Caboolture Special School Week 1, Term 2, 2023

Principal News

Dear Caboolture Special School community members

Welcome to the first edition of our new look newsletter!  Newsletters will be published in weeks 1, 5 and 10 of each term.

It has been a very strong start to Term 2 for our students at Caboolture Special School, with us welcoming back existing students and also greeting a number of new students to our wonderful school community.

Our teaching focus will continue around our explicit improvement agendas contained within our 2023 Annual Implementation Plan of:-

Refining signature practices focused on communication and curriculum  

Strengthening school processes that support staff capability building through collegial engagement

Embedding Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

ANZAC Day Acknowledgement Events

Our school acknowledged ANZAC Day commemorations ‘in school’ on Friday 21st April, through class discussions, our Assembly and class wreath laying opportunities.

I will be in attendance at the Caboolture/Morayfield ANZAC Day Main Service March and Main Service on 25th April and invite school community members to do likewise in the capacity they choose.  Details are below.  Attending students are encouraged to wear school uniform.

Caboolture – Morayfield ANZAC Day Events

Dawn Service 

4:50 am

Memorial, Bolton Clarke Fernhill Retirement Village

Main Service march assembly (group organisation pre-march) 

8:30 am 

King Street Caboolture Main Service March

9:30 am            

Water tower, Bolton Clarke Fernhill Retirement Village,

Main Service     

10:15 AM          

Caboolture Town Square

Contact: Caboolture - Morayfield & District RSL Sub-Branch Inc office 10:00 AM -1:00 PM, Monday to Friday on (07) 5353 9164 for further information.

Welcome Sheree Carter

Sheree Carter joins our school leadership team from Term 2 in the role of acting Deputy Principal, following the recent departmentally endorsed merit selection process.  Sheree has already been busy building relationships across the school and I look forward to working alongside Sheree to progress work that makes the biggest difference for our students.

PBL Additional Support Initiative

Our school’s Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Committee recently provided a PBL model of support for consideration of school stakeholders for 2023.

The model includes a 0.6 (three days a week) PBL teacher working alongside 2 x PBL Teacher Aides (five days a week) to support student engagement and success across the school, in alignment with our school’s Annual Implementation Plan (AIP).

This model has met with support from those who have decided to provide feedback during the consultation period, including our P&C and LCC.

Following the recent selection processes related to the new whole school PBL teacher and PBL teacher aide initiative, congratulations to:-

Bridget Abbott – PBL Teacher (3 days per week)

Melissa Wear – PBL Teacher Aide  (5 days per week)

Amanda Williams – PBL Teacher Aide (5 days per week)

on their respective appointments.

These staff will move into their new roles during week 2 of Term 2.

Boundary fencing, Hall ICT enhancements and CCTV

Over the April holidays, a number of infrastructure enhancement works at our school took place, including improved school boundary fencing and hall audio/visual enhancements.  In addition to these significant improvements, CCTV cameras are now installed on our school site and these cameras are now operational.  I thank the Department of Education for their substantial financial investment in our school through these subsidized works.

FREE SRV Baseball Program (normally over $250 per student)

Book in to secure your spot!  The successful program is on again this term, running from 9-10am and starting on Saturday 6th May and finishing on Saturday 27th May.  We have been successful in gaining a $1500 Sporting School Grant for this initiative and the school is funding any shortfall in costs to ensure the program can be offered for free to families.

For more information and to register go to www.srvbaseballaust.net

Creative Generation (CGen)

https://creativegeneration.education.qld.gov.au/

Our school will be represented again this year at this performance spectacular.  More news to come.

I look forward to seeing you around our school.  Thank you for choosing Caboolture Special School for the education of your child.

Best wishes

Mr Sheldon Boland
 Principal

Deputy Principal

Welcome back to Term Two!

I hope everyone had an amazing time with family and friends over the school holiday break. It has been so exciting to see everyone back at school this week.

Students have been busy working this week on new topics for the term. It has been fabulous to be visiting classrooms and see everyone so keen to be back at school working.

