19 August 2022

Newsletter Articles

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK

2023 Enrolments

As we start to plan for the 2023 school year I am asking all parents who will be leaving us at the end of the year to advise the school administration. Your support is invaluable as we are already planning for the new school year and predicted enrolments are essential for this planning. Our Prep enrolments are filling fast! If you have a CHILD STARTING Prep next year or know someone who does, please enrol now! This is critical as we plan for 2023. We know that our reputation as having one of the best Prep Programs in the area makes us popular, but we would appreciate you spreading the word and helping us maintain our strong student enrolment.

Gold Coast Show Day

Reminder to parents that Friday 26th August is the Gold Coast Show Public Holiday

Student Free Day

Friday 2nd September is a Student Free Day.

Every Day Counts – Attendance

The attendance at Musgrave currently sits at 88%. If we are to continue to improve student learning outcomes we need all students at school engaged in their learning. Going to school every day is the single most important part of your child’s education. Students learn new things at school every day and missing school puts them behind. If there is anything that the school can do to support parents in ensuring that your child/children are at school each day, please let us know.

I understand that COVID and the flu has contributed greatly to our lower than usual attendance numbers and by no means am I wanting families to send students to school who are unwell. I am just reminding families to ensure children are at school when fit and well.

Let us unite on the notion that ‘EVERYDAY COUNTS’ and see if we can achieve in excess of 95% attendance for the remainder of the school year. Your support would be greatly appreciated

Book Week

Thursday 25 August we will be celebrating Book Week and I am particularly looking forward to seeing our students and staff dressing up in costumes reflecting this year’s theme –

' Dreaming with eyes open’

We encourage all students to dress up but remind parents to ensure student costumes are made in a way that students can take them off independently if needed and also to provide a school uniform for the rest of the day if the costume is impractical for students to remain in all day.

Speech Pathology Week

Speech Pathology Week seeks to promote the speech pathology profession and the work done by speech pathologists with the 1.2 million Australians who have a communication disability. In 2022, Speech Pathology Week is from 21-27 August.

Speech pathologists work to ensure everyone can communicate with confidence. It is important that the broader community understands that:

• communication is a basic human right;
• 1.2 million Australians live with communication disability;
• communication disability is largely invisible. Unseen and out-of-sight;
• confident communication helps maximise educational, health and social outcomes; and
• communication is more than just speech.

A big thank you to the Speech Therapists who support not just Musgrave but all the Queensland schools.

Julie-Anne McGuinness – Principal

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Colour Run Fun Day - Friday 16th September

Keep and eye out on Class Dojo and on Facebook for more information. Your child should have already received their fundraising pack.

CLASSROOM CAPERS – 5 TEAL

This term in Science, we are learning about light. We are conducting a range of investigations to find out how light behaves. To do this the way a scientist does, we are posing questions, making predictions and explaining our results.

Mrs Richardson – Classroom Teacher

CLASSROOM CAPERS – 3 WHITE

Working Hard in 3White!

This term, 3 White have been reading lots of Aboriginal Dreamtime stories. Through texts and videos, we have enjoyed listening to stories like How the Koala Got its Stumpy Tail, How the Turtle Got its Shell and The Echidna and the Shade Tree. The students have enjoyed retelling and writing these. Last week as a task, the students were asked to retell How the Kangaroo Got its Tail. They went ahead and highlighted the various parts that make a successful story. We have been discussing how to add in more exciting openers and time connectives within our writing. Next week we will begin brainstorming ideas for the students to develop their own.

CHINESE SPEECH CONTEST

On Sunday 21st August, 12 students from year 5 and year 6 will represent Musgrave Hill State School to compete in MLTAQ Chinese Speech Contest at Griffith University. These outstanding students have been practising their Chinese speech in their home time and lunch breaks. Let’s wish the following students all the best for their competition:

Year 6 participants: Ataahua, Anna, Nyah, Grace M, Winnie
Year 5 participants: Crist, Van, Brian, India, Lorfield, Hydrus
Year 4 participant: Murphy

Mrs Uchida

ABORIGINAL ANIMAL AND DOT ART ‘FEAT. YEAR 3 AND YEAR 4’

ASSEMBLY AWARDS

Week 3 and 4

TUCKSHOP NEWS

Great news kids! - you can now bring in your spare change or pocket money to buy an ice block, drink, muffin or chips at First and Second breaks.

All lunch orders still need to be made via the Qkr! App by 9am each day. The ‘Musgrave Way Award’ can also be used by simply attaching the $5.00 award to a note with your order, if your order is more than $5.00 please add coins to make up the balance. Please make sure your child lets their Teacher know or remind them to drop it off to me in the Tuckshop when they arrive at school.

If you have any enquiries at all please don’t hesitate to call the Tuckshop on 5644 5555.

Uniform News

Great news!!!! Our uniform stock has finally arrived. All backorders have now been delivered to classrooms, so if you still haven’t received all your items please contact the Uniform Shop.

New orders received through Qkr! are fulfilled after lunch each day and placed in the Teachers pigeon holes. If you haven’t received your order 24 hours after purchase please contact the Uniform Shop.

New operating hours for the Uniform Shop:

We are open the following days and times to allow parents to come in:

Monday - 1:30-2:50pm
Tuesday - 1:30-2:50pm
Wednesday - 1:30-2:50pm

If you do require an appointment outside of these times please call the Uniform Shop so we can accommodate you.

P&C News

Our Father’s Day gifts are on Sale now on the Qkr! App. We have a ‘Dad’s Fitness Pack’ $10.00 or a ‘Thank You Dad Present’ $5.00. All orders will be sent to the child’s class on Thursday 1st September ready for Dad’s Special Day. The cut off for purchases is Wednesday 31st August 5:00pm, so make sure you don’t miss out.

Sally McWilliams - Tuckshop and Uniform Convenor

UPCOMING EVENTS

COMMUNITY NEWS

“This is a service provided when space permits. The school acts solely as a messenger and is not actually recommending any activities advertised”

Runaway Bay Little Athletics Open Day

Sunday 21st August 2022

Early Autism Services