Message from our Principal Upcoming Events

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Be safe Be responsible Be respectful

Message from our Principal

We are concluding this term with highlights of the last week. Please have a look at the photographs and the reports supplied by our participating students.

I hope you all have a restful holiday and we will all be ready for Tuesday 5

October when fourth term commences. Anthony Gribbin

Principal

Math Teasers

1. I am an even number. I am more than 10 and less than 20. The sum of

my digits is 9. Who am I?

2. There are four children in Marie's family. She is less than 11 years old

and is the oldest.

There's a two-year age difference to twins, Grace and Lily, who come

next?

Tom, who is older than 5 is two years younger than the twins. How old

are each of the children?

3. A certain number is divisible by 3 and also by 5. When the number is

divided by 7, the remainder is 4.

What is the smallest number that meets these conditions?

Upcoming

Events

5 Oct Term 2 commences

6 Oct Yr 3 Excursion

History in Box

3TK & 2/3 HB


History in Box

3AF & 3SS

7 Oct 2022 School

Captain speeches


History in Box

3KE & 3TS

11 Oct Yr 5 Drama with

Cav Road High

15-16 Oct AFL Cup State

Finals

Ph: (07) 3421 6222 Student Absences: (07) 3421 6260

Email: [email protected] 17 September 2021 Holland Park State School

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LOST PROPERTY

There is a large amount of lost property that has

accumulated from the start of this term. Please check lost property to see if any items belong to

your child. Any items left at the end of term will be donated to charity.

Message from Student Leaders

Hello, my name is Charlie L and I am your boys school captain for this year. I am going to be sharing with you one of my favourite subjects

and that is English. I like English because I get to express and show great ideas through paper. I enjoy free writing because you can show

others and make creative pieces of writing. Our school teaches English very well, in ways like phonics, reading groups, handwriting or free writing. So that is a little bit about my favourite subject English.

Hi, my name is Emily, and I am the girl’s school vice-captain for 2021. I am going to talk to you about Math’s. Our school loves math’s and there are so many opportunities for you to get better at it, at Holland

Park. For starter most days of the week every class is meant to do a power point which focuses on what they are learning, it is called rapid

recall. And/or a number talk which is a number sentences on a white board and you have to work it out without using a book. Also, if a student tis excelling is math’s a lot they could be moved up a grade,

but it depends on their marks. If they are in grade 5 or 6 and get chosen by Mr Campbell some students compete in a math’s quiz

against other schools. Also done by Mr Campbell for grade 6ers is a math’s Olympiad, where there are 5 questions, and you have to answer them in 30 minutes. Miss Ybarlucea says “I feel at HPSS,

mathematics is fun and challenging. It builds problem-solving skills and critical and creative thinking. Mathematics at HPSS allows us to

make real life and real-world connections and can help us build our curiosity and ask questions.” Overall, I believe HPSS has a great math’s program that help develop a love of math’s. Thankyou.

School hours & bell times

Office hours 8am-4pm

Monday to Friday 8:45am Arrival bell

8:55am Start

classes

10:55am End first

session

11:05am Finish

eating – play

11:45am End play

1:15pm End

second session

1:25 pm Finish eating – play

1:55pm End play

2:55pm School

finishes

Our School Rules

are:

• Be safe • Be responsible

• Be respectful

We act safely, responsibly &

respectfully by following The

Five ‘Cs’:

• Courtesy

• Consideration

• Co-operation

• Commitment

• Courage

Student absences; Please advise with

reason via QParents

or Absentee Line:

3421 6260

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AFL Cup

Hello! I’m Emma Fingland, I am the 2021 AFL Girls Captain at Holland Park.

This year, our school sent two teams -Boys & Girls - to compete in the Streetsmarts AFLQ Schools Cup. Our AFL cup teams started at a round robin; we were very excited and ended up winning all our games and advancing into the Regional Finals round on the 7th of September at Sandgate.

On Regional Finals day, the HPSS Boys made it all the way to the Preliminary Final before being

eliminated in a close contest. They gave their best effort all day and the Year 4 & 5 boys are already looking to next year's AFL Cup competition.

