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Baralaba State School P-10 Campus Every day, every student is learning & achieving

Phone: (07) 49982 333

Fax: (07) 49982 300

Address: 1 Power Street, Baralaba Qld 4702

Website: www.baralabass.eq.edu.au

Email: admin@baralabass.eq.edu.au Local Link 7 – Thursday 14

th May 2015

15th-16th May Callide Valley Show Biloela Sat 23rd May Baralaba Golf Day tee off 12:00pm Thur 28th May National Simultaneous Storytime

Biggest Morning Tea Fri 29th May Scholastic Book Club Issue 3 Due Mon 8th Jun Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday Thur 11th Jun Baralaba State School Athletics Carnival Fri 12th Jun Local Show Holiday 10th-12th June Rockhampton Show Sun 12th Jul Rockhampton Heritage Village Markets 10th-14th Aug Book Week Sat 15th Aug Ambrose State School Auction 7am Sun 13th Sep Rockhampton Heritage Village Markets Wed 11th Nov Remembrance Day Thur 12th Nov Awards Night Sun 29th Nov Rockhampton Heritage Village Markets Thur 10th Dec Swimming Carnival Fri 11th Dec Celebration Day

This week the staff have been especially impressed with the effort and willingness from students to ‘have a go’ during NAPLAN. All students have shown determination during these three sessions of national testing. We look forward to analysing this data to inform future priorities for explicit improvement when this information is returned next term.

The parent action planning workshop was very successful last week and the information gathered is valued for the development of our Audit Action Plan. Some parents requested an evening session; this will be held at the next P&C meeting on Monday 25th May at 6:30pm. Parents and community partners are encouraged to come along for this session to have input into this valuable planning session. I will then be workshopping with my supervisor the following day drafting our Action Plan for the next 18 months.

There will be major facilities works occurring within our Junior Secondary wing over the next holidays. The asbestos is being totally removed from ‘C’ block and whilst the sheeting is removed, new air conditioners and data point wiring will be installed and finally internal and external painting of this building is expected to be completed at this time. The Home Ec and ‘F’ block will also be externally painted also during these holidays. The new external colour scheme (that of the Library and the new toilet block) will start to phase through the school and due to finance allocations will take a couple of years until all buildings are painted the new colours. We look forward to these works enhancing our Junior Secondary learning environment.

Kind Regards, Melissa Austin

ATTENDANCE:

EVERY DAY COUNTS Cohort Total Attendance Percentage

A great big congratulations to 8 students who are on 100% attendance so far this year. They certainly are putting in every effort to support their learning and progress at school. These fantastic role models are:

• Rachel Oakley • Dakota Saltner • Mathew Saltner • Muriel Saltner • Melanie Hamilton • Harrison Evans • Miles Evans • Archer Lawson

Excellent effort by you and your parents ☺

Prep 90.2%

Year 1 88.2%

Year 2 90.7%

Year 3 87.8%

Year 4 90.2%

Year 5 91.5%

Year 6 88.7%

Year 7 85.5%

Year 8 82.8%

Year 9 81.3%

Year 10 78.1%

Total School 86.7%

Congratulations to those four cohorts who are above our school target of 89%. Remember ‘every day counts’.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Keep an eye out in your child’s bags! The students have been paying visits to the Dental Van. Any student that requires any extra attention have been given permission forms to take home with them. These forms need to be filled out and returned the next day.

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

Thursday 11th June (no school on Friday) Food: Morning Tea – school will provide morning tea to students consisting of cake, fruit and water. Lunch – BBQ burgers and sausage on bread organised by the P&C. Enrolled students will get the choice of a sausage on bread or hamburger and a popper for FREE. Parents and all others will need to pay for their food and drinks:

Baralaba State School P-10 Campus Every day, every student is learning & achieving

$5 Hamburgers $2 Sausage on bread $2 Water $1.50 Poppers $1-$2 Ice-creams (various)

ROCKHAMPTON DISTRICT

CROSS COUNTRY On Wednesday 6th May students from Baralaba State School competed at the district Cross Country trials. 10-12 years students represented Dawson Valley and 13-16 years students represented Baralaba SS. Well done to all students for giving their best on a very warm day. Results are below: Name Place Team Time Zac Sainsbury 2 11 Dawson Valley 11:28.70 Koby Curtis 27 11 Dawson Valley 13:17.45 Melanie Hamilton 6 12 Dawson Valley 13:27.97 Tyrell Conway N/A Dawson Valley No time/

place recorded

Matthew Read 22 15 Baralaba State School

16:07.53

Jonetani Qorovarua 30 16 Baralaba State School

34:00.00

As Zac Sainsbury finished in the top 5 he has qualified for the Rockhampton team and will now go on to compete at the Capricornia trials. Good luck Zac.

