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ALPHA STATE SCHOOL
WEEKLY WATCH 2015
Mobile - 0427 158 456 Telephone - 4987 0888
Fax - 4987 0800.
28 April 2015
Website: www.alphass.eq.edu.au
Issue 6
From the Principal’s Desk…
Dear Parents/Caregivers
Welcome back to a chilly Term 2! I trust you had a
relaxing and enjoyable break over Easter and were
able to spend time with family and friends. It has
been a busy start to the term already and everyone
has hit the ground running.
Last week the
students were exceptionally well behaved on the
Troop Train and had a really enjoyable time. It
was such a fantastic opportunity for the students to
be part of this and I am sure it is something they
will remember for a long time.
On Saturday, the staff, students and many
community members commemorated ANZAC day.
What a great start to the weekend it was to see so
many students in full uniform remembering those
men, women and animals that died for our country.
Thank you to all those people who attended and
represented Alpha SS.
On the weekend, many staff and students
participated in Pink Stumps Day. A great time was
had by all. Much thanks needs to go to Dale and
Rachel Bryce, Sally McKeering, The P and C,
particularly Tina, Mick and Ben and Miss Clarke for
making the day so fun and for being so organised.
This term, the students in years 3, 5 and 7 will be
sitting their NAPLAN tests. Lots of preparation and
learning has been taking place this year and I have
confidence that the students will achieve great
results. I would like to remind the students about
taking their time to answer each question and not
stress about anything they are unfamiliar with. It
is one of the many testing devices schools use to
determine how best to teach each student. Good
luck to all our NAPLAN students!
Next week, Miss Clarke will be convening the
Central West 12 Years and Under Touch
Football Carnival. Students from the Central
West area will travel to Alpha for this carnival
on May 6. Information about this will go
home for those students who are eligible to
attend. The P and C will be running the
canteen on the day. Any helpers would be
greatly appreciated.
Please contact Tina
Standerwick or the P and C if you are able to
help.
On Monday the 11 May, there will be a
Chaplaincy meeting at 5 p.m. here at school.
We are really trying to encourage more
community members to become involved in
our Chaplaincy committee.
No prior
experience is needed and all new members
are welcome. For further information, please
see Chappy or Penny Rogers.
I reminded the students today about the four
key school values of Respect, Responsibility,
Safety and Learning I would like to see them
uphold as per our school’s Responsible
Behaviour Plan. Each week at Behaviour
Parade I focus on one key value depending
on any behaviour issues that may have
occurred the previous week. This week I
reminded the students about fun, safe play,
particularly when playing Gaelic football at
lunchtimes and also ICT usage during school
times.
I am currently working with HR to find a
replacement teacher for Ms Wright. I will
keep you posted as to how and when a new
teacher will be joining us at Alpha.
Congratulations to all our staff and students
on such a great start to Term 2. It is so
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lovely to be part of such a great, calm school and
I really enjoy each day I am here. Well done, Have a great final week of term,
Miss Wilson
everyone!
Have a great fortnight. Please let me know if
there are any issues I need to be aware of.
Take care
Vanessa Koina
Mother’s
apologies
Day
Morning
Tea
Mother’s Day Morning Tea will not be held this year
as we have had no Music teacher based at our
school to help us organise performances. As this is
a big part of this morning tea and allows us to
showcase our school it would not be the same
without it. We know that this event is something
which everyone looks forward to so we will
endeavour to run it again next year.
Years 1/2/3 Bulletin
Welcome back to school! The kids have settled in nicely
and we have had an action packed first week back. The
outline for this term is as follows:
Science – This term we are looking at earth science. We
are focusing on day and night features, the earth’s orbit
and shadows!
Geography – The focus for Geography is connections to
places. Within this unit, students will look at different
places in Australia as well as world heritage sites.
Maths – Maths groups have shuffled around this
term. The year 2 and 3 students have been merged
together into one class for maths. Students in each year
level will be exposed to number, statistics and
measurement content.
English – This term we will be focusing on narratives!
Thank you for your continued support. We are very
Narratives are always exciting to teach and the students
sorry that this will not be happening this year.
are showing lots of interest in this subject which is nice
to see. We have also started a writing workshop subject
Stay tuned next year.
which is focusing on persuasive texts (to keep our skills
Chanelle Goodwin
from term 1 fresh!).
Prep Newsflash
Hello parents, and welcome back to school for term 2!
