13 September 2017

Newsletter Articles

From the Principal

Prep 2018

If you, or someone you know, has a child ready to start Prep in 2018 and have not yet enrolled, please make sure enrolment papers have been handed in at the office and an interview scheduled. Places in Worongary State School’s Prep program are filling fast. To ensure you receive an invitation for your child to attend the Get Set for Prep Transition Program, enrolment forms must be received by Friday 13 October.

Invitations for the Get Set for Prep program have been emailed out. If you are wishing to accept this place in the program please contact the school on 5502 4444 or email the office at office@worongaryss.eq.edu.au by 13 October 2017.

Junior Playground Update

We were hoping to have our Junior Adventure Playground open by the end of this term, however we have run into a problem with the drainage. We are currently in negotiations with the contractors to fix water pooling in the back corner, and hope to have this rectified soon. Thank you to Mr Townson and Mr Bryden who have been busily replacing broken and rotting timbers and painting the existing equipment so that we can open our playground as soon as the drainage problem is fixed. We will be looking forward to the new equipment going in hopefully towards the end of term 4.

South East Region NAIDOC Awards

Congratulations to Latham M from 5 Red who was awarded a Regional NAIDOC Student Academic Award for Year 5/6 students at a special ceremony held in Beaudesert on Monday. Latham and his parents were joined by Mrs Young and me for the awards, which recognised Latham’s academic achievements across key learning areas. Latham was the winner across both year 5 and 6 out of 122 primary schools in our region. Congratulations Latham.

Behaviour

Term Three Focus: Taking Pride in Our School

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

Term Four Focus: Being a Good Friend

Respecting other people’s feelings
Respecting other people’s property
Play fairly

Positive Behaviour for Learning Week 10 Term 3 & Week 1 Term 4

Second Step Weeks 10 Term 3 and Week 1 Term 4

Science Competition

STEM Report: Gold Coast Schools Science Competition

On August 31 over 20 Worongary students from years 4, 5 and 6 exhibited work at the Griffith University Gold Coast Schools Science Competition. This annual event is the largest competition of its type in Queensland. Students submitted a range of projects covering a range of topics including rainforest eco systems, dreams, plant growth, athletic performance, space and a solar powered toothbrush.

With over 500 entries it was a huge honour for two Worongary students to be recognised at the awards ceremony. Rylee J (4B) received a 2nd place in the years 3-4 communicating science category for her project Buzzing Off. Jack R (6Y) received a Highly Commended for his Anglerfish in the years 5-6 communicating science category.

We look forward to returning to the competition in 2018.

Keep Our School Safe – a message from Qld Police

School holidays are almost upon us. During this period empty schools provide an opportunity for criminal activity, becoming targets for unlawful entry, arson, stealing, graffiti and property damage – all of which become a cost to the community.

The School Watch Program is a partnership between Education Queensland, the Queensland Police Service and the State Government Protective Security Service. It aims to reduce criminal activity in Queensland schools and encourages everyone to look out for after-hours crime in our schools.

If you see anything suspicious, please don’t attempt to intervene. Call the School Watch number – 13 17 88

Let’s work together to help create safer school communities.

If you have information for police, contact Policelink on 131 444 or provide information using the online form 24hrs per day.

You can report information about crime anonymously to Crime Stoppers, a registered charity and community volunteer organisation, by calling 1800 333 000 or via the following link 24hrs per day.

Thank you for your Support

My time as Acting Principal has come to an end as we look forward to Ms Moballe returning next term. Thank you to the parents and students who have supported me throughout the term and I wish all of you a safe and restful holidays.

Term 4 starts Tuesday 3 October 2017.
Pupil Free Day Monday 16 October – most staff will be off campus on this day attending Professional Development at other locations.

Regards Kerry White, Acting Principal

Learning Vine Awards

Finance

NEW PAYMENT METHOD

From Tuesday, 3 October 2017 Education Queensland schools will no longer be able to accept Credit Card payments over the phone or take card details for processing on the next payment day as this is not Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliant.

To make credit card payments for school invoices, please use either QParents or BPoint.

If you have not already joined QParents, please accept the invitation that has been emailed to you. The turnaround time for approval is approx. 24 hours, after which time you will be able to view information pertaining to your child including invoices awaiting payment and details about invoices previously paid using QParents.

