proserpine state school enewsletter · 2018-07-27 · term 3 date what's on information....

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25 July 201825 July 2018

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TERM 3 Date What's On Information

Week 2

Thursday 26.07.18 Prep 2019Visit –ProserpinePublic Kindy

Blue GroupPNC

Friday 27.07.18 Proserpineand DistrictAthlecticsTrials

PSS Oval

Friday 27.07.18 Assembly 2:30pm MPC

Week 3

Tuesday 31.07.18 Prep 2019Visit – C & KKindy

PEW

Tuesday 31.07.18 ICASEnglish

Thursday 02.08.18 FeteMeeting

6:00pmResourceCentre


Week 4

Monday 06.08.18 Prep 2019Visit -Goodstart


Thursday 09.08.18 PSHS Yr 6ParentInformationSession 1

6:00pmPSHS

Thursday 09.08.18 Year OneExcursion –CannonvaleBeach


Week 5

Tuesday 14.08.18 ICASMathematics



Thursday 16.08.18 P&CMeeting



Week 6


Week 7

Wednesday -Friday

29.08.18-31.08.18 Year 4Camp

Conway

Thursday 30.08.18 Year 6PSHSTransitionDay

PSHS

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Week 9

Wednesday-Friday

12.09.18 –14.09.18

Big Sing FitzgeraldState School,Mackay

Friday 14.09.18 School Fete– SpringCarnival

PSS MPC -Oval

Week 10

Monday-Friday 17.09.18 –

21.09.18

Footsteps


6:30ResourceCentre


Friday 21.09.18 End of Term3

Term 4

Week 2

Thursday 18.10.18 Year 6PSHS FinalParentInformationSession

6:00pmPSHS




Week 3

Monday 22.10.18 Year 2/3ChoirEisteddfod

MackayEntertainmentCentre


Week 4

Tuesday 30.10.18 TLC DayTechnology


Week 5

Thursday 08.11.18 PrepInformationEvening



Week 6





Week 7

Tuesday -Friday

20.11.18 –23.11.18

Year 5Camp

PalumaEnvironmentalEducationCentre


Week 9

Thursday 06.12.18 Carols byCandle Light

5:30pm MPC

Week 10

Monday 10.12.18 Year 6 FinalTransitionDay

PSHS

Tuesday 11.12.18 Year 6Graduation

6:00pm MPC

Wednesday 12.12.18 Year 6 ReefTrip

Friday 14.12.18 Last DaySchool 2018

Principal’s News

Welcome

Welcome to Term 3! A special welcome tothe 13 new students who started atProserpine State School this term. I trusteverybody has had a nice holiday and returned refreshed forSemester 2.

Staffing Update

It is with great pleasure I congratulate Ms Linda Sippel onher appointment as Acting Deputy Principal for the remainderof 2018. The Acting Deputy Principal position was advertisedstate-wide through an open merit process. As Acting DeputyPrincipal Ms Sippel will certainly add value to our school andprovide wonderful leadership due to her many years ofexperience at Proserpine State School and her currentleadership of Student Support Services.

The now vacant Head of Special Education (HOSE) will be filledinternally, through an expression of interest, by week 3 of thisterm.

Semester One Reports

Semester One report cards were emailed to families onWednesday 25 July. Much care and effort by teachers goesinto assessment and writing student reports. I thank them for

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their professionalism and dedication. If you have any concernsplease contact your child’s teacher or the school office.

National Rugby League Foundation Cup –Northern Champions

Last week our Rugby League development team defeated theWillows State School to be crowned Northern State Schoolschampions. In a nail biting game the team won 12-10.Congratulations on the win and for showing exemplary teamwork and sportsmanship. I would like to acknowledge thededication and commitment of the students participating in thedevelopment squad and Mr Nosworthy.

The win means our school team is the best under 12 team inthe Northern Region. They are in the top 8 under 12 teams inQLD left to compete in the quarter finals.

The team will play their quarterfinal match against the Peninsulachampions Cairns West State School in Townsville on Sunday29 July.

Go Prossie State!

Sporting House Uniform Update

Over the last 12 months Proserpine State High School (PSHS)Sport and Recreation students and our P&C have beendiscussing and consulting on our new sport uniforms andhouse mascots. At the end of the year our new sport shirts willbe available to purchase for the commencement of the 2019school year. Our sport shirts design will be the same as PSHSsport shirts. Our students will also remain in the same sporthouse when they enrol at the high school. Proserpine StateSchool sport shirts are approved to be worn by students in year7 at PSHS.

Our student council and PSHS student council voted for thefollowing mascots -

Teaching and Learning Update

This term we have implemented some changes to our Englishprogram. The changes have been made after reflection fromteachers attending the Haileybury Study Tours and review ofstudent learning data.

