13th June 2025
IMPORTANT DATES
- Wednesday, June 18- Wear your State of Origin Colours
- Friday, June 20- Crazy Hair Day, Gold coin donation
- Monday, June 23 – 800m for Year 4-6
- Tuesday, June 24 – Senior Sports Day
- Wednesday, June 25 – Junior Sports Day
- Friday, June 27 – Under 8's Day
- Friday, June 27 – Final day of Term 2
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
Last week I wrote to inform parents and carers that I had been offered, and accepted, a 6-month secondment to the Principal School Review team in Central Office. The position commences next semester and may be extended. The role will require me to visit schools across the state to complete school reviews. Whilst I am excited about this opportunity, I am also sad to be stepping away from our great school. However, I know that our school is in great hands, is on a positive trajectory and this will continue in my absence. An expression of interest process is currently taking place to identify my replacement. I will inform everyone as soon as this process is finalised.
3-6 Playground
Work on our new Year 3-6 playground should commence in the holidays. The initial work will be the earthworks and retaining. The playground will be on the upper grassed area, between the Year 5 Building and the Hall. It is hoped that the work will be finalised a couple of weeks into Term 3.
Painting over the holidays
Our classrooms will be getting a makeover during the school holidays. Classrooms will be painted internally and externally to brighten them up in advance of Term 3.
Health Practitioner
Our school has been selected as one of twenty primary schools across the state to have a Health Practitioner placed in them. The Health Practitioner will visit our school for a day a week, commencing in Term 3. Parents will be able to make appointments for their child/ren to see the Nurse Practitioner. Parents will need to accompany their child to the appointment. As part of this, some work will be occurring to the internal space of one end of the Treehouse to set up it up as a medical space.
Colour Fun Run
The Browns Plains State School Colour Fun Run has been booked in for Friday, September 12, 2025. Around this time, a number of local schools hold their fun runs and as a result, purchasing a plain white shirt often becomes challenging. Be ready in advance and buy a white shirt now!
School Priorities
This year, our 3 priorities are:
1. Staff and Student Wellbeing
2. English – Structured Literacy
3. Mathematics
All the best!
Mr Poulter
FROM THE DEPUTY
Under 8’s Day - Friday, 27th June from 10am to 1pm.
Excitement is building for this year’s Under 8’s Day for students in Prep, Year 1 and Year 2. Each year this is a fabulous community event and a celebration of learning in the first years of school. Families of these students are most welcome to attend. Just a reminder that this event is only for students from Prep to Year 2 and older students/siblings will not attend.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Enrol for Prep 2026
Enrolment have begun for Prep students for 2026. Do you have a child born between July 1st, 2020 and June 30th, 2021? Enrolment packs are now available from the office. GET SET FOR PREP transition days will be held in Term 4. This is an important opportunity to support a comfortable and confident start to Prep. Book a time for your enrolment interview as places will fill quickly.
Jellybean Playgroup
Come and join us Wednesdays – 9:15-10:45 am in the hall room. At playgroup, your child can:
• enjoy early learning activities
• develop friendships and social skills
• build school readiness
. . . as well as a great opportunity to meet and share with other parents
Kindergarten is a part-time educational program for children in the year before Prep. Kindy is 15 hours per week, 40 weeks per year and is free for Queensland children attending a government-approved kindergarten program.
In Kindy, children have great opportunities to make friends, explore new environments, build confidence and have fun learning. Kindy offers meaningful experiences and interactions that support your child's early learning, wellbeing and development and give them a great start to school.
You can find more information about free Kindy programs here.
Leesa Warwick,
Deputy Principal
FROM THE DEPUTY
Learning in Action Across the Classrooms
This fortnight, our classrooms have been buzzing with purposeful learning and engaging opportunities for students to showcase their growing knowledge and skills.
