MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

SCHOOL RULES

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Our School Rules are:

Be safe

Be responsible

Be respectful

Staying safe at Wilbur Street bus

stop

Wait quietly under the walkway

roof between the junior toilets

and ‘D’ Block

Walk to the gate when the bus

ARRIVES

Line up behind the yellow line

when the bus STOPS

Behave well on the bus,

respecting bus rules

Have a loaded GO Card

Commitment

Make the most of your class time by:

Staying on task

Listening to instructions

Being organised

Holland Park State School

59 Abbotsleigh St, Holland Park,

Qld, 4121

Ph: (07) 3421 6222

Fax: (07) 3421 6200

Student Absences: (07) 3421 6260

Email: admin@hollparkss.eq.edu.au

SCHOOL CALENDAR

5

June Year 1 Kiteman Incursion

15

June

Prep Science Show and

Workshop

14-

16

June

Year 5 Mapleton Camp

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Creative Generation

Last week I wrote about our students’ participation in

Creative Generation. This week I can say that we took part

and our Senior Choir achieved the gold award. We will now

wait to see if the adjudicator will put our choir forward for

the next level of performance competition. Congratulations to

all our students and to their teacher, Mr Warryn James. I

would also like to thank our parent volunteer, Mrs Sophie

Hills for her accompaniment at many rehearsals and at the

performance itself.

New Parent Information Sessions

Information sessions were held this week for parents who

might be considering sending their children here in 2018. It

was great to see so many people here. Parents were advised

that last year for prep, we were only able to take students

from our enrolment catchment area. There simply was no

capacity for the enrolment of any students from outside our

area. This is becoming increasing the case for the rest of the

school.

It is difficult to tell whether we will have vacancies next year

for prep. For parents who are outside catchment or who do

not have other children who will be attending in 2018, it

would be a very good idea to get names on a waiting list as

soon as possible. If we do go to that list to fill vacancies, the

system we use is chronological in that we will contact

prospective parents beginning with who registered first.

In talking to parents at this week’s meetings, I mentioned

the things that make our school distinctive. I have provided a

brief summary below.

We commit to our motto of Striving to Excel where we

define excellence as being the best we can be in terms

of academic, cultural and sporting pursuits as well as in

being positive citizens of the school.

Our early literacy program for Prep to Year 2 is giving

us results of which we are very proud. We will be

putting a paper forward with our partners at Griffith

University for presentation at upcoming conferences of

teachers and principals.

Philosophy is providing a great thinking and problem

solving framework for our school that will be of great

benefit for all students whether they continue it at

Cavendish Road High or not.

MESSAGE FROM THE DEPUTY PRINCIPAL

MESSAGE FROM PRINCIPAL CONT’D

Our Year 3 to Year 6 program is still new but already we are getting good results. Its main

purpose is the teaching of reading through the explicit attention paid to:

Reading comprehension

Fluency

Vocabulary and

Guided Reading

Our Asian focus is unique from the point of view of being supported by language instruction and

cross curriculum applications. This is, of course, all supported by the amazing relationship that

we have with our sister school, Otemon Gakuin Elementary in Osaka.

Anthony Gribbin

Principal

Creative Generation Voices 2017 Celebrating Holland Park’s State School Senior Choir

Creative Generation Voices is Education Queensland’s biannual Choral Festival and Competition.

Creative Generation Voices is run by Regional Music coordinators for their regions and continues to

showcase the state’s best state school choirs and is a celebration of the wonderful work being done

by music teachers, choral directors and students across the state.

On Tuesday 16 May Holland Park State School senior choir attended Creative Generation Voices at

Coorparoo Secondary College accompanied by Mr James.

The choir performed the following three items:

I’ll tell Ma, a traditional Irish tune.

May it Be composed by Enya

Firefly composed by Andy Beck

The senior choir was awarded a Gold certificate for their

Showcase Performance in recognition of their excellence and

commitment. Congratulations to all members of the senior choir.

Special thanks to all parents who came to the performance we

wish to acknowledge Sophie Hills the accompanist who played for the senior choir. Thank you Mrs

Hills. Congratulations to our talented music specialist Mr James for his dedication to the music pro-

gram at Holland Park State School.

