Striving for an engaged and motivated school community, fostering individual achievement, social responsibility and well being

Contact details PH: 4625 8555 Jane Street Dirranbandi QLD 4486 www.dirranbass.eq.edu.au Student absences line PH: 4625 8566 Absence SMS line 0418 164 912 Principal Mrs Andrea Killen Email the.principal@dirranbass.eq.edu.au

P&C Executive President: Amber Stewart Junior President: Jen Miller Vice President: Karen Sullivan Secretary: Emma Adams Junior Secretary: Jessie Persse Treasurer: Tamara Burke Junior Treasurer: Kristy Stephens dirranbandipandcsecretary@outlook.com

What’s Inside this issue: Pg 1 Swimming Carnival

Pg 2 From the Principal

Pg 3 Companion Card Bully NO Way Pg 4 From the HOC SRC Pg 5 New from the Classes Pg 6 Secondary Snapshot Pg 7 Swimming Carnival Pg 8 Community Notices

Dirranbandi P-10 State School

Dazzler

“Success Follows Effort”

2018

Term 1

March 9

2018 Swimming Carnival Age Champions

Overall Points Champions

Balonne Sports Captains Julia, Bobbo and Mia with Champion House Trophy

STAFF Teachers Liz Bromwich Kirsty Cookson Jessica Davis Keeley Glass Monica Hadenfeldt Kylie Hegarty Rogan Kinnear April McLaren Jen Miller Mollie Rodgers Secondary Coordinator Kylie Hegarty PH: 4625 8534

Student Services Coordinator

Monica Hadenfeldt PH: 4625 8500 Head of Curriculum Jen Miller PH: 4625 8501 Instrumental Music Luke Todd Business Manager Michelle Burke Teacher Aides Tamara Burke Sheldon Dawes Darcie Fenech Bronwyn Hopkins Angela Hourigan Kathleen Ruttley Shelley Smith Amber Stewart Cleaners Keith Blunden Katie Macmillan Leonarda Tramacchi Groundsman Boyd Hopkins

FROM THE PRINCIPAL School Swimming Carnival Last Friday’s Swimming Carnival was a fantastic school event. Students are to be congratulated on their outstanding team spirit, sportsmanship and enthusiasm. It was wonderful to have so many family and friends joining us for the day. Congratulations to Age Champions and our overall winning house, team Balonne! Well done students! Paul Kelly and Friends Concert Fundraiser The Dirranbandi Pastoral and Agricultural Association is the organising group behind the upcoming Paul Kelly and Friends Concert to be held in Dirranbandi on June 2 2018. Funds raised from the event will go towards supporting the Dirranbandi P-10 Agricultural Studies Program, as well as giving youth other opportunities to develop knowledge, skills as well as gain experience in our local agricultural industry. This is an exciting opportunity to ensure the sustainability of our highly valued Agricultural Studies Program for current and future students to enjoy. How can you assist? Spread the word. Encouraged as many of your family and friends to purchase tickets to the event. Volunteer to he lp . Fo r more i n fo rma t i on abou t the even t http://www.paulkellyandfriends.com/ and stay up to date with happenings via the Facebook page ‘Paul Kelly and Friends’. Important Events in the coming weeks… Friday 16 March National Day Against Bullying and Violence Blue Light Disco – Civic Centre Saturday 17 March SRC Fundraiser at Dirran Market Day Wednesday 28 March 3:15pm P&C AGM Thursday 29 March Rewards Day

Last Day of Term Congratulations… To all students who participated in the school swimming carnival. Great team spirit! Balonne House swimming champions for 2018! Swimming Age Champions … Further details in Dazzler To Alex Burke and Ellie Gaudern recipient of the Swimming Encouragement Award To Billy and Luke who participated in the South West Basketball Trials in Roma on Monday.

The boys displayed great sportsmanship at the trials. Last week’s attendance winners Year 3-4 with 95%! Congratulations to every class group for

Week 6 attendance for achieving above 90%. Every class group earned a bonus point for this effort!

