Maryborough Special School

164 Woodstock Street

Maryborough Qld 4650

PHONE

4120 8777

FAX

4120 8700

EMAIL

admin@maryboroughspecs.eq.edu.au

WEBSITE

www.maryboroughspecs.eq.edu.au

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Friday 28th August

P & C Meeting

Friday 4th September

Student Free Day

Monday 5th October

Public Holiday

Student of The Week

Class News

P&C News

Tuckshop News

DOE News

Arts News

Gardening News

Dear Parents & Care Givers,

I mentioned in a previous newsletter the plan to revamp the main parent entrance to the school. As of today I still have not received any input from the wider community. I do appreciate you may not have the time available to commit to organised meetings however I am still keen to hear your ideas. This can be achieved through speaking to me on the phone or an informal chat. Cyberbullying is often difficult to observe as it mostly occurs in private. Education Qld has provided access to a learning opportunity, Parentline Cyberbullying, for you as a parent to assist in supporting your child if the need arises. Parentline Cyberbullying support training has been designed for use by all adults who care for older children and teens at risk of, or already have experiences with cyberbullying. This training is FREE and available 24/7 via any internet enabled device. The Parentline Cyberbullying training will be helpful to parents, carers and grandparents who are: Nervous or fearful of using the internet or new devices

Anxious about their young ones using the internet Concerned cyberbullying may be impacting their child

Concerned their child may be engaging in cyberbullying behaviours Please find the information you need by logging on to the following website:

https://parentline.com.au/Cyberbullying

Regards,

Sue & Athol

Our school community is very excited to have received a gift of $500 from the Maryborough Quota Club. This kind gift will be used to support our stu-dents into the future. We are thankful for the support and hard work this

club has provided for the Maryborough community since 1963.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

CLASS NEWS

ER - SHARON We are enjoying our visits to the

library. Reading lots of books is fun.

EP - JOSEY In Geography we are exploring the

features of the big playground.

EH - SAM We have been visiting our garden to

weed & watch the bees pollinating the flowers. Hopefully we will see pumpkins & tomatoes soon.

EC - KATE

We are doing lots & lots of number work this week.

MM - PAM We are reading the “Ten Scared Fish”

& making a paper plate fish.

MR - KELLY We are learning about Australian

money.

MBD - KYM/CARMEN We are learning about natural,

constructed & managed environments in science & geography.

SH - NICOLE In Science we are exploring materials & their properties & how we can change

it.

SW - ROSE/PAM G Starting a recycling Art project. It will

go on show at Gatakers Gallery in November.

TT - TANYA We are looking at fractions this week.

TD - DALE We are cooking the good old Aussie

favourite, “Bangers and Mash”

TW - JANE We have been using the new

programme on our eyegaze, which is really fun.

Early Years ER Indi

Early Years EP Ryder

Early Years EH Sebastian

Early Years EC Parker

Middle School MM -

Middle School MR Alexander

Middle School MBD Isaac

Senior School SH Jordan

Senior School SW Skye

Transition TT Josephene

Transition TD Corey

Transition TW Xavier

P&C NEWS

President: Carolyn Mudge

Vice President: Louise Worthington

Secretary: Sarah Donlan

Treasurer: Robyn Irlam

Please note that the P&C meeting has now been changed to the 28th August @ 1.30pm in A Block. Asbestos Training is on the Agenda.

The school has lots of school jumpers in most sizes available to purchase for $25. Please note that we do not have Eftpos facilities.

If you have any second hand school shirts in good condition that you no longer require, we would very much appreciate it if they could be donated to the School, where they could be put to good use, thank you.

WASTE WARRIORS

Try to replace all plastic with other things eg: plastic pegs for wooden pegs, shampoo bottles with shampoo bars.

Sharon/Deb

TUCKSHOP NEWS

No tuckshop until further notice.

Tanya

SCHOOL NEWS SCHOOL NEWS

On Saturday 5th December, in proud partnership with Variety, and our won-derful friends at Hit105, we are once again hosting the largest, FREE, Christ-mas Party for Special Children in Queensland. This is our 26th anniver-sary of the Party and it will run from 10:30am until 2:30pm at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre.

The Party is still scheduled to go ahead for 2020, in some form or another. We have purchased the toys and depend-ing on Government regulations due to COVID-19, we have a Plan A, B, C and D.

A form has been sent home to eligible students to register your interest, which needs to be returned to the school before 27th August, thanks.

SCHOOL BANKING NEWS

STEM NEWS

We have been watching “The 3 Billy Goats” story and have been making some amazing bridges!

Sue M

We are selling items for the Cancer Council’s Daffodil Day in the office to raise

money for cancer research.

Daffodil badges are $10 and wrist bands are $4. We hope lots of families will

help support such a great cause.

School Banking rewards.

The rewards available during 2020 are:

Terry Denton’s Activity Book

Mini Soccer Ball

Treetop Stationery Set

Treetop Handball

Tomato Seed Kit

Magic Mist Drink Bottle

Emoji Wallet

Snakes & Ladders Game

For every deposit made at school students will receive a Dollarmites token. Once students have individually collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for exclu-sive School Banking reward items in recognition of their regular savings habits.

How to redeem your tokens for a reward

To redeem your reward item from School Banking:

Complete a rewards card slip by writing in your details and ticking the item you would like to redeem.

Place the slip in your yellow Dollarmites wallet with your 10 Dollarmites tokens.

Hand it in with your School Banking Deposit on School Banking day.

Thank you for supporting the School Banking program and remember School Banking day is every Wednesday!

Class EP doing all sorts

of learning activities!

August 2020