We are humbled by our Elders who have shaped our great nation and particulary to Reg and Angela as senior citizens from the RSL who attended our Anzac Day Service and Tony Schafer RSL Mudgeeraba/ Robina President for his assistance with the commemoration.

Lest We Forget

Colleen Hope

Principal

This week our Junior Secondary and Senior School Student Council Representatives were invited to Robina State High School's ANZAC Day Assembly. Our student leaders played an important part of the ceremony by being invited to lay their wreath during the ceremony. They joined distinguised guests and peers from regional schools for afternoon tea following the processions. We thank Robina State High School for including our school in the ceremony and hope to continue our longstanding partnership.

We’re holding the School Fun Run as a major fundraising event this year. The event will be held on 4^th June in alignment with our Burleigh Fun Walk. We are really hoping to raise $10,000 to go towards our playground upgrade. For reaching $10,000 last year, we secured ‘The Big Show’ from School Fun Run for our event this year which includes three inflatable items and Chase the Cheetah.

Keep your eyes peeled for the sponsorship forms and permission forms which were sent home with students earlier in the week. Once you have the sponsorshp form, you should sign up for a Student Profile Page at schoolfunrun.com.au. You will be able to access online fundraising and can win a $20,000 Ultimate Family Package! Please return relevant pages of the permission forms by Wednesday 28^th April to you class teacher to assist with transport planning for the event.

Students who raise $10 or more will receive a reward, and the more money you raise the better the reward, and the more you help the school!

We’re looking for all students to participate in the Burleigh Fun Walk and we’re organising a great day for our community, so we’d love everyone to come down to support our students. If you have any questions about the Burleigh Fun Walk Event, please contact your classroom teacher or any questions about fundraising, please contact the School Fun Run Office on 1800 FUN RUN.

Week 2 – We care for our environment.

During week 2 our students will look at this explicit teaching focus in a number of ways.  Keeping their classroom, resources and desk area neat and tidy. A wider school community focus would include keeping the school free of rubbish.  Students in Junior Secondary and Seniors engage in work skill development recycling programs with the safe use of equipment in the playground and other play based areas including toys and sporting equipment. 

Parent and Carer’s you could partner this learning in the home environment by encouraging your young person’s independence in keeping their own room tidy. Another community focus might include assisting their understanding of recycling at home building their self-esteem by increasing their contribution to the weekly home chores.

This flyer will come home soon in your young person's communciation book.  Might you please assist us with catering for the event by returning your flyer as soon as possible.  We hope to see all of the special ladies in our lives at the Trade Training Centre for a little bit of you time.

The P&C are holding their Mothers Day Stall on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 May. More information in next week's newsletter.

Volunteers and non teaching staff within our school inclusive of our P&C members are required to hold a valid Blue Card in order to forfill their role within our school. The attached flyer explains the Blue card renewal procedures. If you would like to join our P&C our administration team will assist you in acquiring a volunteer Blue Card.

We encourage you to keep up to date through the NDIS websites.

https://everyaustraliancounts.com.au/

https://www.ndis.gov.au/participants/independent-assessments/independent-assessment-process

2021 Next Step survey

The Queensland Government is conducting its annual statewide survey of all students who completed Year 12 in 2020. The Next Step survey is a brief, confidential survey that gains a comprehensive picture of the employment, study and life choices made by Queensland school completers in the year after they finish Year 12.

Between April and June, all our students who completed Year 12 last year can expect to receive instructions to complete a web-based survey or a telephone call from the Queensland Government Statistician’s Office. Please encourage them to take part. If their contact details have changed, please assist the interviewer with their updated details or forward the survey to their new address so they can participate.

Thank you for your support of the Next Step survey in 2021.

Further information on Next Step, including results from previous years, is available online at www.qld.gov.au/nextstep or on toll free telephone 1800 068 587.

Now in its third year, the Careers Sampler brings children and young people who are blind or have low vision and their families together to hear from a range of people about pursuing and achieving career and employment goals.

The 2021 Careers Sampler will feature a keynote speech from Dr Theresa Ruig, Vision Australia volunteer partnerships director. Dr Ruig’s speech will cover her lived experience as someone who is blind, how volunteering can support the development of career skills, what the workplace of the future will look like for people who are blind or have low vision, and more.

The event will also again feature a panel of people who are blind or have low vision who will share their employment journeys, including the challenges they faced and how they overcame them.

Dr Ruig’s keynote speech and the panel discussion will be broadcast via videoconferencing from Sydney to locations across Australia.

Careers Sampler attendees will then get the chance to meet with mentors who are blind or have low vision in an informal, conversational environment about their career experiences.

Careers Sampler brings children and young people who are blind or have low vision, their families and their support team in schools together to hear from a range of people about pursuing and achieving career and employment goals. The event is free, however is on a Saturday to accommodate student and family attendance.

https://www.visionaustralia.org/community/news/2021-04-01/save-date-vision-australia-careers-sampler-back

Please find the link for registrations for Vision Australia’s Career Sampler now open.

https://www.visionaustralia.org/careers-sampler-2021

Stop the Spread of COVID-19

Maintaining 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:

https://www.qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19/stay-informed/testing-and-feverclinics

If you have any questions, please call your doctor or call 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84) in these continuing concerning times.

• 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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