19 July 2017

Newsletter Articles

From the Principal

Welcome Back to Term 3

Welcome back to our students and families for term 3. This is shaping up to be a very busy term with excursions for Preps, Years 1 and 2, as well as camps for Year 4 and Year 6. Ms Moballe is taking leave for term 3 and I will be taking on the role as Acting Principal. Mrs Ready will continue in her role of Deputy Principal for the Senior School and we are currently in the process of appointing an Acting Deputy Principal for the Junior School. Thank you to Mr McDonald for stepping into this role for the first two weeks of term.

Our school review — an opportunity to have your say

Our school is scheduled for a school review from September 5 – 7. The Department of Education and Training regularly reviews Queensland state schools to ensure they’re delivering quality education to students. The reviews are conducted by the department’s School Improvement Unit.

The reviews do not rate or compare schools, but provide teachers and other staff with independent feedback to help them continue to improve learning outcomes for students.

All schools have a review at least every four years. Key findings from the review will be made available to parents and the community on the school’s website.

The review team would like to hear from our school community and I encourage anyone who is interested to have their say. Your feedback is important and will help us continue to deliver a great education for students. Feedback can be provided to the review team by phone or in person. All feedback is confidential.

Please contact the school office if you are interested in speaking to a reviewer. Alternatively, you can register your interest by emailing SIUMB@det.qld.gov.au More information about the review process is available from the department’s website at:

Prep 2018 Enrolments

A reminder to parents who are enrolling their children into Prep at Worongary State School in 2018 that interviews are now taking place. If you have not yet handed in your enrolment documents and made an appointment for an interview, please do so to ensure you receive updated information as we head into our transition activities.

Playground Updates

We are currently in the middle of two major projects to update the Junior Adventure Playground, and create a new Senior Adventure Playground.

Junior Adventure Playground

Our new retaining wall is nearing completion and the contractors are beginning to restore the surrounding areas to their original state. We are still currently unable to access the playground area, but have been working to investigate ideas for revamping existing equipment and purchasing new elements to add into the playground. Some ideas we are looking at include a wooden boat for imaginative play and building a new sandpit in this area. We will keep you informed as completion dates are confirmed.

Senior Adventure Playground

Our P&C have been sourcing ideas and quotes for developing a Senior Adventure Playground in the area between the Music Block and the Multi-Purpose Courts. Student Councillors have been asked to share their ideas and we now have a very good idea of what this should look like and the types of equipment the students would like to see included. Our next step is to seek quotes for our design, then select a company to complete the work. We are hoping that installation will be completed by the end of this term.

NAIDOC Week

NAIDOC Week is celebrated each year in July with celebrations this year falling within the second week of the school holidays. Worongary State School students will celebrating NAIDOC Week in Week 2 of Term 3. This year, the theme is “Our Languages Matter”. To celebrate our local language, students in Years 3 – 6 will be using the Yugambeh Language Program to create Haiku Poems. Our Junior school will be learning about bush tucker plants and their uses.

We will be holding special assemblies to mark NAIDOC Week on Friday 21 July. Senior Assembly will be held in the hall at 9:15am and Junior Assembly at 2:15pm. Parents and carers are welcome.

Behaviour

In term 3, students will be continuing to participate in an explicit Positive Behaviour for Learning lesson as well as a social skills lesson from the Second Step program. These lessons will be held once per fortnight.

Term Three Focus: Taking Pride in Our School

Behaving appropriately
Looking after school property
Looking after the school/Classroom environment

Positive Behaviour for Learning Week 2 & 3 Term 3

Second Step Weeks 2 & 3

Air Conditioning

Thank you to parents and carers who responded to the survey about air conditioning and have indicated that they will support fundraising efforts to air condition our learning areas. We have now received a quote that has provided us with a scope of works and a ball-park price that we can start to work towards. A meeting for parents will be held in the coming weeks to share with you the overall price of the project, to decide on an installation plan, and to explain fundraising activities that will be taking place. Please keep an eye out for an invitation.

Attendance

It is important that all students are attending school unless there is an acceptable reason such as illness or family/cultural commitment. The beginning of the term is when teachers revisit classroom expectations and give students preliminary work to form the basis of learning that will be taking place throughout the term. Therefore, this is a very important time in the term.

The graph below outlines the number of students who have been absent over the first week of Term 3, with the blue showing how many of those are still unexplained. We now send out daily SMS messages that parents can reply with the reason for absence.

Please remember that Every Day Counts in your child’s education.

Regards Kerry White, Acting Principal

Learning Vine Awards

Resource Centre

Book Club

Latest issue of Book Club has been sent home this week.

ALL orders must be sent to the Library no later than Tuesday 25 July.

Please ensure that correct money has been included, and child’s name & class are clearly marked on the order form.

Orders should be returned within 10-14 days of closing date.

Please call if you need any assistance with this.

