FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS SS website address is: http://www.fairheigss.eq.edu.au

Issue 10 9 June 2017

WINTER MUSIC AND SOUP Last night, our School band, led by Mr Phil Ryan, entertained Parents and supporters at our inaugural “Winter Music and Soup” night. Thank you to Mrs PELCHER for making the beautiful soup!! It was delicious and certainly was a great idea for a cold night. Thank you to Mrs Pelcher’s family members for serving the soup and finally thank you to our Band Members and Mr Ryan for entertaining us last night with their beautiful music. The band member’s journey of learning has certainly given us an insight into their confidence and talents. Well done. Photos of last night are included in this newsletter.

JUNE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS The year has certainly flown and the June School Holiday Break is nearly upon us. School closes for the school holidays on Friday 23 June at 3.00p.m. and school resumes on Monday 10 July.

FREE DRESS DAY Our Free Dress Day for Term 2 will be held on the last day of Term, Friday 23 June. Students please bring along a gold coin do-nation. The money raised will go towards our Chaplaincy Fund, which is in need of funds to support the two days we employ Chappy Alan. PLEASE HELP!!!

SCHOOL REPORT CARDS AND PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS

As the Units in (C2C) conclude at the end of Term 2, Report Cards and Parent Teacher Interviews will be held during the begin-ning of Term 3.

During Week Two and Three of Term 3, the week beginning 17 July Parent/Teacher Interviews will be held and report cards will be issued during the interview.

This year for our Parent/Teacher Interviews we will be using a new School On-Line Booking System call SOBS. This program will facilitate on line bookings for Parent/Teacher Interviews. This is instead of our letters sent out by each teacher for par-ents to return with their preferred times. Next week we will send out a special note on Friday 16 June to give you further information about the use of this new booking facility. Please be on the look out for this.

SOBS will be open for Bookings in Week 10 and will close on Wednesday 12 July—Week 1 Term 3.

PREP ENROLMENTS 2018 Children born 1 JULY 2012—30 June 2013

Parents at Fairview who have younger siblings that are eligible to attend Prep in 2018 please contact the office as soon as possible to enrol your child so we can gauge our future numbers.

FOOTSTEPS Footsteps continues. The course objectives are to learn about the traditional forms of dance, dance skills, social skills and confi-dence. This is an 8 week course and is held each Monday during school time between 1.30pm and 3.00pm for students in Years 1-3. We had a Footsteps lesson today, as the instructor was away on Monday 29 May.

SCHOOL MUSICAL This year our Musical is: “Mystery at Magpie Manor” The Mu-sical will involve students from Years 4-6. The Musical will be held at the Highfields Cultural Centre on Thursday 14 Septem-ber. As stated in our last newsletter, the timeline has closed for the return of the permission notes, so no more will be taken.

This week I have been conducting the auditions for the major speaking parts for the school musical and will announce which students have these parts at the end of this term. I will then give those successful students an information sheet for their parents to read and sign, to say that they are willing to allow their child to undertake a main part in the musical. What this means is that they are agreeing to the commitment that is in-volved in being part of the musical.

As next Term progresses, there will be more notes about cos-tumes and other requests for help. We are all excited about the forthcoming musical and I know that you will enjoy the musical when we present it at the Highfields Cultural Centre.

SCHOOL PRIORITIES—Say the 5 to Prioritise Priorities for 2017 are the same as 2016 as we continue to strengthen the great work already started.

Reading Quickwrites Number Fact Recall Attendance Behaviour

Each fortnight I will include each one of our 5 School Priorities and this will then give parents/caregivers an insight into what areas our school is concentrating on throughout 2017. This fort-night the priority is READING. Please read and enjoy.

