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June 16 Report Cards due out 18-21 Instrumental Camp 19 Y6 Camp Meeting 5pm 23 Last Day Term 2 July 10 First Day Term 3 11-14 Life Ed Van P-Y4 17 P&C Meeting 19-20 Pioneer Valley Athletics 28 Mackay Athletics Carnival August 4-5 Musical Performance Date Claimers Spotlight General Informaon Office Hours 8am—3.30pm Parade Every Monday at 8.50am Newsleer every 2nd Thursday PCYC Aſter School Care 4942 3296 Absence Line: 4959 4366 Issue 9 15 June 2017 McColl Street, Walkerston 4751 Telephone (07) 4959 4333 E-mail [email protected] Web hp://walkerstonss.eq.edu.au Life Educaon notes have been sent home for all students from Prep-Y4. Please send in payment before the end of term. Principals ReportMr J Feeney This is the last newsleer of Semester 1, and so much has happened! Id like to thank all the staff for their efforts (and people have been working very hard for our children!) over the last two terms. And a big thank-you to our parents and students as well. Our aendance figures last year were good, and this year theyre even beer! We are closer than ever to our 95% target! Currently, our aendance is 94.2%, which is a huge improvement on our 2016 Semester 1 aendance of 93%. These figures are important, not because of our set target, but because of what it represents; children spending more me in class, which is going to mean more progress in their learning. Well done, parents, carers and students! Weve only got one more week to go, so lets make sure our aendance stays high—every day counts, aſter all! Not all learning happens in the classroom, of course. Id like to thank Mrs Single and all the staff members who were responsible for the organisaon and smooth running of our Athlecs Carnival last week. A big shout out to Western Suburbs Leagues Club for hosng us on Friday. Space at our own school is ght for such an event, even without the fences, and being able to use their facilies at no cost to us made a big contribuon to the success of the day. A lot of work goes into such an event, so Id like to let everyone involved know how much I appreciate their efforts. Speaking of fences, youll have noced that more fences sprung up last week. Theyre now incorporang our Admin Block into the building works, but it will sll be accessible for the rest of the term. The builders are planning to complete most of the work during the holidays, so we should be able to connue to use our Admin Block aſter the break. We expect the work on A and B Blocks to connue unl mid-August, at which point they will begin working on C and K Blocks. Thats the current plan, but, well, it is a building project, so Next term we will be launching a school- wide posive behaviour management approach to sit along-side our current Responsible Behaviour Plan. Wed like to be able to reward those children who do the right thing all the me, and to hopefully encourage others to do the same. And while our behaviour at Walkerston SS is good, we will be altering our detenons procedure slightly to try and improve communicaon between school and home, and to reduce the number of mes the same children get detenons. From next term, you will no longer receive the think sheetwhich students complete during detenon, but will receive an email on Friday if your child has received any detenons. At the end of this week, youll be receiving your childs end of semester report. The purpose of these reports is to keep you informed about your childs learning and progress. At some point next term, I would like to receive some feedback from parents about the reports, to see what you think about our current reports, and to see if we could make any improvements. I have a few ideas Id like to discuss with you, and will set a date to discuss this with as many parents as would like to aend, so watch this space! Finally, Id like once again to congratulate everyone in our community for such a successful semester, and encourage everyone to have a great holiday before we do it all again next term!

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June

16 Report Cards due out

18-21 Instrumental Camp

19 Y6 Camp Meeting 5pm

23 Last Day Term 2

July

10 First Day Term 3

11-14 Life Ed Van P-Y4

17 P&C Meeting

19-20 Pioneer Valley Athletics

28 Mackay Athletics Carnival

August

4-5 Musical 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 9

15 June 2017

McColl Street, Walkerston 4751 Telephone (07) 4959 4333 E-mail [email protected] Web http://walkerstonss.eq.edu.au

Life Education notes have been sent home for all students from Prep-Y4. Please send

in payment before the end of term.

Principal’s Report— Mr J Feeney

This is the last

newsletter of Semester 1, and

so much has happened! I’d like

to thank all the staff for their

efforts (and people have been

working very hard for our

children!) over the last two terms.

And a big thank-you to our parents and

students as well. Our attendance figures last

year were good, and this year they’re even

better! We are closer than ever to our 95%

target! Currently, our attendance is 94.2%,

which is a huge improvement on our 2016

Semester 1 attendance of 93%. These figures

are important, not because of our set target,

but because of what it represents; children

spending more time in class, which is going to

mean more progress in their learning. Well

done, parents, carers and students! We’ve

only got one more week to go, so let’s make

sure our attendance stays high—every day

counts, after all!

