Inter School Swimming Carnival

Congratulations to our North Shore State School swim team

for their outstanding efforts at Monday’s Inter School Swimming Carnival.

Our team was successful in bringing home two trophies for the day, First

Place and Best Improved School. An enormous thank you needs to go our

staff, students and parents who gave up their time before school to train

for this event. Their progress and development over the short period of

training time directly contributed to the success on the day. Bravo, Mr

Edwards, Mrs Holder, Mrs Gardem and MissCarsten for giving up their

time to support our students. Bring on 2020!

Cross Country

A reminder that our Inter-house Cross Country in on Friday 29 March. Mr

Edwards will be walking the new track with all of our classes prior to the

race. Due to the stage 2 construction there will be some changes to the

running track. We will also have a designated spectator area for all of our

parents who wish to support and encourage their children. I would also

like to encourage all students, staff and parents to proudly wear their

team colours on the day.

PE and Arts Awards

We are pleased to announce that we have 2 new class awards that will be

presented to classes at our assembly each Friday morning. North Shore

State School has asked our PE and Arts teachers find the class that has

put in the most effort to improve their learning each week and they will be

given a trophy that will be kept in their classroom for the week.

Congratulations to our first ever weekly award winners.

PE—4A

Arts—3A

We encourage all of our classes to strive to be each week’s winners of this

highly coveted trophy. Congratulations to all of our Students of the Week

and North Shore Stars. Keep up the amazing work.

Attendance

Can I encourage all parents and carers to ensure that they make contact

with the school when students are away for any reason. As part of our

Attendance Policy we will be proactively following up with all of our unex-

plained absences on a fortnightly basis. All students with recorded unex-

plained absences will be sent home a letter that allows parents and carers

to provide details to allow us to update our records. Please return these

forms to the classroom teacher directly or the Administration office. We

appreciate your support in ensuring Every Day Counts.

Regards

Patrick McDonnell

Principal

North Shore State

School Newsletter

Principal’s Message

North Shore State School

9 Langford Street

Burdell

4818, QLD

Phone: (07) 44128555

PO Box 199

Deeragun,

QLD, 4818

Website:

northshoress.eq.edu.au

Email:

admin@northshoress.eq.edu.au

20/03/2019

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Inter-house Cross Country Friday 29 March

Easter Bonnet Parade

Prep-Year 2

Friday

End of Term 1 Friday 5 April

Start of Term 2 Tuesday 23 April

ANZAC Day Commemoration Wednesday 24 April

Oral Reporting Week 2, Term 2 Monday 29 April

Upcoming Events

Defence News

On Wednesday 24th April 2019, we will be holding our school ANZAC Day commemoration.

ANZAC Day is for the community to recognize the service and sacrifice of not only our original ANZACS, but also that

of all the service men and women who have followed in their footsteps. I would like to take this opportunity to personal-

ly invite each and every one of our serving members and their families to attend our ANZAC commemoration.

North Shore State School has a large Defence population and our personnel and their families are invaluable to the

school community so this chance to acknowledge the importance of your role will give your children a huge sense of

pride and belonging.

Members who wish to attend in uniform are welcome to do so. It will be a short, simple service so it won’t require a

large portion of your day.

I look forward to seeing you.

NATASHA

Prep A Lincoln I Prep B Kadence C

Prep C Ivy T Prep D Casey M

Prep E Kailani D 1A Jocob B

1B Travis S 1C Bodhi W

1D Mia S 2A Gurman M

2B Isaac B 2/3C Zac B

3A Wesley W 3B Chloe S

4A Aleigh F 4B Scarlett B

5A Ben S 5B Liam S

6A Damon M 6B Kynan S

Student of the Week

Class of the Week

PE Class on the Week 4A The Arts Class of the Week 3A

It is very important that our school administration staff be notified of all stu-

dents’ absences, as well as the classroom teacher. All student absences can be

reported through our administration office by phone on 4412 8555 or emailed to

absences@northshoress.eq.edu.au.

Student Absence Notifications

Voluntary Financial

Contribution Scheme

North Shore State School operates under a Voluntary Financial Contribution Scheme. A

$50 per student contribution will enable us to provide students with access to current

technologies including laptops, Ipads and interactive whiteboards to ensure children are

provided with optimum digital learning opportunities. Funds will also assist in supporting

Teaching and Learning in both the classroom and the playground.

Contributions can be made at the office by Cash, Eftpos – credit/debit card or can be made

by direct deposit using the following details:

BSB 064-796

Account number 10047751

(please note your child’s name in the description/reference field).

News from the P & C

Important Tuckshop News!!!

Starting in Term 2 our ordering processes will be changing. Our preferred method of ordering will be Flexischools

with the exception of Eftpos orders over the counter between 8:10am and 8:45am on Wednesday and Fridays. We

will still accept cash sales over the counter at second break for the sale of Ice-creams and drinks etc. Students will

not be allowed to bring in Eftpos cards that do not have their name on the card.

Easter Raffle

Easter Raffle tickets have been sent home. If you would like more booklets please see us at the tuckshop on Wednes-

day & Friday’s or the office.

Bookclub Reminder book club orders close this Friday 22 March. All orders need to be

made online through the LOOP system. Ordering will close by 3pm.

Easter Bonnet Parade

The annual P-2 Easter Bonnet Parade will be held on Friday the 5th of April, which is the last day of this term.

We invite parents and students to work together at home to make an Easter masterpiece to display on the day.

Students will bring their Easter bonnets to school on the day and we will be showcasing the talent from 2pm in the Junior

school area.

Students will be seated in the JAM, with parents and family members congregating under the walkways around the Junior

School Park (grassed area).

Students will need to return to their classrooms with their teacher to collect their belongings after the parade.

We look forward to seeing you there!

News from the P & C and the Tuckshop Ladies!

Place all your school orders online with Flexischools We are excited to confirm the introduction of a new online ordering system called Flexischools, which will commence on Wednesday 27th February 2019. Flexischools is a well-established organisation allowing you to easily place all your tuckshop orders online at any time. Download the Flexischools app from the App store or Google Play click here https://wwww.flexischools.com.au/mobile-app) for details on how to set up your account. Once registered, orders from Wednesday 27/02/2019 will be available. If you have any ques-tions, please contact the Flexischools Customer Service Team on 1300 361 769, or you can contact them via their website. We hope this step forward will support families with a more convenient and efficient process of placing tuckshop orders.