In the girls competition, our first three games were amazing - winning all of them by at least a goal. In our fourth game we got surprised and versed the team that won states last year. We did

not win that game but we all tried our best. Our last two games were an awesome experience, as before our last two matches, we saw that we were 2nd on the ladder and if we won our next two - we were into states! We won our last two games and we all knew that we were in states.

This Team trained so hard for this and we finally got there. We all can't wait for state finals on the Sunshine Coast next term, hopefully we can bring back a big trophy!

A big thank you to our parents for organising us and for Mr Shackcloth & Ms Savage for taking

us to AFL Cup 🙂

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Interschool Tennis Cup

The Interschool Tennis Cup was held on Sunday 12th September at the David Turbayne Tennis Centre, East

Brisbane. The event is a participation-based grassroots tennis event

run by our school tennis provider – Tennis For Kids. Open to all children who have received tennis coaching (from

any coach), the event was a great opportunity for kids to play alongside their friends and represent their school. Almost 200 children from 9 schools participated on the

day. Holland Park State School was represented by 31 players across Red, Orange and Green Ball divisions.

All the kids demonstrated wonderful sportsmanship and represented the school with honour. And for the record

we are pleased to announce the following results for Holland Park State School…….

Red Ball Dvision (Grade 1-3) – WINNER Orange Ball Division (Grade 4-5) – SECOND

Green Ball Division (Grade 5-6) – THIRD Overall Champion School - WINNER

Congratulations to all our representatives – Not only on the result but also on your sportsmanship and behaviour on-court.

Year 2 Street Science Incursion

Year 2 students enjoyed the very entertaining and educating scientist Raphael do fun

experiments using force and introducing us to chemical properties. We made our own rockets using a special chemical mixed with water to make a tube fly into the air.

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From our Community Liaison Officer

For in-catchment families, and those who have siblings commencing

in Prep 2022, please complete the enrolment forms and return them to the admin office no later than Friday, 8th October, 2021. I am in the

process of entering the information onto One School and the sooner these are completed the sooner the prep classes for 2022 can be formed early in Term 4.

Most importantly if students are leaving at the end of 2021, it is

imperative that we know as soon as possible. For the families that I have already contacted, if a decision has been made could you please email me as soon as possible.

Karen Oliver

Email: [email protected]

From Excellence Expo

Last Wednesday afternoon, our school held our annual

Excellence Expo. It was a great afternoon and night, where all students in our school

were able to showcase their gifts and talents. It was pleasing to see so

many of our students and parents come along and

visit the displays of student work and attend the medallion ceremony in the

afternoon.

Congratulations to all medallion and highly commended winners. Congratulations also to all the students in the school for their hard work in entering the school categories. You did a great

job and we are all very proud of you.

Thank you also to all staff including teachers, teacher aides and

support staff for all your dedication and hard work to make the event a success. Your efforts are much appreciated.

Have a great holiday

Miss Ybarlucea Acting Head of Curriculum

Gifted Education Manager

mailto:[email protected]

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News from HPE

Gymfest It was a Holland Park State School army of gymnasts!

66 students forming seven teams participated at the 2021 Gymnastics Queensland GymFest. A fantastic result with all seven teams receiving a silver medal for

their overall performances. Each team competed in three different routines during the competition. It is very

pleasing that our school-based lunchtime gymnastics program is matching the results of dedicated gymnastic clubs and I am very impressed with the sportsmanship

of all of our teams.

It was also wonderful to see 31 HPSS students compete for Brisbane TeamGym and Tumble at the event. Overall, we had 97 students attend over the two sessions. A big

thank you to Mrs Goldberg and Ms Evans for their help at the competition. You made a big event very easy!

It was fantastic to have our first ever boys’ team and they were quickly backed by all involved.

Here are some of the competition Judges comments –

Team Willow – Beautiful floor choreography! Team Levitate – Awesome choreography and loved

the audience engagement! Team Masters – Loved it boys! Keep up the great

work!

