Carbrook Junior School Communications, 11 July 2024

Term 3 - Week 1

Term 3 - Week 2

Tuesday 16 and Thursday 18 July: Parent Teacher Interviews
Wednesday 17 July: Qld Volleyball Cup (day 1)
Friday 19 July: 100 days of Prep, Chapel

Coming Up

Group Photos, Netball Qld Gala Tournament, Assembly

Dear Parents and Carers

I love the first day back at school after a holiday break. The students are so excited to see each other, see their teachers and share all the updates of the past few weeks. On Tuesday, I was reminded of the connected community that your students are a part of.

Units of Inquiry

This term our students are exploring the concept of discovery. Please click on the buttons below to read the parent overview for each stage and check out how you can get involved from the home front.

Dance

This term, Isabella Palmer joins our team as Calvary’s dance instructor. Miss Palmer will be working with students from Prep through to Middle and Senior school, providing age appropriate dance experiences that will allow our students to explore various styles and techniques of dance expression. Miss Palmer comes with a wealth of experience with a Bachelor of fine arts, teacher level RAD qualifications and high quality industry performance experience.

Parent Teacher Interviews

Parent teacher Interviews are scheduled for next week, Tuesday 16 and Thursday 18 July. You can use the link below to book in your interview. These will be a timely check in now that Semester 1 reports are released, to set goals for the new semester.

If you have not secured a time already please book today as bookings close on Sunday 14 July.

Parent Teacher Interviews

College Group Photos

Group photos are scheduled for the 25 and 26 of July 2024.

The majority of Junior School photos will be taken on Thursday 25 July, and most of the Middle and Senior School photos the following day.

Click on the letter and schedule below for more information.

Group Photo Letter 

Clubs

Clubs will all be back up and running next week. Please check out the club options and encourage your child to give something new a go this term.

From the Wellbeing Space

On the 27 August, we have a speaker from Safe on Social coming to educate our students and parents about the virtual world. The virtual world is developing at a rapid pace, and we want to ensure we have up to date information.  

In his book, ‘The anxious generation’, Jonathan Haidt reflects on the changes to technology over the past generation. We have seen the introduction of the flip phone, the smart phone, social media, the app store, push notifications, and the front facing camera. Each of these developments have increased our dependence on, and desire to engage in the online world.

It appears that since the introduction of the smartphone, children and adolescents have added an extra 2-3 hours of screen-based activity to their day. Research indicates that the average adolescent now reports spending more than 7 hours a day on screen-based leisure activities, not including their schoolwork. Haidt suggests the invention of the smartphone and consequent continuous access to online video games, social media, and other internet-based activities may be the most significant contributor to the increase in adolescent mental health difficulties.

Haidt reflects on a comment by Henry David Thoreau in 1854, who wrote ‘The cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run’. As parents, we should ask ourselves what opportunities our children are missing while engaged in online activities.

We hope you will join us as we navigate this area together.

Mrs Zoe O'Donnell
Acting Head of Junior School - Carbrook 

Cafe Specials - Week 2

General Notices

Calvary Bus Service

Bus Term passes with a 10% discount are now available until 17/07/2024.

Zone 1 & Intercampus - $126.90

Zone 2 - $329.94

Zone 3 - $380.70

Please email bus@calvarycc.qld.edu.au if you want to make use of a Term pass for Term 3.

Just a few reminders when making use of the bus service:

• Every trip taken on the bus service requires a booking made via the Rollcall app.
• Students are required to use their student ID cards when boarding & disembarking the bus for every trip. Failing to present their cards will incur a $1 per trip Admin fee.
  
  

Replacement Student ID cards can be purchased at Reception at a cost of $5.

• Rollcall accounts must maintain a positive balance for students to utilise the service. Credit can be added via the Rollcall app.
  
  

Please contact the College if you need any further information.

Parent Focus Groups

WE NEED YOU! 

At Calvary, you are invited to be an active partner in the education of your child/ren and we would like to invite you to provide us with feedback.

We are seeking feedback to help us get a greater understanding of what you value, what we are doing well and to hear about how your child's learning journey has been going.

This year we would like to invite you to attend an in-person session to talk with an external Marketing Consultant, Phil Winton. Phil has been working with the College as an external consultant since 2022.

The focus of these sessions will be to ask you a series of questions and work through and unpack your responses. This process will allow broader discussion and help provide us with a richer understanding of your feedback.

The Executive Leadership Team will not be made aware of who attended the sessions.

For parent registration, 3 sessions on Friday 26 July

Click here to register:

Parent Link

Coming Up Events @ Calvary

Our current College events can be found on our website: https://www.calvarycc.qld.edu.au/events/

Showcase 40th Year Celebration

We are inviting all alumnae, parents and past staff to join the band/orchestra and choir for the 40th year celebration showcase. Performance will be on Saturday 7 September at 7pm, tickets will go on sale soon.

Showcase Performance Link