Edge Hill State School in Cairns, Queensland, Australia | Education

Edge Hill State School

Locality: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4037 9555

Address: 254 Pease Street 4870 Cairns, QLD, Australia

Website: http://edgehillss.eq.edu.au

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24.01.2022 School starts again tomorrow! YAY! If you are planning on ordering tuckshop this week please take note of the new Flexischools cut-off time of 8.30am daily for all orders. It could be a good idea to place your order the night before if you are able to plan ahead As per last term, parents are still being asked not to enter the school grounds, so please place orders online.

22.01.2022 Have a Blast with Cairns Cricket! See flyer for details and register your interest to: https://www.playcricket.com.au/cricket-blast

22.01.2022 It's News Day! First newsletter for Term 4. Keep up to date each fortnight with our Leading Edge News. https://edgehillss.eq.edu.au//newsletter%2017%2013oct2020c

21.01.2022 In PE, Year 2 students are working on creating a movement sequence with a partner. We've worked on different locomotor movements, balances, rotation movements, and springing and landing skills. 2C nailed some synchronised jumps today - straight jump, tuck jump, star jump - all with beautifully controlled landings! Super !

21.01.2022 Year 1 A/B watched the live stream, while our Senior choir sang along with St Monica's choir at the Cairns Lagoon last Thursday. They also got to sing along in class while they watched their school friends on the big screen.

21.01.2022 Welcome to the latest edition of the Leading Edge Newsletter. The second last one for the year. https://edgehillss.eq.edu.au//newsletter-2020-11-24-no20.p

20.01.2022 Music - count us in !!

19.01.2022 This week across the school students will be involved in activities to observe NAIDOC week. We look forward to sharing photos of things that have been happening, later in the week.

19.01.2022 Music Timetable Date Claimer! Please check times below and mark it on your calendar :)

15.01.2022 Last Friday, Year 2 HPE moved onto partner balances. They got to focus, concentrate, squeeze tight and trust their buddy! Look at all those gorgeous smiles

15.01.2022 In Mathematics 3G students had lots of fun with three-dimensional objects: Discovered how many faces, vertices and edges objects had when making models using playdough, match sticks and pop sticks. Learnt about the features of prisms and pyramids in a colour coding challenge activity.... Developed their origami skills when making chatter boxes that are shape themed. Used their knowledge of nets to predict, decorate and construct complex paper models. Combined Technology with Mathematics when using Quiver to make 3D nets come to life.

15.01.2022 Year 3 are continuing their Target Games unit with Bocce! What strategy will I use to try and get my team closest to the pallina? How much force do I need? Where should I aim? How sneaky will I be? Bocce is so much fun!

14.01.2022 Queensland Mental Health Week (QMHW) is an annual awareness week that aims to shine a spotlight on individual and community mental health and wellbeing. QMHW encourages all of us to think about our mental health and wellbeing, regardless of whether we may have a lived experience of mental illness or not. The week also gives us the opportunity to understand the importance of mental health in our everyday lives and encourages help seeking behaviours when needed. This year’s the...me is Take time for mental health. Take time is about the simple yet proven things everyone can do to boost mental wellbeing! It is also about breaking down the stigma associated with mental illness and reaching out to people in our communities who need support.

12.01.2022 5E had a lot of fun completing a drone program with Mr Harris. Students thoroughly enjoyed learning how to fly a drone and to use Scratch to code their drone to reach the mountain.

12.01.2022 Year 3 have been learning about the significance of Remembrance Day. Look at 3A's beautiful Flanders Field.

11.01.2022 It's Newsletter Day! Please click on the link to find out what has been happening in our school community. https://edgehillss.eq.edu.au//newsletter-2020-11-09-no19.p

10.01.2022 We hope you have all had a restful break over these past two weeks. We look forward to welcoming all our EHSS families back for Term 4 on TUESDAY 6th October 2020. If you are looking at more ways to entertain your children over the next few days. Have a look at the following 'scavenger' activities that may keep the kids busy over the long weekend. See you all next week!

10.01.2022 The first Friday in November is Tuckshop Day in Queensland. At Edge Hill SS our dedicated, hardworking team can always be counted on to provide nutritious food and drinks. This means on those busy days, families have one less task to worry about at the start of their day. ... We want to say THANKYOU!!

08.01.2022 EDITED TO ADD - you can live stream this event on this link: http://live.musicaustralia.org.au/ Thursday 5th November is Celebration Day. We have 91 students from our Senior choir performing this at the Cairns Lagoon live streamed across participating schools in Australia and fingers crossed at 11.30am.... All Edge Hill teachers will be able to connect to the live stream and have their classes sing along too. All classes have learnt this in music lessons over the last few weeks. One Song, as many schools and singers as possible, singing on the same day, at the same time advocating for music education. You tube link to the 2020 Music Count Us In song: You Won't Bring Us Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2C-bGFMX5A Many thanks to Music Australia and Music Count Us In for this wonderful opportunity for our students.

