Bundamba State School

Our happy campers are having a whale of a time! 🐳 One lucky body boarding group got to see some whales breaching off the coast yesterday as they enjoyed their time in the surf. Last night’s dinner was beef stroganoff with apple crumble for dessert. 🥧 Perfect for a chilly winter’s night! This morning some very brave souls got up early to watch the sunrise. 🌅 Today they’re off doing giant swing, body boarding and team rescue activities. We’re sure they’ll sleep well tonight! 😴

SENIOR ATHLETICS CARNIVAL | The 2024 Inter-House Athletics Senior Carnival Champion is … ROCKTON 🔴 with BELMONT a close 🔵 2nd and CLAREMONT HOUSE 🟡 sneaking in 3rd. Congratulations to all of the Houses on a fantastic show of athletic ability and sportsmanship. Our JUNIOR CARNIVAL was a fun morning with BELMONT HOUSE being victorious🔵😄

Congratulations also needs to go to all students for a wonderful day of athletics, participation and House spirit. Thank you to all the families that joined us and enjoyed the atmosphere and P&C BBQ. A thank you to those staff who helped and supported the days and especially to Mrs Batchelder for all her hard work organising the Carnival – behind the scenes and across both days!

What a hoot!!🤣Today we celebrated Under 8’s Day at BSS that culminated with our sausage sizzle, Teddy Bear’s Picnic for our very special guests….. our very own Prep-2 students🥰 Today was full of excitement, colour, energy and creativity! It was really wonderful to see so many parents and little ones joining us and having so much fun! Here’s a teaser of pics from today!!

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The next meeting of our First Nations Working Party is
* Thursday, 13th June at 9.30am in B Block.
* We are honoured to have the Ugarapul Traditional Owners joining us!
* A light morning tea will be provided🪃
Krisandra Tweedie and the working party members are looking forward to seeing everyone to finalise the program for NAIDOC week 8-12 July 2024 at BSS!
Everyone is welcome!
Looking forward to seeing you there🪃🌿

Last Monday our lucky Year 1 students had the opportunity to listen to our local firefighters from Queensland Fire and Emergency Services - QFES give a fire safety education presentation and see all the equipment they need to use when fighting fires. It was a fantastic morning out in the beautiful sunshine! Thank you to our local heroes for keeping us safe!

Our year 3-6 students have been in full swing actively preparing for Senior Athletics Day this Friday 7th June with events commencing at 9am. House colours 🔴🟡🔵 are the fashion for the day!! A P&C BBQ offering hamburgers, a sausage sizzle and cold drinks will be available near the senior oval across the day!
We hope to see you there for a great day!

We have had an exceptional few weeks with students having fun being creative in the Arts with some of the fashion design being simply amazing!! National Simultaneous Storytime was a whole school highlight as classes joined in the reading olympics choosing the wonderful book- Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker, PR featured below 🌟It was fabulous to see the children having so much fun at playtime and then producing great learning in class! Our year 2 students thoroughly enjoyed their reptile incursion with so many pats and cuddles of their favourite little creature 🌿🪱😄 Thank you for your continued support in being able to offer such wonderful experiences to your children!

We're going to hear about a stack of alpacas at next week's Little Legends Playgroup! Come along on Monday, 3 June. We'd love to see you there!

Aplologies for the date change- please join us on Friday, May 31s at 9:00am in B Block for the next First Nations Working Party meeting at Bundamba State School. Enjoy a light morning tea while discussing the NAIDOC program to be held from July 8-12, 2024.

This fortnight we have split our Learning Culture focus across our P-2 and 3-6 cohorts to ensure targeted teaching and reinforcement of expectations.

Join us on Thursday, May 30th at 9:30am in B Block for the next First Nations Working Party meeting at Bundamba State School. Enjoy a light morning tea while discussing the NAIDOC program to be held from July 8-12, 2024.

😄SAVE THE DATE😄 WOOWZA
WHAT A FABULOUS DAY IT WILL BE 😄
😄CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL THERE!

Attention Little Legends! Come to playgroup next week to find out if there's Room on the Broom! We would love to see you there.

Suara Indonesia Dance Incursion
🌟SAVE THE DATE🌟

Our Year 5 and 6 students have an excellent opportunity to experience and be entertained by a talented group of dancers, namely Ibu Alfira and Bapak Murtala who are performers from Suara Indonesia. Students will learn about the diversity of cultures found within the Indonesian archipelago as well as the historical and narrative spirit of the dances. Indonesian language is also incorporated in the learning process of the workshop.
🌟There will be no cost for this incursion.

When: Wednesday 12th June

Where: School Activities Hall

Life is not without its challenges! You may know of people or members of our school community who may need a little extra support. This information is always good to have at hand or to share with those who may need some added support!

Join us on Thursday, May 16th at 9:30am in B Block for the next First Nations Working Party meeting at Bundamba State School. Enjoy a light morning tea while discussing the NAIDOC program to be held from July 8-12, 2024.

Today at assembly we recognised our superstar students! We also celebrate our classes that receive Full House awards for 100% attendance in any given day - 5/6K have set the challenge! Today we also had a visit from Auskick talking about their program starting Thursday next week - notes have been sent home with relevant year levels.

5/6S is showing us how to meet our fortnightly Learning Culture focus! What a team!

Last Friday we held our first assembly for the term. We acknowledged our Shining Stars, those Magic Moments, our You’ve Been Spotted winners, along with those classes that received a Full House award! Each day that a class has 100% of their students at school they will receive a Full House award on assembly. The competition is fierce!

We were so honoured and incredibly humbled to see so many of our school community gather together to represent Bundamba State School and march in the Ipswich Memorial Service to honour the Anzac spirit. We stood tall and proud as we commemorated and remembered the sacrifice of the fallen! Thankyou to all of our families, students and staff who we able to join us! It was a proud moment for BSS!

We would love to see our Little Legends at next week's playgroup!

‼️ Please note change of time for ANZAC assembly tomorrow. It will now occur at 11:30am ‼️

Our ANZAC Day assembly will be held next Wednesday, 24 April at 9am. All are welcome to attend.

A letter was sent home to families this week about our ANZAC Day march on April 25. It would be wonderful to see our families there to represent our school and honour those who served.

We are exceptionally fortunate to have a caring, dedicated and fun group of Teacher Aides at Bundamba State School. Every week on a Tuesday, our TA’s wear their pink polo in solidarity of a tremendous cause that has, or may, touch so many lives. We admire their commitment and unwavering support🩷🌸🩷🌸what a team!

We hope everyone is having fun and enjoying a wonderful Easter 🐰🐣🐥🐰

🌟🐰WOOWZA what a fun, fabulous morning 🐇🌟 full of colour and excitement🐇🌟 as our Pre- 2 students paraded their Easter Bonnet creations for all to see 🩵🩷🧡💚💛 what clever children they are and how fantastic did they look 👏🐇🐰Smiles all round😃