This term we are continuing with excursions to the CREEC playground. Classes that have visited this so far have had an amazing experience.

Bus Transport

If you are considering bus transport, please see administration as soon as you can. The process for bus approvals can take some weeks to process.

If you have any changes or edits to make to existing bus transport approvals, this can also take some time to approve. If you are moving house, please advise us as soon as possible.

In some cases, the buses may be full and there will be a waitlist.

If you no longer require bus transport, please make us aware as soon as possible. Other students may be waiting for these seats.

Medication 

If your child has any updated health or medication information, please advise the office as soon as possible.

ANZAC Day Wreath Laying 2023

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Kerry Gilmore 
Deputy Principal - Early Years

New Deputy Principal

Dear Families,

I have the privilege of being the newly appointed Deputy Principal at Caboolture Special School this term. I am excited to be a part of your wonderful school community and to support your children in their development, wellbeing and education.

This week I have thoroughly enjoyed welcoming students and parents to the school in the mornings and afternoons. My first bus duty wave off was a success and to see all the happy faces each and every day is such a joy for me. A shout out to our dedicated bus people and school staff in ensuring our students arrive and leave the school safely each day.

I have had the pleasure of visiting classrooms and seeing students actively engaging with their peers, teachers and a variety of activities. Classes have been engaging in ANZAC Day activities where they are learning about the importance of April 25th each year with remembrance and respect for the fallen and current members of the armed forces. In particular, classes W and X were focussed in their learning and each student was able to contribute to the conversations about ANZAC Day with confidence. Well done everyone!

Another highlight was the wonderful writing that Ella presented to me about her holidays. Her teacher Sarah said this was the most writing Ella had ever done and she wanted to share it with me as a celebration of her learning. Well done, Ella! An amazing achievement and you should be so proud of yourself.

Thank you to everyone for welcoming me so graciously this week and I look forward to more celebrations of student learning as we progress throughout the year.

Kind regards,

Sheree Carter - Deputy Principal

Kind regards,

Sheree Carter - Deputy Principal

Business Managers Bulletin

Your space influences your experience

It has been widely documented by research institutes around the world that your space influences your experience. I see this proven time and time again here at Caboolture Special School. All our staff work to make this an appealing space for our students to engage with learning.

Our school is a space students, staff and our wider school community wants to be, and this generates a deeper engagement in learning for our students and fosters strong connections between all our school community.

It is not just the lovely grounds, clean and tidy buildings and interactive classrooms but also how we engage with each other within these spaces that creates a place where we all want to be our best.

Thank you.

Biddy Adams

Business Service Manager

Curriculum Corner

This semester in mathematics students have been focusing on  engaging with counting in everyday experiences. Each curriculum level has its own expectation to for students to achieve –

• 1b learners respond to objects being counted
• 1c learners engage in counting with familiar partners and show one to one correspondence to objects being counted.
• 1d learners join in with counting in everyday experiences. They may even be able to count themselves.
• Prep curriculum learners are exploring and counting numbers up to 20.
• Year 1 curriculum Learners are exploring and counting numbers up to 100 including basic skip counting.
  

Below are some examples of students engagining in counting learning experiences. 

How can you help at home?

Counting at any opportunity in the home – objects on the table, in the bath, in a book, counting steps, repeating and singing counting songs. Model one to one correspondence, this develops the understand that there is a sequence and that everything you count is the same  - 1.

Tips –
*  Point to objects being counted

* Count slowly

* Line the objects up

Report Cards 

Semester 1 report cards will be emailed out to familes at the end of this term. 

Have you updated your contact details to ensure emails are recieved. 

Contact office staff to enquireor make changes. 

Katie Rogers 

Head of Department - Curriculum 

Writing still rocks

We continue our quest in Term 2 to find each and every individual student their own 'alternate pencil' or 'writing tool' that will help them be a successful 'writer'.  Being a writer and sharing your thoughts through the written form is a life skill we value and encourage as soon as our students arrive at Caboolture.  As this can be a rather challenging cognitive and physical task for some of our learners, we have found many ways to make things easier by creating customised writing tools, using wireless keyboards and engaging student with a wide variety of alphabet objects such as stampers, magnets, tiles and duplo blocks.  To ensure all of our teaching staff are equipped with the skills they need to teach writing we have offered some weekly Professional Learning opportunities and this week we examined some resources and how they could be used to support our students with our incredibly dedicated Teacher Aide team.  

