STRATHPINE CHAPPY CHATTER

School chaplains support young people in one

of today’s most high pressure environments;

the schoolyard. SU QLD chaplains provide a

safe, positive influence for our children.

SU QLD

It’s almost the end of Term 2, 2016! This term has seen the implementation of some new programs, a continuation

of pastoral care within classrooms and for individual students, and Chappy Jenny has come

on board which has been wonderful.

Chappy Peter Earnshaw

Term 2 Programs:

In-class support - Prep & Year 1

Class Values - Year 2 & 3

Happy Homework Club - Year 4 & Year 6 mentors

Green Thumbs Gardening Club - Year 4

Chess - Year 4 & Year 5 mentors

Fruit - Year 5

Strathpine State School Chaplaincy June 2016

League Tag - Year 6

Girls Challenge -Year 6

Boys Vital -Year 6

Events Pancake Morning 19 May

LCC Meeting 9 June

Trivia Night 18 June

Jetty to Jetty 17 July

Pancake Morning!

It was so enjoyable to have everyone munching on pan-cakes and chilling out togeth-er last Thursday. I wish to acknowledge the support of our faithful helpers who make this event possible.

Newsletter Chatters

27 April

Chappy Jenny is having her chappy experiences within our school for the rest of this year, say a big hello to Jen-ny!!!

The focal point of chaplaincy within the school community is relationships. The Chaplaincy program aims to sup-port students, families and staff in ways that strengthen their social networks, care for emotional well-being and explore their spiritual perspectives.

Programs facilitated by Strathpine School Chaplaincy program include:

VITAL is a group of eight Year 6 boys challenge group and a group of Year 6 girls gym challenge program. Both are financed through chaplaincy.

League Tag training for girls and boys, gardening group as well as homework club for selected students are also programs. Fruit is supplied to classrooms for students each week.

Values program is facilitated for Year 2 and 3 students each week. .

11 May - Chaplaincy Week within our school community.

It’s great to have a focus week to highlighting Chaplaincy within our Strathpine School Community. Jenny and I started some great group activities this term. Pastoral care is for individual students. Pastoral Care is care providing individual students with focused attention allowing each to share their perspective and feel the support of a companion.

Our feature camp for the June holidays will be Winter Mapleton Adventure Camp. It is for Year 5 and 6 boys and girls, and is a great way to generate excitement now and expend large amounts of energy then while having fun, food and friends.

25 May

Chaplaincy in our school has had a focus of groups this term

12 girls gym group 8 boys group challenge with high ropes day coming soon League Tag training boys and girls team

Homework club Gardening club Chess club

Chappy Jenny and Chappy Pete are really enjoying quality time building relationships with people and sharing these activities together. All funding for these groups has been sourced through our Chaplaincy team which in-cludes groups of people developing fund raising activities such as the Trivia Night.

Happy Homework Club and Green Thumbs Gardening Club

I’ve been given the wonderful opportunity to work with two groups of Year 4 students on a Thursday. During first break, Happy Homework Club is held in the Technology Centre. The students bring their homework and lunch, and are able to have some one-on-one assistance to complete their homework, be mentored by Year 6 student leaders and enjoy some time in a fun, non-threatening environment. The enthusiasm and smiles of the students are contagious!

Chappy Jenny

Jenny Woolsey left teach-ing at Strathpine State School in 2014. After 25 years of educating chil-dren, God closed the door.

At the end of 2015 Jenny felt a strong calling to en-rol in the SU Certificate IV in Youth Work. Now Jen-ny is back at Strathpine to do her placement. Jenny will be at school every Thursday until the end of the year. She is an asset to the Chaplaincy pro-gram.

A family fun filled Trivia

Night was held on Saturday

18 June from 5.30pm. It

was an awesome night with

$3100 raised to support the

chaplaincy programs.

Jetty 2 Jetty Fun Run

On July 17, some of the staff will be participating in the annual Jetty 2 Jetty 10km Fun Run along the fore-shore between Woody Point and Redcliffe. It is our way of providing support for our Chaplains, Peter and Jenny, who make fantastic contributions to our school community through a range of activities (including supplying fruit and lunches for those in need, running the Boys’ Vital program, supporting the Girls’ Personal Development course, hosting Home-work Club, lunch time chess and rugby, initiating the Green Thumb Gardening Club…to name a few). Whilst a few will be running the distance, some will be walking and enjoying the wonderful atmosphere and scenery.

We extend an invitation for parents to join us in this fun event. To register, you will need to go to Jetty 2 Jetty website. Register as an in-dividual, and when prompted, join a team (Chappies Champions – Team Captain: Heather Nieuwenhuizen). If you would like further information, or have any questions, please contact Heather at the school. Re-member, you don’t have to be a runner to participate in the fun!!! Let’s show our sup-port for the programs Peter and Jenny run by getting involved through participation or making a donation (visit the website).

By Heather Nieuwenhuizen

During second break, the green thumbs are hard at work. At the back of the school, near the car park are three large gardening tubs These tubs are being prepared for planting of seedlings. Our aim is to grow a market garden with salad vegetables and some fruits that can be taken to the Tuckshop to be used in lunches. This project is very exciting! Chappy Jenny

Thank you to

our Fundraising

Committee for

all of your hard

work!

Contact Us

Give us a call for more infor-

mation about Chaplaincy at

Strathpine State School.

Peter Earnshaw

0409 039 889

peterearnshaw@bigpond.com

LCC Parent Rep We are in need of a parent representative to come to our LCC

meetings which are held once or twice a term. LCC stands for Local

Chaplaincy Committee and we meet in the school library at

8.00am. If you would like to know more about what happens with

Chaplaincy in the school please contact Chappy Peter.

Trivia Night

Fun