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Dear Parents/Carers

This past fortnight has been a hive of activity at our school.  Students have been keenly preparing themselves for the athletics carnival, PBL rewards days and end of semester celebrations.  On top of our end of term activity has been the trusted Life Education lessons. 

Staffing

As the Deputy Principal for the past half of a decade, I have had the privilege of working alongside a staff member who has become intrinsic to the very fabric of Rochedale South State School and near synonymous with even the utterance of the name. I would like to take the opportunity to wish Mr Glynn Priddle some restful weeks ahead as he accesses some well earned long service leave. At the same time, I would like to thank him for the opportunity to see how he imbues the celebration, challenging, the good work of Rochedale South State School.

In all things, Glynn leads the good work that Rochedale South is known for and with his whitty repartee has captured and engaged the hearts and minds of students of our school for almost three decades.   On behalf of the staff body and community, past and present, we wish you well over the coming weeks and hope you enjoy well deserved time with friends, family and loved ones.

Recent Events

Year 4 students are preparing to engage in their first semester of learning through the Bring Your Own Device Program (BYOD). Teachers and students are busily preparing for the introduction of student devices into the room and looking forward to continuing with the digital learning our Year 4 students have previously been afforded through our laptop hire program.  For more information please visit our website here.

Upcoming Events

PBL rewards days will be celebrated across our school on Tuesday 21 June. Students will be recieving their invitations to the various rewards across the school this Friday and we would like to take this opportunity to celebrate the great Learners that we have at Rochedale South.  This semester students who have been inducted into the plus 50 Cal Club will have a range of choices in their rewards day with our lower school engaging in; Craft-e-noons, Buddy Movie and Disco, and our upper school; STEM Tinker Tasks, Mini Olympics and Water Fight.

Our annual Atheletics Carnival is being held over two days, with senior athletics on Wednesday June 22 and Junior athletics June 23. Community are welcome to observe on these days and we look forward to hosting you.  A reminder that students are required to stay onsite and with their respective classes during the day and parents/caregivers are required to sign them out via the office prior to leaving site.  

Semester reports

School reports will be sent home on Thursday June 23 this semester. Teachers have done a thorough job with report writing and providing feedback to our students.  Our students have engaged deeply with the units this term and have enhanced their work by utilising the third teacher space through each classes bump it up walls.  Our Leadership Team have been reading and reviewing reports over this last week which has highlighted the depth and enjoyment our students have experienced in this full term of school.  

Our reporting for Semester One has been a cause for celebration as well as looking at our longitudinal growth over the past four years.  I will be sharing some more insights into the reporting period data at the commencement of Term 3.  Our school population continues to grow, unsurprisingly, as the comments from community continue to be positive.  The increase to population had not hampered the maintenance of our students achieving at and above level (A-C) in each Key Learning Area (KLA) of English, Mathematics and Science in fact it has continued to grow. 

This past year has seen our School Explicit Agenda (EIA) focus on, the growth of student learning and achievement through ‘Levelling Up’ and ‘High Expectations’.  Our priority this year continues to be that focus in the KLA of English.  

Can I congratulate our students, parents, teachers and staff on seeing our students learning, connection to the work, and articulating their next best learning moves, as being 'the work'.

School Holidays

Shortly we will be demarking the end of Term 2 and I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday. Over the school holidays no one can access the school grounds after hours without written permission from the Principal. If you see anything suspicious, please don't attempt to intervene. Call the School Watch number on 131788. The School Watch Program is a partnership between Education Queensland, the Queensland Police Service and the State Government Protective Security Service. It aims to reduce vandalism, theft and arson in Queensland schools. Let's work together to help create a safer school community

