PRINCIPAL ’S OUTLOOK Pam Ruddel l

3 JUNE 2019

INALA STATE SCHOOL

Change in Report Cards

When you receive your child’s/children’s report card at the end of this term it will look different, as we are trialling reporting in a new way. The report card will have an effort comment for each learning area unless an “N” was

recorded, in which case this “not rated” will include a comment explaining the reason for no A-E rating. A general comment will be included outlining two of your child’s/children’s strengths and one area to develop or improve. We expect this change to make reports a more user friendly document and we will also value your feedback following the report card trial. Parent teacher inter-views will occur early in term 3 to enable robust discussions regarding your child’s/children’s learning.

Sorry Day

National Sorry Day is an annual event that has been held on 26 May, since 1998, to remember and commemorate the mistreatment of our First Nation’s people. The “Stolen Generation” as described by John Torpey as “Aboriginal [and Torres Strait Islander] children separated, often forcibly, from

their families in the interest of turning them into white Australians”, was acknowledged on this day through the Bringing Them Home report tabled in Parliament. This led to the significant apology on behalf of the Australian fed-eral government, made by the then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 13 February 2008. It is important to reflect on the sad and painful history of the Stolen Generation and recognise moments of resilience, healing and the power of say-ing Sorry.

NAPLAN

This year I observed a confident and determined cohort of year 3 and 5 students who completed each of the four NAPLAN tests. Test conditions help prepare students for the

future as they enter secondary school and further learning or employment where these conditions are replicated. Thank you to all staff who supported our students over the three days; from teacher aides who prepared and deliv-ered breakfast every day, talented teachers who prepared students and our Student Performance Coach, Lyndsey McKean, who implemented your practice writing test with valuable individual student feedback. Well done!

Our Peace Ranger arrived @ 4077

I extend a very warm welcome to our Peace Ranger who finally found us last Monday 20 May. We are very proud of our school mascot who was created with the support of our PBL (Positive

Learning for Behaviour) Committee and pop-up PBL Launch Team. Thank you to our families and community members who joined us for this “surprise” celebrations, enjoy the photos (taken by Mr Niotakis) in this newsletter edition!

P & C Day 24 May

I would like to publicly thank our hard working P&C members and our volunteers who donate their valuable time to sup-

port our school, especially the running and management of our tuckshop.

Aussie of the Month & Academic Award

27.05.2019 PREP B Lily

Sohaum

PREP D Yusief

Jaylan

PREP G Samuella

Stephanie

1D Lyka

Mohamed

1K Melissa

Saxton

1P Renajea

Kim

2LG Annabella

Kim

2K Damya

Deakon-Lee

2M Valiant

Justine

3M Cruz

Ahmed

3T Dean

Samuel

3W Dominic

Aadam

4C Alexander

Salua

4L Haya

Zacharia

4M Hellen

Jahmal

5H Rachel

Jordan

5J Lillyanah

Allan

5M Destiny

Mote

6D Golden

Lucy

6H Mado

Christian

6T Umme

Rayan

UPCOMING EVENTS

ATTENDANCE WK 5

91.8%

Year 1: 90.5%

Year 6: 93.6% Year 5: 93%

Year 3: 92.1% Year 2: 91.3%

Year 4: 91.2% Prep: 90.8%

JUNE 2019

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL Heather Clarke

Is your child getting the flu? The signs and symptoms of influenza in children could include a sore throat, fever, chills, head-ache, stomach and body aches, feeling tired, coughing, a runny nose, no appetite, or diar-rhoea. If your child is ill, parents and carers are remind-ed to keep them at home and contact the school to let us know. If you have any concerns about your child’s health, please seek medical advice.