08.01.2022 Congratulations to the two teams from 6D that participated in the Regional Wonders of Science Conference via Zoom today. Both teams confidently delivered their presentations on How do seismologists measure earthquakes? and achieved 1st and 2nd place overall. This was an excellent experience, and we are super proud of the way both teams rose to the challenge.

07.01.2022 Thank you for booking an appointment to purchase your Book list and uniform requirements for 2021. Please ensure you bring your completed Order Form for each student with you to enable our staff to provide you with prompt service and ease congestion. Adults are required to social distance 1.5m. Entry to the school shop is via Gate 3 in Pease Street. Please book a time to collect your order on the following link. https://eq.sobs.com.au/pt3/parent.php?schoolid=70366 ... Should you wish to pre-order online please visit https://edgehillss.eq.edu.au/facilities/uniform-shop and click on the appropriate book list.

05.01.2022 If you missed the live stream of the Maroon and Gold Choir performing for Music Count Us In Celebration Day, you can still find the recording at the link below. They did an amazing job and made us very proud. Between the beautiful voices and the stunning location we are pretty sure everyone around Australia was wishing they were in Cairns today! The performance begins around the 30.28 minute mark. http://live.musicaustralia.org.au/

05.01.2022 Are you a noticer of birds? Round up the troops and head outside for birdlife Australia’s 20 minute Birds in Backyards Spring Survey 2020. What if I don't know much about birds?... If you are unsure where or how to start, or even feel like you don’t know the first thing about birds only that you love to see them, then fear not! The Birdata web portal and app automatically gives you a list of 30 birds from your region to get you started. How do I take part? To do a Birds in Backyards survey, spend 20 minutes in one spot where you can view birds - your backyard, local park, school, or other favourite outdoor place. Simply count how many you see of each bird species you see using that space and tell us about what the outdoor space is like. Then to enter your survey data, register your free Birdata account, read the instructions for the web or app or watch the video. If you download the Birdata app you can take your smartphone or tablet outside with you to do your count.

05.01.2022 Thank you from our P&C on another successful Book Fair. We raised a commission of $2000 that will replace some well needed resources for our library. Remember that tomorrow is Trashy Tuesday. Last week's class champs were Ms Way's students from 3G. They collected a whopping 285 items! Together our school collected 1200 items last week earning us a nice $121. We are well on our way of achieving our monthly goal of $2000. Keep those recyclables coming!

04.01.2022 Today is Trashy Tuesday. We wonder who will be this week's winner? Here are some of our little Preppies from Prep A depositing their recyclables into the pod from last term.

03.01.2022 2E were very excited to celebrate NAIDOC Week last week! This was one of the activities they did - learning about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flags.

03.01.2022 Introducing the Grand Opening of the Edge Hill SS Bowling Alley! Year 3 students were very excited to discover the Edge Hill SS Bowling Alley today! Mrs Marron was very impressed with the fabulous teamwork she saw. Great work Year 3!

03.01.2022 Lost swimming items. We have a number of lost swimming items to be claimed by their owners. If any of these items look familiar, please see the lost property section to claim them back.

03.01.2022 The Reading Challenge is off to a flying start for the Year 5s. Tyson, Charlie, Ashling, Daniel and Frankie have completed their first reading challenge.

03.01.2022 Tomorrow is Trashy Tuesday! Remember to bring in all your Recyclables! We love Recycling!

02.01.2022 3G students loved hunting for angles in our school environment during Mathematics class last week. The students were excited to discover that angles are EVERYWHERE! Students Identified and compared angles then went on to make posters to show what they knew about right angles.

01.01.2022 On Thursday, Year 4-6 students had the chance to participate in our inaugural EHSS Japanese Language Speaking Competition. All participants worked hard to prepare for the competition and our guest judges were very impressed with their preparation, enthusiasm for speaking Japanese and their presentations on the day. Congratulations to our medallists: Year 6 Background Speaker Sumile, Karin, Yasuharu... Year 6 School Learner- Grace, Moath, Maggie Year 5 Background Speaker Haru, Ayato, Nina Year 5 School Learner Daniel, Natalie, Tae-Ella Year 4 Background Speaker Haru, Taiga, Jackson Year 4 School Learner Emma, Ynez, Moon Special thanks to our guest judges; Ms Kay Holmes (The representative from the Japanese Consulate in Cairns), Mr Bill Cooney (Japanese Teacher at Trinity Bay SHS), Ms Masumi Morimoto (Japanese Teacher at Cairns SHS), Ms Miki Saiki-Green (Japanese Teacher at Cairns School of Distance Education), Mr Yoshiki Sato (The president of Japan Society of Cairns) and Ms Junko Masumiya (Teacher at Cairns Japanese Tutorial Centre). Special thanks also to the Modern Language Teacher Association of Queensland Peninsula Branch, for their sponsorship of the event.