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No 2 Term 1, 2019

February 20, 2019

PRINCIPAL: Cheryl Harvey

2588 Gayndah Road Windera 4605

Ph: 41686153

Email: admin@winderass.eq.edu.au

Windera State School– the hub of the community with everybody working together.

Hi all,

I can’t believe how quickly the year is passing. Everything is so busy for me at the moment with a lot

of conferences, meetings and training days. Hopefully there will be only a few meetings each term

for the remainder of the year. Today, tomorrow and Friday I am away in Toowoomba and next

week we have the State Wide Principal’s Conference in Brisbane on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-

day. I feel fortunate to be teaching a great group of children who follow the school rules for all

adults. I am also thankful to have Mrs Cross fill in while I am away.

Parent information session- Thank-you all parents who came to the school on Tuesday, February

12 for the information session. I trust you feel more informed on your child’s schooling and the

school ‘s procedures.

P&C Meeting-

A reminder that the P&C AGM is on Tuesday, March 19 at 3:30pm in the Community Room at the

school.

Centenary Committee– The Centenary Committee met on Tuesday, February 19 at 7:00pm. Our

centenary celebrations in May, 2020 will be here soon so it is important if a family member has

memorabilia to share or memories to share, that they type and send information to the school or

the committee for display or publishing. Robyn Kratzmann is collecting recipes so please forward

your favourite cooking and baking recipes to her.

Homework– Thank-you all parents who are supporting your child/ren’s reading by taking time to

listen to them read daily. All students have improvements to be made on fluency, vocabulary de-

velopment and spelling. Dailyreading aloud can help all students.

Cross Country– All students have an event to run at the Small Schools’ Cross Country Carnival at

Cloyna on Friday, March 22. The weather is hot but it is important that all students begin training

so that they are able to complete the distances on the day. Please have your child/ren run around

the farm, up the road, around the house or do some skipping to increase fitness. We will begin

training at school soon. Students will run around the oval so please ensure they have proper sand-

shoes suitable for running.

Cheryl Harvey

Let’s BE RESPECTFUL,

BE SAFE and BE POSITIVE

and BE A LEARNER too!

At Windera we continue to follow our four values:

Be Safe Be Positive

Be Respectful Be a Learner

Expectations are explicitly taught to students each Monday and revised each morning after the values song.

Students not displaying the expected behaviour are reminded of the actions they need to take to be fulfilling the

expectation. The expectation for week 3 was:

Be a Learner. I move quickly after break times to be ready for learning.

The expectation for week 4 is:

Be Respectful. I follow instructions promptly without a verbal response.

Award winners for good work and behaviour in Week 2 were-

Student of the Week– Tameka Ninness

Math Award– Jed Ninness

Kindness Award– Joshua Brunner

Music Award– Jed Ninness and Karl Rockemer.

Award winners for good work and behaviour in Week 3 were-

Reading Award– Fletcher Brown

Music Award– Josie Lewis, Connagh Frawley, Xavier Marr.

Co-operation Award– Telleah Marr.

On Friday 8th February, the school leaders Connagh, Josie and Phoe-

nix travelled to Kingaroy to participate in a Leadership Day with oth-

er school leaders from the area. The four core character traits of a

leader are:

1. Confidence with humility

2. Others focused

3. Empathy

4. Reliability

The students learnt about these traits and identified areas for self improvement. The day was well organised and

the students learnt many valuable lessons to apply when leading the school.

February

Thur 21 Canberra camp meeting

Mon 25 RI commences

March

Fri 1 Pizza Night—6pm

Thur 7 Castra visit

Wed 20 School photos

Fri 22 Barambah Small School Cross

Country

Parent information afternoon– Thank you all parents who attended the par-

ent information session at the school. A copy of the information given to parents on the after-

noon is attached. If you did not attend the meeting, please take the time to read the infor-

mation as it revises and explains some school routines, procedures and expectations.

Religious Instruction commences next Mon-

day February 25—for students in Year 1—

Yr6 whose parents have indicated that they

be included in the program. There is a

leaflet included for your information or if

you require more information or if you wish

to view the outline of the lessons for this

year please contact the school.

