Newsletter Number - 20

Date - 22nd July 2020

AUGATHELLA STATE SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER Motto - Strive to Succeed

Principal: Natalie Newell Teachers: Kara Dawson, Jessica Jones, Elizabeth Lindsay

Teacher Aides: Jan Zohl, Emily Briggs, Bronwyn Hansen

Administration Officer: Kym Fields

Postal Details: PO Box 33, Augathella, QLD, 4477

Phone: (07) 4654 5120 Fax: (07) 4654 5266

Website: augathellass.eq.edu.au Email: principal@augathellass.eq.edu.au

Quote of the Week

“Change is the result of true learning” – Leo Buscaglia

Attendance We finished Semester 1 with an overall attendance rate of 94.3%. This result is significantly more than this time last year (91.3%). It is also above the state average for Semester 1. ‘Every Day Counts’ has been a focus for our school and it is great that our attendance rate reflects the value that our families are placing on making sure that our students are attending school each and every day. Let’s see if we can hold our Term 3 attendance rate at this terrific level! National Pyjama Day Last Friday students and staff dressed in their favourite pair of pyjamas as part of National Pyjama Day to help the Pyjama Foundation raise much-needed awareness and funds for children in foster care. Overall, we donated $150 to the foundation. This money will be used to help offer learning skills to more than 1000 children, fund educational resources and help provide stable positive relationships. Well done students for supporting such a great cause. School Opinion Survey

Parent-Teacher Interviews Parent-Teacher interviews will be held throughout next week (27th – 31st July). We anticipate that all families will make the most of the opportunity to come in and have conversations with the class teachers. The interviews will provide families and teachers the opportunity to share more child-specific information or answer any questions that might have arisen from Semester 1 reports. Please come in so we can share your child’s achievements with you. Reading Data At the start of this year, we had a continued focus on reading and our school practices after reviewing our whole school data. After the latest data review we are pleased to share that we have continued to make good progress in this area. Our Term 2 result shows that we have 71% of students now performing at or above the mid-year Regional Benchmark level for reading. This improvement is great to see – our school target of 75% is the figure we are working towards. With this continued focus on reading we are confident that we will continue to see even more improvement in this area as we edge even closer to our target. Jeans for Genes Day Each year, Australians unite by wearing their favourite jeans to help raise money for the Children’s Medical Research Institute. This Institute works tirelessly to research genetic defects and childhood diseases in order to give kids around the world a better chance of a healthy, happy future. Our student council will hold a jeans day and ask students to make a gold coin donation on Friday 7th August. Every dollar raised helps scientists at the Children’s Medical Research Institute discover treatments and cures for childhood diseases, to give every child the opportunity to live a long and healthy life. We look forward to supporting such an important cause.

Attendance Star 2/3 Class

Tidy Class Award

2/3 Class

Natalie Newell, Principal

Thank you to our 15 school families who completed the school opinion survey. Your opinions will

provide direction for our school over the coming year…we appreciate your input and support!

Tuckshop On tuckshop this week is Georgie Hiscock and Megan Forrest. Nat Newell is on homebake.

Positive Behaviour for Learning

(PBL)

BE RESPECTFUL BE A LEARNER BE SAFE

Behaviour of the week: I enter and leave the

room quietly.

This week in our Positive Behaviour for Learning lessons, the

students are learning to enter and leave the classroom quietly.

This positive behaviour expectation has a Be Respectful focus

and it is relevant to the classroom areas of the school. During

class, students will have discussions around the importance of

entering and leaving the classroom quietly. They will also

practise entering and leaving the classroom quietly.

Year 4 - 5 - 6 Class - Liz Lindsay Happy Week 2! This week, in English, we are continuing to

analyse author’s style. We are learning how authors use

language to create characters and develop the plot of a story.

In Maths, we are consolidating our understanding of fractions.

We are focusing on improper and mixed number fractions,

adding and subtracting fractions and solving word problems

involving fractions. As we get back into the swing of Term 3

students are being reminded daily of the 3B’s and their

importance. Please encourage students to demonstrate Being

Respectful, Being Safe and Being a Learner. Our 3B’s are values

that are vital for being successful students within our school

and local communities. Success is the sum of small efforts,

repeated day in and day out – Robert Collier. Homework was

sent home on Monday and must be returned and completed

on Friday. Finally, there is still time to book in a parent-teacher

interview. I cannot wait to meet with families to discuss

student’s progress and next steps. Have a great week!

Year 2 - 3 Class - Jess Jones This week in Year 2/3, we are looking at more procedural texts.

We are creating our own procedures using the books in

reading groups. For students to be successful they will need a

title, ingredient/material list, equipment list and method. We

will also be continuing the reading of “George’s Marvellous

Medicine”. The students have found this text very entertaining,

so make sure to ask them about George’s wicked medicine that

he makes for Grandma. In Maths, Year 2 are learning about

halves, quarters and eighths and Year 3 are learning about

money calculations. A busy and fun week in the Year 2/3 room.

I have attached a picture below of the art portraits we had lots

of fun creating last week.

Kindy - Prep - Year 1 Class - Kara Dawson Here is week 2! This year is going to go by faster than we can

blink! Can I say a big thank you to all the families who are

helping their child complete homework. It is awesome to see

their progress with all of your extra help. Homework folders

are to be taken home every Monday and then returned to the

homework folder box each Friday. Starting this week, every

child who returns their completed homework on Friday will

receive 10 tokens to add to their pockets! The students were all

very excited, I am sure they have already told you all about it

by now! One of our goals for the next little while is to improve

our writing! By the end of the term all students in Prep and

Year 1 will be writing a character description as part of their

assessment; so we need to make sure that we can all write full

sentences that make sense. Short writing activities will be

appearing in the homework folders in the coming weeks. Our

Kindy students will start up cooking next week, and the menu

will be sent to parents on Storypark and pinned to the wall in

the classroom for everyone to see. Thank you!

Students of the Week

I take turns Sam, Hugh, Vinnie, Hayden

Book Club Issue 5 Closing date for orders will be Monday 3rd August. Thanks for your continued support.

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