active School Travel!

Every family has received a Windsor State School Active School Travel Map. This map shows different Active School Travel routes, bikeways, crossings and more! There are also suggested routes where you can park outside the 6-8 minute walk radius from the school gate and walk or ride the final part of your journey. Part way is okay! You can download a copy of the map below. This map makes it easy to for parents, students and staff to find their best walking, riding or public transport route to school. Families may also like to use the map on the weekend to re-discover the local area.

Remember to watch out!

Driveways can be dangerous places. Make sure your children stop, look, listen and think before crossing a driveway. Please ensure that if you are walking in/out of the school with your child that you use the footpaths around the school, as walking through the carpark areas poses unnecessary risks for children and adults.

Remember the AST Crew’s four steps to safely cross the road are:

STOP – at least one metre from the kerb
LOOK – right, left and right again
LISTEN – for the sound of close traffic
THINK – is it safe to cross and am I holding and adult’s hand?

Parents, please practise these steps with your children EVERYTIME you cross the road.

As adults, we lead by example so it’s essential that we do the right thing when we cross the road. This year, everyone will have more opportunities to practise their road crossing skills when they leave the car at home and actively travel to and from school.

Illegal and Dangerous Parking

Parking rules and regulations are used throughout Brisbane to maintain the safety of all road users and pedestrians and also to ensure that street parking is available for all to use.

An illegally or dangerously parked vehicle, is any vehicle parked outside of Brisbane City Council's parking rules and regulations or any vehicle that maybe creating a public safety problem.

A vehicle that is parked illegally or dangerously can be issued with a parking fine or even towed.

Report Illegal Parking

To report an illegal or dangerously parked vehicle or if you think your vehicle has been towed, phone Council on 07 3403 8888.

Illegally parked cars around the school will be reported to Brisbane City Council every time!

Chess Club

Online Safety Course for Parents

The internet is an amazing place for children to learn, connect and play. Every child, no matter their age, needs to know they have a trusted adult they can talk to about their online experiences. You are the person who can teach them how to be safe.

To support you in this, Internet Safe Families have created a collection of courses specifically created to support parents with resources, skills and training materials to help parents build an open and supportive environment for their children at home.

Windsor State School has purchased a 12 month school license so our community can access these government certified (The Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner) courses.

Relevant course information is provided below.

Book Week 2019

Join us on Monday 19 August (Week 6) at 9am, for the annual Windsor Book Week Character Parade in the Hall.

Students may dress as the book character whose impact was so powerful that it gave life to a secret passion or inspired a greater love of reading.

If you're looking for ideas, think about how the power of reading might have allowed your child to: explore and immerse themselves in a different place or time; or wonder what it would be like to be a certain character with different emotions or talents; or demonstrate bravery to try new things or build on existing interests. There are endless possibilities with this year's Book Week theme!

Over the next few weeks there will also be an ever evolving Book Week display in the Library so pop in and enjoy browsing the CBCA shortlisted books and seeing how the secret power of reading has impacted others in the Windsor community.

Curriculum Corner

Term 3, Week 2

The Importance of Number Sense and Mental Computation in Primary School – Part 1

The Australian Curriculum emphasises and values mental computation and number sense in a move away from traditional rote learning of written algorithms. The curriculum focuses on developing increasingly sophisticated and refined mathematical understanding, fluency, reasoning, and problem-solving skills. These proficiencies enable students to respond to familiar and unfamiliar situations by employing mathematical strategies to make informed decisions and solve problems efficiently.

Number Sense is the foundational building block for all strands of maths, provides greater meaning and focuses on reaching understanding in and across a range of contexts. Number sense is making sense of maths, facilitating problem solving and celebrating the multitude of ways of solving problems. If a child has number sense, they will be able to manipulate numbers through partitioning, visualise numbers, use number lines and identify place value.

Example – knowing and understanding that 235 is

235 ones,
2 hundreds and 35 ones,
23 tens and 5 ones or
232 ones + 3 ones etc….

Mental Computation allows students to better understand which operation or algorithm to utilise, when to use it and to be reflective of why it has been used. A student’s ability to reflect on the ‘why’ and articulate how they’ve solved a problem allows for a deeper understanding of mathematics and numbers in general. Children learn a range of mental computation strategies during the primary school years. This allows them to explore various pathways to solutions and learn to choose the most efficient methods for solving problems.

Example – adding 25 + 37

• Students would break the number into 20 + 5 and 30 + 7
• Add the tens (20+30) and add the ones (5 + 7)
• This becomes 50 + 12, which students quickly see is 62.

