Issue 18, 18th November 2022
From the Principal
Yura families/carers,
I start this update with a positive. Our Yr 1 students were visited by the Queensland Fire Service this week to discuss Fire Safety. The fire fighters reported that our students were very well-mannered, engaged and kind to each other. We are always proud of the way our students represent Hilliard SS when we are on excursions or when we have visitors to our school. Well done, Yr 1s.
Our booklists for 2023 were emailed to all families this week. If you did not receive this email, please check our website and Facebook for the links. We conducted a new ‘tender’ process this year for the booklists and Lyle at Mt Cotton News was successful. So, we continue to support our local community businesses.
At Hilliard SS, we often discuss with our students the difference between ‘mean’ and ‘bullying’. There are various definitions for bullying, however, the basic premise is the same. We discuss the following:
Mean is when people say something intentionally hurtful and they do it once. Bullying is when someone says or does something intentionally hurtful and keeps doing it – even when they have been told to stop.
Our students are taught to STOP, WALK, REPORT – Tell the person to STOP, WALK away (if possible) and REPORT to an adult who can assist. Please support your children to understand these steps also. When it comes to digital behaviour we follow : STOP, BLOCK, REPORT.
At Hilliard SS, we value the positive impact our volunteers have on our school community. In order to thank them for their time and efforts, we are holding a Volunteer Celebration evening on 5th December 2022. Please see the invitation attached. If you have volunteered at Hilliard over the 2022 year, we would love you to join us for nibbles and cold drinks. Please ensure you RSVP by the link so that we can organise catering.
Earlier this week we added a reminder about students being on the grounds before supervision. As you would be aware, all schools provide supervision at a reasonable hour before school and at Hilliard, our Teacher Aides are on duty in the undercover areas from 8.40am. Prior to this time, teachers are preparing for the day so if students arrive before that time, they are unsupervised. We are noticing that some students are getting to school earlier and earlier and incidents are occurring. In order to ensure the safety of all our students, I need them to arrive when there is supervision. If your child is invited by a staff member to join a before school club, this is supervised and therefore approved.
Thank you to our Religious Instruction teachers who have been involved all year. The students watched an end of year production on Wednesday and were able to thank the teachers for their support and encouragement.
Our Junior and Senior Band performed for the school on Tuesday. It was wonderful to see the development in our students, particularly our Yr 4s who started in the program at the beginning of this year. If your child/ren is currently in Yr 3, 4 or 5 , they are eligible to apply to be a part of the instrumental program for 2023. Please contact the administration or class teacher for details.
Once again, thank you for all your support,
Leanne Witham
Principal
From the School Leadership Team
Books & Blankets - Invitation to current Prep Families
Parents and Grandparents of our current Prep students have been invited to join us for this exciting event over the next few weeks. This is a special end of year celebration of how much we love books and reading in Prep! We hope to see many of you there.
Welcoming our 2023 Preps
Over the past few months we have been welcoming our incoming Prep students for 2023, and their families. It has been lovely to meet and get to know our new students, and to have them come and visit for Come & Play afternoons on Thursdays. They have had so much fun seeing a Prep classroom, meeting new classmates and friends, reading stories, singing songs and doing lots of fun hands-on activities.
On Thursday 1st December, our 2023 Preppies will all come in for Orientation morning. They will get to practice dressing up in a special “uniform” to come along to ‘big school’, and meet their new teacher and classmates in their new classroom for next year. We are looking forward to this exciting day.
Come and Play Fun!
Semester 2 Report Cards
Teachers are currently working hard to prepare Semester 2 Report Cards, to provide detailed information for parents about their child/ren’s academic achievements, efforts and behaviour. Achievement levels for subjects are based on student performance on summative assessment tasks, which are designed to give students multiple opportunities to demonstrate their learning and provide a means for teachers to make judgements about student work samples, as compared to the Australian Curriculum Year Level Achievement Standards.
We are very proud to see every child’s improvement towards achieving their individual learning goals, which is monitored by regular feedback between teachers and students.
Semester 2 Report Cards will be emailed out to parents on Thursday 8th December. Parents, please ensure your contact details are up to date at the school office, including a working email address that accepts .pdf attachments, to make sure you receive your child/ren’s report card.
From Your Friendly Office Staff
Can you believe that this is the second last newsletter for the year! The term has completely flown by, but we still have some very exciting events coming up:
- Year 6 camp Monday 21st-Wednesday 23rd November
- Tuesday 22nd November - Payments CLOSE Prep-Yr2 swimming lessons; Prep-Yr 2 Reward Free Dress day, 2pm Kabool Reward Disco
- Wednesday 23rd November - Yr 1 Fire Education Visit (session 2); Books & Blankets 2.15-2.45pm;
- Friday 25th November Hilliard State School Awards Ceremony 9am, 9.15am iKids Playgroup
- Monday 28th November Prep-Yr2 Swimming Lessons commence, AHSHS Rainbow Day (for Yr6 students attending AHSHS in 2023)
- Wednesday 30th November 9.30am Year 6 Graduation, 2.15-.245pm Books and Blankets
- Thursday 1st December - Payments CLOSE Yr 6 Graduation and Fun Day; Yr 3-6 Reward Free Dress Day, 2pm Kabool Reward Disco
- Thursday 1st & Friday 2nd December P&C Christmas Stall
We strongly encourage parents to ensure that their accounts are up to date for the end of the year. At this stage there are still a lot of payments outstanding. Failure to pay the Student Resource Scheme (SRS) will result in students' not being able to participate in the scheme next year. We are currently finalising the Student Resource Scheme for 2023, information will be available shortly.
