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Week 7 Term 2
30th May 2018
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The Newsletter of Wandoan State School P-10
A 3R and PBL School
Respect Responsibility Reaching
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Week 7 Term 2
30th May 2018
Wandoan State School P-10s 49 North Street Phone: 07 4628 8888 PO BOX 103 Fax: 07 4628 8800 WANDOAN QLD 4419 Email: [email protected]
Next P&C Meeting: 14th June, 5.30pm, Juandah Hotel
Uniform Convenor Emma Fewtrell
Date Claimers
June 1 10—12 years Softball Trials, St George
8 South West Cross Country, Miles
29 South West School Sport Feedback due
August 2-3 Year 5/6 Camp, Columboola
September 11-14 Year 4 Camp, Maroochydore
November 1-2 Year 2/3 Camp, Columboola
11-16 Year 5/6 Camp, Tallebudgera
Newsletter Email Address
Should you wish to have a community notice advertised or wish to acknowledge the achievements of a Wandoan State School student, please email your notice to
[email protected] before Monday 12pm.
Congratulations to Hunter L who was the Girls 13 Years Age Champion at the Miles and District Cross Country last week!
From the Principal’s Desk ...
A�endance: Target—95%
It is great to see so many year levels this week achieve
our goal!
.
PBL Focus this week:
“I am a posive member of a team!”
Being a posi%ve team member is:
♦ Communica%ng respec(ully
♦ Encouraging and Suppor%ng people to par%cipate
♦ Coopera%ng and Working together
♦ Being fair—ensuring all have the opportunity to
play
♦ Following the rules
♦ Focus on the Posi%ves rather than the Nega%ves.
Have a great week,
Rowie Price
Principal
Welcome to Week 7!
We are over the half-way mark of this term as we con%nue
to commit to our school improvement agenda of improving
the literacy of our students with a specific focus on Reading
and Wri%ng. We will achieve this through our teachers
abili%es to analyse and use data, to both inform their
teaching prac%ces and to assist each and every child to
become a successful learner.
Students are also being encouraged to get on board with
our Home Reading Program by reading for at least 10
minutes every night. Daily reading will assist in all aspects of
learning and students will be rewarded as they reach the
reading session milestones of Bronze, Silver, Gold and
Pla%num. Please remember that we are engaging in the
Premiers Reading Challenge and these reading sessions can
be recorded here also.
I encourage you to visit the town library located at the
Cultural Centre for students to access a range of reading
resources catering to your child’s interest. Mrs Karen Postle
spoke to our students on parade this week highligh%ng a
number of resources that are available to assist
our children to read. I would also encourage
parents to check out our helpful videos on our
Facebook Page to assist your child with Reading.
Highlights of Week 6:
♦ Students commitment to comple%ng assessment tasks
in classes.
♦ Students behaviour and par%cipa%on in the Miles and
District Cross Country event. A special men%on to
Miss Irwin who convened a great carnival and was
acknowledged by her colleagues in the district for its
success.
♦ Students of the week that were recognised for their
posi%ve talk to others and ability to be an effec%ve
team member. I am looking forward to them
modelling these behaviours again this week as part of
our PBL Focus.
♦ Our Prep/Year 1 classes a�endance at the Na%onal
Simultaneous Story%me event at the Wandoan
Library. They enjoyed the session immensely.
♦ The Student Council’s successful bake sale last week
raising funds for their Garden Improvement Plan.
Thank you to all parents and staff who made goodies
as well as the students and staff that purchased.
This week saw us welcome four new students to our
school, ICAS Science Compe%%on par%cipa%on, as well as
Mr White accompanying Kodey, Shakayla, Claudia and
Shaylen to Al%tude Day on Monday in Highfields,
Toowoomba. At this day the students were able to meet
other students from a variety of other schools, as well as be
mo%vated in success by a range of guest speakers who
focussed on students making the most of the opportuni%es
presented to them.
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SECONDARY
Isabelle M
29th May
PRIMARY
Prep—Jazlynn B
Year 2—Hunter P
Year 3—Raekwon B
Year 3—Jack H
Year 4—Kai R
Year 4—Ma)hew N
Year 4—Lacey B
Year 4—Daniel M
Year 4—Jake S
Year 5—Haylie W
PRINCIPAL’S AWARDS
Jack H
Hunter L
Brayden D
‘R’ STAR TOTALS
WEEK 6
Congratulations Cooringa ! Tye M
Miles and District Cross Country
Well done to all students who participated in the Miles & District Cross Country Trials last Friday. Congratulations to Haylee D, Tye M, Sophie R, Haylie W, Hunter L and Brayden D for qualifying to attend the South West Trials in Miles on Friday 8th June. A special mention to Hunter L, as she received the 13yrs Girls Age Champion award.
South West Softball Trials
Good luck to Haylee D as she heads to St George this Friday to trial for the South West Girls Softball Team.
Athletics Training
Athletics training will commence from next Tuesday afternoon and will continue until the end of Term 2. Training will run from 3:30pm - 4:30pm on Tuesday afternoons at the school. If any parents are willing to volunteer time to assist with these training sessions, please email Miss Irwin – [email protected]. Miss Irwin
SPORTS NEWS
STUDENT AWARDS
25 READING SESSIONS 50 READING SESSIONS
BAKE SALE
Thank you to all who supported our Student Council Bake Sale last week.
We were able to raise the impressive amount of $435 to go towards our Garden Improvement Plan.
Wandoan State School Student Council
Thank you!
INCLUSIVE INSIGHTS
Ms Zackrisen
YEAR 5/6 SCIENCE
ALTITUDE DAY—TOOWOOMBA
In Science students have
been studying natural
disasters and the effects
that these phenomena
have on the natural
landscape and living
things. Year 5/6 students
conducted an experiment
modelling volcanoes in the
school sandpit…...and they
had a blast…..literally.
Mr O’Farrell
On Monday, 28th
May four of our Year 9 students a�ended Al%tude Day in Toowoomba. Al%tude Day
empowers Year 9 students to be posi%ve leaders within the school and wider community. It gives
them the opportunity to network with students from other schools in the region and be inspired by
young leaders who are doing incredible things in the world. It gives them the confidence to be
themselves, and the framework to turn their passions and goals into reality.
There were three speakers presen%ng on the day. The first was Caitlyn Shadbolt who has followed
her dream to become an Australian pop-country music star. Next to speak was Jackson Auld who
overcame a horrific football injury to work across a wide range of campaigns and ini%a%ves that
enrich the lives of young people. He was eventually awarded Project Future’s Stella Fella Award
which recognises him as a posi%ve role model. Last to speak was Rowie McEvoy who founded a
group of Fitness Business Colleges in Australia and New Zealand which have been listed in BRW
magazine’s list of The Top 100 fastest growing companies in Australia.
All speakers were very inspiring and delivered posi%ve and engaging ideas to our Year 9 students. It
was a big day and by the %me we arrived back in Wandoan we were all exhausted, however the
students came away having had fun and having learned important messages for their futures.
Mr White
Lego Centre Toowoomba
Four Saturdays in Term 2 - 2, 9, 16 & 23rd June
Starts this Saturday!
Mission to Space
Saturday 10-11am $54 Age 5+
Junior Robotics and Coding with LEGO
10-11.30am $108 Age 7+
Introductory & Advanced LEGO Mindstorms Robotics
12.00-14.30pm $180 Age 9+