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Principal’s Report Kacey Constantine
Principal’s Report 1
Student Awards 2
Class reports 3-6
Kitchen Garden 6
Date Claimers 7
Community events 8
In this edition...
Every Day Counts!
School target: 95% Year to date: 93%
Fortnightly
Issue 6 Term 2 Week 2
27th April 2021
Magnetic Island State School School Vision: All students can succeed.
Mission: Magnetic Island State School will be a positive and supportive school empowering students to be the
best that they can be. Students, staff, parents, carers and community members will work together to foster an outstanding academic, creative and environmentally sustainable learning environment.
10 - 16 Mandalay Ave, Nelly Bay QLD 4819 Telephone 07 4758 2333 Fax 07 4758 2300 Email: [email protected] Web http://magneticislandss.eq.edu.au
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0472 868 244
Hi everyone,
Welcome to term 2. We have had such a love-
ly start to the term with the students very
quickly engaging in their new learning. It has
been so wonderful to visit each class and to
see all of the smiles of staff and students.
Last Friday, we had a beautiful ANZAC Day
service at the school. Our school leaders did
an amazing job running such a respectful pa-
rade, thank you to all of the Year 6 students
and to Mr Hammelswang. A special thanks to
our guest speaker, Mr Trever Mullins, from
the Townsville RSL for sharing his stories with
the students. I was so incredibly proud of our
students that participated in the island dawn
service on Sunday. They demonstrated out-
standing, respectful behaviour as they repre-
sented our school. It was also great to be
joined by our Girl Guides, in their full uniform,
as part of our student group.
One of our school’s focus areas is staff and
student wellbeing. The department are look-
ing at ways to collect information on student
wellbeing, so we have put up our hand to be
part of a trial survey. The Queensland
Engagement and Wellbeing (QEW) sur-
vey is designed to measure how our stu-
dents view their wellbeing and engage-
ment at school. This survey will happen
in June and will involve our Year 4, 5 and
6 students. For more information about
this upcoming event, please have a chat
to either myself, or Jeremy or have a look
on the Department of Education website:
https://qed.qld.gov.au/publications/
reports/statistics/schooling/students/
engagement-and-wellbeing-survey.
In May, from the 12th to the 19th , our Year 3
and 5 students will be participating in NAPLAN
Online. One of the main benefits of participat-
ing in the online version of this annual assess-
ment, is that the testing questions are tailored
to the individual student and are adaptive to
measure a wider range of achievement. Stu-
dents are already familiar with the platform
being used and have trialled the new system.
To find out more about NAPLAN Online, visit
nap.edu.au, or come and have a chat with Paul
Wood, myself or the classroom teachers.
Over the last weekend, sadly we have had
people in our school grounds that have done
some damage. Please help us. If you see peo-
ple on the school grounds that should not be
here, please call School Watch on 131788 or
Police Link on 131444. We are all so very
proud of our school, it is quite disheartening
when people do things to damage it.
Tonight is our P&C meeting, I look forward to
seeing you there.
Happy days.
Page 2 Magnetic Island State School School Vision: All students can succeed.
Week 2 PCL Focus
Be Responsible
Look, listen, learn and stay focused
Awards for Term 2, Week 1:
Class Achievement PCL Prep Koa Winter 1 Evelyn Kobe 2 Amelia Abigail 3 Leilani Diamond 4 Harry Trey 5 Ivy Stella 6 Jesse Javier PE/Japanese Aston Sol PCL Class of the week went to Year 3.
P&C News
The P&C would like to thank everyone who brought in a gold coin for
our very first free dress day on the last week of term. We raised over
$200 to support Magnetic Island Network for Turtles (MINT). We are
so proud of this effort. We will be holding another free dress day
later this term, so stay tuned to find out who we are fundraising for.
The next P&C meeting will be today, Tuesday 27th at 5pm in the staff
room. We will be discussing some upcoming fundraisers and hope
to see you there. All welcome to attend.
Page 3 Magnetic Island State School School Vision: All students can succeed.
Prep Melissa Digby
Year 1 Deb Hay & Vicki Skinner
The Preps have been very enthusiastic
about their new homework routines.
Thanks to the parents who have been
supporting and encouraging their chil-
dren to practise their sight words and
to read their reading book every day.
We are noticing improvements al-
ready. If you have any question about
how to support your child with their
homework, please email me or ask me
after school.
The children were very interested in
our discussion about ANZAC Day and I
have included a photo of the wreath
made from poppies that the children
painted. Mosby and Kash did a great job
of laying the wreath at our school ANZAC
service on Friday afternoon.
We have noticed an increase in coughs
and sniffles, so please keep your child at
home if they are unwell.
I’ve also included some lovely emu pic-
tures that the children drew in a directed
drawing activity. This was our first di-
rected drawing activity and as you can
see they’ve done a great job. The rest of
the class’ pictures are hanging in our
classroom, if you’d like to see them.