ROCHEDALE ROAD  AND PRIESTDALE ROAD WORKS 

TRAFFIC SWITCH
Changes to the road alignment on Rochedale Road and Priestdale Road, near the intersection, will be introduced from Monday 20 June, between 7am and 5pm, weather and site conditions permitting.
Motorists are encouraged to follow reduced speed limits and take care when travelling through the works zone due to these changed traffic conditions. Traffic control and signage will be on site to assist pedestrians and motorists.
These traffic switches will allow works to progress within different sections of the road on Priestdale Road east and Rochedale Road north. Further traffic switches will be required as part of our works, so we ask that you please drive carefully through the work site and follow onsite signage and direction from traffic controllers. Access to residential properties and businesses will be maintained, however there will be some access changes.
THALLON STREET CLOSURE
From Monday 4 July, Thallon Street at the intersection with Priestdale Road will be closed to motorists. This closure will remain until mid-August 2022 to allow works to take place on the southern side of Priestdale Road east. Residents on Thallon Street will be required to access their properties via Netherby Street.
During these works, traffic control and signage will be on site to assist pedestrians and motorists. Pedestrian access will be maintained on the northern and southern side of Priestdale Road east.
For more information about these upcoming works, please contact the project team on 1800 669 416 (during business hours) or email cityprojects@brisbane.qld.gov.au. After hours, please call Council’s 24-hour Contact Centre on 3403 8888.

Intentional Collaboration

This week the school has funded additional non-contact time so that year levels can come together and plan teaching and learning sequences for Term 3. Our teachers work extremely hard to ensure the Australian Curriculum is taught with rigor plus the units of work that our students are learning about, are contextual and engaging. As part of this week, students have a slightly different time for their specialist subjects to fit in the timetable. As parents, be excited about their units of work, this brings about a sense of excitement and it rubs off onto your children.

At staff meeting this week, all staff are involved in Moderation. A whole school approach to moderation processes underpins a systematic curriculum delivery and supports teachers to align curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and reporting; and ensures consistency of teacher judgments and accuracy of reporting against the Australian Curriculum achievement standards. Parents should feel confident that your child’s report reflects the moderation process. Teachers use the achievement standards written by the Australian Curriculum to base their A-E judgements. Through student’s summative assessments and student work, teachers gather evidence of student learning against the relevant achievement standards to ensure consistent and accurate teacher judgments. At our staff meeting, teachers reach a consensus (agreement) to ensure consistent and accurate teacher judgments. This moderation provides students and their parents/carers with confidence that the awarded grades are an accurate judgment of achievement and that the report is meaningful, professional and consistent.

 Reporting

As previously mentioned, report marks and comments will be generated and sent to parents at the end of Week 10 of Term 2. These academic reports inform to you about your child’s achievement and progress for each learning area and/or subject undertaken, at a point in time. Reporting builds the school-parent partnership to improve student learning and I encourage you to CELEBRATE your child’s report with them. Pay attention to the level of effort that your child is receiving, as this can be indicative of whether your child has been trying their best or not. Evidence suggests that effort is a precursor to success and achievement at school.

I would like to wish all my families a happy and restful school holidays. Our students have earned this break. Make sure your children have plenty of time outdoors, rain hail or shine. There is strong evidence to suggest that child’s wellbeing is linked to the time spent outdoors. A walk around the block with the dog, a kick at the local footy oval or a play at the park are so important for a child’s wellbeing. As adults, spending time in nature has big benefits for your mental wellbeing. It’s also been shown to have wider health benefits like building your immune system and lowering your blood pressure. Thank you to all our parents and guardians who support our students to be creative, resilient, curious learners empowered to excel.

Celebration of Learning

I would like to take this opportunity to highlight the Year 1’s learning this term in English. Students have been working towards, understanding the different purposes of texts and making connections to personal experience when explaining characters and main events in short texts. Student had to describe characters and settings to gain a deeper comprehension. In both these amazing work samples, students wrote about literal and implied meanings from the books they read. Well done!

Up and coming events Prep – Year 2

Rewards Day Tuesday 21^st June

Junior Athletics Day Thursday 23^rd June

Reports emailed Thursday 23^rd June

Term 3

Chappy Subway Tuesday 26^TH July

Under 8’s Day – Patch and Scratch gardening workshops August 2

Dear Parents and Carers

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