13 June 2025

Principal’s Desk

School Communication

At Landsborough State School, we are committed to using effective communication processes and techniques that support a positive and respectful social learning environment.

We believe community building is a shared responsibility. As such, we encourage all members of our school community to reflect our school values and communication protocols when sharing and receiving information.

Our Current Communication Platforms

We use a variety of methods to keep our families informed and connected:

• In-person/face-to-face meetings
• Phone calls and emails
• Facebook – for general school updates
• Fortnightly school newsletter – sent to all parent/carer email addresses

In addition to these, classroom teachers may have their own communication methods for engaging with their parent groups (e.g. apps, class newsletters).

Reviewing Communication Across Our School

We are currently working alongside our P&C Association to review and enhance communication strategies across our school. The goal is to create a consistent and streamlined approach that supports families and staff.

Department of Education Parent Communication Guidelines

The Department of Education has recently released guidelines for parents to follow when communicating with schools. Please see a summary of these important points below.

What you can expect when communicating with our school:

• Celebration of achievements and reporting on academic progress.
• Communication on learning, wellbeing, and serious issues.
• Alerts on same-day absences and information on consent/payment requests.
• Regular updates, event notifications, and feedback opportunities.
• Opportunities for biannual parent-teacher interviews.

What Not to Expect:

• Immediate responses to non-urgent inquiries (minimum 2+ business days).
• Staff availability outside business hours or via personal social media/accounts.
• Unscheduled meetings during school hours.
• Access to staff personal contact details.
• Entry to school grounds if aggressive or harassing behaviour occurs.

When to Contact Your School:

• To report absences or share changes in medical/family circumstances.
• If concerned about your child’s learning, wellbeing, or behaviour.
• To report safety concerns or schedule/change appointments. 

How to Contact Your School:

• Use the administration for general inquiries and follow school processes for teacher meetings.
• Request face-to-face meetings for sensitive matters and allow time for responses.

How You Can Help Your School:

• Keep contact details updated and read communications.
• Use polite language and be open to compromise.

If You Have a Complaint:

• Start with the school (via phone/appointment or email).
• Contact your child’s classroom teacher.
• Escalate unresolved issues to principal or Regional Office for consideration.

Upcoming Carnivals

We have our athletics carnivals coming up next week! An email was sent out on Tuesday with detailed information regarding our Athletics Carnivals.  This year, we will be running two separate events.  We will hold a Prep-Yr 2 Athletics Carnival on our school oval on Monday 16 June, followed by a Yr 3-6 Athletics Carnival on Thursday 19 June at Skippy Park.  Our P&C will again, be supporting our students by providing the buses to transport our students to Skippy Park and back.  It is always great to have the support of our parents and families on these days.  Please feel free to come along, enjoy the day and cheer on our students.

Academic Excellence Parade – Semester 1 2025

At the end of this semester, we will recognise and celebrate the outstanding academic achievements of Landsborough students during a special Academic Excellence Ceremony.  As our end of term schedule is very full, we will be holding this special ceremony early in Term 3, on Wednesday 23 July.  Parents and community are invited to come along and support the achievement of our students.

Taking Photos and Videos at School Events

We understand that parents and carers enjoy capturing special moments of their children at school, whether it’s a performance, an award presentation, sporting event or a school parade. These moments are important, and we love seeing families celebrate them.

However, we ask all families to be mindful of privacy and safety considerations when taking photos or videos at school events.

Some families have personal, legal, or safety reasons for not wanting images of their children shared publicly or online. To respect everyone’s privacy:

• Please only photograph or film your own child/ren during school events and parades.
• Do not post images or videos of other students on social media or other public platforms without explicit permission from their families.

By following these guidelines, we help ensure that all families feel safe and respected at our school events.  Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Interschool Sport

Over the past two Fridays, our Year 5/6 soccer teams proudly represented our school at the Glasshouse Interschool Soccer Competition.

Both students and teachers reported what fantastic days they were, with students showing great determination, teamwork, and school spirit throughout each match. Our players competed hard, demonstrated excellent sportsmanship, and most importantly, had fun.

We are proud of how they conducted themselves both on and off the field. Well done to all involved!

Prep 2026 Open Days

We have released the dates for our Prep 2026 Open Days. If you have a child starting Prep next year, please take note of the dates below.

Leave

I will be on leave in for the remainder of this term.  Ms Sam Burchall, Deputy Principal of Baringa SHS, will be Acting Principal during by absence.  Sam is a very experienced Deputy Principal and is very excited about the opportunity to learn and lead Landsborough State School for a few weeks.  I have no doubt, the students, staff and community will make her feel welcomed. Wishing all LSS families a safe and relaxing Winter school holiday break. I look forward to seeing you all when I return.

