From the Principal

Dear families,

Year 5s and 6s are currently on school camp out at Barambah Environmental Education Centre and are having a great time. A reminder that during weeks 4 and 5, Ms Vacher will be acting principal, while I am acting at Gympie South.

Prep 2025 transition  

Have you added your child to our prep enrolments for 2025? Children born between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020 are prep age next year. Contact Mrs Cross in the office to secure your child’s 2025 enrolment.  

The school will host two prep transition sessions in Term 3 and two in Term 4. Pre-preps and their families are invited to join us here at school to join the classroom activities and start to explore school life. 

The dates of the transitions are: 

Navy shorts and skorts available through the uniform shop! 

Navy shorts and skorts can be difficult to find in Gympie. The P&C now has a supply of navy skorts and shorts available for purchase through the QKR! app. 

Annual School Opinion Survey 

The suite of School Opinion Surveys is undertaken each year by the Schools and Student Support Division to obtain opinions about schools from parents/caregivers, students and school staff. The surveys are designed to help schools identify what they do well and find areas which may need improvement. 

The suite of 2024 School Opinion Surveys will be open between 22 July and 16 August 2024. 

We encourage you to take this opportunity to have your say about what our school does well, and how we can improve. 

School Photos - Wednesday 28 August

School photos are now able to be ordered. See below flyer for how to order.

QParents

Did you know that the QParents portal is coming soon to Gympie Central SS? The QParents portal will provide secure online access to your child’s student information in one place, anywhere, anytime. To find out more, go to https://education.qld.gov.au/parents-and-carers/school-information/qparents

Parents, if we have your current email address, registration for the QParents app is easy. If you need to update your email address, please send details to admin@gympiecentralss.eq.edu.au.

Warm regards,
Glenn Cafferky

Payment Options

We have a variety of payment options available here at Gympie Central. Our most preferred method of payment is the Qkr! app. Qkr! is a cashless payment app, which means you can make payments on your mobile phone, rather coming into the school. The Gympie Central P&C also use this app, so not only can you pay for camps and excursions, but you can also order school uniforms and tuckshop with the app.

Instructions on how to download and use the app are shown in the link below.

Qkr-instructions.pdf

Qkr-instructions _pdf 1.05 MB

Other payment options that we provide are:

1. BPOINT - (for invoiced activities) Pay online or by phone using credit/debit card: https://www.bpoint.com.au/payments/dete or phone 1300 631 073

2. CENTREPAY - (for invoiced activities) We now offer Centrepay as a payment method for instrumental music and school camps. Use Centrepay to arrange regular deductions from your Centrelink payment. You can start, change or stop using Centrepay whenever you like. If you would like to set up a Centrepay payment, or know more information about this payment method, please contact the school office.

3. EFTPOS - We accept Mastercard, Visa and all Australian bank, building society and credit union cards.

4. CASH - Cash payments are still accepted. However, the school no longer has the ability to give out change, so only cash payments of the correct denomination will be accepted.