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Hi everyone,

Once again, I am starting with some bragging. I

am so proud of our school! The year three and

five students did a magnificent job with

NAPLAN, they all had such a positive attitude

and tried their best. Thank you to the families

for ensuring that everyone was at school each

day and on time; it made the process easy for us

here at school. NAPLAN reports will come out in

August.

Our amazing Concert Band performed at Fan-

fare last Sunday. Fanfare is a state-wide festival

of bands and orchestras from Queensland state

schools. Our band competed against 23 other

groups from a variety of Townsville schools. Out

of all of those, our Magnetic Island State School

Concert Band was one of only seven asked back

to perform in the Grand Final. The Grand Final

will be on June 24. In Mrs Darrigan’s words

“they rocked it!” Thank you to the parents (and

Mrs Johnson) for your collaboration and support

in getting the band students there, especially on

a weekend.

There are still many parents using the staff car-

park as a drop off zone. Please use the gates on

Mandalay to ensure the safety of our students.

It is great to see so many of our students partici-

pating in the Sporting Schools program on

Wednesday after school. Please ensure that

your children leave the school grounds straight

after the program finishes in the afternoon. We

need to ensure that all of the students get home

safely and on time.

This Friday is Under 8’s Day. If you know anyone

out in the community that is ‘under 8’ (and you

think that they would like to join us) please let

them know and invite them along. There will be

some messy activities so make sure that you

bring an art smock or a big old shirt to wear.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday from

8.45 to 10.15am.

The students (and teachers) have been smiling

beautifully in their photos today, I can’t to see

how gorgeous we all look when the published

photos arrive at school.

Happy Days x

Principal’s Report Kacey Constan�ne From the Principal 1

Student Awards and Celebrations

2

Positive Culture for Learning at MISS

2

Peer Support News 2

Class News 3-6

MISS P&C News 6

Date Claimers 7

After The Bell and Community events

8

In this edi�on...

Every Day Counts!

School target: 95%

Year to date: 93.2%

Fortnightly

Issue 8 Term 2 Week 6

22nd May 2018

Magne�c Island State School School Vision: All students can succeed.

Mission: Magne�c Island State School will be a posi�ve and suppor�ve school empowering students to be the

best that they can be. Students, staff, parents, carers and community members will work together

to foster an outstanding academic, crea�ve and environmentally sustainable learning environment.

10 - 16 Mandalay Ave, Nelly Bay QLD 4819

Telephone 07 4758 2333 Fax 07 4758 2300

Email: info@magne�cislandss.eq.edu.au w Web h-p://magne�cislandss.eq.edu.au

Facebook: Magne�c Island State School Official

Be Respec�ul

Be Responsible

Be Safe

Awards for Term 2, Week 4: Awards for Term 2, Week 5:

Class Achievement PCL Achievement PCL

Prep Nya Dylan Rowan Tyler 1 Clarence Casper Pipi Isabelle

2 Abby Mackenzie Jazlyn Esther

3 Starr Oliver Mah�sha Jack 4 Sonny Zachary Lilley & Joshua Blake

5 Kelly Zahli Zoe C Mya 6 Madisyn Zach Alena Murphy Sport/Japanese awards went to Charlie & Esther. Sport/Japanese awards went to Maddy & Josh. PCL Class of the week went to Year 1. PCL Class of the week went to Prep.

A'endance award went to Year 2. A'endance award went to Year 5.

Posi�ve Culture for Learning (PCL)

Student Awards

Thank you to the Year 5 students who performed a wonderful

role-play on parade this week. We will all be moving sensi-

bly and carefully around the classroom thanks to your

demonstration. In addition to our role-plays, each class has

weekly lessons on our focus to ensure all students are aware

of behavioural expectations. Teaching students how we ex-

pect them to behaviour is a vital part of establishing a posi-

tive culture for learning in our school. Shared and consistent

language is another important aspect of establishing our ex-

pectations and parents/community members can get in-

volved by using the same language we use at school. We

encourage all families and community members to be posi-

tive role-models to our students by following and reinforcing

our school rules.

Example: Possible statement: “stop running”

Encouraged language: “Are you moving sensibly and care-

fully?” or “Move sensibly and carefully, thanks.”

At Magne�c Island State School we have

a posi�ve culture for learning. This

fortnight we have a ‘Be Safe’ focus:

Move sensibly and carefully.


Last week we unfortunately

needed to postpone our

Peer Support lesson. But

leaders are well organised

and looking forward to this

week’s lesson. On Wednes-

day, in our Peer Support

groups, we will take another

look at the Bullying Triangle.

