News from the Creek Mena Creek State School

A Member of the Canecutter Cluster of Schools

Tuesday 2nd June 2020 - Term 2 Week 7

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome to term two, again….

Once more, I offer a heartfelt thank you to all families for your efforts through-out the ‘Learning@Home’ phase of this term and to all families who had the courage to discuss any barriers faced along the way. Through that honest and open communication, we were able to work together to overcome any obsta-cles and get closer to meeting our goals. An excellent example of what can be achieved when we work as a team.

The staff have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic and have put aside personal concerns to be creative, logical, professional and most of all, excep-tionally caring in regards to your child and their learning. Whilst it may be said that we get paid to do the job, your school’s staff have gone above and be-yond, giving up countless hours of holiday time and weekends in an effort to provide the best for your child. I cannot be more proud of this entire school community.

Since the students’ return to class (two weeks earlier than most schools), the staff have noted a decline in work standards, which was completely expected as students have not had the usual routines and expectations. Our work now is to ensure that all students meet the systemic expectations by the end of the year. To achieve this goal, we need your support in two ways. The first is en-suring your child is attending school as much as possible. If a child is absent from school, they cannot be taught. One day a week works out to be eight entire weeks of school missed EACH YEAR, one day per fortnight is an entire month of school missed. This is not enough, especially when we look at how much school has been missed this year due to the pandemic. Secondly, home-work is sent home to support your child’s learning and to inform households about the work that your child is doing in class. Please ensure that your child is completing all of their homework each night.

To inform you of how your child is travelling in their educational journey, re-port cards will be sent home in the final week of this term. This report card will be quite different to the norm, as is to be expected after a ‘less than nor-mal’ semester. More information will be shared with households over the coming weeks.

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Living through Learning

Our School Details:

Principal: Cameron Wedgwood

Phone: 4065 3221

Fax: 4065 3131

Email: principal@menacreekss.eq.edu.au

10 Mena Creek Rd, Mena Creek

School Watch: 13 17 88

Fri 5 June Return Jumper Orders

Fri 5 June Return Bookclub Orders

Mena Creek State School - turning 101 in 2021!

Finally, our school has received targeted funding for the refurbishment of A block through the Department of Edu-

cation’s Infrastructure Investment Portfolio. This work will see posts replaced, roofing replaced and repaired and a

full external paint of the targeted areas. It is a fantastic boost for our school and truly appreciated. With this work

comes some changes. Until the work is complete, barriers will be erected to ensure the safety of all students and

staff. The double gates at the pickup area, which are required to be left clear for student safety and emergency

services access at all times, must be left clear as the contractors will use this area. Please ensure you do not park

in this area.

Four weeks of the term left folks, let’s work together to make them count!

Regards,

Cameron Wedgwood - Principal

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At eleven o’clock on Wednesday, the 27th of May 2020, schools across Queensland read

“Whitney and Britney: Chicken Divas” for National Simultaneous Storytime. It was a story

about two chickens who became professional jazz singers at shows and their protective

fox Dora (their guardian) spied on them and found out why they were so tired during the

day.

After the amazing and funny Chicken Diva story, we made diva masks with a partner. For

our supplies to decorate the masks we had felt pens, feathers, other decorations and

lots and lots of glitter. We had only a short period of time to decorate and make our

masks.

After we had finished letting our masks dry, we all came together in the senior room and

our principal put some music on for a mask parade. Then we all lined up and performed

a cat walk on the catwalk presenting our festive masks.

That day everyone had enjoyed the story and at the end there were some incredible diva

masks presented on the catwalk.

Written by Jasleen Kaur and Amy Hunter

School Times: First Bell 8:40 am • Morning Tea 10:30 - 11:00am • Lunch 12:40 - 1:30pm

• School Concludes 3:00pm

SCHOOL VISION

Mena Creek State School is committed to delivering explicit learning opportunities in a safe environment, embracing and respecting students and families to nurture students who believe in themselves and value learning.

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