Principal’s Report

Congratulations to all members of our school community for your commitment to the learning and teaching of all our Camp Hill students. Semester One saw our students engage in a diverse range of curricular and extra-curricular programs across all year levels and all facets of learning. The students have displayed energy and perseverance in their learning, with numerous celebrations for all programs.

2024 P&C School Fair

On behalf of every member of our school community I would like to thank the P&C for ensuring that our biannual school Fair was such a resounding success. The time and effort given so generously by our families, leading up to the big day, was considerable, which ensured that the day was a major success.

Thank you on behalf of every member of our school community.

Thank you for Mr Minnikin for providing the firework finale at the school fair.

Two New Playgrounds

A special feature of the Fair was when the Mrs Maria O’Neill (P&C President) announced that the P&C were funding new playgrounds for both the Senior and Junior campuses this year.

The playgrounds are the outcome of years of fundraising by our P&C and the successful application for a grant.

I know that all our students and staff are very keen to see the new playgrounds for our school. Thank you to the P&C for your generosity.

Our generous P&C announced new playgrounds for both our Senior and Junior campuses. Thank you!

Queensland Engagement and Wellbeing Survey

During the term our students in Years 4 – 6 participated in the confidential Queensland Engagement and Wellbeing Survey. The school has just received the report from the 2024 survey and we will be using this information to inform our wellbeing programs moving forward. The survey measures wellbeing and engagement across 12 aspects, including: resilience; school climate; sense of belonging; motivation and perseverance; academic self-concept; personal social capabilities; general life satisfaction; future outlook and aspirations; relationships with peers, with teachers and at home and general health.

Wellbeing, for the purposes of the survey, is defined as when an individual realises their potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and has the ability to make a contribution to their community.

Engagement is defined by students’ attention, interest and motivation to learn and develop in their education. It is widely considered to have emotional, behavioural and cognitive dimensions.

An initial overview of the report indicates that, in the majority of test items across all three year levels, our students predominately indicated High (satisfaction) as their response to the questions. Of interest was the number of students who reported that they DID NOT think that ‘they got enough sleep’ and that ‘they often use an electronic device before sleep’. A number of students also reported ‘not going to bed on a school day’ until between 10 – 11pm. An interesting score that stood out from the other reports.

I look forward to using this data to support our student’s wellbeing.

Camp Hill School Council

As you would be aware the school is seeking new members – family and staff – for our School Council. If you are interested in taking a role on Council please don’t hesitate to contact me. The Council consists of: P&C President, Principal, three parent representatives and three staff members (combination of teaching and non-teaching).

Attendance at School

Our student daily attendance is currently 93% across all year levels. We continue to ask families who are anticipating taking their children out of school for more than 10 consecutive school days to contact the office so that we can provide you with the necessary paperwork for the department.

We continue to thank families for your support in keeping your children home when they are unwell. It is important that we look to the health of all our community. The number of school community members who have been unwell with viruses has been expediential this year.

I would like to thank you for your continued support for our great school.

Have a wonderful holiday and I look forward to welcoming you back to Term 3.

Warm regards

Deborah Driver
Principal

Semester One Student Report Cards

Semester One Report Cards will be emailed home today, Friday 21 June, 2024.

When you receive your child’s report card you will notice that they would have received a level of achievement for each of the reportable learning areas. Below are the learning area or subject that were assessed and reported on in each Year Level:

• Prep: English, Mathematics, Health
• Year 1: English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS), Music, Health, Physical Education (PE), Chinese (effort only), Digital Technologies, Visual Arts
• Year 2: English, Mathematics, Science, HASS, Music, Health, PE, Chinese (effort only), Digital Technologies, Media Arts
• Year 3: English, Mathematics, Science, HASS, Music, Health, PE, Chinese (effort only), Visual Arts
• Year 4: English, Mathematics, Science, HASS, Music, Health, PE, Chinese (effort only), Drama
• Year 5: English, Mathematics, Science, HASS, Music, Health, PE, Chinese, Digital Technologies, Visual Arts
• Year 6: English, Mathematics, Science, HASS, Music, Health, PE, Chinese, Media Arts

All year levels use a five-point scale to report on students’ achievement levels. This indicates the stage where your child is currently working as a learner. Explanations of the achievement levels can be found on the front page of the report card. A range of assessment techniques including observations, work samples, and tasks, along with moderating of assessment and professional judgement are all used to determine where your child is operating.

It is very important that when you read your child’s report card that you focus on distance travelled this semester and their effort – rather than achievement ratings alone. It is important for us to celebrate growth and remember that we all acquire skills at our own pace.

