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Currajong State School

Phone: +61 7 4758 0666

Address: 150 Palmerston St 4812 Gulliver

Website: http://www.currajongss.eq.edu.au/

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25.01.2022 We are asking students to wear red clothes on Friday 30th October to support Day for Daniel. No donation required. Day for Daniel is Australia’s largest day of action to raise awareness of child safety, protection, and harm prevention.

24.01.2022 The students representing Currajong in the Green STEM collaboration worked together with students from five other local schools, putting their self designed and made marine debris tools to the test! Needless to say their tools worked amazingly as the Green STEM students managed to pick up a total of 928 pieces of marine debris off the beach and sand dunes at Rowes Bay, including 186 cigarette butts and over 400 pieces of plastic. The students then sorted the marine debris and collected the data which will be sent to the Tangaroa Blue Foundation as part of their Reefclean community clean-up.

23.01.2022 Just a reminder that school photos are this Wednesday and Thursday. The schedule was emailed last week. Students in the choir need to meet in the music room at 8:00am to change into their choir shirts for their photo. Please ensure that your children are in full school uniform including black shorts (and black shoes for choir students). Please contact the office for any queries.

22.01.2022 Epic day at the TGS Lego robotics competition with the Currajong team of Lego legends! Students had to build and code a building of the future, it had to be sustainable, durable and accessible. Our team ensured all parts of their build were wheelchair accessible including the second level, building and coding an elevator. They had solar panels and a wind generator to power the building, topping it off with a garden to make it sustainable. It was super durable, so much so it is going to be standing in the Grammar junior library for the next while so their students can have look at all the awesome designs. 13 other schools competed and it was fantastic to get back to some interschool competition. We are already looking forward to our next robotics competition in week 10.

21.01.2022 It was an epic Monday afternoon at the interschool robotics competition held at Annandale Christian College. Our teams competed in three rounds with some very challenging tropical themed tasks. Students maneuvered their Riley Rover Robots through the course by coding the tank motors and incorporated the use of colour and ultrasonic sensors as well as the gripper attachment to help complete the tasks. Our teams came 6th and 9th respectively and both teams achieved maximum points for their team work mark on the score sheet. They represented our school proudly, showcasing our values of being respectful, resilient and curious!

21.01.2022 Our last video for the term! We hope you’ve been enjoying them! This is our recent NAIDOC Celebration Day which was #totallydeadly and another example of our awesome #curraculture

21.01.2022 Our percussion instrumental group are proud to present a little outdoor performance for your listening pleasure. Enjoy

19.01.2022 No better way to start the day than with Pilates and, lucky 2C has their very own Pilates Instructor!

18.01.2022 Our Inter-school Swim Team swam competitively and showed great sportsmanship in the inter-school swimming carnival last week. Well done to everyone involved!

16.01.2022 Grade 4 have been working on and creating a Pinball Machine, and with a dream of most students, to actually have a real pinball at school to help them with their designs. The unit in Design Technology had the students making their own working 3D pinball, being influenced by all the bells and whistles of the real thing. The article below is from this week’s Townsville Bulletin.

15.01.2022 CSS NAIDOC CULMINATING CEREMONY VIDEO IS LIVE! https://youtu.be/CvA6lXIIIzc Due to COVID19 restrictions, our normal NAIDOC culminating ceremony that we hold in the hall with our whole learning community including students, teachers, parents, grandparents and relatives has had to change. To still give these important stakeholders a chance to participate and watch our NAIDOC culminating ceremony, the Currajong NAIDOC committee has put together a digital online ceremony that f...amilies and friends can watch together in their own time. The video starts with an acknowledgement to country and introduction from Aunty Dorothy Savage. A local Townsville artist, named Wesley Stubbings, who has painted a number of murals at Currajong State School explains his murals and the Dreamtime story that inspired them. The Ignatius Park cultural dancers, including three past Currajong students, share their message and cultural Island dances. Our 2020 Cultural Leader, JJ, shares his thoughts on the 2020 NAIDOC theme, Always was, Always will be as well as extending a thank you message to those that have gone above and beyond to make the NAIDOC celebrations our best yet. The ceremony finishes with everyone getting up out of their seats and dancing without shame to Baker Boy’s Marryuna. Get those dance moves ready! On behalf of the Currajong NAIDOC committee we hope you enjoy our digital online ceremony however we look forward to celebrating with you all in the hall again next year.

15.01.2022 Ready, set, GO! Our Preps had their own Sports Carnival this week. They got to show their competitive streak as well as their teamwork and sportsmanship. Share in our fun and #curraculture with this quick video. We will have more photos in tomorrow’s newsletter.

13.01.2022 A new family has arrived at Currajong State School!

13.01.2022 Lest we forget.

12.01.2022 Learning about Life Cycles is 'for the birds' Grade 2 were lucky enough to have Mr Murphy from Belgian Gardens School visit to explain the Life Cycle of Sea Turtles. The students found it very interesting that the temperature of the sand determines if the hatchling will be male or female but when Shadow, Mr Murphy's bird, was allowed to check the work they were doing things got a whole lot more fun! The students that had their worked nibbled on by Shadow felt privileged and now have an excuse that no one would normally believe, a bird ate my homework!

