19th April 2016 #10

Dear Parents

To commemorate ANZAC Day we will hold our ANZAC Parades on Friday 22nd April. Year 6C will organise the Parade for Year 3-6 in the Performing Arts Centre commencing at 9.00AM. Years P-2 will hold an ANZAC Ceremony in the Prep playground commencing at 2pm. Parents are welcome to attend our ANZAC Parades. Students are asked to bring flowers so that classes can make a wreath to place at the ceremony. Monday 25th April is ANZAC Day and is a public holiday. The monthly meeting of the P&C will be held tomorrow evening commencing at 7.00PM in the staff room. Our P&C meetings are a great place to meet other parents of the school, participate in planning some of our P&C events and hear the latest school news from our principal. Congratulations to Year 2 students on their performance of Wackadoo Zoo. Yesterday Year 2A, B, C & D were tremendous and I know the students’ parents would have been very impressed. Year 2E, F, & G will present their performance on Wednesday afternoon commencing at 2.00PM. Our music teachers Mrs Richardson and Ms Hari and the Year 2 teachers have done an amazing job in producing the musical. Well done to everyone.

Year 4 students have been on an excursion on Monday to the Materials Resource Facility at the Waste Management facility at Portsmith. Students learned about what happens to our household waste as part of a sustainability unity looking at using our natural resources more wisely.

Paul Campbell Principal

Principal’s Pen Choir

Wednesday mornings 7:45

P&C Monthly Meeting Wednesday 20th April

7pm, Staffroom

ANZAC Parades Friday 22nd April

Prep—Yr 2 2pm Prep Playground

Yr 3—Yr 6 9am PAC

ANZAC Day

Public Holiday Monday 25th April

Mother’s Day Stall

May 3rd—6th Undercover Area

Scholastic Bookfair

May 16th—20th

Big Family Breakfast Wednesday May 18th

PREP Wow! Wow! Wow! Did you all hear that a satellite (space junk from NASA) landed just in time for the 6 Prep classes to investigate and learn about space from our very own NASA scientist, Mr Harris, last Friday? Please ask your Prep student for the low down. We look forward to seeing you all this week at the Homework Sightword and Reading Information sessions. Please check your class teacher for times that may suit you. YEAR 1 As part of our Geography unit this term Year 1 has a excursion to Centenary Lakes in Week 4. 1C,D,E,F and G will be going on the 3rd of May and 1A and B will be going on the 4th of May. The purpose of this excursion is to learn about our local places and the features of local places and how people care for places. A note was sent home last week. Please fill out the attached permission form and return to your child's classroom teacher as soon as possible. We also require 2 parent volunteers for each class so if you are available to assist on the day please let your child's teacher know.

YEAR 2 Congratulations to 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D for their wonderful performance of The Wackadoo Zoo on Monday afternoon. 2E, 2F and 2G have their performance in the PAC Wednesday 20th April starting at 2pm. Gold coin donations at the door help to cover the costs of the costumes provided. The students and Year 2 teachers would like to thank Mrs Richardson and Miss Hari for the many hours they have spent in the production of the musical. Thank you to those parents who donated materials for the performance and those who were able to help on the day. YEAR 3 The children have settled into the new term well. The Year Three students will focus their literacy learning on narrative writing. Please spend some time with your child talking about the stories they have read. Discuss characters and settings from both books and movies and discuss the types of adjectives used to describe them. In Science the children are engaged with their new topic of Day and Night. This unit will enable them to develop an understanding as to how the Sun, Moon and Earth all work within our Solar System. YEAR 6 Year 6 students have returned from holidays with energy and enthusiasm, and are organised and ready to learn. Students and teachers are looking forward to an action-packed Term 2, including exciting events such as our camps at Holloways Beach Environmental Education Centre, inter-school sport and the Athletics Carnival.

Student Absences

When your child is absent from school please send an email to:

studentabsence@ edgehillss.eq.edu.au

Clearly stating your child’s name, class and reason for absence.

Around the Classroom

Musical Notes Congratulations to the students in Grade 2A,B,C and D for their terrific performance of ‘Wackadoo Zoo’ on Monday. Next we look forward to a second performance of the show tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon by 2E, F and G. A special ‘well done’ to all the students in Grade 2 on their hard work in Music! We are so pleased to see their developing performance skills, stage discipline and vocal ability.

