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- Principal's Message
- What's on at Mudgee?
- News from Junior Secondary 7
- Celebration of Learning - HASS - Middle 5-9
- Premiers Reading Challenge
- Mudgee Mini Olympics
- Save the Date - 2021 Art and Photography Event
- Chappy Chat
- Sound of the Week
- My Time
- My Time Plum tree Now & Next
- P&C Flamingo Bingo Fundraiser
- P&C 2021 EOI QCPCA Coordinator
- Mudgeeraba State Special School - Playgroup
- Call for Volunteers - Containers for Change at Robina Town Centre
- Wonder Recycling Rewards for Schools
- School Dental Service is coming to Mudgeeraba Special School
- Consent Forms
- Blue Card renewal procedures
- School Banking - Ends Term 2
- Champion Support and Care
- Kids Therapy Club
- Mudgeeraba Show
- Circus Quirkus
- Source Kids Disability Expo
- NDIS Links To Keep Up To Date
- P&C Container Refund & Recycling Scheme
- Covid Guidelines Weekly Updates
- Mudgeeraba Special Instagram
- Communication at Mudgee
- Contact Us
Week | Event |
Holdays |
Sunday 4 July - Sunday 11 July: NAIDOC Week |
Term 3 Week 1 |
Monday 12 July: First day of Term 3 Friday 16 July: P&C Meeting |
Term 3 Week 2 |
Monday 19 July: Whole School Assembly |
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.
Overseer of Ebihens
From most angles, passers-by would see nothing more than exactly what it is – a craggy countenance of rocks on the side of a small cliff. However, from other angles, it looks like a face overlooking the hillsides of the Ebihens archipelago in North Western France.
Pareidolia, is a term for the brain’s tendency to place meaning behind things we see. People have seen faces in clouds, and animal shapes in the stars, while others, like the example we’ve already mentioned, see things in cliff faces, or in trees and other things in nature. I must say, my own personal favourite is seeing things in the clouds.
I remember one night, our neighbors from over the road came knocking on our front door one night because they wanted us to come out and see the huge face on the front of our house. The moonlight and trees, cast a shadow that looked exactly like a gigantic man’s face on the front of our house. As you can imagine, it was quite eerie and a bit creepy to be exact.
However, this isn’t actually the purpose of my newsletter article this week. So, where’s the segway I hear you mutter…
Friends, it’s the last week of Term 2, and we’re all off on holiday break for the next 2 weeks (Yipee, I hear some of us yelp). Finding faces in the clouds, or seeing faces on cliff faces, really only happens outdoors. So, this week’s Chappy Chat, is all about encouraging us all to get outdoors and see something extraordinary. You can’t do it indoors, and sadly you can’t do it watching TV (unless of course, you’re watching David Attenborough, or the like).
I wish, pray and hope, that we all get rested up these holidays, but if you can, may I encourage you to get out on an adventure. Get outdoors: go to the beach, go with friends on a picnic, go fishing somewhere … get some nature into your lungs. I thought I saw a shark cruise under me this morning on my sunrise surf, but it turned out to be just a shadow, and my over active imagination. BUT, I wouldn’t have seen the shadow, had I not been on the water, in the great outdoors surrounded by nature. Have I scored a segway bullseye yet? Hope so!
Have a wonderful holiday and stay safe. And, if you see an “Overseer of Mudgeeraba” somewhere close, let me know when I bump into you next term. Or better still, take a picture!
The Flamingo Bingo P&C sub-committee have been busy organising tasks for our event on 28th August at Hinterland Hotel Nerang. The Flamingo Drag Queen event has been offered to our P&C as a community fundraiser.
Purchasing Tickets:
Ticket Sales link: http://flamingodragqueenbingoaug.floktu.com
More Details:
Facebook Event link: https://fb.me/e/5aTOTL0Y6
Assistance with Raffle Donations:
P&C 2021 EOI QCPCA Coordinator
Mudgeeraba State Special School - Playgroup
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.
Please find attached permission approvals if you have not recently completed. These assist us with our school planning and marketing of quality education and to keep students safe eg sunscreen and insect repellent.
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.
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.
Susi Bostock – parent of Stephanie and owner of Champion Support and Care, (formerly Liberating Lives) has 1 place available on their short term accommodation program based on the Gold Coast.
Staying at Grande Florida, Miama right on the beach, Champion’s STA starts on Monday July 5 through to Saturday July 10 and includes 24 support, all meals and daily activities. The cost of this STA is $3475. Phone Susi for more details on 0410 281 400.
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
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.
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.
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
- 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:Currently Vacant
Project Planning Coordinator & Recognition Award P&C Qld 2021: Maurie Rowe
Grants Coordinator: Kristen Wilson
Community Partnership Roles
My Time Coordinator: Anne Conroy (Tuesday)
Community Liason Officer: Di Taylor (Monday & Tuesday)
School Chaplain: Adrian Young (Thursday & Friday)
Guidance Officer: Kumi Holden (Monday to Wednesday & every second Friday)
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