Ironside State School

🎯 Right Place, Right Time, Doing the Right Thing! 🎯

Our whole-school behaviour focus for Weeks 9 & 10 is:

✅ Right Place
✅ Right Time
✅ Doing the Right Thing

These simple expectations help create a safe, respectful and successful learning environment for everyone. We encourage all students to make positive choices, show responsibility and be role models for others.

Let’s finish the term strong by showing The Ironside Way every day! 💙

🎉🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️Year 1 & 2 Athletics Carnival 🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️🎉

The excitement is building for our Year 1 & 2 Athletics Carnival!

Thursday 18 June 2026

Students are encouraged to wear their house colours and show plenty of team spirit.

Families are welcome to join in the fun too - wear your house colours, bring your cheers, and help create a fantastic atmosphere for our young athletes.

☀️ Don’t forget:✔️ Hat✔️ Water bottle✔️ Sunscreen✔️ House colours✔️ Big smiles and lots of enthusiasm!

We can’t wait to see everyone enjoying a fun-filled day of participation, encouragement and house pride.
Go Ironside! 💙❤️💚💛

🎽🌈 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! ⚽️ 🦘 📖