Maleny State School eNewsletter

Date Claimers

June	27	Pyjama Day – Free Dress, Gold Coin Donation Remember: Dress Sun safe with closed in shoes
	27	NO TUCKSHOP CLOSED FOR END OF TERM CLEANING
	27	Last Day of Term 2
July	14	First Day of Term 3
	14-18	NAIDOC Week
	21-25	Parent/Teacher Meetings
	23	Prep Vision Screening
	31	Glasshouse District 9-12 Years Athletics Carnival
August	1	Glasshouse District 9-12 Years Athletics Carnival
	6 & 7	TRUE Relationships Sessions – Year 6
	8	Mark West Cup – Rugby League
	18-22	Book Week
	20	Inter-House Spelling Competition
	25-27	Year 4 Camp
	30 & 31	Maleny Trail Ride @ Green Park, Conondale
September	12-19	MSS Book Fair 2025
	19	Last Day of Term 3
October	6	PUBLIC HOLIDAY – Kings Birthday
	7	First Day of Term 4

School Watch

Watch over our school. If you see anything suspicious, please don’t attempt to intervene, call the School Watch number - 131788

Student Absence Line

If your child is absent from school for any reason please call the absentee line before 9:00am.

Ph 5499 8366 or email admin@malenyss.eq.edu.au

2025 Voluntary Financial Contribution

The contribution for 2025 is $50 per child or $40 per child for families with three or more children enrolled at our school. Family contributions will be used to upgrade our technology resources (iPads, Laptops, Robotics equipment) allowing greater hands on access for all students in classrooms.

Principal’s Report

Our School Priorities are:

Teaching Reading Through the Australian Curriculum V9
Developing Effective Pedagogies when Implementing the Australian Curriculum V9 Mathematics

Funding for Maleny State School to support globally competent learners

We are excited to announce that Maleny State School has received project funding through the Queensland Department of Education’s Growing Global Competence Fund.

Maleny's ‘Empowering community: Share the learning to promote sustainable food security to improve health, wellbeing and livelihoods’ project is an exciting initiative that will enrich student learning through expanding our sustainable Garden Club to include two new Airgarden systems (aeroponic systems) to complement our traditional and wicking garden beds. The grant will assist us to create our first ever student Media Club, providing camera gear to allow students to connect to a global audience through podcasts, newsletter items and posters.

Through this program, students will explore global issues and learn to communicate with impact to support a sustainable world.

This project reflects our ongoing commitment to preparing young people for the opportunities and challenges of an interconnected world. We believe that growing global competence strengthens our whole school community.

We can’t wait to share stories, updates, and highlights from this exciting journey throughout the year. Stay tuned as our students put global competence into action!

Check out the Airgarden system below.

Report Cards

All reports will be emailed home this Wednesday. Parents will have the opportunity to meet with their child’s class teacher between 21 – 25 July at parent/teacher interviews.

In line with the Queensland Curriculum and Reporting Framework, we have updated our report card approach from Semester 1 this year.

Years P-6 Use the following five-point scale to report on BEHAVIOUR
A	The student always demonstrates positive learning behaviours and models the expectations set out in the Student Code of Conduct.
B	The student consistently demonstrates positive learning behaviours and regularly meets the expectations set out in the Student Code of Conduct.
C	The student mostly demonstrates positive learning behaviours and usually meets the expectations set out in the Student Code of Conduct.
D	The student sometimes demonstrates positive learning behaviours and needs guidance to meet the expectations set out in the Student Code of Conduct.
E	The student rarely demonstrates positive learning behaviours and requires intensive support to achieve the expectations set out in the Student Code of Conduct.
N	Insufficient evidence to make a judgement

Years P-6 Use the following five-point scale to report on EFFORT
A	The student is a model learner, demonstrating personal commitment, persistence and adaptability.
B	The student consistently demonstrates personal commitment, persistence and adaptability in their learning
C	The student typically demonstrates commitment, persistence and adaptability in their learning.
D	The student sometimes demonstrates commitment, persistence and/or adaptability in their learning.
E	The student requires frequent encouragement to persist and persevere with learning.
N	Insufficient evidence to make a judgement

Student Council – Pyjama Day

This Friday our Student Council is hosting the very popular Pyjama Day - Gold Coin Donation.

