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Issue 13 - 15 August 2021 Oriel Park on a Friday afternoon The School and the P&C have shared concerns about some of the behaviour seen at Oriel Park on a Friday afternoon this year. From the Principal We understand that going to Oriel Park on a Friday afternoon is seen somewhat of a ‘right of passage’. It is important to note that this has been occurring for some years, when Year 7 Dear readers was part of primary school, so students were slightly older. Not Thank you for all of your support during our recent lockdown. all of our current Year 6 students are 12 years old. I am also We very much look forward to welcoming back to school aware that some Years 4 and 5 students are at the park and tomorrow our students and staff who have been in home unsupervised. isolation for the past two weeks. Last Friday we enjoyed our first We take seriously our reputation, and that includes students whole of school, online assembly. It was wonderful to see so as they move to and from school. Earlier this term I addressed many students join with us from home. the Years 3-6 assembly about this matter. On the advice of We have been working hard to manage our school events, the P&C, I have made clear that any students at Oriel Park are rescheduling what we can and cancelling others. Sadly, for our not to wear their school uniform. The School Executive have athletes, the City District Athletics Carnival has been cancelled. noted on a few visits to the park since then, that some students This year, under the leadership of parent Beth Poynter, Ascot have taken note of this. I will continue to follow up. In the was to have run the canteen for this event. I would like to thank meantime, if you have any feedback on the school community’s Beth for her willingness to take on this huge task, and I know expectations around Oriel Park, you are welcome to contact that she had also lined up a band of volunteers. As Chair of me. City District Sport, it was particularly heartening to know that Workforce planning Ascot would be represented in this way. Thank you to you all for demonstrating yet again the Ascot spirit. We have begun planning for 2022, and an essential part of this in knowing how many students we will be catering to in each Thank you to P&C President Murray Davis, Ascot Big Day Out year level. Prep to Year 5 families, if you are leaving Ascot at the Convenor Lauren Daley and the team for shaping down our end of the year, please complete the form below and return it to September event. You will have seen in Murray’s Saturday the school office. Alternatively, you can call the office on 3326 update some of the creative ideas they have had to keep the 9333 and let us know of your intentions. Teachers will also have ADBO flag flying this term. They will have more to come, I am hard copies of the form to send home as needed. Thank you sure! Well done to you all for staying buoyant. for your help with this important matter. As we learn more about what restrictions will look like over time, https://ascotss.schoolzineplus.com/_file/media/2163/ we will have to expect further adjustments and changes to our 2022_students_leaving_notification.pdf calendar and how we do business. We have proven that we know how to work differently, and I thank you for your support and consideration as we work to stay safe as a community. Tomorrow we welcome back our Principal Ms Coleman. I would like to thank the community for your support over the past five weeks. Warm regards Simone

Uniform Shop Refurb From the Business Manager I am also working with the uniform shop coordinator to do a small refurbishment of our uniform shop; this includes tinted windows, removal and replacement of unsafe window glass and then safety frosting the glass. We have organised for the window sill and ceiling to be painted, we have installed a new pin board, moved storage cabinets and secured storage cabinets to the walls and a new sign is in the process of being Semester 2 Invoices organised. In addition to this we will also be updating the current and adding an additional change room to the uniform shop. Once the works have been completed we cant wait to show you the new updates. Queensland Road Safety Week

Thank you to all those families that have paid their Semester accounts. If you are still yet to pay we kindly ask all remaining families to please pay these promptly. If you require any assistance regarding your invoice please contact our Business Manager Donna Fredrickson or send her an email at [email protected] School Maintenance Update We kickstarted August off with another monthly fire panel inspection, we have tinted some more windows in 4A's and 4/ 5's classroom to help reduce the glare on the interactive panels enabling students better vision while learning. We have The focus this year is to 'Sign up for Road Safety' and put a changed from one wall to another an interactive panel in 2D's spotlight on road safety. Last year hundreds of Queenslanders classroom so the children can see the screen better without shared their road safety messages online, let's make this year the glare. We have also replaced the broken window in 1A's even bigger. classroom. I Block, the oval and in the Prep area has had various plumbing issues repaired. We have installed new How can you and the family take part… think of a road safety interactive panels in the year 5 ABC & 4/5 classrooms. The message and put it on a sign – be as creative as you like. Take damaged aquatic mural on the in between the library a photo or video of your sign and make sure your message is and the covered games court is also being repaired. Our clear. Post it to the StreetSmarts website – use the QR code tenders have now closed (Fri 13 August) we will be very below and tag @StreetSmartsQld or #QRSW2021 excited to get these underway and Stage 4 of the ramp access from the library to the hall has been completed and is open and looks fantastic!

