7 June 2017

Newsletter Articles

From the Principal

MAKE WORONGARY A COOL SCHOOL

To start the fund raising to air condition the school the P&C is holding a Trivia Night on Friday 16 June. Please join in, make a table with friends or come solo and make new friends. If you can't make it to the evening you can make a donation instead. All money received will be directed to the Air Conditioning Fund.

Fantastic prizes to be won including $300.00 landscaping supplies, 1 night’s accommodation at each of Mercure and RACV Resort, dinner vouchers, school uniform, movie tickets, scratchies, hair and nail vouchers, wine and much much more.

This is an adult night out, come along and join in the fun.

P&C Fundraiser

It's not too late to book a table or join a table - make payment through the Tuckshop. We are looking forward to a fun night - remember to BYO food, coins for raffles and coin toss games, and cash for the bar...and there will be a prize for the best dressed/decorated table.

Finish Strong

"Don’t count the days; make the days count." Muhammad Ali 1942-2016

In sport we often talk about the importance of finishing strong. Whether playing team or individual sports, players don’t give up until the final whistle. This also applies to learning. Tests and assessment may be finished for this semester, but teaching and learning has not stopped. It is still as important to apply ourselves to our job – learning right up until 3 pm on Friday 23 June.

All areas of work and play deserve our best right up until the very last. If I was visiting a dentist or being operated on by a surgeon I would expect that they would treat me with the same enthusiasm and effort at the end of the last day before their annual holiday as they would on their first day back after a happy and restful holiday. I have the same high expectation for all students of Worongary State School.

Prep 2018

Prep placements for 2018 are filling fast. Please ring to make an appointment for an interview to ensure that we include your child in our 2018 enrolments. Families who live outside Worongary State School catchment are able to apply for enrolment if they currently have a sibling enrolled at the school. If you have special reasons to be considered for enrolment please make a written application explaining your reasons for wanting to be considered. Out of catchment children are accepted into Worongary SS in the order the applications are received.

A Prep information session will be held in the school hall on Tuesday 18 July 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend to find out more about Worongary State School.

Attendance

It is pleasing to see a slight increase in student attendance. Please ensure that your child attends school every day. The best chance of success at school is to attend every day. Our goal is for every student to attend at least 95% of the time. If your child is sick they need to stay home and get well, but apart from that they should be at school every day. It is not only the best for them, but it is the law. Please help us to help your children. If you need some help to get them to school please contact us. Students who achieve 95% or greater attendance are recognized each semester.

Dojos

Congratulations to all the students who have now received their Bronze Dojo badges and a special congratulations to those students who have now been awarded their Silver Dojo badges.

Australian National Flag and Queensland State Flag to fly at Half-Mast Wednesday 7 June 2017 Senior Constable Brett Forte

Senior Constable Brett Forte was a serving member of the Queensland Police Service, stationed at the Toowoomba Police Station, who passed away on Monday 29 May 2017.

A funeral service with Full Police Honours will be held, Wednesday 7 June 2017.

As a mark of mourning and respect, and in accordance with protocol, the Australian National Flag and the Queensland State Flag will be flown at half-mast all day on Wednesday 7 June 2017 Queensland wide from all buildings and establishments occupied by Australian and Queensland Government departments and affiliated agencies, including our state schools.

Patrea Walton, Deputy Director-General State Schools

Behaviour

This term, students will be participating in explicit “Positive Behaviour for Learning” lessons as well as social skills lessons from the Second Step program. These lessons will be held once per fortnight.

Term Two Focus:

Listening to and Following Directions

Trying Our Hardest
Showing Respect
Doing our Best

Positive Behaviour for Learning Week 8 & 9

Second Step Weeks 8 & 9

Mid-Year Musical Recital Tuesday 13 June

Parents, Carers and family members are welcome to join us for an afternoon of music when the students of Worongary State School present their End of Semester Music Recital. Both the Rosella and Lorikeet choirs, the Band and String Ensemble will perform pieces that they have been learning and practising throughout Semester One. Please use the Breezeway entrance to the hall. The recital begins at 3:30pm and will conclude at 4:30pm.

CHANGES TO EATING AND PLAY TIME

This term we have been trialling a change to our eating and playtimes. If you would like to provide some feedback on how you find this change please do not hesitate to contact us via email with your thoughts eg. do your children like the change, have their eating habits changed (ie are they eating more or less). Thank you

Regards Marilyn Moballe, Principal

Learning Vine Awards

Curriculum Corner

Hello again

I hope you have been enjoying some good books with your family. This week I have included some tips from Tania Poultry. These tips are also applicable for advanced readers.

