Week NINE Term Two 2018

Tuesday Telegraph

Texas P -10 State School

Principal News

Last week I highlighted some of the areas

of focus to ensure we are best prepared for

this flu season and remain as healthy as

possible with high levels of attendance.

This year our whole school attendance is

currently at 93%, exactly matching our

2018 target. This is a figure to be proud of

and can only be achieved through

consistent commitment to learning from

our entire school community.

Student attendance for very good reasons

attracts a high amount of attention,

however perhaps a better way to phrase

our emphasis would be aiming to

eliminate all non-essential absences. I

appreciate given our location students

will occasionally need to be absent for

required appointments, and as stated

last week, if students are sick they are

best placed to recover at home and

minimise the risk of sharing their illness.

Thank you to the vast majority of families

who do adopt this approach and I

apologise if it causes some angst at home

with your children when they really are

too sick to attend but still want to come to

school. I would argue this is a lovely

problem to have as it shows a dedication

to their schooling which we certainly want

to grow and foster.

Finally, with the end of term approaching

please engage with your children in

relation to how they are progressing with

their assessments. Feel free to contact

your child’s teacher if you believe further

support is required to assist your

son/daughter in understanding what they

are currently learning, how they are going

and what they need to do to demonstrate

what they’ve learnt (how they are being

assessed).

Have a great week

Justin.

Tips for Creating Resilient Families

12th June 2018

Summarised from Andrew Fullers article

Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficult situations.

Andrew Fuller lists the 10 steps to follow to create resilient families:

Promote belonging

Children are most resilient when they have three types of belonging; a

sense of being part of a family; having different friendships to belong

to; having an adult outside their family who connects with them.

Have some down time

Find some time each week to just be at home without anything

structured happening. Quiet times allow children to develop creativity

and ingenuity.

Family rituals

Family rituals are string predictors of resilience. It could be the family

walk after dinner, the Sunday roast, Friday night pizza, children will

later on reminisce about these rituals.

Love kids for their differences

When families function well, individuals in the family are allowed to be

different and to be loved for those differences. Encourage your children

to be strongly individual and proud of their differences.

Be clear about who is in charge

Authoritative parenting allows children to feel safe, have clear

boundaries and flourish. Some parents fear that if they take charge

that they will lose the friendship of their children, but often the reverse

is true.

Andrew Fuller is a clinical psychologist specialising in wellbeing

of young people and their families. See the full article at:

https://www.theparentswebsite.com.au/ten-tips-for-creating-

resilient-families/

Document—To support a claim with evidence. In real life, we might document arguments to build up a case for why we believe something to be true. In Science, we document results before coming to a conclusion

about an experiment.

12/06 Arts Council

13/06 P&C Meeting 5.30pm

13/06 ICAS Spelling

13/06 Broncos Cup

14/06 MZ Girls League

14/06 ICAS Writing

15/06 Singfest

15/06 Dress Down Day

19/06 Readers Cup

27 & 28 June Athletics Carnival

29/06 Rewards Day

Term Two Ends 29th June

Term Three starts Monday 16th July

16/7 School Dental Van arrives

Student of the Week

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Be

Responsible

Be

Respectful

Be

Safe Attendance Award

93%Whole School 92.4%

Year 2 96%

Dates to Remember

Choir Every Thurs of Term two

Chess Wed Lunchtime

ABSENCES For all student absences please phone Student

Absence Line: 4653 3366

LATE TO SCHOOL Any students arriving late must present at the

Office before going to class.

UNIFORM SHOP Open every Wed from 3.15pm

Back L-R: Dakota T, Amylee H,

Leshanta W

Middle L-R: Tyler K, Ella B & Mac R

Front L-R: Heath M, Cobi G, Lillie W &

Brock D

Music will be this Thursday

and next Monday (instead of

Thursday ) in Week Ten

Be Respectful—respect others rights when

playing

take turns when playing games or using

equipment.

Use supportive language.

Follow the rules of the game.

Play fairly.

Include others.

