21 February 2025

Principal’s Desk

Student Leaders’ Investiture Ceremony

Congratulations to our school leaders, who participated in the Investiture Ceremony as part of last week’s parade.  It was great to see so many parents and community members in attendance to recognise and support our students who were chosen by their peers and teachers to represent our school in 2025.  Our young leaders were selected for the skills they have displayed throughout their schooling years.  They will be expected to complete a variety of leadership tasks throughout the year, such as, leading school parades, delivering messages, assisting staff during school events, fundraising, and supporting their peers.  They will be expected to embody the values of courage, service and influence, and follow our school motto: Your Future, Our Focus.  They will also be expected to lead by example in demonstrating our school expectations of - We are Safe, We are Respectful, We are Responsible and We are Active Learners.  Congratulations leaders, we look forward to witnessing your contribution to our school in 2025.

Uniform Expectations

It is an expectation that all Landsborough State School students wear full school uniform every day.  Our uniform includes school polo shirt, wide brimmed school hat, black school shorts, all-white or all-black socks and all-black closed in shoes.  If your child is not able to attend in full school uniform, please send along a letter to the office so that we can issue an out-of-uniform slip.

Halogen Leaders Conference

Our Year 6 School Leaders will head to Brisbane on Monday 24 February to participate in the National Young Leaders Day.   This will be a great opportunity for our young leaders to hear from some of Australia’s most high-profile people, sharing insights from their own leadership journey. We can’t wait to hear about their experience when they return. 

No Parade

As our school leaders will be on an excursion on Monday 24 February, there will be no school parade in week 5.  Our next parade will be held on Monday 3 March at 2:00pm.

Student Personal Devices – Phones Away for the Day Policy

Queensland state schools are committed to reducing the distraction of mobile devices to provide optimal learning environments for all students.

The policy which was introduced in 2024 for Queensland state school relates to mobile devices include mobile phones, wearables such as smartwatches, handheld devices and other emerging technologies which have the ability to connect to telecommunication networks/internet and/or take digital photos/videos.

All state school students must keep mobile phones and devices switched off and ‘away for the day’ during school hours.

To ensure that we comply with this policy, we request that parents and caregivers:

• support their child to meet expectations of the school's local policy approach for student use of mobile devices, as outlined in the Student Code of Conduct
• support implementation of the local policy approach by using the school’s preferred communication channels to contact their child during school hours
• work with the school to resolve issues regarding student compliance with the school's local policy approach.

Students who bring mobile devices to school, must sign them in and out at the start and end of the school day.  This includes when students are on school excursions.  Thank you for your support with this.

Chappy Chill Day

A big thank you Chappy Anita, Maz and Rachel for organising and serving our students last Friday for Chappy Ice Cream Day. It was a very hot day and a great way to celebrate our first three weeks at school.  Our students loved them! All money raised today will go towards our Chaplaincy funds.  Thank you for supporting our Chaplaincy Program.

Principal Tours

My Principal-led tours are back for 2025! They are the perfect opportunity for families to get a real sense of daily life at our school. Discover what makes Landsborough State School a great place to learn and grow! My next tour will be on Thursday 13^th March at 9:00am. To join this tour simply check-in at our admin office by 8:55am on the day.

Head of Department – Curriculum

Parent/Teacher Interviews

Interviews will be held on Monday 24^th March after school in the hall. This is a wonderful opportunity to speak to your child’s teacher around how your child is going and what their next steps could be to improve in term 2. More information will be shared on how to book times in the near future.

P-2 Before School

When P-2 students arrive at school after 8:00am, can they please go to the hall with their bags rather than classrooms. We have supervision in the hall from 8:00am, students also receive messages/reminders about the goings on around the school from Ms Clark at 8:25am. On Monday’s and Tuesday’s, we will be sitting quietly in our lines as Brekky club operates out of the hall and with the extra students and adults it is incredibly loud and is unsafe for us to do our movement activities. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday students can choose to either join in with the movement activities with Ms Kylie and Ms Clark or sit in their class lines until it’s time for announcements.

NAPLAN

Years 3 and 5 will be sitting their NAPLAN tests in Week 8 and 9 of this term. 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. NAPLAN is just one aspect of a school’s assessment and reporting process. It does not replace ongoing assessments made by teachers about student performance, but it can provide teachers with additional information about students’ educational progress. Students are not expected to study for NAPLAN. You can support your child by reassuring them that NAPLAN is a part of their school program and reminding them to simply do their best.

If you have any questions around curriculum, please do not hesitate in contacting me.

2025 Student Leaders

Our school leaders were officially inducted into their roles at a special assembly on Monday 10 February. Congratulations to the following students:

School Captains 2025

School Vice-Captains 2025

House Captains 2025

Student Council Chair 2025

Performing Arts Captain 2025

Band Captain 2025

Semester 1 Class Captains

Landsborough Legends

Congratulations to our Landsborough Legends for this week. NOTE: If your child is away on the day they are to receive their Landsborough Legend certificate on parade, they will receive their certificate from their classroom teacher.

