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“Striving for great things” Page 1
Moura Minor
3rd
May, 2018
In this edition:
Reading Groups
NAPLAN Testing
No Hat No Play
Dear Students, Parents/Caregivers and Friends READING GROUPS HAVE STARTED AGAIN! As I’m sure you are aware, reading groups have commenced again. It is great to see so many students’ reading levels have increased, which has meant a change of distribution to each reading group. Your child’s reading group teacher does often change dependent on two things – your child’s reading level and the number of students on similar reading levels. Depending on the reading level of your child, they may be on the cusp of two groups and depending also how many other students are around a similar level it may change which reading group they will go to. Please remember, we can’t run reading groups without the help of parents and carers. It has been great to see so many dads coming to reading groups this year and we hope this continues. If you haven’t ever helped with reading groups I would urge you to come and see how it all works. It’s not scary and your children LOVE having you involved.
CROSS COUNTRY Congratulations to our Cross Country runners Sam, Arianna, Makalah, Bella, Coen and Heidi SS who participated in the GRD trials in Rockhampton on Tuesday. A number of students placed in the top 25 of their age groups which is a great effort considering there were up to 150 runners in the group. A special congratulations to Sam Gassman who finished 2nd and is off to the Capricornia trials in May. YEAR 3/5 NAPLAN TESTING Year 3/5 students across the nation will be completing national literacy and numeracy tests on 15/16/17 May (Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday). It is important that all our Year 3/5 students are in attendance on these days. Absent students have the opportunity to catch up with any missed tests on Monday 21st May. Information about NAPLAN tests is further in the newsletter plus an information pamphlet will be sent home with Year 3 and 5 students. Miss Fiedler and the Year 6 students are organising breakfast for the students on the testing days. A note has already been distributed to Year 3 and 5 students asking for their breakfast orders. NO HAT NO PLAY A reminder that broad brimmed hats are to be brought to school every day. In recent times staff have allowed, out of the goodness of their hearts, students to play in undercover areas if they didn’t have a hat. Unfortunately this has meant that several students don’t ever bring a hat to school and
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therefore don’t have a hat for HPE lessons or school events like ANZAC Day and can’t go out into the playground at lunch times. From next week, students without a hat at lunchtime will not be able to play and will be asked to sit in the undercover area. Please, please, please ensure that your child has a broad brimmed hat in their port or at school each and every day and ensure that this is CLEARLY named. For safety reasons, hats are not to have chords attached. If your child has a chord attached to it, please ensure it is cut off. Students love to chew these and they can also cause a choking hazard if hats are pulled. RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOUR PLAN FOR STUDENTS Confidence means knowing that you will likely be successful and that people will like you. It means not being afraid to make mistakes or to try something new. It means looking and sounding confident. Examples of confident behaviour are raising your hand in class to answer a hard question, doing hard work without asking for help, sharing a new idea with a teacher or the class, starting a conversation with a new classmate and standing up straight and speaking with a firm voice. Positive habits of the mind that help develop a young person’s confidence include: • I Can Do It - thinking that I’m more likely to be successful than I am to fail. • Accepting Myself - not thinking badly about myself when I make a mistake. • Taking Risks - thinking that it’s good to try something new even though I might not be able to do it. • Being Independent - thinking that it’s important to try new activities and to speak up even if my classmates think I’m silly or stupid. www.youcandoiteduction.com.au THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Mistakes are proof that you are trying. Some of the life’s greatest lessons were learned from mistakes. Yours in Education
Michelle Lang (Acting Principal)
and Laurel Bowkett
NAPLAN TESTS
On Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 May, students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 will take part in the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy, or NAPLAN, as it is commonly known. Skills that will be tested include: reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy. These tests are done here at school and are considered just another part of the curriculum. It is important for you and your child to know that NAPLAN is not a pass/fail test. It simply looks at what level students are achieving in literacy and numeracy against National Standards and compared with student peers throughout Australia. NAPLAN cannot be studied for and students are not expected to do so. The best way you can help your child prepare for NAPLAN is to let them know that it is just a routine part of their school program, and to urge them to do the best they can on the day. All students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are expected to participate in NAPLAN testing. Later in the year we will send you an individual student NAPLAN report that you can use to view and monitor how your child is progressing. More information is available on the NAP website. If you have any concerns, please contact Laurel Bowkett, PRINCIPAL
May 7th Mon Labour Day Public Holiday
May 15th Tue – May 17th Thu
NAPLAN Testing
May 18th Fri Biloela Show Holiday
May 15th Tue – May 26th Sat
Biloela Eisteddfod-Music
May 22nd Tue Under 8’s Day
May 28th Mon – May 31st Thu
Biloela Eisteddfod -Speech & Drama
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STUDENTS OF THE WEEK Prep F Indi Rawsthorne Prep/1 H Harley Broadhurst 1/2C Brodie Gosling 2W Tino Nyamhotsi 3U D’haila Morgan 3/4B Alicia Rassmussen 4/5S Sean Ginez 5H Gregory Blyton 5/6K Heidi Swaffer-Selff 6F Brendan Conway
BIRTHDAYS
29th April – 5th May
William Hogarth, Griffin Bennett,
Oliver Bennett, Brendan Kincaid, Tate Biggs
Sports News ROCKHAMPTON DISTRICT
CROSS COUNTRY
Congratulations to all the MSS students
who represented the Dawson Valley at the
Rockhampton District Cross Country in
Rockhampton on Tuesday.