AFTER SCHOOL HOURS CARE The Hall-Thorpe Sports After School Hours Care Program runs a fantastic Before and After School Program at Fairview Heights SS. Our school office has Information Packages for those par-ents interested in accessing this program. Bookings can be made by phoning 46 387965 direct. If you are interested in finding out more about the Hall-Thorpe Sports After School Hours Program for FHSS go onto their Web Page at: www.hallthorpesports.com.au

EVERY DAY COUNTS

The holidays are fast approaching. While it may be tempting to let your child stay home for the last day or even the last week of term, our school would prefer to see every child on every day of every term. We strongly believe children need to attend school every day to receive the most benefits from their education. Did you realise that skipping the last day of every term adds up to more than a whole term of schooling missed throughout a child’s education? Skipping a whole week of school each term means your child will miss more than 15 months of their education! For further infor-mation on the importance of regular school attendance, please visit www.education.qld.gov.au/everydaycounts/posters.html

P&C MEETING Our next P&C Meeting will be held on Tuesday 13 June, commenc-ing at 7.00pm in the Staff Room. Everyone is welcome to attend.

DENTAL VAN The Dental Van will be at Fairview Heights until Friday 16 June.

NEWSPAPERS, NEWSPAPERS, NEWSPAPERS The wheelie bins located at the front of the school are our collection point for Newspapers. This is raising funds for sporting equipment etc. It is so easy to do - put your newspaper in the bins and the D&S paper company PAYS the school for the Newspapers. Many thanks to the families that are sending their newspapers to Fairview for recycling.

Julie

Next Friday 16 June is Under 8's Day and Junior Sports Carnival. Children who are in Prep, 1,2 and the children in Year 3 who don't attend the senior sports carnival, will be able to attend.

There are many fun activities, some of them sports related for the children to do on the oval. Come along between 9 -11am and en-joy these activities with your children. Little ones and family mem-bers are most welcome. There is food and coffee available too. At approximately 10:15am we will pack up the activities and get ready for the sprint races. All children are able to be in the sprints starting with the Preps and going through to Year 3's. Please see the note handed out for full details of this exciting day! Chris McVeigh Yr 1 Teacher and Literacy Coach

A great night was had by all at our Winter Music and Soup evening. Congratulations to all of our inspiring Instrumental Music students.

2017 DATES TO REMEMBER

Mon Jun 12,19

Yrs 1-3 Footsteps

June 5-16 Life Education Van

Mon Jun 12 ICAS Writing

Tues Jun 13 Readers Cup Yr 5 & 6 @ Glennie

Wed Jun 14 ICAS Spelling

Th Jun 15 Yr 3 Picnic Point Excursion

Th Jun 15 Bella Girls Celebration Lunch

Th Jun 15 Strength Bowling Celebration

Fri Jun 16 Under 8’s Junior Sports Day 9.00-11.00am

Fri Jun 16 Dental Van’s last day

Mon Jun 19 9-12yrs 1/2 day Athletics

Tues Jun 20 9-12yrsFull Day Athletics

Tues Jun 20 Pie Drive Collection Day

Sat Jun 24– Sun Jul 9

Winter School Vacation

Tues 1 Aug ICAS English

Fri 4 Aug Prep + Yrs 3,5 + SEP Swimming Payment & Permission Due

Mon 14 Aug Swimming Lessons 3 weeks Mon/Tue/Wed—Notes coming home Week 10 Term 2

Tues 15 Aug ICAS Maths

T-TH 22-24 Aug

Instrumental Music Camp Yrs 5-6

M & Tu 11-12 Sep

School Musical Practices @ Highfields Cultural Centre 9am-3pm

Thur 14 Sep School Musical Performance Highfields Cultural Centre—7pm

REGULAR ACTIVITIES Mon/Thurs/ Fri Monday Thursday

TUCKSHOP Yr 1-6 Prep F & V Prep H, S & P-3S

Monday Recorder extension group—1st Break

Tuesday Ukelele Extension Group—1st Break

2nd Tuesday of Month

P&C Meeting – All Welcome

7.00 pm – Staff Room

Wednesday Breakfast Club @ 8am

Wednesday Instrumental Band Practice 7:50am-8:50am (Arrive7:45am) Instrumental Music Classes

Wednesday Woodwork Option—1st Break

Wednesday Assembly (in Hall) 2.20pm. Parents/Carers welcome.

