Mossman State School

27th April- District Cross Country

27th April- Assembly-

(Monthly Pennants Awarded)

3rd May– Tour de Cure visiting

4th May– Year 6A Cultural Walk

@ Cooya Beach (Term 1

attendance award)

7th May- Labour Day Holiday

10th May- Mothers’ Day Stall

11th May- Cluster Sports Day -

soccer and girls rugby league (10-

12 year olds)

Please return the survey & membership forms to the office as soon as possible.

Special Meeting

Thursday 3rd May

3.30 pm – RIC (Library)

All Welcome

PO BOX 163, Mossman QLD 4873 ~ Ph: 4099 9333 ~ Fax: 07 4098 1491 Principal: Randal Smith

www.mossmanss.eq.edu.au

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land and pay respects to the Elders, past, present and future.

D a t e s t o r e m e m b e r : Principal News:

Thursday, 26th April

Dear Parents and Carers,

It was wonderful to see so many of our

students, parents and staff at yesterday’s

ANZAC Day parade at Port Douglas. We

counted 27 students which is an amazing

turn out for our school. Thank you to eve-

ryone who made the effort to come over,

we were very proud of you all. Thank you

also to our leaders who ran our own pre-

ANZAC Day service on Tuesday.

We have a number of staff out today,

attending a workshop at Wonga Beach

State School about reading disorders. Miss

Michelle is also away for the week and Mr

Adrian will be running our HPE classes. We

also have Alby running some rugby league

drills with our students for a few weeks.

On Monday of next week we have a few

Cowboys players joining us at first lunch

for a bit of a kick around too.

Tomorrow our 9-12 year old cross country

runners will be representing our school at

the District Cross Country at Port Douglas

and we wish them all the best for the day.

It should be a spectacular day on the

beach, if today is anything to go by. Con-

gratulations to all of our students who

made it to this level.

Tomorrow we also welcome teachers from Pormpuraaw State School who are coming along to observe how our teachers run their daily literacy and numeracy consoli-dations.

Next Thursday we have the Tour de Cure

visiting to present a 25 minute Be Fit-Be

Healthy-Be Happy program to our stu-

dents. All students will also receive a bag

of goodies to help reinforce the Be Fit, Be

Healthy, Be Happy message. Tour De Cure

is a cycling foundation of ordinary people

who care passionately about curing can-

cer. The tours and events across Australia

raise vital funds for world-class cancer pro-

jects. Since its beginning in 2007, Tour de

Cure has raised over $35m towards cancer

research. This year’s tour is from 27th April

to 5th May and their route from Mackay to

Cape Tribulation and back to Cairns takes

the riders past our school. Our school cap-

tains and leaders are organising some wel-

come posters for the day and we are hop-

ing to have our whole school out to wel-

come the riders into our school. To help

raise some valuable funds for Tour de

Cure, Mrs Swan has organised a Mufti Day

on Tuesday of next week. This is a day

where students come dressed in regular

clothes and give a gold coin donation to a

charity. Mrs Swan’s husband, Chris, is go-

ing to cook up a sausage sizzle at first

lunch and our student council are going to

be selling ice cups. Ice cups will be the usu-

al $1 and the sausage sizzle will be a gold

coin donation of your choice. All money

raised will be presented to the Tour de

Cure riders on Thursday by our school cap-

tains. Please support this valuable fund

raiser.

Our Interschool Spelling Bee will now be

held on Tuesday 29th May in our assembly

room from 9am to 11am. All parents and

family members are welcome to come and

watch our students compete.

Thank you everyone for all of your support

in my return to work this week. It has been

a difficult time for me and I really do ap-

preciate it.

Kind regards,

Randal Smith

Students of the Week 1 Prep: Lucas for doing his jobs in the morning. Prep: Greg for being a learner and trying hard. Prep/1: Reickarl for excellent sounding out with writing . Prep/1: Corinthian for excellent on task behaviours. Year 1/2: Lucia for showing patience to others whilst waiting turns. Year 2/3: Hunter for excellent contribution. Year 2/3: Grace for starting her first week back with an enthusiastic manner. Year 3/4A: Hunta for an excellent start to Term 2. Year 3/4B: Margaret for being an awesome learner. SEP: Lovaye for settling in nicely to her new class working hard. Year 4/5: Silas for sensational ideas. Year 4/5: Liddy for excellent listening skills. Year 5A: Ryleigh for using captivating and de-scribing her persuasive writing. Year 5B: Lleyton for an improved effort in Reading Groups.

Year 5B: Thully for having a fantastic first week. Year 6: Oliver for showing leadership. Year 6: Aaliyah for having an awesome start to term 2. Principal: Asher and Jaxon for being a good friend to others.

Week 1 Attendance

Congratulations to Year 5A who have taken the top position off 6A this

week with a fantastic attendance rate of 94.46%! Our overall attend-

ance rate is still in the green at 91.5% - great job everybody! Keep com-

ing every day! After this week, we will award the highest attendance

certificate each week, to the class with the highest attendance rate for

the month, rather than the term.

1. 5A 94.46%

2. 6A 94.33%

3. 3/4A 94.02%

4. 2/3 93.91%

5. 5B 91.94%

6. 3/4B 90.57%

7. 4/5A 89.73%

8. 1/2 89.54%

9. Prep1 89.49%

10. Prep 87.86%

11. SEP 84.6%

Attendance

Year 5A

ANZAC Day Parade