03/06 2.15pm Assembly

05/06 Smith Family Learning Club

05/06 Chess Tournament at Glenala SHS

06/06 Year 5 Lone Pine Excursion

07/06 Year 5 & 6 Glenala SHS Basketball Clinics

10/06 2.15pm Assembly

12/06 Pacific Island Parent Meeting 5.15pm

12/06 Karyn Murphy Cup Gala Day

12/06 Woolworths Excursion

12/06 Smith Family Learning Club

CLEANER POSITION AT

INALA STATE SCHOOL

17 Hours per week Permanent

Monday to Friday 6.00am-9.30am

Application Packages available at the School Office

Closing date for application: 3.00pm 14/6/19

Contact Donna Campbell

(Business Manager) 3372 0777

CHAPPY BOB SCHOOL CHAPLAINCY FUND RAISER

Chappy Bob has written a short book about a very sim-ple form of youth mentoring, titled:

A Simple Approach To Supporting Troubled Youth

It is a collection of twenty brief inspirational insights, including:

Mentoring to respond to school bullying Mentoring fatherless boys Mentoring and attachment disorder The cost of youth detention The pain of prolonged loneliness The rewards of mentoring

The book is available for sale for $5, and all proceeds go the cost of providing the Chaplaincy service at Inala State School.

Contact Bob if you would like to buy a copy.

PBL NEWS Briahna Daly

POSITIVE Behaviour LEARNING (PBL)

How the Peace Ranger Found Inala State School

A recount by Benjamin Falepuna (3M) and Mrs McNamara because knew that not every parent could come to school on Monday to see the video of how the Peace Ranger found a home at Inala State School so we decided to write down the story of how he got here.

It was a bright sunny day at Inala and the Peace Ranger was looking for a home in the 4077. He looked at McDonalds at Inala Plaza but he couldn’t live there be-cause he doesn’t know how to cook. He looked at the Indigenous Health Centre but he couldn’t live there be-cause he is not a nurse. He went to the Dandiirri Li-brary where he got a bit frightened and read a book but he couldn’t live there because he doesn’t know how to read well enough yet. After that, he went to the Wests Inala Rugby League Football Club. He liked it there and he even kicked a really awesome goal but he couldn’t live there because he was tired of kicking balls. Later he went up Biota Street and bought some hot chips to eat. He couldn’t live there because he didn’t know which shop to live in. Maybe he could hang out with the drag-ons at Durack. Mrs Slingsby said he couldn’t live there but she told him to go to Glenala Road. Then he stopped at Glenala State High School but Mrs Lawson said he couldn’t live there because the kids there were too big!

Where would the Peace Ranger’s home be?

He went down the road and read the sign above a gate that said Inala State School. “I could live here,” he thought. As he walked up the path, he looked around and he saw someone coming out of the office. It was Mrs Ruddell. “You can live here!” she shouted and she hugged him tightly. He had found his home.

JUNE 2019

4L NEWS

Year 4 Science

This term, Year 4 are learning about life cycles of ani-mals and plants. We are also learning about how rela-tionships between animals and their habitats affect their ability to survive. Right now, we are doing a grass seed head experiment. Every day we take pho-tos of the grass seeds growing. We try to put it where it has lots of light, and of course we water it. Here’s how we did it:

First, we made the grass seed heads, using stockings, potting mix, grass seeds and plastic cups.

Next, we watered them, and we take them outside each day for sunlight.

Each day at second break we take photos of the grass seeds growing.

Finally, we will put all the photos together and make a time-lapse video of the grass seeds’ life cycle.

By Briana Ho and Kryztyna Huynh, 4L

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL Liz Cook

As we reach the half way point of the term, it is great to see the rigorous learning and motivation that is oc-curring in classrooms at the moment.

On Friday (24/05/19), the year three students were greeted by a surprise visitor, Mrs Fox, from the chil-dren’s novel Fantastic Mr Fox written by Roald Dahl. The year three students have been analysing this text during their English unit and have started to complete their assessment task. Well done to Mrs Teresa McNamara for incorporating this dramatic element in-to her teaching to engage and add even more excite-ment into the students’ learning.

NAPLAN

Congratulations to all year 3 and 5 students who sat NAPLAN assessment on Tuesday (14/5), Wednesday (15/5) and Thursday (16/5) of week 4. It was wonder-ful to see all students trying their best for each of the assessments in a calm and relaxed manner.

Assessments

Over the next few weeks, all classrooms will be busy completing their summative assessment for each of the Learning Areas to complete each student’s folios. Teacher will use these folios to determine Semester 1 academic results for reporting this term. It is im-portant that all students to come to school each day, and are ready to learn, with a good night’s sleep and a tummy full of nutritious food to support them while completing their work to the best of their ability.