One beautiful example came from 5B, who were excited to receive a surprise letter from Miss Loughran, their Term 1 teacher. Student’s in 5B had written a personal letter to Miss Loughran, communicating their learning journey so far this term and asking thoughtful questions. In return, Miss Loughran wrote a letter to the class, which brought smiles to many faces. A big thank you to Mrs Sodenkamp for strategically designing this authentic writing task to extend students’ understanding of compound and complex sentences, paragraphing, and creative writing—all within a meaningful, real-world context.
As part of my regular classroom visits, it was a pleasure to see students deeply engaged in both their learning and assessment tasks over the past two weeks. A particular highlight was my visit to 4B, where students were participating in their Number Daily Review. The focus was on multiplication strategies, including doubling, double-doubles, and multiplying by 5s. What stood out most was not just the accuracy of their answers, but the confidence with which students were able to explain the most efficient strategy they used to reach their solution. Keep up the great work, 4B!
Theresa Kooyman,
Deputy Principal
FROM THE HEAD OF DEPT - STUDENT SERVICES
Congratulations to the classes listed below for their attendance over the last fortnight.
Absences
Please ensure your children are at school every day if they are well. If your child is absent from school, provide a reason for their absence using one of the methods listed below.
- Phone: 07 3809 6222
- Reply to the text message sent by the school on the day of your child’s absence
- Return the Unexplained Absence letter with a reason and signature
Unexplained Absence letters are generated and distributed to students each fortnight. These letters provide dates of your child’s absences which have not already been explained. If you receive one, please fill in the reason/s for your child's absence/s, sign and have your child return it to their class teacher. Please work with us to reduce the number of unexplained absences in 2025!
Chaplaincy Week
Chaplaincy Week was in Week 6 and is an annual celebration of school chaplains and the role they play in supporting the school community. This term we welcomed Chappy Lachlan to our team. He works Monday - Wednesday and is based in the Wellbeing Hub. Chappy Lachlan spends most of his time supporting in the classroom, checking in, engaging in games at break times and having one-on-one sessions with students who have consent. Chappy has helped run our second-hand uniform stall this term and helps to run Breakfast Club each morning. We're very grateful to have him here at Browns Plains State School.
Jess Galbraith,
HOD-Student Services
P&C
ADMINISTRATION NEWS
HAVE YOU REGISTERED FOR Q-PARENTS YET?
Thank you to the families who have registered for Q-Parents. Starting from Term 3 2025, all consents for school related forms, for examples, excursion consent forms and student resource scheme participation agreement, will be done through QParent, no hardcopies will be given to families. If you have not registered for Q-Parents please register ASAP.
QParents is a free and secure online application that enables Queensland state schools to provide parents with digital access to various student data and administrative functions, including:
- view upcoming events
- access and provide digital consent
- view and update attendance details (including future absences)
- view and pay invoices
- access payment history
- access report cards
- access enrolment history.
If you are having issues with uploading your ID when registering, please email your documents to admin@brownsplainsss.eq.edu.au
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 3809 6222 or admin@brownsplainsss.eq.edu.au so we can update our records. These details include parent/carer’s name, address, phone numbers, email address and emergency contact details. Please remember to contact the school if any of these details change.
Absence notification process
- Please remember to call the school on 3809 6222 or email at admin@brownsplainsss.eq.edu.au early in the morning if your child is going to be away or late for school so your child’s absence can be recorded correctly.
Same day notification
- Our school will contact parents as soon as practicable on the day if a student is not at school and we don’t know why. If you are advised by the school that your child is away without a reason, please contact us as soon as possible by 3809 6222 to let us know where your child is. We will follow-up with parents if no response is received.
FINANCE NEWS
Payment Options Available:-
BPoint
Visit:- www.bpoint.com.au/payments/dete and complete steps CRN can be found at the bottom of your statement.
Eftpos
Finance Window open Wednesday and Thursday 8am -10.00am.
CONTACT DETAILS
It is important that your contact details are up to date. This can be overlooked sometimes but can be easily updated on our website.
COMMUNITY NEWS
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