The preps have already had a busy term, starting
their new science, geography and English units, as well
as spending Wednesday afternoon last week on the
train to Anakie. All of the preps had a lot of fun, and
showed beautiful behaviour and manners.
This term we will be working on recounts in English,
materials and their properties in science, and features
of a place in geography. Your child may also come
home this term with the mystery box! The mystery
box is for your child to bring in an item for show and
share, which they then need to give clues for the
other children to guess what it is. Sshh! Don't tell
anyone!
Please remind your child to bring back their homework
every Friday, so it can be prepared for the following
week. Remember that homework club starts again
today, and will be running every Monday until the end
of term from 3:00 pm until 4:00 pm.
Health – Mr Hammer will continue to teach Health this
term. Students will be looking at healthy eating and
ICT. They will be designing their own healthy
sandwich and then making it.
Thank you for a wonderful first week back!
Miss Grogan
Years 4/5/6 Intelligence
Dear Parents,
What a great start to the term! We have had a lot of fun
starting our new units for the term and can’t wait to continue on
with them. Behaviour has been good and we haven't had any
major issues for the first week back. Lets hope this can continue on
for the rest of the year! We have reached reward 2 on our marble
jar, so on Tuesday we are having some free time to celebrate. Parent
teacher interviews are this week and I am looking forward to seeing
the majority of you there. Please remember that they are only 15
minutes long. If you have further questions, we can schedule another
time where we aren't restricted by time boundaries. Hope you have
all found it easy to get back into the swing of things!
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Kind Regards,
Courtney Hodge
[email protected]
Looking forward to meeting with you on Wednesday at
parent teacher interviews. If you are unable to attend I
am happy to catch up with you at another time.
Years 7/8 Broadcast
Have a great week..
Mrs Rogers
Firstly a big congratulations to all the students who
read the resolutions or participated in reading the poem
on Anzac Day for me – from all accounts they did a
wonderful job and performed well. I am extremely
proud of the fact that they volunteered to participate,
were a part of such a momentous occasion and spoke Congratula ons to all the students who par cipated in
the Inter-School Cross Country at the end of last term.
clearly and confidently. Well done everyone!
The ca le stampede free carnival ran smoothly thanks
In English we are working on a unit which gets us to to all the parents and teachers who volunteered on
look at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values so stopwatches and checkpoints. Thank you to Mr Taylor
that we can give a persuasive oral presentation which for all his hard work as my assistant and se ng up the
compares and evaluates the effectiveness of two different course. Congratula ons to Yungi for winning both the
literary texts, which communicate ideas about their Inter-School and Inter-House Shields.
values.
Sports News
We will be looking at Persuasive texts – the different Results:
features and parts, what vocabulary makes writing
Inter-HouseShield
persuasive and how effective arguments are developed.
Yungi – 62 Points
While in Maths, the Year 7s are looking at algebra and Kabi – 45 Points
solving linear equations while the Year 8s will be
looking at revising index notation, prime factor trees, Inter-School Shield
commutative and associative laws as well as simplifying Yungi – 42 Points
algebraic expressions.
Jericho – 41 Points
Karbi – 22 Points
Homework continues with Lexia (100 mins), spelling,
and Maths Mentals to be completed each night. Again, I
do appreciate your help in making sure these things are Age Champions:
being done. These are the things which will help to 10 yrs Boy – Blair Sypher
consolidate your child’s basics so that progression in 11 yrs Girl – Lumina Fountain
11 yrs Boy – Corey Rogers
Literacy and Numeracy is made a little easier.
12 yrs Girl – Kirsten Reid
12 yrs Boy – Glay Gleeson
Keep smiling. ☺
13 yrs Girl – Emily Gleeson
Mrs Goodwin
13 yrs Boy – Cooper Standerwick
15 yrs Girl – Danielle Thorn
15 yrs Boy – Beau Standerwick
YEAR 10 NEWSCAST
Hi parents
Welcome back to the new term and wasn’t it a cool start Miss Clarke
to the term.
Mr Hammer’s Post
My thanks go to all the Year 10 students for their great
help in assisting the other students on the train trip on
Tuesday. They are all really starting to step up into the Philosophy Rules!
This week the year 7-10 philosophers began to
leadership positions.
generate questions about environmental care.
