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Principal’s Message There is a line from a well-known kid’s movie, “If Zangief is good guy, who will crush man's skull like sparrow's eggs between thighs! And I say, Zangief you are bad guy, but this does not mean you are *bad* guy”. It refers to an untroubled bad guy, who is convincing others that in order to make a partnership work there needs to be conflict and the role of the ‘bad guy’. If you have not seen the movie, then this may seem a somewhat gruesome quote to reference, fortunately a humorous under-tone softens this statement considerably. Whatever your thoughts of Zangief’s ideology, there may be some merit worth consideration. Raising children is never easy. Sometimes easier, sometimes hard-er, but never easy. We may find ourselves in the role of the ‘bad guy’. We may need to say ‘no’. We may get dirty looks, eye rolls, hmmpffs, door slams and the occasional ‘I don’t like you anymore’. If we are saying ‘no’ for their safety, to learn self-control, moderation or economic reasons, these are good reasons! At times, we need to be the ‘bad guy’ for our children’s success. Consistency is the key to forming positive habits and avoiding self-destructive patterns. Saying ‘no’ to a negative behaviour today and then allowing it tomorrow, creates confusion and will cause disruptive behaviours in the future. This behaviour can be called ‘testing the fences’ and it is most prevalent in young children. Like steers that wander and lean on the fences to test their integrity, kids will see what they can get away with today. If we are consistent, our integrity will hold, ‘no’ means ‘no’. Congratulations on con-tinuing with an incredibly rewarding and challenging job of raising young children! If we can consistently stand tall, say ‘no’ and guide our children to develop positive habits and life skills, further congratulations and thanks is extended.

Reward for Effort- Positive Behaviour for Learning In continuing our commitment to have full implementation of Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) at Currumbin Valley State School, we are regularly developing, revising and upskilling our behaviour management processes to better reflect the needs of our students.

A fundamental priority in this process is to explicitly teach acceptable behaviour and to continually reinforce these behaviours. The strength is in the consistent implementation across all classrooms and year levels both inside and outside the classroom.

Reinforcing expected school behaviour Expectations are communicated to students via a number of strategies including: • Positive Behaviour reinforcement methods (verbal feedback, tokens). • Behaviour and values lessons conducted by classroom teachers • Reinforcement of learning from behaviour lessons at School Assemblies and during active

supervision by staff during classroom and non-classroom activities • Individualised, intensive support for more specific on-going cases • Use of classroom behaviour walls and visual displays.

At Currumbin Valley State School, communication of our key messages about behaviour are delivered through positive reinforcement, which provides students with feedback for engaging in expected school behaviour. A formal recognition and monitoring system has been developed. This reinforcement system is designed to increase the quantity and quality of positive interactions between students and staff. Reinforcing positive behaviour is considered the most effective behaviour management strategy, when we acknowledge positive behaviours and choices, we empower our children to repeat them. Catching our children in the act of making good choices and positively recognising these choices has a lasting impact and significantly increases the likelihood of our children repeating these behaviours in the future. Of course our end goal is for our children to make these choices intrinsically (internal values) but for many, first they must be learnt and be reinforced using some extrinsic (external) motivators. A focus within PBL last week: “Treat everyone with kindness & respect, even those who are rude to you, not because they are nice but because you are! The Man & The Cat (a story shared on parade last week) One day, a man was walking by a road when he heard a cat meowing from the bushes nearby. The cat was stuck and needed help getting out. When the man reached out, the cat got scared and scratched the man. The man screamed in pain but didn’t back down. He tried again and again, even as the cat continued to scratch his hands.

Another passerby saw this and said, “Just let it be! The cat will find a way to come out later”. The man didn’t pay heed but tried until he helped the cat. Once he let the cat free, he told the other man, “The cat is an animal, and its instincts make him scratch and attack. I am a human and my instincts make me compassionate and kind”.

Moral Treat everyone around you like you want to be treated. Adhere to your own rules, values or ethics, not theirs.