.
We have jumped straight back in to our
learning over the past week as the stu-
dents have returned very calm, settled
and ready to go. This term, in our Eng-
lish work, we are exploring characters
in stories. Students will be writing char-
acter descriptions and describing char-
acters that they learn about in their
reading. We have included sight words
in the take home reading folders and we
will regularly add to these as well as our
weekly spelling lists and daily reading.
In Maths, we are learning about 2D and
3D shapes and money. We are very ex-
cited to set up our class shop this week
and use our money skills in this dra-
matic play area. In our first week back,
we have had wonderful attendance and
a huge support from our morning read-
ing volunteers. Thank you all.
We were very proud to present our
class wreath at the school ANZAC Day
service. The students that were chosen
to do this were very respectful and did
an amazing job.
Page 4 Magnetic Island State School School Vision: All students can succeed.
Year 3 Janette Blundy
Year 4 Megan Ward
Hello and welcome to Term 2. Week 1 & 2 have been all
about setting out the requirements for the topics we will be
covering this term.
In English the students have been delighted by the story of
Charlotte’s Web and I will be looking forward to seeing
them use their knowledge of verbs to write and present a
procedural text in character. They will also be writing a
persuasive text later in the term.
We have been practising addition strategies in Maths and
have so far covered the ‘split’, ‘jump’ and ‘compensation’
strategies.
Our reading group and HASS topic in week 1 was all about
ANZAC Day. We had lots of great discussions about the
Gallipoli Campaign and the importance of the ANZAC
commemoration. The students created beautiful artworks
and we created a special wreath for our school ANZAC
Parade last Friday.
We have begun our unit of learning about living and non-
living things in Science, and the students are all looking
forward to finding out more about the Great Barrier Reef.
We are also looking forward to our excursion to the newly re-opened Museum of Tropical Qld in Townsville, to participate in
the World Science Festival on Friday 7th May. Please ensure that your child has returned their permission forms for this event.
Year 2 Jacky Roper What a great start to term 2 and it was
wonderful to see all the Year 2 students
eager to back at school. We have
jumped right in and started our new
English unit for this term, this will focus
on narrative writing and characters from
stories. We have being reading some
great stories that focus on animal char-
acters, particularly the stories of Old Pig
and the story of Fox.
We will start Maths for this term by fo-
cusing on shapes and transformations.
We have reviewed 2D shapes and have
now begun familiarising ourselves with
3D shapes. As we progress further into
this unit we will then explore how
shapes can move with flips, slides and
turns.
We hope you had an enjoyable
Easter break, it was so nice hear-
ing about all of the fun that the
students had during their holiday
break. We have jumped straight
into our new learning for the
term.
In English we will be examining
humour in poetry. Science is all
about forces, we will use games
to investigate and demonstrate
the direction of forces and the
effect of contact and non-contact
forces on objects. Maths this
term will include learning about
fractions, money, symmetry and
3D Shapes.
This week our PCL focus is about
being responsible and encour-
ages students to look, listen,
learn and stay focused.
Page 5 Magnetic Island State School School Vision: All students can succeed.
Year 5 Jodie Wilson Namoa Year 5 were very excited to get into our
shiny new classroom to begin Term 2.
We are settling in nicely and have be-
gun working hard on some exciting
units.
We started the week with a mini Mathe-
matics unit based on collecting data,
creating graphs and interpreting the
information. In order to choose the six
most favourite cereals in Year 5, the
class took part in a survey to find out
which cereals we are going to study.
We are now going to collect nutritional
data from these cereals and compare
the results. After this, we will be jump-
ing into mathematical concepts related
to fractions and decimals.
In Science lessons, students will be stud-
ying space science and finding out how
it contributes to our everyday lives.
Would you believe that we have space
science to thank for LED lights, compact
technology such as laptops, as well as
materials such as memory foam or soles
of comfy sneakers?
We have begun our Design technology
unit where we will plan, design and
build something that will allow us to co-
exist with wildlife in our school. We
began investigating products and mate-
rials used, and were surprised at the
number of products that have been de-
signed to help us live harmoniously with
nature.
For HASS, we will be expanding our
understanding of the world, and will
have the opportunity to study countries
around the world. We will investigate
human and environmental characteris-
tics of various places, and then decide
on our favourite country to create a pro-
ject poster. This unit integrates with
English, where we are learning about
structural and language features of per-
suasive writing, including feature arti-
cles. Once we have chosen our favour-
ite countries, we will be writing a per-
suasive article about our chosen place,
to persuade others to live or visit there.
As you can tell, Year 5 have a super
busy term ahead! I will continue to en-
courage the homework routine, to help
the students create good work habits
throughout the year. This involves stu-
dents returning their homework book
each Friday, and taking advantage of
the fantastic online sites such as A-Z vo-
cabulary, Studyladder and Prodigy
maths.
