Friday, 28 TH JULY, 2017 ISSUE TWO

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

I cannot believe we are about to enter week four, what an exciting few weeks it has been! Over the past two days Maria and I have been meeting with each teacher individually to discuss their classroom learning environment, student achievements, goals and curriculum planning. I would like all of you to know as parents that we are so privileged to have the expertise, dedication and high calibre of teachers in this school. This was very evident in these meetings. I was impressed with their ability to discuss each child's learning needs and how they plan to differentiate for each child in their classroom. With this in mind, please do not hesitate to contact your child's teacher if you have any queries or concerns. Our teaching staff is very approachable and welcome all families into their classrooms. The relationship between home and school is a crucial one and the best starting point is building that relationship with your child's classroom teacher.

On Tuesday we had a fantastic opportunity to listen to Allana Ferguson (Captain of the Jillaroo's Rugby League Team) speak to our students and staff about her early years of playing rugby league and how this passion continued to grow. This passion, of course, was coupled with dedication, sacrifice and sheer hard work as she had to overcome three knee reconstructions to get to the level she is at now! After her discussion with the students, Chris and Allana conducted skills and drills on the oval

DATES TO REMEMBER

� 8th – AUGUST – P&C Meeting � 14th & 15 th AUGUST – Life

Education Van � 18th AUGUST – Pre-Prep

Transition � 21st AUGUST – Book Week

Begins � 25th AUGUST – Steven Bell/Josh

Hannay U10s Rugby League � 25th AUGUST – Arts Performance � 25th AUGUST – Book Week

Parade � 30th- 31st AUGUST – Eisteddfod � 1st SEPT – Eisteddfod � 9th SEPTEMBER - P&C Cricket

Day � 12th – 14th SEPTEMBER – Yr 10

Work Experience � 15th SEPTEMBER – Under 8’s day

Orion SS

TEACHER E-MAILS Should you wish to contact your child’s teacher in the event of absences, homework or curriculum clarity please e-mail them. Their contacts are as follows: Prep – Rose Lucke – rluck6@eq.edu.au Yr 1 – Sally Sullivan – ssull22@eq.edu.au Yr 2 - Candice Ball – cball122@eq.edu.au Yr 3 – Kathleen Charleston – kmcha8@eq.edu.au Yr 4 – Jess Gorman – jkgor0@eq.edu.au Yr 5/6 – Elise Richards – emric0@eq.edu.au; Toni Upton – tsmit198@eq.edu.au Music/LOTE/Art – iwats19@eq.edu.au HPE-Tracey Roberts – trobe234@eq.edu.au SECONDARY Peter Spencer – pspen15@eq.edu.au Emma McVittie – emcvi3@eq.edu.au Mark Francey –mgfra0@eq.edu.au Maria Hoare – mhoar6@eq.edu.au Tim Burns – tburn138@eq.edu.au

with our primary school students. The children thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon and we are grateful to ESS for providing our school community with this opportunity.

I would like to finish my report this week with some helpful tips to share with your child at home. I will be talking about these important skills on parade on Monday with the primary students.

To be a successful learner we need :

# Persistence- even if a task is hard or they don't like it, give it your best effort anyway.

# Organisation-be prepared and take care of your belongings.

# Resilience- if they've got a problem, problem solve and know it's going to be ok.

# Confidence- have a positive mindset, 'I can do it!'

Have a lovely weekend.

Renee

The other Principal…

As always it’s been a delight to accompany our students to the CH Athletics Trials over these past two days. They have worked so hard to reach this level and really applied themselves to each track or field event with the most positive of intentions. Congratulations to all of you – you have done yourselves, your families and your school proud! A huge congratulations and thanks to Mr Francey who has prepared these students so well, ably supported by Mrs Roberts and Mrs Charleston.

Mr Francey and Mrs Watson recently submitted an application for funding to Rolleston Coal in order to purschase some more musical instruments, mainly electric guitars, as well as a more sophisticated PA system. Sincere thanks to Glencore Rolleston Coal for your funding of this submission. Our music program continues to grow in leaps and bounds.

Another fantastic announcement from Rolleston Coal that concerns our school community is their offer to provide a $2000.00 scholarship to a student in Year Ten who is progressing on to further education in Years 11 and 12. This

student will be named and presented with the scholarship at our annual Speech Night. Thank you, Glencore Rolleston Coal – we are extremely grateful for this very generous recognition and support for our students.

We are looking forward to welcoming seven 14 year-old students and two teachers from thd Ichinoseki District in Japan to our school on Tuesday, 1st August. The students will sample some ‘Aussie cuisine’ by way of a sausage sizzle before they engage in a short presentation and then join the Year 7/8 Media class. These visitors have been brought to Australia through the sister city arrangement shared through the Central Highlands Regional Council who have generously contributed towards some of the sausage sizzle costs. More details about that are provided elsewhere in the newsletter.