Curriculum Coordinators,
Anna Thygesen (Prep-Yr2)
Lisa Heard (Yr3-Yr6)

Enrichment News

ICAS CLOSING 31 JULY

This year ICAS has changed how they are implementing the ICAS assessments. They are all online (except writing) and registrations and payment is made directly to ICAS through a parent portal.

In the past parents have made the decision to nominate their child. As mentioned on the ICAS website ‘ICAS Assessments are online assessments, designed to recognise and reward academic excellence. The assessments are based on the curricula for the relevant year. Students are asked to demonstrate a deeper, integrated, and thorough level of learning.’

We ask that you consider this before nominating your child for the ICAS assessment. If you are unsure if this test is suitable for child, please ask your child’s teacher.

For those of you that have children on camp, an alternative date will be made available. We will let you know closer to the time.

Online Parent Payment:

ICAS fees will now be paid online. Visit the new online Parent Payment System to make a direct payment to UNSW Global. Online payment will close on 31 July 2019.

Visit Instructions for parents.

You can access this service by typing the below link into a browser. You will require a unique access code to purchase assessments that were registered by our school.

Your school's unique access code is: 52c852fb48

ICAS Interactive Practice Link

The link above is an interactive link for students to practice using the ICAS online platform, which is proving a great assistance for parents and students and a lot of schools. This will help students become familiar with the online platform prior to the assessments.

That’s all for now. As always, if you have any expertise that could help our lunchtime activities please let me know ekemp14@eq.edu.au.

Warm Regards,
Emma Kemph

Instrumental News

Term 3, Week 2

2019 Premier’s Reading Challenge

Windsor State School is delighted to invite all of our students to join in the 2019 Premier’s Reading Challenge. Reading plays such an important part in students’ lives during their school years and beyond, allowing them to actively engage their imagination.

Last year, an outstanding 181,000 students from 1012 schools took part in the challenge reading a total of 2.46 million books.

The reading period for the 2019 Premier's Reading Challenge has commenced and closes Friday 23 August. The aim this year is to engage more students reading more books than ever before. The Premier has challenged students to experience at least the following (through shared or independent reading or listening):

• Prep to Year 4: – 20 books
• Years 5 to 6: – 15 books

Suggested book lists by year level are on the notice boards in the Resource Centre/Library (or at the below website) but students should not limit themselves to just these suggestions.

The Premier's Reading Challenge is also a great opportunity to explore the books shortlisted by the Children's Book Council of Australia in their annual awards. There is a CBCA display in the Library and you can obtain more information at the below website. CBCA will announce their winners on 16 August (just in time for book week).

Students wishing to take part in this year’s challenge can obtain a copy of the reading record sheet from their teacher, the Office or in the Library. Once completed, the reading record sheets should be signed by a parent/guardian or teacher before being handed in at the Office so it can be placed in Mrs Anderson's pigeon hole.

Every student who completes the challenge will receive a Certificate of Achievement signed by the Premier. Students who participate but don’t complete the challenge will receive a Certificate of Participation from the school. Special recognition will also be given to the student(s) from each year level who experience the greatest number of books (and perhaps even greater recognition for the student who reads the most books as part of the challenge).

We look forward to seeing as many of our students as possible embrace the 2019 Premier’s Reading Challenge.

QParents

Our school also has QParents. Parents will receive an invitation email or letter to register this week. Prep parents will also receive a Student ID card containing an EQ ID number to register.

If you do not receive an invitation (QPAO), please advise Admin ASAP. QParents is one of the ways we communicate with parents, get on board to enjoy the ease and convenience that QParents offers.

QParents is also the means by which parents access Student Reports. It is important to register now as printed reports are no longer sent home at the end of each Semester. Help us become more ‘paper-less’ by registering for QParents now!

Follow Windsor SS on Facebook & Twitter!

Get the most up-to-date information and school alerts by following Windsor State School on Facebook and Twitter @Windsor_SS

You can also access important school information and alerts, including Facebook/Twitter, via the QSchools app! Download it now and keep informed of everything that is happening at our school.

Uniform Shop

Uniform Shop is open during the School term on Mondays 2:30pm – 3:30pm and Wednesdays 8:30am – 9:30am. Uniform Shop orders can be placed online using the online ordering system, Munch Monitor. Online orders can be picked up from the Uniform Shop or delivered to your child’s class for them to bring home.

Signing up is very simple; a Munch Monitor fact sheet is available here. As an external supplier with a dedicated account management team they are able to assist with your account enquiries via help@munchmonitor.com.

Please provide any feedback regarding uniforms to the retail sub-committee at retail@windsorsspandc.eq.edu.au