12 May 2023

Newsletter Articles

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK

Parent/Teacher Interviews

Please ensure you take up the opportunity to meet with your child’s class teacher. It is so important for parents and teachers to connect and work together for the benefit of the children. These interviews allow for the strong relationships between home and school to continue to grow and prosper, so if you have yet to confirm a time, please make this a priority.

Year 1 to Year 6-: Interviews are scheduled to commence Week 5.
Prep-: They will be conducting their interviews over a two-week period Week 6 and 7.

Mother’s Day

It is my hope that all of our amazing Mothers, Grandmothers and Carers have a wonderful Mother’s Day on Sunday. The contribution you all make to your children is immense and should never be underestimated. Every mum deserves to be spoilt rotten for the magnificent job they do each and every day.

I would also like to acknowledge and thank our volunteers and Sally for all your hard work running our Mother’s Day Stall this week. I know from the many discussions I have had this week with students they were very excited with their shrewd purchase of their gift for Mother’s Day.

Attendance-: Every day counts, every minute counts

There are still too many students who are having frequent days off and this can definitely have a bearing on their academic progress. This table below certainly highlights how regular absences can impact students and their schooling.

Does arriving late for school impact on your child’s education?

Our first bell goes at 8.40am and students should be ready for Meet and Greet. Children are required to be in class ready to start the school day at 8.50am. It’s important that your child/ren arrive on time to school, so they are ready to start the day and are engaging in the morning routines.

Education Queensland- Fire Ants Message

The Department of Agriculture and Fisheries are working with the Department of Education in a treatment program across South East Queensland schools to stop the spread of fire ants.

Fire ants are one of the world’s most invasive pests and they have the potential to devastate our environment, economy and the outdoor way of life we know and love. To stop the spread of fire ants, the Department of Education is collaborating with the National Fire Ant Eradication Program to manage fire ants across schools within South East Queensland. This important work will help protect our schools and community from the dangers posed by fire ants. all Queenslanders have an obligation to manage biosecurity risks. The Department of Education is meeting its obligations by managing fire ants on land it owns or manages. to treat their yards to support eradication goals. For the latest information on community projects or for more information about fire ants visit:

An initial pilot program has treated 46 schools across the Logan, Ipswich, Somerset and Gold Coast City local government areas (Metropolitan and South East education regions). This will expand over the coming years to include additional schools. The treatment consists of applying two rounds of an insect growth regulator which sterilises the fire ant queen and prevents new ants from maturing into adults. These types of products are widely used in mosquito control programs, cockroach treatment and pet flea collars and when used according to instructions, are not harmful to humans, pets or wildlife.

The first round of treatment occurred in early 2023 and round two is being completed during April and May. The fire ant bait is being applied by experienced pest management technicians.

The school treatment program supports efforts to eradicate fire ants within South East Queensland by suppressing the fire ant population in areas until eradication treatment takes place. Under the Biosecurity Act 2014

The National Fire Ant Eradication Program is also running a range of community projects to provide residents in selected suburbs with free fire ant bait

Julie-Anne McGuinness – Principal

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Lunch Time Clubs for Term 2

Pyjama Day

ASSEMBLY AWARDS

Friday 28st April 2023

Friday 5th May 2023

ENRICHMENT NEWS

Musgrave Hill’s Speech Competition – date changed to Week 9

This term I am excited to announce that we are having our second annual Speech Competition.

This is an optional extra-curricular opportunity for our students.

All students in P-6 are invited to participate in one of the following three categories:

1. Soapbox – 1 min
2. Poetry – 2 min
3. Speech– 2-3 min

As this is an extra-curricular opportunity, students are to prepare and rehearse everything at home. Parents/guardians can help with these preparations.

At this stage, I will group entrants into two age groups P-2 and 3-6. If there is a lot of interest there will be heats and then a final competition.

Please read the attached letter as it has the category information to help you decide which category your child would like to enter.

If you would like your child to enter the competition please send me an email cledw5@eq.edu.au to tell me the full name of the student, class and which category they will be entering.

Looking forward to another exciting event at Musgrave!