Great to see our school represented in the CQ News last week! Lots of happy faces and exciting happenings.

HEAD OF CURRICULUM’S NEWS

Unfortunately our purchase of a school-based Speech-Language Pathologist has come to an end due to a vacancy not being filled in the Emerald region. My sincere thanks to Catherine Ellen who did work in our school one day a fortnight since the start of the year. Catherine was able to complete a backlog of assessments and provide intervention material to support our students. Catherine will continue to visit our school one day a term to monitor the progress of some of our students who receive speech intervention.

During the week some other students also had assessments completed by the Speech and Language Disorder Awareness team. This free service is also invaluable to us as it provides reports on the children who have been assessed and also provides intervention programs for us which can be implemented by teachers and teacher aides. It is greatly appreciated.

If you feel that your child is struggling at school and would benefit from further support, please speak to your child’s teacher or myself. Our sincere aim is to provide a classroom where every child can succeed and feel a sense of achievement.

As a staff, we have recently been adding data to the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data for students with a disability. Please see further information regarding this data collection elsewhere in this newsletter.

Maria

SPORTS NEWS

Cricket:

Congratulations to those students from Springsure State School who have been selected to represent the Springsure District at the U12 Central Highlands Cricket Trials. The trials will be held at Marist College in Emerald on Thursday 8th August from 8:45am for boys and 11:45am for girls. Twelve players will be selected to represent CH at the CAP trials in Gladstone on 28th August 2017.

Well done for achieving at this level and all the best for this upcoming trial. We are very proud of you and know you will uphold our school values in the next round of competition. Five out of eight students selected to represent the Springsure District for U12s Cricket have come from Springsure State School – an awesome result for Cayden, Sean, Rory, Riley and Emily.

Athletics:

Over the last two days the CH Athletics trials are being contested and I am pleased to report the results for Day One :

Jackson: Triple Jump - 1st, 100 meters - 2nd

Jamie-Lee: 1500 - 1st, High Jump - 2nd, Triple Jump - 3rd

Mark: 1500m - 2nd, 400m - 2nd

Nick: Long Jump - 3rd

Charllie: Discus - 3rd

Josh: 400m - 3rd

Katelyn: Discus - 3rd (even though she broke the record by 3 meters!)

And we had personal bests from Michael in discus, Brooke in shot put, Jaime-Lee and Charllie in triple jump and Lana in the 400m.

Mark

SCHOOL OPINION SURVEYS

The annual suite of School Opinion Surveys will be conducted from 31 July to 25 August 2017. All families, school staff and a random sample of students will be invited to participate. We encourage you to take this opportunity to have your say about what this school does well, and how this school can improve.

The Parent/Caregiver Survey and access details will be sent home this week with the eldest child in your family. Please check their ports. You may complete the paper form or use the access details to complete the online survey. The access details are completely random and cannot be linked to you in any way.

If you choose to complete the paper survey, don't forget to return it to the school office.

For Parents/caregivers who have limited access to the internet you are welcome to complete your survey online here at school. If you wish to do this, please contact the school office to arrange a time.

If you have any questions please call the school office on 49814333 between 8:30am and 3:00pm.

SSSSUCCESS BY UCCESS BY UCCESS BY UCCESS BY EEEEFFORT AWARDEESFFORT AWARDEESFFORT AWARDEESFFORT AWARDEES

Success by Effort Awards Week Two

Success by Effort Awards Week Three

Semester One Absent Spelling Champions

Prep

This term in the Prep room we are exploring how to collect, record and interpret data. Each morning we conduct a new survey, count the yes/no responses, make a column graph and make inferences from the data. Last week we asked lots of questions about pets in the Prep room. We discovered that everyone in the Prep room has a dog but only two people have guinea pigs. Some families also had cats, horses and chooks. We used the data we had collected to make a graph on Monday. We made a big column graph on the floor and then made our own picture graphs at our desk. This week we learnt that not everyone in the Prep room likes chocolate. I wonder if everyone will like vegetables?

Ms Lucke Secondary The Secondary Students have begun this semester by setting their individual goals for the upcoming term. They have read their Semester One report cards and have reflected on their efforts and academic progress. From this, students have selected one learning area where they will aim to improve or maintain their effort mark for that subject. This will be monitored and measured using the Behaviour Matrix. Please discuss your child's goal for this term with them and encourage them to strive for their best effort. We are excited about this new process and are looking forward to the students being rewarded for their hard work throughout the term.

On another note, we are assisting the Mountain Men with the gate admission on Saturday night. This is an opportunity to raise much needed funds for the 2018 Canberra/Ski Trip. We have a number of students who have generously volunteered their time and this is much appreciated. Please support our efforts by making your child available for this game.