Arianna Hanson Coen Saxby
Heidi Swaffer-Selff Sam Gassman
Makalah Hewitt Bella Hutchinson
Sam Gassman ran 2nd in the 10 years boys
event and will now compete at the
Capricornia Cross Country trials in
Gladstone on the 29th May.
Super effort Sam!!
BRONZE CERTIFICATES
Levi Whatman, Harley Broadhurst, Will Schloss, Zach Hutchinson, Aponi Biggs
P&C News
Our next meeting will be held on Monday 21st May at 2:00pm
in the Moura SS Library. Please note that you will have to sign in at the
office prior to the meeting.
BEE AWARDS
At our school, we want children to
Be Learning Be Responsible Be Courteous
Be Safe
Bee Award recipients this week:
Sully Ingleton, Zaxon Morgan, Liam Finlay,
Sahkiah White, Emma Conway, Charlie Suttle,
Kobi Martin, Max Mallinson, Connor Hay,
Reagan Hartley, Montana Gilliland,
Ashley Keddie, Saige Bellert, Peter Stephenson,
Brodie-Lee Lang SCHOOL BANKING
As next Monday 7th May is a Public holiday, School Banking for next week (Week 4) will
be on Tuesday 8th May.
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News from 4/5S This term 4/5S are exploring the three
most common states of matter – Solids,
Liquids and Gases. We are learning
that objects in the different states of
matter demonstrate certain properties.
This week we conducted a mini-
investigation which required us to ‘test’
different solids to see if they could be
scratched, poured, squashed, broken
etc.
Bus Variations and Student Absences
Phone 4997 5260
Please phone to advise your child/rens absence from school. This
number is also the one to phone for any variations to bus travel. Please use this number to notify the school out of hours or during
school time. Messages can be left.
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COMINGS AND GOINGS - 253
Absences/Change of Details
Please notify the office with regards to absences and
change of contact details as we may need to contact
you in an emergency.
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
Due to NAPLAN there will be no Instrumental
Music lessons on Wednesday 16th May.
However, in the afternoon session, there will
be a 1 hour band rehearsal in preparation for
the Eisteddfod. Please remind those band
students to still bring their instrument to
school for this practice.
In Week 6, on Wednesday 23rd May, in the
afternoon session there will be a small concert
in the hall to give the band students the
opportunity to play for an audience. Please
come along and let these guys know that
they’ve worked hard and should be proud!
A definite time for this concert will be in the
newsletter closer to the date.
Library Lines May is National Family Reading Month, and Scholastic are challenging all students and families to
read more in May!! The national ambassadors for this in 2018 are the author/illustrator duo Laura &
Philip Bunting who have brought us the highly entertaining Australian picture books Mopoke, Koalas
Eat Gum Leaves & Kookaburras Love to Laugh, these picture books are definitely modern classics
and are a favourite with all ages.
At the end of this newsletter is a Koala Reading Log for you to print off to record the books you read.
The recording is super easy - just colour in a book on the reading log every time you read one and
enter your details online to go into a prize draw for $100 worth of books. There are also some family
reading tips on the website and an inspirational and funny video from the ambassador duo.
Happy Reading and we hope you all love reading a little bit more in May …
The Library team We love our library books going home and being read, but please just remember that students need
a waterproof library bag to take books home in. All students have library either on Tuesday or
Wednesday and have a chance to borrow books and spend time enjoying our library resources each
week.
“If I was a book I would like to be a library book and be taken home by all different
sorts of kids…” (Cornelia Funke author of the Inkheart series)
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All gifts $5 each
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