Also, remember the five finger rule when helping your child choose a text. Open the book to any page and ask your child to read. Put up a finger every time your child does not know a word. If you have put up more than five fingers before the end of the page, then this book is too hard for your child.

As I have stated before in previous newsletter articles, I believe family time is really important. Why not make reading part of this valuable time with your children? Here are some tips for integrating reading into our daily family activities:

• Read bedtime stories
• Play a board game.
• Visit your local library.
• Read a recipe and cook something yummy together!
• Create a comfy reading space in your home.
• Put your child in charge of writing and reading the grocery list.
• Sharing the newspaper on the weekend and discussing articles.
• Research an item together on the internet. eg: a type of pet, sharks, Alaska etc. – whatever is of interest to your child.
• Write a letter to a relative or friend – reading and writing go together hand in hand!

The most important thing when reading is making sense. Remember if your child is only reading words on the page, then they are not really reading. We need children to understand what they are reading. Even fluent, advanced readers can lack understanding when reading texts. It is important that children realise this and stop and self-correct. A valuable tool and skill for your child to master for life.

Until next time………. Happy Reading

Kind Regards Leslie Ward, Head of Curriculum

Questioning Reading

Successful readers need a bank of reading skills and strategies, motivation to read, access to a wide variety of texts and authentic opportunities to read both inside and outside of school. The culminating goal of reading is comprehension and this week in my article I’ll unpack a few key points to assist you in assisting your child with their reading development.

Children need confidence and enjoyment when reading, a positive attitude towards reading goes a long way! Confidence comes with reading texts that are interesting to them. They need to build reading stamina, familiarity and fluency with the books they choose to read. But we also must start to expose children to more complex and harder texts. We need to help them monitor their understanding of what they are reading and a way to do this is asking text dependent questions.

Text dependent questions are specifically posed questions about a text that require children to return to the text to find evidence to support their ideas or opinions. When reading new or more difficult texts with children, it’s the questions we can ask that lead them to develop a deeper understanding of the text. During reading, we should be stopping frequently to ask questions, to make sure the child understands what they are reading. They then need to refer back to the text for the answer.

Below are some ideas to guide the questions you may ask during or after reading:

1. General understanding: What is the main idea of this page? What’s the overall idea of the text?
2. Key details: Asking who/what/ when/where/why/how questions that are essential to understanding.
3. Vocabulary: Ask questions that give the meaning of the word in the text. Focus on words or phrases around that word to support its meaning.
4. Author’s purpose: Draw the reader’s attention to genre, point of view and different perspectives.
5. Inferences: Examine the indirectly stated ideas, arguments, or key details in the text.
6. Opinions and arguments: Use their foundational knowledge to make connections to other text using ideas from the text in their answer.

Asking text dependent questions to lead a child towards a deeper comprehension of the text is hard work. But the only way to get better at something is to practice! So next time you’re reading with your child, ask them some questions that make them find the answer in the text.

Kind Regards Tom McDonald, Teaching and Learning Coordinator

Finance

STUDENT RESOURCE SCHEME 2017

Thank you to all those parents who have paid their SRS payments on time. We have a number of parents who have not adhered to their commitment as per the signed SRS Participation Agreement.

Unless you are on an approved Payment Plan all SRS fees are to be paid in full by Friday, 16 June.

As per the SRS Participation Agreement Form, where SRS payments are in arrears, students will be unable to attend excursions, camps and other school activities requiring payments. . (See item 31 on the SRS participation agreement form.)

Payments can be made at any time via the internet using the following bank details and description:

Account Name: Worongary State School General Account
BSB: 064-451
Account No: 10012741
Description: Enter first five letters of students surname space first three letter of their given name space reference code SRS.

Payment window is opened 8.00am – 10.00am Tuesday and Friday mornings. Credit card details can be taken over the phone.

PAYMENT DUE DATES FOR ACTIVITIES

A reminder also that our policy is not to accept late payments for activities and I can assure you that at times this causes students, parents and also our staff great distress, but we need to maintain this position to ensure that variations to our school routine meet all the requirements of our Department which in turn is a safeguard to our students.

