Issue 20, 13th December
From the Leadership Team
Term 1, 2024 Draft Event Calendar
From the Office
Student Resource Scheme and Booklists for 2025!
Hilliard Sport
2024 Swimming Carnival
Thank you to everyone who supported the 2024 HSS Swimming Carnival held for the first time at the Cleveland State school 25M pool. This venue made for a great day of student/parent/teacher participation, friendly house rivalry and fun.
Congratulations to Aston for winning the overall points trophy for the swimming carnival accumulating 245 points. (2nd place Carlson, 3rd place Butler, 4th place Rogers).
Congratulations also to the placegetters in the 25M and 50M races and to the following students who swam extremely well and received age champion, runner-up or 2nd runner-up age champion:
Age Champions
Dom, Indiana, Jordan, Everlynne, Cohen, Mia, Alex, Charlee, Hayden, Addison, Alex
Runner-Up Age Champions
Leon, Hunter, Charlotte, Archer, Chloe, Ben, Georgia, Savannah, Hudson, Kalea, Sam
2nd Runner-Up Age Champions
Levi, Maggie, Isaac, Mia, Jack, Kylan, Tanya, Joe
Congratulations Parents for winning the parent, teacher, house captain relay race. The team members were Tom, Casey, Neena and Chris. Thank you also to all of the parents who participated in the inaugural parent race – congratulations Chris on your win!
Well done to all students for your enthusiastic participation in the carnival and for showing great house spirit, sportsmanship and embracing the new venue.
Students in the Classroom
What an informative morning! Some of our cherished, former Hilliard students came along and gave invaluable advice and strategies to our current Year 6 cohort, who are transitioning to high school in less than two weeks. During the discussion you could see many of the worries the Year 6 students had, were alleviated. To show our appreciation we gave them a vote of thanks and a certificate. Thank you to our wonderful group of former students who without hesitation, happily gave of their precious time to guide our current Year 6 students on their journey to high school. Tanya and Charlee
Former Hilliard SS students gave our Year 6's advice on the transition to High School!
Some of our year 6 students have been busy helping out in the Prep area - cleaning toys for the end of the year. Well done year 6's!
From the P&C
Yura families,
Woohoo! We have made it to the end of the year, and what a crazy, busy, year it has been! Thank you to everyone for all of your support throughout the year and more recently with the Christmas Stall and Raffle. We were able to raise $2,899.93!! As the stall was so successful with the students from years 3 to 6 being involved in running the stall, we will continue this special interest group next year for the Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Christmas stalls.
We are looking at rescheduling our Movie Night for Saturday, 29th March 2024 and are in the process of checking that our food trucks, animal farm, movie people etc. are available that day as well as the Easter Bunny! So, keep your eye on Facebook, SeeSaw and the newsletter for updates.
For anyone looking to purchase uniforms for next year, we will be open on Thursday, 23rd and Friday, 24th January for you to pop in to grab what you need. You can also preorder on QKR, and we will have these ready for you to do a quick pick up on those days.
I would like to say a big congratulations to our Year 6 students. It was a pleasure being at the graduation ceremony to present each student with their graduation gift on behalf of the P&C committee. We hope that you will treasure your gifts and wish you all the very best for the future.
We have started looking at next year and what events we will be holding (see attached draft calendar). We have also started discussing what we would like to use our fundraising funds for next year (i.e. bleachers/benches on the oval for parents to sit on at sporting events, football goals for the oval).
At this stage we will only be organising the Movie Night and the three stalls next year, as we unfortunately do not have enough committee members. So, if you would like to see your children participate in events such as a colour fun run or disco etc., we would love for you to contact us or pop along to our first P&C meeting on Monday, 10th February 2025. You do not necessarily have to join the P&C if you only want to be involved in organising that one activity. Alternatively, if you have any ideas or suggestions on what you would like to see improved at the school which we could fundraise for, we would love to hear from you.
On that note, I would like to wish all of our Hilliard families and staff a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I look forward to seeing you all in 2025!!
Thanks so much
Sam Eady
President
hilliardpandcpresident@gmail.com
Community Notices
Happy Holidays from all of us at The Y!
We wish you a joyful and safe festive season with your loved ones.
For more details about our holiday schedule, visit ymcachildcare.com.au/outside-school-hours-care
Thank you for a wonderful year, and we look forward to seeing you in the new year!
School Watch
The School Watch program encourages everyone to look out for and report any after-hours crime in our schools.
Empty schools can become targets for unlawful entry, arson, stealing, graffiti and property damage, especially during school holiday periods. This comes at a cost to the whole community and not just the financial cost of repairs.
The School Watch program is a partnership between the Department of Education and Protective Services Group, Queensland Police Service, providing a way for members of the community to report anything they see that is suspicious, even if it seems minor.
On average, more than 700 calls are made to School Watch every year, helping to keep our schools safe.
Look, Listen, Report. Call School Watch on 13 17 88.
If you see a crime in progress, call Triple Zero (000).