Mr Burns

Arts Performance

Springsure State School was lucky enough to have an Arts Council Performance held at the hall on Tuesday 25th July. Students in Years Prep to Six were amazed by the sounds produced from indigenous performer Adrian Tjupurrula, known as Tjupurru. A small variety and instruments were used including a 'face bass' and 'didjeribone.' The technology used in the face bass enabled even the slightest whisper and tremble to be not only projected, but amplified and recorded to play as a loop. Tjupurru enlightened us with snippets of songs such as Advance Australia Fair, Madagascar's Move It and Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson. He definitely brought a unique and creative way of playing and performing as a One Man Band. It was thoroughly enjoyed by all students and teachers.

Miss Gorman

Year Five

This term in English, Year Five have been studying poetry. We have analysed anthems, odes and lyric poems and together we wrote our own class anthem. Enjoy!

Year Five Anthem

By Year Five, 2017

Twenty four students, successful each day.

Together we learn and play.

We all use our pencils and pens,

But more importantly we are friends.

Working as a team, Year Five twenty-seventeen.

People come and go to improve our lives.

Each year we advance our grades and strive.

Teachers and subjects are the same.

All have made our ‘Hall of Fame’.

Working as a team, Year Five twenty-seventeen.

Our class is sharing a positive mood.

We are showing an ‘attitude of gratitude’.

Leichhardt or Mitchell: rivals to the end!

We all try our best before the weekend.

Working as a team, Year Five twenty-seventeen.

‘Success by Effort’ is our motto.

The caring teachers make us follow.

Sports, music, culture and ag,

Together we proudly salute our flag.

Working as a team, Year Five twenty-seventeen.

Miss Richards

NATIONAL DATA COLLECTION

WHAT IS THE NATIONAL DATA COLLECTION?

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (the National Data Collection) is an annual collection that counts the number of school students receiving an adjustment due to disability and the level of reasonable adjustment they are receiving.

The National Data Collection counts students who have been identified by a school team as receiving an adjustment to address a disability as defined under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (the DDA).

WHY IS THIS DATA BEING COLLECTED?

All schools across Australia collect information about students with disability. But the type of information currently collected varies between each state and territory and across government, Catholic and independent school sectors.

When undertaking the National Data Collection, every school in Australia uses the same method to collect information. Therefore, a government school in suburban Sydney collects and submits data in the same way as a Catholic school in country Victoria and an independent school in the Northern Territory.

The annual collection aims to, over time, lead to nationally consistent, high quality data that will enable schools, education authorities and governments to gain a more complete understanding of students who are receiving adjustments because of disability in schools in Australia, and how to best support them.

WHAT INFORMATION WILL BE COLLECTED?

Every year your child’s school will collect the following information for each student receiving an adjustment due to disability:

• the student’s level of education (i.e. primary or secondary)

• the student’s level of adjustment

• the student’s broad type of disability.

The information collected by schools will be available to all governments to inform policy and program improvement for students with disability.

WHO IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL DATA COLLECTION?

The definition of disability for the National Data Collection is based on the broad definition under the DDA.

For the purposes of the National Data Collection, students with learning difficulties, such as dyslexia or auditory processing disorder, as well as chronic health conditions like epilepsy or diabetes, that require monitoring and the

provision of adjustments by the school, may be included.

WHO COLLECTS INFORMATION FOR THE NATIONAL DATA COLLECTION?

Teachers and school staff count the number of students receiving an adjustment due to disability in their school, and the level of reasonable adjustment they are provided, based on:

• consultation with parents and carers in the course of determining and providing reasonable adjustments • the school team’s observations and professional judgements • any medical or other professional diagnosis • other relevant information. School principals are responsible for ensuring the information identified about each student is accurate.

HOW IS MY CHILD’S PRIVACY PROTECTED?

Protecting the privacy and confidentiality of all students and their families is essential and is an explicit focus of the National Data Collection. Personal details, such as student names or other identifying information, are not provided to local or federal education authorities.

IS THE NATIONAL DATA COLLECTION COMPULSORY?

Yes. All education ministers agreed to full implementation of the National Data Collection from 2015. This means that all schools must now collect and submit information annually on the number of students receiving adjustments due to disability in their care, and the level of adjustment they receive.

FURTHER INFORMATION

If you have further questions about the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability, please contact me at school.

You can also visit www.education.gov.au/nationally-consistent-collection-data-school-students-disability.

An e-learning resource about the Disability Standards for Education 2005 is freely available

for the use of individuals, families and communities at http://resource.dse.theeducationinstitute.edu.au/

LEARNING NEW SKILLS!

Mailing Address

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SPRINGSURE QLD 4722

Phone; 49814333 Fax: 49841634

School Absence Line: 49814366

Email:

principal@springsuss.eq.edu.au

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