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K P McGrath Drive,ELANORA,QLD,4221,Australia
Website: https://elanorass.eq.edu.au
Phone: (07) 5559 9222
Fax:
Email: the.principal@elanorass.eq.edu.au
A Message From The Principal
Dear Parents
Welcome back to Term 2. Special welcome to our new families who have recently joined our Elanora State Independent School
Community.
We have some staff changes:
Mrs Robyn Diaz has been appointed to the position of Deputy Principal
Mrs Janet Fitzgerald is Acting Head of Curriculum (HOC)
Mrs Christie Fox is Acting Head of Special Education Services (HOSES)
There have also been some new and relieving staff positions:
Ms NovitaYamin has been appointed as our new ICT Coach
Mrs Jenn Ayers is taking over Mrs Fox’s duties supporting students with disabilities
Mrs Judy McGahan has joined the Targeted Teaching Team providing learning support.
While our music teacher, Mrs Madden is on leave, Ms Renee Jones will take over her classes and be supported each Wednesday by Ms
Ella Duncombe.
Mrs Rapallo is currently on leave and is being replaced by Mrs Kerrie Quinlivan. Mr Radloff will be taking leave for next week.
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Our school’s focus for this week is ANZAC Day and, as it is the 100 year anniversary of Gallipoli, we are joining the Community in
making it a very special time to remember. We have made our own “Memorial Wall” in the Resource Centre and each student has made
and attached their poppy to the wall. Every student will receive a special, personalised ANZAC Day certificate later this week.
Our ANZAC Day assemblies will be held on Friday- the Senior one for students in Years 4 to 6 from 9.30am and the Junior one for
students in Years 1 – 3 at 2pm. The Prep students will have their own more informal service.
We are hoping to make several wreaths for both services and would really appreciate any flowers or greenery – please bring donations
along to the staff room early on Friday morning. Parents are welcome to attend either service and everyone is welcome to bring along
their own wreaths for floral tributes.
Congratulations to Year 5F student, Isayah Lewis who is one of the Primary school winners of this year’s ANZAC Day Essay Competition
run by the member for Currumbin, Mrs JannStuckey. Isayah will read his essay at the RSL’s 11am service on ANZAC Day, as well as at
Senior Assembly. Congratulations to the Currumbin RSL for organising all their community events for this year’s ANZAC Day - we are
very proud to participate in many of these activities, such as the making of the Poppy Art Pieces which are displayed on Elephant Rock,
the Releasing of the Doves at the Dawn Service and marching as a school community on ANZAC Day.
I am absolutely delighted with how interested our students are in learning about the stories of our ANZACS and encourage families to
attend ANZAC Day Services and talk to their children about family stories relating to Gallipoli or other wars.
Attached please find the Term 2 Calendar.
Warm regards
Tricia Neate
Principal
Keeping Our Kids Safe
Keeping Our Children Safe
Across the Gold Coast District Police are regularly contacted by school’s and concerned parents in relation to inappropriate driving and
behaviour’s around school zones. Speed limits, drop-off and pick-up areas and parking rules exist to keep your children, parents and
carers safe. They also help to minimise speed and traffic jams around schools. Whilst we appreciate that the drop off and pick up is a
particularly busy time of day it does not excuse dangerous behaviour that could come with fatal consequences.
Gold Coast Police are constantly patrolling our school zones. Some of the offences that have been witnessed are, parents stopping in
the middle of the road (double parking) and allowing children to get out of the vehicle, u-turns over double white lines into on-coming
traffic, running red lights, speeding, unrestrained children, and road rage (use of offensive language whilst children were in the vehicle).
Over the next few weeks you will see an increase in High Visibility Traffic Patrols. We are keeping our roads safe by performing
proactive and targeted traffic enforcement in relation to all school zones on the Gold Coast. So remember the road rules and don’t break
them just to save a few extra minutes. The consequences will be with you for the rest of your life.
Below outlines some of the penalties which apply to traffic offences that are currently occurring within your school zone.
SPEEDING
School zone times have been standardised in Queensland to help motorists remember when to slow down. The standard operating times
for your school zones is 7–9am and 2–4pm.
