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- News from Junior 2
- Under 8's Day 23 June
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- Senior School Markets at the Mudgeeraba Street Party
- Olympics Unleashed at Mudgeeraba Special
- Sound of the Week
- Burleigh Fun Walk
- Positive Behaviour for Learning
- Chappy Chat
- Raising Hope Chaplaincy Fundraising Dinner
- My Time
- P&C 2021 & EOI Grants Coordinator & QCPCA Corrdinator
- Blue Card renewal procedures
- Wonder Recycling Rewards for Schools
- School Banking
- Touch Football Specialised
- NDIS Keep Up To Date
- Gold Coast Disability Expo
- Covid Guidelines Weekly Updates
- P&C Container Refund & Recycling Scheme
- Communication at Mudgee
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Week | Event |
Week 5 |
Chappy Week Wed 19 May: National Simultaneous Story Time Fri 21 May P&C Day |
Week 6 |
Mon 24 May: Alliance Partnership Meeting Wed 26 May: Partnership Breakfast |
Week 7 |
Tues 1 June: Senior School Parent Info Session - Transition to Post School Fri 4 June: Burleigh Fun Walk |
Greenheart Cluster Speaking Competition - Class Champions
This Semester Mudgeeraba State Special School students have been busy preparing speeches to participate in the Greenheart Cluster Speaking Up Competition. Our students have been working independently and in collaboration with their teachers to write their speeches. This is a wonderful event that our school participates alongside peers from schools within our cluster.
Congratulations to all the Class Champions. We wish them good luck when they present their speech to their peers at assembly where we will select who will represent our school in the finals at Robina High School in June. Remember practice is the key. Parents you can ask your classroom teacher to share the speech if your young person is a Class Champion or chosen as a finalist to represent our school.
Olympics Unleashed at Mudgeeraba Special
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 21st May. Kira Hedgeland is a triathlete who will be presenting to all of our students followed by an interview hosted by Senior 1 students.
3 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.
Positive Behaviour for Learning
During week 5 our students will learn about this explicit teaching focus in a number of ways. Through explicit and incidental teaching when students begin their day class staff will ensure our students care for both their own and others belongings when unpacking their bags and placing their lunch items and communication books into their designated positions.
Parents and Carers you can assist with this learning by reminding your young person to care for their toys and the artefacts in your home such as your lounge and other precious items inside your home.
Telly the Beast
RUN!
My sisters always made me run down first (naturally, so I’d be the first one eaten, being the youngest and therefore, most tender), and they’d follow, fearfully avoiding “Telly the Beast!”. Well, he was actually the angry, mouth frothing, teeth snarling, fire-breathing Alsatian, from the bowels of hell, who lived next door.
Thank heaven for the wooden paling fence, that stood between Telly and a side pathway that led to our backyard, then to our back door (we weren’t allowed to come in through the front door after school, because we’d get the carpet dirty). So, us kids had to cheat death by running down the side pathway, to get to our back door, if we wanted to get in. It was a daily, not-so-friendly, kid suicide run! It was scary to have to go to and from school, knowing that Telly would be there at the beginning and end of each day, waiting to eat us alive. Every day, he’d go insane-level-bonkers as we ran past, jumping and barking at us, chomping at the bit to chomp us to bits!
Life is a little like that. Sometimes, it can appear to be ferocious: it can sometimes appear threatening, and it can sometimes appear altogether scary! Sometimes, life appears to bark at us, snarl at us, make us feel helpless and vulnerable, and make us feel like the evening’s delicious ‘sitting duck’ on a platter.
I remember that my dad wasn’t afraid; I know, because one day, Telly found his way through a loose paling in our fence and was free in our backyard. While us kids were in the background crying and screaming for a hero, my dad marched straight out and calmly led Telly back into his yard, then boarded up the loose paling. Dad didn’t threaten him, yell at him, or even try to grab him and drag him back. He just wasn’t afraid, and dad calmly and gently, did what he needed to do in the situation.
How come my dad wasn’t afraid of the beast? Why didn’t he take any weapons for the rescue? How come he didn’t call: the police, a lion catcher, the FBI, Mulder and Scully? (yes, that’s how old I am). I couldn’t help wondering about what I would’ve done had I found myself face to face with Telly, minus a wooden fence. And then, if by fate, one day it happened.
I liked getting to school early, so running up the side passage, and getting past Telly quickly, fit the brief. One morning, I thought I’d be clever and sneak around to the side fence and bolt up the side passage before Telly knew I was there.
Vroom, I was lightening!
Before I knew it, only steps from the end of the passage on the road ahead, stood a snarling, mouth drooling, Telly!
Telly was loose. Argh!
I froze on the spot (lucky I had the brown underpants on that day!). Telly, ran straight at me barking. I was dead! Then, Telly stopped at my statue stiff legs, sniffed my deathly-sweating hands, licked them, jumped around me in circles for a bit, and then seeing as though I wasn’t about to thaw out in a hurry, turned and trotted home, as if to say, “nothing to see; nothing unusual to report, move along folks!”
I wasn’t eaten. I wasn’t mauled to death, and I didn’t end up on the evening news, with the headline, “Little frozen scardey cat kid, eaten by dog!”
My dad wasn’t eaten, because, Telly, wasn’t an evil beast! My dad had known all along that Telly wasn’t a bad dog, but a friendly dog. Telly’s years of barking had been friendly barking, not killer barking. That’s how dad was able to put Telly back into his yard without being eaten, because there was never a threat in the first place. Us kids were the ones who had wrongly assumed that Telly was a beast. It was us kids who had completely misread the situation. It was us kids who were petrified by a powder puff, who we’d assumed was a natural born killer! It was us kids who had wrongly interpreted appearances. And it was us kids who had wasted so many years being scared of a pet who, all along, had just wanted to play. Telly wasn’t evil, he was innocent; only made evil by our silly assumptions.
There are indeed scary dogs out there, and we’d be wise to keep our distance or avoid them altogether. But, Telly wasn’t one of them. There are scary situations out there. But, Telly wasn’t one of them. I came to realize that day, that I had made a mistake; that there was a difference between Telly, the friendly, and Telly the Beast. I know because: I created Telly, the Beast, in my head, and Telly, the friendly, licked my hand!
P&C 2021 & EOI Grants Coordinator & QCPCA Corrdinator
We are also pleased to announce that the Ministers Office has supported P&C Day recognition for Maurie Rowe. Maurie will attend the luncheon on Friday 21 May for P&C Day. Thanks Executive for nominating this outstanding member of our community. Maurie is our treasure for sure.
We received 30 tickets from Lions for Movie tickets and the P&C conducted a lucky draw and two tickets per child drawn were forwarded. If you do not want the tickets might you please return them to school for redistribution. We are so grateful for this support.
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
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!
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) in these continuing concerning times.
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.
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.
Via Social Media:
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 Hopkins
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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