Remember: Dress Sun safe with closed in shoes

Have a Magic Holiday in Maleny.

John

From the Deputy Principal

Reports Emailed

Semester 1 Reports will be emailed to parents/caregivers on Wednesday 25 June. We remind parents that OneSchool, which is the Department of Education’s Statewide Management System, is set up in a way that it will only email out to parents whose emails are recorded as the primary carers in the system. Usually these emails are provided at enrolment. If these email details have changed please contact the Office.

To receive your child’s report please add Application.ONESCHOOL@qed.qld.gov.au (mailto:Application.ONESCHOOL@qed.qld.gov.au) to your list of safe senders to ensure report card emails aren’t sent to the Junk folder. Please note, the school’s email address won’t show up as the sender.

If you have signed up for QParents, you will be able to access your child’s reports from the app immediately they become available.

Paula Heiniger
Deputy Principal

Contact Details – Do we have your most up to date contact details?

There are times when we may need to contact parents and carers. Do we have your most up to date contact details? If not, please contact the school on 5499 8333 so we can update our records. These details include parent/carers’ name, address, phone numbers, email address and emergency contact details. Please remember to contact the school if any of these details change.

Students of the Week

6B	Maya & Eden	3A	Harlow & Juni	P/1C	Keeley & Fletcher
5/6C	Elodie & Tom	2/3C	Daphne & Edie	PA	Zennor & Charlie
5A	Kenzie & Hudson	2A	Amaya & Arya	PB	Johnnie & Rosie
4A	Loki & Johan	2B	Elsie & Leo
4B	Rory	1A	Octavia & Lewie
3/4K	Hunter & Imogen	1B	Emmett

Year 3/4K

Sling Shot Cars complete!

Well, as promised, here are the images of our completed sling shot cars that we created in Design Technology lessons – and they are great for racing too!

Kate Stassen & Jodie Kyte

Prep Vision Screening

The Primary School Nurse Health Readiness Program is coming to your school.

We are a Queensland Government service that offers Free Vision Screening to all children enrolled in Prep.

If your child is in Prep and you would like their vision screened on 23 July 2025, and haven’t yet registered, please complete a consent form using the below link or QR code.

The following video explains the benefits of having your Prep child’s vision screened – “What is Prep Vision Screening?”

Screening commencement date: Wednesday 23 July, 2025

Link and QR code will close on Thursday 17 July, 2025

Click here to view more information

Thanks
Steph

PBL (Positive Behaviour Learning)

The PBL Rocket is full!

It was very exciting on assembly in week 8 when filling the new rocket. Congratulations to all of our students on this fantastic display of 'Keeping Your Cool’. Class teachers will be arranging a free 20 minute extra playtime with their classes before the end of term.

Current Be Rule - Be Safe

Buzz Phrase - I Choose to Defuse

Our final 4 Be focus of the term is a Be Safe rule with the buzz phrase “I Choose to Defuse”. This buzz phrase helps our students to remember that they are in control of how they respond to situations. Some simple ways this can be done are:

I say STOP if someone or something is upsetting me.
I WALK away from the situation to a safe place.
I TALK to someone I can trust.
I CONTROL myself and keep my COOL.
I can solve problems in a calm manner.

Some helpful things to think about are:

What is a peaceful resolution?
Providing students with strategies to use when faced with a social/emotional problem. (Count backwards, breathing, have a drink, go for a walk.)
What happens if I don’t keep my cool! What does it look like? Is it appropriate? How does it affect others?
Discuss the STOP, THINK, DO process.
Every ACTION has a REACTION and only individuals can control their own actions.

This buzz phrase goes hand in hand with our “High Five” and gives students consistent language and support to be active in their reactions and problem-solving skills.

Wishing all our school community a happy and safe winter holiday time. See you in Term 3!

