MINI-SCHOOL eNEWSLETTER - TERM FOUR, 11 - 15 November

Mini-school - 'what, how, where and when?'

Capricornia School of Distance Education values face-to-face experiences. There are many reasons why families and students choose distance education but here at CapSDE we aim to ensure that your child receives the same opportunities as any other student in a mainstream school. Mini-school is one of the ways we can offer your child face-to-face experience incorporating, learning and socialisation.

Throughout the year, CapSDE aims to provide opportunities for students to socialise and work with their peers, play sport, compete in swimming and athletics carnivals, experience in-class activities in a school environment and facilitate Professional Development opportunities for Home Tutors.

CapSDE believes that your child will flourish, as families, staff, and the school community work together to support each other's, learning and education.

We look forward to seeing you this Mini-school.

Welcome to Mini-school!

RSVP s and Permission forms are due by Wednesday 30th October

Permission forms are available to download in the RSVP Link and you can also upload them at the same time as you submit your rsvp.

General Information

Student uniforms

It is an expectation that all students wear our CapSDE school uniforms during Mini-school. The school  has school shirts available for purchase. Please go to Qkr! to order shirts and hats.

Students are to wear navy shorts, skorts or skirts to complete the uniform. Closed in sports shoes, sunscreen and a wide brimmed hat are compulsory. 

Please clearly label all your student's belongings with their full name.

What to bring - Rockhampton Campus

• Morning tea and lunch in a lunchbox. Rockhampton Primary Buildings are equipped with fridges for primary students. All Secondary students will require ice-bricks. There is no tuckshop operating during Mini-school at Rockhampton. 
• Water bottle
• Backpack
• Pencil case (with stationery items - pencils, eraser, sharpener, glue stick, scissors, ruler).
• Student laptop and headset:
  • Secondary Students in Years 11 & 12 for any lessons that may still running as per normal timetables.
  • Primary Students - if the classroom teacher requests that you bring one

What to bring - Emerald Campus

If you are staying in the Outstation/shed on Emerald Campus, catering can be arranged through the Outstation catering committee. If you are staying offsite, you will be required to bring: 

• Morning tea, brain break snack and lunch in a lunchbox with ice brick if you require food to be kept cold.

All Emerald students will be required to bring: 

• Water bottle
• Backpack
• Pencil case (with stationery items - pencils, eraser, sharpener, glue stick, scissors, ruler).
• Student laptop and headset  - if the classroom teacher requests that you bring one

What NOT to bring: both campuses

• Lollies
• Jewellery
• Electronic Devices (student laptops are permitted for lessons)
• Electronic devices including mobile phones are not permitted.  

Kindy: 

Medication

If your student requires medication during school hours, please complete the Administration of Medication form and return to administration@caprrocksde.eq.edu.au.

All medications MUST be prescribed by a Medical Practitioner (e.g. Doctor, Dentist, Optometrist, not a Pharmacist) and labelled with the student's name, dosage rates etc. This includes Panadol and Nurofen.

💊Please ensure you have completed the medical authorisation form. All medication must be given to administration.

Do you need to update your student's details before Mini-school?                                                 

Please complete the 'Update Medical Details' form below. 

Accommodation - Rockhampton Campus

Families are to arrange their own accommodation. In Rockhampton the BIG 4 Discovery Park on Yaamba Road offers special rates for CapSDE families.

20% discount by quoting MINISCH20. Phone bookings only.

Accommodation - Emerald

Families are to arrange their own accommodation. In Emerald the Outstation is available for family use. 

P & C Outstation Bookings - Emerald

Please find below a catering and accommodation form for the Outstation in Emerald for the Mini-school week.

It needs to be returned back to Megan Philp, Email:  outstationlegends@gmail.com.  as soon as possible so catering numbers can be organised.  We do offer smoko’s and lunches to all, even if families are not camping.

Any questions or queries, please contact Megan:  PHONE: 0428 710 040

Alternate Guardian and Alternate Pick-up

We need to ensure that we have the correct information regarding who is looking after your student or who will be picking them up from Mini-school. If you have arranged for an alternate person to be contactable by CapSDE in case of an emergency throughout Mini-school, please complete the 'Alternate Guardian Form'.