Our teachers are looking forward to talking with you about your child’s individual progress at the Parent/Teacher Meetings on Tuesday 16 July, 2024.

Please remember that: learning at school, revision at home, along with encouragement and praise is the very best recipe for success.

2025 Prep Enrolments

We are currently chatting with (interviewing) our new Preppies for 2025 who live in our school’s catchment area or have siblings attending our school. These chats are helping us (the school) get ready for our new students. We would like to welcome these students to our school community.

If you have a child born between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020 and you live in our catchment area or have children already attending our school, if you have not already done so, please contact the school to enrol your child for Prep next year. Classes are filling fast.

We are planning on offering out-of-catchment positions for 2025 Prep classes in the first couple of weeks of next term. This will be the first round of offers.

Hi Everyone

Please see below regarding upcoming activities next term.

Business Manager

eSafety

Camp Hill is committed to helping students develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes to be safe and respectful users of technology. We are also aware that students’ online experiences often move seamlessly between home and school and as a school are committed to supporting our students safety online. We will be sharing a range of information, tips and resources for parents and carers from the eSafety Commissioner (eSafety.gov.au) that you can use with your family to help create positive experiences for your children online.

Reporting when something goes wrong online

If your child experiences something harmful online such as cyberbullying, image-based abuse or illegal and restricted content, you can report it directly to the social media service, game, app or website where the incident occurred.

Often young people will need the support of an adult to report. The eSafety Commissioner (eSafety.gov.au) advises taking the following steps:

1. Collect evidence before reporting to the platform or taking other action. If the issue is ongoing, make sure you collect screenshots showing what has been happening and for how long.

2. Report to the platform where it happened. Use The eSafety Guide to help you. After you report, the service may remove the content straight away. They may also block those responsible or delete their account. If the post involves something illegal like grooming, they may refer it to law enforcement or another agency to take further action.

3. If the platform does not take action, you or your child can report it to eSafety. eSafety will ask you to complete an online reporting form and include evidence.

Online safety for every family

The eSafety Commissioner (eSafety.gov.au) has released resources to help parents and carers from all backgrounds protect their families online.

The Online Safety for Every Family resources cover how to:
• get started with social media
• enjoy safer online gaming
• help your child if they are bullied online.

To make sure more families can start a conversation with their children about online safety, the resources are available in English, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Burmese, Dari, Hindi, Nepali, Punjabi, Sinhalese, Swahili, Tamil, Tigrinya, Uyghur and Vietnamese.

Our Guidance officer, Mrs Donna Lipyeat, is a member of our school community who can provide support and guidance to students as they navigate their academic and social-emotional journey through school, in a variety of ways. Some of these include, providing emotional support where students can express their feelings and concerns in a safe space, learning about important skills such as resilience, empathy and conflict resolution, identifying, assessing and supporting those students experiencing developmental or learning difficulties, liaising and connecting students and families with external supports, and providing support during times of crisis, such a bereavement or family separation.

As parents, you are encouraged to work, side by side, with the school team to nurture both the academic and social-emotional development of your children as they navigate their journey through school. Please reach out to your child’s classroom teacher to start a discussion should you feel they need additional support

Curriculum News

A guide to Literacy and Numeracy in the Australian Curriculum for parents and carers

Literacy and numeracy development influence students’ achievement at school, and beyond into their participation in society. The literacy and numeracy learning progressions are resources that describe how aspects of literacy and numeracy learning develop over time. In the Australian Curriculum, the literacy and numeracy general capabilities are strengthened through application within the learning areas.

There are two progressions – one for literacy and one for numeracy. Each is divided into elements and sub-elements that form a detailed description of the typical developmental path in aspects of literacy and numeracy. The learning progressions may help parents and carers to understand the way literacy and numeracy skills develop, and to identify the literacy and numeracy skills their children are using or are currently learning.

Two short video links below help parents to understand the literacy and numeracy progressions.

Literacy Learning Progression

Numeracy Learning Progression

Parents and carers can use the learning progressions to understand their child’s level of literacy and numeracy, and the next steps in their learning.

Parents and carers can use the learning progressions to help their child with homework tasks by identifying the kinds of literacy and numeracy skills their child is using. Children frequently use literacy and numeracy in everyday life; for example, to read instructions for a toy or add up scores in a game. By scanning the progressions, parents and carers can identify the literacy and numeracy skills their children are using.

For example, a parent/carer working with a child in the early years of school might read a story to their child, who then repeats parts of the story. A scan through the “Understanding texts” sub-element of the literacy learning progression would give them a snapshot of how their child is doing with comprehension and vocabulary.

