CapSDE Week 2, Term Three 2024 eNewsletter

P & C General Meeting - Tuesday 16th July

The P&C will be holding their next meeting this Tuesday 16th July at 3:30PM.
Come along and join the team that is working to support our students to reach their highest potential. 

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Meeting ID: 476 181 305 216

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If you have any items to add to the agenda, please send them through as soon as possible.   

School Opinion Survey

The suite of School Opinion Surveys is undertaken each year by the Department of Education to 
obtain opinions about our school from families, school staff and students in target year levels (5, 
6, 8 and 11).

The surveys will help identify what we are doing well, and understand where we can 
improve. The survey invitation will be emailed in the week beginning 15 July and is titled School 
Opinion Survey for parents and caregivers, 2024.  

Each school family will receive one email invitation from the Department of Education to complete 
the Parent/Caregiver Survey.  The survey is anonymous, and the results are reported in ways that 
an individual’s response can be identified by the school.  
Parents/Caregivers are encouraged to complete the survey. The survey can be completed via 
computers, tablets or smart phones with an internet connection.  

For Parents/Caregivers who do not have access to the internet school computers/tablets will be 
available. Parents/caregivers who experience difficulties accessing the survey can request a new 
survey from the School Opinion Survey team via email schoolopinionsurvey@qed.qld.gov.au. 

It’s important that as many parents/caregivers as possible complete the survey, so we would 
appreciate if members of this committee would raise awareness of this survey with other parents 
and caregivers. 

Can’t find your invitation? If your family has more than one parent/caregiver, check that they 
haven’t received the invitation and/or check your junk email folder. 

Qkr - The way to purchase items from CapSDE

Just in case you are new to the Qkr! platform, please see below information that will guide you through the process of purchasing your formal tickets.

The app can be downloaded in either IOS or Android. Alternatively, you can access Qkr! via the following link:  https://qkr-store.qkrschool.com/store/#/home    

The Qkr! app/platform is the one stop shop for ordering uniforms, paying camp fees, purchasing tickets and much more.

It ensures a smooth transaction for families to order and pay for items with the convenience of using your mobile device.

If you have any issues with using Qkr!, please contact our Accounts Team on E: Accounts_CSDE@capricorniasde.eq.edu.au or phone 4931 4800

What is Qkr?

Qkr is a mobile app for iPhones and Android smartphones that provides secure purchases, protected by Masterpass security for administrators and parents.  Qkr will be used for  uniform and senior shirt payments, replacing my school connect as the Uniform Shop is being transferred to the school to manage. Qkr will also be used in the future for other school payments as the system is rolled out within the finance department. 

What do customers pay to access Qkr?

Qkr is free for customers, there is no transaction fee charged to customers making payments via the app.

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Tech Support

Everybody needs a little technical support from time to time, and our CapSDE website has a page dedicated to help our students and Home Tutors with any basic troubleshooting they may require.

Whether you are a new student or an existing student, information about accessing your school emails, navigating QLearn, changing your password, downloading Microsoft Office, generating your timetable and much more is available.

Our IT Department is committed to supporting you through the process of online learning and assisting you with questions and issues you may encounter with technology. 

What's happening in Primary?

Term 3 - Deputy Principal message

Academic reporting has been completed for Semester One. All students and Home Tutors should now have received marking guides (GTMJs) with specific detail on learning success for the unit and next steps for improvement. If your student has achieved what they’d set out to at the beginning of the year, we’re sure you’ve taken the time to celebrate this with them. If they haven’t, Primary School represents an early opportunity for children to realise that challenges and obstacles can be overcome with hard work, if we continue to strive to improve. Some of our school’s five Core Values (Accountability, Integrity, Respect, Positive Relationships, and Responsibility) provide good discussion points, for you to work with your students on.

This term we have our Prep-Year Four Mini-school in Week Five, at the same time as the Year Five and Six Camp to Kindilan.  These are wonderful opportunities for students and teachers to come together and have those important face to face interactions, and we encourage you to investigate travel, if this fits within your work commitments, and family budgets. Note that Year Five and Six students not attending camp, will still have a reduced online timetable.

