School Watch 13 17 88 - Walkerston State School...2019/04/04 · resume school on Tuesday, 23/05....
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April 4 Junior Athletics Carnival 5 Last day Term 1 23 First day Term 2 23 PV Soccer Trials 25 Anzac Day 26 PV Cross Country May 2 P&C Meeting 6pm 2-3 PV Athletics Carnival 6 Labour Day Public Holiday 8-10 Mothers Day Stall 10 MD Soccer Trials 13 MD Softball Trials 15-17 NAPLAN 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 5 4 April 2019 McColl Street, Walkerston 4751 Telephone (07) 4959 4333 E-mail [email protected] Web hp://walkerstonss.eq.edu.au School Watch 13 17 88 Principal’s Report— Mr J Feeney As we move into our last day of term, which very clearly has been the term for sport. When the naonal compeons are held in Darwin, as they are this year, they’re held earlier in the year than usual, which has a knock-on effect for state, regional and school compeons. This is why our sport has been so front-loaded this year. So, at the end of Term 1, the bulk of our school-based compeve sport will be complete, but there will be lots of Pioneer Valley, Mackay, State and naonal sport compeons to come throughout the year. As I hope all our community knows by now, we live and breathe our moo of ’Pung Learning First. Every Child. Every Day.’ by striving to find beer and beer ways to meet the learning needs of our children. We allocate teachers me to work regularly with our Head of Curriculum to ensure planning aligns with the Australian Curriculum and is targeted towards the children’s needs, we work as a team providing each other feedback on children's learning by conducng weekly learning walks through classrooms and asking children about their learning, and through lesson observaons. Our progress data, which the teachers and I discuss each term, is showing that many more of our children made good or beer progress this term compared to Term 1 last year. This is definitely due to the hard work and research being undertaken by the teachers, but is also helped significantly by those parents who are geng their children in to school every day. Our overall aendance rate for Term 1 last year was 93.7%, wheras it is 94.6% this term. That is a significant improvement! Thanks, parents and carers, for making sure your children are in school to put their learning first. A parcular thanks to all families whose children's aendance rate beats our target of 95% or above; last year for Term 1, this figure was 55.2%. This term, it’s increase to 65.3%. And it is having a real impact on the learning progress of our children. While we do want the children here everyday, we need to set a firm limit on the mes during which we can have children on site. Legally, I would be failing in my duty of care to the children if I allow them to be on the school grounds without providing appropriate supervision. I recognise that some of our families work early in the morning, and this makes it difficult for you to get the children to school aſter 8:30, which is officially the me children should be arriving at school. Therefore, we fund an addional 30 minutes of supervision from 8:00 every day and up unl 3:30 in the aſternoons to try and facilitate those families’ working lives. Unfortunately, we cannot provide supervision prior to 8:00 or aſter 3:30, and therefore any children on site before 8:00 will be asked to leave the school grounds. We do have a very good before school care program which is use by some our families, and is located at Good Start Walkerston. In fact, they offer both before and aſter school care. PCYC Walkerston is based on our school grounds, and offer aſter school care. If you would like them to offer before school care, please contact them and make a request, as it’s something they’ve offered to our community in the past. I’d like to extend my thanks to Mrs Norton and Mrs Bradley, both of whom are sadly leaving us at the end of Term 1. I wish them both all the best in their future endeavours! Finally, I’d like to wish all our community a great holiday aſter a very busy term. Our last day together will be tomorrow, Friday 05/04, and we resume school on Tuesday, 23/05. Thursday of Week 1 next term is Anzac Day, and I’d like to flag up to parents that a leer will be coming home with details about the parade, which all children are invited to aend in school uniform. Our You Can Do It targets for weeks 1 and 2: Behave safely with others-safe hands and feet. Plays well with friends. Speaks politely-Introduce yourself to someone new. Answer adults using their name. Connie Confidence says to: Gabby Getalong says to:
Transcript of School Watch 13 17 88 - Walkerston State School...2019/04/04 · resume school on Tuesday, 23/05....
April
4 Junior Athletics Carnival
5 Last day Term 1
23 First day Term 2
23 PV Soccer Trials
25 Anzac Day
26 PV Cross Country
May
2 P&C Meeting 6pm
2-3 PV Athletics Carnival
6 Labour Day Public Holiday
8-10 Mothers Day Stall
10 MD Soccer Trials
13 MD Softball Trials
15-17 NAPLAN
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 5
4 April 2019
McColl Street, Walkerston 4751 Telephone (07) 4959 4333 E-mail [email protected] Web http://walkerstonss.eq.edu.au
School Watch
13 17 88
Principal’s Report— Mr J Feeney
As we move into our last day of term, which very clearly has been the term for sport. When the national competitions are held in
Darwin, as they are this year, they’re held earlier in the year than usual, which has a knock-on effect for state, regional and school competitions. This is why our sport has been so front-loaded this year. So, at the end of Term 1, the bulk of our school-based competitive sport will be complete, but there will be lots of Pioneer Valley, Mackay, State and national sport competitions to come throughout the year.