PBL (Positive Behaviour for

Learning)

Week 4-5 Focus:

TO BE SAFE

‘‘We are safe when in and around the toilet block using them only for their intended purpose- our health and hy-giene practices are always

first class” &

“We attempt to resolve con-flicts peacefully, using our High 5 and asking for help

when required

Upcoming Events

Week 4 Monday 3 Aug EV3 Robotics workshops P-2 2:30pm Parade Tuesday 4 Aug Religion Wednesday 5 Aug NEWSLETTER SENT HOME Thursday 6 Aug Friday 7 Aug Principal’s Assembly Project Club Time Traveller Free dress fundraiser – Free Dress for Gold Coin donation & Pizza meal available to order. Week 5 Monday 10 Aug 2:30pm Parade EV3 Robotics workshops 3-6 Tuesday 11 Aug Religion Wednesday 12 Aug Thursday 13 Aug Parent Teacher Interview -bookings open Friday 14 Aug PUBLIC HOLIDAY– No school! Week 6 Monday 17 Aug 2:30pm Parade Tuesday 18 Aug Religion Wednesday 19 Aug NEWSLETTER SENT HOME Thursday 20 Aug Parent Teacher Interview - bookings close Friday 21 Aug PREP (2021) INFORMATION MORNING Yr3&5 Currumbin Wildlife Excursion

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THE POWER OF KINDNESS: A message to our students Most young people like the idea of having some power in their lives. Let me explain how kindness is one of the most rewarding forms of power you can have. What is kindness? What does it mean? Kindness is helping someone without expecting anything in return. It is when we are friendly, thoughtful and generous. It is like snow; it makes everything it covers beautiful. What does kindness look like? Here are some examples. When a student is new to the school and is feeling lonely because they haven’t made any friends yet and you invite them to join your game in the play break. When someone is really embarrassed because they came last in their race on sports day and you run up to encourage them and congratulate them for having a go and trying their best. When someone is sad because their pet dog died last night and you give up your play break to spend some time comforting them. There are so many opportunities every day to show kindness. Kindness has great power. Your brief moment of kindness has the power to change someone’s life forever. Just imagine, several years from now someone coming up to you and saying, “Hey, I remember you. When I was a student at Currumbin Valley State School in 2020, I was very shy and didn’t feel confident about trying any sport. You encouraged me to have a go at things I didn’t think I could do well, and now I am playing for the high school team.” Here is something you may not know about kindness. It also has the power to change your life. If you give kindness to others, you will have a good feeling yourself. You can’t have kind-ness flowing through you to someone else, without that experience lifting you up to a higher level of happiness. You will find that it is very hard to remain sad or angry when you are being kind to others. Try it out and see how it works for you. Find some ways to be kind to your parents, your brothers and sisters, your teachers and your class mates. See how happy it makes you. Parent Teacher (PHONE) Interviews Term 3 Week 7 – Tuesday & Wednesday 25th Aug- 26th Aug 2020 As part of Currumbin Valley State School’s overall reporting process, Parent-Teacher inter-views are being held this term. Parent-Teacher interviews are an opportunity for home and school to work collaboratively together to ensure the very best outcomes for our children. We would greatly encourage all interested parents to participate in this opportunity. Due to COVID restrictions, these interviews will take place via a telephone conference. While this is not our preferred mode of communication, it has been deemed suitable at this point in time. Our staff continue to maintain a strong commitment towards upholding key calendar events this term. At times, this commitment has required a certain level of adaptability and we very much appreci-ate your understanding and support. Bookings open next Thursday 13th August @ 9:00am! A link will be sent home via email and posted on Facebook next week! Please note: Bookings close 5pm Thursday 20th August 2020 REMINDER: ARRIVE EARLY BUT NOT TOO EARLY! Just a reminder that school starts at 9:00 and we expect that children make every effort to get to class on time. Being 10-20 minutes early is a great idea and gives your child time to settle and socialise. Staff are only available for supervision from 8:30 onwards – If circumstances require you to drop your children off prior to 8:30am please contact the principal.

