As we reach the end of Term 3 there are many highlights where students have had amazing opportunities to do their best.  

Year 4 and Year 5 Camps 

A big thank you to teachers and teacher aides who made up the year 5 and year 4 camp teams.  The Tinana SS community is very fortunate to have staff who can be away from their families to take out camps in years 4, 5 and 6.  Thank you to the P&C Association for their subsidy support for camps.   

 Tinana Live!  ’25.

This annual event is a celebration of extra-curricular Performing activities and the Instrumental Music program. What a wonderful opportunity for all students and made possible through many hours of work in these programs and a big day of rehearsal yesterday. A big congratulations to the award winners from Senior Performance Team, Strings, and Band.

Thank you to the Music Team; Ms Shaw (Senior Performance Team, Mrs Richardson (Band) and Mrs Robinson (Strings).  HOD Inclusion Mrs Quinn who coaches students for speech and drama.  Thank you also to Mrs Hooper as Stage Manager, assisted by past student volunteers and year 6 students. This year the backstage supervision and support team which this year was made up of Mr Marler, Mrs Topper, Mrs Madden, Mrs Ascough and Ms Kirsty.  All families of our performers should be very proud of their efforts  on stage and off stage during rehearsals and performance.

Our appreciation also goes to the Fraser Coast Shire Council for making the Brogla Theatre available for school events like these.  Lastly a big thank you to Ms Shaw for coordinating such a memorable event.

Yearbook Pre-order

Over the last few weeks, the Yearbook coordinator Mrs Naomi Scanes has been photographing students who have participated in representative sports in 2025. All families received an optional invoice to pay if they wish to  purchase a 2025 Yearbook. After the pre-order closing date, any unpaid invoices will be cancelled.

I wish all our families and staff a very restful holiday.We look forward to seeing students on Tuesday October 7. 

Regards

Janet Austen

Principal

• Friday 19th September -
  • Last Day Term 3
  • 8:50 P-6 Parade 

Term 4

• Monday 6th October - Kings Birthday Holiday 
• Tuesday 7th October - Term 4 Commences 
• Friday 10th October - P-6 Parade 
• Monday 13th October - Deadly Choices Girls Program Wks 2-9 Mondays 1-2pm. 
• Wednesday 15th October - 2pm Hall – Concert Band recruiting concert.  
• Sunday 26th October - P&C Golf Day
  
• Friday 14th November - Yearbook Pre-orders close 

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The safety and wellbeing of students are the highest priorities for the Department of Education and for the Queensland Government.

At Tinana State School we endeavour to contact a parent or carer via text message when a student's absence is unexplained after the first roll marking of the day.

As home and school work together, student safety will be increased. Here are some guidelines to make this process more efficient:

• Notify the school by phone, QParents or email before 9:00am if your student is going to be absent that day. Please give a brief explanation for the absence.
• If you receive a text message regarding an unexplained absence, please respond promptly, either via text, QParents or phone call.
• Please ensure that your mobile phone number and other contact details are up-to-date on the school records. This is critical, as we need to be able to contact you in case of emergency.
• If your student arrives late to school, they must go to the office for a late pass before going to their classroom. If they are leaving early, a leave pass must be obtained from the office.

This week parents and caregivers are able to download a form to provide feedback to assist with class planning for 2026. If students will be moving from Tinana State School at the end of the year (other than Year 6) we ask that the school be advised via this form. There is also a section for preference for educational settings.

The placement of children in an appropriate learning environment is taken very seriously at Tinana and there are many elements to take into consideration. One of the factors relates to parent/carer preferences for a particular educational environment. Parents have the opportunity to put in writing educational reasons for a specific learning environment. Whilst all requests will be considered it may not be possible to fill all preferences. Parent preferences are for placement in a learning environment and NOT for a specific teacher, as teachers for year levels will not be decided until all staffing at the school has been finalised.  Requests must be in writing and need to be addressed to the ‘Principal’ and handed into the office or email to principal@tinanass.eq.edu.au. These forms are due by Wednesday, October 8. No late requests will be accepted. 

Tinana P&C will be hosting a School Disco Friday 14th November 2025

in the Tinana State School Hall. 

LET YOUR KINDNESS GLOW

Glow themed disco (glow sticks to be confirmed...)

We will be holding advisory/ discussion meetings every second Monday in the staff room. 

9am (after drop off).

13th Oct, 27th Oct, 10th Nov

DISCO- 14th November 

First agenda is ideas and making a plan. 

Please send through any feedback from last year and any suggestions for this year.

Let me know if you know anyone else who would like to be included in the emails and invite your friends to the meetings as well. 
No effort too small. 

Thanks 
Bess & Mel

Bbrokenbrough@gmail.com

Parent volunteers welcome for helping on the night with door supervisors, canteen and sausage sizzle etc.

Hi everyone,

Well some great news, the Tuckshop is due to be completed this week, woohoo. It will still be a couple of weeks into term 4 before it reopens, as it all has to be reorganised, set-up and stocked again.

We are in need of some more volunteers and this is the perfect timing. Tuckshop is a great way to help the school, meet new people, chat with other parents and very importantly, be a hero to your children/grandchildren. It's not a difficult job I promise, Please message us if you are interested. If you know a current tuckshop volunteer, ask them what it's like.

As you maybe aware, to coincide with the Refurb, we are also renaming the tuckshop. This is opened to Staff and Students and the entry forms and boxes are located outside 1S and in the Library,

 the winner will receive a $15 tuckshop credit.

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