A parent/carer of a child in later primary school years might be helping their child to develop a savings plan to buy a new game. The parent/carer and child might agree on ways that the child could earn money and how much they would need to save over a number of weeks. In some weeks, the child might earn a bit extra and then adjust the amount they need to earn for the remaining weeks. Looking at the “Additive strategies” and ”Multiplicative strategies” sub-elements of the numeracy learning progression could help the parent/carer get a sense of the types of numeracy skills their child would be using to complete their savings plan.

Nicole Vokes
Head of Department Curriculum

Author visit – Megan Daley

Our Prep and Year 2 students recently enjoyed a visit by Megan Daley, the author of the Nature Storybook, The Beehive. Megan spoke about writing an information text and all about native stingless bees. Our students were very knowledgeable about bees and asked and asked many interesting questions!

Digital Technology

All students from Years 2-6 will need to be able to use Scratch for coding activities across the curriculum. The Scratch app or Scratch 3.0 offline lets your children design, learn and play in Scratch without being online.

Download here for hours of safe digital creations! https://scratch.mit.edu/download

Once Scratch 3.0 Offline is downloaded and installed on your laptop or desktop you do not need to join or login. Files may be saved to your My Documents folder to be worked on and enhanced.

The support materials section has downloads including a getting started guide, starter projects and scratch tutorial cards. Our school library has multiple copies of Scratch books available for both student and parent loan.

Online versions of Scratch do have more bells and whistles but require your child to be online, and to have an online account. These extra features (the bells and whistles) are not required for projects and assessments that will be completed at school. Students are not allowed to open a Scratch account using their EQ email address or login details.

Scratch Junior is a great app for ipads for Prep - Year 1 students to begin their coding journey and can be downloaded on the App Store.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

How many books has your child read??? We are five weeks into our challenge, so hopefully they are nearly one-third of the way through their allocated reading. Students have until 23rd August to submit their completed forms.

A parent or guardian must sign off to allow student certificates to be printed by a third party provider. This has been a great example for our Year 2 students who are learning about keeping their personal information safe in Digital Technology.

This year there is an interactive book list where you can search reading ideas by year level. There are so many great reads for the holidays! Click to view suggestions for this year and past years also. https://prc.median.com.au/BookList

Cybersafety

Cybersafety is part of the Digital Technology Curriculum from Prep to Year 6. In our discussions about sharing personal information online, many young students spoke of playing Minecraft and Roblox with people they didn’t know.

Both these online games have a Parent Help page which you can access for information about keeping your children safe online. Reviewing settings for these games may be necessary to ensure safe play.

https://civility.roblox.com/resources/pdfs/parent-caregiver-guide

www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/parental-controls

Happy holidays
Peta de San Miguel

Teacher Librarian

THANK YOU FOR OUR AMAZING FAIR!

We did it! Thank you for supporting our Camp Hill Fair “The Festival” and we cannot thank all our Convenors and Volunteers enough! Your time made this event something to remember.

We had the best weather, the most amazing day and thanks to all our sponsors and everyone who attended, we had one of the best Fairs yet!

A special mention goes out to our volunteer Fair Convenor – Argjenda Longworth, along with her husband Stuart, as he had to ensure the household was still on track with all the hours and dedication she put into this event, along with the P&C Executives & staff. All that time meant that we had the most fabulous day for our community.

Keep a note, our 2026 Camp Hill Fair is special, as it is the school Centenary… so it will be huge and we will need your help!

A huge heartfelt thank you to everybody that has helped in the Tuckshop up until the end of Term 2. We really can't do it without all our wonderful helpers, especially on Thursday and Friday.

Don't forget that Sharyn will be away for the first three weeks of Term 3 and Lisa will need help each day. Click the link below if you can help Lisa during that time.

Have a wonderful break and hope to see you all in Term 3.

https://volunteersignup.org/444JA

Tuckshop Volunteer Register

Regards
Sharyn - Tuckshop Convenor
Tel: 07 3900 9429     Email: tuckshop@camphillpandc.com.au 

Winter Uniforms

Have your little people outgrown their school uniform jackets or school uniform trackpants?

Did you know the uniform shop can sell them for you??

Many families are looking for second hand school winter items so if you have school uniform items to sell, please bring them in to the uniform shop

Good to know -

* Items must be in good quality condition with a working zip

* Items will be priced and put out for sale

* As an item sells then the P and C just keep $5 for handling costs and the remainder is available as credit with the uniform shop for either future purchases or can be transferred to you.

E.g. - a second hand jacket is $45 which would mean $40 would be available once the item sells.