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Kind regards, Donna Fredrickson, Business Manager

Students of the Week

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Staying up to Date with Ascot State School

These students impressed their teachers with their approach to learning in a variety of ways over the past couple of weeks. Congratulations! Term 3, Week 1

We have many ways to stay up to date with our School. One 3A Kaiden N 5A Diba A of the many other ways apart from our school newsletter is our 3B Harry R 5B Kobe W facebook page. If you havent already please like and follow us 3C Darcy K 5C Charlotte C and change your settings to see us first in your timeline. You 3D Henry P 6A Ethan H can find us at https://www.facebook.com/AscotSS 3E Seerat B 6B Maja A 4A Olivia C 6C Eryn B 4B Rylan D 4C Sophie T Dance & Lucinda C Drama 4D Oliver H Music Caleb C 4/5 Poppy S LOTE Roman D-G

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3A Airlie V 5B Nicolas L Happy Birthday 3B Lucinda C 5C Ariann C 3D Patrice S 6A Benjamin M 4A Dalia A 6B Claudia S 4B Zara W 6C Aaradhya U 4C Pippa C 4D Kiran K Dance & Brighton D Drama 4/5 Hayden H & Music Luca F Emmie A 5A Kian M LOTE Olive M

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3B Xavier P 3C Euan C 3D Isabela A-D-V 4B Riley J 4C Marissa D 4D Annabel J 4/5 Zara B 5C Haley C Happy Birthday Mrs Baker Story Doctors – Boori Monty 6B Georgina C (4A) Pryor 6C Aden J

Happy students learning together to grow and succeed. 3 QSuper Premier's Reading Challenge Competition

QSuper is proud to continue their support of the Premier’s Reading Challenge in 2021 and encourage a love of reading in our Queensland kids. QSuper have a fantastic opportunity for two schools to win a full day visit from author, Sue Whiting, to be held in Term 4. There are also eight $500 book voucher prizes to be won. To enter students are simply asked to record their top five favourite books and why. See entry details below. https://qsuper.qld.gov.au/campaign/ premiers-reading-challenge Competition closes 28 August, 2021. Student Reading Records are due to the library or your classroom teacher by Friday 27 August. https://ascotss.schoolzineplus.com/_file/media/2127/ school_reader_record_form.pdf https://readingchallenge.education.qld.gov.au/about/booklists Kristine and Jenny Friday 27 August - Book Week Library Staff We will be hosting our whole school dress up day for Book Week on Friday 27th August. Students are encouraged to dress up as their favourite book, character or students can PE Department use the Book Week theme as inspiration. The theme for Book Week this year is ‘New Worlds, Old Worlds and Other Worlds.' District Athletics Cancelled Following government directives, and with the health and safety of all involved a priority, there will unfortunately be no City District, regional, state or national athletics this year. Other sporting trials may also be cancelled or postponed and we will keep you updated as information comes to hand. Olympic Mascot Design Competition ( 2032) We hope children have been inspired from watching performances at the Tokyo Olympics. Who knows -maybe we could have an Ascot student competing in 11 years time. With this in mind, we have asked children to get creative and design a mascot that would be suitable to represent Brisbane, Australia in 2032. As with all design tasks children should be encouraged to draft a number of ideas before choosing their best concept. Mascots must represent our city or country and be a character (animal, person, object) either real or imagined by the student. The design must be original, the child’s own work and presented in colour on an A4 sheet. All designs must be hand drawn, not copied (only year 5/6 can design a character on computer) and must be accompanied by a mascot name. For