Have a lovely fortnight,

Liz Cook

Southern Scorpions District Track and Field The following students recently competed at the Southern Scorpions District Track and Field carnival held at the Queensland State Athletic Centre. James Benon, Su’e Fale, Eric Gray, Kathy Huyhn, Montoya Llilia, Kolopa Livi, Ryan Nguyen, Vaka Sima, Kolochelle Susuga, Andeew Tombe, Joseph Vitale and Mubark yahia. All students enjoyed the experience of competing against the strong fields of SSD athletes and performing in the state of the art facilities at QSAC. All Inala State school athletes performed well. Two stand out performances deserve special mention from the event. Vaka Sima won the 10 years boys shot put event setting a new district record with throw of 8.62 metres. Andrew Tombe placed second on countback in the 12 years boys high jump with a new district record height of 1.40 metres. Both students were selected into the Southern Scorpions District Track and Field Team and will now com-pete at the Met West Track and Field carnival in mid-June. Congratulations and good luck. Interschool Sport Term 1 Interschool sport wrapped up on the last day of term 1. All teams performed well throughout the season producing some excellent results. Thank you to the follow-ing Inala State School staff who have coached, managed and assisted with the interschool teams: Mr Hunter, Miss Mawn, Miss Drakopolous, Mr Walker, Mr Littlefield, Mrs Amundsen, Mrs Williams, Mrs Sinnott, Mrs Holland and Mrs Broadhurst. Inala state school had some excellent results throughout the competition. The following teams won their grand finals and were crowned Interschool Sport Champions:

Netball Junior Netball 1 Team Senior Netball 1 team

Tennis Tennis Division B team

Special mention goes to the following teams:

Junior Soccer Team 1 placed 2nd narrowly losing their grand-final.

Senior Rugby League placed 3rd overall. Congratulations and well done to all student who were in-volved in interschool sport. Southern Scorpions District Sport Congratulations to the following students who were select-ed in the Southern Scorpions District Sport teams at their recent trials. All students will trial for a place in the Met West teams. Good luck and well done!

Montoya Lilia – U12 Rugby League. Lavenia Inoke – U11 Netball. Claire Tongia – U12 Netball. Jemimah Tuuana – U12 Netball.

Karyn Murphy Challenge 2019 Inala State School will once again participate in the Karyn Murphy Rugby League Challenge. The Karyn Murphy Chal-lenge is designed to provide opportunities for girls across all of QLD to participate in Rugby League. The challenge will take the form of an exciting 9-a-side competition that gives all females an opportunity to represent their school and compete in a rugby league gala day. Good luck to the year 5 & year 6 girls who are participating.

JUNE 2019

SPORTS NEWS Peter Naoum SPORTS NEWS Peter Naoum

Interhouse Athletics Sports Day The Inala State School Interhouse Athletics and Sports Day was held on Friday May 10, 2019. Congratulations to all stu-dents who participated. All students represented their houses well and got into the spirit of the carnival by wear-ing their house colours and supporting their fellow team mates. It was great to see everyone having fun and enjoy-ing the athletics challenges and events. The house war cries were lead very well by the house captains and were great to listen to. The results were as follows: Age Champions

10 Years Boys: Ryan Nguyen 10 years Girls: Alani Conlon & Luisa Faoaga 11 years Boys: Alula Dule 11 years Girls: Kolopa Livi 12 Years Boys: Montoya Lilia 12 Years Girls: Umme Fatema

Final House Points

3rd: Ngurum – 856.5 Points 2nd Mungar – 919.5 Points 1st: Barrakadan – 1035 Points

Congratulations Barrakadan house and well done to every-one who was involved.

Glenala State High School Basketball Program Inala State School year 5 and year 6 students are currently participating in a basketball program led by students from GSHS. Over three weeks students will further their under-standing of basketball and develop their skills including dribbling, shooting and game play. This is a great experi-ence for the students to work with high school students outside of their normal PE and sport lessons. The skills learned and interest developed will be very important and highly valued when the Inala primary schools interschool basketball competition starts in term 3. Well done to all year 5 & 6 students.

JUNE 2019

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