Thursday Percussion: Glockenspiels, Xylophones & Marimbas—1st

Break

Friday Singing Extension for Youth Choir & other aspiring singers-

1st Break

READING

Strategy Actions Targets

Whole school focus on teaching of reading compre-hension and read-ing decoding skills

Use of SCORE as a reading comprehension strategy across the school in all KLAs.

Increase the percentage of students in the Upper 2 Bands Naplan Read-ing 2017.

Year 3 students:

Target: 35% Reading;

Year 5 students:

Target: 30% Reading;

Increase NAPLAN Stu-dent Reading Relative Gain from Year 3 - Year 5 to 95%

Increase the percent-age of students at or above stanine 4 Pat R comprehension

Year 4: 78% at or above Benchmark

Year 5: 80% at or above Benchmark

Year 6: 63% at or above Benchmark

Increase the number of students (P-6) at or above PM Benchmarks to 90%.

Continue Before School Reading Club for students in Prep-Year 3 who are just below Reading benchmark.

Widen use of Literacy Pro for students in Year 2-6 to increase reading stamina and enjoyment of reading

Fund a paraprofessional to implement Levelled Literacy Intervention (LLI) program in the early years to improve reading for students identified as below Reading benchmark.

Continue funding a Lower School Learning Support Teacher three days a week to work with students in the early years who require targeted and intensive intervention to improve reading progress.

Continue funding a Lower School Literacy Coach two days a week to further build teacher capacity to analyse student data to inform teaching and learning, track data and deliver Professional Development.

Read It Again (Foundation Q) program implemented to improve Oral Language in Prep

Whole school independent reading for 15 minutes every day with teachers monitoring and giving feedback to students. (Whisper Reading)

Positive Behaviour for Learning Program (PBL) UPDATE

So many positive activities happening at Fairview Heights State School!! Students enjoying delicious Cupcake Morning Teas, creating Lego Masterpieces, enjoying Big Fort Play, along with Green Zone Play as well. These Students continue to diligently display our Whole School Behaviour Expectations and are reaping the rewards of their efforts. Well Done!!

Our End of Term Celebration is fast approaching. This is our way as a School Com-munity of rewarding those Students who make positive behaviour choices each and every day. If your child has received a Major Behaviour Referral or their Attendance has fallen below our School Benchmark, they will not be permitted to attend the Cele-bration.

As a Parent/Carer there are a number of ways you can support your child with PBL. Positively talking about our Whole School Expectations and our weekly behaviour focus are simple, but effective ways, of supporting your child on their Learning jour-ney.

Congratulations to our ‘Exceptional” Students !! Term 2—Week 7 Students of the Week Jorja, Sam, Keilyanne, Roman, Sienna, Jor-dan, Violet, Kiana, Hallie, Jackson, Christian, Ashton, Lucy, Patrick, Zane, Lachlan, Hope, Ben, Thomas, Penny, Joshua, Georgie, Lilly, Tallis, David, Ben, Alex, Santiago, Cooper & Linkin.

Term 2—Week 8 Students of the Week Kirra-Leigh, Matilda, Izabella, Jade, Summah, Madison, Amelia, Emily, Jessica, Alannah, Bella, Charlotte, Jessica, Tariah, Cillian, Kee-nan, Isabella, Lydia, Noah, Alex, Jack, Jorja, Caitlin, Lachlan, Nathaniel, Elliot, Ashton.

Congratulations to our Super Literacy Pro Award Recipients: Charlie, Krystal, Lilly, Tahlia, Brooke, Jamieson, Jack, Darcy, Annalisa, Kate, Emily, Darcy, Alli, Hol-ley, Daniel, Zane, Andre, Patrick, Mitchell, Jayden, & Phoenix. Dylan, Alexander, Ashlee, Savannah, Theo, Kae-dyn, Luke