If you have arranged for an alternate person to be responsible for collecting your student/s from Mini-school, please complete the 'Alternate Pick-up Form'. Please note that the school will not be handing over care of your students to another person without this form completed. 

Late arrivals and early departures Emerald and Rockhampton: Present at the Administration office to let them know you have arrived on campus and to sign your student in.

Rockhampton Primary students - access via McLaughlin Street entrance.

Online Student Lessons ALL STUDENTS

The Online Mini School Program can be found in a dedicated Space within QLearn.

To access this space, you will notice when you log in to QLearn during Mini School the cohort Spaces (Primary Cohort PCO and Secondary Cohort SCO) will be replaced on the QLearn Dashboard with the Mini School Course.

The landing page of the Mini School course is the welcome and the Door is a button to open the Online Program Timetable.

For Primary:

Select the Day of the Week and the session that applies.

Clicking on the icon will launch the session.

For Secondary:

Select the day of the Week and the corresponding Section of the table is where relevant Session information or Resources will be. 

To access the sessions for Secondary:

Navigate to Collaborate Ultra

Use the search function to search for the Year Level only (e.g  7)

There will be only 1 Active Session for you during each Period.  (It will be the BOLD one)

Home Tutor Sessions

Capricornia School of Distance Education offers Home Tutor Sessions across all year levels both face-to-face and online throughout the year and during Mini-schools. These sessions are designed to provide professional development and sharing opportunities for Home Tutors to better equip them in their vital role: supporting their students' learning.  The following sessions will be running throughout this Mini-school and we would invite you to take these opportunities to join us, listen, ask questions and share with other Home Tutors. The Intensive Home Tutor days will not be streamed. 

Rockhampton Home Tutor Session Timetable

Term Four Mini-school offers our Home Tutors the opportunity to attend transitionary year level sessions, which give parents information about what they can expect the following year. 

Year Level Home Tutor Sessions

Year level Home Tutor Session with the 2025 teachers held in Week 9 once staffing has been finalised for next year.
Families will be informed of the dates and time once they have been decided.  

Emerald Home Tutor Session Timetable

Emerald Primary Mini-school details

EMERALD CAMPUS Primary Mini-School will be held at Capricornia SDE, Cnr of Gladstone and Gray Streets, Emerald.

Access via Gladstone Street or Outstation Car Park.

Arrival: 8:30 am arrival. Parents must bring students to the undercover assembly area shown in the map below.

Pick Up: Emerald students will be let go from their classrooms at 2:30pm. 

Brain Break!

Students will be enjoying a short brain break during morning sessions. This should keep their brains focussed on their school activities and not their 'grumbling tummies'!

Please supply a piece of fruit or small healthy snack for this brain break. 

The Outstation catering committee will supply brain break healthy options for those staying on-site in Emerald.

Highlights this Mini-school

Emerald Primary Activities

Monday 

• • Book Fair (Mon - Fri)
  • Year 6 Transition to High School Session
  • Remembrance Day Service - Emerald Cenotaph Year 3 - 6 (private transport to venue at 10:40am)
  • After School - Swimming Lessons (details below) Parents to transport and supervise

Tuesday 

• • Nora Kersh Author Visit
  • Japanese
  • Year 6 Life Education Session
  • After School - Swimming Lessons - Parents to transport and supervise

Wednesday

• • After School - P & C Colour Run

Thursday

• • Year 5-6 Capras Youth Engagement Skills (Denison Oval)
  • After School - Disco 5:30pm
    

Friday

• • Open Classrooms
  • Assembly 12:00pm

Throughout the week, students will be painting cow.... please be sure to supply your student with an old shirt for this activity.

Remembrance Day Service - Emerald Cenotaph Year 3 - 6 

Parents will be required to transport their student to and from the Emerald Cenotaph, leaving CapSDE campus at 10:40am.

🔔   Please complete the permission form below.

