Book Club Issue 6 has arrived!   

DUE DATE: Friday 5th September (Week 8)

This will be the second last book club for the year. Last one will be Issue 7 early next term.

Look Inside Issue 6: https://scholastic.com.au/book-club/book-club-parents/issue-preview/

Information for Parents about Book Club: https://scholastic.com.au/book-club/book-club-parents/

Indooroopilly Outside School Hours Care 2026

Information has been published on the IOSHC website including key dates and processes. All students enrolled at ISS for 2026 are eligible to participate in the EOI process. Families intending to enrol their children at ISS for 2026 should submit their application before 8/09/2025 when the IOSHC processes commence.

Empathy & mindful colouring in 5F

This term, 5F have been focusing on empathy as part of The Resilience Project. Students explored what it means to understand and share the feelings of others, and discussed how empathy can help build stronger friendships and a kinder classroom community. To support this learning, the class also enjoyed some mindful colouring sessions. This quiet, creative activity gave students the chance to slow down, practise being present in the moment, and reflect on the importance of caring for themselves and others.

Kindy to School Transition

The transition from Kindy to Prep is such an exciting time! This week, I have had a wonderful time visiting centres and talking with parents about school readiness.

Sometimes parents feel pressure to focus on teaching sounds, numbers, and curriculum concepts before school begins – but that’s our job once your child starts Prep. What’s most important right now are the everyday skills that come from play and interaction: recognising their own name, noticing patterns and ‘maths’ in nature, asking and answering questions, listening to and talking about stories, running and climbing at the park, and building hand strength by picking things up and moving them around. In short – lots of play, talking, and enjoying time together!

Over the next few months, bring your child along to Story Time sessions and book into the Term 4 Student Play and Parent Workshops. These opportunities help children become familiar with our Prep Precinct. Without question, the best gift you can give your child before they start school – and beyond – is simply being present, listening, and sharing precious moments.

Workshop booking details will be sent out on Monday 15th September.

Are you yet to enrol for Prep 2026? 

Amy Howkins Deputy Principal Prep  ahowk1@eq.edu.au

Prep D have had a fun-filled term! The P–2 Cross Country was a highlight—we loved seeing all the children running with such enthusiasm around the school. Their energy was contagious, and they had the best time. We also enjoyed celebrating Book Week with the Book Character Parade. The creativity and effort put into the costumes was fantastic—everyone looked amazing!

Wendy Fender Deputy Principal Years 1 & 2 wfend1@eq.edu.au

Would you go jetty jumping?

After reading the story ‘Jetty Jumping’, by Andrea Rowe and Hannah Sommerville, 2C weighed up the pros and cons about jetty jumping. Here are a few examples of our persuasive writing.

Would you go jetty jumping?

1C Book Week

1C loved having the opportunity to dress up as their favourite character for Book Week! We read lots of books from our class bookshelf, shared our favourite books for Show and Tell, made bookmarks and danced at the character parade!

Steve Box Deputy Principal Years 4 & 5 sbox6@eq.edu.au

Reverse Garbage Incursion

Last Thursday, 4C students attended the reverse garbage incursion as part of our integrated Design Technologies and Science unit. Students were given a design brief to create a marble run, utilising different materials and various forces to make it work. Each group came prepared with a design, and armed with flexible thinking in order to problem solve any issues encountered during the testing phase.

Year 4 Book Week Reflections

4B – Book Week is one of, my favourite days in the entire year! It’s full of fun it celebrates literature with a big parade.

4C – It was a fun day with a lot of creative work.

4D – Book Week is one of my favourite celebrations of the year because you get to dress up as a character from a good book!

4D – I really like how everybody dressed up and had a good time.

4E – Book Week was fun because of all the people who dressed in costumes.

4F – Everybody’s costumes were very different, and the preps had very good class ideas.

4H – The parade was colourful, fun and exciting, there were great costumes, and the parade had a fun, loud and happy atmosphere.

4I – Book week was fun because we got to dress up as any character from a book.

Fishing for Frogs – Year 5 dives into the science of refraction

This term in Science, Year 5 have been exploring light and how it changes.  This week students have been studying refraction - how light bends when it travels through different materials like air and water. 

After learning about how First Nations peoples use the knowledge of refraction to aid in spearfishing, students in 5C and 5E conducted their own spearfishing experiment…with a fun twist. 

Students working in small groups placed a frog lolly in a clear container filled with water.  First, they made predictions about what they would see when looking straight down at the frog and what would happen if they looked at if from an angle.  They quickly discovered that the position of the frog appeared to change depending on their viewpoint – thanks to refraction.

Next came the challenge: spearing the frog with a skewer! It wasn’t as easy as it looked.  The bending of light made the frog appear to be in a different position, making accurate ‘spearfishing’ quite the task. 

This hands-on experiment not only helped students understand how light behaves in water, but also gave them insight into how scientific knowledge has been applied by cultures throughout history.

Attention Current Year 5 Families

Year 6 2026 Senior Polo Pre-Order is now available!

Current Year 5 students are welcome to pre-order their Year 6 2026 Senior Polo shirts. The shirt may be worn as an alternative to the standard uniform on any school day and makes an ideal memento as a signature shirt for the students to keep in the future. The shirts distinguish Year 6 students as senior members of the school whom the other students can easily identify and approach for assistance.

The shirts are optional, but the students take great pride in wearing them in their final year of primary school.