12.01.2022 Students may wear purple on Friday as part of our focus on Mental Health Week. There is no donation required. We have little challenges and activities each day for the students and staff as part of our focus on this important topic.

11.01.2022 Tomorrow is our Currajong NAIDOC celebration day for 2020. Students will be participating in a number of rotations to celebrate the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island cultures. As a school we will be celebrating the first use of our new Kup Murri space as well as working together to create a whole school artwork. We will finish the day by watching an online digital ceremony that our whole learning community can access, keep an eye out for the YouTube link that will be posted at approximately 2:15pm tomorrow. Students please remember your hats and full school uniform and come ready for a respectful yet super fun day! We can’t wait!!!

11.01.2022 4F are proud new mums and dads with the happy arrival of this cute chick overnight. Hopefully they will be able to see some of its brothers and sisters cracking their way through in the next day or two. 4F's amazing students are studying 'Life Cycles' this term and have had the wonderful experience of seeing this first hand. Now they are contemplating which comes first... the Chicken or the Egg?

10.01.2022 Last week, our Green STEM students did some 'Citizen Science', collecting data on the sea grass beds at Rowes Bay to be sent to Cairns and included in the sea grass database. Scientists use this data to evaluate the changes to these beds over years and decades to assist in monitoring their health due to how important they are to the ecosystem. They also coded drones to complete a turtle nesting challenge. Overall it was a fun yet very educational day!

10.01.2022 It was a very colourful day on Friday! We had such a great time at the Colour Fun Run! Thanks to the P&C, the rural fire brigade, Mrs Hockaday and all the helpers that made this event possible!

08.01.2022 Big congratulations to all the boys and girls that competed in the Interhouse Athletics Carnival. It was an awesome day! Well done to Chandler house for the overall win. Congratulations to Bell house for winning the Team Spirit award! The #curraculture was #nextlevel

07.01.2022 Students have a free dress day tomorrow to support our upcoming NAIDOC celebrations. They can wear any colours below, which represent the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island flags. A gold coin donation will go towards our NAIDOC activities.

07.01.2022 It was deadly to see so many Indigenous styled shirts (and haircuts!) this week for our NAIDOC themed free dress day! #deadlycurraculture

04.01.2022 Just a reminder that this Friday is a statewide Student Free Day. The office will only be open 8:00 - 10:00 and 11:00 - 12:00 due to professional development and training occurring.

04.01.2022 CURRAJONG BASKETBALL We were represented in full force at the recent U15s Girls Queensland School Basketball tournament held in Townsville this week. With 3 past Currajong students, in Janessa, Nakeisha and Tahnee playing in the tournament and current teachers Ms Cowell and Mr Rutland coaching the team. It’s always amazing to see past students successes in their chosen sports! Great effort and well done!

04.01.2022 PrepMH had an amazingly active session today, as they made a Currajong Ninja Warrior course! Their class ninja champion, Soren, challenged Mr B to a head to head battle and proved he was the #1 ninja!

04.01.2022 Enrolments are now open for Prep in 2021! Check out our amazing Prep facilities, fun learning environment and our caring community culture in the video below . #weloveprep #curraculture

04.01.2022 Having trouble doing home reading with your child? Not sure if you’re doing it right? Here are some tips for parents from our learning support teacher Mrs Tiffany Calvert when reading with your child: 1. Sit side-by-side with your child. 2. Don’t ‘tell’ the words let the child have a go at working it out themselves. If the child still cannot work it out, tell them the word, and then go and re-read the sentence to encourage using the new word in context.... 3. Move beyond ‘sound it out.’ What word would make sense? Are there any parts of the word that they already know? (e.g. in/to) Take a ‘run-up’ at the word using the first sound. 4. Have your child re-read some passages for fluency. 5. Allow some mistakes to go uncorrected. 6. Allow the same book multiple times. 7. Keep reading to your child. An excellent demonstration video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korfvEOQb14 Any questions please don’t hesitate to contact our learning support teacher Mrs Tiffany Calvert at [email protected]

04.01.2022 High school bound! Late last term, our year six cohort of students and teachers visited Heatley Secondary College as an insight to what a day in the life of a high school student entails. The students participated in physical education, industrial technology and art classes and started to really get a feel for transitioning to high school. We wish our year six cohort an awesome last term at Currajong. Thanks to the staff at Heatley Secondary College for organising such great opportunities!

03.01.2022 Grade 2 are on the move into their gorgeous newly refurbished classroms. It is lovely to have all four Grade 2 classes in the same area.

03.01.2022 This week our Year 6 students travelled to Alma Bay, Magnetic Island to complete their Surf Life Saving course. A great time was had by all, we will have some very strong and safe swimmers at the beach this summer!

03.01.2022 Just a reminder that Year 1 - 6 athletics is tomorrow. Preps have their own carnival on 14th September. Unfortunately due to COVID restrictions parents are unable to attend however we are extremely pleased to be able to reschedule this for our students. Photos and video of the day will be shared so that everyone can share in the experience. Students are encouraged to wear their house team colours.

02.01.2022 We are so proud to share a performance by our String Orchestra. They have been working hard towards this virtual performance and should be congratulated for their commitment and effort. Enjoy!