English written assessment will no longer be based on a singlewritten task at the end of the term. This term the focus genreis information reports. Students will be taught through explicitinstruction the generic structure, language features andvocabulary of an information report for the first 5 weeks of theterm. On the Friday of weeks 6-10 students will independentlywrite an information report which will be collected forassessment. This model will provide students with multipleopportunities to demonstrate their writing skills. Teachers willalso be provided with multiple opportunities to providefeedback to students on how they can improve their writing.

Rob TempletonPrincipal

Deputy Principal

Warm welcome

I would like to extend a warm welcome to the new familiesenrolled this term and say thank you to those of you who havewelcomed me into my new role. Although this role isn’t new tome I look forward to the challenges and achievements it brings.

Safety Circus

Our Year 3 and 4 students attended this event run by theMackay District Crime Prevention Unit in conjunction with agroup of drama students from CQ University in the last week ofTerm 2.

This dynamic and interactive production captured the attentionof all students embedding three major safety concerns thatface the children of our community today through a dramaticperformance.

These three messages were:

1. Protective Behaviours: Safety Networks and teachingwe can talk with someone about anything no matterwhat it is;

2. Bullying and Bystander Behaviour; and

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We were delighted to welcome back a former student JacksonWecker as one of the lead actors in the performance. ConstableSteve Ringelstein, our adopt-a-cop also enjoyed the productionand will continue to engage with our schools in delivering theseimportant safety messages.

Class newsletters

Teachers are currently creating their class newsletters for thisterm. Look out for them as they contain vital information for youand your child’s academic and social success.

Classroom visits

Each week I get out and about interacting with students andteachers in the classrooms. This week I visited Prep duringreading time. What a pleasure it was to see and hear Prepstudents enthusiastically reading with expression. Thank youMrs Campbell and Mrs Edmondson for your time and I lookforward to seeing the improvement in these students in thefuture.

Athletics Carnival

Congratulations to Trevor who successfully hosted anotherAthletics Carnival for Proserpine State School. We welcomestudents and staff to the Proserpine District Athletics day thisFriday and wish everyone the best of luck.

School Opinion Survey

The parent School Opinion Survey will be conducted 30 July to24 August 2018. All families are invited to participate online. Weencourage you to take this opportunity to have your say aboutwhat our school does well, and how we can improve. Passwordinformation will be sent out with the eldest in the family on Fridayfor you to access the survey online.

Linda SippelDeputy Principal

Curriculum Matters

Report Cards

Soon, you will receive your child’s Semester 1 Report Card viaemail. When you open this document, I strongly encourage youto look closely at the ratings awarded for Effort. These ratingsrecognise how hard your child is working in lessons, how muchthey strive to achieve and reflect their Growth Mindset.

At right is a graph from Semester 1 report cards thatsummarises the Effort ratings in every key learning area forevery student in Semester 1. You can clearly see that thereare minimal incidences where our students need to showimprovement in this area, which is superb.

Should your child’s ratings in Effort indicate that she/he needsattention, please make an appointment to talk with the teacher/s.Working together with a common goal, along with your child’sinput, we can achieve positive outcomes.

Awards

As always, we will recognise studentachievement from the Semester 1 ReportCards. This year, there have been someminor adjustments in that in both Semester 1and Semester 2 will see students receiveCertificates for Excellence and Recognitionfor Significant Improvement.

The assembly on Friday 03 August will commence at 2.10pmso that individual students can receive their certificates. Parentsand carers will be contacted via email beforehand, should theybe able to attend. Please check your emails!

3. Bicycle and non-motorised wheeled recreationaltoys: the wearing of safety helmets and safetyequipment to prevent injury.

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Head of CurriculumLee-Anne [email protected]

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

SWPBS – “Fair isn’t equal”

Children are often heard to say that it is not fair that studentswith disabilities, learning difficulties or behavioural difficultiesreceive more support than those children who do notexperience these deficits.

It is important that teachers and parentsredirect children’s thinking that “Fair isn’tequal, fair is when everyone gets what theyneed to achieve a goal”. The argument isequity versus equality and the following illustration is one waythat we can see that some people require more support thanothers, to meet their needs. Would anyone say it was unfair thatthe smaller child was given a box from the taller boy who didn’tneed it? That Johnny was given a bandaid to cover a graze butnobody else in the class was given a bandaid. The sameanalogy can be applied to behaviour support and learningsupport and children who do not require this extra boost needto have empathy for those peers who do require the extrasupport. Sometimes the support may be in the form of extrastaff time or in acknowledgement programs and these shouldnot be seen as being “unfair” but as being equitable.