In line with the Department of Education implementation schedule, V9 Australian Curriculum will be implemented in English and Maths in 2025.  Although this is not a re-write of the curriculum there will be some changes to align with this updated curriculum.

Some changes are as follows:

Research highlights that best practice for students learning to read and write are explicitly taught phonics which they then apply to read and write words.

At CapSDE you will see some changes to ensure we are implementing best practices:

• A sequence of phonics explicitly taught (previously this was aligned with Jolly phonics, this will now align with our decodable reader sequence)
• The teaching of high frequency words will align to decodable texts students are reading, no longer testing in lists of words (M100, 200 etc) as these words should be taught in context. These words will be monitored through our phonic screener tool
• Students’ progress with reading and writing will be monitored through the curriculum and phonic screeners that align with our phonic sequence, therefore PM testing will not be the tool used to track student progress with reading
• PM books are what are known as predictable texts and are not aligned to the 2025 curriculum and current research on how students learn to read

All students in P-6 will continue to engage with authentic texts to build their language comprehension skills to understand and interact with texts that they read. Students who are yet to be independent readers, engage with these texts in shared experiences.

At Term Three Mini-school, we will be modelling how to teach students to read both in word reading (decoding) and language comprehension lessons. Our speech pathologists will be there to support these sessions.

Looking forward to sharing a great Term Three with you and our learners.

Kellie Dobson-Dingwall and Lachlan Scheuber

Whitsunday Voice - Ms Grace

Last Wednesday, 23 students from CSDE Years 4 - 6 travelled up to Mackay to join thousands of other school students at the 20^th Whitsunday Voices – a three-day celebration of reading – and what I’ve begun to liken to ‘Beef Week for Books…”  We were treated to nine different author and illustrator presentations across the three days, including a special early bird session with illustrator Tony Flowers on our first afternoon, held just for our CSDE and CSTDE students.

Not all about reading, the festival also provides opportunities for our students to learn how to listen and speak at formal occasions. Our Year Six participants presented a gratitude speech to the Winchester Foundation. Establish by Beryl Neilsen OAM thirteen years ago, this group generously covers our costs to attend the festival every year. We also presented the Head of Whitsunday Anglican College Boarding Mr Alex Kertesz, gifts of appreciation. The boarders once again welcomed us into their boarding house to share meals, showers and accommodation spaces, meaning we could attend the entire event at no cost.

It was a hectic couple of days, and some very tired little bookworms would have been sharing their tales and favourite moments on the way home on Friday evening during their homeward journeys.

CSDE has purchased a selection of books from the Festival Bookshop which we will all be able to enjoy during Hit Lit and Mini School lessons in the coming months.   

Joanna Grace

CSDE Primary Teacher

Whitsunday Voices 2024

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School Dental Van, CQ Oral Health Services Rockhampton Campus

We are pleased to be offering full dental treatment to the students currently enrolled at your school from Prep to Grade 4.  This service will be provided by the Mobile Dental Clinic 122B which is located at the Glenmore Primary School, 241-259 Farm Street, North Rockhampton 4701.  This service will commence on 5^th August 2024, the week of Mini School.

A letter from our Chief Executive is below, detailing the information that we legally be given access to. 

If you would like to take advantage of this dental treatment for your student, please scan the QR code below to access the medical history/consent form.

If you experience difficulty scanning the QR code with your phone the link below can be clicked: https://forms.office.com/r/VG8yu20GPd.

If parents still have trouble accessing the QR code, they can ring 4920 6372 or email cqhhscaohs@health.qld.gov.au.

Oral Health Therapist, Anna Flint will be our health professionals on site.  Please direct any enquiries to the school dental administrative team on 4920 7556 / 4920 6372 or Liza Pretorius on 4920 7553 during business hours.

Good oral health is an important part of healthy living and we appreciate your cooperation and welcome any questions you may have regarding our service.

Parents will be responsible for ensuring their child/children attend at the agreed appointment times. 

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Beryl Neilsen Winchester Scholarships - Secondary

If you live in a regional area, you know that a good education can open up a multitude of opportunities for your future. These opportunities are often not accessible in regional areas. 

Living away from home to attend school or university and the additional costs associated can be a struggle for many students and their families. A Winchester Foundation Scholarship can help to assist with these additional costs. 

