Did you know we are recruiting great leaders here at Bowen State School?

I wanted to share some fantastic news. I can now inform our school community that Ms Rebecca Cremona has won the temporary Deputy Principal position at Bowen State School for 2024. Rebecca is an experienced teacher who is currently a Deputy Principal within the Project 1000 regional role in Mount Isa. 11 DPs were appointed on a three-year contract and placed into the Mount Isa schools as a part of a response to the literacy gaps in the early years within that community.

Rebecca has been leading the key work in her current school with reading through the Australian Curriculum being her target project. Rebecca has worked closely alongside teachers to make the impact required and she shared many success stories in her interview.

Rebecca is currently driving the Mount Isa Early Years Network and works collaboratively across the community. She has a strength and passion for the Early Years. Rebecca is looking forward to transferring her skills and experience across to our school and the key work within our Explicit Improvement Agenda. A statement I recall Rebecca sharing with the panel was her values of trust and strong relationships with the teachers, parents and students she works with. I am looking forward to Rebecca and her family's arrival to Bowen and seeing the positive impact she will bring to our school.

I would ask the whole Bowen State School community to welcome Rebecca as you see her at the 'Meet and Greet' next year on Friday 19th Jamuary.

In Visual Arts this term, Prep D have been exploring, making and responding to artworks that show weather and feelings. The students had to create a weather collage using colours and materials to represent the type of weather chosen and the feelings of the people in their artworks. We used light and dark coloured paints, torn coloured paper and scrunched crepe paper streamers to create our beautiful weather masterpieces!’

This term 1W have been busy. We followed a recipe to make fairy bread. We created a musical toy in Science. We even interacted with Harold when the Life Ed van visited us. Here are some happy snaps.

The pressure has been lifted from the students in 2M as all official assessments for the year have been completed. Yay! Despite this, they are still working hard on fundamental math and English skills such as number facts and phonics to ensure they are finishing the year strong with the required skills needed to be successful learners.

Students in 5M have been working collaboratively to design and build a bridge as part of the Design and Technology unit this term. Students were tasked to work in a small group to create a bridge that spans a gap of 50cm and supports the weight of a moving toy car. Due to the strength of many students’ bridges the class decided to see not only how many toy cars the bridges could hold, but how many water bottles and heavy books it could hold before collapse. Students did an amazing job!

On Tuesday 14th Nov the Juggling Team performed at the Uniting Church Fellowship meeting. They were accompanied by the Grade 6 dance group. The performance was a huge success, but we needed a bigger stage! The team looked great in their new juggling shirts.

On Friday 24th November the team will be on tour. It will be a fun filled, full on day with the team visiting three schools- Proserpine, Cannonvale and Saint Catherine’s. The students are looking forward to demonstrating their skills to other communities.

Our last performance for the year will be at the Bowen Community Christmas Carols on Saturday 25th November.

Recently we held our annual Colour Fun Run which is the P&C’s major fundraising event for the year. Our fundraising goal was $10000 and we are happy to announce that through your fundraising and participation we raised over $13000.

Unfortunately, 40% of all money raised goes back to the School Fun Run organisation however we will bank just over $8500. This year all profits are being donated directly to the school and will be used to update upper school reading resources. $8500 will certainly go a long way to assist the school in purchasing reading resources. 

As always, the event was well attended by the students of Bowen State. This year we changed the structure of the day by introducing a minimum participation fee of $5 p/student or $10 p/family.  The implementation of the participation fee meant we raised more money at this year’s Colour Fun Run than any other year since they began in 2019. 

Our Highet fundraiser for 2023 was Jax McDonald who raised at total of $750.

Our Grandmaster fundraisers were Grace Ryle, Darcy Aspinall, Jax McDonald and Westly Town and the Highest Fundraising Class was PD who collectively raised $2282.00. Congratulations, to all students who participated and raised money for our school.

Lastly, a massive thank you to Mr Dunn, administration, teachers, teacher aides, students and their families as the success of the day would not have been possible without the support of each and every one of you.