SCHOOL WIDE POSITIVE

BEHAVIOUR The school rule focus for week three and four are to speak respectfully to others and to report any problems. Students throughout Term Two have demonstrated excellent effort towards upholding the Baralaba State School rules. We would like to congratulate the students completing NAPLAN this week on their persistence, work ethic and outstanding effort. They should all be extremely proud of their efforts over the three days. Food for thought…

AWARDS

Week 3 Goothala Rynne – For trying his hardest Brodie McLellan – For using strategies when reading Uujaa Gankhuyag – For completing set tasks during English Rakalem Comollatti – For always putting in a tremendous effort in Spelling Mastery Alexis Proefke – For being a helpful class member

Jack Sainsbury – For being able to partition two-digit numbers independently Dakota Saltner – For accurately applying mental facts to create equivalent fractions Mikayla Proefke – 100% in spelling Rondello Comollatti – Student of the Week and 100% in spelling Henry Bahnisch – For being a respectful and helpful class member Brock Jarick – Student of the Week Elliott Brown – Student of the Week for working hard in all areas and making good choices Casey Carsburg – For being a fountain of knowledge Tyrell Conway – 100% effort

YEAR 4 UPDATE In English, the Year 4 class has been working hard to improve their story writing. Starting with a simple sentence, students have added noun groups, verb groups, adjectival clauses and direct speech to make their sentence more interesting. The original sentence was ‘The tiger came from behind the bushes.’ These are the amazing sentences that have been created. Long ago in a jungle, the tiger that was really kind, carefully came from behind the blueberry bushes. In the distance, he saw a beautiful ginger cat named Ginger. “Hello, what is your name?” asked the tiger very quietly. “My name is Ginger’, replied the cat. Mikayla Proefke A long, long time ago in a forest, the beautiful, happy tiger who was running from a dog, came unhappily from behind the huge, sharp bushes. In the distance he saw a giant green bird. “What is that in the distance?” asked the tiger quietly. “I am a bird”, replied the bird. Teera Comalatti A long, long time ago, the powerful handsome tiger who had a blind eye came fiercely from behind the prickly bushes in the huge forest. In the distance, he saw a little vicious rabbit. “What’s your name little rabbit?” asked the tiger curiously. “Are you going to eat me?” replied the rabbit nervously. Efrem Gela

Baralaba State School P-10 Campus Every day, every student is learning & achieving

A long time ago in japan, the beautiful tiger came from behind the strong, prickly bushes, licking his tongue. In the distance he saw a kangaroo licking a baby joey. “Hello, what is your name?” asked the tiger happily. Steven Bounghi A long, long time ago, near a lake in Africa, the magical tiger, came from behind the fluffy, prickly bushes licking his mouth. In the distance he saw a little girl with a purple dress on. Her name was Dakota. “Hi, you have a beautiful dress”, whispered the tiger quietly. “Thank you kind tiger”, replied Dakota. Adrianne Barry A long, long time ago near the Nile River, the strong tiger who was hungry came from behind the sharp, green bushes. In the distance, he saw a cheetah who was very mean. His name was Brax. “Why are you here?” asked the tiger curiously. “I am here because I am hungry”, replied Brax. Charlie Sainsbury A long, long time ago in Japan, the fierce tiger who was licking his lips came sneakily from behind the magical bushes. In the distance he saw a humungous, scaly dinosaur called Jackosaurus. “Hello, what do you have on your mouth?” demanded the tiger nervously. “It’s blood from a pterodactyl”, answered Jackosaurus. Rondello Comolatti Long, long ago in the Amazon, the hungry, angry tiger who was licking his lips, came ferociously from behind the sharp, prickly bushes. In the distance he saw a handsome boy called D’Shaun. “Yo. What you doin?”asked the tiger curiously. “I’m just rappin”, D’Shaun replied happily. D’Shaun Evans

DONATIONS REQUIRED

Junior Secondary Art Students are kindly requesting donations of newspaper for the art room. Thank you.

UNIFORM ORDERS

ALL uniform orders will need to be placed at the office in the drop box. The money needs to be in an envelope with the order form stapled to the outside of the envelope. CORRECT MONEY ONLY . Order forms are available at the office. All polo shirts $30 Junior secondary jerseys $60 Jackets $35 Hats $12

RESOURCE CENTRE NEWS

Students: Read More in May and you could WIN $250 worth of book vouchers for you, your family AND books for your classroom! Read for at least 10 minutes every day in May! Once your log is completed, from June 1-15, Miss Kyla can enter you into the competition. Ask your parent or teacher to sign your reading log and hand it in to Miss Kyla for safe keeping. If you win Miss Kyla will send the log to Scholastic. Winners will be announced in July. Keep reading!

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB ISSUE 3 DUE DATE IS INCORRECT!

30th MAY IS A SATURDAY PLEASE RETURN BEFORE THIS DATE

When you place an order for Book Club you must:

• Pay in the form of a cheque written directly to Scholastic, online payment (www.scholastic.com.au/payment nominate our school when you make a purchase) or cash.

• Have only the correct payment as no change can be given.

• The payment must be placed in an envelope that is clearly labelled with your name and the payment amount.

• THE ORDER FORM MUST BE ATTACHED TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE ENVELOPE.

• Hand in orders and payments to the school