A big thank you to everyone who assisted in some way. A special mention to the all staff officials, grounds and admin staff and the parents and SSC students who helped in timekeeping and general duties during the day - a fantastic effort! Finally, thank you to Troy and Jodie Chandler of TJs Swim for their expertise with pool/event set up and recording to ensure our carnival ran as well as it did, despite late student entries and changes to their events throughout the day, your ability to be inclusive and flexible to cater for our students' participation is much appreciated.

Also thank you to our College community for your understanding and patience with decisions made regarding various events and COVID-19 restrictions. As a parent myself, I can certainly share with you all the frustrations of missing some of these special memories.

From the results of this carnival, our Concordia Lutheran College team members were selected to compete at the Toowoomba Central Zone Carnival (Years 3-7) at Glennie Aquatics on Wednesday 17 February. While this carnival also faced restrictions, it is great to see these carnivals going ahead and everyone working together to ensure this happens for all our sporting programs for 2021. 

Results
Congratulations to the following Age Champions and the winning House for 2021:

• 1st place – ALTUS 
• 2nd place – KESSLER
• 3rd place – STEDMAN

OPEN 100m – Distance Event Champions
Male - Harrison Ackland
Female - Sofie Osborne

2021 Swimming Age Champions

GIRLS:

BOYS:

Ash Wednesday Service 
As we enter the period of Lent, our conversation at our Service was all about “Stop, Look, Listen, Think”. Jesus 40 days before Easter in the desert. During that time, he took time to “Stop, Look, Listen, Think”. Lent is a time that we can do the same. Life is busy… just check out the Week in Review to see how busy it is at school. Lent gives us a reminder to stop and simplify our life. Talk a walk, swing, read, sit under a tree, watch an ant, anything slow and quiet which gives us time to reflect, be thankful, think of others, pray, and improve our connections with our Lord and others. During this time, we encourage you to take time to “Stop, Look, Listen, Think”. 

Week 4 in Review 
Literacy, Life Ed Van, Founders Cake, Maths, Drone lessons, History, Year 3 Strings, PE, Pancake Day, PMP, Ash Wednesday, Chess, Fun and Friendship, Year 5 Strings, Science, Cycle Safety, Art, Casey Caterpillar Handwriting, Gardening, Tennis, Speaking Programs, Class Cupcake Party, Zone Swimming, Year 6 Breakfast and Leadership Day, Friday inter-school sport… no wonder we all need a weekend to rest! Check it out in the video below. 

Morning Supervision 
Students with siblings on the CLC bus in the mornings are welcome to come to Reception from 7.50am. All other students, our supervision begins from 8am. Please do not enter the school grounds unless the drop off/pick up gate has been opened by a present staff member. 

Student Absentees 
Please remember that an important part of our legal requirements and duty of care to the safety of our students, we require you to let us know if students are going to be absent or late. You may do this via Parent Lounge or an email to AdminHSC@concordia.qld.edu.au. We cannot take a message through the student as notification. 

Late Arrivals 
If your child arrives after 8.30am, please get them to go through Reception so that we are aware that they have arrived. Teachers mark their rolls at 8.35am and cannot change the roll. The only persons that can then mark them as present is Reception. 

Student Council and Hume Street Service Leadership 
Our HSC Student Council began meeting this week. As a Hume Street Campus we have several Service Leadership opportunities being planned for this term. I would encourage you to talk with your children and decide as a family which one/s you would like to support. It is unusual for us to have so many, however, they are all personal to our campus and therefore we would like to be a part of as many as we are able. 