This diagram helps us to

understand the feelings of

each person involved in a

bullying situation. It also

helps us to remember how

important the behaviour of

bystanders is. In our Peer Support lessons coming up,

children will learn more about positive things they can

do as a bystander.

Peer Support

Dear Prep families!

It is a very exciting week as Friday is

Under 8’s Day! The event is running

from 8.45 am to 10.15 am outside the

Prep room and surrounding grounds.

Our friends from C&K are coming and

together we will acknowledge the im-

portance of learning in the early years

of a child’s life.

I am going to be sending home in read-

er folders some sound and letter book-

lets. Each child will be given a focus

letter to work on for the week – the ac-

tivities inside include handwriting, say-

ing the letter sound aloud, and colour-

ing in. The children are progressing

well with their sight words – if we can

continue to practice these at home that

would be great! Some ideas for helping

children to learn sight words are for the

children to write them as they say the

word aloud, put a copy on the fridge or

stick them to the mirror, to sound out the

letters and identify them in the books

they read.

In Science we are learning about mate-

rials and have been testing the effect of

water on materials. We will be practic-

ing making wind chimes soon for the

Science assessment this term. If you

have any materials you would like to

bring in such as shells, and small bits of

drift-wood please do – we have materi-

als at school too so this is optional.

The children seem to be bringing lots of toys

from home for show and tell – while I don’t

mind them playing with them at lunch-time

during class they must stay in bags – if you

could remind them this would be fantastic. I

also don’t want to encourage show and tell as

some children may feel left out should they

not have items to bring in. If you could also

note to follow Queensland Education policy

children are not to stay after the end of day

bell and play at school.

Thank-you and have a lovely week!

Sophie.

.

Year 1 Jo Terkelsen

Prep Sophie McLellan


Don’t forget to join us for

Under 8s Day this Friday 25th

May at 8.45 am to 10.15 am.

The week we will begin out new Eng-

lish unit which explores poetry. In

maths we are investigating 2D and 3D

shapes.

We are having fun in Science. This

week we folded or rolled paper in dif-

ferent ways to try to increase it’s

strength so it would hold a large book.

We succeeded.

Under Eights morning is on Friday.

Please send an old t-shirt or shirt with

your child to protect their uniform

when they are busy with messy art ac-

tivities.

Thank you.

What a fantastic time of year to be a gardener,

everything is growing beautifully but not with-

out the help of the students of Magnetic Island.

Thanks Shelley for the help with the rock

painting for plant and herb identification, they

look great.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

The past 2 weeks have been busy and I

am very proud of all students working to

the best of their ability.

In English, during Guided Reading we

are focusing finding connections within a

text; text to self, text to text and text to

world. We are also very keen to start

reading and writing some fractured fair-

ytales.

In Maths we have been looking at 2 and

3 Dimensional shapes and using the

playdough we made to make different

shapes.

All students seem to be enjoying learning

about the Earth and its continents and

countries. They have been using globes

and the internet to explore maps on a local,

regional and national scale.

It is great to see students actively engaged

in their learning and reading every night.

Keep it up.

Year 3 Natalie Crouch

Year 2 Richard McLaughlin


How wonderful to be back on beautiful

Maggie Island for six weeks with the

privilege of teaching year 3. I am look-

ing forward to working with these en-

thusiastic students.

The English unit based on the book

Charlotte’s Web is well underway. The

students will be writing a persuasive

letter to complete this unit.

In maths we are covering addition and

subtraction, number stories and money. If

you have any junk mail, please save it for us.

This will help us to use real life examples to

buy items and work out change.

Please feel free to pop in to see me if you

have any questions or concerns.

Thank you, Natalie

Na�onal Walk Safely to School Day (followed by a heathy breakfast)

English work has moved on to listening

and analysing Asian stories. To compli-

ment this we cooked ourselves a fabu-

lous Asian food inspired lunch last Fri-

day. The children made rice paper

rolls, sushi, dahl and flatbreads.

Thanks once again to all our wonderful

helpers – Glenda, Jane, Deb, Katrina

and Ange. Our next session will be

from 10.30am to 1.00ish on Friday June

1st when we will cook foods enjoyed by

early settlers to Australia. This compli-

ments our work in history.

In Maths we are starting work on frac-

tions, and moving on to the 6x table.

It has been very interesting to watch the

growth of our grass heads in Science

over the last few weeks. We are making

a stop motion film to record what hap-

pens. We also planted sunflower seeds

last week during our kitchen garden

session, and we aim to measure and

monitor those too.

Reading and Homework: Friday after-

noon is our library borrowing time.