We believe all students should have access to good education pathways.

Apply For a Winchester Foundation Scholarship today!

Winchester Foundation Scholarships are open to students in rural & regional areas. So if you’re hoping to achieve your career dreams by accessing a great education – apply for a scholarship today? 

Each year our scholarships are awarded to students all over Queensland and the Northern Territory. These scholarships help ease the financial costs of education and training for regional children. 

The Winchester Foundation welcomes all applications and each one is assessed by our Board of Directors, we encourage all regional students and their families to apply for a scholarship to help make their career goals a reality.

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2024 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Awards Night...

...is a night where our community celebrate the achievements of our First Nation Students. Run by Darumbal, this night allows schools to acknowledge their appreciation of the students that have flown the flag for their school with respect, hard work, effort and dedication that they have put in throughout the year.

Below are the categories that students can be nominated in. Only grades 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12 can be nominated. If your child is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, or you know of a student here at CSDE that identifies and would like to put their name forward for us to consider, please let Kate Miles know on kmile19@eq.edu.au by 1^st August.

Opportunities and Employment

Opportunities are currently open to First Nations Students aged 15- 18 years of age. (Years 10 – 12)

These programs are sponsored by Army and Army will book and pay for transport from the closest transport hub from the participants home location 

1. Exercise First Look – Indigenous Youth Program- Soldier: Army Logistics Training Centre

• • A program designed specifically for students with an interest in the Army(Indigenous students only)
  • Location: Bandiana
  • Placement Dates: 07 – 11 October 2024
  • Application closes: Sunday 28 July 2024 11:30pm
  • Link to apply: Exercise First Look - Indigenous Youth Program - Bandiana

1. 2. Exercise First Look – Indigenous Youth Program- Simpson Barracks

• • A program designed specifically for students with an interest in the Army(Indigenous students only)
  • Location: Simpson Barracks, MacLeod
  • Placement Dates: 25 – 29 November 2024
  • Application closes: Sunday 18 August 2024 11:30pm
  • Link to apply: Exercise First Look - Indigenous Youth Program - Simpson Barracks

For further information please contact the Work Experience Manager listed in the Information Pack on the links above.

What's on in your community?

CRU's Families for Inclusive Education (FFIE) project's upcoming term 3 workshops

CRU’s Families for Inclusive Education (FFIE) project, now in its fifth year of being funded by the Queensland Department of Education, will be providing a Rockhampton workshop that will be of interest to families of students with disability in your school in term 3. 

The FFIE project aims to build the knowledge, confidence and skills of parents and other family members of students with disability, so they are able to partner effectively with schools for the inclusion of their children. 

Every term FFIE facilitates a free online workshop, this term's topic is
'Inclusive Classrooms: All children learning together'. Wednesday 28th August, 10:00am to 11:30am.

Join us online as we discuss what inclusive classroom's look like, what to advocate for and tips in building a partnership with the school.
Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/ffie-online-workshop-all-children-learning-together-online-workshop 

Keep an eye on CRU’s event page (here), Facebook (here), Instagram (here) or your email for more information about these and other CRU events.

Sports Person of the year award 2024

CSDE annually acknowledges the sporting achievements of a Primary and Secondary Student, who has excelled throughout the year at the end of year awards.

The presentation of the Sports Person of the Year Award goes to the student who has accumulated the most amount of points throughout the year in their various sporting achievements. 

Parents are asked to advise the school throughout the year of the sporting achievements by completing this online form. Scores are based on events, the level of the event (district, regional, state, national etc) and the students placing within those events. You will need to complete the form for each individual acheivement. Do not place all acheivements on the one form.

At the end of the year, points are collated, and the winner announced.

Information to note: 
* School sports are what counts for CSDE Sportsperson of the year.  Students are recognised for their achievement in other non-school fields; however, these achievements are not part of the accumulation of points towards the CSDE Sportsperson of the year. 

* You should list the highest level that your student has represented in that sport, noting that the points are only entered if the student represented, and not if they were selected and did not attend. 

*  Unfortunately, camp-drafting, is not a recognised school sport and so would not apply for Sportsperson of the year.

We welcome your feedback