10th June 2020

BURKETOWN— We give our kids HOPE HOPE – Happy, Optimistic, Prepared, Educated

Ph: (07) 47455124

We acknowledge the Gangalidda People, traditional custodians of this land and pay our respects to the Elders both past, present and future.

P & C AGM Meeting 27th July BER Building— 5.30pm

2020 Term 2 May 20th DoE Physio visit BSS June 3rd NQ Health Nurse Training June 8th Reporting peri-od open June 25th Report Cards issued: parent pick-up June 26th Report Cards issued: sent home June 26th Last day Se-mester 1

Term 3 July 13th First day Se-mester 2

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School Phone Numbers: Landline- 47455124 Mobile- 0475964198

From the Principal’s Desk Reporting and Report Cards Schools report to parents on student achievements against the relevant achievement standards for each learning area/subject. Reporting is part of communicating with parents and building the school-parent partnership to improve student learning. School reporting processes are clear and transparent for parents, so they understand:

the learning expectations for the student

the student’s achievement against expected standards

how well the student is engaging with the expected learning

how the student may be able to improve Reporting is based on evidence: REPORTS REFLECT -

judgements about the quality of student learning, based on evidence collected during the course of a unit of work and also the reporting period

the student’s most consistent level of achievement with consideration to more recent evidence taking into consideration COVERT 19 interruptions to Face to Face learning

Report cards will be collected by parents —Thursday 25th June from classroom teachers or the school office on Friday 26th June.

EFFORT = RESULTS!! Kind Regards Mr Ford

The Cowboys House is planning to visit Burketown SS by the end of the year and will have prizes for the best performing class.

Burketown State School Attendance Term 2

BSS 2020 attendance target is 93%. “Every Day Counts, Every Minute Counts!”

We have started off well = 83.2% T1 is a Good solid start to 2020 BUT

EFFORT = RESULTS!

Every Day Counts—93%

Target If a students sits at 93% attend-ance for the year this equates to 13 days of absence over the whole year. Please send your children to school on time every-day that they are well. Learning time is so important. Remem-ber—Every Day Counts, Every Minute Counts!

From the Principal’s Desk

STEM 2020:

We are forever upskilling and improving student capabilities in relation to Technologies and pre-paring them with 21st Century skills. Coding, designing and IT programming are the drivers stu-dents will be aligning to the STEM curriculum and below are the new learning programs at school in 2020 ~ Tobbie 2 Robots, OzoBots and Tello Edu Drones are NEW THIS YEAR. Coding and design technology ~ Build-Play-Learn 1. Tobbie II Robots The students will be programming the robots using Javascript Blocks Ed-itor or for the advanced 3-6 students Python Editor on the ipads, laptops or tablets. The Tobbie II is a build it your-self hexiped robot with a 360 degree free-rotation mechanical body.

2. OzoBots Screen-free Colour Codes teach basic cod-ing concepts like cause/effect, debugging, navigation using blockly technology. Ozobots teach scratch coding and STEAM which measures 21st century skills of our prep to grade 3’s.

3. Tello Edu Drones Tello Quadcopter Drones with HD cam-eras and VR, powered by DJI technolo-gy and Intel processor, using coding education, throw and fly adaptation, scratch coding and STEM curriculum technologies is new for the 3-6 class in 2020. Students will be programming the Tello Edu drones with Scratch, Swift and Python platforms, so there are options for beginners and advanced coders. Every student is developing their knowledge of coding, designing and programming in a safe and creative atmosphere. Thank you Mr Harry

