Maryborough State High School non sine pulvere palma 15 May 2020

Dates to remember… Fri 22 May: Fraser Coast Show Public

Holiday

Mon 25 May: Yr 7-10 resume classes!

Fri 26 June: Term 2 ends

Mon 13 July: Term 3 begins

Mon 27 July: P&C Meeting, 5.30pm, MDC

Tues 28 July: Principal Tour, 3.30pm, A Block

Principal Tour Maryborough State High School invites you to take a

personalised tour with the Principal.

When: 26 May @ 3.30pm To book your tour, contact the office on 4120 9333 or register your tour on our

website: www.maryboroshs.eq.edu.au (next tour date: Tuesday 23 June 2020)

As seen on Facebook – a quicker way to pay for school related financials. For direct deposits, details are as follows: Account Name: MARYBOROUGH STATE HIGH SCHOOL GENERAL ACCOUNT BSB: 064 421 ACC: 000 901 53 For more information contact the school on 41209333.

Book Donations Needed Our Read 4/10 program needs suitable books and magazines donated for our Year 7, 8 and 9 students in Period 4. If you have any books or magazines that you no longer need, please bring them to the Library. Tweed Anderson Deputy Principal

Foundation Skills NEWS 7F Skills have been making the most of the peace and quiet by enjoying a good book and completing a reading scavenger hunt activity.

Yr. 11 & 12 FSL & FSN students working hard in class catching up on assessment and enjoying a much-needed "brain break" by experiencing a good old-fashioned game of hop-scotch out in the glorious sunshine!" Tracey Riley Teacher

Guidance Officer NEWS Overcoming Difficulties with Procrastination, Motivation and Work Avoidance The home environment tends to have numerous distractions that can make it difficult to get work and study tasks done. Here are some strategies to help your family be productive at home:

Create a school-like environment o Remove unnecessary distractions and clutter. e.g. TV, needy pets. o Make sure that all of the necessary materials are available, so that leaving the workspace is minimised.

Structure the order of tasks to suit your or your child’s needs/preferences.

Remember a little positive reinforcement for a job well done. o Praise. Praise has been studied in depth, and it is quite an art form.

Set a realistic timetable and expectations. Remember that younger children need shorter work sessions and more frequent breaks than older children, due to a shorter attention span.

Stay connected to school, to help to hold you both accountable for completing work, as well as providing much needed human connection.

Place barriers between you and your distractors to make it harder to engage in a preferred activity e.g. put the game console in a cupboard, unplug the TV at the wall.

Set a timer if engaging in a preferred activity during a work/study break, to ensure that you don’t spend more time than planned. Devices, such as iPads also have screen time settings, to make it easier to limit a child’s use.

If you must procrastinate or avoid a task temporarily, try engaging in “good procrastination,” which is a task that is more important than the one you are avoiding. For example, you may choose to spend 20 minutes writing ideas for the book you really want to write, or start using that meditation app that you downloaded months ago, but haven’t opened.

Parent Guide: How to Juggle Work, Teaching and Parenting The following are ideas to support families who now find themselves managing home schooling and/or flexible working arrangements. The ideas come from a range of sour ces and are based on largely on anecdotal evidence. Please use your personal judgement and research, when deciding what may work for you.

Have clear boundaries and expectations, which are communicated to your family members. For example, during a conference call you expect your children to not interrupt, work/play quietly and to leave questions until after the call is finished.

Where there is more than one adult at home, negotiate and share tasks.

Get up earlier or stay up later, if your workplace allows for flexible hours.

Set up online learning for older children at the start of the day (always be aware of cyber safety).

Have independent, quiet, engaging activities pre -planned for times when you have calls, to minimise interruptions.

Have realistic expectations while working and learning at home. Remember to be kind to yourself and don’t judge yourself on what you hear others are doing. Every child and family are different and remember that how people present themselves on social media, often glosses over the messy reality of their lives.

Focus on one thing at a time.

Focus on task completion, rather than expecting you and your children to work for the length of a work or school or day. Working with one-on-one support is generally more efficient that classroom learning, so what your child might learn in one day at school, he/she might complete in 2-3 hours of focused work at home.

Make sure your house is safe, so you know that your children remain injury free while you focus on your work. This is more relevant if you have little ones that are constantly exploring their environment.

If you need to work in the same room as your children and find it difficult to deal with the background noise, you may consider investing in a set of noise cancelling headphones. Another tip is to use the mute button on your phone, when you are not speaking during a work call. This will stop the noise of your children from intruding in the conversation.

Tim Roan Guidance Officer

Learning for Living NEWS Foundation students working from home. Some are currently completing a Farm to Plate unit for Learning for Living. So far students have learnt about rice, eggs and milk. Some are learning about the history of Maryborough and would normally go as a class group. Some Year 8 foundation students have been busy participating in many activities while staying at home. Here is a small sample of what some year 8 foundation students have been doing Kate Chapman, Danielle Pearson & Leia Simpkins LFL Teachers

Hospitality NEWS Year 12 Hospitality Offer Take-Away Lunches Commencing on Friday of Week 6, Term 2, our Year 12 Certificate II Hospitality students will be preparing take-away lunches. These will be offered to our Year 12 student cohort and staff – unfortunately, we need to limit the number of orders! As Covid-19 has put a stop to all catering functions that would normally occur throughout our school year, our students will not have the opportunity to prepare the “Simple Dishes” and serve them to “customers”. This is a requirement for the successful completion of the qualification. At this stage, we plan to offer Chicken & Pasta Stirfry in Week 6 and Scandinavian Open Sandwiches in Week 7. Notifications and order forms will be made available shortly.

