kulpi state school newsletter
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COMING UP…
MARCH 5th - School photos
8th - NRL Visit 16th - Mobile Library 16th - No playgroup
17th - Quiz Worx (RI Presentation) 18th - Mayoral Morning Tea
19th - School Disco 20th - P&C Bunnings Sausage Sizzle
26th - Softball Carnival at Bowenville 29th - Swimming
29th - P&C AGM 2.45pm then general meeting to follow
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Issue 3 – 3 March 2021
NEWSLETTER KULPI STATE SCHOOL
Principal’s Report During Monday at Parade, I had the absolute pleasure of listening to two of our Year 6 students – Carmen and Alyssa – give their leadership speeches. Both girls spoke confidently and with passion about how they intend to be the best possible leaders for Kulpi State School in 2021. I am really looking forward to hearing Summer and Riley present their leadership speeches on Friday. The days are really heating up at the moment – please ensure that your children are bringing their hats and water bottles to school every day. It really is too hot to not keep hydrated.
The Student Council are very excited about our upcoming school disco fundraiser! This is being held at Kulpi State School on Friday, 19th March
from 6pm – 8:30pm. The theme chosen is ‘Glitz and Glam’. There will be a $5 cost per person which will cover the entry to the disco, plus a sausage sizzle and ice block. Please put the date in your calendar and come along for a night of dancing and fun!
We will be holding our P&C Annual General Meeting on the 29th March, which will be followed by a general meeting. We welcome you to come along and be an active part of our school community. I am pleased to report that student behaviour continues to remain positive and that our students are responding well to our Gotcha’s being handed out on a more frequent basis throughout the day. The P-2 class reached their first ‘class’ goal for good behaviour and were awarded with some extra playtime, which was thoroughly enjoyed!! I hope you all have the most amazing fortnight and I will leave you with the following quote:
Kind regards, Tammy
Playgroup No playgroup
March 16th
Student
of the Week
Our Aim at Kulpi State School is to be:
Working together to ensure that every day, in every classroom,
every student is learning and achieving.
WEE
K 5
WEE
K 6
Chloe Alyssa
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Term 1 Behaviour Focus:
Be a LEARNER
Week 6
Be organised
Week 7
Participate fully
Ada Megan
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SCHOOL NEWS ...
News from Miss Carter’s Classroom
News from Mrs Doudle’s Classroom We love our STEM lessons with Mrs Keable. This week we made mini catapults with popsicle sticks and we were amazed at how well they worked! (See the STEM pics below). We are also very engaged in our Health lessons this term. The Year 3 and 4 students have been exploring the impact that positive social interactions have on their social identity. Students have been investigating different types of friendships, examining the qualities that they look for in a friend; as well as their own roles and responsibilities. They have been learning how to communicate respectfully with their friends in order to resolve conflicts and challenging issues in friendships. The Year 5 and 6 students have been exploring how important people in their lives, and the media, can influence their own health behaviour. They have been examining how their personal qualities and being a member of different groups can shape their identity. Students are examining different influences on their health behaviour.
We have been mighty busy in P-2 from learning about sentence structure in English to 2 digit addition in maths and water conservation in science. Our favourite subject to explore at the moment however is visual art as we’ve started looking at different ways to represent emotions in portraits including colour and line choices. Last week we used Pablo Picasso’s work to inspire us to make our own one-line drawings, have a look at how interesting they turned out!
Down in the loose parts area Megan,
Danika, Carmen, Alyssa, Matt and Luke
have been busy making a home for
themselves out of pallets, tyres and
bricks. They have even made a gravel
path and flower bed to welcome you
to the front door and a fire pit to cook
their creations from the mud kitchen.
It’s been awesome to see the
collaboration, problem solving and creativity involved in creating these structures so please
continue to send in things we can build with.
Our STEM challenge this week was to make a catapult out of popsicle sticks, rubber bands and a bottle cap, then adjust the leverage and aim. We had a competition to see whose pom poms flew the furthest.
Konnichiwa!
Japanese is off to a roaring start this year. We have three new teachers on three different days.
The P-2 group are learning words to describe themselves and family members.
The 3/4 group are learning how to read a postcard in Japanese.
The 5/6 group are salivating while they are learning about traditional and modern Japanese food and the words we use to talk about it.
Our wonderful P&C are looking for volunteers (particularly dads) to help with the Bunnings sausage sizzle on March 20th. If you can help out any time between 8.30am and 4.30pm, please see Kristen Ehrlich.
Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.
Elizabeth Andrew
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SCHOOL & COMMUNITY NEWS ...
School Library Sessions Monday - Year 3-6 TUESDAY - Years P-2
Please help your students to remember their books on these days.