Week 3, Term 1 Landsborough Legends

And congratulations to our Buzz Ticket winners for this week, each receiving Laserzone vouchers!

School Administration and Finance

2025 School Photos

Our school photos were taken yesterday, Thursday 20 February.  A catch-up day with be held on Monday 3 March for any students who were absent on the day.

If you wish to order photographs, online orders are still being accepted. Simply head to the Portrait Patch website and select ‘Order online’.

Dental Van

The School Dental service is currently at Landsborough State School, offering a free dental examination to all students.

Students have been given an ‘Oral Health’ consent form. If you would like your child to see the dental van, please complete and return the form to our office as soon as possible.

This is a great opportunity for your child to have a check-up and get some great advice on how to look after their teeth. The best part is it is free!!

Payment of Invoices

We have a range of options for parents wanting to pay invoices for school activities
• BPOINT / BPAY (our preferred payment method). On the bottom left of the invoice you will find a link for this payment method.
• Come to the school office in person and pay via cash or credit/debit card.
• Centrelink deduction.

Landsborough State School is committed to help ease cost of living pressures for families. If you are experiencing financial difficulties payment plans can be arranged. For more information, please contact our Business Manager, Petra, on 5436 2777.

2025 Student Resource Scheme

Landsborough State School's Student Resource Scheme (SRS) will remain at $65 per student for the 2025 school year. Payments for the 2025 SRS fees are now due (if you haven’t paid already). Reminder notices were sent last week to all families with outstanding invoices.

We are accepting payment via the following methods:

• BPOINT (our preferred payment method). On the bottom left of the invoice you will find a link directly to the Bpoint portal to pay online by credit or debit card.
• Cash
• Credit / debit card in person at the office
• QParents
• Centrelink deduction

Please read the SRS Annual Parent Information Letter for further information regarding the 2025 Student Resource Scheme.

SRS items have arrived and have been distributed to classrooms. These items include handwriting books, mini whiteboards, online learning licences etc. If SRS fees have been paid for your child, they will be issued with these resources. Parents NOT participating in the scheme must provide their student with all the items that would otherwise be provided by the scheme.

Landsborough State School Facebook Page

The Landsborough State School Facebook page is a great place to keep up-to-date regarding upcoming events, what volunteers are needed and helpful reminders in case you missed the notification. If you haven’t already ‘liked’ our Facebook page, jump on and do so now.

Does your child require medication at school?

If your child needs to take medication at school, please provide the office staff with:

• a completed and signed Consent to administer medication form;
• the medication in its original container; and
• medical authorisation (e.g. the pharmacy label, or a letter from the doctor, or a completed and signed health action plan).

Please ask our administration staff should you have any questions.

Exciting News!  Digital Consent Forms Are Coming in 2025!

Our school is moving to digital consent forms to streamline processes and improve communication with families. No more looking through schoolbags for permission forms…....just log into QParents and provide consent quickly and easily!

To prepare, we encourage you to sign up for QParents. This platform is essential for accessing digital consent forms and offers features like 24/7 access to school invoices, absentee notifications, and your child's academic reports. We need as many families as possible signed up to QParents before we can proceed with digital consent forms.

How to Sign Up:

Initiations are currently being emailed to those not yet registered. Just follow the instructions to complete your account setup using your child's EQID, found on their invoices. Need help?  Contact our office for assistance.

Thank you for supporting this exciting change!

Register today at http://qparents.qld.edu.au

Contact details

It is important that we have up-to-date contact information for parents and carers so that we can keep you informed. To advise of any change to parent or carer personal details (including email, mailing address, home phone, mobile or emergency contact details), please email office@landsborss.eq.edu.au or update your details via QParents.

HPE News

Running of the Houses

The Running of The Houses is back for 2025! This is great training for our upcoming Cross Country event.

When: Wednesday and Friday mornings (8:00 – 8:25am)

Who: Years 1 - 6 can participate. Students not wanting to participate need to wait for class in either the hall for years 1 and 2 or under F block for years 3 - 6.

 Where: Students arriving at 8:00am will need to meet me under the office, students arriving after 8:00am can meet me on the oval and join in.

This is a challenge between the sporting houses – Burgess, Petrie and Flinders.

A lap will be made on the oval, participating students will then run laps of the oval, gaining points for their sporting house. These points will be tallied after each morning and will be totalled after the final morning on Friday 28 March.

Good luck to each house and remember, each lap you run means a lot to your team.

Guidance Officer

MYCP Program

Concerns regarding young children with difficult and defiant behaviours? The Management of Young Children Program (MYCP) is available in 2025.

