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Newsletter Term 1 N0 6 6th March 2019
Date Claimers
MARCH
7th Swim Club Meeting
8th World Day of Prayer
10th Bell Bunya Trail Bike
Meeting
20th P&C AGM
& General Meeting
21st Harmony Day
28th Gaming Afternoon
29th Purple Day for Epilepsy
Jason’s Message Dear family and friends of Bell P-10 State School, As mentioned in last week’s
newsletter I attended the state wide Principal Conference in Brisbane that occurs every 2 years. Over the 3 days we were presented by numerous speakers on educational trends that are occurring at the moment and how schools can best prepare our students for the future.
The Director General of the education depart-ment Mr Tony Cook opened the conference praising schools for their hard work and im-provement over the last several years. The focus for the department will be to continue the work we have started with many countries around the world now using the processes and procedures that Education Queensland has employed over the last 4 or so years. Mr Tony Cook is somewhat of a local around these parts attending school in Dalby with a history in early childhood education. It is this passion for early childhood education which will continue our steady improvement in the years to come.
At the conference dinner on Tuesday night the guest speaker was Olympic athlete Anna Meares. Anna described the processes she went through for each Olympic Games and the strategy employed to be successful. An inter-esting point that Anna made was that she com-peted for over 10 years and she only ever won 11 times with countless times just missing out
on the gold medal at numerous events. She made a point that in order to succeed she needed to learn from those losses in order to devise a strategy for the next event to give her a higher chance of succeeding. Anna noted that there was no guarantee that she would win but she trusted the process each time to come away with 6 Olympic medals of which 2 were gold.
Another speaker of note that has had a fair bit of influence on the direction our education sys-tem has taken is Professor John Hattie. Pro-fessor Hattie is currently a Professor of Educa-tion at the University of Melbourne. Professor Hattie praised Queensland’s growth which now leads the country. Professor Hattie’s main message at the conference was to maximise the impact that schools are having by applying
high yield strategies more often to ensure stu-dents are improving more than 12 months in any given year.
Bell Triathlon
Preparations are currently underway for the 2nd Bell Triathlon on Saturday 23rd March. Last year’s event was very successful with about 120 competitors. If you are able to as-sist in the preparation or volunteer on the day please let Brendan Fullagar know or anyone on the P&C and Swim Clubs to ensure we can continue to build this event for the future. It was great seeing so many students compete in the event so with a few weeks remaining it’s
not too late to get some training in.
Have a good week, Jason.
We celebrate: AMELIA KLERKX: for being Safe by always putting her chair in and keeping an eye on others. HARRY MORRIS: for being an Active Learner by segmenting the sounds in each word during spelling and using the red and blue lines correctly to write the words. BILL HARKIN: for being an Active Learner for writing an excellent persuasive argument about why children should have pets. ALTHEA BONG: for being an Active Learner for working diligently and completing assessment work. THOMAS EDWARDS: for being an Active Learner for always putting in 100%. PAT COLEMAN: for displaying initiative and commitment to Eco Schools through organising and selling the paper bricks at the Bell Show.
RED LEVEL: Phoebe Staunton, Sonny Redding, Kadence Fullagar. ORANGE LEVEL: Josie Brown, Nate Priddle, Clara Smith, Annika Johansen, Hayden Naumann, Amani Duncan, Kayla Schultz, Tilly Todd, Dan Brown, Zoe Brooks, Caitlin Nayler, Henry Cassidy, Amelia Klerkx. YELLOW LEVEL: Bill Harkin, Bonnie McGill, Charlie Morris. GREEN LEVEL: Charlie Pascoe, Chloe Cassidy. BLUE LEVEL: Tenae Zahl, Landon Donohoe. VIOLET LEVEL: Cara Jones BRONZE LEVEL: Katrina Hills. SILVER LEVEL: Mackenzie Bee, Brady Caldwell, Cassidy McEwan. GOLD LEVEL: Rose Staunton, Finnian Burns.
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Meet the Preppies of 2019
Name: Paige McNamara Family: Mummy, Daddy, Will and Hudson. Pets: Dog Snowball and guinea fowl. Favourite food: Oranges. Favourite colour: Pink. Favourite thing to do: Drawing. Sporting team: Bunya.
