MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL SCHOOL CALENDAR

24 Nov 2018 Christmas Event

26 Nov Yr 5 & Cav Rd Christmas

Play final performance

27 Nov HPSS Inter House Carnival

29 Nov 2018 Music Concert

30 Nov Dress Like a Farmer Day—

Student Council

10 Dec Yr 1 Swim Fun Session

12 Dec Yr 2 Swim Fun Session

13 Dec Yr 3 Swim Carnival 25m

Sprint Challenge

12 Dec Year 6 Graduation

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Dear Parents, I was reading an article by Sir Kenneth Robinson who is a noted British author and academic who has many wise things to say about education. In The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, he has some wise things to say about failure. He writes that, “If you are not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” He cites several important examples. J.K. Rowling was rejected by 12 publishing houses before Harry Potter became the world wind success it is. Oprah was once fired as a news reporter and Steve Jobs was kicked out of his own company long before the iPhone came along. These examples are of course of people who were not defeated by failure or criticism. They learned and adapted, kept focussed and motivated and ultimately found success. However, there are probably many manuscripts left in bottom drawers or left unwritten because their authors found that the potential risk of failing overcame the desire to keep trying.

Within the school context, students can fall far from their potential because the risk of failure or falling short does not make it seem worthwhile to put in the extra effort. It is not uncommon to have students who would rather not try because it is easier on self-image to be able to say afterwards, “Well I didn’t really try anyway.” I would much rather all our students to have a more positive attitude knowing that success is more likely to be found by giving each learning opportunity a real go and then if not reaching their desired goal, listen to and heed the feedback that hopefully will lead to better outcomes the next time round. End of the Year Concert Next Thursday night at 7pm in our hall will be the culminating opportunity in 2018 for our various musical groups to perform for their families and friends. I am confident that these performances will show our music program off at its very best and I hope you can come along to celebrate what has been a great year for our music department. Many thanks to Mr Warren James, Ms Meg Robson, Mr Tony Bryer and to Mrs Sophie Hills who does great work here as a volunteer.

I hope everyone gets behind, supports and enjoys the P&C’s Christmas function at the school on Saturday. Anthony Gribbin Principal

THINK HARD—P2

Ph: (07) 3421 6222 Student Absences: (07) 3421 6260 Email: admin@hollandparkss.eq.edu.au

Be safe Be responsible Be respectful

LOST PROPERTY

Lost property has been overflowing since the middle of Term 3. There is a variety of items that need to be collected by their rightful owners. We urge all parents to come and check if any items belong to their child and collect. Any items left at the end of this term will be donated to charity.

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEPUTY PRINCIPAL

Year 6 Graduation Wednesday 12 December marks a landmark evening for our year six students. This is the date of our final formal student event for the year- the Year Six Graduation.

Parents of year six have already received information around this event. This is a most important occasion where we acknowledge the talent, diligence and skill of our year six student body.

This is an evening where every student has their time on the stage. We see the year in action via photos and videos. We see every students celebrated. We note students who have demonstrated high levels of academic, musical and sporting achievements. For all students and staff this is a special and rewarding night.

We look forward to a great evening with our year six students and their families. Our student leaders As the year closes I think that it is timely to talk about our student leaders. This year we have dedicated a section of the newsletter for you, our community, to get to know our leaders a little more. The students featured have been all of our inducted leaders across the school form year 4 to 6 The year 6 leaders which encompass school captains, house captains, music captains, chess captains and SEP reps have supported and led a range of school programs and events. These include Sports days, the Active School Travel Program, the Prep Information sessions and Important ceremonies such as the Anzac Day Service.

Our student leaders present themselves as role models for our students and our community. They have been eager to help staff, parents and students, lead when required and initiate new ideas and ways to make our school better.

The inducted Holland Park student leaders are:

We thank all of you for doing such a great job this year for our school. It has been a pleasure to work with you. Leigh Harrod Deputy Principal

THIS WEEK—THINK HARD

1. I have 30 coins consisting of 5 c coins and 20c coins. The total value of the

coins is $3.45. How many of each kind do I have ? 2. The four-digit number A55B is divisible by 36. What is the sum of A and B? 3. Find the greatest number that divides 364,414, and 539 with the same remain-

der in each case.

Sam Matilda Evander Jessica Liam Isabella

Owen Lydia Daniel Priya Tom Kameryn

Luke Jayda Lachlan Ellouise William Stella

Luka Ella Sidney Henry Rianna Dorothy

Tara Zoe Jack Natalie Aurora Oliva

Miro Angus Ben Juliette Hayley Grace

Alyssa Thomas Jayden Sophie Jaye Christopher

MESSAGE FROM THE DEPUTY PRINIPAL

UPCOMING EVENTS

End of year music groups concert

Our annual end of year concert will be held on Thursday 29th November.

