Congratulations to the following students who received a Well Done Award in Week 5:

Book Week

Book Week 2025 has been a joyful celebration of Australian children’s books! Thank-you parents, for helping your children prepare their creative costumes of book characters. They looked fabulous on the Book Week assembly – as did the wonderful Wilston staff!  Poem in Your Pocket Day on Friday gave us the chance to appreciate how poets use clever use of language and humour to engage an audience! If you would like to visit our library to enjoy the colourful displays and children’s artwork, please free to pop in before or after school next week.  

Author Visit Book Purchases

Ordering for Tristan Bancks books has closed online. Books should be delivered to the school early next week. Thanks to your support, we have added several extra copies of these very popular titles to our library as well!

Book Club Issue 6

Book Club issues have been distributed in class today. If you choose to purchase, please use the LOOP site  www.scholastic.com.au/loop  which allows you to order online and pay by credit card. We have a quicker turn around than usual this issue.  Issue 6 must close next Friday 5 September to ensure delivery before the holidays.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The Reading Challenge finished today! Please hand in all completed forms to the library on Monday next week so that children can receive a certificate from the Premier for their achievement.

Prep 2026 – Quickly Approaching!

On Wednesday afternoon, our dedicated Prep teachers met with over 150 enthusiastic future Prep parents to share valuable insights into what to expect in a Prep classroom. The session was filled with practical tips to help ensure a smooth and confident start to school life.

We were delighted to host this event in our new hall, where teachers outlined classroom routines and expectations, linking their advice to current research on the importance of fine motor skill development and how it supports learning in the classroom. Our Speech Therapist also provided helpful strategies for supporting oral language development at home through everyday activities like speaking, reading, and playing.

Another key focus of the session was building emotional literacy—helping children to recognise, understand, and manage their emotions as they prepare for the social environment of school.

Parents had the opportunity to ask questions and engage directly with our wonderful Prep team and left with a range of handouts packed with practical suggestions for preparing their child for a successful start to school.

A Reminder:
Prep interviews are a prerequisite for attending our Transition Morning. Invitations for interviews have been extended for another week. To secure your child’s best possible start to school, please book a short interview with our Early Years Deputy Principal, Lisa Boge.

We’re looking forward to welcoming our Prep 2026 families into our school community!

The Wilston Science Competition is being held in Term 3.  The aims of the competition include:

• stimulate an ongoing interest in science
• encourage students in the process of self-motivated project work
• recognise student effort and achievement
• improve student research, writing and presentation skills
• improve links between school, students and parents

The competition will be competitive but not compulsory to enter.  Students can enter in the following divisions:

Division 1: Prep and Years 1, 2

Division 2: Years 3, 4, 5

Division 3: Year 6

Students may enter individually, with a partner, or as a group of three, provided that when two or more students work together, all are eligible for entry in the same division.

Entries must be in one of the following categories:

1. Classified Collection
2. Scientific Investigation
3. Communicating Science
4. Mathematical Investigation
5. Models and Inventions
6. Environmental Action Project

Work at home will be necessary, and we ask that all parental assistance be acknowledged.  Entries close Thursday, 18 September 2025 (Term 3, Week 10).  A judging panel will judge the entries. Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd placegetters in each division.  Other entries may qualify for a Highly Commended certificate.  All students will receive a certificate of participation.  In addition, separate prizes will be awarded for a ‘Young Scientist of the Year’ (Divisions 2 and 3) and a ‘Junior Scientist of the Year’ (Division 1). Only Scientific Investigation entries are eligible for the Young/Junior Scientist of the Year prizes.

A competition handbook providing detailed information on all the entry categories, judging criteria entry/declaration forms is attached to the Wilston Weekly to download as a PDF. All queries should be directed to Mr Brendan Medlin (Science Teacher) (bmedl2@eq.edu.au).

Fete

T-7 days until the biggest date on the school calendar is here - the Wilston Fete is fast approaching and the anticipation of a mega fun (super sunny!) family day out is building. 

As this is the last newsletter before the big event, the P&C sends notice to our community of the incredible team making up our fete committee this year:

• Caroline Cawrse - Stalls Management
• Steve Donato - Logistics Legend 
• Karen McBryde - Comms Boss
• Sarah Ison - Entertainment Wrangler
• Johannah van der Tang - Food Vendor Marshall
• Sandra Goetz - Graphic Design Genius
• Renee Carloss - Graphic Design Luminary
• Jonathon Levey - Sponsorship Extraordinaire 

These superstars will be working hard next week to make Fete Day memorable for all students, families and the wider community who will be coming along on the day.  We have had an exceptional level of support from the school office in this mega-venture, and send Wilston-sized thanks to Kathryn O'Hara in particular for her weekly (sometimes daily) support of our committee requests.  The office team have been tireless in their support, coordinating the amazing volumes of donation drop offs and keeping the Wilston Wall at the office updated every week. Thank you. 

Families, now it's your turn. Once you have your sport finals or fixture timeslots in hand for next weekend, we would LOVE your help. Can you sign up to help for a brief 1.5hr timeslot? All stalls still need a few helpers, and we would love to see our families jumping on board to grow our community and donate some time, in between eats, rides, chats and games. Check out the spots still available in the roster and nab your preferred stall before that session closes! Looking forward to seeing you. 

Early bird pricing on the rides will close at 5pm Friday 22 August, but you can still get all-day rides passes and pre-paid cash cards on Munch Monitor up to and on fete day from the P&C stall. Raffle tickets are already selling well and information about the INCREDIBLE raffle prizes (so many prizes!) will be released next week.... All items purchased on Munch Monitor will make their way to your child next week or collected from the P&C Stall on fete day. If you need to discuss or make arrangements about pre-purchased items, please email office@wilstonss.eq.edu.au 

There is a lot of information coming up on the P&C social pages, or you can head to "info HQ" at wilstonpandc.org.au/fete. Still got questions? Send them through to fete@wilstonpandc.org.au

We can't wait to share this incredible festival with our community.  See you on the 30th! 

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