Students are also invited to borrow and return books each morning before 8.20am - they will need to bring their
library bag.
GETTING TO KNOW...
Mrs Scheuerle
Jondaryan State School - 150 years
2022 will see Jondaryan State School celebrating its 150th Anniversary. It is a wonderful milestone and is cause for recognition and celebration.
Presently, we are in the early stages of planning for events throughout the year. If you would like to be involved in the celebrations through either; being a committee member, sharing photos or stories, favourite memories, or memora-bilia items. Please email Anita Polzin at [email protected] or call 0429 856 123; alternatively Steve Martin on 0437 569 765.
You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing!
Containers for change
If you would like to contribute to the P&C fundraising but can’t join into activities, then you may like to contribute your recycling to our P&C Scheme account. (Scheme ID-C10204698).
How long have you been a Teacher Aide? I have been the playgroup coordinator for a number of years now and started Teacher Aide work last year at Kulpi.
What kind of music do you like? I have always been a big John Farnham fan.
What was your first paying job? I was one of the first checkout chicks at Best & Less when they first opened in Clifford Gardens.
What are some of the jobs you have had? People always say never work with children or animals, I worked in the childcare industry for 9 years before getting married, and have milked cows for 13 years since then.
If you could play a musical instrument what would it be? I learnt to play the violin and organ when I was younger, and I have always wanted to play the saxophone.
What’s one thing you’re really bad at? Making pancakes - my kids love them but I can never seem cook them just right.
What’s one thing you’re really good at? Making my kids birthday cakes, they always give me a challenge.
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a Nanny for a rich family in England
Do you have any phobias? Frogs
What makes you angry? When people don't appreciate special people in their lives.
What would we most likely find you doing on the weekend? Scoring a cricket game on Saturdays and at home sleeping on Sundays.
What’s something you’re proud of? My kids, they are beautiful and caring little humans who have the whole world in front of them, they always give their best and always make me smile.
Have you ever met anyone famous? Darren Lange presented me with a medal for violin at my year 7 awards evening.
Tea or coffee? Tea. I don't like even the smell of coffee!
What would you do first if you won lotto? Double check the ticket, I would never be that lucky.
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PARENTING IDEAS ...
4 ways to respond to kids who love the last word “Don’t do it!” I sat in the back of the classroom and I saw a fourteen-
year-old student taunt his teacher in a way that only young adolescent boys can do. The teacher asked the student to get back to work and stop disturbing others, reminding him that his behaviour was out of order. The student grudgingly resumed his task. But just before he put his head down, he threw out a comment about it being a stupid piece of work that he had to do. This young fella’ threw down an ‘imaginary rope’ (the last word, a taunt, a jibe, a joke) for the teacher to pick up. “Don’t pick it up! Just let it go!” I thought as I sat in the back of the room. He was getting back to work. This was the boy’s way of saving face in front of his mates. The teacher picked up the imaginary rope and began a tirade of abuse that was extremely personal. I detected the slightest grin the student’s face that said “Gotchya!” The teacher’s remarks were like water off a duck’s back. He revelled in them and I watched as his status amongst his male peer group just went up a number of notches. Okay, so what’s the point? The hard part of dealing with kids, whether you are a teacher or a parent, is to ignore some of their ‘last wordedness’ and the verbal comments they throw our way. I am not suggesting that we ignore all taunts or rude remarks but there are many occasions when we should just leave the ‘imaginary rope’ where is lies. Usually when we ‘pick up the rope’ we turn into a child! ‘Throwing the rope’ is so effective as behind most conflict between kids and adults are the deeper issues of:
Power (“I want to make you do this”),
Position (“I’m the adult so you should listen to me”) and
Prestige (“I want others to think I’m doing a good parenting job”).
Arguments, last-wordedness or comeback lines, which are
often about kids saving face, threaten our position or prestige as parents or teachers. “You can’t say that to me, I am the adult,” is the type of thinking that brings us undone every time. They are also a way of kids saying that I will acquiesce to you but on my terms, which is about power. Four alternatives to picking up the rope: 1. Stop, smile, ignore and walk away. 2. If the issue was important, choose the right time and place to talk to your child about their behaviour. 3. If it’s not important, let it pass. Some kids just value the fight so don’t fight. 4. Use humour to diffuse the situation. Self-deprecating humour works well; sarcasm doesn’t work. Next time a child ‘throws the rope’ by having the last word or using a quick throw-away line, realise what is happening. Look at the imaginary rope, smile and refuse to pick it up. That is the adult thing to do. Hard work, but essential if we are going to be successful at bringing out the best in kids’ behaviour. Michael Grose