21 March 2025

Principal’s Desk

Settling in to the 2025 School Year

Although it has been a busy Term 1, it is pleasing to see the quality of learning that is occurring in every classroom. Our prep students are settling into their new school routines and our new Year 6 leaders are doing an amazing job of being positive role models for the younger students at Landsborough.   They have taken on the job of leading school parades, raising the flags and leading by example with much enthusiasm and these high standards are spreading through our school.  We are set for a great year at Landsborough State School!

P&C AGM

The Annual General Meeting for the P&C will be held on Wednesday 26 March at 5:30pm in the HIVE. All positions will become vacant.  If you are interested in holding a position this year, please come along to the meeting and notify our P&C of your interest so they can explain the nomination process with you.

Parent/Teacher Interviews – Term 1

Term 1 Parent/Teacher Interviews will be held on the afternoon of Monday 31 March to provide parents the opportunity to speak with their child’s teacher about their progress so far this year.  Interviews will be run from the school hall and have been scheduled to run for 10 mins.  Due to the large number of students in Prep, additional interview time slots are available for our Prep families on either Tuesday 1st April or Wednesday 2nd April. 

Details on how to book an interview were emailed out last week.  Online bookings close at 4pm on Friday 28 March. Please ensure that you make your booking by this date.  If you are able to book a suitable timeslot on this afternoon or you require a longer interview time, you can email your child’s class teacher to organise an alternative time. Please click on the link below to make your booking: CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR INTERVIEW

NOTE: There will be NO PARADE in Week 10 (Monday 31st March) due to parent teacher interviews being held in the hall.

National Ride 2 School Day – Friday 21 March

Today our school participated in the National Ride 2 School Day.  It is Australia’s biggest celebration of active travel.  Where it is safe, we are encouraging students to ride, walk, scoot or skate to school.

This winners of the Ride 2 School Day prizes will be announced on assembly on Monday 24 March. There are 10 x movie tickets and 5 x Big Boing vouchers up for grabs. Good luck students!

Cross Country

Our School Cross Country will be held on Monday 31 March on our senior oval. 

Year 3 – 6 races will begin at 8:40am and Prep – Year 2 will begin at 11:20am.

Students are encouraged to wear their sports house colours for the day. Parents and Caregivers are welcome to attend and support our students.

District Representation

Although weather conditions have delayed some District Trials, many Landsborough students have still been able to participate in the trials that have taken place this year. A special congratulations to Royalz Brown and Huckleberry Hill for their selection in the Glasshouse District Basketball team and to Max Bridges, Domonic Jourdain, Evan Blackman, and Ison Shaw for their selection to the Glasshouse District AFL team. These students are currently participating in district training and will go on to represent our district at the Regional Trials later this term. We wish them the best of luck in their upcoming District Carnival and look forward to hearing about their continued success!

Leave

I will be taking leave in week 10 of this term.  Whist I am away, Mrs Kylie Clark will be our Acting Principal and Mrs Miranda Martin will be our Acting Head of Department. I have no doubt they will do an amazing job and our students, staff and community will support them in these roles.  As this will be my last newsletter for the term, I would like to say thank you to our students, staff and families for a great start to Term 1, 2025.  I will be looking forward to reconnecting with everyone in Term 2. 

Head of Department – Curriculum

NAPLAN

We are exceptionally proud of our Year 3 and 5 students this week. They put their absolute best effort into NAPLAN testing, engaging as model students throughout each day of testing. Catch up testing will continue for any students who were absent from school and missed any of the tests.

Prep - Year 2 Easter Hat Parade

We will be holding our annual Easter Bonnet Parade on Thursday 3^rd April at 8:50am. Start collecting all your Easter bits and pieces to decorate a hat for your child. Prep students will make their hat in class, all donations are welcome. Year 1 and 2 students will be making their Easter hat at home and bringing it along on the day.

Fluency In Reading

What is fluency?

Fluency relates to the accuracy, rate, and prosody (expression and phrasing) that a student uses when reading. It is an outcome of foundational word reading skills including decoding, phonemic awareness (blending, segmenting, and manipulating), vocabulary, syntax and grammar, and background knowledge.