Edge Hill Fluoro Fun Run Congratulations to all the students who participated in the Fluoro Fun Run on the last day of Term 1. It was a fantastic event with students from Year 1 to Year 6 dressing up in fluoro colours, all in the name of fun, fitness and friendship!!! There was however a serious side to the fun run, with those students placing in the top 3 for their age group (2006, 2005 & 2004) gaining the opportunity to represent Edge Hill SS at the District Cross Country on Friday 29th April at the Cairns Esplanade!! Here is a list of all the placegetters for boys and girls born 2008-2004

2008 Boys 1st Ari Savimaki, 2nd Ediz Kulin, 3rd Matthew Belcher, 4th Jacky Futcher 2008 Girls; 1st Daisy Smith, 2nd Bella Donahue, 3rd Cybell Koraka, 4th Chloe Butcher

2007 Boys; 1st Cartwright Coleman 2nd Ty Jones, 3rd Ryder Lee, 4th Charlie Irwin 2007 Girls; 1st Suri Merrill, 2nd Amy Dodson, 3rd Lousie Christie, 4th Abigail Terrence

2006 Boys; 1st Hamish Anderson 2nd Jacob Beattie, 3rd Tyrone Richardson, 4th Tom Kelly 2006 Girls; 1st Brooke Newman, 2nd Nahed Adam, 3rd Heidi Roggensach, 4th Erena Moffatt

2005 Boys; 1st Noah Jones, 2nd Callum McIllwraith, 3rd Joe McDonnell, 4th Jack Veitch 2005 Girls; 1st Bella Rogers, 2nd Brianna Smith, 3rd I’sha Donahue, 4th Lilly-Ruth Eveans

2004 Boys; 1st Aziah Binawell, 2nd Asher Brent, 3rd Beau Cooper, 4th Junior Amaui 2004 Girls; 1st Sena Nakajima, 2nd Asha Strang, 3rd Grace Little, 4th Annabelle Christie

Sport’s News Japanese News

Thank you very much to all families who have donated Japanese books for our Japanese classes. We still welcome donations of Japanese toys, books or games. These items can be brought in to the Japanese classroom. Arigatou Gozaimasu!!

Enrol Now For Prep 2017 If you have a child in your care who

was born between 1 July 2011 and 30 June 2012 you need to enrol them in

Prep for 2017. Please come in to the office to register

your child as enrolments will be closing soon for 2017. If you would like

to discuss the enrolment process for Prep or have any other enrolment

questions contact our Prep Deputy Principal Kathy Street or our Enrolment

Officer Dannielle Henderson.

Brazillian Jiu Jitsu Champion!! Joey Forsyth won gold in two different divisions at the WKA Northern Australia Brazillian Jiu Jitsu Championships in Townsville on April 9 while proudly representing CDK Martial Arts Cairns. After three years of training, Joey went through the competition undefeated against competitors of similar age and weight from around North Queensland.

“Read aloud to your child

whenever you can, as often as you can, for as

long as you can.”

P&C Monthly Meeting Wednesday 20th April, 7pm, Staffroom

Mother’s Day Stall

May 3rd—6th

Scholastic Book Fair May 16th—20th

Big Family Breakfast

Wednesday May 18th

We will need lots of Helping Hands to make these the best events ever! Please email pandc@edgehillss.eq.edu.au to join

our email group.

P&C Corner pandc@edgehillss.eq.edu.au

Tuck Shop Orders must be handed in to Tuckshop before 9am—OR—you can order online at

flexischool.com.au

Congratulations to our Flexi draw winner for the

week—Phoebe Halkidis 3A To enter simply tear off your name label from

your order bag and pop it in the lucky box at the Tuckshop.

Please feel free to stop by and say hi—and

maybe try something different off our menu. Have you tried our yummy toasted wraps, pizza

scrolls, or spinach rolls?

Around Our Community

Hot Shots tennis coaching program in Edge Hill State School Stadium will commence from Thursday

21st April at 7.30am.

Registrations: Email jacqui_pohlner@hotmail.com or 0427 507 145

Queensland Cricket 2016 Cairns Junior Club Competition

12 Years and Under Tuesday 19th April—Tuesday 24th May

Cairns Indoor Sports $60 per participant

For more info contact Sarah Harris Sarah.Harris@qldcricket.com.au

More information and registration forms are available at the school office.

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