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Elimbah News & Views
Monday 11 May 2015
Volume 2, Issue 4
Thank You
I would like to take this opportunity to thank our wonderful
Elimbah school community for the amazing support extended to
the McDonald family, each other, our staff and myself during a
most difficult week for our school. It has been very much
appreciated by all and you have my sincere thanks.
Success Project
The ‘Success Project’ cycle for our Years 3 and 5 students was
completed last Wednesday. I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to
know your children and working to extend their reading
comprehension using the QAR (Question Answer Relationships)
strategies. Years 1 and 6 will begin their ‘Success Project’ cycle in
week 5 after NAPLAN.
NAPLAN Tests
Best wishes to our Years 3 and 5 classes for the NAPLAN tests to be
held this Tuesday to Thursday. The tests will cover aspects of
numeracy, writing, spelling and language conventions such as
punctuation and grammar and reading. Tests results are returned
to us in September and provide some good information for our
school and where to target the development of programs, resources
and training. For individual students the test results are just one
element of their assessment program. Of more value are
assessment items that align closely with the class curriculum
program- class tests, observed tasks, reading assessments, writing
samples etc… Assessment that occurs in an ongoing way is called
formative assessment and is used to continually feed back into
teaching and learning. It is a powerful strategy to individualise
learning. Research shows that formative assessment has one of the
highest impacts on improved learning for students amongst the
strategies used by teachers. Summative assessment which is
external testing of which NAPLAN is an example, does not feed
heavily or directly into improved learning.
Learning Goals
Individual learning goals are being used in most classrooms as a
basis for feedback by teachers to students on how to achieve and
build upon their set goals. In many of our classrooms, children can
already articulate a key literacy and numeracy goal. These goals are
achievable and measurable and are usually reviewed and reset at
the end of each term.
I trust all the mums had a wonderful day yesterday!
Have a great week
Tracey Sharpe
ELIMBAH STATE SCHOOL
Ph: 5432 1333
email: [email protected]
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Deputy’s Desk
Lines from the Library
Focus on Learning
P&C News
Community Notices
Classifieds
DATES TO REMEMBER
Tues 12 - Thurs 14 May
Naplan
Mon 18 May
Glasshouse District Cross
Country
Wed 20 May
Prep Literacy info session 3pm
Glasshouse District Tennis
trials -
Tues 26 May
Grandparents Day - Prep
Wed 27 May
Under 8’s Day
National Simultaneous
Storytime
Starring On
Parade
1L
FROM THE DEPUTY’S DESK
with Chris Godfrey
I hope our lovely mummys had a good Mother’s Day!
Many of our children were hard at work on Friday creating cards, presents, poems and pictures to give to
their mums to show them how much they appreciate and love them.
I visited the Prep ‘Salon’ on Friday morning to see the children massaging and manicuring and pedicuring
their mums. It was fantastic to see so many relaxed ladies! Thanks for coming along….
We are holding an information session for all our Prep parents next Wednesday 20 May. The hour-long
session will focus on Literacy in the Early Years – and include information on Home Reading, developing
Oral Language and how to get the best out of our on-line reading resource called ‘Bug Club’.
The session will take place straight after school in the prep area; parents are welcome to bring their children –
who will be supervised in the outside play area.
Under 8s Day is also on the horizon – so put Wednesday 27 May in your diaries!
Have a lovely week
Chris
CHAPPY CORNER
Sometimes being a mum sure does require super powers. I recently saw a video clip where people were
interviewed for a job position. The person conducting the interview was reading out the job description of a
'mother', making the person being interviewed believe these were the requirements for the position they were
hoping to get. By the end every applicant expressed that it was impossible to fulfil such a demanding job
description.
Yes being a mum can be a tough job, and yes some days are better than
others but it is the unconditional love, which we mothers have for our
children, that gives us the 'superpowers' needed. On mothers day it is
nice to be honoured by our family but for me it is also a time where I
feel truly grateful to be called 'mum'.
