Victoria Park State School Newsletter - Week 6, Term 2, 2025
Principal's Report
We are officially past the halfway mark of Term 2, and are beginning to see students working hard on their assessments in their classrooms, ready to inform their Semester One Report Cards. The cooler weather is proving to be a nice change as we spend more time outdoors preparing for our Athletics Carnival in week 8.
Date Claimers
Our Junior Fun Carnival for students in P-2 will run from 8:50am to 10:50am on Tuesday June 10th. Field Events for nominated students will then run from 11:40am to 2:45pm. Our Athletics Track Events will run on Wednesday June 11th for all students over on our senior oval. Athletics Presentations will occur at 2pm in the hall on Wednesday June 11th.
Exciting times are ahead for many of our Yr 5 students who will head off on Yr 5 camp to Rockhampton and Yeppoon in week 9. Students will leave Monday morning 16th June and return Wednesday afternoon 18th June. We wish them well on their adventures!
The final date to mention here is the Mackay Show Holiday on Thursday, June 19th. Students are not required to attend school on this day.
Don't forget, all events get uploaded to our live calendar which can be accessed at any time here.
Communicating with your Child's School
Recently the Department of Education released new resources around Communicating with your Child's School. Designed to provide clear, consistent expectations across all schools, they provide guidance on how parents/carers can engage with their child's school. The summarised expectations for communicating with your child's school are below.
Visitors in the Grounds
Our Workplace Health and Safety committee has identified increasing concerns when it comes to visitors within the school grounds. Whilst we welcome parents on site, we keep careful track of who is present within our grounds to ensure the safety of our students and to make sure learning experiences remain free from distraction. For this reason, all parents who remain on the grounds after 9:00am and those who enter before 2:30pm are required to sign in at the office with the exception of tuckshop volunteers who use their own processes to sign in and out. We respectfully remind families that the grounds are off-limits to anyone except staff prior to 8:00am and after 3:10pm on weekdays and should not be accessed by anyone on the weekend. We request that parents waiting within the grounds after 9:00am and before 2:30pm refrain from interrupting lessons and keep interactions with students to a minimum. If you need to get a message to your child, this can be done by speaking with our friendly office staff. Thank you for your co-operation.
Access to Playground Equipment
Further tightening up our processes before and after school, we are reminding parents and caregivers that ALL playground equipment is out of bounds before and after school. Students have access to these at 1st and 2nd break during the day, when they are closely supervised by staff to ensure there are no accidents. Thank you for your assistance in keeping our children safe at all times.
Staffing Update
Mrs Mutton will be absent on medical leave for the remainder of Term 2. During this time, Mrs Whittington has been appointed as Victoria Park's Acting Principal. Applications are currently open for an Acting Deputy Principal to backfill Mrs Whittington's position.
Jenny Whittington,
A/ Principal
Celebrating Success
Rugby League
The Velociraptors tore up the field with an epic 8–4 win – pure prehistoric power! 
And the Vicious Pigs? Total domination with a 5–0 shutout – snorting their way to victory! 
Proud of our fierce footy legends – unstoppable, untamed, and totally awesome! 
Mackay Marina Run 2025
Sid’s Sluggers hit the pavement for the Mackay Marina Run! Tackling the 5km Corporate Challenge
"Next year we plan on getting more people involved and hopefully Sid the Pig will be joining us as well!"
A massive congratulations to Mrs Daniel (Prep A) who tackled the 10km and Mrs Elworthy and Mrs Goodman-Jones who concurred the 21km (Half Marathon) event!!
