Term 3 - Week 5

Dear families, 

Gympie Central has had an outstanding past fortnight across academic, instrumental and sporting endeavours. Last week our instrumental students competed at the Eisteddfod with both ensembles and duets being awarded first place in their categories. Our 10-12 years students ran, jumped and threw at the Gympie Track & Field trials, and this week our 5/6 competitors took out 1st and 2nd place at the Gympie Primary Maths Challenge and Gympie Primary English Challenge respectively.  

Congratulations to all our competitors at these events and a big shout out to the organisers - Shereene Moy for the Track & Field, Lucy and Brett Cantle for the English & Maths competitions, and of course, the Gympie Eisteddfod committee. They are large undertakings and amazing opportunities for our Gympie students. 

Prep Transition - Thursday 18th August 9:00am-10:30am 

Our next transition morning is this coming Thursday from 9:00am to 10:30am. All new and interested preps are welcome.   During this session there will be a parent information session from 9:15 to 10:00 then an informal meet and greet for new families.

Have you added your child to our prep enrolments for 2023? Children born between 1 July 2017 and 30 June 2018 are prep age next year. Contact Mrs Cross in the office to secure your child’s 2023 enrolment. 

Father’s Day fundraiser 

Get in early to plan your Father’s Day gifts!  Father's Day orders can be placed on Qkr and will be available from Friday 12th August to Friday 26th August. These orders will then be distributed to students on Thursday 1st September (Friday 2nd September is a Student Free Day). 

As always, thank you for your continued support of the P&C! 

Uniform orders now only via Qkr

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Year 5/6 Camp - Next Week - 17-19 August

Year 5/6B head off to Noosa North Shore next Wednesday. They’ll have a great time canoeing, paddle boarding, laser tagging, high roping and learning outdoors with their friends!  

Arts Performance - Thursday 25 August

Dion Drummond is a performer who will be visiting our school to share his culture and knowledge with the students. Keep an eye out for the note with payment details. There will be no permission note required. Instead, students will attend if they have paid the $6 fee via Qkr. Check out the performance info here
https://nexusarts.com.au/performer/dion-drummond/  

True Relationships - permission due tomorrow

There will be a 30-minute parent information session at 9am on the morning of 17 August, the same morning the 5/6s head to camp.   

All classes will be attending sessions delivered by Qld organisation True. True presents programs around relationships and sexual education.  There is no cost for the program as the school has funded the program thanks to the Helping Hands Network Foundation grant scheme. However, consent to attend is required. If families prefer to wait for the parent information session to sign consent, this can be accommodated. 

Supporting the healthy sexual development of children and young people is a responsibility shared by schools and families. Those people who receive comprehensive, respectful Relationship & Sexuality Education (RSE) from an early age inclusive of sexual abuse prevention, are more likely to: 

• Make informed and responsible sexual decisions later in life 
• Recognise appropriate and inappropriate behaviour 
• Understand and accept changes and individual differences 
• Talk about their feelings and experiences. 

These sessions are excellent conversation starters for families and the benefit of True presentations is that the students hear factual, accurate information from trained educators. Aside from family, the other sources of this information are usually online and through their peer group. While some such information is accurate, there is the potential for much of what they hear from friends or learn online to be misinformation.  

Upcoming Consent and Payment Dates

Being On-Time for School

Daily routines for families can help children not only be organised, but also feel safe, calm and develop independence and life skills. They can also buy you more time to spend as a family doing things together rather than rushing about trying to get out the door!

Book Week - 22-26 August (Book Week parade Friday 26 Aug)

Remember, we are here to help 

Like always, if there is something that you want our support with, or if your child is struggling, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher for support.  If it is not a matter for the teacher please call the front office and arrange to meet with a member of the leadership team, so we can work through things together.  It takes a village to raise a child, so let’s work together. 

Warm regards,
Glenn Cafferky

Primary Maths Team Challenge - 1st place Small Schools

Primary English Team Challenge - 2nd place Small Schools

Voluntary Contribution - $20 per student

Hello!  

Some of our lovely students have been working on some diamond art with me and we have finally finished one of them. They did such a good job! Well done and thank you for crafting with me.

THe Student Council are still selling Hot Milo/Chocolates on Thursday mornings, which has been great for the students to help cope with those chilly starts we've been having again. All of the funds made go back to the Student Council for their fundraising project for this year.

I am always here for you and your family, so please contact me if you need to chat, or if your child needs a listnening ear. Let me know if I can help!

And, remember, to take care of you!

Warm regards,

Chappy Leanne

Brekky Club

Tuesday and Thursday mornings!!

We always welcome any donations of jams, 
vegemite, honey and cereal.

Tuckshop - Friday 19 August

Reminder:  All Tuckshop orders will need to be placed via Qkr! only.

Tuckshop Schedule - Term 3

Volunteers Needed

Jondaryan_State_School_150_Celebration_Flyer.pdf

Cooloola Child & Family Centre

Term 3 Programs

Monday 

• Mainly Music 9.30am - 11.00am

Tuesday

• Playgroup 9.30am - 11.30am
• 123 Magic Parenting Course 12.30pm - 2.30pm (rolling session during term time)

Wednesday

• Play & Learn 9.30am - 11.30am
• Move & Groove 12.30pm - 1.30pm

Friday

• CREATE Together 9.30am - 11.00am
• Circle of Security 12.30pm - 2.30pm