Regards, Jann Connor, Teacher/Librarian

Music Corner

Welcome back everyone to Term 3. This term the Band and Rosella and Lorikeet choirs will be performing at the Eisteddfods held at the Arts Centre. Please note their performance dates:

1. Lorikeet choir 10:30am Monday 28 August
2. Rosella choir 2:30pm Monday 28 August
3. Band 6:00pm Thursday 24 August

Parents if you wish to attend admission costs are $10.00 adults and $5.00 children at the Gold Coast Arts Centre.

Another date to note is Wednesday 23 August which will be Grandparents Day.  The Lorikeet choir will be performing for 10-15 minutes at 9:30am and the Rosella choir will be performing for 10-15 minutes at 10:30am.

I cannot emphasize the words, "practice, practice and more practice" to all music students and for the choir students please learn your words and lastly, please attend all rehearsals.

Regards Bonnie Hapi, Music & Arts

Student Council

Student council will be organising Jeans for Genes Day on Friday 4 August. We encourage everyone to don their denim for this great cause. A gold coin donation is all that is requested. There will also be Jeans for Genes Day coloured pencils on sale for $1.00 per pack, with all funds raised going to J4G. One in twenty children are born with a birth defect or genetic disease – on average, that’s one in every classroom affected. We believe that is one child too many. Research is critical in ensuring every child has the opportunity to live a long and healthy life. Your school’s support will help us beat childhood disease. Worongary State School has their own profile page at:

This is a great way for your students to share with friends and family to let them know we are raising money for Jeans for Genes Day.

Read and Grow

We had a fantastic time last term learning all about being lost and found! We looked for things in rice, bears in cakes and watched bubbles fly up into the sky. We had great fun doing craft activities like making masks, cooking and painting while talking to our parents and Katie about the book and the activity. We also learnt lots of new songs and listened for words that start with the same sound at the start like book and bed and at the end which we learnt are called rhyming words. Katie showed us her treasure box when we read Russell and the Lost Treasure. It had lots of interesting things in it but they weren’t gold and jewels. We talked all about how treasure is different for everybody! Whilst Katie targets children 3 – 5 years old, we had lots of little brothers and sisters running around the room helping us with our work too.

If you would like to be part of the fun, please come to the Prep Maroon Classroom next Tuesday 25 July at 9 am. The program runs for the rest of the term – but you don’t have to attend every session! And the best thing about it is – it’s FUN and FREE!

Regards Mrs Katie Huggard, Prep Maroon Classroom Teacher

1-2-3 Magic and Emotion Coaching

Worongary State School is pleased to offer parents the opportunity to attend 1-2-3 Magic and Emotion Coaching Program.

The 1-2-3 Magic and Emotion Coaching is a practical program which aims to teach parents how to deal with their children’s difficult behaviour by using an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use signaling system. The signaling system requires the parent to use less talk and less emotion, which in turn encourages the development of children’s ability to manage their emotional reactions to parental boundaries.

Where: Worongary State School Hall
When: Each Thursday from Week 4 – 3 August to Week 8 31 August 9:00-10:15
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes each week for 5 weeks
Cost: $16.00 (normally costing $120)

Presented by Joanne Jackson.

To register for this program please click on the link below:

Lost

The following hearing aid has been lost at Helping Hands at the end of last term. These are very expensive so could we please be aware and hopefully get them returned back to their owner.

Woolworths Earn and Learn

Woolworths Earn and Learn is on again from 26 July to 19 September.

If our school community sticks together and earns Woolworths Earn & Learn stickers, we can redeem these stickers for our choice of educational resources. We can choose our resources from Science, Sports, Mathematics, English and Arts & Crafts.

Earn and Learn stickers need to be stuck on to the Stickers Sheets available from Woolworths or can be downloaded from:

Our collection box will be in the school admin office. $10 of shopping earns 1 sticker. The more we earn, the more we learn.

Excursions

P&C News

Regards P&C

Tuckshop & Uniform

Opening Hours

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

Zambrero Meals

On the last day of Term 2, the Zambrero’s Mexican Lunch Day took place. Thank you to those who embraced this event and got their orders in on time to join in on this new venture. The food was wonderfully delicious and tasty! Despite the planning that took place, the day did not go quite as planned as we experienced delays in the delivery of some orders. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused by this and ask you to feel free to give us some feedback on the experience. Although not as successful as we’d hoped we are still looking at running similar days for the last day of each Term, to try out different themes. Suggestions appreciated.

Menu Changes

The new menu was emailed out on Monday 10 July and we are working on getting printed and laminated copies home with your children over the next couple of weeks. In case you missed the email, please see below for a copy.

What’s New on the menu

• Pork Sliders – made on site
• Butter Chicken – made on site, gluten free
• Vegetable Pastie – suitable for vegetarians
• Chocolate Brownie Bites – made on site, gluten free and ‘secretly healthy’
• Banana Muffins – made on site
• Savoury Cheese Muffin – made on site

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 Delivery

Our polo shirt delivery has been received and the shirts are once more available in all sizes. Thank you once again for your patience while we awaited this delivery.

Regards Michelle Lee, Canteen and Uniform Convenor

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