Kind regards,
Candiece Ledwidge - Enrichment Coordinator

BROADWATER DISTRICT SPORTS TRIAL DATES

Dear Families

Please see below the list of all the Broadwater District Sports trial dates and age group requirements. Please note that all district sports are played at a high level and all nominations are subject to school approval. Announcements will be made at meet and greet to come and sign on for the sports in the week leading up to the nomination due date. Any questions please email Mitchell Goldman at mgold75@eq.edu.au with any questions you may have.

GOLD TOKEN CHALLENGE

Katie Halsall

TUCKSHOP NEWS

Tuckshop News

Cut off time for daily orders is now 8:45am, all orders need to be made via the Qkr! App. You can also use the ‘Musgrave Way Award’ by attaching the $5.00 award to a note with your order, if your order is more than $5.00 just add the extra cost. 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.

We have some new exciting items on the Menu this Term.

New Hot Food Items – available for both breaks:

Ham, Cheese and Pineapple Pizza
Ham & Cheese Pizza
Traveller Beef Pie
Four n Twenty Sausage Roll
Nuggets
Gluten Free Nuggets

Daily Specials (available for second break only):

Hotdog with Tomato Sauce
Pasta
Chicken Burger – Chicken Schnitzel, lettuce, cheese and mayo
Beef Burger – Beef Patty, red onion, cheese and BBQ sauce

We also have all of our ice blocks back in stock. These can all be purchased via the Qkr! App or over the counter with cash at first and second break.

Ice Blocks:

Quelch Fruit Ice Block - $1.00
TNT - $1.50
Bulla Ice Cream Cup Gluten Free - $2.00
Chocolate Paddlepop - $2.50
Rainbow Paddlepop - $2.50
Banana Paddlepop - $2.50
Calippo - $2.50
Icy Twist - $2.50
Cyclone - $2.50

The Tuckshop has now enforced a monetary limit for each student due to time restraints in the play time. We allow each child to purchase one item for each break. The most expensive item on the over the counter menu is $2.50 so therefore children do not need to bring more that a $5.00 note or change to school for the day.

Please remember it is against school rules to share money or food.

If you have any enquiries at all please don’t hesitate to give me a call 07 5644 5555

Uniform News

Uniform orders are placed on the Qkr! App please allow 24 hours for delivery. The orders are placed in the Teachers pigeon hole and handed out in class. If you have not received your order within 2 days of placement please call the Uniform Shop.

Winter Uniform

We will not have a winter jacket available for sale this year so please purchase a plain navy jacket/jumper/cardigan from Big W, Kmart, Target, Lowes, etc.

Uniform opening hours

The Uniform Shop is open daily from 8:00am-9:00am for fittings and purchases.

Thank you once again for your support.

P&C News

Mother’s Day Stall

Thank you to the volunteers who helped on our Mother’s Day Stall, your help is very appreciated.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mother’s, Nana’s and Carer’s on Sunday.

Sally McWilliams – Tuckshop/Uniform Co-ordinator

A WORD FROM OUR CHAPLAIN

National Families Week

CLASSROOM CAPERS – 1 BLUE

In 1 Blue, students are learning about Information Texts and how to write their very own information report.

Students are learning about the features of information texts and they can identify them in books from the library. Here they are finding the different features in books.

Here is 1 Blue learning to write their own information report. They’re labelling a diagram of a koala using lots of adjectives. They also used their newly introduced Year 1 writing lines to write sentences about koalas.

Later this term, students will choose their own Australian animal to write an information report about. In Week 6 the Year 1s will go to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary for their excursion and see these animals in their habitats.

Miss Ellis – Classroom Teacher

CLASSROOM CAPERS – 3 MAGENTA

In HASS this semester, 3 Magenta have been identifying the importance of different celebrations and commemorations that are unique to different groups in our community. Mother’s Day is a special day of the year. It’s a day where we acknowledge and honour one of the most important, if not the most important role in our familial relationships – mothers. For some of us that’s paying tribute to our actual mothers, for others it’s honouring those mother figures in our lives, and for many it’s being recognised for being a mother in your own family. 3 Magenta worked collaboratively with 3 Violet to present an assembly performance celebrating our mums. As part of our presentation, we displayed portraits of our mothers.

Mrs Stokes – Classroom Teacher

CLASSROOM CAPERS – 3 NAVY

Mrs Graham – Classroom Teacher

KINDYLINQ

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”

Little Alphas Robotics

Chess Mates

UPCOMING EVENTS