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- Principal's Message
- What's on at Mudgee?
- News from Junior Secondary 8
- Under 8's Day 23 June
- Senior School Markets
- Burleigh Fun Walk
- Positive Behaviour for Learning
- Permission Approvals
- Premiers Reading Challenge
- Save the Date - 2021 Art and Photography Event
- Sound of the Week
- Chappy Chat
- Raising Hope Chaplaincy Fundraising Dinner
- My Time
- Mudgeeraba Special Instagram
- Mudgeeraba State Special School - Playgroup
- P&C 2021 & EOI Grants Coordinator & QCPCA Corrdinator
- School Banking - Ends Term 2
- Circus Quirkus
- Call for Volunteers - Containers for Change at Robina Town Centre
- Wonder Recycling Rewards for Schools
- NDIS Links To Keep Up To Date
- Blue Card renewal procedures
- Gold Coast Disability Expo
- HOTA - Auslan tour
- My Home My Way
- Mudgeeraba Show
- P&C Container Refund & Recycling Scheme
- Covid Guidelines Weekly Updates
- Communication at Mudgee
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Week 8 |
Friday 11 June: P&C Friday 11 June: Greenheart Cluster Speaking Up Competition - Finals Friday 11 June: Cooly Rocks On |
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Week 9 |
Monday 14 June: Senior School Markets at Robina Town Centre |
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Week 10 |
Monday 21 June: Celebrate School Cleaners Day Wednesday 23 June: Under 8s Day Thursday 24 June: Dress Up Wear your favourite Colour to School Friday 25 June: Last day of Term 2 |
On Friday 4th June we held our Annual Burleigh Fun Walk Event. Staff and students had a wonderful day spent with families and community members during the event. The weather was perfect for the walk with School Fun Run providing a mascot, Chase the Cheetah, and a large inflatable arch due to MSSS fundraising over $10,000 last year. This year, fundraising has totalled and incredible $14,564.98! Thank you to every who has contributed towards fundraising for our new Sensory Stimulation Centre (playground upgrade) and bus replacement, every cent counts. Please log on to your profiles and order your prizes if you raised $10 or more. Thank you to Miami Surf Life Saving Club for donating the sausage sizzle, loaning us some tents and sending volunteers to cook. Thank you to Metro buses for supporting the safe return of students back to school in the afternoon. The HPE committee are looking forward to our next HPE event, Sports Day which will be occuring in term 3.
During week 8 our students will learn about this explicit teaching focus in a number of ways. Through explicit and incidental teaching, students will be encouraged to ask for permission to leave class and communicate where they will be going and perhaps adhere to a timeline to return to class. The teaching of these skills help facilitate a good work ethic between the student and classroom teacher. When in a work skill development placement setting in the Senior school phase of learning, these behaviours will double as respectful communication with superiors.You can assist your young person to acquire or grow these skills by encouraging behaviours that seek permission for objects and activities. When out in the community you can encourage independence and return to caregiver skills. This can be carried out when grocery shopping, by asking your young person to obtain a certain item, which is required but perhaps in another aisle or further down the aisle, and return to you and place the item in the trolley.
Please find attached permission approvals if you have not completed. These assist us with our school planning and marketing of quality education and to keep students safe eg sunscreen and insect repellant.
21st May - 27th August 2021
The Premier's Reading Challenge is an annual state wide initiative for schools and home-educated students. It is not a competition, it aims to improve literacy and encourage children to read for pleasure and learning.
Mudgeeraba students can successfully complete this challenge either by engaging in a shared reading experience with a caregiver or by independently reading 20 books before 27th August 2021. All students who complete the challenge will receive a Certificate of Achievement signed by the Premier of Queensland.
We have added a printable copy of the Individual Readers Record should you wish to print it at home. These forms are also available in hard copy at the school administration desk.
Copiapó
In 2010, thirty three men, after a mining accident in Chilli, were trapped 700m underground, for 69 days, before they were rescued. I don’t know about you but I’m a little bit claustrophobic, and an ordeal like that would have been the end of me.
Emergency officials, experts from NASA, and national navy submarine experts, were called upon to assist in the tricky rescue. The volatile mine would be nothing less than a challenge, and no doubt, one small mistake or miscalculation, could crush the miners to death. After 17 days of isolation, the miners managed to send up a note to the world above, with the message, “We are fine in the shelter, the 33 of us.” I can’t even begin to imagine the horror of being down there, knowing that the next gulp of the thin air they breathed, could be their last.
I’ve never been in such an extreme life-or-death situation, nor have I ever needed to be assisted in an emergency rescue. I can’t begin to think to know anything of the fear that these men must have been feeling. But I think that I can safely assume one thing: that they couldn’t help themselves, and their lives completely depended on the outside world above them.
Again, I can’t compare anything that’s ever happened to me to what these men experienced, but I know that I’ve been in situations where I needed help, and the task at hand was way beyond my abilities or expertise. It’s at those times that we could do with a little help, or, rely on our own strength and guile. I wish I could proudly proclaim that that’s exactly what I do, but I’d be lying. I will often pass the used-by-date, way before I ask for help. And it’s cost me. Maybe not in dollar terms, but in terms of well-being and heart stuff, I sometimes leave myself bankrupt. And the sad thing in many situations, is that I didn’t need to.
What is your go-to thing? Do you ask for help when you know you need it? Do you lean on a ‘lean on me’ mate when trying to live a lean life?
The men survived on small amounts of tuna, mackerel, and water, before their rescuers were able to replenish their supplies. Three rescue plans were put into action, with one finally breaking through to the men, but was found to be too small for safe rescue. Finally, on October 13th, 69 days later, the first miner was rescued and pulled to the waiting world above.
Sure, had the mine collapsed and the men were unable to get their mayday out, it may have been a very different story. But the world did know, and the world did notice the catastrophe, and the world did set about executing a rescue.
You may not exactly be trapped underground, but whenever you feel trapped under a heavy load, may I encourage you that help is always there. Even if you have to call NASA.
Did you know... Mudgeeraba Special School have our own departmental approved Instagram page? Stay up to date with the latest in the classroom, school and community through Facebook and our newest addition to the Mudgeeraba Special social media family, our Instagram account. Follow us today https://www.instagram.com/mudgeerabaspecial/ and tag us @mudgeerabaspecial
Mudgeeraba State Special School hosts a Playgroup on Tuesday morning from 9:30 - 10:30am every week. The Playgroup is operational for children and their parents aged from birth to school age. If you know of any families with children who are in this age group and who may have been newly diagnosed with a disability, and they wish to engage their children in a supportive communication oriented environment, please have them contact the school on 5559 3333 to enquire about this wonderful educational opportunity. Ask to speak to Bree Nairn the Playgroup convenor.
The Queensland Government has decided to discontinue school banking programs in Queensland government schools from 31 July 2021. As a result, the CommBank School Banking program will no longer operate at our school after the end of this term. If you are unsure of other methods of depositing to your child’s account, please feel free to contact the Bank’s general enquiries hotline on 13 2221 or alternatively visit your local CommBank branch.
If your child is eligible to receive a reward, please notify myself as your School Banking Co-ordinator prior to Thursday 24 June 2021.
We would like to thank you for your participation and support throughout the School Banking program.
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
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!
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.
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.
- 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 Hopkins
2021 P&C Voluntary Roles
Uniform Coordinator: Toni Sarten
Fundraising Coordinator: Jaime Morris
QCPCA Representative:Alison Atkinson
Project Planning Coordinator & Recognition Award P&C Qld 2021: Maurie Rowe
Grants Coordinator: Vacancy
Community Partnership Role
My Time Coordinator: Anne Conroy
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