Dear Parents and Community,

Welcome to the beginning of week 3.

At the end of last term parents received their child’s report card. It was such a pleasure seeing the amazing goals our students achieved, we are super proud of everyone's achievements. It is so important we work together to achieve not only academic goals but the social and emotional targets as well. In the next couple of weeks we can't wait to see you in the school working with teachers to map out the next six months. At the end of these meetings our teachers will be asking you key questions around our school community, which will allow us to be reflective around what is working and what you could consider. At Mudgeeraba Special School it is really important to us that we work together within our environment. 

We have a busy term ahead of us, with many school events that will provide families, students and the wider school community to come together. These events are what makes Mudgeeraba Special School magnificent, please watch See Saw and our Newsletter closely for more detail. 

P and C – Thank you 

Huge thanks in advance to the P and C for their fundraising efforts around helping us to build a new bike track for our school community. We are hoping if we can get enough funds together the team building our junior secondary and senior school classrooms will be able to complete for us when they are doing the playground in this area. Huge thanks also goes to the families and networks who have donated into our DGR account, we can't thank you enough. It is going to be amazing when this all comes together.

Attendance – Every Day Counts

School absenteeism can impact significantly on students' learning and wellbeing. Attending school every day helps children to build social and emotional skills such as communication, teamwork and resilience. If you are having trouble getting your child to school, please reach out and speak with your classroom teacher or Deputy Principal. There is no quick and simple solution, nor a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to improving attendance. However, we need to work together to have every student at school.

2022 School Opinion Survey

Thank you to all of those who have already completed the Parent/Caregiver Survey. If you have not had a chance to complete the survey yet, please note that the online surveys will remain open until Friday, 12 August 2022. This is your opportunity to provide feedback about what our school does well and how we can improve.

To have your say, check your email for an invitation from the Department of Education titled School Opinion Survey for parents and caregivers, 2022. 

Can’t find your invitation?  If your family has more than one parent/caregiver, check that they haven’t received the invitation and/or check your junk email folder.

We hope the start of term 3 has started well for you.

Kind regards
Natasha Markwick
Acting Principal

Hello Mudgeeraba Special School Families,

Our school has been working in consultation with our teachers to rejuvenate the Individual Curriculum Plan (ICP) Meeting process.  We will be using our schools growing knowledge of Choice Theory and we hope this will enrich your engagement with our teachers and enable you to celebrate your young person's learning journey.  We are also wanting to collaborate with you to provide us some feedback about our school and how we can better serve our school community and provide a quality world picture in which we can all invest.  At the end of your ICP meeting we would love for you to answer 5 questions  and we will use your feedback to make these quality world positive changes.

On Monday your young person's Individual Curriculum Plan (ICP) will come home in DRAFT for you to peruse and approve at your upcoming ICP meeting.  We thank you all for being involved with your young person's schooling process and can't wait to meet with you in the coming weeks.

Adaptation of the Choice Theory chart below...

The 2022 Mudgee Mini Olympics is coming up! This year the event will be held on Monday the 8th of August. Mudgee Mini Olympics is a whole school event where students will participate in running races and a rotation of athletics activities between 9:30am and 11:30am. This year our event will be held at Somerset College due to the ongoing construction taking place at school.

Please ensure that your young person is wearing their house colours or full school uniform including shoes and Sun Safe measures are followed.

Permission notes have been released so please ensure you have confirmed your young persons attendance by Wednesday 27th of July.

Our STEMosphere is a specially designed classroom space located next to our library. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and the space was intended for students learn to work together to solve a problem through inquiry-driven lessons that spark curiosity. The STEMosphere is full of targeted resources that help students move through the STEM design process- investigate, create and evaluate, re-create. We thank Karen Andrews for donations that have helped us resource our STEMosphere. Resources in this space include Bee-Bots, Blue-Bots, Spheros, 3D printer, eye gaze device, iPads, computers, construction equipment (Lego kits, playdough, Stick-Lets, wooden blocks, Brio, Maxamec etc.), maker station, switch adaptive equipment such as scissors, blenders, vacuums etc. We are always adding to our STEMosphere and are looking forward to sharing with you the new and exciting additions to this learning space.

Writing Samples from Senior 1