In science, the year 8-10 have been very busy!

From conducting their own experimental

investigations in year 10, dissecting rats and

debating the purpose of vaccination in year 9 and

year 8’s building Rube Goldberg’s.

All School News Prep Ms Nettie

Students have been very busy last week and this week completing assessment tasks related to

the subjects they have been learning about. If you check your curriculum snapshot for this term,

you can see what tasks we are working on. Every year the prep classroom has 100 days at school celebration.

Prep students have been eagerly crossing off each day of attendance at school. We are getting closer to our

target of 100 Days at Prep! We will be holding a 100 Days of Prep celebration that will include a morning of

activities and a mini concert of songs and poems. We will be holding this celebration early next term. We would

like to invite parents and grandparents to join us. I will send home more information by the end of week 11.

ABC Reading Eggs

REMINDER: Our amazing Reading Eggs program is available for the rest of the year and is a great

opportunity to support your child’s learning at home. This program supports students learning of

letter/sound knowledge as well as segmenting and blending sounds. Each level ends with a book that

allows the students to put their decoding skills into action.

ClassDojo

Thank you to all the parents who are using our ClassDojo. I am really enjoying using this app as a

communication tool to send photos and information about your child and the class throughout the

week.

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This week I had the pleasure of hearing the story of Baguens Theus, a man who was once a child in the

Compassion Child Sponsorship Program. Baguens was born in Haiti and at the age of 5, due to extreme

poverty, became a sponsor child in the Compassion program. This enabled him and his mother to be well fed,

have clean drinking water, quality shelter, and just as importantly Baguens was able to attend school. For only

$50/MTh, his sponsor father was able to provide these things through the program for almost 15 yrs. Baguens,

now a father of 3, has since completed school, has 2 University Master’s degree’s, served 5 years in the Haitian

congress, and is now training up to go back to Haiti and run for President and change his country! All through

one mans sponsorship! WOW!

Chappy Chatter with Chappy Jason

Year Five

We have

been

working col-

laboratively

with the

students in

Year 3, on special space projects. Year 5 students are

learning about planets, while the Year 3 students are

learning about Earth. Students will present their

posters together comparing Earth to a specific planet.

Both classes are enjoying the chance to demonstrate

collaborative learning.

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The Dental Van is Coming!!

Dental Care

registration

forms are

attached in

todays

newsletter

please return

before 29/6/18

Completion of

registration

form only indicates your wish to

participate and allows oral health staff to

contact you.

The Dental Van will be at the school at the

beginning of term 3.

Please Note:

Parents/Guardians must attend all

appointments

There are limited appoints avail

before and after school—most will be

during school hours

Your Child must be named on a

medicare card

If you need any further information

Please contact the office 0746533333

Uniform Shop News

The uniform shop will be closed over the

holidays and will be back in business Wed

afternoon of Term Three. All stocks are

available except for small school hats which

are currently out of stock.

Please contact

Mandy 0459 438 500 or Marea

0408 010 951

Menu for Athletics Carnival Week 11

Thursday

1 sausage sandwich 2.00

2 sausage sandwich 4.00

Sandwiches or wraps

Chicken 3.00

Chicken & Salad 4.00

Ham 3.00

Ham & Salad 4.00

Salad 3.00

Egg 3.00

Drinks

Popper 1.50

Bottled Water 1.50

Tea/Coffee gold coin

Cappuccino 3.00

Prep/1/2/3 -Please have lunch orders in tuckshop on

Wednesday.

All other years will have the opportunity to purchase from

the canteen on the day

Other Items

Chips 1.00

Cake/Muffin/Slice/Biscuit

1.00

Ovaltines 1.00

Popcorn 1.00

Bag of Lollies 1.50

Calling all bakers! The P&C are looking for donations

of cakes and slices to be made for the Athletics carni-

val Week 11 Thursday the 28th June.

If you could have these individually wrapped and

dropped into the school on Wednesday the 27th

or at the stall on the 28th.

P & C meeting this Wednesday

13th June in the Library 5.30pm