The option to pay invoices over the phone using BPoint IVR (Interactive Voice Response) is also available, however invoice details will be required. Parents call 1300 631 073 and enter their CRN, amount and credit card details to complete payment. At the end of the call you will be provided with a unique payment receipt number.

Please remember that late payments will not be accepted. Invoices not paid by 10am on the due date will be deleted and not available for payment.

STUDENT RESOURCE SCHEME 2017

The due date for SRS payments this year was Friday 16 June. Thank you to those families who have paid the SRS in full for their children. We have a number of parents who have not adhered to their commitment as per the signed SRS Participation Agreement. For the remainder of this year any student with outstanding SRS fees will not be eligible to attend excursions, camps and payable school activities including Inter-School Sport.

On Monday 14 August, students with unpaid SRS fees will have their access to the scheme suspended until full payment has been made as per Section 29 of the Participation Agreement.

Regards, Charmaine Johnson, Business Manager

Curriculum Corner

Hello Again Everyone

I hope you have found some time to do some cooking with your children since my last article in the newsletter. I know how busy everyone is these days, so if not, the school holidays are fast approaching and it is the perfect time to try out some new recipes.

Here is another opportunity for developing mathematical thinking, which adults and children can enjoy!

At the shops

When you are out at the shops, there are plenty of ways to get children thinking about and exploring mathematics. Many of us use plastic to pay for our groceries, etc. and our children do not get to handle money as we did when we were young. It is important that children handle money, play with it, recognise the coins and notes, understand their values and practice counting/ adding up amounts and giving change for $1.00 etc. Simple counting exercises with young children are a great way to reinforce early number concepts like number sequences and cardinal numbers.

Another number concept easily practised at the shops is comparison:

Do we have more apples or oranges?
How much change will you get if you buy 10 apples?

As parents, we often choose the item that represents better value by comparing the “price per 100 gram” - verbalising your thinking helps children to refine their own mental processes. Budgeting, adding monetary values and calculating change are all skills that benefit from practice in a real-life situation.

Giving older children $10 and a small shopping list develops these skills as well as fostering a sense of independence. I know we do not even want to think about Christmas yet, however there are already mince pies at the shop! The post-Christmas sales give children some purposeful reasons to apply knowledge of percentages, if only to convince you that new toy is a real bargain!

Parents can easily use every day experiences to reinforce and develop mathematical skills and support their children’s learning of this important subject area. Showing how mathematics is used in daily tasks provides the perfect balance for the formal learning of the classroom. Mathematics is an area where both teacher and parent input is necessary.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a safe and relaxed school holiday break.

Until next time …....

Kind Regards Leslie Ward, Head of Curriculum

Basketball Report

Basketball Round 1

The 2017 basketball season kicked off on Friday afternoon with the Worongary boys and girls teams hosting Mudgeeraba at home. Our junior boys and junior girl’s teams featured a number of new players playing competitive basketball for the first time. It was great to see the players encouraging each other and working together throughout their games. While neither junior team won it was great to see the players having fun on the court. Elise W and Latham McK were the players of the match.

Both our senior girls and boys teams featured a mix of year 5 and 6 players and a mix of new and returning players. Both teams were able to come away with convincing wins but most importantly the players worked well together, spreading the scoring across the team and making contributions on offence and defence. Tyler C was the senior boys player of the game using his rebounding and passing to involve his team mates. Jayda T H played a fantastic all round game and was the girls team player of the match.

Regards Tim Mullaly and Claes Ohlund, Basketball Coaches

Music Corner

Congratulations to the Lorikeet choir for singing so beautifully at the Eisteddfod and obtaining a Highly Commended certificate. The choir will be recognised for their participation and excellent achievements at the Eisteddfod in term 4 junior assembly. Certificates will be given to the students at their regular choir rehearsals.

Congratulations also to the Rosella choir for their excellent performance and obtaining a Very Highly Commended certificate. Again like the Lorikeet choir, they will be recognised for their performance at the Eisteddfod in senior assembly term 4 and each student will receive a certificate in their next choir rehearsal.

