25 March 2025

Principal’s Messages

Parent-Teacher Interviews

The online bookings system for Term 1 Parent/Teacher interviews is open and I encourage all parents /carers to schedule a time to discuss your child’s learning and social development. These sessions will be held on Tuesday 1st April in your child’s classroom.

Our teachers put significant thought and time into planning for these progress meetings and it is a valuable opportunity for you both to spend some uninterrupted time discussing your child’s learning needs.

A reminder to book in for Parent teacher interviews in week 10 - Tuesday 1^st April (beginning at 3pm – 5.40pm)  Please book in as soon as possible as bookings will close Friday 31st March 2025 

QParents

Queensland State Schools are transitioning to online permissions for excursions via the QParents app. We believe that digital consent for excursions, SRS, and Third Party Consent will benefit everyone by eliminating the need for paper-based forms to be printed, distributed, signed, and returned. If you require an invitation code, please contact the office.

We understand that everyone has a busy schedule, and we hope that by moving our services online, we can make it easier for you to complete and return permission forms.

End of Term

We have some fun, big ticket events coming up to end the term – Cross Country and Easter Hat Parade. Parents and carers are most welcome to join us for these events to finalise a successful first term at Burnside State School.  I hope our Year 5 team have a fantastic time next week at Boulder Creek on their three-day camp.

NAPLAN

NAPLAN testing has now been completed for 2025. Well done to all our Year 3 and Year 5 students who put their very best efforts into NAPLAN testing. Results will be available to parents towards the end of Term 2.

TC – Alfred

Well! What an interesting time Tropical Cyclone Alfred gave Queensland! I would like to extend a huge thank you to our community and staff during this time. During these times of uncertainty, we exhaust all avenues to keep everyone informed with the most recent information. Facebook, email and School Stream were our main points of communication, however preparations for the weather event, our school server was shutdown, leaving us to rely on staff who had power and internet connects for Facebook and School Stream apps until the effects of the tropical low had passed.

School Communications:

EMAIL:- Please ensure that you have your family’s most current contact details up to date with the school for these unusual events.  Class teachers can be emailed regarding individual student needs or to make an appointment.

YEAR LEVEL OVERVIEWS:- These were provided each term to provide a snapshot of what units of work students will be learning.

NEWSLETTER:- Our school Newsletter is only issued twice a term and generally a source of celebrations.

ONLINE APPS:- Facebook advertises and captures current events; School Stream is the same as Facebook plus the issuing of year/class specific letters regarding camps and excursions.

Deputy News

What an amazing term we've had so far at Burnside State School! As we head towards the Easter holidays, I want to encourage our students to stay positive and keep coming to school every single day until Friday, 4th April, our last day of Term 1, 2025. Let's finish this term strong!

Mornings before school

Supervision begins in the under covered areas from 8.15am each morning.  The under covered area outside the tuckshop is now for students for Year 2,5 and 6 students .  The area which was formally the Junior under covered area will now be for Prep, Year 1,3 and 4’s.  This move is designed for students to be closer to their allocated classrooms… This transition will be beginning immediately. 

On Friday 4^th April we will be having an Easter Hat Parade for our Prep – 3 students from 9am (till approx. 10am). Students will be parading around the hall in their class whilst displaying their beautiful creations (Easter Hats).  Students can design their hats at home, if you are unable to do this please contact your class teacher.  Please come and join us for a morning of fun!

Facilities News

Last week, Prep C moved into our new classroom. We have had lots of wonderful feedback about how bright and fresh our room looks, but we have only just begun! Please feel free to pop in to see what we achieve as a team to make our learning space more colourful and reflective of the learning that occurs each week 😊

Mrs Cavanagh

Sports News

Family and friends are invited to attend this year’s inter-house school cross country, to be held on Wednesday 2^nd April on the school oval. Classes will run as per usual in the first session and the event will commence after first lunch at 11:30am. Children are asked to come to school wearing their house colours in appropriate sun-safe running attire, including comfortable shoes to run in. Please refer to the timetable below for further details.  Course maps are also included with distances, which each year level or age group is expected to cover.  10-, 11- and 12-year-old girls and boys will be running in age groups as they are eligible to represent Burnside State School in the Districts Cross Country on Friday 2^nd May.