I would like to invite you to join me and other parents for a 'Coffee &
Casual Chat' on Tuesday mornings 9-10am in the middle room of the A
block. It is just a time where you can relax for an hour and enjoy
connecting with other parents. Looking forward to having a 'Coffee &
Chat' with you.
Have a fantastic week!
With you on the journey…
Chappy Dorothea
Focus on Learning
What’s happening in 6S?
6S students have been working towards achieving their Year 6 Maths goal of identifying, ordering, adding
and subtracting decimal numbers. They are also
well underway in writing a persuasive holiday
advertisement for a holiday location of their choice.
We can’t wait to see and share the multimodal
advertisements they create.
6S was proud to march recently at Caboolture for
the Anzac Day Centenary march. We had a great
turn out. We also really enjoyed learning about
some different stories about Australia at war.
Including the Battle of Lone Pine where we learnt
the significance of the Lone Pine Tree at each of
the capital cities war memorials. We tried our best
to capture the lone pine in a creative art lesson.
In Technology we are still working hard with Lego Robotics. We are reaching assessment time and our
groups have been working hard to complete missions together. We are recording and compiling all of our
completed missions and programs together and will upload these to our EdStudio page soon to share.
What’s happening in PL?
The Possums hit the ground running this term. They started home reading
and have been eager to show their parents how they read a picture story,
word story and can retell a story. In English we are focussing on retelling
familiar stories. The students retold the story of The Three Little Pigs, wrote a
sentence about the story and created a house for one of the characters.
Another focus at the start of Term Two has been counting forwards and
backwards. James really enjoys sorting objects and solving real life problems
where he needs to count the objects backwards. It’s not all hard work and no
play in PL as we have enjoyed building forts out of different
materials and learning about the different purposes of different
materials.
We also showed our Mother’s how much we appreciated them
by inviting them to a Mother’s Day Pamper Morning.
Focus on Learning
What’s happening in 6M?
This term began with us refocusing our attention on our personal goals. Students evaluated their
progress towards their goals (literacy, numeracy and behaviour) and reflected on where to next.
In literacy we have been analysing persuasive advertisements in preparation to create our own
persuasive advertisement. We are focusing on how vocabulary can be used to better persuade an
audience. We will use what we have learnt for our final assessment task, where we will be creating a
multimedia advertisement to persuade others to visit
our favourite holiday destinations.
Using the data gathered in preliminary maths test at the end of term
one, 6M are focusing in on the area of place value of decimal numbers
and their use in the real world. This focus will be incorporated with our
daily number facts.
Year 4/5S Class News
We wanted to share with you a few of the great photos taken during our history unit last term, we had to make a
Freeze Frame or a moment in time photograph of ourselves dressed in early Australian History, the children did a
wonderful job of understanding the terrible conditions that convicts endured and the very powerful marines of the time
by acting and dressing up!
This term we are exploring light and shadows and making our own periscopes and performing fair tests in science to
investigate and explain our scientific findings. We are also exploring 3D shapes in maths and using the see, plan do
method of understanding the multiplication of decimal fractions. We are writing persuasive texts some students are
very convincing with their arguments, especially as to why brothers or sisters are better read some sizzling starts
below!
“Sisters, the ear piercing screams and the horrid, girly girl music. I just hate it, I just wish I could pull my
tiny little ears off. The screams I hate the screams as well, that makes my ears bleed.” (Bailey D)
“Brothers are much sportier than sisters, they run with you and play fight, which is actually teaching you
how to fight. When you are playing outside all alone and your older sister is just sitting her room emailing
her boyfriend or your younger sister is playing with stuffed up bunny rabbits, a brother will be much more
entertaining!” (Savannah)
Stop in and see our great learners and their wonderful learning sometime.