Disco time! Come along to our Book Character themed disco on Thursday afternoon from 5:30pm

Emerald Swimming Lessons

Due to a myriad of factors, swimming lessons for Emerald students will be held after school at the Emerald Aquatic Centre.

Parents will be required to transport their children to and from the pool.
Whilst there will be a member of CapSDE staff present, parents will be responsible for supervising students
at the pool whilst not in the lesson.

Swimming lessons will be held on Monday and Tuesday afternoons during the following times.
3:30 – 4:15pm 

• Prep – Year 1 
• Year 2 

4:15 – 5:00pm

• Years 3 – 4 
• Years 5 – 6 

🔔   A permission form will need to be completed for your student to attend these lessons. See below.

Emerald E-Kindy & RAFS Playgroup

The eKindy play days are being offered to eKindy kids, with younger siblings and parents welcome to stay. Students are advised to wear their messy and comfortable clothes and comfy shoes that they are able to get on and off by themselves. Please supply suitable clothes for WET PLAY on Monday and Tuesday, with spare clothes to change into after wet play concludes.

Days: 

Monday

Tuesday - CapSDE Prep transition activities after morning tea

Wednesday - Open morning 9 - 11am all families with 2025 Kindy age children are welcome to attend. 

Arrival: 9:00am

Parents to sign students in at the sign in table located at the undercover area behind The Outstation.

Pick up:  2:00pm

Parents must sign students out at the end of the day. Sign out takes place at the classroom located at T2000. 

Please do not ask your student to meet you at the car. They will need to be signed out before they are dismissed for the day.

Remote Area Family Services (RAFS) Playgroup:

For Term Four, RAFS have confirmed that they will run playgroup on

• Thursday 14th November at Emerald Mini-school
  9-11am at the undercover area behind The Outstation.

Please note that a parent/guardian must stay with the child for this playgroup. 

Year 6 Puberty Education Session (Rockhampton and Emerald)

CapSDE will be running Life Ed Talk About It Puberty Sessions for Year Six students, during our Week Seven Mini-school event (online and at Emerald and Rockhampton Campuses).

To help make Year Six Home Tutors aware of what the sessions will involve, we have emailed key documents for your consideration.

Please take note of the documents attached to the email you would have received and the brief explanation for each:

Particularly please ensure that you return the 'Opt Out' form, if you do not wish for your student to attend the session. 

• Opt out permission form. (Please complete this form and return to administration@caprrocksde.eq.edu.au, if you’d prefer that your Year Six student did not participate in the sessions)

The LifeEd presenter has included contact details in the opt out form below. Please feel free to reach out if there are any questions or concerns.

Colour Run P & C Fundraiser - Rockhampton and Emerald

The P & C will be holding a colour run on the Wednesday afternoon 13^th November during Term 4 Mini-school, in both Emerald and Rockhampton.

Funds from the Colour Run will go towards subsidising School Camps in 2025, future school events and other ways in which our P&C support your students.

This is something that students can fundraise for, even if they aren’t able to attend the event and there are also plenty of really cool prizes to choose from for students that fundraise.

Fundraising for our Colour Explosion School Run 4 Fun is entirely online.

Follow the instructions in your child’s sponsorship booklet to create a cybersafe, online profile page at www.australianfundraising.com.au.

See the Weekly Newsletter for more details!

Rockhampton Primary Mini-school details

Rockhampton CAMPUS Primary Mini-School will be held at 241-259 Farm Street, Kawana, North Rockhampton.

Access via Gate 13 Access via McLaughlin Street. The code for the lock on the gate will be set to 1103 (First date of Mini-school)

Arrival: 8:30am arrival.

Parents must sign students in at the sign-in table, which will be situated at the primary buildings, (see map below).

Pick Up:

• Day ends 2:30pm except Friday which is 12:30pm.
  

Parents or alternate guardians as advised in 'Alternate Guardian form', must sign students out at the sign-in table in the assembly area as shown below. Please do not ask your student to meet you at the car. They will need to be signed out before they are dismissed for the day.