4 Happy students learning together to grow and succeed. the 2000 Olympics the mascots were a kookaburra, platypus performances. The Ascot Piccolos (Prep & Year 1) and echidna and they were named Syd (for Sydney), Ollie (for rehearse with Mrs Pagano on Monday mornings in Olympics) and Millie (for Millenium). the Hall at 8.15am. The Ascot Singers (Year 2 & 3) rehearse with Mrs Daley on Tuesday mornings in the The winning student from Prep, Yr 1/2, Yr 3/4 and Yr 5/6 will Hall at 7.45am and the Ascot Chorale (Years 4,5,6) receive a gift voucher and certificate on assembly and their rehearse with Mrs Daley on Friday mornings in the design will appear in the school newsletter. All entries are Hall at 7.45am. There are no auditions or fees to join due by Friday 20 August and we look forward to seeing how choir. Simply attend the rehearsal and sign up. creative Ascot students are. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX! • The Prep Disco has been postponed until Week 1, Summer Gala Days Sport Selection (Yr 4–6) Term 4, Friday 8 October. At this stage we are still hoping Gala Days will go ahead in • Please consider supporting our Friends of Music weeks 1 to 3 of term 4. Students will select their sport from the group. Please email our coordinator Alison Stocker list below. [email protected] to register your interest in • Girls Touch - Valleys , Shaw Rd supporting your young musicians. • Boys Touch - Brothers, Stafford • If a music rehearsal is cancelled in advance you will be notified. If the cancellation is on the morning of the • AFL (boys and girls) - Sandgate Hawks, Taigum rehearsal and your child attends school early, they (mouthguards required) are to go to the covered games court. • T20 Cricket (boys and girls) - Shaw Rd • The whole school will be attending The Frog Prince in • Flipper Ball - School pools week 9. This performance by Qld Opera and Shake & • Baseball - Hendra All Stars Stir Company will be in the school hall and is a modern day version of the famous classic Grimms Alayne Graham – P - Year 2 (Mon - Thurs) – tale. [email protected] • Please direct your enquiries to the relevant teacher as Paul Harris – Year 3 - 6 (Tues - Fri) – [email protected] listed below.

Music Department Debbie Classroom Music/Choirs [email protected] Daley

“Music is a wonderful art form and one that will Rachel Brass/Senior Band [email protected] enrich your children regardless of how proficient they Doucet become. Learning music to pursue it as a profession Kylie Woodwind/Intermediate [email protected] is not the point of music education for every child in Moorhouse Band/Show Band school.” Dr Anita Collins • Due to government Covid restrictions there are no Mark Strings/String Ensemble [email protected] band, ensemble or choir rehearsals this week. Please Boughen check emails and Ascot Facebook for updates the following week commencing Monday 23 August. Christy Year 3 Woodwind/Junior [email protected] Dykes Band • Instrumental lessons are continuing as normal except for strings. Friends of Alison Stocker [email protected] • All Music Muster forms should have been returned by Music now. • All Ascot Music Alumni are invited to perform with the Senior Band and Choirs for the repeat performance of the Ascot song Our Beacon, the commissioned P & C News piece of music for the Ascot100 celebration. The music will still be available to alumni but the date of a possible performance will depend on Covid restrictions. • As the Ascot Big Day Out has been cancelled for now, the performances planned for that day (11 September) will not take place. • If your child wishes to join choir (when we resume rehearsals) now is the perfect time when new repertoire is being taught for Semester 2

Happy students learning together to grow and succeed. 5 Mothers’ Luncheon – NEW DATE ANNOUNCED! the main ones were the uncertainty around what might happen over the coming weeks and months and also as ever, it's our priority to keep our wonderful community safe.

We know this is disappointing for many of our families but in the present circumstances, it is the most responsible course of action.

Not all is lost though as we will still run our raffle online so that everyone can participate, helping us to raise funds in the absence of ABDO. We will also be selling showbags and Ascot 100 Commemorative Plaques along with some Ascot merchandise - which we know you will love. More details about all of those things will follow shortly.