10km & Half Marathon
Students of the Week
Week 5
Prep A | For consistently demonstrating Week 5's PBL focus: Being a Learner. | |
Prep A | Clarc | For creating detailed illustrations to match class sentences. |
Prep B | Brielle | For using her big voice in class. |
Prep B | SJ | For outstanding behaviour and effort. |
Prep C | Sofia | Communicating confidently to give clear and specific instructions. |
Prep C | Zevi | Displaying more confidence to answer questions in class discussions. |
1B | Hazel | For showing an increase in confidence with sharing her thoughts during class discussions |
1B | Sheeneah | For completing parts of her Ice-Cream Sundae recipe |
1C | Chelsea | For amazing reading and showing such wonderful confidence. Keep shining! |
1C | Faith | For working so hard, growing more confident every day, and always being kind. Keep being you! |
1D | Ayva | For being a kind and conscientious member of our class. Well done, Ayva! |
1D | Matari | For your effort and participation during Maths lessons. You are a Maths whiz! |
2A | Isaiah | For showing greater focus and responsibility in the classroom. Keep it up, Isaiah! |
2A | Tristan | For contributing thoughtfully to classroom discussions during HaSS. Well done, Tristan. |
2B | Lachlan | For working hard and contributing ideas during maths groups. |
2C | Kaylee | For such great imagination in your demand writing. I always enjoy reading what you come up with! |
2C | Quincy | Working hard to recount the story effectively during our genre writing. Well done. |
2/3 | Lylah | For trying hard to complete all her learning activities this week. Great work Lylah! |
2/3 | Maisie | For being an independent learner and working hard in her maths mentals. Great work Maisie! |
3A | Kayston | For always having a go and attempting each task to the best of his ability. Keep up the good work! |
3A | Regan | For amazing work with extended number fact families in Maths. |
3B | Joseph | For working so hard on your maths assessment task! |
3/4 | Jada | For always being a determined and respectful class member. |
3/4 | Zoey | For settling in well to your new school and being a wonderful addition to our class. |
4A | Jakson | For following instructions and completing his English writing. Well Done! |
4A | Always having a happy, kind attitude towards everyone. | |
4B | Mason | For always bringing his A game to school - respectful, responsible and focused! |
4B | Serena | Deep thinking and clever connections in History!! |
4C | Deacon | For your persistence and being open to try new strategies to solve maths problems. |
4C | Shelby | For your insightful contributions to our maths lessons. Keep up the good work. |
5A | Bentley | For your thoughtful working behaviours during our science assessment task. Impressive! |
5A | Tailor | For your contributions during carpet time. Great effort! |
5B | Liam | For your outstanding work and diligent approach to your Science assessment poster. |
5B | Sch’mar | For always coming to school with a positive attitude, beautiful manners and eagerness to learn. |
5/6M | Rishan | Always giving his best and working hard during assessment time. |
5/6M | Trey | Superstar work and effort on his assessments about Ned Kelly. |
5/6S | Archie | For outstanding discussion and effort creating creatures with adaptations for his science assessment. |
6B | Codey | For working hard on your class tasks, despite absences making it tricky! Keep up your hard work! |
6C | Flynn | For demonstrating a positive attitude towards his learning. |
Week 6
Prep A | Edgar | For magnificent results on your Term 2 Initial Lit assessment. |
Prep A | Lain | For trying hard during your Mrs Wishy Washy assessment. |
Prep B | Abel | Great work achieving your counting goals. |
Prep B | Elijah | Fantastic effort during writing activities. |
Prep C | Jasper | For working hard to be a good listener and a four star learner. |
Prep C | Nate | For working with his class and being a learner. |
1A | James | For great efforts with his recipe writing. |
1A | Lucas | For great efforts with his recipe writing. |
1B | Jonty | Great knowledge about frogs shown during reading assessment |
1B | Rafael | Great independent reading! |
1C | Alice | For finding your confidence and lighting up our classroom every day with your beautiful smile! |
1C | Angus | For being a responsible class member who works hard and always brings a great attitude. |
1D | Hayleigh | For working hard to complete your writing assessment. Great work, Hayleigh! |
1D | Zeke | For working hard on your assessments and being a kind and caring friend! |
2A | Adele | For improved confidence while completing writing tasks. Well done, Adele! |
2A | Constance | For being such a kind and reliable helper in the classroom. Great work, Constance! |
2B | Adeline | For showing great persistence during her reading assessment. |
2C | Archer | For trying very hard during his spelling test last week! Well done. |
2C | Hayden | For always giving his work 100% and participating in class activities. |
3A | Brodie | For always trying his best to complete tasks with a positive attitude. Well done! |
3A | Laney | For being a kind and helpful person both in and out of the classroom. |
3B | Laura | Amazing effort at sports nominations! |
3/4 | Chase | For a huge improvement in making great choices in the playground. |
3/4 | Elijah | For being a runner and a track star! |
4B | Himaru | Great effort writing your letter from a convict! |
4B | Zahra | Awesome effort with tricky Maths problems. Keep it up Zahra! |
4C | Anje | For showing an exceptional work ethic, tackling every task with enthusiasm and without hesitation. |
4C | Sahree | For working hard and taking the initiative to use your resources to improve your creative writing. |
5A | Nakia | For your amazing efforts starting your science research task. Keep it up! |
5A | Zara | For always bringing your positive attitude and smile to the classroom. You are appreciated! |
5B | Heidi | For consistently achieving high results in your weekly spelling test! |
5B | Lake | For working hard researching and collecting information for your Science Assessment! |
5/6M | Jhenarie | Consistently working hard on all assessment tasks. |
5/6S | Peter | For being persistent and putting in 100% effort on all given tasks. |
6B | Tina | For being a respectful, hard worker, and always being kind and helpful to others. |
6C | Arielle | For consistently displaying effort and a great attitude towards learning. |
Date Claimers
Don't forget that you can find key dates in our live calendar linked below in addition to our weekly 'what's happening' card on SZapp.