Team Fireflies – Great work girls, fantastic acrobatic skills! Team Crystal Sparks - Great work guys, looks like you have all worked so hard!

Team Together – Loved the floor choreo! Team Diamond – Awesome height in your mini tramp routine. Well done!

I would also like to acknowledge the parents and carers for supporting this event.

A fantastic effort from everyone!

Australian Diving This week, 26 students attended a Diving Australia Talent

testing session at the Chandler Dry Diving facility and then at the diving pool in Sleemans Sports Complex. Students were challenged through a variety of dry based and pool-

based diving skills. The two-hour session allowed students to experience a variety of developmental skill and drills.

This was all done under the direction of key Diving Australia coaching staff. It was an amazing trial session and I would like to acknowledge the parents and carers for supporting

this trial.

How awesome would it be to have someone from HPSS in diving at the 2032 Olympics! You just never know…..

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Cambodia Club Our container campaign is still going strong. Creating change is not an easy task! However, slowly

but surely, we are seeing a real change in the way that our school embraces the Containers for Change program. We commenced our campaign in January 2020 and to date we have collected over 17,000 containers, I think this is an amazing result! Thank you to all the students involved

in the Cambodia Club, your enthusiasm for sustainability is creating positive results within our school!

Japanese Club

The Japanese Club held their annual Japanese restaurant to coincide with

the Asia Week celebrations. Planning has been in place from early in the year and students have spent many hours preparing. This year our

restaurant was located on the hall deck area overlooking the pool and views to Mt Gravatt. The club was so excited to have 26 staff members participate during their lunch break. It was a fabulous time with a variety

of menu items. I would like to acknowledge the following students for their contributions in making a very special and successful restaurant,

Mia C, Maya D, Abbey T, Evalina P, Ava G, Romi V, Meg S, Evelyn S. Thank you also to

our wonderful staff members that supported our Japanese restaurant.

Asia Week

This is our sixth year celebrating Asia week and it is wonderful that our students have the opportunity to

participate in a variety of Asian traditional games. I am very impressed with the number of students and teachers that supported this celebration and the many awesome Asian

related costumes that were worn throughout the week. Students have had the opportunity to learn a variety of

traditional games from Singapore, Uzbekistan, Brunei, Philippines and we also included the Solomon Islands as we

have recently created a school partnership. It was wonderful that we could connect India’s Holi Festival of Colour through the P&C’s Colour Explosion Fun Run and to support our recent Asia Education Foundation’s BRIDGE

partnership, one of the activity areas was designated to the Solomon Islands.

Great work everyone! Term 4 Aquatics

Aquatics will commence week 1, term 4. In order for our aquatic lessons to meet the required curriculum activity risk assessments, it is necessary to have a volunteer spotter at all aquatic’s

lessons. In the event that a volunteer spotter is unavailable students will be offered an alternative physical education lesson.

Please note that Prep aquatic lessons have a higher ratio for aquatics and will require four in-pool volunteers in addition to the supervising teacher and poolside spotter. Additional information has

been distributed via email. Please note that Covid-19 requirements will be followed and adjusted to meet any new restrictions. All students will require a swimming cap and sun shirt as per our school sun safe policy. Goggles are optional.

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House Captains

What an outstanding effort from our House Captains during the P&C Colour Explosion Fun Run. They were such a great help throughout the day and were at school early to set-up the event and

backed up again with pack-up at the end of the day. Fantastic everyone!

News from our Library

Australian Reading Hour This week the whole school celebrated in Australian Reading

Hour on Tuesday, 14th September. To celebrate, we had a stop, drop and read event. Students had to carry around a

book with them for the day, ready for when stop, drop

and read was announced. It was fantastic to visit many classes to see each student engaged in reading

simultaneously!

International Dot Day It was also International Dot Day on the 15th (ish) of September. International Dot Day is based on the book The Dot, written by Peter H. Reynolds and is about

celebrating creativity, courage and collaborations, allowing students to make their mark on the

world. To celebrate International Dot Day, some library classes participated in a shared reading of the book The Dot and expressed

their own creativity making their own dot artwork.