Time: Concert starts at 7.00m pm, finishing approximately 8.30pm

String players to arrive at 6.30 for tuning

Uniform: School uniform for all performers (not sports uniform).

The following groups will be performing in this order:

String orchestra

Junior choir (grade 3)

Junior band

Recorder band

Grade 4 choir

Senior band

Senior choir

P &C Christmas event Saturday 24 th November All choirs (Junior, Grade 4 and Senior) plus recorder band will perform in a short concert to start the afternoon’s festivities, at 4.00pm in the Hall. Instrumental program for 2019 All year 2 and 3 students will receive an expression of interest letter this week containing important information about recruitment for out 2019 instrumental program. Warryn James (Music specialist)

MUSIC NEWS

Student Absences Please make sure you advise the administration office of any absences, no matter how may days. Any and all absences should be called in to the school Absentee Line (PH 3421 6260) or registered on QParents, or emailed to admin@hollandparkss.eq.edu.au It is Department of Education Policy that all absences are notified. Please make sure you give a reason for the absence when you call the absentee line. It may be illness, medical or dental appointments, or family reasons or holiday. If a student is away without the office being notified, this is classed as an unexplained absence, and you will receive a text message each day when an absence has not been entered onto the class roll by the office. When you receive this text message it is important that you contact us as soon as possible by text or telephone to let us know where your child is. We will follow up with parents if no response is received. Edward Danielewski Deputy Principal

4KD PHILOSOPHY

HPE NEWS

2019 Mt Gravatt District Swimming

Year 3 Students who are born in 2009 are eligible to submit official 50 metre swim times to be considered during selection of the Holland Park State School Swim team members for the 2019 Mt Gravatt District Swimming trials held in February. Students that are nominating should be of a very high ability in each of the swimming strokes. The nomination form is available from the school website. Please complete the nomination with official swim times from any official swimming meet in 2018. All official times will require signed confirmation from your swim coach or club official. Matt Walker HPE Specialist Teacher

UNIVERSAL CHILDREN’S DAY

Universal Children’s Day 2018 In 1954 the United Nations proclaimed Universal Children’s Day to acknowledge the importance of children all around the world. The day was set aside to acknowledge the rights of all children to be safe, happy and free. The United Nations recognised that literacy was at right for all children to be successful in their future life. Holland Park 2018 prep students will graduate in year six in 2024 and certainly will attain literacy as a life long learning skill. On Tuesday 20 November, prep students at Holland Park celebrated Universal Children’s Day in the school hall. Students were invited to come to school dressed wearing the clothes of their country of heritage. All prep classes gathered at the school assembly hall to celebrate their national heritage. Parents and grandparents attend-ed this special assembly and watched each student walk across the stage celebrating their cultural heritage. A musical performance followed and prep students performed two songs – “You’ll Sing a Song and I’ll Sing a Song” and “Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” in Japanese. Following the musical performance prep students returned to their classes to celebrate an International lunch prepared by their families and prep staff. We would like to thank all parents and grandparents who attended Universal Children’s Day and provided such delicious food to share on the day. We appreciate how insights into diverse cultures were celebrated on the day and thank you all for joining with us to celebrate heritage and culture at Holland Park State School. Prep teachers 2018

Students Leaving HPSS If your child/ren will not be attending Holland Park State School in 2019 (not including our year 6 students), please let me know via email and include the name of the school they will be attending in 2019. Exemption Forms Please remember that if you are planning on taking students out of school during the term, and will be absent for more than 10 school days, you will need to complete an Exemption Form, these are signed by the principal. I’m happy to send you an exemption form if you email me. Karen Oliver Email: koliv33@eq.edu.au

COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICER

FROM OUR STUDENTS

Hello, my name is Jayden L. I am honoured and proud to have been the Student Council

Representative for 6NA 2018.

I loved this role of being actively involved in discussions and decision making for events such

as various fundraising to support our school and charities in need. I have enjoyed working

with other Student Council Representatives in putting together fun, safe and memorable

events. And I must not forget to thank my prep (PJR) buddy class for their generous

donations in much needed resources and funds for our charities. They may be small, but

they have BIG hearts!

I also would like to take this opportunity to thank all my past and present teachers for the

guidance and support they’ve given me throughout the years.

I hope that I have left positive memories at this school.

Jayden L Student Council Representative

SAFE SCHOOL TRAVEL INFRASTRUCTURE—BCC

Brisbane City Council has announced improvement works at the intersection of Arnold Street

and Arabilla Street, near Holland Park State School. This work should start in next couple of

weeks.

