Karalee’s Got Talent
Established in 2011 following the construction of our incredible Performing Arts Centre, Karalee’s Got Talent is an annual talent competition proudly sponsored by our P&C Association which aims to unveil the wonderful range of talents that we have at our school. Based on the television show, the competition is run in three separate categories- Senior (Years 5 & 6), Junior (Years 3 & 4) and Early Years (Prep to Year 2). The senior and junior categories are run as a competition while the early years students are simply given an opportunity to perform in the PAC on Under 8s day.
Students enter the competition by completing a nomination form. There are then four weeks of auditions where the judges select the top 10 to go on the Top Ten Performance Show. Students attending the show will then vote for their favourite performance. The top three performances will then perform on parade where all students in year three to six will vote for their favourite performers. Winners will finally be announced and presented with trophies and prizes.
Karalee's Got Talent fact sheet (PDF, 366KB)
The KSS Reading Challenge
The goal behind our Karalee State School Reading Challenge is to encourage students to focus on achieving set reading goals over a month and links in with Book Week. Our KSS Reading Challenge is a supportive and fun for the students with bookmarks and books given as incentives and prizes.
Celebrating national events
Karalee State School actively participates in several annual national events where our students have an opportunity to positively and collectively connect to an issue or topic of deep personal, social and/or environmental significance. Such days include:
Harmony Room
The Harmony Room was designed to cater for children who:
- Were alone and felt like they had no friends
- Were being bullied and felt unhappy at school
- Could not play appropriately in unsupervised situations at lunchtime
In the Harmony Room we provide fun, safe and supervised activities that allow the children to make new friends and develop social skills such as listening to others, taking turns, staying calm with others, doing nice things for others and being responsible for their behaviour. Special activities are provided and students are encouraged to bring a friend along. This makes it appealing and helps them to create and foster friendships. The Harmony Room is open at second breaks only so the children are still part of the larger community and can use their new skills in the playground.
Years five and six students have the opportunity to compete in this literature-based competition. Karalee nominates 1 or 2 teams of 5 to compete against other Ipswich schools, both public and private. Although this is also a literature competition, in this instance there are 5 set novels/picture books that the students must read and then literal questions are asked by a Master of Ceremonies, usually a renowned Australian author. Winners of the competition compete against other Queensland regions for the title of state champs.