Movie or Games

Night Friday

29/03 Free Movie night- 5:30-7:30pm. Sausage sizzle and

snacks for sale by the Student Council. K-2 must have

adult supervision to a end.

Small Schools’

Sports Day—Wonga SS

04/04 Small Schools’ Athle#cs carnival held at Wonga Beach

State School.

Term 1

School Holidays 6/04 - 22/04

This school holiday ends with the Easter break on the

19, 20, 21 & 22 of April. (Includes Easter Friday and

Easter Monday).

School resumes

Term 2 Tuesday

23/04 Anzac Public Holiday will be on Thursday 25/04. All

invited to represent the school at the local ANZAC

Ceremony.

Cross Country at

Jula�en SS

T2 Wk 1

Friday

26th of

April

Notes need to be returned by Wednesday the 3rd of

April

Naplan T2 Wk4

14–16/05

Naplan tests to be held over the 3 days for our Grade 3

and 5 students. Lots of sleep and a healthy breakfast are

recommended.

ANZAC Day Thursday

wk1 T 2

25/04

Dawn service march star#ng at 5am from the Cow Bay

Hotel. We ask a ending students to wear their school

uniforms with pride.

Date Claimers—So Far

ALEXANDRABAYSTATESCHOOLNEWSLETTER

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Message from the Principal—

As Term 1 rounds up, I reflect about how

blessed I feel to be a part of this school and

the community. Thanks to the warmth of our

staff, students and their families, my sons have

se�led in and con.nuously express how much

they are loving being rainforest kids.

One of the term’s highlights for me was our

Kindness Day where we took ac.on against

bullying. Students par.cipated in building a

bank of strategies to combat bullying, kind-

ness ac.vi.es to build well-being and

strengthen friendships and team building chal-

lenges. Thank you to the parents who were

able to make it down and par.cipate in the

event. As a part of the day, students, staff and

parents pledged their hands to our kindness

wall and our

School Cap-

tains ran an

ac.vity in

which every-

one received

a bag of kind-

ness filled

with kind

words from their peers.

Regards, Emma Taylor

A special reminder to all parents, families and

P&C members: Alexandra Bay State School has

a Facebook Group. Please find the group not

the person and join in on this digital

newsle�er. h�ps://www.facebook.com/

groups/2200591990194178/

News from The K-2 Class

The little people in K-2 are working enthusiastically towards the end of term. P-2 students are finalising their English assessment that involves writing about and presenting their favourite traditional story to the class. Prep students have delved into writing sentences expressing their preferences and personal opinions on a story using their new found knowledge of simple sentence structure and letter/sound knowledge. They love having the opportunity to share and read their sentences to the class. Year 1 and 2 students have been busy writing their story as a retell using correct story sequence, identifying key events and using their knowledge of interesting sentence beginnings, using interesting and descriptive words as well as their knowledge of familiar sound and letter patterns, punctuation and grammar.

In Mathematics, students have been learning about money with Preps and Year 1 identifying, describing and order-ing coins and Year 2 learning how to add up a small value of coins up to $1. They have also been practicing number facts involving addition and subtraction through games, chanting, writing, songs and hands on activities.

Kindy students have enjoyed participating in real-life activities through play, reading stories and responding to them through craft and other mediums. The Kindy students love being involved in their own ‘Kindy’ experiences as well as joining in with the whole class for such things as reading, well-being activities and other appropriate activities. Phew! It has been a busy, yet learning and fun-filled term!

Thank you to all the students for being Super Star Learners. Thank you also to families for the many ways that you support the little people in their learning - from healthy lunches to good sleeps and encouragement. Kind regards Miss White

Special Reminders

Weekly Rule Reviser

If something that happens

at school is bad enough to

tell home, it is bad enough

to tell the teachers.

Always report Bullying.

3-6 Class Taholoo the butterfly

Long ago, there was a boring brown butterfly. That butterfly was lonely, yet very brave. She was lonely because she wasn’t like the other butter-flies. The butterflies were black, but they had a few dollops of red on their wings, whereas she was just plain brown. She decided she was sick of being lonely so she flew to a different planet, and that was the wonderful planet of Earth. She flew from her planet Dollop to Earth and she landed in Cow-Bay, Queensland, Australia. The beautiful Blue Hole was this magnificent place’s name.

But what Taholoo didn’t know was, when she came to this mysterious planet, the dark, spooky, treacherous spirit of colour was roaming the Daintree. As soon as Taholoo settled down within the canopy, the dark spirit came to where she was resting, taking all the colours from the trees, leaves, and flowers leaving them as brown as Taholoo. When Taholoo arose once more she felt like she was lying in a pit of mud. “I have to do something,” she gently yelped to herself.

Taholoo flew around the Daintree desperately trying to find this beast. She knew that he could not do anything to her because, she was brown, and that’s the colour he had changed the Daintree too. She flew till she found him. She looked for days.

He tried, and tried to defeat her with his evil magic, trying to take her colour, but it didn’t work. When Taholoo had finished him, he fell to the ground and as his spiritual body started to touch the ground he disintegrated, and the colour of the Daintree returned.

The gods were extremely happy with Taholoo. They were so happy that they started to cry down on Earth, filling the beautiful Blue Hole with their tears. They magically dragged Taholoo into the blue hole and when she came out, she was the beautiful Ulysses butterfly. By Chloe Wenden

Sports day this coming Thursday Kindy news

Last week we completed our first evacuation and lockdown drills and our

kindy students participated with excitement.

P & C NEWS

P & C urgently needs a volunteer to fill the

posi#on of Secretary. Come an join this

dedicated group to make our school great.

3-6 News

Welcome to Week 9

We can’t believe that the term is nearly

over! We have been having so much fun

learning in our classroom, the term has

flown by.

The class are currently finishing off assess-

ments in English, Maths, Science and

Ci#zenship and Civics, ready to start new

topics next term.

Included in this newsle er is an English

assessment by Chloe Wenden telling the

story of the crea#on of the Ulysses bu er-

fly and the Blue Hole. Other crea#on

stories wri en are ‘How rainbow lorikeets

got their colour’ and ‘How the Great

Barrier Reef was formed’, and many other

good tales. I have really enjoyed reading

these stories and we look forward to

sharing them with the K-2 class.

Don’t forget that next Thursday is School

Sports’ Day. It is a great idea to get organ-

ised the night before so you don’t forget

anything important. Before you go to bed

put aside your bag, hat, water bo le and

shoes ready to grab and run on Sports

Day!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy

break and an enjoyable Easter.

3-6 Class

Awards

Week 7— Nina, Sonny and Chloe

ABay’s Pledge to Kindness

Hock

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Cricket Fu

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