CSDE Week 4, Term One 2024 eNewsletter
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Important NAPLAN Information
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Get reading with SORA - the departments online library
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School Photos - access links have been emailed to families.
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What's happening in Primary?
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Prep - OLEY (Oral Language for the Early Years)
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Year One news
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ETeach USBs
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School Dental Van, CQ Oral Health Services
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What to expect when you visit Kindilan
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Secondary Scoop
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Leadership Induction Ceremony
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Technology, The Arts and HPE
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QLearn accessing tasks
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Technology News
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Year 7 Drama Llama's are having fun creating lots of drama this term!
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Year 10 Visual Arts
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Guidance 'Go-2'
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P & C AGM & General Meeting - 19th March
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Opportunities, Employment & Assistance
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Apprentice Mechanical Fitter
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Australian Defence Force Academy
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World Education Program Student Exchange Roadshow
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CQ Ag Careers Evening - Date Claimer
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Careers Expo - Save the Dates
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Saver Plus
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What's on in your community?
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We welcome your feedback
Important NAPLAN Information
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING NAPLAN testing 2024 – action required before 23 February 2024.
The National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is a national Literacy and Numeracy assessment that students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit each year. NAPLAN assesses the Literacy and Numeracy skills that students are learning through the school curriculum and allows parents/carers to see how their child is progressing against national standards and over time. More information about NAPLAN is available here: www.nap.edu.au/naplan. This year NAPLAN will be held during Term One Mini-school, from Wednesday 13 – Friday 15 March 2024.
If you have a student in years 3, 5, 7 or 9, please click and download the information below regarding your childs' options for accessing NAPLAN testing; onsite, off-site, withdrawals/exemptions.
Please contact your student’s Care Group Teacher by Friday 23rd February, if you would like your student to access any of these options. Applications for off-site testing have now closed.
Timetable
See the timetable below that outlines the times for the NAPLAN testing during Mini-school in Week 8.
Get reading with SORA - the departments online library
All students and are now registered for SORA and can now access over 80,000 eBooks, audiobooks, read-along books and magazines. See below instructions for your student to access and enjoy all the resources available.
School Photos - access links have been emailed to families.
School Photos will be held during Term One Mini-school. There will be no envelopes, as families have been emailed an access key to be able to order their photos online. Please check your spam/junk folder if you have not received this access key.
CSDE will also be issuing all Secondary Students in Year 7 - 12 with a student card from their 2024 school photo. The first card is supplied and paid for by the school. All replacement cards will be at the expense of the family.
Sibling photos will be on offer at Rockhampton Campus from 7:30am on Monday 11th March to allow families time for this to occur before having to take their secondary students to Conference on North. Any students with senior exams on photo day do not stress! Secondary individual photos will be taken in the afternoon at Conference on North
CSDE is also offering Year Level group photos. These photos are compiled virtually from all the students in that year level that had their photo taken. This is a new option for our families, introduced last year and we are very excited to be able to offer you the latest technology in creating digital memories again this year. These group photos were very well received last year, giving students a lasting momento of their classmates that is usually reserved for only 'face to face' schools.
What's happening in Primary?
Prep - OLEY (Oral Language for the Early Years)
Prep students are reminded, that OLEY (Oral Language for the Early Years) starts this week. Please check your timetables for your Tuesday and Thursday lesson timeslots. Mrs McIntyre will be your teacher.
Year One news
Year 1 Rockhampton students have made an excellent start to 2024.
We have been busy learning phonics, sightwords and reading strategies.
We have also been working on our number sense too.
Some of us made it to Rocky for the induction days. We enjoyed getting to know each other and doing fun activities.
Our theme this term is bees. We have been learning interesting facts about bees. We all have our own bee at home in the schoolroom and they have been keeping us company while we do our daily tasks.