Your children are getting VERY excited because the Twilight Concert is on Thursday.
This email has just a few reminders for the concert.
All instrumental children (band, strings and guitar) are to be at the hall by 4.30pm. This way they can all be tuned before the concert so that can watch the other groups. All instruments and cases will be kept in the hall.
Choir children should meet at 4.45pm.
I am hoping that everyone has their uniforms sorted out. If not let me know as soon as possible. (black trousers can be hired for $5 cash)
Please remember if your child is in the choir, they must wear choir uniforms.
Uniforms are
Choir | Concert Band/ String Ensemble | Guitars/ Beginner Band and Strings |
Choir shirt BLUE shorts/skorts/skirts WHITE Socks BLACK Shoes BLUE hair things | WHITE shirt BLUE vest BLACK trousers BLACK socks BLACK shoes BLUE hair things | BEST school uniform (not sports or yr6 shirts) WHITE socks BLACK shoes |
Program is
5.00pm Guitars
5.15pm Beginner Band and Concert Band
5.30pm Beginner Strings and String Ensemble
5.45pm Fanfare Choir
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Martina and Jen
Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)
PBL Goals of the Week
Below are our two PBL goals for this fortnight;
- Keeping hands & feet to ourselves
- Following instructions
School Improvement
Our Strategic Plan 2023 - 2026
Our 2023-2026 strategic plan encourages us to R.I.S.E. to the challenge;
R – Responsive Curriculum. We want to ensure that our curriculum is relevant to our local kids, is responsive to modern educational trends and is interesting for our students.
I – Innovative Instruction. We want to capitalise on being Mackay’s first school with laptop classes to ensure that through the use of engaging teaching approaches and clever use of digital technology, every lesson is exciting and engaging for our students.
S – Strengthened Systems. Our 2022 school review revealed that there are strong systems in place with regards to how we operate at VPSS. In deference to the great work that has come before, we want to ensure that we strengthen these to continue our great progress.
E – Expert Educators. We want to ensure that our kids at Victoria Park are learning from the very best educators and have committed to facilitating this.
End of Semester Report Cards
In delivering a responsive curriculum, students undertake units of work across each term that culminate in summative assessment tasks that collectively inform the achievement results on end of semester report cards. Accordingly, what you see reflected on report cards is the product of lots of learning across the entire semester. Students receive an achievement and effort result for each learning area in addition to a result for behaviour. At Victoria Park State School, additional comments are provided for behaviour as well as one comment that reflects the general achievement of our learners. The scales used for report cards in Queensland State Schools are included below. Semester 1 report cards will be issued via email on Wednesday June 25th.
Health & Safety
From the P&C
Victoria Park State School is lucky to have an incredible Parents and Citizens Association. Here you can find out all about what our committee is up to. We very much encourage anyone and everyone to get involved - many hands make light work!
P&C Meetings are held every 2nd Wednesday at 3pm or 6pm.
Old style sports shirts further price reduction 
Order on Flexischools today or pop into the uniform shop Monday mornings or Wednesday afternoons.
$10 while stock lasts, making room for new design expected end July.
(Please note new design shirt prices will be at regular price of $35 each and in first wave will be limited to 1 shirt per child).
Contact Us
Phase Leaders
To ensure we get to know each and every one of our students, each member of our school leadership team oversees a cohort of students. 'Phase Leaders' are the next step to resolving an issue after the classroom teacher has been contacted.
ECDP Phase Leader: Ms Roanna Capone - ecapo4@eq.edu.au
Prep Phase Leader: Mrs Kristi Elworthy - kelwo2@eq.edu.au
Year 1 Phase Leader: Ms Roanna Capone - ecapo4@eq.edu.au
Year 2 Phase Leader: Mrs Kristi Elworthy - kelwo2@eq.edu.au
Year 3 Phase Leader: Mrs Jenny Whittington - jwhit211@eq.edu.au
Year 4 Phase Leader: Mrs Jenny Whittington - jwhit211@eq.edu.au
Year 5 Phase Leader: Mrs Sarah Mutton - samut0@eq.edu.au
Year 6 Phase Leader: Mrs Sarah Mutton - samut0@eq.edu.au
Phone conversations or appointments to speak to Phase Leaders can be made by calling the office (4951 6333).
Staff List
Email addresses for all teaching staff can be found below. We ask that parents respect teachers' right to disconnect outside of work hours and be reminded that emails may not always be answered immediately - especially during the day when teachers are teaching. Urgent messages should instead be communicated to the office via a phone call (4951 6333).
Staff Contact List: https://victoriaparkss.schoolzineplus.com/staff-email-list
Victoria Park Community Noticeboard
