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- Gold Coast Disability Expo
- Trusted Support Coordination Free NDIS Information Session
- Vision Australia Careers Sampler Brisbane Saturday
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Week 4 |
Thursday 13 May: School Photos Friday 14 May - P&C Meeting Friday 14 May Olympic Ambassador Unleashed Visit |
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Week 5 |
Chappy Week Wednesday 19 May: National Simultaneous Story Time |
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Week 6 |
Monday 24 May: Alliance Partnership Meeting Wednesday 26 May: Partnership Breakfast |
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Week 7 |
Friday 4 June: Burleigh Fun Walk
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Today the special ladies in our lives were treated to a wonderful Mother's Day celebration which took place in the Geyer Trade Training Centre. Our guest speaker Bobby Napier faciliated a wonderful Art Therapy experience of making a name badge and helping us get to know each other with a greater intensity we shared the meaning behind the artefacts on our personalised name badge. Mothers, carers, sisters, Grandma's/Nana's and Aunties and our one very welcomed gentleman were amazed by the literacy skills on display by our young people. We, at Mudgeeraba Special School, would like to wish all the special ladies a very warm and wonderful Mother's Day.
4 Weeks to go!
We’re holding the School Fun Run as a major fundraising event this year. The event will be held on 4th 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.
To start fundraising, 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! If you have not already done so, please return relevant pages of the permission forms 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.
QLD Olympics Unleashed - Visit to Mudgeeraba Special School
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) has welcomed Mudgeeraba Special School to be a part of ‘Olympics Unleashed’, a program taking Olympians, Paralympians and QAS Athletes into Queensland schools to inspire and motivate young Australians ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games. We are excited that Olympic Unleashed is coming to our school on Friday 14th May. Kira Hedgeland is a triathlete who will be presenting to all of our students followed by an interview hosted by Senior 1 students.
Week 4 – We tell someone when we feel unsafe. We can locate safe people in the community. During the school week our students will look at this explicit teaching focus in a number of ways. Through explicit and incidental teaching when students show signs of anxiety, teachers can explicitly model how to request a break. The teaching of locating safe members of the community could occur by explicitly teaching the logo’s of the Police, Fire and Ambulance along with the Surf Life Saving flags.
Parents and carers you can assist with this learning by labelling and pointing out information kiosks, Police persons and Police stations, Fire persons and Fire Stations, Surf Life Savers, Doctors, Nurses and other community members, who you may consider safe members of the community for your young person.
Happy Mother’s Day Nanna!
When I was growing up, my mum, or ‘nanna’, sent us kids off to “learn to do stuff.” She simply wanted us to have fun and be able to do a lot of different things, and join in on life. She sent us to all kinds of activities: swimming lessons, tennis, piano, ‘physie’, athletics, soccer, netball… you name it, we either learnt it or did it. With nanna’s encouragement, we also joined everything that was going at school: cricket, touch footy, recorder, art, tennis, squash, water polo, golf, netball, soccer, drama, school musicals, and pretty much every other sport or activity that you can think of for kids. We even had to go to “Chinese” lessons on Sundays (I’ll let you ponder on that one for a spell).
It must have cost a fortune! We weren’t rich by any stretch of the imagination. What was she trying to achieve? Especially with the swimming: do I really need to be able to swim 90 laps of an Olympic size pool? But, I can honestly say that the years of activity, helped me to build self- confidence, learn a lot about winning and losing, and learn how to get along with people in the process. I learned a lot about endurance due to my swimming training: 32 laps of freestyle, 16 laps of back and breast stroke, then end with 16 laps of “walk backs” (sprint a lap, then walk back to the start and do it again!). It helped to shape a healthy attitude towards persistence and resilience. We didn’t know it at the time, especially on freezing mornings, but through it all, nanna taught me heaps. Not to mention the fact that she, like so many super mums do today, provided us kids with the most precisely planned and managed free taxi service, that kept us kids participating in the things we did. I know as a fact that it wasn’t always easy. But she did it because we were her children.