As I hope all our community knows by now, we live and breathe our motto of ’Putting Learning First. Every Child. Every Day.’ by striving to find better and better ways to meet the learning needs of our children. We allocate teachers time to work regularly with our Head of Curriculum to ensure planning aligns with the Australian Curriculum and is targeted towards the children’s needs, we work as a team providing each other feedback on children's learning by conducting weekly learning walks through classrooms and asking children about their learning, and through lesson observations. Our progress data, which the teachers and I discuss each term, is showing that many more of our children made good or better progress this term compared to Term 1 last year.
This is definitely due to the hard work and research being undertaken by the teachers, but is also helped significantly by those parents who are getting their children in to school every day. Our overall attendance rate for Term 1 last year was 93.7%, wheras it is 94.6% this term. That is a significant improvement! Thanks, parents and carers, for making sure your children are in school to put their learning first. A particular thanks to all families whose children's attendance rate beats our target of 95% or above; last year for
Term 1, this figure was 55.2%. This term, it’s increase to 65.3%. And it is having a real impact on the learning progress of our children.
While we do want the children here everyday, we need to set a firm limit on the times during which we can have children on site. Legally, I would be failing in my duty of care to the children if I allow them to be on the school grounds without providing appropriate supervision. I recognise that some of our families work early in the morning, and this makes it difficult for you to get the children to school after 8:30, which is officially the time children should be arriving at school. Therefore, we fund an additional 30 minutes of supervision from 8:00 every day and up until 3:30 in the afternoons to try and facilitate those families’ working lives. Unfortunately, we cannot provide supervision prior to 8:00 or after 3:30, and therefore any children on site before 8:00 will be asked to leave the school grounds. We do have a very good before school care program which is use by some our families, and is located at Good Start Walkerston. In fact, they offer both before and after school care. PCYC Walkerston is based on our school grounds, and offer after school care. If you would like them to offer before school care, please contact them and make a request, as it’s something they’ve offered to our community in the past.
I’d like to extend my thanks to Mrs Norton and Mrs Bradley, both of whom are sadly leaving us at the end of Term 1. I wish them both all the best in their future endeavours!
Finally, I’d like to wish all our community a great holiday after a very busy term. Our last day together will be tomorrow, Friday 05/04, and we resume school on Tuesday, 23/05. Thursday of Week 1 next term is Anzac Day, and I’d like to flag up to parents that a letter will be coming home with details about the parade, which all children are invited to attend in school uniform.
Our You Can Do It targets for weeks 1 and 2:
Behave safely with others-safe hands and feet. Plays well with friends.
Speaks politely-Introduce yourself to
someone new. Answer adults using
their name.
Connie Confidence says to: Gabby Getalong says to:
McColl Street, Walkerston 4751 (07) 4959 4333 E-mail [email protected] Web http://walkerstonss.eq.edu.au
Cultural News
Choir
Well done to all the students who participated last week in the 27th Choral Festival. It was a wonderful evening with over 480 students performing 10 pieces. Thank you to KMEIA for creating this opportunity for students to combine and work with other students and perform at an authentic performance venue – the MECC.
Instrumental
Congratulations Claire, Ela, Scarlett and Maddison who have been selected to represent the school at a combined instrumental camp late term 2.
Musical
Congratulations to all who auditioned for lead roles. A cast list will be posted on Friday outside the music room. Rehearsals will start for all stage cast term 2 week 2 – Thursday 3 - 4pm. Backstage crew will not be required at rehearsals until term 3.
Recorder Band
With all the events of past week and notes coming and going we decided not to send the Anzac Day note home. We will organise placements based on students who have been attending rehearsals and adjust on the day. Anzac Day is Thursday week 1. We will meet at the school on Thursday at the water tower at 7.10am to set up. Miss Kay will then walk the students to the starting point of the march at 7.15am. Students will be required to wear their school uniform. We will be playing “You are my Sunshine” and “Don’t Bring Lulu” while marching. Students will also perform “Advance Australia Fair” and “God Defend New Zealand” during the main service. We may also be asked to play at the school Anzac Day service on Tuesday 23rd April.
An update on 3A’s Digital Technology Learning.