When your children express that someone is getting moreattention than they are at school, encourage them to reflecton the fact that they are fortunate enough not to require thatsupport in order to achieve and hopefully that will always be thecase.

Ann GardelBehaviour Support Teacher

MUSIC

Why Music?

Music (and singing in particular) helps develop achild’s language skills.

Songs are both sung/spoken and heard. Children do not haveto be able to read in order to learn a song. Because songs arefilled with rhymes, alliteration, and different sound patterns, theyactually celebrate the sounds of language. Singing favouritesongs over and over again helps children become consciouslyaware of sounds and the way we can manipulate them – breakthem apart, blend them together, highlight certain ones andminimise others.

So, the bottom line is: Sing away! Sing traditional children’ssongs, teach your children your own favourite rock or popsongs, make up songs together. You will be instilling a life-longlove of language as well as giving them the foundationnecessary for learning to read. (This was taken from an articlepublished for Scholastic by author, Susan Canizares, who holdsa PhD in language and literacy development

Welcome back everyone to another jam-packed term ofmusical activities and assessment. Remember, to achievebetter results you need to practise.

Samoan Sasa Steps

Well done to the whole school who performed these clappingpatterns on the last assembly of Term 2. It looked very effective.All the children have been learning the steps for the whole ofTerm 2. Yrs 4-6 know Steps 1-9 and the rest of the schoolSteps 1-5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QUsxlA5qk

Junior Choir

This choir has been learning great songs and are preparing toperform on assembly, at the Uniting Church Flower Show on1st September, the school fete on September 14th and theMackay Eisteddfod on Friday 26 October. Very shortly, wordsof the songs will be given to your child. It would be appreciatedif you could remind your child to keep learning the words of thesongs. Rehearsal day is Tuesday at 11.00am.

Senior Choir

This choir rehearses on Thursday at 11.00am. We hope tobe able to perform on Assembly and at the Eisteddfod on 26October.

Information will be given shortly about the Big Sing in Mackayat Fitzgerald State School 12-14 September.

Keep singing and playing

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mailto:[email protected]

Music TeacherElspeth Scotford

SPORTS

Sport Representatives 2018

The 2018 school sporting season continues to reach variousstages of representation.

Again, there have been a number of students from ProserpineState School who have made the Proserpine District level innumerous sports and then gone on to be selected inWhitsunday teams to attend Northern Region Trials.

Congratulations to all of our students as they have been greatambassadors for our school with their behaviour andcommitment in the various teams.

A special mention must go to the following students for theirselection in Northern Region Teams to attend State Titles intheir respective sports.

Flynn Armitage and Charlotte Lee for their selection in theNorthern Region Cross Country Team to compete in the statetitles at the Sunshine Coast.

Kai Collins for his selection in the Northern Region Tennis Teamto compete at the state titles in Rockhampton.

Grady Turner for this selection in the Northern Region TouchFootball Team to compete at the state titles in Bundaberg. Thefact Grady has made the team a year above his age is an extraspecial achievement.

Congratulations also to Mr Ryan Gilmour who has beenselected to coach this year’s Northern Region Boys TouchFootball Team

We wish them all the best at the titles as they each vie forQueensland selection.

WHITSUNDAY DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES

SOFTBALL Ella Gow, Emily Lee

TOUCH Violette Matthews, Lacey Linnewebber,Sharniquah Morsch-Ivey

Sean Klaassen, Grady Turner, Kohan Mau

NORTHERN REGION REPRESENTATIVES

RUGBYLEAGUE

Blaide Plowright

TENNIS Kai Collins

TOUCH Grady Turner, Mr Ryan Gilmour

CROSSCOUNTRY

Flynn Armitage, Charlotte Lee

Visual Art News

Whitsunday Voices 2018Our first session was with Mick Elliott, children’s author, kid’sTV presenter and scriptwriter at Nickelodeon. He was theproducer for Camp Orange, Slime Cup and Slime Fest. Mickhad the children in fits of laughter when he told them of the timehe ‘slimed’ Delta Goodrem and watched as the green mess sliddown her face taking her extremely long false eyelashes withit. His latest series, The Turners, is about a 13 year old boyLeo Lennox who is a shape shifter. A shape shifter is one whotransforms into animal-like creatures. Mick interacted with thechildren to get them to imagine they were a ‘shape shifter’ andvisualise what animal they would be. His advice to young writers

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was to use your imagination, use real life experiences and tohave the reader wondering what is going to happen next.