Families that work well together

Success at school is strongly related to families that work well.  Below is a list of tips that may assist with strengthening family bonds.

Just as a loving, caring family can help a child develop self-esteem, so an unhappy, fearful family can lead to low self-esteem and a range of problems for a child.  Sometimes unhelpful ways of doing things, habits and patterns, form in our families without us realising that this has happened.  We often just know that life seems harder and not enjoyable anymore as a parent.  You may find it useful to think about how your family works.

Make time for talking and listening

• Often parents forget that talking with children can be difficult and that they think in different ways from grown-ups. Try to remember how it was for you.  The people you liked were probably those who listened to what you had to say.
• Listening means not only hearing the words but working out what your child is feeling behind the words.
• Check that you’re hearing your child correctly by repeating what you have heard but in different words. Show you are interested with brief fill-ins like “Mmm, go on” or “Really!”

Show affection, encouragement and appreciation

• Children and adults feel good when they are encouraged and appreciated. Let your child know what you love and like about them

Show affection, give hugs, be thoughtful and kind

• Teenagers who remember being praised, kissed or hugged during the previous week are likely to do better at school then those who don’t have this experience
• Take time to ask what each family member has done each day and show interest in each other’s lives
• Most people find it easier to criticise than praise, so try to think about the positives and tell your child what you have noticed

Share the chores and the power

• Help children to take on responsibilities so that as they get older you allow them to have more say over their own lives
• The younger the child the more you should be in control, but begin early, giving them chances to do things for themselves with careful watching
• When children have a real say in what happens and where everyone feels their views are listened to, a very special relationship with trust and intimacy helps build a healthy family

Keep in touch with friends and relatives

• The more a family is isolated from others the more chance there is of having problems
• Knowing that there are people outside to turn to when things get tough or in a crisis will make a difference to your child’s happiness and chances of having friends

Make family time

• Shared mealtimes (without television or phone calls) allow everyone to share information, and to know what is happening to each other
• Do things together – play cards or games, take holidays, go on outings or walks, go camping, play sport, share hobbies

Commitment

• Put the well-being of your family as a first priority
• Show loyalty to your family. Stick up for each other so that each person feels confident in the family’s support

Family rituals and traditions

• The little special things (daily rituals) that you do everyday and on special occasions held build a sense of belonging, inner security and contentedness. Daily rituals can be how you say goodbye, what you do at mealtimes and bedtime.  Families benefit from coming together to celebrate special occasions (e.g. birthdays, Christmas and Name Days) and of having traditions about what happens at these times.   

Spiritual values and beliefs

Many families have spiritual beliefs which give a sense of meaning and direction to the ordinary events of the day.  They can also add strength and hope in times of crisis and difficulty

Source: www.cyh.com extract Parent Easy Guide #36 with Parenting South Australia

Star Students

P&C News

P&C Fundraiser

Super Heroes Day

Friday 5^th May

Students are invited to dress up as their favourite super hero on this day for a gold coin donation.

In keeping with our Positive Behaviour for Learning and positive choices mantra parents and carers are requested to support decision making around the appropriates of costumes and portrayed characters to support positive behaviour choices and a successful day.  

Please note that for safety reasons costumes are not to include any props or accessories.

Book Club Issue 3

Book Club has arrived! Look out for your copy of Book Club coming home in your child's schoolbag! It's packed with hundreds of books from just $3 to share the love of reading in your home! 

Orders to be placed online by Friday 28th April. 

Schoolzine Newsletter Advertising

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We believe you’ll find the eNewsletter highly engaging, as it will provide us with a more efficient and effective means of connecting with you. The new format will allow the inclusion of video, photo galleries, online bookings, mobile app, feedback forms, calendars and so much more.

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