Not all learning happens in the classroom,

of course. I’d like to thank Mrs Single and all

the staff members who were responsible for

the organisation and smooth running of our

Athletics Carnival last week. A big shout out

to Western Suburbs Leagues Club for hosting

us on Friday. Space at our own school is tight

for such an event, even without the fences,

and being able to use their facilities at no cost

to us made a big contribution to the success of

the day. A lot of work goes into such an event,

so I’d like to let everyone involved know how

much I appreciate their efforts.

Speaking of fences, you’ll have noticed

that more fences sprung up last week. They’re

now incorporating our Admin Block into the

building works, but it will still be accessible

for the rest of the term. The builders are

planning to complete most of the work during

the holidays, so we should be able to continue

to use our Admin Block after the break. We

expect the work on A and B Blocks to continue

until mid-August, at which point they will begin

working on C and K Blocks. That’s the current

plan, but, well, it is a building project, so …

Next term we will be launching a school-

wide positive behaviour management

approach to sit along-side our current

Responsible Behaviour Plan. We’d like to be

able to reward those children who do the right

thing all the time, and to hopefully encourage

others to do the same.

And while our behaviour at Walkerston SS

is good, we will be altering our detentions

procedure slightly to try and improve

communication between school and home,

and to reduce the number of times the same

children get detentions. From next term, you

will no longer receive the ’think sheet’ which

students complete during detention, but will

receive an email on Friday if your child has

received any detentions.

At the end of this week, you’ll be receiving

your child’s end of semester report. The

purpose of these reports is to keep you

informed about your child’s learning and

progress. At some point next term, I would

like to receive some feedback from parents

about the reports, to see what you think about

our current reports, and to see if we could

make any improvements. I have a few ideas

I’d like to discuss with you, and will set a date

to discuss this with as many parents as would

like to attend, so watch this space!

Finally, I’d like once again to congratulate

everyone in our community for such a

successful semester, and encourage everyone

to have a great holiday before we do it all

again next term!

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Chappy News

Hi everyone,

Breakfast Club As you know we have great support from Walkerston Bakery who donate bread every day and Walkerston Fuel who is donating a few loaves a week. Woolworths is donating fruit. I would also like to thank Walkerston Fuels and Pioneer Chiropractic who have donation tins at their businesses for the benefit of our Breakfast Club. O’sheas Hotel is also supporting us with donations of supplies. Breakfast Club runs on a daily basis from 8am to 8.40am in the school hall. We serve toast, fruit and juice on Mondays and Wednesdays; and cereal, toast, fruit and juice on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

THERE WILL BE NO BREAKY CLUB ON FRIDAY THE 23rd OF JUNE

How Can You Help? We are always looking for support for Breakfast Club as well as Chaplains in the Pioneer Valley. You can donate supplies (fruit, vegemite, cream cheese, jams, bread and butter) to Breaky Club or put some money into the donation tin at the office. If you have a business and would like to put one of our donation tins on the counter, please let me know.

Chaplaincy Dinner O’Sheas Hotel have kindly offered to host our appeal dinner. Numbers are limited to 50. Local businesses are invited to sponsor a table in exchange for advertising on the night and in school newsletters. We are still looking for prizes for the quizzes, games and auctions we will be running on the night. These can be left at the office or Breaky Club.

Chappy Stall at Troppo Markets Than you to all who visited us on Sunday. We will be at the Troppo Markets again in August.

Stay safe and enjoy your holidays.

Cheers and Blessings Chappy A

Cultural News

Musical Update We will be having our first run of the musical next Friday 23rd June. Mr Feeney has allowed us to use some class time to have a big rehearsal before the holidays. This is very exciting, if you are going away can you please let Miss Kay know as this will also be a staging rehearsal to work out final spots in dances.

Wanted We are hoping to borrow some of the sets we need for the musical. Does anyone have 3 wooden bar stools we could borrow? If so please let Miss Kay know.

Is anyone able to assist with welding or working with steel frames. Please let Miss Kay know. We wish to make a few more pieces of stage and Miss Kay needs some advice and assistance.

Band There is no instrumental next week due to instrumental camp. Congratulations to Teneale White for being accepted on this camp. We hope you have a wonderful time.