At meal times, I always noticed that nanna always picked off the best stuff for us kids. But we never gave a second thought, to getting drumsticks while nanna got the parson’s nose! We didn’t even pause for breath, when we got the chocolate Neapolitan ice-cream, and nanna got the strawberry (yuck!). We didn’t even say, “hey, wait a minute!” when we got the choice fish and chips, and nanna got the charred battered bits. It wasn’t for years later, that we realised that nanna got what she got, so we could get what we got! Super mums make sacrifices, right?
I remember when I was about 8, mum wrapped me up in my parker and beanie, and took me to the museum, and Art Gallery. It was cold on the train, but we had an amazing day. It was a mummy/son date (which I had no idea about at the time), and I’ll never forget it. We had a ball strolling around the exhibits and reading all of the background stories to everything we saw. I can still remember how stinky the old Egyptian mummy exhibits were, and how thick the paint was applied to the Van Goghs. And it was there that I remember, was the beginning of my interest in learning and my interest in Art. I think that’s called ‘inspiration’, when something leaves enough of an impression that it helps to shape who you would eventually become.
And that’s only three stories I can share for now!
Nanna, was wise, self-sacrificing and loving. And I believe that she represents what all mums seem to be: beautiful human beings who spend a lifetime putting good stuff into the children they love and adore, who give us the best that they can manage, even if they have to go without, and love us with all of their hearts; not to mention that they’d protect their kids with their lives!
This mummy’s day, it may not be possible for all of us, but if you can, and if it’s doable, let’s hold a special thought in our hearts for our mums. I personally will be spooning up a great big dollop of chocolate ice-cream on Sunday and saving the strawberry for me (yuck!). What will you dollop up for mum this Mother’s Day?
Please watch for your preprinted order form/envelope they will come out soon!
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.
Gold Coast Disability Expo is back for 2021 - Friday 18th and Saturday 19th June!
The Gold Coast Disability Expo is back for 2021 on Friday the 18th and Saturday 19th at the Gold Coast Event Centre, Bundall.
We are excited to let you know that our face-to-face expo will return in a COVIDSafe way. The practices we have become familiar with – physical distancing, hand washing, extra cleaning, crowd management, health questionnaires and contact tracing will all form part of the COVIDSafe practices you can expect to see at this years Gold Coast Disability Expo.
You can visit our website for information about our COVIDSafe practices.
Whilst the event is FREE to attend, you must register to obtain a ticket to the event before entry.
If you haven't already registered, now is the time to do so!
(Providing a valid email address is a condition of entry. Please help us help keep you safe.)
We are also trilled to announce that Tim McCallum has been announced as the ambassador for the 2021 Gold Coast Disability Expo. Tim rose to prominence after performing on The Voice in 2015, leaving the judges in tears during the blind auditions. Tim will be on centre stage at the opening ceremony, at 11am, and will also be talking about his experiences and his love of music.
We will provide you regular event and safety updates via email and our facebook page. In the meantime check out the expo guide with all our new exhibitors. Stage schedule coming soon!
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.
Please find the link for registrations for Vision Australia’s Career Sampler now open.
https://www.visionaustralia.org/careers-sampler-2021
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
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:
If you have any questions, please call your doctor or call 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84) in these continuing concerning times.
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.
Scouts recycling partner have dontated one Hundred percent of the donations go to our P&C Association.
Celebrations from Scouting Qld: Just a quick update on the RED BIN we swopped over earlier this month, there were x 1163 eligible recycle containers counted. Awesome effort by everyone !!!
PLEASE save your recyclables over the Easter Vacation and Holiday period.
- 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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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
2021 P&C Executive:
President: Mel Colenso
Vice President: Anne Conroy
Secretary: Karen Lee
Treasurer: Deborah Hopkin
2021 P&C Voluntary Roles
Uniform Coordinator: Toni Sarten
Fundraising Coordinator: Jaime Morris
QCPCA Representative:Alison Atkinson
Project Planning Coordinator: Maurie Rowe
Grants Coordinator: Vacancy
Community Partnership Role
My Time Coordinator: Anne Conroy
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