Parents and carers, if you missed
parent/teacher interviews at the end of
last term, and wish to catch up with me,
please contact through email or school
phone to arrange a time. Thank you.
Page 6 Magnetic Island State School School Vision: All students can succeed.
Welcome back to Term 2. It’s another
busy one for us, but it will be produc-
tive, and hopefully enjoyable. Some
children took a while to pick up their
energy levels after the holidays, but by
week’s end, we were generally pro-
gressing well.
We have begun our English unit, in
which children create a multi-modal
advertisement for a holiday destination,
and then explain how their choices of
language and images persuade viewers.
In the past students have enjoyed this
unit, and I’m sure we’ll have some very
impressive results at the end.
We have begun our introduction and revi-
sion of LEM rules, so we worked through
our first spelling list last week. To begin
with, this process is relatively slow and
deliberate, but once children understand
the routine, the pace increases.
In Maths we reviewed concepts from Term
1, and also began to discuss complemen-
tary angles and mean averages. We have
looked at equivalent common fractions
and begun to convert between equivalent
fractions.
We were very proud and impressed by
the way Seniors conducted our ANZAC
Day ceremony at school last Friday. It
was terrific to see almost every student
speak on the stage and all class mem-
bers have some involvement in the cere-
mony. I received quite a lot of positive
feedback from staff about the job done
by our Seniors. Well done, everyone.
Please be sure to contact me if you have
any concerns regarding your child’s pro-
gress.
Year 6 Martin Hammelswang
Kitchen Garden
.
Our Whole School Planting days are happening next week, on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th May.
We have a great range of fun activities planned to run alongside the planting, and we need some parent helpers to
come and help us run these.
If you can help on either day, please call or text Mrs Jupp this week on 0439 777 553.
DAY 1 - Thursday 8.45 – 12.15 (older students from Yrs 3-6)
DAY 2 - Friday 8.45 – 11.45 (younger students from PY-Yr 2)
This time of year is a very busy for the school kitchen garden so we want to see lots of students out in the fresh air helping: the
garden is open every second lunch and everyone is welcome. Conditions are just right for our whole of school planting: gar-
den beds fertilized and Mother Nature delivering all that rain last week. Thank you so much to our school families for the dona-
tions of Woolies seeds which will add to our selection of heritage seeds, and seeds we have created from previous harvests for
the planting. One of the activities requires fruit and vegetables with seeds for the students to examine. Donations of any extras
you may have at home will be appreciated. We are looking for parent helpers too—see below. Happy gardening!
May 2021
Monday 3rd May Labour Day Public Holiday
Wed 5th May P&C Mothers Day stall, $5 per gift
Thurs 6th May Whole of school planting, Years 3 to 6
Fri 7th May Whole of school planting, Prep to Year 2
Fri 7th May Year 3 excursion, Museum of Tropical Qld
12th to 19th May NAPLAN, Years 3 & 5
Tues 25th May Interschool Cross Country competition
June 2021
Fri 4th June Obe Geia rugby, Palm Island
Fri 13th June Cathy Freeman netball, Palm Island
Thurs 17th June Interhouse Athletics carnival
Date Claimers:
Page 7 Magnetic Island State School School Vision: All students can succeed.
Obe Geia Challenge
The Obe Geia Challenge was established in 2009 by
the North Queensland Toyota Cowboys to bring com-
munities together and promote the importance of
inclusion in North Queensland. Hosted by the remote
Indigenous community of Palm Island, this hugely
popular event has grown to include 12 local and
mainland teams of 15 players aged 10-12 years. The
carnival promotes the benefits of sport, fitness and
healthy living and grassroots rugby league and also aims to increase
positive attitudes and behaviours and reduce truancy. Participation in
the carnival is at no cost to the students, their families or their school.
The day is enjoyed by all involved and features a strong cultural educa-
tion component, with students having the opportunity to experience first-
hand the beauty of Palm Island, its people and their culture.
The Challenge is named after former Cowboys player and Palm Island
local Obe Geia. Obadiah "Obe" Geia (born 12 February 1989,
in Townsville, Queensland) is an Australian professional rugby
league footballer who played in the 2000s. He played for the North
Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League (NRL), as a wing.
While attending Kirwan State High School he played for the Australian
schoolboys side, and was the team's top try-scorer on the 2006 tour of
Great Britain. He went on to play two matches for the North Queensland
Cowboys in the NRL, becoming the first person from the Aboriginal com-
munity of Palm Island to do so.
Students (boys and girls) interested in playing in our school team at this
event are welcome to attend training on Wednesday at second lunch.
P&C GIFT STALL
AT SCHOOL ON
WEDNESDAY 5th MAY
$5 per gift
After School Care
SPECIAL $20
Calendar and Tote Bag
Normally $26
Pay the P&C at BSB 704640 account 41519277
13 17 88