Council will be undertaking the following works:

Installing a kerb build out on Arabilia Street at the intersection with Arnold Street

Installing a splitter island and associated line markings on Arabilia Street at the

intersection with Arnold street

Installing pedestrian refuge facility and associated line markings on Arnold Street

at the Arabilia Street intersection

Upgrading kerb ramps and sections of footpath

Turfing

Works will generally be undertaken between 7am and 5pm Monday to Friday.

P&C NEWS

Christmas Event Baking P&C are looking for Bakers to help make some treats for the Christmas Event on Saturday 24th November. If you can bake up a storm and help us out contact Mary Shyu at hpssxmas@gmail.com

Christmas Event Volunteers Can you spare some time to help the P&C at this years Christmas event. Cook a BBQ, Man the cake stall or sell a glow stick. Click on the link to see the task list and pick a task to suit - Click Here

Pallets We are still looking for some timber pallets for the P&C store room. Email us if you have some spare hpsspresident@gmail.com

Containers for Change HPSS P&C has registered the school as a local community group for the Containers for Change program. Any time you drop off at your local Containers for Change collection point you can use the code below to donate the recycle funds to the school. Use the Code - C10005670

FRIDAY NIGHT SWIM CLUB Thanks to the volunteers who were not on roster but stepped up and helped out on the night.

There is only three more Friday nights of racing this half of the season as we have the Christmas Pizza Breakup party on the Friday 14th December. Club starts back again after the holidays on Friday 1st February.

This coming Friday will be a shorter night as the club has 24 of its swimmers representing Holland Park SS at the Qld Primary School Relay Championships, good luck to all the swimmers.

The order of events this week are:- 13m/25m/50m Backstroke, Butterfly, Breaststroke, Freestyle, and 100m Backstroke is the special race for the night. Nominations for club night need to be in prior to 5.00pm Thursday.

P&C NEWS CONT’D

MOST IMPROVED AT CLUB NIGHT

16 November 2018 – Club Night 6

3 Way Twilight Carnival The storm didn’t dampen the spirits of our winning Holland Park team taking out the winner’s trophy over Cleveland Penguins and Norman Park.

It was a shame that the carnival was cut short as the relays are always a highlight. There certainly was some enthusiastic cheering from the teams and some close finishes.

A couple of Pool Records were broken, Eloise P broke the 9yrs, 25m Butterfly and Bailey H from Cleveland broke the 11yrs 50m Butterfly record. 2018 BRISBANE METROPOLITAN RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS

Twenty-six of our swimmers competed again on Sunday at Chandler at the relay Champion-ships. Most of our teams made time improvements and some being quite substantial. We may be a relatively small club out at Chandler but we have the loudest cheering – thanks parents for all the support.

STROKE Swimmer’s Name SECONDS IMPROVED

25m Freestyle Claudia W 8.12

25m Backstroke Thomas T 3.99

25m Breaststroke Emily M 4.47

25m Butterfly Emily M 16.57

50m Freestyle Stella W 4.14

50m Backstroke Lucy C 1.38

50m Breaststroke Will W 1.24

50m Butterfly Charlotte K 4.69

100m Freestyle Louis B 10.67

HPSS SWIM CLUB

Holland Park State School Swim School The swimming pool owes its origin to the foresight of Mr. A.

Duncan, the Head Teacher during the 1940s. After much

fundraising, a pool was completed in 1951. Since then the swim

school has been teaching children from the school community

the lifesaving skill of “swimming”.

During the 1990s the pool was reconfigured to the shape it is

today and a heat pump installed that has provided a more

comfortable swimming environment all year round. The painted

blue line around the pool still shows the outline of the original

pool.

4 levels of Learn to Swim from Prep to Grade 6.

3 levels of Squad Beginner to Advanced.

Morning and Evening adult and teen fitness Squads.

Holiday Intensive swimming Lessons.

For more information contact

Jan swim school coordinator: 07 3421 6262 between 2:30-

5:30pm Monday to Thursday email hollandparkpool@gmail.com.

Phil Hughes, Head Coach and manager: 0481 567 057

“Swimming it’s a skill for life”

“You feel better when you swim”

2018 Dates

Term 1: 22 Jan-30 mar

Term 2: 16 Apr-29 June

Term 3: 16 July-21 Sep

Term 4: 8 Oct-14 Dec

280 people drowned

in Australian

waterways last year

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Holland Park

swim School Wilbur St

Holland Park QLD

07 3421 6262

0481 467 057

hollandparkpool@gmail.com

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