We want to take this opportunity to thank our ABDO organiser - Lauren Daley, who has given an immense amount of her time to this event so far. Lauren took on the role and quickly started to pull ABDO together and wasn't at all daunted by the scale of the event. You are an absolute star Lauren!

YAY! We have a new date for our much anticipated Mothers We are also very grateful to our entire ABDO committee who Luncheon. have also put an incredible amount of time into it as well. Put Friday 29 October into your diaries ladies! We have all Philippa Lee, Alison Stocker, Brooke Dunlop, Emily Treweeke, our fingers and toes crossed that covid doesn’t play havoc Jenn Davidson, Joel Cuming, Murray Davis, Brad Ryan, again. If you can no longer make the event with this new date Rebecca Mason, Violetta Tosic & Elle Castro Bringas - we thank change, please email us at [email protected] and you! we’ll arrange a refund. Don’t forget that raffle tickets are still available to purchase on A big thanks must also go to our CPR's and volunteers who the below link. were ready to roll up their sleeves to be involved and help out on the day. Remember, you don’t need to be at the lunch to win – so if you can’t make it, this is a wonderful way to support the school. We are still looking at other ways that we can bring fun to our https://www.rafflelink.com.au/ascot-mothers-lunch Ascot community in a safe way but of course, we can't make Ascot Big Day Out – POSTPONED! any promises. We will keep you posted on the outcome of our discussions. SHOWBAGS are on sale now!

As many will know, we have been in discussions both as an exec team and in consultation with the school and it's with sadness that we have decided to postpone ABDO. We might not be able to have our Ascot Big Day Out this year (cue the tears) but we can still have SHOWBAGS!! They are There were a number of reasons that led to this decision but now on sale via FlexiSchools at $10 each and we have a variety

6 Happy students learning together to grow and succeed. to choose from. We’ve got a Science Bag, Fairy Princess Bag, NO P&C MEETING THIS MONTH! Magic Bag and more!

Orders need to be placed by 5.00pm Sunday 29 August and we will confirm when and where collection of the bags will be. Prep Disco – NEW DATE ANNOUNCED!

We will reconvene next month on 15 September. All Welcome.

Uniform Shop

Covid Directives We are open for business, however we encourage you to order Due to covid restrictions, we have had to change the date of via Flexischools at this time. Please don't forget to scan in with our Prep Disco. The new date is Friday 8 October so please our QR code if you visit the shop. pop this date in your diary. We’ll send more details about this closer to the time. Uniform Shop Hours Fathers Day Stall – Thursday 2 September Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 8.15am – 9.30am Order online via Flexischools Order Online: www.flexischools.com.au Email us: [email protected] The Uniform Shop Team

Community Notices

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It's the Dad's turn to be spoilt and we will be having our Father's Learn to Code with Microbits – Create your own Day stall on Thursday 2 September. Microbit pet - Girls Only coding program

More details will come out closer to the time but for now, if you Due to popular demand, our Girls Only primary school coding would like to volunteer to help on the day, please click on this program is back on again in 2021! Sorry, no boys allowed…. link volunteersignup.org/HDAYB Aimed at primary school girls in years 4-6, our teachers run students through the basics of coding with the BBC Microbit. Session 1 – Wednesday 25 August (week 7) 3:15pm for a 3:30pm start-4:30pm

Happy students learning together to grow and succeed. 7 Session 2 – Wednesday 1 September (week 8) 3:15pm for a 3:30pm start-4:30pm Session 3 – Wednesday 8 September (week 9) 3:15pm for a 3:30pm start-4:30pm Limited to 16 girls & the cost is free. Please email Donna Kleiss – STEM Coordinator @ Aviation High – to secure your spot/register your interest phone 3637 0111 or email [email protected] Kind regards, Donna Kleiss • Junior Secondary Maths & Science • STEM Coordinator • Junior Science Curriculum Coordinator https://ascotss.schoolzineplus.com/_file/media/2141/ cpp_enrol_now_ad.pdf

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