Principal’s
Welcome
Welcome to Lota State School, a small school located within
the beautiful suburb of Lota.
Throughout this year our community will continue to embark upon
curriculum renewal in line with current Education Queensland,
state, and federal government initiatives.
Up to date syllabus materials, designed to reflect the changing
world in which we live, have been utilised by all teachers to
develop challenging and relevant educational activities for
our children. Currently, we are embarking on discussion surrounding
our assessment and reporting techniques. These will reflect
our changing curriculum, systemic directions and ideas. Assessment
pieces will be as challenging and purposeful as the curriculum
it addresses, while our reporting techniques will need to report
on student achievement to families, in a way that easily conveys
student progress.
This site, no doubt, will keep you all up to date on our progress.
As you will see from this site, Lota State School boasts many
distinctive approaches to education.
We have an Adventurers’ Club. The Club has been organising
family camps during the year for the last 3 decades. These camps
fill their quotas quickly which highlights its enormous popularity.
Our Music teacher holds choir and recorder practice before and
after school to a group of interested students.
Lota State School is very fortunate to have a dedicated P&C
who meet at 7pm each third Tuesday of the month. Our P&C
are actively working towards fund raising for the refurbishment
of our schools tuckshop. Our Student Council (representatives
from years 5 to 7) meets once a month and fund raise for both
school and charity needs.
In addition to the above approaches Lota State School offers
the following for all students:
- A supportive environment for all children to grow academically,
emotionally and sociably;
- We cater for the individual child and address their needs
whether it be extension or support programs;
- A committed staff of teaching and non-teaching staff including
three teacher aides who entirely provide support programs for
our students;
- Comprehensive PE, Music and Instrumental Music programs;
- Prep
- Committed teachers who frequently build on their skills for
the benefits of all children;
With this all wrapped up in a small school – family atmosphere.
I trust that you will enjoy navigating around our web site.
Feel free to contact us with any questions or comments and enjoy
you time visiting our school.
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School Profile
Lota State School is close to Moreton Bay and situated
on the southern end of the scenic Wynnum/Manly locale. It was
established in 1952. The school is set in well maintained grounds,
and the older style buildings have been extensively modernised
through the Building Better Schools Program.
The school embraces a Prep-7 culture and at present accommodates
eight primary classes and a Prep building. The June 2007enrolment
was 215 primary students and 11 Prep children. The children come
from a predominantly English speaking background, though there
is a significant minority group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islanders.
The community of Lota represents a wide cross-section of occupations
and family socio-economic circumstances are varied. There has
been a strong move away from the low socio-economic label this
suburb has carried in the past.
A wide range of sporting, cultural and extra-curricula activities
are undertaken throughout the school year. These activities include
a unique family camping program that has been in existence for
over twenty years.
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Prep
Prep is situated in the building near Boonar Street, within the
grounds of the Primary School. Our Prep and primary school are
fully integrated both in activities, timetabling and curriculum
planning.
Inquiries and enrolments can be made by contacting the school.
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The Lota State School Adventurers'
Club
The Adventurers' Club, which has operated since 1977, was formed
to enable families and individual students to experience healthy,
outdoor activities in places that they may not otherwise have
had access to, and at an affordable cost. It was envisaged that
the outdoor experiences would provide children with opportunities
to interact with one another in environments different from school,
as well as broaden the children's exposure to outdoor pursuits.
The club is made up of a committee, other parents, teaching staff
and students. The committee conducts monthly meetings at which
decisions are made on a variety of issues such as camp dates and
venues, menus, budgeting, replacement and purchase of equipment,
camp activities and fund raising.
Approximately 55 people attend each camp - 35 students and 20
adults.
Parents work before camps deciding on menus, checking equipment
and readying the trailers for departure. The 'kitchen' trailer
is always taken but the second trailer is only taken on water
based camps for transporting the canoes.
Parents are responsible for the preparation and serving of meals
on camp, while the teaching staff is responsible for arranging
the camping program and activities. While the children are there
to have fun, they do have some work to do - putting up their own
tents, taking them down again, and doing the dishes after each
meal.
There are generally two or three camps per year, depending on
the weather. There is always one water - based camp and one bush
camp. The venues chosen from are Mudjimba on the Sunshine Coast,
the Bunya Mountains and Girraween National Park near Stanthorpe,
and some of the national parks in South East Queensland if a two
day camp is held.
Activities on the water based camp include swimming and canoeing,
with two staff members having the necessary certificates to conduct
canoeing on still water. The bush camps focus on bush walking
and viewing the local fauna and flora.
The cost of each camp is around $70 per student depending on the
length of the camp. The cost is kept low by fund raising activities
held during the year, and because the club has its own tents and
other camping gear.
Attendance at each camp is offered to families first. This means
young children can attend if their parent/s are going. The Year
7 students are then invited, followed by Year 6 and 5. These older
children can attend camp without a parent being present.
Proposed Camps for 2009
Beach camp to Mudjimba from March 20- 22
Bush Camp to Girraween National Park from October 22 - 25
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Parents and Citizen Association
The Association's aim is to improve educational and recreational
facilities by the provision of materials and equipment not supplied
by Education Queensland. The Association also works with the Principal
and staff to foster parent/teacher co-operation and local interest
in educational matters.
Membership is open to all parents and interested citizens over
the age of 18, all of whom are eligible to attend monthly meetings.
Office Bearers of the Association are elected at the Annual General
Meeting held in February or March each year. Monthly meetings
are held on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the
school staff room.
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Tuckshop
Lunches can be bought from the school tuckshop on Fridays. A team
of volunteers operates the tuckshop. If you are able to assist
(male or female) on the roster, simply leave your name and contact
number at the school office.
Children are requested to bring their money in a brown paper bag
with their order, name and grade written on the outside of the
bag. Bags can be placed in the white tuckshop box located in each
classroom, or handed in before school at the tuckshop, which opens
at 8:30 a.m.
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Uniforms
GIRLS
Dress Uniform: Distictive green
and gold check dress or distictive green and gold check unisex
shirt with bottle green netball skirt, shorts, skorts or culottes
for girls.
Sports uniform: Lota State School
polo shirt with bottle green netball skirt, shorts, skorts or
culottes for girls.
Footwear: White socks with protective
shoes (preferably black).
Headwear: Green slouch hat with
Lota State School Logo or Legionnaires Cap.
Winter Uniform: As above with
bottle green tracksuit or bottle green tights.
BOYS
Dress Uniform: Green and gold
polo shirt or distictive green and gold check unisex shirt with
grey shorts.
Sports uniform: Lota State School
gold polo shirt with black shorts.
Footwear: Grey socks with protective
shoes (preferably black).
Headwear: Green slouch hat with
Lota State School Logo or Legionnaires Cap.
Winter Uniform: As above with
bottle green tracksuit.
Uniforms can be purchased from Lowes store at
Capalaba Central.
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Office Procedures
The school office is generally staffed from 8:30
until 3:30 for enquiries.
All money sent to school should be in sealed
envelopes, clearly marked with the child's name, grade and purpose
of the collection.
Newsletters, which contain information about
activities and student achievements, are given to the youngest
in the family each Wednesday.
School banking through the Commonwealth Bank
is conducted on Thursday of each week.
Any change of home or work address or phone number
should be reported to the office, so that our official records
can be kept current in case of illness or emergencies.
Should your child be absent from school, a note
or phone call is required upon his or her return to school.
If your child becomes ill or injured at school
or preschool, every effort will be made to notify you so that
your child can receive adequate attention. In cases of serious
injury, the Ambulance will be called immediately.