Yours in Education

Head of Department – Curriculum

Reading at Landsborough SS

Reading is one of the most researched aspects of learning. A vast body of contemporary cognitive research provides clear direction on the most effective way to teach reading. Reading is the process of decoding and making meaning from text. Unlike speaking and listening, reading is not a naturally developing skill — all students need to be explicitly taught to read. At Landsborough State School phonics is taught explicitly every day from Prep all the way through to Year Six. When students repeatedly decode words using letter-sound relationships, the words are committed to long-term memory through the process of orthographic mapping. This process supports automaticity and fluent reading.  At the end of each term student’s phonic knowledge is assessed, this information is then used to plan for new phonic learning the following term. If you would like to know more about your child’s phonic knowledge and their ability to decode words, please speak to your child’s teacher.

Under 8’s Day

This day is always a day to look forward to in our calendar for the P-2 students. This year’s theme was ‘Unleashing Scientific thinking through play’. Students were able to get messy with fizzy colours, slime, milk experiments & many more hands on activities led by our amazing teachers. This year we had a Wildlife HQ bring along some reptiles for students to touch and learn about, and both AFL & NRL taking the students through some skills, The Dance Academy showing us some moves, and Nicole from Matt Fiddes Martial Arts showed us how to chop wood with our bare hands! The Beerwah Auxiliary Fire Fighters and Landsborough Rural Fire Fighters brought their big red and yellow trucks, while Qld Surf Life Saving brought along their jet ski. Everyone had an amazing morning. Thank you to all those who came along and enjoyed the morning with us.

Hearing Testing for Prep Students

Our school is offering the opportunity for Prep children to participate in Hear and Say’s Hear to Learn – School Hearing Screening program, to help ensure they’re hearing as well as they can and maximising their learning potential.

This service is delivered by Hear and Say’s specialist paediatric hearing screeners, at school. Your child’s screening will take place on Monday, 23 June 2025

The screen includes the following three assessments in both ears:

• Examination of the ear canal and ear drum
• Testing of middle ear function
• Hearing screening under headphones

The screen takes no more than 10 minutes per student and will be adapted according to your child’s responses.

Within two weeks of screening, a summary of results will be emailed to you. If necessary, this will include recommendations for further comprehensive diagnostic testing at Hear and Say, or a referral to a general practitioner for medical advice. Hear and Say may also contact you to follow up on your child’s results.

Please click on this link https://hearandsay.snapforms.com.au/form/2025-school-hearing-screening-consent-and-results-form to complete the 2025 School Screening Parent Consent Form. Please note, we will not accept any online consent forms completed after Sunday, 15 June 2025. This form also gives permission for your school to have a copy of your child’s results, which could be beneficial for your child’s education.

Please reach out to our team via hearingscreening@hearandsay.com.au or phone if you have any questions about your child’s screening results, or at any time if you have concerns about your child’s hearing.

Kylie Clark

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 2 Landsborough Legends (presented Week 8)

High School Transition Information – Year 6 Parents and Carers

Beerwah State High School

Beerwah State High School is excited to accept applications for our STEP Program for 2025 from current Year 6 students.

The aim of our School Transition Enrichment Program (STEP) is to enrich the educational experience of a group of students across the Glasshouse Coalition of schools in the areas of history, science, art, design technology and athletics. The students selected to participate will have a genuine passion and ability within the area they are selected. 

Students selected to participate will attend workshops at Beerwah State High School on the following dates:

Friday 18 July 2025 (Week 1 Term 3)
Friday 22 August 2025 (Week 6, Term 3)

Students will have the opportunity to participate in two different workshops based on their preferences submitted as part of the application process.

Further details about the program areas can be found here.

In order to apply for your student to be part of this program, please click here and complete the attached form.

Applications close today, Friday 13 June 2025 (Week 8 Term 2). Successful applicants will be contacted prior to the end of Term 2.

Sport / HPE News

Athletics Carnivals

This year we have scheduled two separate events for our athletics: A Junior (Prep - Yr 2) and A Senior (Yr 3 - 6) Carnival. 

The Prep to Year 2 Junior Athletics Carnival is scheduled for Monday 16th June on our SCHOOL OVAL. This event will run from 8:50am - 10:40am. 

The Year 3 - 6 Senior Athletics Carnival is scheduled for Thursday 19th June at SKIPPY PARK. This will be an all day event. Students will come to school first and then travel by bus with their class groups to / from Skippy Park. DO NOT GO DIRECTLY TO SKIPPY PARK.

Permission Notes:

Permission notes are required for the Senior Carnival, as students are travelling offsite. NOTE: A High Risk form also needs to be completed for students to compete in discus events. These forms have been sent home with all students. Copies of both permission forms can also be found below. Please return permission forms back to classroom teachers ASAP.