Emerald students have been extremely busy the last couple of weeks learning all about what it is like to be in Year 1. Other than learning new routines and expectations we have been reading entertaining stories and talking about how the main character has changed throughout the story. Here are some pictures of our drawings of The Very Blue Thingamajig.
ETeach USBs
Dear parents and home Tutors,
Please do not download the contents of the USB onto your computers. Instead, please open the files directly from the USB. Copying these files to the computer can break a link in the back channels. This corrupts key files, and prevents them from opening successfully.
If your USB is faulty, please send it back to the mailroom, and a replacement will be sent. As discussed at this year’s Home Tutor Induction Sessions, the school is investigating an upload to QLearn, but the format in which these courses were created, prevents that from happening in 2024.
School Dental Van, CQ Oral Health Services
We are pleased to be offering full dental treatment to the students currently enrolled at your school up to and including Year 10 commencing in February/March 2024. This service will be provided by the Emerald Community Dental Clinic located at the Emerald Hospital, 69 Hospital Road, Emerald 4720.
A letter from our Chief Executive is attached, 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. Alternatively please see form link below. If you have trouble accessing the QR code, please ring 4920 6372 or email cqhhscaohs@health.qld.gov.au
The form below will need to be completed and taken with you for your appointment.
What to expect when you visit Kindilan
Students will be staying in Lodges/Cabins which have 4 sets of bunks (room for 8 students) each of these cabins also have 2 bathrooms. Details as to which students are in which room will be decided closer to the camp, as Kindilan does not finalise the cabin arrangements until 4 weeks before camp.
Secondary Scoop
Leadership Induction Ceremony
CSDE Captains, Maddison and Bella joined other school leaders in the region this afternoon, at The Cathedral College, for the annual Leadership Induction Ceremony. This ceremony aims to acknowledge and introduce school leaders, recognising the valuable role that they each play within their school community. Congratulations Maddison and Bella.
Technology, The Arts and HPE
We're thrilled to welcome you back to school for another exciting term! As we kick off this year, our teachers have been working hard in QLearn to make sure it's packed with great learning experiences. All of our classes this year will be utilising QLearn in different ways: from class tasks, study note access, group work, quizzes and assessment. Be sure to ask for help and share your experience with your parents, peers and teachers so that we can all learn together and make QLearn accessible and engaging.
Parents, guardians, and home tutors – you are not forgotten. We want you to spend some time with your child throughout the day to check-in and see how your they are travelling. Without your ongoing support and partnership we just don’t work as well as we could. Communicate frustrations with your child’s teacher so that we can put some strategies in place to support everyone and reduce stresses. Questions like:
- What was your favourite activity today?
- What mistake did you make today that taught you something?
- What happened today that doesn’t happen every day?
- What are you excited to do at school tomorrow?
- What hard thing did you do today?
We're eager to see our students grow, make friends, and excel in their studies. Together, we will face challenges and embrace opportunities, knowing that with effort, we can achieve amazing things.
Penny Schofield
QLearn accessing tasks
All HPE/Arts/Technology classes this year will be utilising QLearn for class tasks and assessment. Follow the instructions below to find out how to access these:
From the Lesson Page
Scroll to the bottom of your lesson and click on the Quiz Icon
Calendar
The tasks to be completed within QLearn can be accessed via the Calendar in the Global Navigation Menu.
Technology News
Year 7 is working through learning about their own internet footprint.
Year 8 are starting their learning journey of computational thinking. We will share our python coded games next term. But we are excited to get stuck into GROK next week.
Year 9 is working through HTML and website building. They have just started looking behind the scenes to view the code and how changing the code changes the webpage appearance.
Year 10 is working on Databases through GROK. One amazing student - Riley O’Neil has done really well in pushing beyond already and turned his pop collection into a database!
We think he might be a Marvel fan?
Year 7 Drama Llama's are having fun creating lots of drama this term!
So far this term in drama, the year 7 drama llama’s have shown great enthusiasm, confidence and skill in engaging in their drama lessons.
