Carbrook Junior School Communications, 31 October 2024
Term 4 - Week 5
Friday 1 November: Stage 1 Excursion, Gala Sport, Assembly (in the Pavilion)
Week 6
Tuesday 5 November: Auskick
Thursday 7 November: CPA Soiree/Sport Awards
Friday 8 November: Chapel
Coming
Stepping Up to Prep 2025, Auskick, Awards Assembly 2pm
Dear Parents and Carers
Debating
Wednesday evening was the final round of Junior School debating. Team from both year 5 and year 6 have represented Calvary with excellence. Both of our teams have competed with impressive results, our year 6 team wining the majority of their debates and our Year 5 team receiving positive feedback about the structure of their speeches and their increased ability to deliver with confidence.
Debating allows our students to grow in their public speaking, resilience, critical thinking and collaboration. Recently, we published a blog post, all about the benefits of the debating program available to our students. Have a read here.
CPA Soiree / Sports Awards Evening
On Thursday 7 November we celebrate the efforts and achievement of our Performing Arts and Ensemble members at the CPA Soiree. This event begins at 4:00pm and flows into the Sports Awards evening, which begins at 6.00pm, recognising our Netball, Futsal and Volleyball team members. The flyer below provides further details. Junior school-based Performing Arts and Sports Awards will be presented at the upcoming Awards Assembly service.
Photo Challenge for the End of Year Event
The theme of our Celebration this year is love, and focuses on our key bible verse for 2024 from 1 Peter 4:8. We know God has designed each of us differently, and we show love in many different ways. As Mrs Johnston discussed at assembly, we would love to see a photo of your child showing love. This might be a photo of them doing something for a family member, sharing a hug, or with a gift they have bought for someone. We would like to showcase these photos at our upcoming end of year awards ceremony. Please send your photos to Jo-ann.Johnson@calvarycc.qld.edu.au by Friday 1 November.
Alumni Students - Photo's for JS Celebrations
We are busy planning our JS Celebration which is focusing on the 40-year anniversary of Calvary. Our hope is to be able to share with our family the mission of Calvary, and how we are called to go out and love others.
We are reaching out to our Alumni Students of the College. We would like to finish our Prep – Stage 1 Celebration with a short video that shows a photo of our Alumni when they were at Calvary, and a photo of them with their family now.
If you would be interested in participating in this video, could you please send the following to Jo Johnson. Jo-ann.johnson@calvarycc.qld.edu.au
- A photo of you as a student at Calvary
- A photo of you with your family now. If you could have a heart in this photo to reinforce this year’s theme of love, that would be amazing (but not necessary)
- The years you attended Calvary
- One sentence about what you are doing now.
We are hoping this will powerfully represent the idea that what is started at Calvary continues far beyond when our students leave the College.
Stepping Up to the next Stage
Stepping up to the next stage is a bit of a milestone for our students and it’s our intent to make this a smooth transition. On Friday 22 November, all students will experience time in their 2025 stage and meet a buddy who they can connect with when the new year begins. Our Year 6 students will spend this entire day stepping up to Stage 4 as they settle into the next step in their schooling journey.
Celebration
Our Celebration event is drawing near. The student’s rehearsals are going so well, and we have costumes coming together. If you haven’t booked your tickets yet, please do ASAP.
Please note students will not need a booked seat for the Celebration session they are performing in. If they are watching a sibling Celebration, they will need a seat booked for that session. Click on the link below for more details.
Date Claimers
| Thursday 7 November | CPA Soiree / Calvary Sport Awards |
| Thursday 14 November | Awards Service 2.00pm |
| Tuesday 26 November | Celebration Service 5.00pm P-Stage1, 6.45pm Stage 2&3 |
| Thursday 28 November | Year 6 Affirmation Service 2.00pm |
Mrs Zoe O'Donnell
Acting Head of Junior School - Carbrook
Cafe Specials - Week 6
General Notices
Parenting Book Club
Dear Parents
We are excited to announce the launch of our Parenting Book Club in 2025 next year! This unique opportunity will be led by our counselling team and will focus on exploring key themes in parenting across different age stages, from Prep to Year 12.
The link below contains a curated list of books tailored to the developmental needs of children of different ages.
Click Here for Recommended Parenting Books.
If you are interested in joining our Parent Book Club, please register your interest on the link below:
Foot Locker Capalaba - The Athletes Foot School Rewards
Foot Locker at Capalaba will donate $5 to the college for each pair of shoes sold. Click on the link to view the catalogue.
Coming Up Events @ Calvary
Our current College events can be found on our website: https://www.calvarycc.qld.edu.au/events/
Calvary Performing Arts Soiree & Calvary Sport Awards
NEW MUSIC BAGS
We are releasing a performing arts bag for students to be able to carry music books, guitar footrests etc. These will be available to purchase for $5 from Dr Holley at morning tea or lunch on Tuesdays in the music block. Please bring $5 cash if you would like to purchase one for your child.
Performing Arts Soiree
On Thursday afternoon 7 November from 4pm – 6pm we will have our presentation evening in the Cunningham Pavilion at the Carbrook Campus. This will be a time when Individual students will be recognised for their contribution to the performing arts co-curricular program in 2024. Sport Aerobics will be performing.
Times are as below:
Rehearsal in the Cunningham Pavilion (Junior Teams don’t need to be in leotards for this rehearsal only for performance)
3.10pm – Carbrook Junior School Teams
3:30pm – Springwood Junior School Teams
3:40pm – MSS Team
4:15pm – All Teams perform
End of Term Recital
All students learning instruments in private lessons will have a performance on Sunday 17 November in the afternoon. Please add this to your calendars.
Instrumental Program
Private Individual Instrumental Music lesson enrolment: Register Here
Handbook: Instrumental Music Manual 2024.V3.pdf
Calvary Performing Arts Facebook
Please feel free to join the Calvary Performing Arts Facebook page to be kept up to date, and to see the details and pictures of our performances and activities over the year.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1390040011905950/
All correspondence regarding CPA, including questions, please send to Emma at: performingartsacademy@calvarycc.qld.edu.au