October

10 & 11 Prep 2019 Interviews

16-18 Prep Vision Screening

16 Eisteddfod ~ Concert Band

17 Eisteddfod ~ Recorder Band

21 Run for MI Life

22 Pupil Free Day

26 National Bandana Day

30 Swimming lessons start

November

2 P & C Halloween disco

11 Remembrance Day

21 Brilliant at being Resilient performance

Date Claimers

Spotlight

General Information

Office Hours 8am—3.30pm

Parade Every Monday at 8.50am

Newsletter every 2nd Thursday

PCYC After School Care 4942 3296

Absence Line: 4959 4366

Issue 16

11 October 2018

McColl Street, Walkerston 4751 Telephone (07) 4959 4333 E-mail admin@walkerstonss.eq.edu.au Web http://walkerstonss.eq.edu.au

Run for MI Life at Wests 21st October

Pupil Free Day 22nd October

Principal’s Report— Mr J Feeney

Welcome back to

school for our final term of

2018.

It’s great to have our

Year 6 children and the teachers supervising

them back from camp at the end of last

term. I’ve heard lots of reports of excellent

behaviour from our children, and a few stand

-out examples of children meeting our school

target of improving student wellbeing by

making personal sacrifices to help out others

of our student body in need of help. Thank-

you for this, Year 6. I couldn’t be prouder!

We’ll miss you when you leave in the very

near future!

Our other target for the year is to

improve children’s reading. It’s through

reading that children learn about most other

areas as they grow older. You can support us

to get the best outcomes for our children by

asking the children about the reading

strategies they’re learning at school, giving

them the opportunity to read at home, and

asking them about what they’ve read.

It’s gearing up to be a very exciting

term; we start our swimming lessons, which

will help keep our children safe in the

waterways over the heat of the summer

holidays.

The heat that we’re already starting to

experience is starting to impact on children’s

lunches. So many children are bringing in

healthy lunchboxes coming in, full of fruit

and dairy, which is great to see. I’d like to

suggest that along with this great food,

parents include an ice brick to keep the food

cool until lunchtime. Fruit, cheese and

yoghurt becomes less and less appealing as

the day wears on otherwise!

We are currently conducting our Prep

Enrolment Interviews. We still have some

spaces in our prep classes for next year, so if

you know anyone who still needs to enrol

their children in a Prep class for 2019, please

encourage them to make contact to our

school office to arrange an interview.

Last term, we started reviewing our

school uniform policy. There is quite a bit of

research around the benefits of having a

school uniform, including social, attendance

and behaviour. Acting on feedback from

parents and staff, we’ve re-worked the policy

to make it more specific and clearer, and

therefore more effective. It has been

included in with this newsletter. If you do

have any questions or concerns about the

policy, please do get in touch by contacting

the school office.

Next week, our P&C meeting will

be held in the staff room at 6:00pm on

Thursday, October 18th. Our P&C do a

fantastic job not only with fundraising

for our children, but also as a

consultative body to discuss future

direction for the school. If you’d like to

find out more, feel free to join us.

I look forward to working with

yourselves and your children during our

last term together for 2018. Have a

great term, everyone!

McColl Street, Walkerston 4751 (07) 4959 4333 E-mail admin@walkerstonss.eq.edu.au Web http://walkerstonss.eq.edu.au

Scrubby Super Start School Programme.

Chappie A at is excited to announce a programme of fun sessions for all little people. Younger siblings welcome.

Activities include stories, craft, snacks and singing for the children, and morning tea and catch up for the parents

The programme is on Wednesday morning at 9.00am and lasts approximately an hour.

The sessions are on the following dates

24th, 31st October; 7th, 14th, 21st, & 28th November,

5th December

Tea, Coffee and water will be provided. BYO snacks.

Please phone 49594333 to register. Any queries phone Andrea on 0427 593384

Cultural News

Eisteddfod Performances

Next week our school’s concert band and recorder band will be

representing the school at the annual Mackay eisteddfod. Good luck

to all participants. Just a reminder you will be wearing your school

polo shirt, long black pants, black shoes and black socks.

Instrumental Recruitment

Those students in year 3 who expressed interest in joining the

instrumental program will be tested on instruments next Wednesday

17th October. They will be pulled out of class to try the instruments

to see what instrument is easiest for them to play.

With the year 3 recruitment process now in swing it is timely to remind students in year 4 who are currently hiring an instrument that if you can, now is the time to start looking for your own instrument. We must give our instruments first to the new recruits. If it is not possible to purchase an instrument of your own please come and talk to Miss Kay. We do not want to see you leave the program, we will need to try and organise instruments from other sources.