Chicken & Pasta Stirfry Scandinavian Open Sandwich

Denise Pommeranz Hospitality Teacher

Other NEWS We all looked forward to seeing our Year 11 and 12 students back with us on Monday 11 May! Here are a few photographs to mark the return.

Office staff welcomed students back in person rather than online. To commemorate our students’ ‘Return from Iso’ we have Instagrammed the occasion! Tait has been at the school for the past three weeks with parents who are essential workers, but is waiting to see his friends on May 11.

Maryborough State High School’s Creative Industries Staff are ready and waiting to get back into learning! Head of Department Brian Speirs (seen here guitar in hand) is excited to have our students back into face to face learning when Year 11s and 12s return on May 11.

As part of Maryborough State High School’s 139 year history, we have a present for our Year 12s that is almost ready to be revealed. While student have been at home learning online, the school has created a unique quiet study space for our retuning seniors, with the room fully restored to its 1881 glory. Maryborough State High’s wellbeing dog Angel has been lonely; waiting for our students to

return. We were able to give her the good news that Year 11 and 12s would return on Monday 11 May, much to the relief of Angel and Carol Gollschewsky (our Head of Department, Wellbeing and Targeted Support). Our School Services Window was ready to receive our Year 11 and 12 Students on Monday 11 May. Nelson, one of our Wellbeing Dogs, was available for assistance and pats from 8:00am.

Things that happen when student numbers are lower than usual. Mrs Green had a new friend arrive in her classroom Friday 8 May. He/she stayed for a good part of the day and was rather curious.

Scholastic Book Club NEWS Watch this space! Keep an eye out for the next book club issue.

Scholastic Book Club operates at Maryborough State High School. Each order earns points for the school. These are later redeemed to purchase additional books. Keep an eye out for the next issue. Catalogues will be available from the HUB (Library). Please contact Wendy Benson on 4120 9333 for further information.

Wendy Benson Scholastic Book Club Coordinator

Science NEWS 7B and 7F Science Year 7s have been exploring the unit 'Forces' and have had to improvise a few things in order to do some experiments at home. Hunter Kimber was successful in figuring out the relationship between load, effort and fulcrum in levers. He also found out how friction affects movement. Skye Cox and Olivia Sommerfeld observed Newton's First Law of Motion by carrying out crash test dummy experiments, with and without 'seatbelts', using some interesting test subjects. It was wonderful to see students and parents get involved in the lessons. Thank you parents for all your support. Sucheta Naidu Teacher

Sports NEWS

Please be advised that, Maryborough State High School sport teams, representative school sport at district, regional state and national level has been CANCELLED until further notice. We will

advise students and parents when restrictions have been lifted and we are allowed to start training and participating once again.

School Cross Country Due to the current issues, the school cross country will be postponed until further notice. Wide Bay Cross Country An email was sent out to all parents and students, along with a post on Facebook, regarding nominations for Wide Bay Cross Country times and the procedure if you are interested in nominating. If you have any further questions please contact Mr Armstrong in K Block staffroom. School Athletics Carnival Due to the current issues, the school athletics carnival will be postponed until further notice.

REBEL – Kickbacks Maryborough State High School is part of the sporting kickbacks program. So if you out and about doing any shopping at Rebel, you can put your points towards our school to receive sporting equipment.

Rugby 7’s – postponed until further notice When training can start up again this will be on Tuesday mornings from 7:30am, Kings Oval. Students need to arrive ready in their rugby gear. Students will be preparing for their upcoming carnivals scheduled for Term 3. Football Academy – postponed until further notice When training can start up again this will be on Wednesday mornings from 7:00am to 8:00am on Kings Oval. Students must arrive in their football gear ready to train. After training, students are welcome to attend Breakfast Club, in the library courtyard for a free breakfast. Hockey Academy – postponed until further notice When training can start up again this will be on Wednesday from 7:00am to 8:00am. After training, students are welcome to attend Breakfast Club, in the library courtyard for a free breakfast. Students will not be allowed to train until their permission forms have been returned. Academy Sports Uniform Uniforms have arrived. Students need to see Mrs Taylor in K Block staffroom to receive their uniforms. If you missed out, there will be another order going in towards the end of Term 2. A reminder that uniforms must be paid for ($50) before your order will be put in. Carrie Taylor HoD HPE

Student Leadership NEWS Our student leaders will continue to assist in the Tuckshop from Week 6. Later in the term, student leaders will be organising lunchtime activities. Information will be made available in school notices to let students know when these will start again. Carrie Taylor Leadership Coordinator

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