Speeding
<13km over the speed limit $151 and 1 point
13-20km over the speed limit $227 and 3 points
21-30km over the speed limit $379 and 4 points
31-40km over the speed limit $531 and 6 points
41km and over the speed limit $1062 and 8 points
Parking
Make sure to take extra care when parking on school grounds and on the roads and streets around the school and follow the signed
parking rules at all times. Remember most schools are around residential areas please be courteous and respectful to these people by
not parking over their driveways.
Stop across Footpath $45
Stop contrary to flow of traffic $45
Double Parking $45
Stop Contrary to continuous yellow line $45
OTHER COMMON OFFENCES
Seatbelts – As the parent you are responsible that your child has their seatbelts on and if required the correct car seat. Penalties for not
wearing a seatbelt is $341 and 3 points. If your child is under 16 and is not wearing a seatbelt you get the ticket.
U-turns – Illegal U-turns when not signed to do so - $91 and 2 points
Red Traffic Light - $341 and 3 points
Cross Double Lines - $204 and 3 points
Disorderly conduct - $341
Sports News
Congratulations to Charlotte Farmer from year 6 who has been selected in the Queensland Clubs Representative Soccer team. This is a
fantastic achievement Charlie, well done!!!!!
Oceanic Cross Country Date:
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10-12 Yrs Cross Country will be held on Thursday 28 May at Pizzey Park. Any student that finished in the top 5 of the school cross
country will be eligible to compete at this event. A note regarding price, transport and race times will go home shortly.
Jared Frazer
PE Teacher
ANZAC Day Stories
WORLD WAR I SOLDIERS - A LINK TO ELANORA
Elanora State School has at least two links to World War I ANZACS, through two of its students.
Stanley and Harold Wise, who fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in France and Belgium during the war from 1915-1918, are
the great-great-grand uncles of Milly and Nelson Beikoff-Smart, students in years 6 and 4 at the school.
That means Stanley and Harold were the brothers of Milly and Nelson's grandmother's grandmother.
The following information was written by Gary Smart, father to Milly and Nelson Beikoff-Smart.
STANLEY GORDON WISE
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World War I was declared on August 4, 1914 and just two weeks later, Stanley Gordon Wise left his home in Linton in Victoria to
enlist in the Australian Imperial Army.
Stanley was 24 years old and a single man who was employed as a driver at the time, which was probably slightly unusual in 1914
as there were not that many cars on the road in those days. Many people still used horses for transport.
Stan had fair hair, blue eyes, was 172 centimetres tall and weighed 78 kilograms, which was pretty much average for recruits in
those days.
After a couple of months of training in Victoria, Stan was assigned to the 3rd Field Artillery column and set sail in December 1914
for the war overseas. But instead of heading to France to fight the Germans, his troop joined many other Australian soldiers in
sailing to the Middle East where they joined up with New Zealand soldiers to form the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -the ANZACS.
Stan first saw battle when he was part of the ANZAC invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey on April 25, 1915. They suffered
terrible losses in the invasion with more than 2000 casualties on the first day.
The ANZACS spent eight months fighting and surviving in terrible conditions at Gallipoli -- always under fire, always hungry and
cold and filthy in muddy, diseased trenches. Eventually they were forced to abandon the peninsua.
Stan was one of the lucky ones who survived and was evacuated to Cairo, the capital city of Egypt.
Soon after, he joined the 3rd Field Ambulance Brigade as a driver, and was shipped to the Western Front in France where soldiers
faced a new form of fighting -- artillery. Never before in war had so many big, powerful guns be used with such devastating effect.
Stan spent 16 long months in France, all the while driving an ambulance ferrying wounded men to hospitals and safety as bombs
exploded and bullets whistled around his ears.
In July 1917, Stan was sent to another part of the Western Front in Belgium but sadly, on August 16, 1917, he was killed in action,
performing his duty.
He was laid to rest at the Messines Reningheist Military Cemetary in Belgium.
As a young man, Stan had loved to play the violin and when he died, his violin was passed down to Beverley Smart, Milly and
Nelson's grandmother. She still has that violin, which is more than 100 years
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HAROLD MILTON WISE
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While Stan was fighting in France in July 1916, his younger brother Harold
Milton Wise, who was 22, also decided to enlist and join the fight.
Harold was taller than his brother at 175 centimetres but a bit on the skinny
side, weighing 66 kilograms. He too had fair hair and blue eyes and he listed
his job at the time as a laborer.