Focus Expec-tation
Be Safe, Be Respectful
Skill Term 1, Week 6: Behave in a respectful and safe man-ner during eating time
Con-text
Undercover areas – eating areas
Intro-duction
Discuss the procedures with students for eating break.
1. Collect your lunch and walk to your designated eating area.
2. Sit quietly and eat your lunch. Upper school to sit in their year level.
3. Raise your hand and ask the adult on duty if you need to get a drink or toilet.
4. At 11:25 am an adult will indicate it is playtime. Do not move until an adult has instructed you to.
5. Place your rubbish in the bins as you are leaving. Pick up any other rubbish nearby.
6. Walk to the port racks and put away your lunch box.
7. Wash your hands in the bowls provided then pro-ceed to your play area.
Skill Term 1, Week 6: Eat only your food
Con-text
Under Stages / Eating areas
Intro-duction
Discuss why this is a school rule and why is it important to eat only your food. Why is it disrespectful to eat others food?
Skill Term 1, Week 6: Put rubbish in the bin – Keep eating areas clean and tidy
Con-text
Undercover areas
Intro-duction
Discuss the importance of placing rubbish in the bin to keep everyone SAFE in the school grounds. What would happen if students did not carefully place rubbish in the bins?
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P&C News Thursday 7th March— Swim Club Meeting at 7pm at the Bellview Hotel. Sunday, 10th March – Bell Bunya Trail Bike Ride Meeting at 10am in the School Staff Room Wednesday, 20th March – General Meeting at 3.30pm in the Media Room, School Library Contacts: Terry Coleman (Chair) Ph: 0428 625 532 Marilyn Bruce (Secretary) Ph: 0412 662 033 Winter Uniforms Now that we’ve had a few cooler nights and mornings I wanted to let you know that tracksuits are available by order only. The high school students have a different tracksuit to the primary students. If you want to order, please contact Theresa Green 0427 019444
Container Recycling Scheme Thank you to the people who are recycling their containers and contributing to the Bell State School P&C. For anyone who would also like to contribute our Container Recycling Number is— C10008756.
World Day of Prayer World Day of Prayer will be held at the Bell Catholic Church at 10am Friday 8th March. Please bring a plate to share.
Want to play tennis matches like the pros? Dalby Tennis Club has junior match play programs for players of all ages and standards. We offer social and competitive team based match play options. An exciting new program is set to commence at the club soon!! Please contact Club Pro Ben Campbell for further information. e: [email protected] m: 0414 645 916 Ladies Daytime Tennis Starting Wednesday 24th April 2019. New & Existing Players Welcome Please contact Kerry on 0418 743557 or Julie 0427 627183 by 29th March.
Bell Bowls Club AGM 2pm, Sunday 24th March 2019 at the Bell Bowls Club. Followed by a general meeting. Nomination forms on the notice board at the Bell Bowls Club.
Bell Fire Brigade General meeting 7pm, Thursday 28th March 2019 at the Bell Bowls Club.
Ebooks Digital Library Subscription We have just renewed our subscription for all Bell State School students to be able to access the Queensland State Schools’ eBooks Digital Library – any time, from school or home.
The digital library offers a HUGE range of quality titles,
including audio books, that can be read or listened to on a
computer or mobile device.
1. Go to this http://educationqld.lib.overdrive.com
2. Login using your MIS ID e.g. tlag4 (you don't need a pass-
word).
2. Browse for a book you like and SAMPLE it first.
3. If you want to read it, then BORROW it.
All the information is on the eBook Digital Library website -
http://educationqld.lib.overdrive.com. If you have any difficulty
accessing the library, please don’t hesitate to see me.
Happy Reading!
Rachel Pascoe.
My eDiary Please note that we are No Longer using My eDiary. We have returned to manual student diaries for 2019. If parents wish to contact the school with messages please phone admin on 0746792333. Thank you and sorry for any inconvenience.
ZOOPER DOOPER TUESDAY! Zooper Doopers are on sale Each Tuesday— First break ONLY
See Mrs Green 50c
at the tuckshop.
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