Order Cut Off Date:

• 4pm, Friday 31/10/2025 (Online Order via Flexischools) OR
• 9:15am, Thursday 30/10/2025 (with Order Form and payment at the uniform Shop)

Estimated Delivery Date: March, 2026

Note:

1. Shirts are for Pre-Order ONLY, so NO EXTRAS will be available in 2026.
2. Payment is required with the order.
3. No Refund / Exchange of sizes after the cut-off date.

Size:

1. The shirt follows a similar sizing to the standard polo shirt.
2. Please come by the shop if unsure of sizes.

Please refer to the pre-order form for more details, or contact Hong via uniform.manager@isspandc.org.au for any questions.

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Julie Bliss Deputy Principal Year 3 & 6 jmbli0@eq.edu.au

3H enjoyed this year’s Book Week celebrations. The class read Every Night at Midnight by Peter Cheong which was the inspiration for our door decorations. We joined in the whole school Book Week parade, designed and made bookmarks for the Bookmark Competition and participated in the virtual author talk with illustrator Nisaluk Chantanakom.

Year 3 Book Week Reflections

3D - I loved how everyone dressed up , and also the activities like the dance at the end.

3G- I loved walking around the oval and how everybody joins together.

3H- I liked how we all went around and people blew bubbles.

3F- I love how people could customize and unite.      

3F- I like how people dance around the oval.

3C- Book Week is as fun as opening presents on your birthday.

3E- I loved how everyone joined in on the songs and dances.

3B- I loved how everyone joined in at dancing and singing.      

Book Battle

Thank you to Marianna Shek for volunteering her time to organise a Year 3 Book Battle in the school library for interested families to participate in this week, as a part of Book Week celebrations and a desire to spread her love for literacy. Parents and students answered three rounds of trivia questions, solved some puzzles and performed some superb character acting, about the book Super Sleuth by David Walliams. Well done to the students who won the battle against their parents.

6C Book Week - in Words

Here is how one of my students used their words to describe our wonderful Book Week Parade.  It might not have come from a book, but neither did some of the costumes. It was a wonderful morning we all shared.

This year’s book week parade was spectacular; it was filled with bubbles and students and teachers wearing different variegated costumes. Book week parade was filled with joy and giggles, children and teachers got to wear their favourite book character costumes resembling them, showing their interests with books. Trendy songs were played, letting the whole school dance and sing along, having a moment of jubilation. Every class was allowed to walk around Singleton Oval with their remarkable outfits, leaving an occasional memory. While walking around the oval, children were allowed to reach for the bubbles and dance, leaving a glorious remembrance. Overall, book week was filled with laughter and enjoyment, allowing the whole school to be filled with happiness.

Lorenzo Guglielmino

Cecylia Garcia

Allie Masuch

Prep – Year 2 Cross Country

Last week, we had our Junior Cross Country where our junior school students put in a huge effort participating in their races. Congratulations to all students and thank you to the teachers, staff and parents who came along and supported our little ones!

Met West Regional Track & Field Trials

Good luck to our 12 athletes that will be competing at the regional track & field trials next week, on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 September.  

Indooroopilly students selected to represent the Northern Eagle District Team at the 2025 Metropolitan West Regional Track & Field Trials are Isabella E (4D), Farrah MC (5F), Aaron M (5B), Cassidy M (5C), Madeleine W (5F), Chinyere Aimee I (5D), Chikadibia O (5E), Annabelle P (6I), Leo H (6I), Millie S (6D), Conor WG (5F) and Tony WG (6E).

GO INDRO!!

Interschool Sport update

Thank you to all the teachers who helped interschool sport run smoothly in Week 6, all the students had a great time! Due to the wet weather cancellation last week please note that we will be having interschool sport in Weeks 7, 9 and 10 of this term.

Celebrating success in sport

ISS Year 6 Student Shines at International Martial Arts Debut

Yuna L (6F) proudly represented Australia at two back-to-back international Taekwondo competitions held on Gold Coast – the Oceania President’s Cup and Australian Open (14 – 17 August). After her victory at the National Championship in Perth in 2023, Yuna finally became eligible to compete for Australia in the Cadet division (12–14 years) this year.

Competing with athletes from across Australia and around the world, Yuna showed incredible determination and skill, bringing home one silver medal in the team event and one bronze medal in the individual event.

2025 Aquathlon & Triathlon Regional Trials for 2026 Team (Met West School Sport)

Please see below the Regional Trial notice for the Aquathlon and Triathlon Trials. If any students are interested in this trial, parents will have to register their own children through the Triathlon Queensland Website (see below).

Toowong Harriers Little Athletics

Hillsdon Kindergarten Fete 

Kenmore West Kindergarten Open Day

Ironside Bushcare Bike Trails Working Bee

The following information is about an upcoming working bee at Ironside Park, St Lucia on the bike tracks. 

Date: First Monday of the Sept School Holidays – Sept 22^nd

Time: 8am until 11am

Venue: Ironside Park https://maps.app.goo.gl/iVRZnzXZHemY4An76

What: Working bee to improve the bike tracks within the park, outlining riding boundaries, installing rocks around edges, plant grasses, track naming competition, education on bushcare and respecting the park and riding boundaries.

Cold drinks will be provided on the day.

Bring: Hat, gardening gloves if you have them

Who: Habitat Brisbane staff, Ironside Bushcare volunteers, Cr Penny Wolff, bike riders and parents/carers, Julia from Mt Coot-tha bike trails.

Community Choir

Greater Brisbane Centenary

Sharks Volleyball

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The Dates: 

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