Philosophy Training at Holland Park State School

On Thursday 18 May year one and year five teachers participated in day 2 of level one training here

at Holland Park State School

This training was facilitated by our thinking coach Desley Alexion and Selina Blanchfield. We thank

them for their professional preparation for this day 2 training.

Gina Black berry from Griffith University who is helping lead our action research in Philosophy

also attended this training day and was very impressed with the professional learning that took

place.

Teachers were given the opportunity to reflect on their first day of training with meaningful

conversation. They engaged in more inquiry skills and also engaged in how to develop reasoning

when conducting a community of inquiry with their students. Teachers engaged with a number of

analogies and created a questioning framework to consider with their students.

Gail Young

Acting Deputy Principal

COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICER

FINANCE

(1) QParents – Remember to sign up for

QParents if you haven’t already registered. This

will be the only way to view student report

cards. QParents is a well-established program

that allows you to keep in touch with the

school, i.e. advising the office of any absences,

changing addresses, medical conditions,

etc. Please email me if you have any queries.

(2) Positive Behaviour—We will be turning on

this dataset today, you will be able to see

Student of the Week and Class Awards. The

certificates that have been presented to

students from the beginning of 2017 have been

entered onto One School, this will enable you

to see these on QParents.

(3) Prep Enrolments for 2018 – Please bring

your 2018 Catchment and/or Sibling prep

enrolment forms into the admin office as soon

as possible. If you already have siblings at

school, remember to bring an original birth

certificate or passport with your application.

For new catchment enrolments, please don’t

forget to bring a birth certificate or passport

and proof of residency documents with your

application. If you have any queries regarding

enrolments, please don’t hesitate to contact

me.

Karen Oliver

Email: koliv33@eq.edu.au

The Finance department is now located

underneath the Administration building. Please

ensure you head downstairs if you have any

enquiries about your students account.

This week at Cav Road Science club—A whole

new world under a microscope

A Dutch tradesman and scientist, Anton Van

Leeuwenhoek made the first ever microscope.

Using it he discovered living things so small that

they cannot be seen by the naked eye which he

called ‘little beasties’. They are called

microorganisms are everywhere, on the couch,

on your bead and even in the bath. There are

many types of microorganisms all in various col-

ours and sizes examples of these

are amoebae, protozoa (these

two are made of just one cell),

daphnia and gastrotrichs. Many

microorganisms are harmless but

though they lack in size some

can make you very sick.

CAV ROAD SCIENCE CLUB

During the class we examined a drop of pond

water under the microscope and daw a great

variety of weird and wonderful microorganisms,

one group even had an incredible looking

creature it was blue with a tail like a tadpole’s

we watched it swim around eat other

microorganisms. I think that was the highlight

of the lesson.

Evander 5KO

PEER MEDIATORS

Twenty-three volunteer students in grade

six recently attended three lunch-time training

sessions to learn how to help younger children

solve conflicts on the playground.

These students will play a crucial role in keeping

our school safe and friendly, and in the process,

they are attaining valuable life skills in active

listening, compromise, assertive communication

and leadership.

The process undertaken by these mediators in-

volves helping the pupils involved to cool down,

listen to one another's perspective on what has

happened, to brainstorm solutions, and to agree

on a way forward.

In pairs or trios, peer mediators wear a bright

yellow vest and patrol the oval in search of peo-

ple who may need their assistance. They do one

rostered shift per fortnight, and have also visit-

ed classes and presented on assembly so that

their peers know who they are and what service

they are offering.

Congratulations to the following students on

their commitment to such a pivotal school pro-

gram:

Branden 6JC, Spencer 6SE, Mitchell 6JC, Elijah

6SE, Alex 6SE, Max 6SE, Luke 6KD, Camila 6SE,

Hazel 6JC, Jaida 6JC, Scarlett 6KD, Ruby 6SE,

Georgia 6SE, Tia 6SE, Emma 6SE, Isabelle 6SE,

Ella 6SE, Charli 6SE, Rhianna 6JC, Aki 6KD,

Corina 6KD, Lara 6KD, Priya 6JC, and Ruby 6KD.

We look forward to enjoying the many positive

outcomes of this program, including (but not

limited to):

a reduction in scenarios where students

can't find friends to play with at playtime,

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