As part of our History unit Preps are looking at fami-

lies. Please bring a photo of your family, and we

would also like a photo of all our families for our dis-

play board. Please send them along urgently. If you

do not wish to leave your original photos here we

can photocopy them and give you back your origi-

nal.

Thanks Dianne.

Music with Mrs van Kempen

We are learning the

Elements of Music…so

far, Dynamics, Rhythm

and this week, Pitch. We did pitch mapping to show how

to make high and low sounds. We finished our lessons

with learning about the ukulele and C chord. In our

Rhythm lesson, we used our boomwhackers and claves

(clapping sticks) to show short and long sounds with beat

and tempo.

Students continue to participate in the PE units of ‘Playing with Balls’ (Prep – Year 3) & ‘Play2Rhythm’ (Year 4-6). Getting involved in these units will help us practice our small and large balls throwing, catching and striking skills.

As the athletics carnivals are being brought forward this year (due to the nationals being held in Darwin in September) we will be starting our Athletics units later this term. Prep – Year 2 will be doing the unit ‘Take your marks, get set, play’ and the Year 4 – Year 6 will be doing the ‘Athletics spectacle’ unit.

Mark Smith

HPE Teacher

Pizza Night– Friday March 1

We welcome all school community and wider community members to our

pizza night on Friday, March 1. See the attached leaflet. Pizzas are made and

served by P&C Members to raise money for the students at

the school and important school events. Please come and

support the P&C Association.

Jelly cups Cost: $1 for a cup of jelly and extras e.g. cream and sprinkles.

When: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, big lunch, all term.

Why: Raising money for Year 6 Canberra camp.

Phoenix

Fletcher

Xavier

Karl

Mackenzie

Tameka

Imogen

Kaliah

Jedidiah (Jed)

Joshua

Telleah

Mr Smith

Phoenix

Josie

Connagh

Mrs Van Kempen

Mrs Bauer

Mrs Woods

Mr Hetherington

Mrs Morgan

Mrs Harvey

Mrs Cross Mrs Cocks

Mrs Thompson

Student Council– On Friday students had their first Student Council Meeting

of 2019. Office bearers were elected.

President Connagh. Treasurer Joshua Secretary Telleah

Please find attached notices advertising

events in the Community.

Hi All,

The start of the year has begun well and the students have settled into

their new classrooms with their teachers. Apart from some very hot

weather, it has been a very pleasant beginning to Term 1. Be sure your child has a cold

water bottle to bring to school while it is so hot. I have included some simple tips in this

newsletter which you may find interesting to help your child thrive at school.

Spend some special time with your child, so they can tell you their news about their

day at school (have afternoon tea together) Let them express their feelings. If

they have an issue they can’t deal with themselves, then use it to teach them how

to problem solve: Ask questions to help them consider what they could do differ-

ently next time or who they could talk to at school for help.

Always speak positively about school, their class and their teacher, in front of your

child. Children are very sensitive to the opinion of those they love. If you believe

they can do it, they’ll believe in themselves. If your young child is stressed about

starting school, highlight all the fun things that they like to do when at school.

Keep painting a positive picture of school when talking with them.

Adapted from the Kidsmatter website.

Here is one of my favourite lunch box recipes. I like to make them ahead and freeze

until needed. Put them straight from the freezer into the lunch box and they will still

be cold for lunch time.

Enjoy Chappy

Mini Cheese and Bacon Muffins

Put 1 cup of Self Raising flour, 1 ½ cups grated cheddar cheese, ½ cup bacon bits, 1 teaspoon

fresh parsley or chives in a bowl. Crack an egg in a measuring cup and add enough milk to fill the cup. Add this to the bowl and mix all ingredients together with a spoon. Grease a mini muffin tray and spoon the mixture into it. Bake at 180 – 200 degrees Celsius for about 15 minutes or till golden. Cool, then freeze muffins. When you need them, pack them into lunch

boxes straight from the freezer.