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HPSS Chess News GARDINER CHESS

Gardiner Chess will resume Term 4 Thursday 4th October from 8.00am to 8.45am in the library. Our coaches are Gary (Advanced Group), Lambis (Intermediate Group) and Dianne (Beginner Group).

If you are interested in joining chess you can pick up a flyer from the library or get one from the

Gardiner Chess web page. Mrs Briant can escort Preps to Prep at the end of the lesson. Online Chess Tournament For Chess Students

Friday nights at 4.15pm on ChessKid.com, 7 rounds of 5 minutes.

LUNCH TIME CHESS Come along to Chess Club on a Wednesday first break in the library. Year 1 to 6 students welcome.

Lea-Anne Schilg Year 1 Teacher

HPSS Chess Coordinator [email protected]

News from the P&C

Colour Explosion Fun Run The Colour Explosion Fun Run was a huge success! The students all had an amazing time working

their way through the obstacle and being covered in colour. We would like to say a huge thank you to all the students, school families and volunteers for

helping to make this day a successful one. The P&C would also like to express our gratitude to Matt Walker for all his input, assistance and organisation in helping to put this day together. His

enthusiasm has been a big factor in this fundraising activity. We would also like to thank Karen Oliver for being part of the organisation that took much of her precious time.

The fundraising for this initiative will continue until the end of week 1 in Term 4. For families to partake via an online option, each child can accept donations by parents creating a cybersafe

fundraising profile at http://www.plantadifference.com.au/ Once this is completed, they can forward to friends and family to help them raise money. Families also have the option to collect cash from their sponsors. For the All funds raised will go to expanding HPSS resources, including

improved sporting facilities. Additionally, for each $15 raised, a tree or shrub will be planted in Australia’s only global biodiversity hotspot.

The class that raises the most funds will be treated to a Pizza Lunch with their classmates one day in term 4. The class that runs second will have Quelches delivered to their class to enjoy.

Trivia Night SOLD OUT

This event that is happening on Saturday 9th October is now sold out. The dress theme for this year “Travel the World” and there will be a prize for the best themed group. There will be other prize giveaways and lucky door prizes on the night.


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The night will begin at 6.30pm in the school hall for a 7.30pm trivia start. BYO drinks and food.

To ensure a covid safe event, we will have to limit table numbers to 10 per table. Please email your team member names and contact details as well as your table/group name. Email

to [email protected] Market Night

On Thursday 21st October, 5pm-9pm we will hold our Market Night in the school hall. This is the perfect opportunity for

our school community to get a head start on some Christmas shopping with makers and creators of amazing wares and unique gifts. And whilst you enjoy this shopping experience

you can also enjoy performances from our school choirs and grab a bite to eat.

Roles Available

Tuckshop Retail Manager Level 3 – Permanent part-time

We’re seeking a skilled chef/cook to manage the day to day operations of the school tuckshop. • Available immediately

• Term time, permanent position - 25 hours per week (plus additional hours if required)

• Be an important part of a vibrant school community An exciting opportunity is available for a friendly,

enthusiastic and reliable chef/cook for a permanent Retail Manager Level 3 position in the Tuckshop of the Holland Park State School (‘HPSS’) Parents and Citizens Association (‘P&C’).

The retail manager is employed by and reports directly to the Executive Committee of the P&C. You will be responsible for the cooking and day to day running and supervision of the Tuckshop.

You will manage a Tuckshop that: • operates every school day, delivering 50-250 orders per day.

• embraces the Healthy Food and Drink Supply Strategy for Queensland Schools. • will review and makes seasonal changes to its menu each term

• uses Flexischools as its online ordering platform • is supported by a casual staff member and volunteers • has a volunteer ‘Homebake’ program

You will be multi-skilled with the ability to plan, lead, meet financial targets, adhere to policy and

standards, as well as maintain a strong relationship with the Executive of the HPSS P&C. Your work will support the HPSS school community by providing an important service to parents and students, and school staff.