FINANCE WINDOW

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FINANCE WINDOW WILL BE CLOSED FROM WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE 2017 AND WILL REOPEN FOR BUSINESS ON TUESDAY 11 JULY 2017. PLEASE BE AWARE INTERNET PAYMENTS CAN BE MADE PROVIDING THEY APPEAR ON THE SCHOOL’S STATEMENT BEFORE DUE DATE.

Music Corner

Mid-Year Music Recital will be held on Tuesday 13 June 3:30 - 4:30pm in the hall at Worongary State School. Free admission, Parents, friends and family are most welcome to attend.

All students in band, strings and both choirs should be enthusiastically practising their pieces for the recital. We are anticipating a full attendance by all students. If your child is unable to attend the recital, can you please advise either me or your child's instrumental teacher. Can I also stress the importance of attending all rehearsals which is vital to a great performance. Thank you again parents for your support.

Regards Bonnie Hapi, Music & Arts

From the Classroom 3M & 3Y

The children in 3M and 3Y had fun using natural resources to create a landscape collage. The students have been studying Jeannie Baker, an award winning author and illustrator of children's picture books. She uses a mixed media to create detailed and elaborate collages in her books.

The children created their own masterpieces.

Regards Class Teachers Donna Ermer and Kristy Walland

Student Council – Give Me 5 Kids

Give Me 5 for Kids is a national fundraiser which has been supporting and raising funds for local children’s hospital wards across Australia for the last 20 years.

Each June, our local radio and television networks get behind the cause by holding local fundraising events. Gold FM will be joining us this year and broadcasting live from Worongary State School on the morning of Wednesday 14 June. In order to raise much needed funds for the hospitals we will be holding a free dress day to coincide with the event. All money raised will go to Give Me 5 for Kids. More details will follow shortly.

Thanks to the open hearts and generosity of the public, Give Me 5 for Kids continue to raise more funds annually for our local children’s hospital wards, and make a real difference to the lives of sick local kids.

Sports Draw

26 May

2 June

Excursions

P&C News

Colour Run

Prizes have been finalised and we are now awaiting their delivery. As soon as they arrive they will be distributed out to the classrooms. Thank you all for your patience.

School Banking

Just a friendly reminder, School Banking has now been changed to Wednesday. Well done to all those that remembered last week.

Trivia Night

Our Trivia Night is fast approaching please book ASAP!

Tickets are $10.00 each or $15.00 at the door. Tables are made up of 8 people and we will be having mixed tables, so if you can’t make up a whole table it doesn’t matter, still come along and play, have fun and support us. It will be a great entertaining night with lots of fun to be had.

This is a strictly 18+ event. Cash bar available on the night and BYO food.

All monies raised on the night are going towards installing Air- Conditioning into our children’s classrooms. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

Regards P&C

Tuckshop & Uniform

Opening Hours
Monday-Friday: 8:30am-2:00pm
Closed: Entire last day of each Term

Zambrero Meals Available Friday 23 June (last day of Term)

Get ready for something a bit special that we’re rather excited about.

In conjunction with Zambrero’s, we have planned a Mexican Lunch Day for the last day of the term, Friday 23 June. As the Tuckshop will be closed on the last day of term, this provides an alternative option for ordering lunch on this day. A range of meals are available for pre-order. Here’s what you need to know:

• available on the last day of term Friday 23 June
• available by pre-order only
• available at First Break only
• cut-off date for ordering is Wednesday 21 June. Orders must be into the Tuckshop (via classroom Tuckshop basket) by 9am this day.
• cash only (not available online)
• drinks are an optional extra
• gluten free options available
• an order form will be emailed out in the next week and printed copies of the order form will also be available from the Tuckshop and Admin office next week.

If the Zambrero Mexican Day proves to be popular, we will look at running similar days for the last day of every Term.

Menu Changes

We are currently in the process of making some changes to the Tuckshop Menu. Which ensure that we remain compliant with the Government’s Smart Choice Strategy. Watch this space in the next edition of the Pipeline for a copy of the updated menu which will take effect in term 3.

Uniform Shop News

Opening Hours
Monday: 8:00am-9:00am
Wednesday: 2:15pm-3:15pm
Friday: 8:00am-9:00am
Direct Dial number: 5502 4409

Polo Shirt Shortage

Please note that polo shirts remain out of stock in size 6 and size 8, with delivery of our next shipment expected to be early in term 3. We thank you in advance for your patience while we await the delivery.

At this time we also invite parents to bring in any unwanted second hand polos in these sizes. This will replenish our stock of pre-loved items and will help out other families (especially those who are new to the school) who require these items.

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