SPORTS NEWS
with Rachel Muller
Inter school sport
This term year 5 & 6 children will have the opportunity to be a part of the Elimbah SS Soccer and
Netball teams to play in the Glasshouse District Inter School Sport Competition. The dates are
Friday 5 June, Friday 12 June & Friday 19 June (weeks 7, 8, 9) The cost will be approx. $15 for
the 3 weeks including ground hire and bus costs. I will be holding trials at school this week to
select teams. Wednesday lunchtime for girls netball; Thursday lunchtime for boys and girls soccer.
All interested children are to meet Mrs Muller on the oval at these times.
Glasshouse District Sport
Congratulations to Emiell - 6S who was part of the
Glasshouse Netball team who competed in the Regional
Championships last Monday.
Congratulations to Brandon - 6M and Xavier - 5G who were
part of the Glasshouse Rugby League team who competed
in the Regional Championships that was held last week.
Also competing for Glasshouse Soccer in the Regional
Championships was Sebastian - 5G and Jack - 6S the
week before last, congratulations boys.
The Glasshouse District Cross Country will be held at St Michael’s College next
Monday. Good luck to our team of 18 children competing. If you are part of this
team please make sure you have all the relevant paperwork and money to the
office by Thursday, thanks.
Glasshouse District Sports Trials – Coming Up
Students wishing to be part of a Glasshouse Sports Team this year take note of the following
sports trials coming up this term – Boys & Girls Tennis (20 May); Boys Softball (1 & 2 June); Boys
Rugby Union (3 & 4 June) When forms become available I will leave them at the office and also
give them out on parade.
Elimbah State School Athletics
The annual athletics carnivals will be held this term. The dates are as follows:
Senior Carnival (children born in 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003) – Wednesday 10 June & Thursday
11 June (Elimbah Sportsground)
Junior Carnival (children in years prep to 3) – Wednesday 24 June (Elimbah School Oval)
I will be holding high jump trials in weeks 5 and 6. Children who wish to compete in high jump on
sports day need to attend these trials. Due to time constraints on the day we only allow the top 12
children in each age group to jump on the day. We hold trials to select the top 12. I will send notes
around to classes to inform each age group their trial day and time.
Student Achievements
Student of the Week Awards for Friday 1 May went to:
Sarah & Kadla-PG, Lividia & Khan-PL, Kirralee-1H, Cooper & Tuxon-1L, Sonny-1R,
Cameron—2M, Shantay-2H, Libby-2C, Bella 2O, Logan & Maddiv-3J, Jay-3P,
Annabelle & Joshua-3D, Jayden04M, Logan04/5B, Georgia-4/5L, Ewan-4/5S,
Angus-5G, Alesandro-6S, Georgia & Willow-6H
Student of the Week Awards for Friday 8 May went to:
Ariana-PJG, Dominic-PG, Madison-PL, Allegra&Emma-1H, Jade-1L,Ronan-1R, Jackson-2M,
Angus-2C, Naviah-2O, Madison-3J, Jesse-3P, Blane-3D, Harry-4M, Hannah-4/5B, Paige & Georgia-4/5L,
Meah-4/5S, Cody-5G, Emiell-6S, Will-6H
Our lucky Superbus winners for 1 May were Charlee 1R, Indyana - 3D, Jaxon - 2M,
Darcy - 3J, Logan - 3J. They each receive a $2 tuckshop voucher courtesy of the P&C.
BUG CLUB PRIZE WINNERS
Congratulations to Hamish & Logan for being this week’s Bug Club Prize Winner.
P & C NEWS
P&C Monthly Meeting
20 May 2015 at 6.30pm - (please note winter start time)
New Faces & Ideas always Welcome!
We hope all our Mums/Grandmas and significant
UNIFORM SHOP
female role models had a lovely day yesterday! I
Open every 2nd Monday—Term 2
loved the little presents picked out by my children
8.30am – 9.30am
for me, from the Mothers Day Stall. These kinds
Uniform Shop- [email protected]
of presents are the most precious as they are
what the children see as ‘me’ through their eyes.
