Week 6 Term 2—29th May 2015

71 Cork St, Winton Queensland Ph: (07) 4657 2333

As learners and leaders: we are safe, we are responsible and we are respectful. This is ‘The Winton Way.’

Principal plays with dollies…

I have been asked a few questions about me playing with ‘dollies’ in last

week’s newsletter, in fact quite a few people made mention of it (all posi-

tive). I thought I would explain a little more about the image. The girls were

making a stop animation film. I was curious and stopped to watch and as I

have a young daughter I naturally found myself playing with the girls and

dressing the dolls. We started to discuss the body shape of the dolls and

naturally we had a very interesting chat about body image and zero sized

models. Often the unplanned learning events can be the most powerful…

Attendance

As you are aware we are having a strong focus on attendance. It will be an ongoing priority for the school. I am appealing to you, the parent or carer reading this. You decide if your child stays home from school. You are the person responsible for allowing nonattendance at school. I need to chal-lenge your thinking on this issue. The last day of Term 2 2014 we had 72.6% attendance. That is simply unacceptable. We cannot continue to allow chil-dren to be away from school. It is business as usual in the last week, cer-tainly there are more rewards and going on, but we still teach, even on the last day. In Term 3 we are going to be holding class and team challenges throughout the day that will be focused around Higher Order Thinking Skills… challenges of engineering etc... More to come later on these days (which we would love to have some parent teams participate).

Please, consider that attendance at school is vital to the wellbeing of your children, their development and their long term outcomes.

Come and have a yarn with me… Minister for Education

I met with Kate Jones yesterday (you may have seen us on the news on Wednesday night) and Robbie Katter to discuss the issues we face in our school. The meeting albeit short was an important opportunity to get across the long term goals for our school and how as a Minister Kate could address them.

Fund raising for 5-6 trip

We held an auction for the 5/6 class on Wednesday night and I would like to make special mention of John Elliott. John bid for a signed Cowboys ball, he then handed it straight away to one of our students. It was one of those moments that made your heart smile. Good on you John.

2015 Attendance for the week

Fri-22.5.15 Mon-25.5.15 Tue-26.5.15 Wed-27.5.15 Thu-28.5.15

89.1% 92.4% 96.7% 98.9% 96.7%

2015 Semester 1 Attendance- Whole School to date

Below 85% Attendance % 85-90% Attendance 90-95% Attendance 95-100% Attendance

24.8% 12.4% 23.8% 39%

What a week! We have been very busy completing assessment

pieces. We had a surprise this week. The Minister for Educa-

tion and Tourism, Mrs Kate Jones, and Member for Mt Isa

Mr Robbie Katter visited us in our classroom. Channel Nine

also came in to film the class with the Minister and Mr Katter.

The Minister was very keen to hear from the students on their

favourite things to do in Winton. She explained to the children

that today she was announcing a new tourism campaign to

promote Winton as a destination for city people. Minister

Jones and Mr Katter were very keen to also hear that the chil-

dren had been reading the book “Bungawitta” by Emily Rodda

which has a storyline about a small town that has been in

drought for many years and holds a festival to entice the tour-

ists to come. Mr Katter and Minister Jones were also very hap-

py to have photos taken with the children. We also had a visit

from Cassie from Medicare Local to give us a talk about

healthy eating and keeping ourselves healthy. Lessons the

class learnt were –

1. A bottle of a Coke has 20 teaspoons of sugar and a can has

10.

2. We need 5 servings of vegetables and 2 serves of fruit a day.

3. If you eat too much food high in sugar then you can get

rotten teeth.

4. PowerAde is not actually healthy due to the level of sugar

and salt.

A very interesting and informative talk.

Until next week,

From Mrs Searle and Year3/4

School Choir

WEEK 6 TERM 2– 29th May 2015

Healthy Food and Healthy Eating talk with Cassie from

Medicare Local.

Mr Katter and Minister Jones meet the class

Discussing the Assessment Task on Bungawitta.

Class shot with Mr Katter and Minister Jones.

News from Year 3/4

Our School Choir joined with “The Voices of Winton” adult

choir to perform our home grown version of Waltzing Matilda

out at the Australian Age of Dinosaurs on Wednesday. The

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Education Minister Kate

Jones joined in heartily from the dias behind us. The students

did Winton State School very proud, both with their perfor-

mance and their behaviour throughout the ceremony which

was held to launch the Outback Queensland Tourism

brand. We were also lucky enough to have our photo taken

with MP Rob Katter and celebrity Tanya Kernaghan. There

were also some guest dinosaurs, Matilda and Banjo.