Fluency is closely related to reading comprehension. Students who are fluent readers tend to be better able to understand what they are reading. As fluency is an outcome or product, it is not something that we can directly ‘do’ or ‘teach’ through a single routine or activity. Word-level fluency begins to develop with phonics instruction, as students become more automatic at decoding words using their phonic knowledge and phonemic awareness skills. For students to be fluent readers at the text level, they first need to be fluent word readers. Once students become fluent at word level reading, other components —such as vocabulary, syntax and grammar, and background knowledge support text level reading fluency.

How fluent are you as an adult reader? Skilled adult readers read approximately 180 words correct per minute. Test yourself and see how you go. If you have any concerns with your child’s reading, please speak to their teacher or come and chat to myself.

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 7, Term 1 Landsborough Legends (presented Week 8)

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

School Administration and Finance

Communication methods

To enable effective communication, Landsborough State School deploys several methods of communication to ensure students, parents, carers and the community can access and receive the latest information available to them.  

• Newsletters, website, email, social media
• QParents app
• Digital sign at the front of the school
• Notes sent home
• Parent/Teacher interviews
• School reports
• School assemblies
• P&C meetings

Good communication is only effective when we have your correct and up to date contact information. If your details have changed or you have recently moved, please ensure that you let us know. You can email us at office@landsborss.eq.edu.au or call us on Ph: 5436 2777.

Student Absences

Every day counts - students who attend school all day, every day, achieve more positive outcomes.

Full day absence

Parents are required to report days absent by:

• Calling 5436 2760 and leaving a voicemail.
• Responding to the text message sent by the school
• Emailing office@landsborss.eq.edu.au 

Late Arrivals & Early Departures

Late arrivals and early departures must sign in and out through our administration office.

2025 Student Resource Scheme

Payments for the 2025 SRS fees are now due (if you haven’t paid already).

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

NOTE: 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 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.

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!!

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.

QParents

QParents is a secure, online portal that our school uses. QParents provides parents with quick, easy access to their student information including:

• student and attendance details
• behaviour information
• report cards
• timetables and upcoming events
• invoices and payment history
• consent forms for school activities such as excursions.

To learn more about QParents you can:

• access the fact sheet for parents (PDF, 300KB) External link and the registration fact sheet (PDF, 266KB) External link
• visit the QParents website External link
• call 13 QGOV (13 74 68).

Classroom News

Prep Term 1 Newsletter Report

We are delighted to share the wonderful progress our Prep children have made during their early weeks at school. It has been a term full of excitement, learning, and new friendships, and we are incredibly proud of how well our young learners have settled into school life.

The children have embraced their new environment with enthusiasm. They have quickly adapted to daily routines and independent learning activities. Their confidence has grown each day as they have explored the classroom and playground, learning to share, take turns, and build relationships with their peers.

Our Prep children have engaged in a variety of fun and educational activities to develop their early literacy and numeracy skills. They have been exploring letters and sounds through phonics sessions, developing their fine motor skills and enhancing their number recognition through hands-on counting games.

As we move into the next term, we are excited to continue fostering a love for learning among our Prep students. We will introduce new learnings, encourage further independence, and provide even more opportunities for exploration and discovery.

It has been wonderful to see the children grow and thrive, and we look forward to another exciting term ahead!

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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 P&C is made up of parents just like you! The primary goal of the P&C is to enhance the educational opportunities for the students at our school. But along with that, it is also a great platform to build lifelong friendships with other like-minded parents, enhance your skill set, become more informed on important school matters and policies, provide parent input and give back to our wonderful school community.

Being a P&C member does not mean that you must attend all meetings. Our meetings are where all decisions are made, therefore attendance is encouraged so you can 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

Hop in and grab some tickets in our Egg-cellent Easter Raffle!  Not only will you have the chance to win a fantastic prize, you will also be supporting the P&C Association and our students.

$2 for 1 ticket
$5 for 3 tickets
$10 for 7 tickets
Purchase raffle tickets via this link:

Raffle drawn on 3^rd April. Good Luck!

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.

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! 

Road Safety Message – Department of Transport & Main Roads

With today being National Ride 2 School Day, here is a timely reminder regarding cycling rules.

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.

Easter Holiday Workshop – Tween Girls