BURKETOWN STATE SCHOOL

ACTION DAY ~ 20th MARCH

At Burketown State School we are always planning and developing a safe and supportive school. Our ac-tion day to activate the 2020 reminder and pledge for stopping bullying at our school was 20th March from 8.30-10.30am. What a fantastic day ~ EMPOWERING! The infographic Bullying Prevention for schools what we know summarises the quality Australian research about effective practices: at Burketown State School we have enriched positive teacher-student relation-ships and positive family relationships. Students have a fundamental right to learn in a safe, support-ive environment and to be treated with respect. Research, both in Australia and overseas, has identi-fied the following combination of broad strategies as most likely to prevent and reduce bullying: A focus on building positive relationships and reduc-

ing bullying in the school community through a range of activities that engage students, families and staff (including professional development for teachers)

effective classroom environments supported by state-ments of rights and responsibilities developed with stu-dent involvement

the promotion of a positive school environment that provides safety, security and support for students and promotes student wellbeing

effective approaches and strategies to encourage posi-tive student behaviour as well as approaches to discipline that are consistent, inclusive, solution-focused and non-punitive

explicit teaching of values and skills to all students (and especially bystanders) including strategies for responding to bullying behaviour and supporting stu-dents who are bullied

integration of social emotional learning within the curriculum

BSS ~ 2017 Day Staff Hands

https://bullyingnoway.gov.au/

20 March 2020

Many hands make light work to eradicate bullying

Please come along and support this event presented by Athletics Australia with Burketown State School.

Burketown State School P&C Annual General Meeting 2020 Parents and caregivers, please come along and attend our first P&C meet-ing for 2020 due to COVID 19. The P&C provides support so that all students at the school have the opportunity to attend school camps, attend sporting events and enjoy fun whole school activities. A major part of the P&C is to support our Student Council with fundraising events and to obtain grant funding. Our P&C needs more parents to support regularly to provide opportunities for our school community to build and improve. Please attend Monday 27th July 5.30pm.

PARENTS ~ WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT - bring family mem-bers, friend's and neighbours

FREE EVENT—TERM 3 SEPTEMBER @ Burketown State School Oval/s

Please come along and support this event sponsored by Athletics Australia along with Burketown State School.

2020 Community Event ~ September

2019 Community Colour Run = 100s participated

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Grand Challenge Social Statistical Literacy Through the four principals of en-trepreneurial pedagogy, students will engage in authentic learning and develop their own entrepre-neurial project. This form of learn-ing will stimulate several entrepre-neurial values (self-confidence, mo-tivation, commitment and team spir-it). Students will measure the popu-larity of their fictitious entrepreneur-ial concept on a social media plat-form and critically evaluate their success using statistical evidence. Eligible students from Burketown SS to complete this section of the Grand Challenge were: Jaida Amini Summer Martin Hunniie Yanner Phillip Booth A very big thank-you to Mrs Ford and Mr Harry for their on-going support -Fantastic!

This term in Science the P-2 class de-cided to be toy makers and design a range of interesting things to play with and decorate the garden. Lacey, Clin-ton, and Braxton made some wonderful wind ornaments to hang in the garden at school and see how the weather would affect them. They found that the wind here in Burketown is too strong and blew their ornaments away. Phillip Yanner, Jonty and Alaiya used their understanding about materials that float to make some brilliant boats. These boats will hopefully carry marbles and not sink. Pamela, Emmy, and Anthony Martin decided to make toys that you need to push or pull to play with. Antho-ny made a brilliant boat with wheels, Emmy made a colourful cart and Pame-la made a space car. It has been a fun and exciting term, all the students have enjoyed taking on these new, exciting challenges.

The 3-6 classroom has been work-ing diligently to complete all as-sessment items for the upcoming reporting period. This week stu-dents will be finishing off English, Maths and Science. Well done 3-6!

P-6 Languages Lessons: The Gangalidda Language Program is back in full swing after a temporary hiatus due to COVID-19 related restrictions. Since the School (in partner-ship with and under the direc-tion of the local traditional own-ers) started teaching it as part of the curriculum, the students have really taken it on and done extremely well in learn-ing, remembering and under-standing the local traditional language.

The students can already in-troduce and identify them-selves in language, they know the language names of various animals and places, and a number of other lan-guage words and actions as well. The widespread support and encouragement from the community has been ex-tremely heartening and the entire School team looks for-ward to continuing this im-portant and vital part of cul-tural revitalisation for many years to come.

Gayi mayara ngalda jididi ngurliwa Burketown State School. Ngalawanda dulga Moungibi yukulda Gangalidda marrayija.

Hello friends and fellow countryman. We are young boys and girls from Burketown

State School. Our home is Burketown and our language is Gangalidda.