Dental Health Week – How much sugar is hiding in your trolley? Being healthy is something that most of us aim for. Sugar is everywhere in supermarket staples, even some that might appear to be healthy on the surface, and so this Dental Health Week (3 - 9 August dentalhealthweek.com.au), we want you to become more “sugar savvy”. Figures show that the average Australian is con-suming 14 teaspoons of sugar a day, a whole lot more than the maximum six teaspoons a day recommended by the World Health Organisation. Beyond that, we want to show how easy it is to keep your teeth and gums healthy by following a few simple tips: Brushing, Flossing, eat and drink well and say ‘Hello!’ to your dentist. https://www.goldcoast.health.qld.gov.au/our-services/oral-health

Sugar and its effect

on Teeth Factsheet: file:///C:/Users/vayrol/AppData/Local/Temp/Temp1_DHW2020-SUGAR-FACTSHEETS.zip/DHW2020%

20SUGAR%20FACTSHEETS/Factsheets/ADA_OHP_Factsheet_sugar_and_its_effects.pdf

Common names of sugar Factsheet: file:///C:/Users/vayrol/AppData/Local/Temp/Temp1_DHW2020-SUGAR-FACTSHEETS.zip/DHW2020%20SUGAR%20FACTSHEETS/Factsheets/ADA_OHP_Factsheet_hidden_sugar_4MAY2020.pdf

2020 Term Dates Term 1

Tuesday 28th January – Friday 3rd April

Term 2 Monday 20th April- Friday 26th June

Term 3 Monday 13th July-

Friday 18th September Term 4

Tuesday 6th October- Friday 13th December

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED TO THIS WEEKS NEWSLETTER

P&C News Uniform Shop price list

Prep 2021 info Term 3 Calendar

Project Club fundraiser—”Time Travel Theme”

Payments/Invoices

Payments due now for student activities

this term include:

• Student Resource Scheme for all students.

• Voluntary Contribution

• Instrumental Music Program hire $100 & resource fee $40

COMMUNNITY

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Operating Guidelines –COVID-19 (as per department policy)

Physical distancing within schools

Schools will continue to encourage staff, parents and other adult visitors to observe physical distancing measures by not con-gregating in areas inside or around the school. For example, it is important that parents do not gather before or after school, in the car park, at drop off and pick up time, out-side classrooms or at the school gate. Schools will continue to practise physical distancing and minimise interaction of students and adults within the school and at school entry points including: • restricting adult (including visitors

and parent) access to school grounds.

• supervision at school gates, includ-ing during drop off and pick up times and supervised movements between the school gate and class-rooms.

• minimising adult access to office environments and recommending contact be made to the school via electronic means.


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LIBRARY NEWS Premier's Reading Challenge in underway! Keep filling out your reader record form. We have an awesome range of new fiction and non fiction titles in the library, so en-courage your children to borrow and return every week! Challenge concludes Friday, 28th AugustQSuper competition! Win a full day school visit from author Brian Falkner. QSuper is proud to support the 2020 Premier’s Reading Challenge for the sixth year running, as we continue to encourage a love of reading in our Queensland kids. QSuper are offering a fantastic opportunity for two schools to win a full day visit from author, Brian Falkner, to be held in Term 4. There are also eight $500 book voucher prizes to be won! An award-winning author, Brian has had nineteen books published internationally. He is also an internationally acclaimed writ-ing coach, holding workshops and writing camps around Australia, New Zealand and the USA. To enter, students simply need to list their top five favourite books and why. The competition is open to all Queensland school students participating in the Premier's Reading Challenge and closes on 28 August. Encourage your students to enter today! Only 3 weeks to go! The Premier's Reading Challenge finishes on Thursday 28th August. All record sheets must be submitted by this date. Prep's are currently heading up the ladder for being the class with the most children comple3ng the challenge! So keep reading kids!! Who will be the top class??? The Book Club due date to date claimers: Wednesday, 29th July The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the smarter you grow!

