Increase in trespassing over weekends

Unfortunately, over the weekend the school has been the target of multiple trespassing incidences. Fortunately, we were able to get clear visual images of the offenders and this information was shared with police officers during the week. The school has invested a large sum of money into surveillance cameras and they are starting to pay for themselves. It is important that these persons realise that the images are hard evidence that places them into the crimes they are committing within our school. We will not tolerate these senseless acts. Hopefully as the word gets out and persons are charged then they will think twice about coming into our school grounds. Can I ask families to continue to monitor movements around our school on the weekend and report to School Watch or the QPS immediately.

School Activities

Over the last few weeks we have enjoyed many school activities and events. We started the term with an exciting and engaging Arts Council titled “The Forgotten Warrior”. This event and workshop went over two days and were attended by all local primary schools. The Indigenous perspectives included were a great alignment to the NAIDOC celebrations held over the school holidays. Can I thank Julie Keane from NQ Bulk Ports for organising funding from NQ Bulk Ports to support Bowen State School hosting this event. I would also like to thank Karenne Williams our school CEC who worked on the planning and organisation. A visit from Livio Regano and the Seven-Weather team was a highlight for our year 5 & 6 students. Check out the segment on the Seven plus app.

Last Saturday we hosted many new and existing families for our annual Prep Open Morning. We were delighted to see so many families. Staff who attended noted the great opportunity for families and future prep students to network, see inside the classrooms and tour the school.  Information has been shared with all the local kindies and we are looking forward welcoming our future Prep students throughout our transition program that has been timetabled for the rest of the year.

ARD Visit

Next week on Tuesday we will be hosting some special guests at Bowen State School. Helen McCullough - Assistant Regional Director ARD, Sue Currin - Assistant Regional Director ARD and Kylie Smith - Regional Executive Director RED. We will be visiting classrooms and looking forward to talking to students and teachers about their current work and priorities for 2022. This will be Kylie and Sue’s first visit to our school and we are looking forward to sharing the outstanding work here!

I look forward to sharing more great stories around the teaching and learning this term. Until next fortnight have a great couple of weeks.

Christien Payne

Principal

I believe in: Hard Work Honesty Transparency