Good Luck… Students participating in the Balonne District Touch trials next

Wednesday in St George. Thank you… Parents, staff and students for helping to make our School

Swimming Carnival a great day! Andrea Killen

2018 Term 1 Saturday - 10 March Kindy Quiz Night 6:30pm Start Saturday & Sunday Town Pool Open 3pm-5pm

WEEK 8 Monday - 12 March Homework Centre Parade Tuesday - 13 March Guidance Officer Visit Wednesday - 14 March Prep - 2 Library Tuckshop Active After School - Swim Thursday - 15 March Homework Centre Friday - 16 March Year 3-4 Library Bullying NO Way! NO Playgroup Blue Light Disco Goods Shed Opening 6pm Saturday - 17 March Art Exhibition & Markets

WEEK 9 Monday - 19 March Homework Centre Parade Tuesday - 20 March Wednesday - 21 March Prep - 2 Library Tuckshop Active After School Thursday - 22 March Homework Centre Friday - 23 March Year 3-4 Library Playgroup Saturday - 24 March Battle on the Balonne Sunday - 25 March Battle on the Balonne

COMPANION CARD PROGRAM The Companion Card Program promotes fair ticketing for people with disability who significant attendant care and need support to attend venues and participate in community events and recreational activities. When buying a ticket for participating venues and public transport services, a Companion Card holder is issued with a second ‘companion’ ticket at no charge. The cost of the second ticket is met by the business. A companion is any person who accompanies a cardholder and provides attendant care support. The cardholder’s companion may be a paid or unpaid assistant or carer, family member, partner or friend. To be eligible a person must: Be a lawful Australian resident living in

Queensland; and Have a disability; and Because of the impact of the disability, be unable to participate at most community venues or

activities without a care support; and Need or be likely to need, lifelong attendant care support. Companion Cards can only be issued to a child where significant attendant care support is required due to a child’s disability and not due to age alone. Things that the Companion Card can be used for: accessing public transport, regional shows, Brisbane Ekka, sporting venues, theatres, movies, theme parks, zoos and many more both in QLD and interstate. If you believe your child would benefit from having a companion card or wish to discuss an application, feel free to contact Mrs Woodrow, Guidance Officer for more information or visit the website: https://www.qld.gov.au/disability/out-and-about/companion-card

BULLYING. NO WAY! The National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence is being held next Friday 16th March. All students, staff and community are invited to wear orange to mark the event and pledge their stand against bullying a violence. Within our school, all classes will be involved in deepening their understanding of bullying, and creating classroom door displays to demonstrate their understanding and their stance against it. On Friday afternoon, all students will attend an address about Bullying and be able to take a stand together, forming a human chain along our school fence as a symbol that bullying has no place in our school. Class groups may also be participating in a variety of other activities to further their understandings, so keep a look out on our Facebook page for photos! If you would like further information about the initiative, head to https://bullyingnoway.gov.au/

PBL FOCUS’ I am responsible when I am …

An Active Learner Safe

Respectful Wear my hat Keep my hands, feet

and objects to myself Follow instructions Be on time Put my rubbish in the bin Sportsmanship Speak respectfully Persist

STUDENT

AWARDS

Well done ‘Active

Learners’ - Ellie,

Charlotte, Matilda

Great work

‘Students of the

Week’ - Kelisha,

Connor

FROM THE HOC Active learning has continued in all of our classrooms over the past week. Across our school this week, I have been lucky to have seen: Brilliant leadership from our School Captains at the first SRC meeting for 2018 Positive reflections from our Sports Captains in their address to the Parade on Monday Year 9/10 Work Studies students working on their individual courses with the support of Miss Bron and Mrs Hegarty Year 7/8 giving their best effort in their Blitzmaster challenge (which obviously paid off with Year 7 taking out the most

improved class for the past week) Year 7-9 students engaging in focused Numeracy lessons and participating in team number fact challenges…

with BUZZERS!!!! Year 5/6 commencing the planning phase for their English assessment Handwriting focus in the Year 3/4 classroom Focussed group or individual learning in the P-2 classroom Year 1/2 students engaging in Blitzmaster and some students achieving a personal best. Prep students learning the order of the Days of the Week P-2 students working in with the year level peers for targeted Mathematics lessons focussed on patterns – one lesson in

which I was privileged to be a part of. Thanks for having me P-2! Photographs posted on our Facebook page from the 9/10 Sport Studies heart and lung dissections and the Year 3/4

mineral excavation. What an amazing week!