By October 1916, Harold had completed his training and sailed from
Melbourne on the Nestor bound for Plymouth in England. Soon after arriving
on November 16, he boarded another ship, which took his battalion to
France, where the fighting raged on the Western Front.
All through 1917 Harold fought in France and Belgium, surviving the horrors
of enemy bullets, bombardment and gas attacks.
On February 25, 1918, Harold -- who was just 23 years old -- was killed in
action on a battlefield in Belgium.
He was buried in the La Plus Douve Farm British Cemetary in Belgium.
The tiny, mud-splattered bible he carried with him through the war in his
breast pocket, eventually found its way back to his family in Australia and
eventually that too was passed on to Milly and Nelson's grandmother.
For Australia, as for many nations, the First World War remains the most
costly conflict in terms of deaths and casualties. From a population of fewer
than five million, Stan and Harold were among 416,809 men who enlisted, of
which more than 60,000 were killed.
No doubt many students at Elanora State School have distant links to men
and women who served in World War I. These are just two of those stories.
Stanley Gordon Wise at the Victoria Barracks
recruiting centre in Melbourne,
18 August 1914.
Sports Draw - Friday 24 April 2015
Science
Term 2 Science Units
Prep- Earth & Space Science: Weather Watch
Year One- Chemical Science: Material Madness
Year Two- Physical Science: Toy Factory
Year Three- Chemical Science: What’s the Matter?
Year Four- Biological Science: Ready, Set, Grow
Year Five- Earth & Space Science: Our Place in the Solar System
Year Six- Physical Science: Energy & Electricity
2015 Science Conference and Showcase
Our annual Science Conference will be held at Currumbin Wild life Sanctuary on Thursday 21st May - Term 2 Week 5. Students in
Years 5 & 6 who have expressed their interest, as well as teacher selected students from Year 4, will be given more information and
permission notes early next week.
Term 2 dates:
Week Week 3 onwards - Year 6 Science Enrichment lessons with Elanora High School staff Week 5 – Science Conference
Weeks 7 & 8 – Wipe Out Waste visits for all classes
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Week 7 – Friday 5 June – World Environment Day
Cleaner Greener Elanora – As our focus this term is World Environment Day and Wipe Out Waste, let’s continue to focus our efforts on
reducing our daily food waste, which includes food and the packaging it comes in.
Science Competition – though this competition is on in Term 3, now is the time to start thinking and looking at ideas for entries. There
will be more information on categories and dates as they come to hand throughout this term.
Jeanette Simpkins & Shirley Ashburn
Elanora Science Co-ordinators
P&C News
Congratulations to our Easter Raffle Winners
Connor Edward - 6A
Bella Appo - 3D
Jordan Kelly - Prep Red
Oscar Cooper
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Easter Egg Guess Winner
Morgan 1E
Thank you to families that donated Easter Eggs for the Raffle and/or delivered
delicious goodies for the P & C to sell at the Easter Hat Parade – they went very
quickly. Special thanks to CurrumbinRSL for donating a Easter Hamper!
THE CADBURY® FUNDRAISER CONTINUES !!
You’ve got to be in it to win it! Prizes include:
A double pass for one child in EVERY class to Air Factory!
An iPad mini for our top seller!
An iPad mini for one other lucky seller!
All fundraising packs need to be pre-purchased using Flexischools or by paying
cash upfront for your box. PLEASE NOTE – there will be NO service fee charged
for using Flexischools when it is for a Fundraising Item! Boxes can be collected
from the P&C Room or the Uniform Shop before school!
Freddo & Friends Fun Pack $50
Fundraiser Variety Pack $50
Easter Eggs Mix - 20 Bags of Eggs $80
School Banking
Rewards Programme Update
Available in Term 2, we have two new reward items from Outer Space Savers
range for students to redeem:
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Invisible Ink Martian Pen
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Intergalactic Rocket
Melanie Allen
P & C Secretary
A Message From The ICT Coach
Dear Parent/Guardian
I am writing to introduce myself as the new Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Coach at Elanora State School. I believe
that the learning experiences presented by ICT Education are among the most valuable a student can have at school.
