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Prep Pamper
Day
Our wonderful prep students treated their mums to a
special pamper session. Well done, preps!
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Parents and Carers
The National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy
[NAPLAN] has concluded today. It is pleasing to note that
students were in their best behaviour and have all tried to
complete the tests to the best of their ability. NAPLAN
results will be released later in the year and parents will
receive a report on their students’ performance.
Job Vacancy
The Twilight Markets, organised by the P&C, will be held at
the school on Saturday, 16 May from 1PM to 5PM. You will
have already received a flyer giving you information on the
various stalls. It will be lovely to see parents and carers
supporting this exciting event on the school calendar.
Last Saturday Hope Services hosted a pamper session for
mothers. Attendance at the session was incredible. All
mothers who attended the pamper session received a treat.
Thank you to the organisers for offering this to the
community!
Lorraine Poonan
Deputy Principal
Attendance
Our attendance benchmark is 90%. That means students
cannot be absent more than 4 days off this Term.
At present, we have:
351 students above 90% attendance
198 students at 100% attendance
Well done to those students who have over 90% attendance
and a big congratulations to the 198 students with 100%
attendance.
Indigenous
Playgroup
Enrolling for Prep 2016
We are taking enrolments now for Prep 2016.
If your child was born between 1 July 2010 and 30 June 2011,
please contact the school office by calling in or phoning
3897 2333 to enrol.
Walk Safely to School Day
“Walk Safely to School” with our teachers on
Friday, 22 May 2015. You and your children will be
able to meet teachers at various areas around
the boundaries of the school. We encourage
you to walk, ride or drop your child off to one of these
meeting points at 8.15a.m. Our teachers will walk with small
groups the rest of the way. Each child who walks to school
will get a sticker for their participation! Please see the map
below to see which street suits you the best. Looking
forward to seeing you all there!
Starts 9:30a.m.
Thursday, 28th May 2015
Deception Bay North State School
Music Reminder
Just a reminder to all sting students that lessons have
recommenced this term with our new teacher is Miss Natalie
Kitney. Timetables were handed to every child on Tuesday,
12th May 2015 and one is displayed on the window in the
Music room. We look forward to seeing you ready and keen
for lessons next Tuesday, 19th May 2015.
13 May 2015
Meeting points:
Cnr Old Bay Road & Park Road
Cnr Old Bay Road & Claverton Drive
Thompson Street
Cnr Warroo Drive & Headland Place
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News from 2C
Greetings from 2C!
We have started Term 2 full steam ahead! In Maths, we have
been learning about halves and quarters and counting in
3s. We are getting really good at it. In English we have been
looking at Stereotypes. We are really enjoying our Friendly
Schools Plus lessons. Our focus is about ‘feeling shy’.
We are looking forward to learning more about my feelings,
other people’s feelings and friendships.
From 2C, we hope you enjoy the rest of Term 2!
News from 6B
Wow! What a fabulous start to Term 2 in 6B! We have been
learning about subtracting and adding decimals, investigating
square and triangular numbers and using number lines to
calculate integers in Mathematics. In English we are learning
all about the world of advertising by studying still image
advertisements and multimodal advertisements. We have
just begun creating our own multimodal advertisement using
Photo Story on the computers. Now, moving onto Science.
Science has been really interesting. We have been learning
about different kinds of energy and how we use this energy
within our school and homes. Our expert Science group has
been auditing appliances around the school. Now for the
exciting news! Starting from next week, we will be venturing
to Deception Bay High School to begin our transition days.
We have a LOTE transition and a general transition day
coming up. 6B has been a great class to work in and we are a
very cooperative team. We love celebrating each other’s
successes. Time to get back to class and learn more fun and
interesting things. Bye for now!
Written by Carlene Jackson, Mikaela Hair and Tala Salu
(Students of 6B)
P&C News
The next P & C meeting will be Wednesday, 20 May 2015,
9a.m. in the staff room. This will be a special meeting to
adopt changes to our constitution followed by the May
general meeting.
TWILIGHT MARKETS THIS SATURDAY, 16th MAY 1-5 P.M.
P & C Contribution:- This is now due for the first semester of
2015. This year the voluntary fee is $20 per semester for
families with one child and $30 per semester for families with
more than one child at school. We hope you do support this
voluntary contribution as it will go towards the much needed
equipment for our school and we really need your help for
this to happen.
Bookclub:- Orders and money are due back Wednesday, 6th
May 2015.
Cookie Dough Fundraiser:- Order forms have been sent
home to the oldest in the family this week. Please check your
Our school values are:
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Respect
Responsibility
Resilience
Relationships
Learning
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child’s bag. Orders and money are due back Wednesday, 20
May 2015.
Thank you to everyone who supported our Mother’s Day Stall
and a big thank you to all our helpers.
PLEASE NOTE ALL VOLUNTEERS WITHIN OUR SCHOOL MUST
ATTEND A STUDENT RISK MANAGEMENT COURSE. THIS IS
SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE ON MONDAY, 18th MAY 9A.M.
IN THE COMPUTER ROOM.
Book & Uniform Shop
We have all sizes of uniforms in stock and all your stationery
needs. We have a 3 month layby system.
A 20% deposit is required at the time of placing the layby.
Regular payments NEED to be made during this period or
deposit will be lost.
Senior shirts have been sent to our supplier for printing.
Winter Jackets are in stock. Price is $27.00.
Senior shirts have been given out to the students.
Tuckshop News
All you have to do is to place a lunch order on this day to go
into the draw to win.
Tuckshop is open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday till first
break only. All tuckshop orders need to be placed by 9 a.m.
each morning. Only water can be sold over the counter
before then. Please note:- When ordering tuckshop for your
child please do not order hot food for 2nd break. This is due
to health and Safety Regulations. Tuckshop is opened for
first break only.
All Schools Cross Country Results
Well done to the children who represented our school at the
All Schools Cross Country last Saturday! Although it was
disappointing to only have a few representatives this year the
children who did run showed great sportsmanship and should
be proud of their efforts. Results were:
16th 6yrs Girls
13th 6yrs Boys
18th 7yrs Girls
26th 7yrs Girls
9th 8yrs Girls
34th 8yrs Girls
32nd 10yrs Girls
28th 11yrs Girls
Stephanie H P/1A
Seth N 1D
Olivia D 1C
Jessica C 1C
Lily C 3C
Gloria T 3B
Amie-Leigh 4/5A
Jacy P 5/6A
800m 5.51 mins
800m 4.23mins
800m 4.06mins
800m 4.36mins
1000m 5.59mins
1000m 9.35mins
2000m 12.40mins
3000m 18.32mins
These children have all earned 10 points for their house as
school representative.
District Cross Country
Good luck to all children representing our school at the
District Carnival next Tuesday! Nominations for this event
have now closed.
Our school rules are:
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Show respect for people and property
Stay on task and do your best work
Follow staff directions
Be in the right place at all times
Play safe and sensible games
Keep hands, feet and objects to yourself
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DATES TO REMEMBER
This Term!
Monday & Thursday
Red Cross Breakfast Club
Wednesday & Friday
Indigenous Homework Club
Friday, 15th May
Last Day of Interschool Sport
Saturday, 16th May
P&C Twilight Markets
Tuesday, 19th May
District Cross Country
Wednesday, 20th May
P&C Meeting
Friday, 22nd May
Walk Safe to School Day
Tuesday, 2nd June
Regional Cross Country
Monday, 8th June
Queen’s Birthday
13 May 2015
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