FRIDAY ASSEMBLY CapSDE Campus Outstation - 12:00PM

FRIDAY FINISH 12:30PM

Rockhampton Primary Activities

Monday

• Remembrance Day
• Swimming Lessons

Tuesday

• Melbourne Cup dress up day
• 'Starbright' Cow Painting 8:10 - 8:30am
• Year 6 Life Education Session
• Capras Community Engagement
• Swimming Lessons
• After school - Year 6 student run art activities (please see details below)

Wednesday

• 'Starbright' Cow Painting 8:10 - 8:30am
  
• Swimming Lessons
• Colour Run 3:30 - 4:15pm

Thursday

• 'Starbright' Cow Painting 8:10 - 8:30am
  
• Author Visit - Nora Kersh
• Music Session
• After School Disco (No alcohol permitted)

Friday

• Crazy Hair and Sock Day
• Assembly 12:00pm

Swimming Lessons - Rockhampton

Prep to Year 6 will be participating in swimming lessons on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during Mini-school. Students will be travelling by bus to the Rockhampton Southside Pool. This will be a one-way bus trip.

Parents will be required to pick up their students from the Southside Pool at 3:00pm each day; Mon-Wed.

2ND WORLD WAR MEMORIAL SWIMMING POOL, 2 Graeme Acton Way, Wandal Queensland 4700

At pick up time, please do not enter the facility. Students under the supervision of CapSDE staff will be brought to the entrance of the pool for parents to collect.

Don't forget to fill in the permission form for swimming lessons.

Those students not participating in swimming lessons will be supervised at the Primary CapSDE Campus and parents will be required to pick them up at 2:30pm. 

If you have students to also pick up from the Secondary Campus at Conference on North, please collect your primary student first and then your secondary student. Secondary students will be supervised for the few minutes until you can collect them. It is a very short drive from the pool to Conference on North.

🔔  Please complete the consent form below

Melbourne Cup Dress Up Day - Tuesday

Year 6 Run Art Activity

Crazy Hair and Sock Day

Friday 15 November 

Dress up with Crazy Hair and Crazy Socks. Bring a gold coin donation to go towards Capricorn Animal Aid.

Year 6 Fundraiser - Capricorn Animal Aid

Throughout the week from 8:10am - 8:30am, students will be painting a cow... please be sure to supply your student with an old shirt for this activity.

Rockhampton E-Kindy Information

The eKindy play days are being offered to eKindy kids again this Mini-school. On Rockhampton Campus this will be held in I Block. Students are advised to wear their messy and comfortable clothes and comfy shoes that they are able to get on and off by themselves. 

Days: 

Tuesday 12th - Transition to Prep session - please see Rockhampton Home Tutor Timetable

Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th November

Arrival:  9:00 am

Parents to sign students in at the sign-in table in the assembly area behind administration (see Rockhampton Campus Map above).

Pick up:  2:00pm (Tues & Wed) 
                   1:00pm Thursday

Please note
                       Tuesday and Wednesday, we will trial a later finish, of 2:00pm. 
                       Your child may wish to bring a cuddly toy for rest time.
                       No precious or irreplaceable toys please!

Parents must sign students out at the sign in table in the assembly area as shown above.

Please do not ask your student to meet you at the car. They will need to be signed out before they are dismissed for the day.

🔔  Please complete the consent form below

Secondary Mini-school details

Rockhampton Secondary Mini-School will generally be held at Conference on North, 35 North Street, Wandal. Access via West Street or North Street (see map below).

Students are required to bring a packed mtea, lunch and water bottle each day. Please see Secondary Information and permission forms for all other requirements for this week. 

Secondary Drop Off and Pick up details

Location: Conference on North, Cnr North and West Streets, Wandal South Rockhampton

Drop off:  Monday, Tuesday, and Friday     9:00 am Conference on North 
                 Wednesday                                 8:15am Southside Swimming Pool
                 Thursday                                     9:00-9:15am - CQU, North Rockhampton Campus

Pick up: Monday and Tuesday - 3:00pm Conference on North
               Wednesday - 2:30pm Conference on North
               Thursday - 3:00pm CQU, North Rockhampton Campus   
               Friday - 11:30am Conference on North           

Parents are asked not to enter classrooms. Students to assemble under D Block as shown on the map.