Uniform Shop will be open FORTNIGHTLY (every
I hope you all liked what was picked for you too!
Thank you to everyone who supported our Stall, SECOND Monday) again this term. The n next open
day is 18 May. Order forms are available from the
our wonderful Volunteers and our Coordinators!
Please remember that our Uniform Shop is now
in low season opening times. It is open every
SECOND Monday, however, you can place
between the shop orders and have them
available for pick up, or sent home with your
child when the order has been filled. For
payment, you can either have it taken off the
smart card, leave your credit card details (they
are shredded after use), or pop the money into
an envelope. Please place all the between the
shop orders into the P & C box in the Office.
Tuckerbox, Admin or online for between shop filling.
Smart Card, Cash, Cheque or Credit Card can be
utilised on the order form, please note on the form if
you do not wish to leave card details and I will call
you and do it over the phone or let you know when I
will be in for you to come in and meet me.
Paid orders can be left at Admin for collection or
delivered to your nominated student's teacher.
Uniform Shop Convenor
Sharon Webb, 0410 468 007 (Txt is fine),
A big Thanks to the Wishart-Allen Family and
Fullerton Farms! They have donated some
pineapples for Brekky Club for our children, plus
LOST PROPERTY
they donated all the proceeds from their
pineapple sales at the school Friday Afternoon to
Lost Property is stored near the
the school too!
Uniform Shop in baskets. It is sorted once a
And while we are thanking people, thanks to
week and named items are returned to your
Steven Kennedy for coming in and getting the
childs classroom. Please ensure ALL your items
other side of our Fruzia machine working again! are named, and if you have lost something,
You will be one popular person with our
please come down and have a look!
children!!
Thanks Susan
Please forward your feed back to us, we can’t fix
it if we don’t know it needs [email protected]
Have a great week!
Taroola
President
THE TUCKER BOX CHAT
Our Meal Deal for Thursday Is Garlic Bread ( 4 slices )
600ml water or 250ml popper with a red or green
apple for $4.00. The flavours of the poppers that we
sell are Tropical, Orange, Apple & Apple and
Blackcurrant.
VALUED VOLUNTEERS
MON- KERRI
TUES- BO BO processing BO BO
WED- KERRI
COMMUNITY NOTICES
McDonald Family Funeral Notice
Wed 13 May 2015 - 11am
Our Elimbah school community will be
able to pay their final respects to the
McDonald family on Wednesday
13 May 2015.
The funerals for Tyler, Tamra and Tony
McDonald will be held at 11am at the
Great Northern Garden of Remembrance
in Tallowood Drive, Deception Bay.“
THURS- LORRAINE processing SHERRYL & KERRY
FRI- KERRI & RENEE processing SAHRON & KERRI
We do sell Plain Milk 300mls .85c
Thank You To Mr Steven Kennedy for fixing our Fruzia
(slushy) Machine, we now have 2 flavours on offer,
Vanilla Cinnamon & Pineapple Coconut they cost
$2.00.
With Health & Happiness
Michelle Lederhose
[email protected]
THE BREKKIE CLUB CHAT
Thank You to The Wishart-Allen Family for the
donation of Pineapples to the Brekkie Club, they are
much appreciated by the kids.
ON MENU THIS WEEK
Date Loaf & Carrot Cake
FRUIT- oranges, kiwi fruit, pineapples and
Juice & Milo
TOAST- vegemite, jam & honey
VALUED VOLUNTEERS
FIONA, TAROOLA, DALLAS & help needed
The Brekkie Club Team
If you can spare 15mins to help out at The Brekkie Club
please come down and see our friendly team as we
would love the extra help.
McDonald Family Support
After an overwhelming number of enquires
from people wanting to offer assistance to the
family during this time an account has been
set up to assist.
Further details are available via the
P&C Facebook Page.
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If you are wanting to improve you health and fitness,
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DJ FOR HIRE:
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