Finally, congratulations to our excellent Band for obtaining a Highly Commended for their performance under the direction of Ms Cindy Ashton. It has been an exciting term.

Regards Bonni Hapi, Music & Arts

Instrumental Music - Band

It is that time of the year again when we do recruiting for the instrumental music band Program for 2018.

There will be a demonstration by the Concert Band for all students in year 3 and interested students in years 4 and 5 on Wednesday 11 October during class time (12.40pm - 1.40pm). This will give the students an opportunity to look at all the instruments, hear what they sound like, and discuss what we do each week in lessons and band.

I encourage as many children as possible to put an interest form in for the band program for 2018. Forms will be handed out at the demonstration, and will need to be returned for testing in the following weeks. Offers will go out before the end of the year with all the information. There are some instruments that can be hired through the school as well.

Any questions please do not hesitate to email me casht28@eq.edu.au

Yours Musically.

Regards Cindy Ashton, Instrumental Multi

Speaking Out Competition

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” – Mark Twain

Week 9 brings to an end yet another very successful “Speaking Out” Competition at Worongary.

Teachers and students alike were delighted by well written and rehearsed speeches in class and at the Finals in the hall. Our judges had a hard task to award the best speech for each year level. Public Speaking is an incredible skill and we are always in awe of the courage and range of topics presented each year. Well done to all of those involved!

Junior School finalists:

Junior Winners:

Senior School Finalists

Senior School Winners:

The winners from years 4, 5 and 6 will compete in the Nerang Alliance of schools “Speaking Out” finals on October 11 at Nerang State High School. Good luck to our three entrants Dimitri, Phoebe and Stavros.

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

Father’s Day Stall

Thank you to everyone who donated gifts, with your support and generosity we had enough gifts for each child to purchase a special gift for their Dads, Grandfathers, and Carers.

We hope all the Dad’s, Grandfathers and Carers had a wonderful day.

A BIG thank you goes out to the ladies who came and helped on the day & with wrapping. Lizzy, Jodie, Chelsea and Karen again for your help was amazing.

We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday.

Regards P&C

Tuckshop & Uniform

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

Subway Day

As mentioned in the last Pipeline, in conjunction with Subway, we have planned a Subway Day for the last day of the term Friday 15 September. The cut off for ordering was this morning. Thank you to those who have embraced this event and got their orders in on time.

Please note that cheddar cheese is included on all subs as well as the standard salad ingredients.

We look forward to seeing how the day is received, so please feel free to give us some feedback next term.

Interschool Sports – Tuckshop at First Break Only

If your child is participating in Interschool Sports this season, please note that you can still order enough tuckshop food to cover their needs for the day, but all orders will need to be prepared for and served at First Break. Hot items can be eaten at the first breaks and snack items can be taken on the bus to be eaten later. Thank you to those students and parents who remembered this from last season and were organised with their orders last Friday.

Our Thanks

As always we would like to thank our wonderful volunteers for their regular contribution in the Tuckshop. Lizzy, Narelle, Monique, Lynette, Philippa, Tara and newcomer Stephane – thank you very much for dedicating your time to help serve the staff and students of our school.

We hope to see you all again next term. In the meantime, have a great break.

Tuckshop Closed

Please remember that as per normal, we are closed on the last day of term for cleaning and stocktake.

TUCKSHOP CLOSED FRIDAY 15 SEPTEMBER

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

Interschool Sports

Congratulations to all students selected to represent Worongary State School for the upcoming Interschool Sports season. For those who don’t yet have them, the following items are available for purchase online or from the Uniform Shop:

Interschool sports shorts (pocketless) $21.00
Footy socks $10.00

Please check with your sports coach or Mrs Smith if unsure of which items you need for your chosen sport so you can represent Worongary with pride!

Old Style Uniforms

The P&C has organised for our old style uniforms to be sent to a needy community in Papua New Guinea. If you have any old style uniforms at home, please bring them in by the end of this term so they can be included in the delivery. Thank you.

Seniors Shirts

At the beginning of next term, current year 5 students will be invited to place orders for their senior shirts for next year. Watch this space.

Wishing you a safe and restful break over the school holidays.

Regards Michelle Lee, Canteen and Uniform Convenor

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