If a student is required to leave early, the parents/carer must sign the student out after speaking to relevant staff. 

Late arrivals and early departures at Conference on North: Present at the Conference on North Administration office to let staff know you have arrived on campus and to sign your student in. 

🔔   Please return permission form (below) to administration@caprrocksde.eq.edu.au by Wednesday 30 October

The Science excursion to CQU permission form is due back by Wednesday 30th October

🔔   Please email the form to administration@caprrocksde.eq.edu.au or alternatively upload it into the webform.

Secondary Swimming Carnival

Years 7 - 12
DATE: Wednesday 13th November

Students to be at the Southside Pool Rockhampton by 8:45am for at 9:00am Carnival start.  After the carnival students will be transported by bus back to Conference on North. Parents are welcome to come along to the carnival and cheer for their students!

We would love to see as many students in house colours as possible! Please ensure your student is wearing sun-safe clothing and modest swimwear. Bikinis are not acceptable.

Nomination forms and information have been in the newsletter, student announcements and emailed to families.

Nominations are due by Wednesday 30th October and should be emailed directly to Mr Murray Harch on mharc4@eq.edu.au 

🔔  More swimming carnival information in the Swimming Carnival Consent form below. Please complete.

Year 12 Students will be catching a bus on Wednesday afternoon to Central Qld University (CQU) for practice for the Awards and Graduation Ceremony. This will be followed with a session with the Guidance Officer, Kate Miles.

Students will return to Conference on North at 2:00pm for parents to pick them up at 2:30pm

2024 Novelty Race nominations - Secondary Swimming Carnival

Secondary Awards & Year 12 Graduation Ceremony

The 2024 Secondary Awards and Graduation Ceremony will be held at Central Queensland University, Yaamba Road, North Rockhampton.

Students in year levels 7 - 12 will receive academic awards and our Year 12 graduating class, will be presented with their graduation certificates and medallions in front of their peers, families and distinguished guests.

The location is Building 32. (see map below) Entrance to Building 32 is upstairs.
However there is a lift for those that may require disability access.

Date:      Thursday 14^th November

Time:      Start time 9:30am

Students and families can start arriving from 9:10am. There will be signs to direct families to the correct area. Please see map below for directions to the building. 

Dress:     Students are to wear their full school uniform

After the event, the Year 12 students and families are invited to stay for a Year 12 farewell morning tea/light refreshments in the courtyard outside the awards venue. 

Students in Years 7-11 will stay on at the university to participate in the Science Activity Excursion. 

Secondary Awards will be live streamed via the following link, for those that are unable to attend. 

Please find below link to this year’s Secondary Awards Ceremony. This link will be active from 9:30am.

Join the meeting now

Meeting ID: 445 493 008 149      Passcode: ExmDmu

🔔  All students attending will need to have a completed Consent Form, see below.

Years 7 - 11 Timetable

Leavers Week! Year 12's... nearly there!

Year 12 Students will be participating in Leavers Week activities during Week 7 Min-school Week.

🔔  Students will require a completed consent form to participate in Leaver's Week activities including the Awards and Graduation Ceremony practice. Click the link below

Year 12 Students will be catching a bus on Wednesday afternoon to Central Qld University (CQU) for practice for the Awards and Graduation Ceremony. This will be followed with a session with the Guidance Officer, Kate Miles.

Students will return to Conference on North at 2:30pm for parents to pick them up at 3:00pm

This activity requires a completed Leaver's Week Consent Form. See above

Year 12 online sessions.

Those Year 12 students that are not attending Leaver’s Week, can join the online classes with the Year 11 students if they wish. The Secondary Awards and Year 12 Graduation Ceremony will be streamed on Thursday morning, from 9:30am. The link for this session is found in the Mini-school Newsletter.

All Students