Pre-Carnival events (held on school oval):

NOTE: Some of our events will run prior to the carnival at school, the events will be:

• ‍800m - (9 - 12 Years old) to be held Monday June 16 from 10:40am - 11:20am
• 1500m - (10 - 12 Years old) to be held on Wednesday June 18 from 10:40am - 11:20am

Sausage Sizzle BBQ & Canteen:    NOTE: Subway (Not available)

Subway will not be available on Thursday 19th June (for all students Prep to Year 6). Any orders placed for this day will be cancelled. 

The P&C will be holding a BBQ for the Junior Athletics Carnival on Monday 16^th June (see flyer below).

Little Athletics will have the canteen open at Skippy Park for the Senior Athletics Carnival on Thursday 19th June.

What to wear:

All students are encouraged to wear their sports house colours on the day. Get into the spirit and support your team!  Please make sure you pack a hat and all items are sunsmart.

Spectators:

Parents, carers and spectators are very welcome to join us at both events. Come along and support our athletes. We recommend that you bring a folding chair or blanket.

We look forward to you joining us for a great day of competition!

School Administration and Finance

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.

NOTE: Unexplained absences will print on report cards.

QParents

Have you signed up for 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).

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.

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 Wednesday 30 July at 5:30pm in the Hive.

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

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

Helping Hands (Outside School Hours Care)

Holiday HQ is making its way to us already with only around 4 weeks of term left.  Our bookings are already open, so make sure to plan ahead.

With waiting lists last holidays, we don’t want anyone to miss out!  Please note that you have not secured a day without confirmation.  Currently though there is a lot of space.

This, however, will fill fast.

Looking forward to the next 2 weeks holidays with your children, making lots of memories and cant wait to share this with you all.

As we find out what will be happening during this time, I will keep everyone updated.

Kind regards,
Tonina Carter
Coordinator, Helping Hands Landsborough

Community News

Ultimate Athletics

Ultimate Athletics is coming to Landsborough SS!

Little Athletics Queensland has launched a brand-new Fundamental Athletics Skills Training program just for Primary students!

Through fun games and activities, students will build their running, jumping, and throwing skills.

 Starts: Wednesday 30th July (Term 3 / Week 3)
 Time: 2:40pm–3:40pm
 Venue: Main Oval
 Cost: $85 for 7 weeks

Homestays Needed for International Students

The Wellness Practice Beerwah

The Wellness Practice is a newly established allied-health and holistic wellness centre located within the Beerwah Health Hub. Our mission is to deliver comprehensive, collaborative care that complements the excellent support already available in the community.

We offer a range of services, including psychological assessments for individuals aged 6 and above, such as:

•  Autism Assessments
•  Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Assessments
•  Intellectual and Cognitive Assessments

Please don’t hesitate to contact our clinic at your convenience. We look forward to supporting the wellbeing of families in our community.

Sunshine Coast Cartooning Event

Cartoon Kingdom's weekend art and cartooning program in the Sunshine Coast this July for kids aged 5-15.

Aero Catz Studio

At Aerial Catz, we believe in helping students build strength, confidence, resilience, and creativity through the art of aerial movement. Our classes include aerial silks, hoop, and other apparatus-based training, providing a safe and exciting way for young people to stay active while learning incredible new skills.

But it’s not just about being in the air – it’s about being uplifted by a positive, supportive community. Our instructors and families foster an environment where students of all levels feel welcome, encouraged, and inspired. Whether they're brand new or experienced performers, every child has a place with us to shine, grow, and feel connected.

Qld Kids Fishing Classic

The QLD Kids Fishing Classic (QKFC) is back for the upcoming school holidays! This fun and family-friendly competition is all about encouraging kids to get outside, enjoy nature, and put down their devices. 

About the Competition: 

• Open to kids aged 3–17 years living in Queensland, with categories for 3–7, 8–12, and 13– 17-year-olds. 
• Fish land-based, by kayak, or from a tinnie—no boat or travel required!
• Includes saltwater, freshwater, and pest species. 
• It’s a photo-only comp: participants simply upload photos of their catches to the 2 Bent Rods App. 
• Fish from anywhere in Queensland, whenever suits during the school holidays!

Check out more details on our website: 2 Bent Rods - Fishing Competitions 

And join our Facebook group: QLD Kids Fishing Classic

Email: 2 Bent Rods Team:  events@2bentrods.com.au 

Winter Wunderland

A Winter Wunderland is coming to the Sunshine Coast! In its third year, the event has incredible momentum, and, we have some spots available for performers of all kinds! Join us in Caloundra on Friday 20 June 2025.

When: 4pm - 8pm Friday 20 June 2025

Where: Bulcock Street, Caloundra CBD

Free tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/winter-wunderland-2025

Upcoming Workshops for Girls