The year 7 students have begun to build upon their performance skills along with learning about fairy tales and how they can be fractured to create roles and relationships.
Mrs Foale loves her drama llama’s and sharing her love of drama with her students.
Stay tuned for some exciting work ahead!
Year 10 Visual Arts
In Unit 1, students are learning about Surrealism with a focus on the artist Salvador Dali. Students analyse a surrealist artwork and create an A4 surrealist drawing with a focus on one-point perspective.
Here are some student examples from Term 3, 2023
Year 8 Media Arts
For Media Arts, students are learning about documentaries. They will analyse two short documentaries and make their own documentary in term 2.
Year 9 Design and Technology
Year 9 Design and technology students are learning about tiny houses with a focus on creating a preferred (better) future. Students use deign thinking to design their own prototypes of a tiny home.
Here are some student examples from Term 3, 2023
Tiny Home by Bryson
My Tiny Home by Marijana
Guidance 'Go-2'
P & C AGM & General Meeting - 19th March
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
Click here to join the meeting
Meeting ID: 468 854 770 34
Passcode: r5wgGj
Opportunities, Employment & Assistance
Defence Work Experience Program
Apprentice Mechanical Fitter
See link below for an apprenticeship opportunity through Livingstone Shire Council.
Click the link below for more employment opportunities through Livingstone Shire Council.
Australian Defence Force Academy
The Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) offers world-class degrees in Business, Engineering, Computing, Arts and Science.
Based in Canberra, students who join ADFA have a unique opportunity to receive advanced military and leadership training whilst studying a range of degrees from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). ADFA also offers students a salary while they study, allowing them to focus throughout their degrees and enjoy a range of sporting and extra-curricular activities without the need to get a part-time job.
Upon graduation students are guaranteed a career in the Navy, Army or Air Force and will have their degree fully funded, graduating HELP-debt free. Students who graduate from ADFA move into a range of exciting and varied jobs as Officers, these range from Pilots, Civil Engineers, Logistics and Finance Officers, Mission Controller’s and much more.
An ADFA information session is a valuable opportunity to connect with the military recruiters who are across the most current application requirements. Discover an upcoming ADFA event virtually and in your area to learn more.
World Education Program Student Exchange Roadshow
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CQ Ag Careers Evening - Date Claimer
CHRRUP and CHDC are hosting another Ag Careers Evening for high school students in years 7-12 in Emerald. This year’s event is set to take place on Tuesday 23rd July – term 3, week 3.
More information to come...
Careers Expo - Save the Dates
CQUniversity is delighted to be delivering Careers Expos in 2024.
Career Expos are an exciting opportunity for our local schools and students to engage with businesses, industries and universities to discuss future job opportunities and career paths.
Rockhampton Expo - Thursday 16th May 2024
Emerald Expo - Friday 17 May 2024
Both of these dates correspond with Mini-shcool in Term Two. This will be an excursion for our Year 10 students during Mini-school, however if any Year 11/12 students would like to attend, they will be required to email Mrs Cowley for permission on dcowl25@eq.edu.au . It will also be expected that they would watch the recording for any classes that are missed during the time of the excursion. If the student has an exam scheduled during the time of the Expo, they will not be granted permission to attend.
More information regarding this excursion in Rockhampton will be available in the Term Two Mini-school Newsletter.
Saver Plus
What is Saver Plus?
Saver Plus is a program for people on lower incomes. It’s about bolstering their financial skills, so they can develop (and keep) good savings habits. Since 2003, Saver Plus has supported more than 58,000 people to start saving.
It’s helped overcome the barriers around education expenses. And it’s set them up for a brighter future.
What are the eligible savings goals?
Eligible savings goals are education related products or services that:
- Assist a primary or secondary school student’s education;
For more information visit Saver Plus financial literacy program (thesmithfamily.com.au)
What's on in your community?
Please see below the Clermont Show - Education Schedule for 2024.