Choir

This term we have been asked to sing carols at Wests Leagues Club

(Monday 6pm 26th November) and Rotary Carols (Saturday 6pm 8th

November). If you are in grade 4, 5 or 6 and are interested please

return the form below.

Name: __________________________

I am interested in being involved in singing Christmas Carols at the

following events:

Monday 26th November (6pm) – Wests Leagues Club

Saturday 8th November (6pm) – Rotary Carols

Chappy News

Welcome to Term 4

Smiley Face Fairy at Breakfast Club

We have a very industrious fairy that comes and stamps our bread

with smiley faces during the night. Thank you to our fairy for making

Breakfast Club so much fun.

Sugar Valley Lions Club

This week on parade I received a very generous cheque from the

Sugar Valley Lions Club. Thank you for you continued support of

School Chaplains in the Pioneer Valley.

Chappy’s Stationery Exchange Station

Is your child in the final term of Grade 1, 3, or 4? Do you have some

specially lined writing pads left over from the school year?

Are there stationery tools that your child no longer uses? I am

currently looking at building a stationery exchange station. This

would be a stock of donated supplies that teachers or students can

source when their own supplies run out. The parents would then

replace what the child has used so that we can maintain the stock

available. This would be available for all students to use. I know

sometimes it is difficult to remember to purchase and replace

finished books. Having resources available immediately should

reduce interruptions to learning. Any donations of new or used

supplies would be most welcome. I am currently seeking sponsorship

to support this initiative. If you would like to help, please contact me.

Cheers and Blessings

Chappy A

McColl Street, Walkerston 4751 Telephone (07) 4959 4333 E-mail admin@walkerstonss.eq.edu.au Web http://walkerstonss.eq.edu.au

Student of the Week Awards for Week 8 & Week 9

Prep B Hadley Gore—For showing great promise in Japanese lessons.

Rosalie Matsen—Excellent manners and always trying hard in class.

Alyssa Lavender—For always putting in an amazing effort when writing.

Class P1C Sienna Kitto—For being a super number cruncher this week!

Tamyka Walker—For always being a kind and caring friend. Well done Tamyka!

Class 1A Quinn Lovern—For designing a fantastic diorama of a bee's habitat. Well done Quinn!

Class 12C Ethan Kitto—For always enriching the class discussion in such an engaging way, you are our own junior professor.

. Tamyka Walker—For always being a kind and caring friend. Well done Tamyka!

Class 2A Charlette Hoban—For an exceptional improvement in your writing. Keep it up!

Class 3B Mikey Caruana—For a improved effort towards his learning. Keep it up!

Rachel Fairbrother—For placing an awesome effort into creating her poem. Well done!

Class 4A Zac Hansen—For displaying an improved interest in his schoolwork.

Izaak Craig—For having a vivid imagination when describing the complication in his narratives.

Class 4B Brody Galea—For always using advice given to improve his own abilities in writing. Keep it up, Brody!

Roman Nikolic—For seeking extra help to understand and improve reading comprehension. Proud of you, Roman!

Class 6B Cooper Pitt—For a huge improvement in effort and behaviour. Well done, Cooper!

Timofey Craig—For working hard and exceling in all opportunities presented to you.

McColl Street, Walkerston 4751 Telephone (07) 4959 4333 E-mail admin@walkerstonss.eq.edu.au Web http://walkerstonss.eq.edu.au

Sports News

Netball

Our Senior Netball team and our Junior netball team are about to compete in a round robin competition up at Mirani High starting in Week 3 on Wednesday afternoons. The Junior Games start at 4pm, while the senior games start at 5pm . If you want to watch a fun game, come and support your school netball team. For those players involved a more detailed note will be going home this week. Again with much appreciation going to Mrs Rebecca Clarke for all her assistance with our netball teams this year. The girls had a wonderful time on the last day of term at the Gala Day and without her support this would not have been made an easy day. Thank you.

Softball

Mrs Megian has kindly offered to take a junior and senior softball team on Wednesday afternoons starting next week to play against the other Mackay schools. If you wish to support our school, the games are being held at the Mackay Softball ground in Beaconsfield. The games start at 4pm.

Swimming

Our school swimming and Life Saver Program will be commencing in Week 4 this term. The cost of this will be $48 for the 5-week program and a much-detailed letter with permission note will be sent home by the end of this week.

Yours in Sport

Alice Single