Ironside State School

🎽🌈 Student Council Spirit Day! 🌈🎽

To get excited for next week’s Athletics Carnival, Student Council is inviting everyone to wear their house colours for our Spirit Day!

Show your house pride, cheer on your teammates, and help create a fun and positive atmosphere across the school.

Staff have been assigned a house to support for the year… except for Ms Kelly, who will be proudly supporting all houses and all teams! 😊

Let’s see a sea of colour across the school and build excitement for an amazing Athletics Carnival!

💙❤️💚💛 Go Team Ironside! 💛💚❤️💙

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What’s been happening in and around the school as well as behind the scenes…

Newsletter - Term 2, Week 6: Principal's Message Term 2 Week 6 29 May 2026 From the Principal Hi Everyone, What a big week we have had with so many things on! If you have seen me getting around, you will have noticed that I am wearing a special shoe. This is because I had to have ankle and foot surgery. It is no big deal, just something that had t...

Dear Ironside Community,

If you’d like to be a part of our Under 8s Day - we’d love to know.

⭐️ Face painters
⭐️ Coffee Van vendors
⭐️ Early learning centres
⭐️ Anyone with old fashioned toys or games

Please call or pop into our office and ask for Tara!

Thank you 🙏

📖 💙 Check out this informative Education Queensland Podcast designed to support parents and carers in fostering a love of books and reading at home.

The podcast topics include:
- What makes a great children’s book
- How parents can make story time more engaging
- Why books remain important in a digital world
- Practical tips to encourage reading habits at home.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2TCYgrazuXiQ7mgyOBSDm0?si=Zixz8NqFTYaOVc1QCvmBBA

Read your greens Ep 3 - Why books still matter Department of Education (Queensland) · Episode

🦘📚 Ms Kelly absolutely bounced into National Simultaneous Storytime today!

Dressed head-to-toe as a kangaroo, she didn’t just read the story… she hopped through it! Safe to say the students were all ears — especially the joeys in the front row.

🎉 SAVE THE DATE — Under 8s Day! 🎉

We are excited to celebrate Under 8s Day with our early years students and families! 🌈✨

📅 Wednesday, Term 2 Week 10⏰ 9:15am – 11:00am📍 School Hall

This year’s theme is:🕹️ Blast From the Past 🧸

Parents and siblings under 5 are warmly welcome to join in the fun as we celebrate play, learning and childhood together! 💛

We can’t wait to see everyone there!

🌟 Becoming a Playground Pro! 🌟

Whole school behaviour focus weeks 5 & 6

At Ironside, our students are learning how to be problem solvers, kind friends and confident communicators through our ✋ Hi 5 Problem Solving Strategy.

When challenges pop up in the playground, our students are encouraged to:😊 Ignore👂 Talk friendly 👣 Walk away 🗣️ Talk firmly💡Report

It has been wonderful seeing so many students stepping up as true “Playground Pros” by showing teamwork, resilience and kindness during play.

We are proud of the way our students are building positive relationships and using their voices to solve problems safely and respectfully every day! 🌈✨

Tomorrow, Wednesday 27 May at 12:00pm, our students will join children right across Australia for National Simultaneous Storytime 2026!

This year’s featured book is Luna Roo: The Kangaroo Ballerina, a delightful story that celebrates imagination, courage and the joy of reading.

National Simultaneous Storytime is a wonderful opportunity to promote the value of reading and literacy while sharing in a special nationwide event together.

We can’t wait to enjoy this magical story with our students tomorrow! ⚽️ 🦘 📖

Today our Prep students headed off to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary as part of their English informative text learning! 🐨

Despite the chilly weather, our little learners were absolutely amazing — engaged, excited and full of curiosity all day long. It was wonderful to see them making real-world connections to their classroom learning while exploring and discovering Australia’s unique animals.

A huge thank you to Miss McMillan for organising such a fantastic experience, our amazing Prep staff for your support, and to all of our wonderful parent volunteers who helped make the day such a success.

🌟 WEEK 4 BEHAVIOUR FOCUS

👣 Safe Feet – Be a STAR Walker

We walk, we don’t run

⭐ Be a STAR Walker

👣 Slow and safe feet keep us sweet
👣 We walk on concrete – no need to race
👣 We take our time in every place
👣 Keeping ourselves and others safe

✅ What this looks like:

🚶 Walking calmly on hard surfaces
🚶 Moving safely around others
🚶 Looking where we’re going

🚫 Not this:

🏃 Running on concrete
⚠️ Rushing or racing
⚠️ Unsafe movement around other