Wages and conditions will be subject to Award Conditions. You will be paid in accordance with the

P&C Associations Award 2016 – Retail Operations Stream – Retail Manager – Level 3. For a full description and application details please used link below.

https://www.seek.com.au/job/53876250?cid=ios-share

Executive Treasurer Role (Voluntary) The P&C are currently looking for expressions of interest to join our team in the voluntary role of Treasurer.


https://www.seek.com.au/job/53876250?cid=ios-share

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The Treasurer role has key relationships with the Treasurer of any subcommittees, the employees of the HPSS P&C Association, HPSS P&C Executive, P&C Association’s external auditor, P&C

Association’s suppliers, including any supplier of bookkeeping or payroll services. If you have an accounting or financial experience and would like to join the Executive team we

would love to hear from you. Please contact us at [email protected]

Executive Vice President Uniform Shop (Voluntary) The P&C Executive Team require a Vice President Uniform Shop. The Uniform Shop is a small but busy business which is the sole provider of HPSS' authorised school uniform. As a part of the P&C

Executive Team this voluntary role involves working with our Uniform Shop Convenor Anna, a highly valued and highly experienced employee of the P&C Association. Alongside Anna, you will

be involved in ordering stock, making management decisions as come up from time to time, and being the representative of the P&C Association in regards all things associated with the Uniform Shop.

For a more detailed description of the voluntary role, if you have any enquiries or would like to

express your interest, please email [email protected] The P&C team look forward to hearing from interested people and hopefully having new members

join our team soon.

Tuckshop As we end another busy school term we would like to thank all our volunteers, that we would not operate the tuckshop without. The tuckshop can only offer the service we do with the help of those

generous parents that offer a few hours to help with preparing of lunches.

We would also like to thank Monica Brook for working in the tuckshop and appreciate all she has done to be able to offer the service that we do to the school community.

If you could offer to assist in the tuckshop next term please use the link below. https://signup.com/go/QHwjofw

Facebook

To keep up to date with events and other information join the HPSS Facebook page.

News From Holland Park Swim Club FRIDAY NIGHT SWIM CLUB

We had a great turn out at our sign-on day last Sunday and we are really excited for the season ahead. To join Swim Club for the 2021-2022 season, download and complete the form from the Holland Park Swim

Club website https://www.hollandparkswimclub.com/membership and email through to [email protected]. The Handbook is on the website and may help to answer your

questions. Swim Club starts on the first Friday night after the holidays, the 8th October. Gates open at

5.00pm and racing starts at 5.30pm.

If you are unsure whether swim club is for your family, come along any Friday for a free trial.



https://signup.com/go/QHwjofw

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Community Advertising Element Swimming will be offering a fantastic summer

swimming program at Holland Park State School pool for those interested in enrolling for term 4 this year. We cater for children learning to swim from the age of 4

right through to competitive squad swimmers or those who simply want to fine tune their skills for school

swimming carnivals. To enrol as a new family, please book a free 15min assessment via this link on our

website: https://www.elementswimming.com.au/assessments

All returning families, please complete the enrolment request form or get in touch via phone or email.

Our prices are below: Learn to Swim

$17 – 1 lesson per week $28 – 2 lessons per week (Further discounts for 3 or more lessons per week.)

Squads

$17 – 1 session per week $24 – 2 sessions per week

$33 – 3 sessions per week (Further discounts for 4 or more sessions per week.)

The Team at Element Swimming P: 1800 979 739

E: [email protected]

https://www.elementswimming.com.au/assessments


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The Department of Transport and Main Roads

invites you to apply for the position of a casual

position of a School Crossing Supervisor at

Holland Park State School.

1. Casual rate at $31.88 per hour;

maximum of 1.5 hours per day

2. Maximum of 7.5 hours per fortnight

3. You will need to be available morning

and/or afternoon on all school days

4. You will need to work in all weather

conditions and wear full Personal

Protective wear.

5. If you are successful TMR will provide:

a. Health Assessment

b. Blue Card (for working with

children)

c. Training

d. All personal protective

equipment

If interested, please contact Ann at

[email protected]


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