• Bully No Way Day and Crazy Sock Day – 19 March. Crazy Sock Day is to support Downs Syndrome and we have a student in kindy whom we would like to recognise and support. This will be a day where the students will be able to wear orange and crazy socks and if possible, bring a gold coin for Down Syndrome Australia. 
• Superhero Day – we will be celebrating our very own hero, Eve. In her leukaemia journey this year, she has been an absolute hero. We will be making the capes and decorating them at school. We encourage your children to bring a gold coin donation for this event and this will go towards the Leukaemia Foundation. 
• Rosie's Appeal - Hume Street Kindy are supporting an appeal for Rosie's. Rosie's support and provide meals for the homeless. The kindy are collecting bottles of cordial, juice and long life mild to donate to Rosie's. If you would like to also donate for this appeal, please bring your donations to HSC Reception.  
• P&F Colour Explosion Fun Run – 30 March. This has become an annual fun event. Please see information below about this. 
• Year 4 Project for the Homeless – we will hear more about this later in the term. Due to the busyness of this term, the Year 4 project will culminate with a PJ Day early in Term 2. 

Class Parent Reps 
We love our Parent Reps and have a couple of classes missing one. If you would like to self-nominate, please read the attached document and get in contact with either Mrs Juanetta Priest or your classroom teacher. We would love to have at least one per class and two is even better. 

Parent Representatives Letter of Welcome

Prep –  
Year 1 –  
Year 2 –
Year 3 – Tegan Charchar 
Year 4 – Sasha Dolley 
Year 5 – Lorinda Talbot 
Year 6 –  

Campus Photo Day 
The date for our Campus photos has changed from the date on our calendar. It is now on Monday 22 March. Please ensure your child/ren in Years 2-6 are in the formal uniform, complete with CLC socks and black shoes. Students in Prep and Year 1 will wear their Sports Uniform. 

Prep 2022 
Interviews for Prep 2022 will begin soon. Don’t forget to ensure your 2022 Prep student is enrolled.  

Toowoomba Rates Notice
If you were fortunate enough to receive a Free Plant Voucher with your rates notice this week and do not want this voucher, we would love to collect it. Our students are always looking to extend our planting program and these vouchers can help us considerably.

Click here to view HSC's Events for Week 5.

Mrs Juanetta Priest 
Director of Campus

How do prizes work? Help your child fundraise more by setting a prize goal! It’s okay if they change their mind – you order their exact prizes later. You can order your child’s prizes online at myprofilepage.com.au by Friday 9 April . Alternatively, complete the back page of your sponsorship booklet when you return your cash donations. Students can choose a prize based on the total amount of dollars raised, or mix and match smaller prizes.

Share in $200,000 worth of extra prize credit! Achieve bigger prizes by helping your child earn bonus credit on their online profile. By reaching fundraising milestones online, you can share in $200,000 of extra prize credit!  

Become a Fundraising MonSTAR! Collect all virtual badges on your online profile page and receive your own Fundraising MonSTAR bag tag.

Class Reward Prize. Teamwork counts! If your class creates the most online profile pages each student will receive a Fundraising MonSTAR handball.

FundRazor of the Year Award. Do you think you can top the national leader board? Australia’s highest fundraising student in Australia will win a Razor Prize Pack, worth $4,900!

If you have any questions about the Colour Explosion School Fun Run please contact the office of Australian Fundraising on 1300 133 022. Thanks for supporting our school and we hope to see you at the event.

Happy fundraising!

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly a school year gets under way, and as I look through the class posts on Seesaw, I can see the students in each class are already busy at work. I have enjoyed spending some time this last couple of weeks with our Year 5 and 6 teachers as they begin the Maths Pathways program with their students. 

Maths Pathways delivers an engaging and personalised program for each student so they are able to learn at their pace. This program is new to the Junior College this year, but has been implemented at Stephen Street Campus for some time now. Our teachers are fortunate to be able to work with our colleagues at SSC to enable a smooth transition to this new way of learning for our Year 5 and 6 students. After discussions with our students the general consensus is the Maths Pathways has been the best thing about starting Year 5 and 6 this year. 

One of the most enjoyable parts of my job is working alongside our Campus Captains and Year 6 leaders each year. Our Campus Captains Chloe and Annabelle have many exciting and creative ideas of things that they would like to see happen at WSC. We look forward to sharing some of these ideas with the students in the near future.