Finally, this Sunday, the P&C are holding a Bunnings Sausage sizzle fundraiser at Bunnings Capalaba - come on down and buy a sausage!!!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Sport
Swimming Carnival
Congratulations to Aston for winning the overall points trophy for the swimming carnival accumulating 295 points. (2nd place Carlson, 3rd place Rogers, 4th place Butler)
Congratulations also to the placegetters in the 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:
Savannah, Clancy, Charlee, Ben, Addison, Hayden, Lydia, Blake, Leah, Jordan
Runner-Up Age Champions:
Erika, Jake, George, Georgia, Manutai, Gemma, Cooper, Khan, Braxton, Emily, Jordan, Aaron
2nd Runner-Up Age Champions:
Brighton, Frankee, Jake, Hannah, Zara, Kylan, Natalie, Kilipati, Ashlyn
Congratulations Aston house for winning the parent, teacher, house captain relay race. The team members were Lydia, Blake, Jordan and Braxton. Thank you also to Neena, Rachel, Tiffany and Keeleigh for their participation in the parent relay team.
Instrumental Music
Instrumental MusicWell done students for a great performance this week. Highlights from this year include Senior Band winning Silver at Fanfare, workshops with neighbouring schools and students selected for the Regional Music Camp. Six students will also be representing us next weekend in the State Honours Ensemble Program.Join the band in 2023If your child will be in Year 4-6 next year and would like to start learning a band instrument, please fill out the form by 25th November. https://hilliardss.schoolzineplus.com/form/36
P&C News
**Xmas raffle tickets are now for sale on QKR!!**
Get your tickets before the raffle closes! Drawn on the 2nd of December, tickets will still be available for sale at the stall, however due to the very significant value of the prizes, tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5 rather than 50c this time.
Here is a list of the amazing prizes that have been generously donated by the businesses in our amazing community:
- $299 Beats Fit Pro
- What’s your Team - $250 voucher for a guernsey
- JAT Mechanics - $230 voucher for a service
- $225 JBL All in One Sound Bar
- Ceiling fan/electrical goods (Ideal Electrical) plus installation total to value of $200 (Arana Electrical)
- Evil Eye Tattoo - $200 voucher
- Bay Island Water Sports - $100 voucher
- Bunnings - $100 voucher
- Capalaba Sports Club - $50 dining voucher
- Sugar Rush Bakery – $50 voucher
- Movie Tickets - $50 vouchers
- Ruth Ryan Photography – voucher
- Woolworths - $30 voucher
- Two food hampers
- Taste of the Redlands food hamper
- Adult pamper pack
- Girls backpack
- Boys backpack
XMAS Stall
It’s the happiest season of all,
When the P&C put out the call,
For donations to place, in our raffles for sale,
In our wonderful Christmas time stall.
We are getting ready and set for our Xmas stall to be held on the 1st and 2nd of December. It’s one of our favourite events to get involved in, so if you are interested in being part of the cuteness overload that is children shopping for Xmas gifts then please let us know at hilliardpandcfundraising@gmail.com .
Also, if you have any, or know of any sources of donations to sell as gifts or include in the Xmas stall raffle please don’t hesitate to let us know by email or drop off directly at the Tuckerbox. Many thanks in advance!
PREP SIZED MEALS
We now have prep-sized offerings of some hot food favourites! Look for them on QKR.
November Bunnings Sausage Sizzle!
We will be holding another BBQ this Sunday, the 20th of November. Come on down to Bunnings Capalaba to say G’day and enjoy the best tasting sausage sizzle around!
Upcoming 2022 events:
- Bunnings BBQ Capalaba 20th Nov
- Xmas stall 1st & 2nd Dec
- Final P&C meeting for 2022 with drinks for members & volunteers 5th Dec
- Bunnings Xmas Stall (Capalaba) 8th Dec from 6pm
Containers For Change
Our P&C Coordinates a Containers for Change Queensland recycling scheme to raise additional funds for our school community. There are orange bins placed around the school to collect any containers students might have at break times, or alternatively you can donate containers directly at any depot and use: Hilliard State School Scheme Id #C10161576
This can be used across Queensland, so any family members further afield can contribute too. For more information on what containers are eligible, see www.containersforchange.com.au
Jabiru
We are well into the second half of this last school term for 2023, and can’t wait for the commencement of the Summer Vacation Care. The program has been made up of exciting excursions, special guests and service days that have been well thought of by our children and their families.
We would like to further thank our Jabiru families for making use of our suggestions box and allowing us to incorporate your voice and interests into our program/menu.
We look forward to counting down the days to the festive season and new year with the children.
Amy 😊
LTK Speech & Drama Preformance Tickets on Sale
This year Hilliard State School has students who are performing in their own showcase.
Prep – year 6. We would love you to come. The show runs for 45 minutes at The Star Theatre Wynnum.
Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for adults.
Please click the link below to read all about the date and time and booking details.
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/964403
Thunderbolts Netball Club
Thunderbolts Netball is a local Redlands Club based at Pinklands Sports Ground in Thornlands.
At Thunderbolts we are committed to the youth of the Redlands in an all-inclusive sporting environment.
In order to promote our club and netball as a product we are holding a free “come and try” day.
Thunderbolts is a great club and we really hope that you are able to assist us in this matter.
Wellington Point Charity Day