Each week, Mr Vassallo has been coming into our classroom and assisting us with learning essential skills on Visual Programming, using the program called SCRATCH. For the first few weeks, we were working on making the first two pages of our class Living V Non-Living Science game. Since then, four students (Jordan Ramos, Olivia Knight, Sophie Vassallo and Hannah Williams) have started planning and have begun their Home (or Landing) Page for their Cyber Security Information Game that they would like to enter into the Premier’s Coding Competition in five months’ time. On the 21st March we were fortunate as a whole class to learn a different way to make a Home Page and Sprites. This time, we used Paint as the tool to make our backdrop in SCRATCH. We found that choosing colours was a very important aspect to consider. Rather than using given Sprites, we drew shapes on our backdrop with text inside. We practised skills such as dragging, double clicking, selecting, shading, copying and pasting, deleting, loading and saving. We called this page ‘Space 21/3 is an equinox’ as Mr Vassallo explained to us how the 21st March was a special space day. The best part of having Mr Vassallo come to our classroom is that he has always brought his thumb drive to show us the games he has made during the week on SCRATCH. We LOVED his last informational game on Cyber Security. It was so, so, so, so funny to see Rexy and Minnie chosen as two Sprites. Thank you Mr Vassallo.
Year 3 Celebration of Learning Afternoon
Year 3A and 3B families were invited to come along and have a look at students’ work on Friday 29 March from 2:15p.m. In Mrs Gall’s class, the colourful array of Design Technology items created were hanging up for all to see. 3B also had their books and fossils on display showing work from different curriculum areas. In Mrs Scott’s class, the 3 or 4 fossils that the children had made were on display with a museum tag to provide more information. Some of 3A’s and Mr Vassallo’s SCRATCH creations were viewed by visitors. The Year 3 students were very excited and proud to show off their work to their families. Thank you for coming to 3A and 3B’s classroom.
McColl Street, Walkerston 4751 Telephone (07) 4959 4333 E-mail [email protected] Web http://walkerstonss.eq.edu.au
Student of the Week Awards for Week 8 & Week 9
Class PA Delilah Bobongie—For always tackling new things with confidence and a smile! Great Work Delilah.
Class P1C Dylan Clark—For always being organised and ready to learn!
Ayla-Mai Barkwith—For the amazing effort she put in to her retell writing!
Class 1A Carter Martin—For consistently working very hard and showing great organisation. Great work Carter!
Haylee Ball—For the amazing confidence you are showing when reading. Keep it up Haylee!
Class 1B Chayse De Graff—For working well in reading groups and persistently using decoding strategies for unknown words.
Class 3A Deegan Heidenreich—For settling in to school and class routines.
Angela Chivers—For being super organised and assisting with the daily running of class routines.
Class 3B Hannah Webb—For working cooperatively with others and always having a positive attitude.
Abigayle Pitt—For always being a thoughtful, kind and caring class member. Thank you Abigayle.
Class 4A Gemma Richards—For displaying a positive attitude towards her learning by being an active and involved class
member.
Class 6A Kingston Bobongie—For taking a keen interest in his writing. Keep it up Kingston!
Stella Collins—For consistently working very hard and showing great organisation. Keep it up
Stella!
Corbyn Valentine—For displaying excellent enthusiasm across all areas. Keep it up!
Gabrielle North—Always working conscientiously with a positive attitude towards her work.
Keep it up!
School Disco 22nd of March
Thank you to the P&C for organising a great school disco.
Thanks also to staff who remained at school to supervise.
McColl Street, Walkerston 4751 Telephone (07) 4959 4333 E-mail [email protected] Web http://walkerstonss.eq.edu.au
Walkerston State School Cross Country Tuesday 26th March. It was a great morning
where all students who completed the required training participated. Congratulations and
good luck to the following students that will be going onto the Pioneer Valley Cross
Country on Friday, 26th April. Ross house were the overall winners of the day.
12 Years: Layla Contor, Charlee Taylor, Preston Arrowsmith, Kayde Murohy and Toby
Falconer.
11 Years: Paige Larsen, Tamsin Biddle, Gabby North, Sam Knox, Calvin Ramos and Tyler
Morris.
10 Years: Riley Meigan, Hayden Murray and Zac Johnson.
9 Years: Savannah Brown, Scarlett Arrowsmith, Jonathon North, Rylan Leppien and Isaac
Bunton.
Senior Athletics Carnival Wednesday, 3rd April. First and foremost, we would like to thank all students on their behaviour yesterday. Also like
to thank the staff for their co-operation and organisation so that we had a successful carnival. The atmosphere at the Senior Carnival was
brilliant. The students showed such a high level of sportsmanship. There was plenty of hand shaking, high fiving and cheering for their peers.
It was lovely to see. Thank you also to the school P&C for running a very successful canteen to keep the kids (and parents) energized.
Congratulations to all students that participated in the day and also to those that will be moving onto the Pioneer Valley sports carnival on
Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd of May. Treacy house was the winning house for the day.
Congratulations to Ross house
for winning the ball games
carnival. And to the teachers who
had a win over the Year 6
students at the ball games this
morning. Thanks to Rob Kidd
from Star FM for helping out the
teachers team.