On Thursday 27th August CVSS will be having a dress up day based on the Book Week theme, ‘Curious Creatures, Curious Minds’. The parade will commence at 9.00 am with seven, ten dollar book vouchers as prizes, one for each year lev-el. Classes will then go to home room for roll call and divide up into groups for Book Week rotational activities. This activities run throughout the day. Generally teachers read one of the short listed titles and create a short activity based around this or the Book Week theme. The Children’s Book Council, Short Listed books are the focus of the activities on the day. CVSS will also be conducting a ‘Design a Shelf Marker’ Competition. Please encourage children to be involved during break times. Shelf markers will be displayed on the wall outside the library prior to Book Week There will be a small prize for the win-ner of each year level. Should you require further information please do not hesitate to contact Liz in the library. More information is available at the links below. http://www.cbca.org.au/cbca-book-week

P&C NEWS The next P&C meeting is scheduled for Monday, August 24th 2020 at 1.30pm @ CVSS in the LOTE room. The P&C Execu-tive Committee would especially like to invite those who are new to the school or haven’t been to a P&C meeting, to come along and be involved with a group of productive, friendly parents who enjoy banding together to make a positive contribution to the school! Some ways to get involved and help your school: The P&C have been working on ways to integrate a COVID safe environment into some of the annual and much loved school community events. Following are the proposed event dates: • Wednesday 2nd September 2020 – Father’s Day Stall (Friday is a Pupil Free Day) • Saturday 12th September - 10K for 10K Fun Walk n Run • Sunday 11th October 2020 – Annual Golf Day • Saturday 7th November 2020 – Trivia Night If you would like to assist with any of these events please email [email protected] with the event you’d be interested in assisting with.

Currumbin Valley Cow Pat Classic We are looking to run the annual Golf Day on Sat 11 October. For us to be able to run this event, we need locals in the valley to volunteer for us to use their property for a golf hole. If this is something that you would like to do, just drop us a line on [email protected] by Friday 14 August with your contact details. The Cowpat Classic is fantastic event and an annual tradition in the valley, so if this is something that you can volunteer your property for or just help organise, it would be much appreciated! For more detail, call Jonathan on 0437 906 944.


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CURRUMBIN VALLEY STATE SCHOOL P&C

FUN RUN Saturday 12 September

1pm Dear Parent/Guardian, We will be holding our 10K-4-10K School Fun Run event on Saturday 12 September 2020 starting at 1pm, to help raise funds for our school. The course for the run will be around the school, and through a marked track on the oval. We will have parents, helpers and teachers on hand to assist the kids and there will be a sausage sizzle after the run. About the Program The School Fun-Run promotes healthy and active lifestyles while helping us raise funds! It’s all about participation, with students treated to a great day as a reward for their fundraising efforts. Family support is key to our fundraising success and we encourage everyone to get involved. How Does My Child Fundraise? Each student will be sent home with a fundraising sponsorship form. Everything to do with your fundraising revolves around this page. Students are asked to get as many sponsors as possible. You can either sponsor a child to run a certain distance (eg. $5 per km) or a total amount. The best people to ask for sponsorship are people you know (e.g. friends, family, work colleagues and neighbours). Students who raise just $10 will receive a reward for their effort. The more they raise, the better their reward. You can choose to promote fundraising on social media profiles, or email amongst people you know. Cash fundraising is also available. Getting Involved Not only can you support the school and students with your sponsorship – but you can join in on the fun! We would love to welcome parents and family members to attend the School Fun-Run. If you would also like to volunteer to help on the day, please contact us at: [email protected]. We can’t wait to see you at our event!


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Time Travel Day

Pizza and Dress Up Friday 7th August

$5 includes: or Gold Coin Donation

2 slices of pizza for Dress up only

Juice Popper

Dress up Donation

Time Travel Dress Up Prep, Yr 1, Yr 2 – Explorers

Yr 3, Yr 4 – Futuristic

Yr 5, Yr 6 – 1980’s

All money raised will be going towards the Year 6 Cairns Trip.

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Time Travel Day $5.00

Name _________________________ Class _________ Pizza (choose 2 slices)

Margherita (cheese with tomato base) ______

Ham and Cheese _______

Pepperoni ________

Vegetarian (spinach, red onion, tomato) ______

Gluten Free Margherita ______

Please either order through the QKR! app or return payment with your order

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