Hairstyles

Recently we have noticed many new and creative haircuts arriving at school. As per the Uniform Guide, please note the following:

• Hair must be tidy, groomed and not touching the collar. No shaved hairstyles.
• Hair ties must match the student’s hair colour or College uniform (navy, white, red and yellow are acceptable colours).

If you would like any further information, the Uniform Guide can be located on Parent Lounge. Thank you for your assistance and support with this. 

Rates Plant Vouchers
It's rates time in Toowoomba and you would have received a plant voucher with your notice. If you have no need for the voucher, consider donating it to Concordia where it will be put to very good use!

Click here to view WSC's Events for Week 5.

Blessings for the week ahead.

Mrs Jackie Minnikin
Director of Campus

Students are also encouraged to get involved with Student Council Mural competition with students encouraged to draw, design, photograph or create a mural for our new banners in the quad at Stephen Street Campus. Entries are due in Term 2, Week 2. 

There will be a number of competitions and creative opportunities available to students during 2021, including workshops, exhibitions, and public art competitions. Creative student volunteers are needed for Open Day on 27 March. Students are encouraged to sign up for a one-hour timeslot between 9am-12noon. Students who volunteer must not already be part of the all-day production rehearsal. See me or M-Block noticeboard for more details. 

Ms Holly Kiehne
Visual Art Teacher

University Roadshow 

Last Friday 12 February, our Year 12 students attended the University Roadshow at Stephen Street Campus. The session was hosted by visiting Universities and Institutions, including a presentation, followed by an opportunity for the students to speak to representatives at their booth. The following Universities and Institutions were in attendance: 

• Bond University 
• Griffith University 
• Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre 
• Queensland University of Technology 
• University of New England 
• University of Queensland 
• University of Southern Queensland 
• University of the Sunshine Coast 
• James Cook University 

The students should be congratulated for positively engaging in the session and the way they spoke with the university hosts. 

Date Claimers: 

• Monday 22 March – Year 10 into Year 11 Information Evening 
• Wednesday 24 March – Year 10 Speed Interviews 
• Monday 10 to Friday 14 May – Year 10 Work Experience 

Mrs Leah Bowes
Senior College Careers Advisor

As our children get older and navigate their way through the high school years and we encourage them to increase their own independence, as a parent, it gets harder to establish new connections and friendships. Our own lives become increasingly busier due to the commitments of our young adults. More parents return to the workforce once their children hit high school, and because we tend  ‘drop off and go’, we lose that connectivity from chatting with other families in the playground. Unless you have the established networks achieved from primary school, as a new parent especially, it can be hard to make those connections and form friendships. I know when my eldest commenced at Concordia eight years ago, I didn’t know anyone here and I had to step out of my comfort zone to put myself out there - and it was hard. I would chat to parents at a sporting events where he was representing the school only to realise I was in fact, talking to parents of the opposing team because initially I didn’t know who was who (hahaha, I had to laugh at that one). So the way I connected was via our P&F. I’d volunteer at events, came along to meetings and then over the years as my children established their friendship groups, mine grew and followed. It is hard as a parent of a high school student – and it is especially hard for a new parent/family to our community. So with this in mind, we are going to trial something new – off-campus.

P&F Connections – at this stage, once a month - by way of Friday night drinks, just for a couple of hours after work. Parents can come along for one drink on their way home from work or dropping their children off at an event (be it sport or their casual job), and can stay for however long they desire, (it could even be the pre-amble to a date night). We are currently working with a couple of venues to establish what we can and can’t do under COVID-19 guidelines and hopefully should have some further information to share with you over the next few days. Drinks will be a cash bar (buy your own) and we are hoping to put on some finger food (courtesy of the SSC P&F). So please keep an eye on the Concordia App for further details for the date and time of our first event (which we are hoping will be next Friday 26 February). To those Year 10 parents, why not swing by too after you have dropped your child off at Picnic Point?

If you have any ideas for fundraising, a question or concern you need help with, please feel free to email us at SSCPF@concordia.qld.edu.au.

Have a fabulous week ahead and we look forward to connecting with you soon.

Mrs Hazel Buckley
Chair SSC P&F Committee