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL REPORT (SRC) SRC Executive: Chair and Communications Officer: Jessica Purvis Treasurer and Timekeeper: Georgia Price Secretary: Darcy Persse Monday, the SRC had our first meeting. We established our roles but most importantly our motto and vision for 2018. The SRC’s new motto is “Success for one, Success for all”. We ask that each SRC member remembers this motto and understands their role within the SRC. I thank Darcy Persse, the new SRC Secretary and Georgia Price, the new SRC Treasurer, for their help running our first meeting and I am sure that everyone will acknowledge their roles and responsibilities soon and will work extremely hard towards our goal. Remember that there will be sub-comity meetings held in the following weeks to discuss Market Day activities and the Chinese Poster Competition. Have an amazing week! Jessica Purvis Events and Fundraising to occur this term: National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence – Friday March 16 Dirranbandi Markets – SRC fundraiser Crazy hair Day to support the Leukaemia Foundation to occur in Week 9 The Great Easter Challenge to occur in Week 10

CAPTAIN’S MESSAGE Time flies when you’re having fun! It is already Week 7 on our term calendar and we are working hard to finish assessments. Our annual Swimming Carnival was on Friday and the turnout was amazing. The students had a fun day competing not just in the pool but in war cries as well. I know that by the end of the day, my voice was gone and my muscles were aching. Congratulations to Balonne for the successful win, but we were all winners that day because we all gave a really good go at the events. A BIG congratulations to the Age Champions and trophy winners, your hard work paid off. Have a good week and keep up the hard work! Jessica Purvis – Secondary School Captain

PREP-2 NEWS P-2 have been working extremely hard and should be proud of what they have achieved this term already. I would like to congratulate students on the completion of their homework. Year 2 enjoyed learning about time last week. They are beginning to read time to the quarter hour. Prep have been displaying excellent persistence with identifying letters of the alphabet and it is fantastic to see the smile on their face when they have achieved new things. In science students have been learning about living things and their needs. Last week we put on our scientific hats and went outside investigating healthy habitats in our school. Students were very excited to find birds, butterflies, ants and plants. Mrs Kirsty Cookson.

YEAR 6 NEWS by ALEXIS LASSERRE

This week Sam, Cooper and Cormack dug for minerals.

They found Tiger Eye, Amethyst, Quartz Point and Howlite.

YEAR 3-4 BOYS Neat writing

Cormack and Henry

Congratulations Alex - Week 6 ‘Student of the Week’

and Cormack 50 Gotchas!

Another busy week in the 5-6 room! In Maths the Year 5’s are learning about budgeting and the Year 6’s are learning more about times tables. In history we are learning about Aboriginal and TSI people and how they were treated through the 20th century. In science we are learning about rust and in English we are starting our short story assessment.

SECONDARY SNAPSHOT Congratulations: Congratulations to all students for their active participation and sportsmanship that was clearly displayed at the swimming carnival last week. We had a great time! Needles: Year 7 and Year 10’s were involved in the schools’ immunisation program on Wednesday.

Maths: Year 9/10 students have been busy with Probability experiments and then comparing this data with the theoretical probability of the event.

Design Tech: In this unit, the year nine and ten students are required to create an innovative design to revolutionise an industry. Students work in groups to identify and research a problem, design a solution to this problem and construct and market their design product. With the recent history of firearm injuries within Australian borders, rural gun theft and media attention on gun safety in the United States; students have devised a quick and easy way to ensure the safety of firearms. The aim of this student vision is to protect youth, ensure farmers and sports shooters weapons do not fall into the wrong hands, and ensure firearms are highly secure whilst being easy to access and

use. Great job year nine and ten!

Art: This term in art, we are focusing using POP art around the topic of animal antics. Students have been using the computers to create their designs.

Languages:

Chinese

DIRRANBANDI SCHOOL 2018 SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Age Champions

5 Years Georgia Burke

6 Years Mataya Turnbull

7 Years Mack Miller and Charlotte Stephens

9 Years Cormack Sullivan and Matilda Rigby

10 Years Theo Knight and Mia Sullivan

11 Years Billy Turnbull and Darcy Persse

12 Years Luke Cooke/Bobbo Weatherall and Julia Killen

13 Years Eddie Walter

14 Years Adam Burke

15 Years Jack Walter and Alex King/Courtney Lasserre

Encouragement Trophy Alex Burke and Ellie Gaudern

Champion Swimmer Trophy Billy Turnbull and Jack Walter

Champion House Balonne

Records Broken

6 Years girls Mataya Turnbull 25m Butterfly 44.84

10 Years girls Mia Sullivan 50m Backstroke 59.31

11 Years girls Darcy Persse 50m Freestlye 39.52, 50m Butterfly 53.68

15 Years girls Alex King 50m Butterfly 54.40, 50m Freestlye 40.26

15 Years boys Jack Walter 50m Freestyle 29.48, 50m Backstroke 40.32,

50m Butterfly 39.29 200m Secondary Medley 3.29.34

COMMUNITY NOTICES COMMUNITY NOTICES

KINDY QUIZ SATURDAY 10TH MARCH, QUESTIONS START 6:30PM

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