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- Principal's Message
- Meet the Teacher 2021 Week 3 Wednesday 10 February
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- What's on at Mudgee?
- Positive Behaviour for Learning
- P&C -AGM Announcement
- My Time
- P&C Container Refund & Recycling Scheme
- Dental Van onsite July 2021
- School Banking Update
- Wellness Alert
- NDIS Therapy Access on Schoolsite
- Covid Guidelines Weekly Updates
- Communication at Mudgee
Executive Team:
Principal: Colleen Hope
Deputy Principals:
Jnr & Middle: Natasha Markwick
Jnr Sec & Seniors: Steve Dowlan
Heads of Personalised Learning:
Bree Nairn & Danielle Turner
Senior School Pedagogical Leader: Laine East
Administration Team:
Business Manager: Samantha Kilpatrick
Admin Officer: Lorraine Yorke
Admin Officer: Belinda Chisnall
P&C Executive 2020:
President: Mel Colenso
Vice President: Anne Conroy
Secretary: Karen Lee
Treasurer: Deborah Hopkin
P&C Voluntary Roles 2020
Uniforms: Coordinator: Toni Sarten
Fundraising Team:
Jo Benjamin
Jaime Morris
Jody Mcfarlane
Michelle Jensen
QCPCA Representative:Alison Atkinson
Project Planning & Grants Officer : Maurie Rowe
My Time Coordinator: Anne Conroy
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Meet the Teacher Evening Wednesday 10 Feb 5 - 7 pm |
Positive Behaviour for Learning
Positive Behaviour for Learning at Mudgeeraba Special School.
Our Three Values of I am Caring, Honest and Respecful underpin our Positive Behavior Learning.
These values are unpacked in explicit and incidental teaching episodes each week. The 6 explicit teachings that underpin the three values of our wonderful school. All classroom teachings, incidents or events can be linked back to the below six learnings.
HONEST - Students will learn the value of being Honest using the two explicit teaching ideas of We Own Our Actions and We Ask For Help.
CARING - Students will learn the value of being Caring during using the two explicit teaching ideas of We Are Kind and We Care About Person Space.
RESPECTFUL - Students will learn the value of being Respectful during using the two explicit teaching ideas of We Use Whole Body Listenting and We Follow Instructions.
To support students, families and staff we revised our Student Code of Conduct for 2021 through school committees and P&C.
We engage in stakeholder meetings to develop Positive Behaviour Planning known as an Anxiety Scale to support the Antecedent, Behaviour and Response of support by staff and families to assist students to self regulate. We have a Code System to maintain a supportive environment at Mudgeeraba Special School.
Our Social Emotional social skill program in addition to our values teaching is the Get Happier Program linked to Choice Theory.
We will share more information through the year.
Our Annual General Meeting will be announced as soon as the auditor has released the report for 2020. We hope to hold the meeting late February early March.
Our P&C Executive will be available at the Meet the Teacher Night.
We hope to have the uniform supplies early this week. We thank you for your patience in this current pandemic climate affecting supplies.
If you have second uniforms these can be forwarded through to Toni Sarten to the school office.
As always working together for our school community.
Mel Colenso Karen Lee Deb Hokins Anne Conroy Toni Sarten
President Secretary Treasurer Vice President Uniform Coordinator
MSS P&C Association
P&C Container Refund & Recycling Scheme
Please bring in your recycling to the school. The mobile reciptacle is stationed at the front carpark behind the bus shelter in school hours as the students are part of the program and move the wheelie bin between 9.15 am and 2.00 pm.
One Hundred percent of the donations go to our P&C Association.
Varicella-Zoster Virus
A colleague has been diagnosed with Shingles over the weekend. Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful blistering rash. It is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which is the same virus that causes chickenpox. You can only get shingles if you have had chickenpox in the past. Please seek medical advice if you have any symptoms. Please contact your class teacher if your young person has been affected to monitor with Qld Health.
NDIS Therapy Access on Schoolsite
The departmental guidelines for supporting NDIS Therapists limits our ability to have external NDIS therapists: Speech, Physiotherapits, Occupational and Behaviour / Psychologists onsite for weekly services. We do not have the facilities to create service offerings, ensure student protection and maintain education learning. We have found it is invaluable to support the consultative approach with therapists attending the school for stakeholder meetings. To support this we will need to complete the NDIS Agrrement form. Please direct your enquiries through to Colleen Hope (Principal)
Covid Guidelines Weekly Updates
Stop the Spread of COVID-19Maintaining the required hygiene and physical distancing measures in place in our school. These are our most effective ways to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Any person who is sick (staff, student or parent) should stay home and if they have any COVID-19 symptoms, no matter how mild, get tested.
Symptoms of COVID-19 can include:
- Fever
- Cough
- Sore throat
- Runny nose
- Loss of taste or smell
- Tiredness and muscle aches
- Vomiting and/or diarrhoea
- Shortness of breath
If students or staff present at school as unwell we will follow up and request an imediate early departure until a medical clearance is provided and confirmation that the person is well.
We need to ensure we stay home if recurring flu like symptoms present to decrease the spread of influenza.
Further information about COVID-19 testing is available via the link below:
If you have any questions, please call your doctor or call 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84).
- Student attendance 8.30 am till 2.45 pm.
- Phone the office and request the classroom. Please always be mindful of students' learning and teachers teaching times.
- If you are late to start the school day please attend the School Office and staff will assist with contacting your class.
- Utilise the students' Communication Diary and Seesaw.
- Request face to face meetings through your class teacher before, after school or in their noncontact time.
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