P&C News

Cent Sale August 26 Due to building works at the School the School Fair will not be going ahead this year. However, we are holding a Monster Cent Sale on August 26. We would love to get donations from families for this event. So if you have non-perishable grocery items (in date), new ‘gift’ items, car care products etc please send them along to school for the P&C to collect. The class with the biggest contribution will win an incentive prize! P&C Vacant positions The AGM was went ahead on June 5 and all of the positions were filled. However, the position of Treasurer is now vacant. If you have any book work experience or if you think you might be the person for the job please let us know. Send an email to [email protected] for further information. We are also looking for people who can assist the Treasurer by doing data entry and other associated tasks. All these positions are voluntary. Additionally we would like to have someone training under the Secretary with the view to taking over the position next year. If you think you can do this job please email the P&C at the address above for more information. P&C Facebook Page: Keep up to date with what’s happening by visiting our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/WalkerstonSS.PandC P&C meeting Please come along and support the P&C so we can help the School with special projects to benefit your children. We’d love to see you. Our next meeting is on Monday July 17 at 6.30pm in the P&C room in the Hall. (Or in the Staff room depending on building works). Tuckshop News: Pioneer Valley Sports day – HELP! Walkerston State School P&C will provide the canteen for this year’s Pioneer Valley Sports Day and we need help. When: July 20 Where: Mirani. If you can spare an hour or two across the day please see Ida and Kirsty in the Tuckshop for more information or send an email to [email protected] This will be a huge day and will raise much needed funds for the school. Please consider helping us to help provide funds to benefit your children. Tuckshop Helpers needed - URGENT Do you have a couple of hours to spare on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday? Please consider giving the ladies in the tuckshop a hand as we need more helpers. Please go and see Ida or Kirsty in the tuckshop to volunteer your time.

UNIFORM STOCK – TO CLEAR

The P&C have a small amount of the old style (white collar)

School shirts. These are brand new and will be for sale in the

school office. Please note that sizing and quantities are only

available as below. Minimum purchase with eftpos $10.

Uniform shirts – w/badge $10

14x size 4

3x size 6

2x size 10

1x size 12

2x size 18

Without badge $10

(badges available to be sewn

on shirt)

12x size 16

Fadden Shirts (Green) $15

4x size 4

4x size 8

4x size 10

1x size 12

Treacy Shirts (Yellow) $15

2x size 4

Hats – Blue (not reversible) $5

18x XS

32x S/M

29x L/XL

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Student of the Week Awards for Week 7 & Week 8

Class PA Quinn Lovern—For always being a positive class member. You did a fantastic job retelling the Three Little Pigs.

Asha Jonas—For fantastic confidence and effort in your writing. You are always trying your best!

Class PB Ruby Bussey—For a positive attitude and enthusiasm towards learning patterns and shapes.

Class P1A Alexia Weller—For working exceptionally hard in writing to achieve great results. Way to go Alexia!

Ashton Roberts Valena—For always trying his very best and for always doing it with a big smile!

Bella Pearson—For working extremely hard and improving her writing. Keep up the good work Bella!

Class 1A Ava Kent—For working hard on your sight words this week. Well done!

Jason Lote—For working hard on your sight words and using lovely manners. Well done Jason!

Savannah Brown—For always being a polite class member who looks out for her friends.

Class 1B Rada Nikolic—For always displaying an outstanding attitude to all aspects of school!

Shelby Hopper—For working well during reading activities! Keep it up Shelby!

Aden Eiser—For being a super number cruncher in Maths this week!

Class 2A Jordan Alderton—For placing effort into English and Maths activities. Keep up the good work, Jordan!

William Blake—For always showing a positive attitude towards your work.

Class 2B Steven Oberes—For completing activities with a happy and positive attitude. Well done Steven!

Class 23A Jahali Contor—What a fabulous oral presentation! You spoke clearly with the appropriate amount of expression.

Elizabeth Black—I am astounded by your persistence to learn new concepts. You are amazing Lizzy!

Class 3A Faith Kent—For always trying your hardest and never giving up. Well done Faith.

Class 34A Kingston Bobongie—For being friendly towards his class mates.

Leila Cox—For having creative Show and Tells.

Class 4A Faith Kent—For always trying your hardest and never giving up. Well done Faith.

Ella-Shae Firth—For smoothly settling in well to Walkerston State School.

Gabrielle North—For a wonderful oral presentation. Your application to your learning is outstanding, Gabby, well

done!

Tyler Skaines—For applying a happy motivation towards his learning. Keep up the great work, Tyler!

Class 45A Haylee Moss—For following class and school rules carefully and setting a great example for her classmates.

