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Narbethong Special School

Locality: Woolloongabba

Phone: +61 7 3823 0777

Address: 25 Salisbury Street 4102 Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia

Website: https://narbethongspecs.eq.edu.au

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23.01.2022 New student free days added to Term 4! In recognition of the outstanding efforts of school staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, the last two days of the school year, Thursday 10 and Friday 11 December, have been declared student free days. Our school will be closed on these days. View the updated school calendar at https://education.qld.gov.au/about-us/calendar/term-dates.

23.01.2022 On Tuesday 15th September, we celebrated Dots Day. It was a day to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of braille for many students in our school. Students and staff had the opportunity to participate in three activities a Perkins braille machine exploring and writing activity, a braille cell activity, and reading activity with tactile kits borrowed from the Alternative Format Library. Chaeyon and Dominic also created sticky braille labels for each staff member to put onto their name badges.

22.01.2022 For those who don’t know me, I am Hailey and I work for Link Vision as an Educator Mentor. For the past 3 years I have had the honour of bringing the computer club program which is based at various schools around Brisbane and the Gold Coast to Narbethong, providing one on one support to students. This gives students the opportunity to embrace the wonders of technology through learning how to use iPads using voice-over and also how to touch type on computers. As I am a Braille... user myself, I also have the opportunity to assist students in understanding Braille to support them in reading and writing independently. Coming to such a happy place two days a week gives me the honour of working with students and providing the much needed one on one support to this lovely bunch who are just a few of many I support. We also have lots of fun along the way! Walking the journey with these students, watching them grow not only in education but as unique individuals, I am blessed to share with them that there are no limits in life, as I am an adult who just happens to be blind as well. Thank you staff, students and parents of Narby, for making this school such a joy to share a connection with.

20.01.2022 Great news! More parking for drop off and pick up! Coorparoo Ward Office have been working with us to improve parking around the school for families. The outdated taxi signs have been removed from Churchill Street, so families and carers are able to use these parking spaces to access the pedestrian gate or the bus/taxi turn around area. There will also be changes to Salisbury Street out the front of the school. Watch this space!!!

19.01.2022 REMINDER: Dots Day tomorrow Tuesday 15 September. Don’t forget to wear spots/dots and get ready to celebrate all things Braille

18.01.2022 Fantastic news! Thanks to our wonderful families, friends and staff for purchasing cookie dough for our latest fundraiser. A total of 278 tubs were sold which has raised $973.00! ... Our top three sellers sold 55, 43 & 31 tubs. Wow! What an awesome effort. A big thanks to our P&C for organising and our school community for supporting us. Nothing better than delicious cookies to keep you warm in winter.

18.01.2022 The weather was kind for our re-scheduled cross country event held today. It was a fantastic atmosphere with students and staff all dressed and decorated in their house colours. Two students led the teams in very loud war cries - Milli for Lilli and Dominic for Louis. The team spirit continued throughout the event and everyone cheered each other over the finish line. The circle room and star room students all crossed the finish line together in a show of class spirit too. O...verall winning house: Lilli House Overall winning student - wheelchair event: Eamonn Overall winning student - running event: Matthew See more

18.01.2022 It is with great excitement we can announce that Karen Neilson has been appointed Deputy Principal of Narbethong State Special School. We know that Karen will continue to be a strong, dedicated advocate for students with vision impairment. We look forward to Karen's leadership of the school community. ... Congratulations Karen!

17.01.2022 Narbethong is so lucky to have Japanese Koto Master Taka Haggarty undertaking her PHD with our wonderful students. Starting in Term 1 2021, Taka will be teaching a number of our students the Koto as part of a study looking at music and vision impairment. We ask Parents and Carers of students to please complete the survey that was emailed and send it in. This information will greatly help with Taka’s research. ... We invite you to click on the link below to learn more about Taka, the Koto and her PHD focus when working with students at Narbethong. https://youtu.be/rRdTp9w-pEg

15.01.2022 Hi Families and Staff, It’s the last day of our Billy G’s Cookie Dough Fundraiser! Order will close late tonight, so it’s not too late to place your order. To date we’ve had orders for over 200 tubs of cookie dough! That’s over $700 that will go towards the P&C’s fundraising for this year. ... Orders will be delivered to the school on Tuesday, 22 June and will be sent home that same day. The tubs will stay fresh when not in the fridge/freezer for up to 8 hours. Thank you to everyone for supporting our Narby School Community! Kind regards Narby P&C

11.01.2022 Special events - I'm getting ready for ‘Wear your Words’ day this Wednesday 14th October to celebrate AAC awareness month. Wear your AAC system (PODD, electronic communication device), or a t-shirt with some words on it, Braille name tag, or tactile signs/symbols. Prizes to be won!

10.01.2022 Today was our inaugural Wear your Words day. So much awareness was created around AAC (Augmentative and alternative communication) and chatting. We gave out lots of prizes to students and staff. Elaine's class had some wonderful activities to share with everyone. Staff made a huge effort to wear words, braille and static symbols for our students with vision and hearing loss. Thankyou to Anna B for the initial inspiration and our wonderful speech language pathologists Kerrie and Catriona.

10.01.2022 Thanks to everyone for supporting our P&C Narbee Honey Drive fundraiser. Over 100 jars of delicious honey were sold. Thanks to Golden Ark Honey for supplying the honey and Naree for all your hard work.

07.01.2022 A huge thank you to everyone who has ordered some of Billy G's Cookie Dough!! If you or your family and friends still want to place an order, there's still three days left! Orders close on Monday 7 June. All funds raised from the sale of each tub will go towards the P & C's two fundraising goals for this year, Technology in Education and Shade Sails for the Outdoor Meeting Space in the school. Cookie Dough sales to date have raised over $500!!... Orders will be delivered to the school on Tuesday, 22 June and sent home that same day.

06.01.2022 REMINDER - Narbethong Cross Country tomorrow (weather pending). Make sure you wear your house colours - Louis: Red or Lilli: Yellow .

03.01.2022 Last week the younger members of our school community got together to celebrate Under 8"s Week with a Toys and Teddies Picnic. We played musical dots, the freeze game and pass the parcel. After the games, we made Fairy Bread and sat on picnic rugs with our favourite toys. It was lots of fun.

03.01.2022 Wear white for White Cane Day on Thursday 15th October to celebrate and learn more about canes and Orientation and Mobility.

03.01.2022 Today we received some exciting news from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO). As part of a statewide project, the QSO have been asking for nominations for schools to provide a private concert. Narbethong was nominated (by a passionate ex-teacher and carer of the Narbethong community Wendy Alexander) and has been selected as one of the four schools across Queensland to receive the very special performance.... We are so very appreciative for this opportunity and are looking forward to the performance.

02.01.2022 We have just kicked off our Buddy Reading program and our first session was a huge success. Thank you to our senior student Chaeyon for visiting our Prep/Year 1 class to read a lunchtime story. Cambria loved listening to the story and feeling the tactile pictures. She was so impressed with how well you read braille Chaeyon. We can’t wait for the next story! One of Chaeyon’s goals for this session is to read fully contracted braille aloud to a Junior student. Cambria’s goals for this session are to attend during storytelling and show anticipation when listening to familiar texts.

01.01.2022 It is with great pride and pleasure that we announce the new Principal of Narbethong - Kerry Tait. Congratulations Kerry! Narbethong is in very capable and competent hands with Kerry leading our community.