The PBL Team

Lost Property

Lost property is checked weekly and named items are returned to their owners. Items not collected by the end of the term will be washed and donated to local charities. Please ask your children to have a look, or yourself, in the alcove next to the Yr 4 eating area.

There are lots of jumpers in lost property at the moment due to the cool mornings and warm days.

P & C News

Maleny OSHC Vacation Care

Mewar Café (Tuckshop)

Opening Hours

Mewar Café will be open Tuesday, Thursday and Friday:

8:30am to 12:00pm (first meal break only)
PLEASE NOTE – TUCKSHOP WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY 27 JUNE FOR CLEANING

My School Connect

Orders can be made on the online ordering system My School Connect.

Online orders close at 8:30am each morning.
Snacks, drinks and frozen items can be purchased over the counter.

When ordering, please ensure that you see the GREEN THUMB screen and receive an order confirmation email. This notes that your order has been successfully submitted and will be sent to our service.

Several times each week, we still have upset children turning up at the final bell for 1st Break looking for their 'missing' orders. We need all of the preparation time from 8:30am to 11:00am (when the first bell for 1st Break rings) to have every order ready for collection. It is not possible to prepare fresh or cooked meals during 1^st Break.

Please ensure there are sufficient credits in your child's account so that they can purchase items from our Counter Menu in the event that their online order was not successfully completed or that they have forgotten to bring their lunch to school. We don't want to see any child go hungry!

Our current menu is available on the P&C website.

Thank you for your support and any casual or recurrent volunteering will make a big difference to our committed Team!

Volunteers - If you can help please contact Mewar Café

For instructions, support and to learn more, visit Mewar Café.

Feedback is welcome to improve our service and menu items. You are welcome to visit the Mewar Café to talk to one of our team or send an email to: tuckshop@malenyss.eq.edu.au

Uniform Shop

The Uniform Shop's regular hours are Friday mornings between 8.30am and 9.00am. Payment options are EFTPOS or cash at the uniform shop only. Alternatively, orders can be placed online via the link below by 5pm Wednesday for Friday pickup or class delivery.

Click here for more information

If you have one hour per month that you may be able to help us out in the Uniform Shop please contact the office on 5499 8333. Open from 8:30-9:00am on Fridays, bring along a friend and be part of our happy team.

Chappy News

Travelling light

School holidays are upon us again. Is this year flying extra fast or is it just me? So, I have officially been here three years now. Confession time, I still have some unpacked boxes from moving three years ago. However, the good thing is that I obviously don’t need the things that are packed in those boxes, I must have learned to live without them.

Makes me think about other things I can live without. Kitchen gadgets like spiralizers, melon ballers and piping bags I definitely can live without, however for me, my favourite coffee cups, pod machine and milk frother are essential. Ok, I can hear you say technically I could live without them right? Yep, but they are a little bit of self-care for me in my busy life. Your essentials may include your favourite pillow or blanket, your lounge chair and reading space, your Thermomix. Your children’s essentials may include a favourite Squish Mallow, superhero figurine, book or piece of technology. These items give us a sense of comfort and consistency when times are tough or lots of change is happening in our lives or the world around us. So, I think it is ok to hold on to these things whilst considering what we may be able to let go of or easily live without.

What do our children need for development? A roof over their heads, food on the table, love and kindness in the family and friendships. A place to feel safe and people to feel safe around. A space to learn and develop. Access to good healthcare. Let’s prioritise these needs within our families and hold the rest lightly. I need to remember this as much as the next person for sure, I think I have talked myself into another garage sale this weekend.

Chappy Chris

From the Office

Payments

Payments can be made by any of the following methods.

Directly into our bank account noting the invoice number, initial and surname of the student for whom you are paying. Our Bank account details are:
BSB: 064-462 Account Number: 10080359
Credit card using the bPoint reference number that is located on the bottom left hand side of your invoice. Credit card payments can also be made in person at the office.
Cash and cheque can be made by placing the cheque/correct change in a payment envelope and depositing it into the drop-safe in the office. Please ensure that the envelope is sealed so the cash does not fall out. Please write the student’s name, class, amount enclosed and what the payment is for, clearly on the envelope.