Locklan Yard—For displaying excellent enthusiasm and knowledge with maths this week. Well Done!

Class 5A Jai Barberel—For being a kind and conscientious class member.

Mark Schlitter—For always listening well and doing his best.

Abigail Mair—Working really hard to improve the level of her writing over the semester.

Class 56A Chelsea Bostock—Always working conscientiously with a positive attitude towards her work.

Keeley Robinson—For always taking a keen interest in her learning.

Tamiah Palmer—For displaying good sportsmanship towards a fellow competitor in the

800m event. Well done.

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Photos from Athletics Carnival & Junior Carnival

Students and community members enjoyed an array of activities during Under 8’s

Day celebrations on 25th of May.

Many thanks to our Gold Sponsors of the upcoming School Musical. Without their support students would not be able to have such a wonderful experience.

Thank you to our Gold sponsors

Western Suburbs Leagues Club Mackay (Wests), Timmel

Removals,The Duke and Tandy Concrete

Ph 4954 5478

We would like to say a big thankyou to Rebecca and Charlie from Bunnings Warehouse for helping grade 56A and 6A plant vegetables and fruit in our garden. Bunnings supplied us with seedlings and watering cans and then assisted us with planting the seedlings. The garden is flourishing. Through their support Rebecca and Charlie have helped us to understand how gardening works. We hope that next year Rebecca and Charlie will revisit our school and help the following grade sixes design a special area. Written by Alyssa Germanotta

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Physical Education News

Last week was a great week with our students participating in athletic events throughout the week. The staff at Walkerston did a fantastic job organising students to their events. The weather was beautiful for all carnival days and the students all had a great time. A special thanks needs to go to West Tigers Leagues Club, Mr Gibson and Mr Single for helping with the line marking of the running track at Wests. A big thanks for the lovely food supplied by our Tuckshop ladies also.

The following is the results from our Annual School Athletics Sports Carnival Week.