Homework is set every Monday to be

handed in on Fridays. Part of the expec-

tation for homework is that children read

for at least 20 minutes a day. They can

choose from a library book, home book

or class reader (these have just been

refreshed again)– whatever they enjoy

most. The key thing is that they have a

chance to do this and then share it with

you. Please note down how this is going

in the homework book.

Thank you for your help and support,

Sharon Jupp [email protected]

Year 4 Sharon Jupp


EXPERT HELP REQUEST

The children have been asked to select an endangered plant or animal to research for their Science assessment. Do you know

about any local species that you could come and talk about to them?

Year 5 Cat Johnson

We had some wonderful work pre-

sented for our English assessment

tasks. The advertisements that the

children composed were visually

very effective, and the language used

by some students was both highly

persuasive and effectively selected.

In addition, children needed to ex-

plain their language and multimodal

choices, and also explain their choic-

es of images. Some of the great work

that was presented has been put on

display in the classroom, and will also

be displayed in the covered area

over the next week or so. Please feel

free to come in for a look.

Our Peer Support lessons are up and

running again this week, hopefully.

Leaders are reminding their groups of

the Bullying Triangle, which is a dia-

gram we will use to help children un-

derstand the feelings of those involved

in bullying situations. Leaders will talk

about the importance of responses of

bystanders, and how these people can

have significant impact on the occur-

rence of bullying. Leaders continue to

be enthusiastic about their roles, and

most children are now realising the

great value in being well organised and

prepared ahead of time, so that lessons

flow smoothly and so that the leadership

experience is a positive one.

Homework Club will happen again this

Wednesday, so please let me know if you

wish your child to attend.

Please be sure to contact me if you have

any concerns regarding your child’s pro-

gress.

Year 6 Mar�n Hammelswang


Don’t forget to get your order in for our

reuseable tote and drawstring bags

from Cathy Edwards' Escape artists,

personalised with our school logo. Or-

der forms are available in the school

office. Delivery is expected in approxi-

mately two weeks.

The P&C’s Mothers Day Stall was a suc-

cess, with over 200 gifts sold. Thank

you to the parents who came in to help.

P&C News

The Peer Support program is a peer

led, skills based, experien�al learn-

ing program that empowers young

people to support each other and

contribute posi�vely to society.

Years 5s have worked brilliantly for the

past two weeks. They have completed

three days of NAPLAN without their

classroom teacher and performed su-

perbly on parade to cover the school

PCL focus.

We are continuing with persuasive

writing and completing lots of work on

our Solar System. Our photos show our

moon models.

In Maths we are continuing with frac-

tions and working on money and budg-

ets.

During reading we are reading SRA

cards (does that bring back memo-

ries?) and loving it! I am enjoying my

two weeks here, thanks to a great class.

Thank you for having me.

May 2018

Fri, 25th May Under 8s Day 8.45—10.15am

Tue, 29th May ICAS Science exam

June 2018

Thu, 7th June World Oceans Day

Fri, 8th June Obe Geia & Cathy Freeman tournaments, Palm Island

Tue, 12th June Choir performance at MICare, Horseshoe Bay

Wed, 13th June Interhouse Athletics Carnival

Thu, 14th June Palm Island schools sleep over

Sun, 24th June Fanfare grand final—School Concert Band

Thu, 31st May AFLQ Schools Cup

Mon, 11th June School Cleaners Day

Thu, 21st June Principal’s Morning Tea

Fri, 22nd June Performance parade 1.30pm

Thu, 28th June End of term PCL beach party

Fri, 29th June Last day of term 2

Date Claimers:


You can join in a world record attempt on:

DATE: Wednesday, 23 May 2018,

TIME: Registration at 6.30pm,

Show starts at 7pm

Record attempt starts at 8pm

To coincide with the ABC’s Guinness Book of Records

attempt to set a new record for the number of people

stargazing simultaneously in multiple locations, the

Townsville Astronomy Group is hosting an evening of fun and excitement to boost the numbers! Brian Cox,

Julia Zamero and thousands of stargazers around Australia will be participating in similar stargazing parties –

you may have seen the nationwide events advertised on the ABC. The Townsville Astronomy Group will meet at their site in Oak Valley. Drive along the Flinders Highway, then

turn right into the rural suburb of Oak Valley, cross the railway line and turn left. Go to the end, and look for the

fun! For more information and to register, head to https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/townsville-astronomy-group-

star-party-tickets-45961702690

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The Children’s Book Exchange.

Corner of Birt and Granite streets, Picnic Bay.

Thank you to everyone who has been donating books to the Chil-

dren’s Book Exchange in Picnic Bay. Your support is fantastic! Please

note that the exchange is on the corner of Birt & Granite Streets, but

we are a little hidden now with the new golf club sign. But we are still

there! Visit or donate soon.

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