Building Construction

Students of the Week (Year 5/6) Blake Mitchell For attempting extension work in Mathematics Kaillem Patterson For working at a high level in modelled reading

Student Council

CHAPPY’S CHATTER

I’m very pleased to have attended the Year 5/6 fundraising

function on Wednesday night. The auction of football mem-

orabilia was terrific fun; the dinner was great; watching

QUEENSLAND WIN!! on the bi-i-ig screen was very satisfying,

and the company was wonderful.

Students of the Week (Year 5/6)

Taleesha Neville For working independently in Maths

Jesse Hasted For working at a high level to complete his Stop Animation

WEEK 6 TERM 2– 29th May 2015

Building Construction students are back in the workshop

working on an outdoor table. This item of furniture will be

going into a specially prepared area in one of the gardens

that they built in Agricultural Studies. This year’s Year 12

students will leave a legacy behind that will enhance the

school grounds for years to come.

Thanks to everyone who dressed in their bright clothes on

Wednesday to raise money for the ‘Make a Wish’ Founda-

tion. We raised a total of $85. Great job!

Next Wednesday, during first lunch (after eating time) there

will be a Student (Years 7-12) V Staff Netball game in the

Shed. If you are in Years 7-12 and interested in playing

please see Sam or Rhiannon. The Preps – 6 are more than

welcome to come and watch and cheer on the students or

staff!!!!

There will be a Primary Student V Staff Game in the weeks to

come. Stay tuned! Thanks!

HPE News

The time trials were run on Wednesday afternoon for the

North West Cross Country. All of the students put in their best

effort and each achieved great times! Well done to them, and

good luck for selection!

Science News

7/8 Science this week

discovered different

methods for the treat-

ment of water. They

constructed their own

water filter and tweaked

their designs to see

which combination of

materials filtered the

water the best.

9/10 Science found that

when citric acid and so-

dium hydrogen car-

bonate, not only does it

fizz superbly, but it also becomes really cold! This is an exam-

ple of an endothermic reaction, where the chemicals take heat

from the surrounding area and uses it to form new products.

A product of this particular reaction was hydrogen gas, the

first element on the periodic table.

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As learners and as leaders:

We are safe

We are responsible

We are respectful.

This is ‘The Winton Way.’

WEEK 6 TERM 2 - 29th May 2015

What’s on?

Quick Facts

Nicholas Kirchen For good listening during read

ing groups

Faith Fogarty For fantastic work in reading

groups

Koolee Harbour For making good choices and

decisions in the classroom

Blake Jones For telling the Minister for

Education all about Ernie’s pig

adventure and making her

laugh!

Clayton Scarr For teaching the Minister

for Education all about

“Hillbilly Hand Fishing”

Noah Fogarty For being a super help to

the little people in his group

yesterday We had a look at the chickens

and how fast they are growing.

Thank you Mr Lowry.

Prep/1/2News

Students of the Week

Lunches will be coming from the

Winton Bakery next week.

School Contacts: School Phone: 4657 2333

Student Absence: 4657 2366

Email: jwhit791@eq.edu.au

Mailing address: PO Box 298, Winton 4735

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS Machine Sewing & Hand-craft Workshops

At the Creative Arts Centre, Vindex Street, Win-

ton

29th June – 3rdJuly 2015

Hand sewing craft sessions 2.00 - 4.30pm

for children 5 years and over.

A different project will be made each day.

Cost is $10 per session all inclusive

Sewing Machine Workshops 9.30am-12 noon

for sewers 10 years and over

1 week course: Make a skirt OR a backpack. Dis-

counted cost is $40 total for 5 sessions.

OR 5 different machine sewing projects.

Cost is $10 per session all inclusive*

(Cost includes tuition*, pattern, fabric & notions)

Limited places available – please book!

For project / pattern details and bookings please

contact Trish Alcorn

email: geckolodge@hotmail.com

Ph (07) 54 789 789 M.0407 829 147

*Tuition provided courtesy of Winton Shire Council

RADF Grant

This week we had a visit from Medicare

local. We discussed different types of

healthy and unhealthy foods and what

foods we should eat everyday. We played

a fun game and had to sort food into their

groups. We also spoke about healthy teeth

and why we need to brush our teeth daily.