Results for Sports Day 2017

Field Events

Sprints

9 Boys

High Jump Long Jump Shot Put Discus

1st Sam Knox Sam Knox Tristan Harris

Corbyn Valentine

2nd Tristan Harris

Tyler Skaines

Corbyn Valentine

Tyler Morris

3rd Tyler Skaines

Vaughn Wyatt

Joshua Germanotta

Tristan Harris

10 Girls

High Jump Long Jump Shot Put Discus

1st Charli Roelandts

Charli Roelandts

Jada Morro Haylee Moss

2nd Chelsea Meigan

Jaymie Clancy

Jaymie Clancy

Claire Murry

3rd Haylee Moss

Chelsea Meigan

Chelsea Meigan

Chelsea Meigan

10 Boys

High Jump Long Jump Shot Put Discus

1st Jarrod McCowat

Jarrod McCowat

Leigh (Gus) Southwell

Ryan Fontelera

2nd Ryan Fontelera

Ryan Fontelera

Harrison Hay

Jarrod McCowat

3rd Preston Arrowsmith

Preston Arrowsmith

Ryan Fontelera

Rhyley Hart

11 Boys

High Jump Long Jump Shot Put Discus

1st Jed Blackhall Jed Blackhall

Jed Blackhall

Jed Blackhall

2nd Kobe Munzer

Caleb Hansen

Jayce Stanley

Kobe Munzer

3rd Oliver Steindl

Damian White

Ryan Arrowsmith

Brock Larcombe

11 Girls

High Jump Long Jump Shot Put Discus

1st Tahlya Kennedy

Tahlya Kennedy

Keeley Robinson

Keeley Robinson

2nd Tehlia Colls Keeley Robinson

Sophie Galea

Monique Jones

3rd Keeley Robinson

Chelsea Bostock

Monique Jones

Teneale White

12 Girls

High Jump

Long Jump Shot Put Discus

1st Holly Delaforce

Holly Delaforce

Caitlin Grech

Caitlin Grech

2nd Emily Austin

Emily Austin Emily Austin Rubylee Stockwell

3rd Alysha Brett

Rubylee Stockwell

Alyssa Ger-manotta

Emily Austin

12 Boys

High Jump

Long Jump Shot Put Discus

1st Riley McCabe

Ty Murphy Jack Galea Riley McCabe

2nd Ty Murphy

Riley McCabe

Riley McCabe

Jack Galea

3rd Jack Galea Dane Biddle Jacob Rice Noah McNeilly

50m 1st 2nd 3rd

5 yrs boys Jax Fidler Cameron Mayfield Eli Battersby

5 yrs girls Asha Jonas Madison Richards Tamyka Walker

6 yrs boys Ashton Roberts Valena

Braith Young Jude Fidler

6 yrs girls Isabella Piper Olivia Knight Gabriella Crawford

7 yrs boys Slafford Lowatta Sonny Ghee Rylan Leppien Brayden Moss

7 yrs girls Montana Wicks Rihanna Andrew Rada Nikolic

9 Girls

High Jump Long Jump Shot Put Discus

1st Tamsin Biddle

Gabrielle North

Skye Mole Skye Mole

2nd Chahlee-Rae Sealey

Sarah Kucks Gabrielle North

Tamsin Biddle

3rd Gabrielle North

Tamsin Biddle

Chahlee-Rae Sealey

Elizabeth Vella-Evans

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Age Champions

Records Broken

TOTALS

Next Wednesday, Walkerston State School has nominated their junior and senior netball team into the Mackay District Netball Gala Day. We wish them all the best and a special thanks goes to Mrs Germanotta who has been working really hard with these girls in preparation for this day.

Next term will see the Senior girls off to Rockhampton for the Regional Shield Competition. Locally both teams will be gearing up for the Pioneer Valley Queen of the Cup Competition which will be held over 4 weeks next term after school. Keep up the good work girls.

Pioneer Valley Athletics is scheduled for the second week of school next term with the Mackay District Athletics Trials for the 28th July in week 3.

There are only a handful of sports left for trials for the rest of the year so keep an eye out for these in the coming newsletters.

A reminder to please get your money ($6) and permission note in for the Life Education Van Visit, which is the first week next term. It is a fantastic health program that compliments the great health programs that our school implements across the whole school.

Remember to stay active and have fun over the holidays.

80m 1st 2nd 3rd

8 yrs boys

Riley Meigan Seth Piper Byron Knight

8 yrs girls Libby Zurvas Lenesha-Lee Ball

Chloe Hemley

9 yrs boys

Emanuel Andrew Jahali Contor Liam Thompson Tyler Skaines

9 yrs girls Aiaki Ghee Paige Larsen Tamsin Biddle Savannah Ramos

100m 1st 2nd 3rd

10 yrs boys Ryan Fontelera Jarrod McCowat

Joseph Germanotta

10 yrs girls Jaymie Clancy Layla Contor Chelsea Meigan

11 yrs boys Jed Blackhall Caleb Hansen Damian White

11 yrs girls Imogen Kennedy

Hayley Draper Tahlya Kennedy

12 yrs boys Riley McCabe Ty Murphy Jack Galea

12 yrs girls Holly Delafore Emily Austin Alysha Brett

200m 1st 2nd 3rd

9 yrs boys

Jahali Contor Calvin Ramos Liam Thompson

9 yrs girls

Aiaki Ghee Paige Larsen Savannah Ramos

10 yrs boys

Jarrod McCowat Ryan Fontelera Preston Arrowsmith

10 yrs girls

Jaymie Clancy Chelsea Meigan Layla Contor

11 yrs boys

Jed Blackhall Michael Oberes Caleb Hansen

11 yrs girls

Imogen Kennedy

Hayley Draper Tahlya Kennedy

12 yrs boys

Riley McCabe Jack Galea Ty Murphy

12 yrs girls

Holly Delafore Emily Austin Alysha Brett

800m 1st 2nd 3rd

9 yrs boys Liam Thompson Tyler Morris Sam Knox

9 yrs girls Tamsin Biddle

10 yrs boys Jarrod McCowat Ryan Fontelera

Harry Butt

10 yrs girls Chelsea Meigan Haylee Moss Charli Roelandts

11 yrs boys Jed Blackhall Oliver Steindl Caleb Hansen

11 yrs girls Hayley Draper Imogen Kennedy

Charlotte Harder

12 yrs boys Dane Biddle Mason Payne Braeden Rice

12 yrs girls Holly Delaforce Katelyn Burdon

Long Jump

11 years Boys

1996 4.12m Rua Poroa

2017 4.19m Jed Blackhall

200m Sprint

10 years Girls

1998 33.39 sec Hannah Ridland

2017 Jaymie Clancy

9 years 10 years 11 years 12 Years

Tasmin Biddle Jamie Clancy Chelsea Meigan

Keeley Robinson

Holly Delaforce

Sam Knox Jarrod McCowat

Jed Blackhall

Riley McCabe

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