Principal: Address: PO Box 5063 SCMC Nambour QLD 4560 Tel: 5441 0888 Fax: 5441 0800 Mrs Monique Pfingst Deputy Principal Mr Paul Kuronya Business Services Manager: Ms Sue Lawrence Website: burnsidess.eq.edu.au email: [email protected] Term 2 Week 1 DATE CLAIMERS This morning our school combined with Burnside State High to commemorate ANZAC Day, which is of course officially tomorrow. It was a beautiful service and our children from Prep to Year 6 demonstrated exceptional behaviour throughout the ceremony. April Saturday ANZAC DAY COMMEMORATIONS 25 ANZAC Parade Nambour These four students, Ny-Khaye, Tahlia, Scarlett and Paris spoke on behalf of our school at the event. All classes from our school laid wreaths and floral tributes. Student Absence Line 54410860 This is a more convenient way to let the school know if your child is away. Leave your child’s name, class and the reason they are not at school. ANZAC Parade Students marching in the ANZAC Parade in Nambour on Saturday 25 April must be at the assembly area in Howard Street (in front of Keyline Realty) by 8.30am. We would love to have 100 students at least march as it is the 100th Anniversary. Remember all students must wear correct school uniform and a hat. Cross Country Medallions These will be presented on Parade on the 4th May. LEST WE FORGET. Remember all children are invited to march in the ANZAC parade tomorrow. Regards Monique Pfingst Principal From the Deputy Targeted Support During Term 1, teachers were asked to review their class literacy and numeracy data to identify areas where additional targeted support may be required. Based on their data analysis, teachers developed evidence-based plans to address areas of specific learning need for their class or year level. The outcome has been the employment of four additional teacher aides strategically timetabled across the school to provide additional in class targeted support. This has been funded through the Great Results Guarantee program which commenced in 2014. Based on the data analysis and targeted plans, we will be better equipped to monitor and review student achievement through the term. Another exciting development towards the end of Term 1 saw our classroom teachers and SEP Teachers come off line for year lev el planning with our Literacy and Numeracy Coaches. The whole day planning sessions have enabled our teachers to begin the term with consistent lesson plans across each year level. The feedback from staff has been extremely positive and will become a regular part of our professional development and planning each term. Lunch Clubs Thank you to the teachers who have offered to run Lunch Clubs. Apart from giving students a greater range of lunchtime play options, supervised Lunch Clubs help take the pressure off transitions and busy playgrounds. To date we have Choir, Drama, Games, Gardening, ICT and Japanese clubs running or starting next week. Over the coming weeks more lunch clubs will be commencing. Student Leaders A huge thank you to our Student Leaders for the contribution they are making everyday in our school. Each student leader has offered to give up one lunch break each week to provide peer support for students in the Prep and Junior Playgrounds or support teachers during Lunch Clubs. Paul Kuronya Deputy Principal Library News Welcome back families to term 2! We are now fast approaching busy times for events in the library starting in May. National Simultaneous Storytime is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association. Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, preschools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. This year NSS takes place on Wednesday 27 May at 11am (AEST) and our school has once again registered to join in by sharing The Brothers Quibble written by Aaron Blabey. The Premier's Reading Challenge is an annual state wide initiative for state and non-state schools and home-educated students up to Year 9 and children attending an approved kindergarten program or long day care centre. The Premier's Reading Challenge is not a competition but a way to encourage students to develop a love of reading for life. Through the challenge children and students are given an opportunity to develop their appreciation of the English language and are encouraged to explore and enjoy a wide range of literary texts. This challenge commences May 19 th and finishes 28th August. Children and students can participate in the challenge within their school by reading their designated number of books. Prep to 4 read 20 books and Year 5-6 read 15 books. Children and students who complete the challenge have their efforts recognised through the receipt of a Certificate of Achievement signed by the Premier of Queensland. Once again Burnside State School year 6’s has registered to enter and compete in the Interschool Readers’ Cup Challenge. This competition is held at the Immanuel Lutheran College on Wednesday 20 th May. Each school is represented by a team of 4 students, who will sit before a panel and answer questions pertaining to 4x fiction books and 1x picture book. The team will them if successful advance through to the next level of questioning, until elimination and the winning team is chosen. A huge thankyou to families for supporting our Book Club and Book Fair held last term. In Book club we sold $1,600 worth of books and Book Fair we sold $2,400 worth of books. Between the two events we were able to buy over $1,000 worth of new books for our library! I will put reminders for the above important dates as they begin to approach. Keep reading! Sue Egel Safety Respect Learning Cross Country This week Burnside State School held its annual Cross Country event for 9-12 yrs students. Runners competed over various distances from 1km - 2.4km. All the events had good levels of participation with students displaying fantastic support for their house. Championship runners (10-12yrs) that finished in the top 3 places will be invited to represent the Burnside at the Nambour District Cross Country Trials at Bli Bli State School on Friday 8 May 2015. Presentations of championship medals will be held at parade on Monday 4 April 2015. Congratulations again to all who competed on the day making it a most successful carnival. First Place – Windsor; Second Place – Carter; Third Place – Blaxland. Boys Age First Place Second Place Third Place U9 Nathan King (C) Jacob Webbe (W) Luke Willis (W) U10 Koby Adams (W) Mitchell Weitsz (B) Sam Kennedy (W) U11 Matthew Schilf (W) Dylan Webbe (W) Aden Rogers (W) U12 Dylan Cordwell (C) Noel Hall (W) Bronson Harding (B) Girls Age U9 U10 U11 U12 First Place Jasmine Underwood (C) Jemma Kennedy (W) Annie Willis (W) Tahlia Morgan (W) Safety Second Place Sienna Stokes (B) Kaitlin Watson (W) Abbey Page (B) Ny-Khaya Tyson Purcell (B Respect Third Place Allie Bruce (W) Aleen Vigo (B) Tekaya Ladley (W) Alisha Hotalling Learning
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