If you wish to donate good quality items, this would also be appreciated.

www.schoolshoponline.net.au/camphillipss

NORMAL UNIFORM SHOP TRADING HOURS
Tuesday and Thursday:  8:15 – 9:30 am
(under D Block, Senior Campus)

Kerri Rook - Uniform Shop Convenor
Tel: 07 3900 9328
Email: uniforms@camphillpandc.com.au 

Just a reminder to the OSHC and Camp Hill community that Vacation Care forms for the upcoming June/July holidays are out! We have had an unprecedented number of bookings and therefore have hit capacity for many of the days. If you have not already returned a form or have not received confirmation of your bookings, then please ensure to do this as soon as possible with the OSHC admin team. It is important that families check the days we have confirmed with them via email because last minute bookings or walk ins on the day may be very difficult to secure.

Thanks from your team at OSHC

QParents – now available for all year levels

Parents, we hope you are enjoying the access to student information and functionality provided by the QParents app. Thanks especially to the parents who are using the app to record absentee information. If you haven’t already, register using the invitation code that has been emailed to you.

QParents allows parents to connect instantly with our school to access and manage their child’s student information, including:

• Attendance and absence details
• Academic report cards
• Viewing and paying invoices
• Viewing and updating personal student details
• Coming soon - Providing consent for excursions and incursions

Updating Student Information

During the school year, there can be occasions when it is important that we make immediate contact with parents. We are unable to do this if our information is not current. Please help us to provide care and consideration for your child by updating your family records whenever a change occurs.

• If there is a change in your emergency contact phone number, email, or other emergency contact persons details.
• If you change your address.
• If any significant changes occur with regard to your child/children's health or medical details e.g. Health Plan or medication.
• If there are any changes regarding custody or access to your child/children.
• If you feel we should know of any other changes which relate to your child.

Exemptions from compulsory schooling

What is an exemption?

Every parent of a child of compulsory school age has a legal obligation to ensure their child is enrolled at and attending school.

Parents can apply for an exemption from this obligation when their child cannot (or it would be unreasonable in all the circumstances) attend school for a period of more than 10 consecutive school days.

Who decides to grant or not grant an exemption?

Decisions about exemptions are made by the Principal.

How to Apply?

Applications forms are availble by email the administration team at admin@camphilliipss.eq.edu.au 

Further information can be found

https://ppr.qed.qld.gov.au/pp/exemptions-from-compulsory-schooling-and-compulsory-participation-procedure

JUNE SCHOOL HOLIDAY TENNIS COACHING CLINICS

MONDAY 24TH, TUESDAY 25TH, WEDNESDAY 26TH JUNE 2024

Enrolments are now open for the upcoming School Holiday Tennis Clinics as well as special discounted holiday private coaching sessions. Positions are available for all school students between the ages of 4-15 years but please note timings will differ depending upon your child's age and experience.

Holiday clinics are being held at Coorparoo, Holland Park and Camp Hill State Schools - Children from all schools are invited to attend any clinic.

For further details or to enrol, please click this link - https://tennisforkids.com.au/holiday-programs/programs/

CLINIC 1 (MORNING) - RECOMMENDED FOR RED BALL CHILDREN 4-7 YEARS OF AGE
Red Ball students will be at Coorparoo State School from 8.15-10.45am (2½ hours)

CLINIC 2 (MORNING) - RECOMMENDED FOR ORANGE BALL CHILDREN 7-10 YEARS OF AGE

Orange Ball students will be at Holland Park State School from 8.00-11.00am (3 hours)

We have staggered the drop off and pick up times for clinic 1 and clinic 2 so parents can comfortably drop siblings to both venues as they are less than a 5 minute drive from each other.

CLINIC 3 (AFTERNOON) - RECOMMENDED FOR RED BALL CHILDREN 4-7 YEARS OF AGE

Red Ball students will be at Camp Hill State School from 2.00-5.00pm (3 hours)

CLINIC 4 (AFTERNOON) - RECOMMENDED FOR ORANGE BALL CHILDREN 7-10 YEARS OF AGE

Orange Ball students will be at Camp Hill State School from 2.00-5.00pm (3 hours)

CLINIC 5 (AFTERNOON) - RECOMMENDED FOR GREEN BALL CHILDREN 9-12 YEARS OF AGE

Green Ball students will be at Coorparoo State School from 2.00-5.00pm (3 hours)

CLINIC 6 (AFTERNOON) - RECOMMENDED FOR YELLOW BALL CHILDREN 12-15 YEARS OF AGE

Yellow Ball students will be at Coorparoo State School from 2.00-5.00pm (3 hours)