The second session was James Phelan an author of 29 novels.His latest publication was a 13 book adventure series called‘The Last Thirteen’. James informed the children that he started‘teeny, tiny’ stories when only 5 years old. His first story wasa recipe for a juice drink because he wanted to own a juiceempire when he grew up. When he was in Yr 5 he travelledoverseas and kept a travel diary detailing what he saw, did andate in great detail. All this added to his writing experience. Hisdream was to be a writer and as a child whenever anybodyasked him what he wanted to be when he grew up it wasalways ‘a writer of books.’ As a writer he bases his stories onfamily and friends as it makes the task easier, he knows theirpersonalities and characteristics and in real life he can get backat them by putting them in his stories.

The last session of the day was a performance by the Sake& Stir theatre company. They entertained us with a productioncalled ‘Chapter Three’. The show demonstrated how storiescan jump off the page and engage the audience withimaginative interpretations of traditional tales. The youngperformers thoroughly entertained us and made us laugh withtheir use of drama and humour.

Thanks to Karen Muller and Carmel Harrison for helping out onthe day.

Cheryl WestWhitsunday Voices Organiser

2/3AW ExcursionOn Wednesday of week 1, 2/3AW went on their excursion tothe Whitsunday Crocodile Safari. The students had a wonderfulday learning about crocodile habitats, lifecycles, theiradaptations and diet. The day started with a train ride throughthe northern wetlands where we learnt some facts about bushtucker and some information about trees that grow in our localenvironment. After some damper and billy tea, we were off onthe boat exploring the Proserpine River. We were introduced toa number of local crocodile’s behaviours and territories. We hadan awesome day and I’m proud to say the students were wellbehaved and excellent role models for Proserpine State School.

Amy Williscroft2/3 Class Teacher

Student Resource SchemeTerm 3 Resource Scheme instalment is due for paymentbyThursday, 26 July 2018.

Money days are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:15 to 2:00pm.

Uniform ShopThe uniform shop now has larger size shirts in stock (XS,S,Mand L). Open Fridays 8:30-9:00

The office is in desperate need of any secondhand boys’ shorts.Also we would love any skorts and polo shirts for any accidentsthat may happen at school. If you have any at home that youno longer require, please just drop them into the office ladies –thank you.

Lost PropertyLost Property is now located beside the tuckshop and isoverflowing again. These items will be donated at the end of theterm if not collected. Please make sure that all of your items areclearly labelled so that they can be returned to your child.

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Camp Australia

What’s Happening & General

School Fete

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Year 6 Parent Information Evening for PSHS

Prep 2019 Orientation Program

QParents

Access your child’s student information online and stayconnected with your school.

Access to report cards, attendance records, invoice andpayment details, online payments.

Visit the link below and register onlineContact the school’s office if you require further information

https://qparents.qld.edu.au/

Facebook Page

For the latest news and any important school alerts please LIKEthe Proserpine State School Facebook page.It is a key point of information regarding changes to schoolroutine, upcoming events, good news stories etc.

To visit the page click here:

https://www.facebook.com/ProserpineStateSchool

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Timeout Poster

P&C UpdateWe were welcomed back to a new term and the highlights ofthe meeting last Thursday night are below.-

Tracey PeckPresident

Tuckshop

Welcome back to term 3. What a fantastic week we had for myfirst week as new convenor. Thank you to all students, parentsand teachers who have popped into introduce themselves andwish me luck. Also, a HUGE thank you to those who continueto support us and the new people who are trying tuckshop forthe first time.

We are going to begin having a specials day each week withsome exciting new items to try. These will be available via Flexischools and also to order at the tuckshop. Keep your eyespeeled for Facebook and email updates. The specials will alsobe displayed at the tuckshop.

If anyone is, or has been thinking about being a volunteer, Iencourage you to drop in, have a cuppa and a chat. Even if youcan only spare half and hour, it is an enormous help to keep usproviding awesome food and offer amazing new options.

I look forward to working with all of you to create an amazingfood experience for everyone.

Thank youAmanda YuskanTuckShop Convenor

• Next Fete Meeting 6pm Thursday 2 August

• Motion was moved to purchase a new airconditioning system for the Tuckshop.

• Welcome to Amanda Yuskan as our new TuckshopConvenor. In her new role she will be writing all aboutthe tuckshop in the talk below.

• We enjoyed an informative presentation fromMichael, Advanced Life Photography showcasingtheir latest technology with our school photos.

• Plans have been submitted to Education Dept. of our“Ex - Dental” building to begin the internal renovation.

• New hats and new sports shirts are ordered and weawait their arrival.

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For easy online ordering just register via the link below:or contact flexischools on1300 361 769.

Alternatively, you can collect further information from theladies at the tuckshop.

https://www.flexischools.com.au/

Community Notices

Early Childhood Australia

Neighbourhood Watch Queensland

Sugar Cane Crushing Season

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Proserpine Library

Cystic Fibrosis

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