Glenmorgan Gazette

From the Principal…...

As I sit here writing this newsletter I reflect on

how quickly the time has flown in Term 2. We

have completed vast amounts of work during

this term and students must be commended

for their perseverance. With only one week

of school left before the winter break,

students are finalising assessment pieces and

reviewing their learning. We are currently

maintaining over 94% attendance and this

would be an excellent finish to our first

semester – see you all – everyday.

Lithuania Competition – CWA

This year students studied Lithuania – a small

country in northern Europe – and last Friday

we walked round to the CWA hall to share

morning tea with some of the local CWA

ladies and review the entries in the country

study competition from 3 schools. While

there, students learned some phrases in

Lithuanian, played a chasing game of

Lithuanian origin and ate some traditional

biscuits and apple cake. Brooke was

successful in the competition for her year

level with an excellent PowerPoint

presentation and our year four girls, Payton

and Ella, came first and second in their

promotional poster section. Congratulations

to all students who participated in this

competition and thanks to the CWA for the

lovely morning tea.

Josh Arnold

We welcomed Josh Arnold to our school on

6th June and 13th June. Josh worked with our

students to write, practise then video a

special song about Glenmorgan kids and their

community. Our song is titled G’day

Glenmorgan and will be launched next week

at Tara on Thursday 27th June. All families,

and any interested community members, are

encouraged to attend and watch the students

perform in front of a live audience and see

the video compilation. I am immensely proud

of the work completed by Josh and the

students and wish them all the best for next

Thursday.

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea

Thanks to the parents and community

members who joined us on Wednesday 22nd

May for the Biggest Morning Tea. We raised

$119.20 for the Cancer Council. We also

loved having the little visitors on the day who

shared Alpacas with Maracas with us for

National Simultaneous Storytime. We

listened, laughed and danced with maracas in

our library and a good time was had by all.

Thanks again to everyone who joined us for a

story and morning tea.

Tuck Shop

Thanks to our P&C students enjoy tuckshop

at school once a fortnight. Our last tuckshop

day for term 2 will be Tuesday 25th June.

Woolworth’s Earn & Learn

Thank you to everyone who has assisted us in

gathering stickers during the Earn & Learn

promotion. We have yet to do a final count as

we know some of you still have a last few

stickers to drop into the school. We look

forward to sharing photos of the new

equipment our school will be able to

purchase with the stickers.

Ms Colleen Dunn

Contact details

Phone: 07 4665 6757

P O Box 29

5 Clive Street

Glenmorgan QLD 4423

www.glenmorganss.eq.edu.au

School Mobile

0436 693 247

Principal

Ms Colleen Dunn

Email the.principal@glenmorganss.eq.edu.au

P&C Executive

President: Odette Heitzmann

Vice President: Meg Cau

Secretary: Linda Coggan

Treasurer: Amy Scholefield

“ L e a r n i n g t o d a y f o r t o m o r r o w ”

J U N E

2 0 1 9

CARE RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY INTEGRITY EXCELLENCE

Current

Attendance: 94.35 %

EVERY DAY COUNTS!!!

Date Claimers for June

Tuesday 25th—Tuckshop Tuesday 25th—P&C Meeting

Sporting news

Not a lot of sporting news this month. Brooke

attended the Tennis trial in Tara and I have

taken up the role of manager for the Tara &

District softball team. The next event for

most of our school students will be the Red

Ball Tennis in Tara on 5th August.

Fitness Fun on Fridays

During HPE on Fridays, our students are

participating in fun lessons where they

improving their fitness, agility and ball

handling skills. I hear the laughter and see the

excited faces on students during these

lessons and know that being outdoors really

is good for all of us.

Classroom and Curriculum notes:

Homework

This is the last week of homework for the

term and it has been pleasing to see the

efforts that students are putting into

completing their homework each week.

Students’ neatness has improved as the term

passed and I’m hoping this continues next

term as well.

Poetry

This Friday our students will participate in an

online poetry workshop with Kathryn Apel. By

linking via an eLearning platform our students

can access the same opportunities to work

with creative presenters as their city

counterparts. While this is a one off learning

experience, the use of technology to link our

students with the wider world and different

learning journeys is an everyday occurrence.

Reading

Thanks to the mothers who have volunteered

to assist with our ‘3 minute reads’ to practise

fluency. Students do enjoy having you in the

classroom and your help is always

appreciated.

All students are continuing to show

improvement in reading so our daily

emphasis on reading is having a positive

result. Students already reassessed this term

have moved forward up to two reading

levels, which is an awesome effort.

‘Numerous studies have consistently shown

that 10 minutes exposure to reading

materials is all it takes to positively shape

your child’s future’. This quote from the

recent book club magazine reminds me that

the time you give to reading each day with

homework is as important as what happens

here at school. Whether you are looking at

picture books, comic books, novels, reading

recipes or the back of the cereal box – it all

counts!

Maths

Term 2 has brought about a change of focus

for maths with measurement and number

study taking up most of the Maths time each

lesson. Measurement includes length and

height, weights and capacity, measuring

liquids and solids as well as measuring

surface area and volume. We will have time

for inquiry experiences during the term with

cooking, building and construction. Makes

Maths sounds like lots of fun this term!

Visit from Leanne Wright & Adam Myers

QMF Performance @ Meandarra

Date Claimers

13th June Josh Arnold Visit

25th June Tuckshop P&C Meeting

26th June Report Cards

27th June Josh Arnold performance night @ Tara

28th June Last day of Term 2

REMINDER School banking is every Tuesday. Don’t forget to send your child’s banking book to school with them. There are great prizes to be won for every deposit. Every 10 Deposits = 1 cool Reward

School Notes……. Classroom & Curriculum Notes…….

National Simultaneous

story telling day

Last Tennis day

Tuckshop

Dates

MONDAY 4th Mar 18th Nov 1st April

Walking to school safely day

HAPPY JUNE

BIRTHDAY TO

Payton, Mrs Steiger & Mrs Sullivan

Student of the week & classroom

awards—Term 2 Jordi: for improvement in spelling and reading

Ella S: for perseverance with her sight words

Dollarmite awards: Ella Stanford, Maddie

Sight word awards: Tori, Jordi, Maddie and Ella S

Venus is the only planet in the solar system that rotates

clockwise.

Australia is the only continent in the world with no volcanoes.

Hands and feet have more

than half of the bones in the human body.

DID YOU KNOW??

Classroom & Curriculum Notes…….

Biggest Morning Tea

A r o u n d t h e c l a s s r o o m

Josh Arnold visit

Challenge: Make

something that can

hold the weight of a

tea cup—using paper,

pipe cleaners & sticky

tape