Peachester State School

What a great opportunity to form new friendships! Everyone is starting a new year, with a new teacher (for most) and a new classroom and many will be looking for new friendships too. Some children choose a new ‘best friend’ every year at school which builds a rich network of friendships over the years.  Remember that children learn different skills from different classmates.  You can gently help them make new friends and grow as an individual at the same time.

If, after a couple of weeks, your child doesn’t seem to be settling in or is still anxious about their new class, by all means drop a note to the teacher or make an appointment to chat.  Teachers are very busy preparing for the day, so making an appointment is essential so you have their undivided attention. These conversations with your child’s teacher will help to support your child’s needs. 

Experienced parents and teachers tell us that more than likely than not, your child will be absolutely fine and will have developed a new level of resilience from spreading their wings a little.

Do you know a student who has achieved something special in our community? Perhaps they have achieved at an elite level at sport, participated in an eisteddfod or competition or represented themselves proudly at a community activity? Please email me at admin@peachesterss.eq.edu.au and let us know so that we can acknowledge your child in our school newsletter. 

The Leadership ceremony took place on Thursday 18th February.

Mrs Fillery and Mr Andrew Powell gave speeches, presented badges and acknowledged our 2022 school leaders. There was also cake.

Our School Captains, Ashton and Darby are excited about representing the school in the official ceremonies such as Anzac Day and sporting activities, setting up fundraisers and assisting the younger students to join in and participate here at school.

Our Coochin  sports house captains, Cashius and Sienna, along with our Stanley sports house captains, Anna and Ruby, are all keen to help Mrs Westrup with the sports carnival and other activities. They are all excited about organising and supervising other games and activities for the students here at school.

Our Environmental captains , Harriet and Oscar are excited about doing the chickens and helping in Enviro Club with Mr Laurence.

Our Library Captains, Sophie and Violet are excited to help Ms Michelle in the library and host other events such as Book Week  and colouring competitions.

Our student leaders are very quickly finding out just how busy their peers were last year. With a class full of role models to support them we know they are excited about their roles and we know that they will do a great job.

On top of this we have been very busy establishing our classroom and setting ourselves up with the very best learning environment that we can have. To support this, we collaborated to set up our three classroom promises to each other. They are: to allow everyone to share their ideas, to ask questions when we need to and to try our best in everything that we do.  So far we are doing well supporting each other.

Dear Families,

The P&C AGM is being held on the 16th March at 6:30pm. 

Everyone is welcome to attend.  The meeting will be held in the 'Hub' (room next to the office).  Calling all nominations for the 2022 P&C Executive team.  You can nominate by using the EForms on Skoolbag.

Fundraising 

TERM1:

Cookie Dough Drive

Movie Night

TERM2:

Trivia Night - 'Battle of the Decades' 

Pie Drive

Mother's Day 

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Congratulations to both Darby and Ruby - their swim times have been submitted to District for hopeful selection into the upcoming Regional Swimming Carnival to be held at the Burpengary Aquatic Leisure Centre on the 2nd March, 2022.

Good luck Darby and Ruby!