Students have been working on their science assignment Using the opening of the Disney movie Wall.e as an
from last term. This assignment is due on Friday - I inspiration, the students put their questioning skills
checked their progress on Thursday and will again
to the test. I look forward to hearing the students
check on Tuesday.
We have spent time in
class researching for this assignment and they are now explore the answers to their questions over the
coming weeks. Meanwhile I invite you to reflect
required to write their findings.
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upon the following statement… The quality of our posters are marked on each page. The Alpha Show
life is determined by the quality of the questions Society is celebrating the Year of the ANZACS.
that we habitually ask ourselves.
A L PH A
S T A TE
SCHOOL
J U NI O R
Health and Technology
SHOWPERSON AND ALPHA SHOWGIRL
This term the 1-3s will be combining healthy choices REPRESENTATIVE PHOTOGRAPHS
with a technology design process to make a healthy Congratulations to Emily, Erin and Cooper on
and delicious sandwich for a fellow classmate. This participating in the Junior Showperson for 2015. Emily
week we began studying the foods we can eat daily was named Junior Showperson winner with Erin
as opposed to those foods which should only be receiving the Runner-up Junior Showperson and
Also, a BIG
eaten on rare occasions. The students discovered Cooper received third place.
CONGRATULATIONS to Miss Shelby Howard on being
that many of their ‘daily treats’ were not the Alpha Showgirl...we hope that you have fun and
recommended for daily consumption. Food for enjoy your showgirl experience.
thought!
Year 7-10 Historians
The 7-10s will be completing their World War II Unit
over the coming weeks. Today, we were reading
about the Kokoda campaign. We discovered that
the distance that Australian troops trekked was the
same as walking to Emerald. Yet their journey
included steep mountainous jungle terrain and
enemy fire. It is a timely reminder of the hardships
that Australian troops went through, in order to safe
-guard the privileges that we take for granted
today. In the second half of the term we will be
beginning a new Unit on Rights and Freedoms - an
appropriate sequel to our current Unit.
Mr Hammer
P & C News
P & C are seeking Parents/Citizens wishing to help with
catering for the Primary Central-West Touch Football
carnival next Wednesday, 6 May and the Alpha Show
catering on 18, 19 and 20 May as it’s the Alpha Show
Society’s 50th Annual Show. If you can help at either of
these events please contact - Ben Standerwick, Tina
Standerwick, Steve McGrath or Mick L:ingard.
Mick Lingard
Secretary
A L P H A
S H OW
SOCIETY COLOURINGIN COMPETITION
Please find attached to this newsletter colouring pages
for the colouring-in competition at the Alpha Show. All
drawings need to be returned to Alpha State School by
3.00 pm on the 15 May. Note the age groups for the
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Alpha Police Station
19 Milton Street
Alpha Q 4724
Ph. (07) 4985 1200
LOCK IT OR LOSE IT
Securing your Vehicle - When leaving your vehicle, the driver must properly secure the vehicle by:
Turning off the engine,
Applying the handbrake,
Removing the ignition key if no one 16 years of age or over is remaining in the vehicle and
Locking the doors if no one is remaining in the vehicle.
A driver has “left” the vehicle when he or she is more than three metres away from it. The purpose of this
law is to protect your vehicle and property from theft and/or damage. This is very relevant at present with a
lot of travellers and strangers passing through town at this time of year.
Phone numbers:
Weapons Licencing Branch – 3015 7777.
Qld Transport & Main Roads – 132 380.
Road Conditions Reports – 131 940
The Alpha Police Station counter hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays between 8:00 am and 12:00 pm
when possible. There will always be exceptions to this such as emergency callouts, training, meetings
and other operational policing demands, so it may be best to check in advance or phone before attending.
Take care
Mick Lingard & Darin Coetzer
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Every child has a good day every day. | Every child matters every day.
Alpha State School Values - Respect, Responsibility, Honesty
Every child has a good day every day. | Every child matters every day.
Alpha State School Values - Respect, Responsibility, Honesty
Every child has a good day every day. | Every child matters every day.
Alpha State School Values - Respect, Responsibility, Honesty
Every child has a good day every day. | Every child matters every day.
Alpha State School Values - Respect, Responsibility, Honesty
Every child has a good day every day. | Every child matters every day.
Alpha State School Values - Respect, Responsibility, Honesty
Every child has a good day every day. | Every child matters every day.
Alpha State School Values - Respect, Responsibility, Honesty