In this role I will be supporting staff, teachers and students in using ICT to enhance the learning process. It is our aim at Elanora State
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School to facilitate the development of knowledge and skills necessary for the 21 century workforce, including digital-age literacy and
numeracy, innovative and creative thinking, effective communications and increased awareness of becoming Cybersafe and Cyber
Smart.
Prior to this position, I have been both a regular classroom teacher as well as a specialist technology teacher. I also spent two years
employed by Apple Inc, facilitating in-store training, setting up devices for customers and assisting in running “Apple Camp”. Apple Camp
is of particular note as this program was designed to teach 8 to 12 year old children learn to create movies, storyboard ideas, shoot
videos and creating original soundtracks – all excellent ways to enhance student learning by challenging higher order thinking.
If you have any questions you are very welcome to contact me on 5559 9222 or by email at niyam0@eq.edu.au.
Kind Regards
Novita Yamin
ICT Coach
School Photos
From The HOC
My name is Janet Fitzgerald, and this term I am acting in the role of Head of Curriculum. I have worked at this school for 4 years, firstly
as a Year 2 classroom teacher and, more recently, as Literacy Numeracy Coach.
We are very fortunate at Elanora to have such a wonderful group of parents who are proactive with their children’s learning. Did you
know that research has identified clear, measurable benefits for children when their parents are actively engaged in their learning?
These studies demonstrate that the children are more likely to:
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develop positive self-esteem,
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be motivated to learn,
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be positive about school,
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achieve good grades.
This term I will be holding 2 workshops for parents on how to help your child with reading. These workshops will be held on:
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1. Monday 4 May 1.45 – 2.45p.m. (invitation attached) for Prep – Year 2 parents; and
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2. Monday 11 May 1.45 – 2.45 p.m. (invitation attached) for Years 3 - 6 parents
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Janet Fitzgerald
Head of Curriculum
Uniform Shop News
VOLUNTEERS WANTED
Could you spare any time to help in the uniform shop, particularly between 8.15am – 9.00am? If so, please contact Leah in the Uniform
Shop.
INTERSCHOOL SPORT
Interschool sport has now commenced. Don’t forget it is compulsory for Year 5 to wear the new sports shirt. Optional for Year 6. Cost
$38.00.
The uniform shop also stocks football socks at $9.00 a pair.
Leah O'Reilly
Uniform Shop Convenor
Tuckshop News
Hello to all
Welcome back from the tuckshop team. I would like to make a public welcome to the two new terrific team members. Mrs Anita
Chisholm and Mrs Leah Murphy.
Please consider lending an hour in the tuckshop if you can. We are desperate for helpers. Helping us will ensure your children have
fresh, quality lunches delivered on time (and it will help me stay blonde instead of going grey early too!)
The new menu is up and running. You will notice corn cobs, home made scrolls, fresh fruit in a cup ($1 for fruit break) banana smoothies,
home made frozen yoghurt, rice paper rolls to name a few. There has been a small price increase on most of the menu. I can assure
you the tuckshop keeps the prices reasonable, we are not running the tuckshop to make a profit and any profits made do go back into the
school. I am committed to providing healthy choices from locally sourced suppliers and small businesses.
I would like to see us making more real food choices available to our children and eventually cutting out all the processed and refined
ingredients. It just makes more sense to me to be able to know exactly what I'm cooking or making instead of trying to read a list of
ingredients that I don'tunderstand.
Dont forget all bag orders need to be dropped into tuckshop before the bell goes in the morning. Thank you to all the parents ordering
online. Your effort is much appreciated.
Eat clean
Sharyn Dick
Tuckshop Convener
Dental Van
Gold Coast Oral Health Services are offering free dental check-ups to children at Elanora State School from Prep to Year 6.To arrange
an appointment for your child telephone:
The Oral Health Client Service Centre - 1300 300 850 from Monday-Friday 8.00 am – 4.30 pm. Excluding Public Holidays.
Child Dental Benefit Schedule Vouchers are accepted. When your child’s $1000 cap is reached, there will be no out-of-pocket expenses
provided your child meets *eligibility criteria.
*Eligibility – All Queensland resident children aged four years or older who have not completed year 10 of secondary school.
Further information on public funded oral health services can be accessed via URL:
http://www.health.qld.gov.au/goldcoasthealth/html/services/oralhealth.asp
Community Notices