The MYCP is supported by Landsborough SS, Beerwah SS and Elimbah SS (therefore no cost for these families) and is a practical and individualised behaviour support program for parents and carers of young children aged 2½ to 7 years and their families. It is a well-established and evidence based early intervention program targeting children who display defiant or oppositional behaviour with the aim of reducing such problematic behaviours in primary school and beyond.

Other families/ schools outside of this catchment area have the option of accessing the ‘user pay’ option which is currently $750 for 6 x 1 hour individualised sessions. For more information or interest in participating in the program, please see the school website link or contact the Landsborough SS office 5436 2777.  

LSS P&C

The Landsborough State School P&C Association welcomes you into our community for this upcoming school year and beyond.

Our P&C consists of parents, carers and community-minded people who want to improve our school. Our P&C is open to all parents and citizens of the school community. Involvement in the P&C will allow you to gain a closer connection with your child’s education through:

* Direct monthly access to the Principal and other members of staff.

* Information and explanation about what is happening in the school currently and what is planned in the future.

* Have a say about issues of concern and school policies.

* As a member your vote counts.

* You are actively linking home with school, which strengthens the partnership that has a vital impact upon your child’s academic and social growth.

We encourage all LSS families to come along to our P&C meetings, join the P&C committee and/or participate in our events and fundraising activities throughout the year. Our meetings are where all decisions are made, so please come along and have your say.

Our next meeting is our AGM, scheduled for Wednesday 26^th March at 5.30pm.  We invite you to join us as we work towards making 2025 another successful P&C year.

At this meeting, all positions will be declared vacant, and elections will take place to fill these roles for the upcoming year.

It’s your chance to get involved, make a difference, and help shape the future of our school community. No experience needed – just enthusiasm!

We can’t wait to see you there!  

In the meantime, if there any questions please don't hesitate to contact us at: landsboroughpandc@outlook.com.

Easter Raffle Donations

We are asking for Easter donations to be put towards our annual Easter Raffle. Items include Easter Eggs, Easter Art and Craft, baskets etc.  This is a fantastic and easy way to contribute, especially if you are time-poor and can’t volunteer your time to assist the P&C. 3 baskets of goodies will be raffled in the lead up to Easter (1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd prize).

We would love your help! Donations, large or small will be gratefully accepted and can be left at the school administration office.

Breakfast Club

Join us on Tuesday and Thursday mornings between 7:45 and 8:20am for some toast, cereal, fruit and laughs.

Parents and carers, we are always looking for volunteers, so please let us know.  This is also a great opportunity to catch-up with other parents and have a chat.

Donations to Brekky Club are welcome. We are always looking for different healthy things to serve.

Subway – Available Every Thursday!!

Thanks to the team at Subway Glenview, we will continue to offer a Subway meal deal EVERY THURSDAY as a healthy school lunch option for students.  The meal deal includes your choice of a 6-inch sub or wrap, a drink (water/juice) and a cookie. Ordering must be done online via the Flexischools App.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  For parents who already have the App from last year, you will need to assign your student to the appropriate class (i.e. their new 2025 class) in your Flexischools account. This can be found in the ‘profile’ section.

Orders must be placed by 5pm each Wednesday to ensure your order is delivered to your child’s classroom for 1^st break on Thursday.

Uniforms - The School Locker

Landsborough State School uniforms are available to purchase from The School Locker Maroochydore.  This store is open 7 days a week for convenient shopping. You can also make purchases online and have the items home delivered! 

P&Cs QLD newsletter – Parent Talk

P&Cs Qld is the peak body supporting and representing more than 576,000* state school parents and wider school communities throughout Queensland. They support the achievement of quality educational outcomes for students through fostering parental and community engagement in a thriving and successful education system.

Their vision is to ensure “Every child has every chance” in education and in life.

Click the link below to view P&Cs Qld most recent newsletter, Parent Talk.

Road Safety Message – Department of Transport & Main Roads

Supervised School Crossings

Community News

Deadly Kids Yarn Up

Our first nations students participate in these sessions. Parents and carers are welcome to come along and join in too! For 2025 we will meet on the last Friday of each month from 9:00am – 10:00am in the HIVE.

Secret Girls Business

Maleny Rangers Football Club Sign On

Nambour Rugby Union Club

The 2025 Season is LOCKED & LOADED and we can't wait to get started!! While we wait for our official training to start, we invite all our new and returning players to come down to The Manor for Senior & Junior Pre-Season Toad Tag!! Every Tuesday 4.30pm.

Run off some Christmas cheer, catch up with old mates and meet new ones.

Put the 1st of March in your diary folks!! Our Sign On/Open Day Extravaganza is happening and we have an epic day of fun, prizes and treats planned!

Please keep an eye on our socials for Sign-On links for everyone who is as keen as us to get into some Rugby in 2025!!

Glasshouse Hinterland AFC Sign On Day and Car Boot Sale

Tween Talk