All students have been training for Cross Country in PE lessons and are encouraged to train outside of school, especially if there is desire to compete at the District level.

The below timetable is only a guide and the times are subject to change.

Chappy Chat

Hey Brilliant Burnsiders,

Well, what a crazy couple of weeks we’ve had… an elusive cyclone followed by flood levels Nambour hasn’t seen since I was in Grade 10 - 1983 Wet Wednesday!!!

I hope and pray all of our Burnside families got through it all safely. I know a few family businesses had some damage in our school community and I hope that they will get the assistance they need to get back on their feet swiftly.

We truly live in an amazing community of families and individuals that do band together to help out one another… I hope we get to see it more often and not just when we are faced with large crisis situations. If you don’t know your immediate neighbours two houses either side of you and across the street, introduce yourself and get to know them. I have a couple of beautiful elderly neighbours, who we have a great rapport with. If I don’t see any movement from their house within a couple of days, I make a habit of knocking on the door, just to make sure things are OK… and they really appreciate it. So sometimes it’s the little things that make all the difference.

I also want to give a shoutout to an amazing local community group, APEX Nambour, that have generously helped our school by donating funds over the years for various subsidies and events, they truly are an amazing organisation. So, next time you’re at an event at the showgrounds - Nambour Show, Garden Expo, Caravan & Camping Expo, support them by grabbing a burger from their tuckshop stall, as a lot of the money they raise goes back into the community.

Hope the Year 5’s have an amazing time on Camp… I might even get a chance to sneak up to see them!!!

Remember, if parents or families ever what to reach out for any support, please get in contact with me by email - chaplain@burnsidess.eq.edu.au or on the school number on Thursdays & Fridays or by seeing me around the school (breaky club or parade, etc). Access to our Urban Angels Meal Bank is every weekday via myself or the admin staff.

Love & Peace
Chappy Paul

Students Achievements

Congratulations to Amber from year 5! Amber represented Burnside State School at the District swimming carnival held at Sunshine Coast Grammar School and placed 1^st in her heat! Well done Amber.

Congratulations to Maddi P from 5S for throwing a massive personal best of 7.69 metres in shot put and finished 4th in QUEENSLAND!

What’s On At Burnside – Term 1-2

Community News from the P&C

Hello Burnside families, 

We recently held our AGM and I just wanted to start by welcoming our New Executive team members Bobbi Wells  -Treasurer,  Renee Erskine-Shaw - Secretary ...... Welcome ! Our other rolls remain the same with Letisha Wynn -Vice President and Jess Hosking- President. 

As a team we look forward to working together to bring our community and school together. 

A massive thankyou to all our student and teachers on their efforts with recycling around the school, we have several containers for change bins situated around the school and have currently raised $230.50 which will go towards bus fares for our student future excursion. 

We are in plans for organising some fundraising events so stay tuned on our socials for what’s happening next term. 

Many thanks 
The P&C Team 

Tuckshop News

Tuckshop:
Monday is Pizza Day
Wednesday is Sushi Day
No specials on Friday 

Keep an eye out for our Easter Meal Deal Special. It will be served the last Friday of this term. 

We are still recruiting volunteers for our tuckshop and some future events if you think you have an hour or two once a week or once a fortnight, please contact us either via socials or email us at burnsidesspandc@outlook.com 

Uniform Shop News

If any Year 6 parents are chasing an extra Senior Shirt WITH Names on the back, we have the below available for purchase from the Uniform Shop.

$40 each

Size 8 - 2 available

School Age Care

The school holidays are fast approaching, come and join the game zone these holidays with lots of fun activities based around different games. We will be making our own connect fours, archery incursion, cooking, Bricks for kids’ incursion, make your own marble wall, excursion to Lazer Zone, card games, a robo rover experiment and much much more.

If you have any questions please feel free to come in and see our lovely staff

Thanks Stacy

Hours – Rise then shine - 6:30am - 8:45am
                  Stay and play – 2:45pm – 6pm
                  Holiday HQ – 6:30am – 6pm

Contact details - Phone number - 0474 462 948
                             Email - Burnsideqld@helpinghandsnetwork.com.au

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