Mount Sylvia State School6 Left Hand Branch Road

Mount Sylvia Q 4343Phone 07 5462 6245

Fax 07 5462 6155 NEWSLETTER Volume 3, Issue 8

Monday 24 July 2017

Date Claimers Term 3 - 2017

Week 3 Lockyer National Tree Day –

school tree planting activity

Monday 24 July 2017

Week 3 Ma Ma Creek Exhibition

Singing with Mrs Martin’s

combined schools choir

Sat 29 July 2017

Week 4 US Navy school visit Monday 31 July 2017

Week 4 Playgroup 9 – 11am All children age 0-5 welcome

Wed 2 Aug 2017

Week 5 Caffey School Sports Tuesday 8 Aug 2017

Week 5 Caffey School Sports Thursday 10 Aug 2017

Week 6 Public Holiday – Ekka Monday 14 Aug 2017

Week 6 Playgroup 9 – 11am All children age 0-5 welcome

Wed 16 Aug 2017

Week 8 Playgroup 9 – 11am All children age 0-5 welcome

Wed 30 Aug 2017

Week 8 Under 8s Day – Gatton Friday 1 Sept 2017

Week 10 Playgroup 9 – 11am All children age 0-5 welcome

Wed 13 Sept 2017

Week 10 Last day of term 3 Friday 15 Sept 2017

P&C Date Claimers Term 3 - 2017

Week 3 P&C General Meeting

3.45pm – 5pm

Monday 24 July 2017

Week 5 Up the Creek Festival Saturday 12 Aug 2017

Week 7 P&C General Meeting

3.45pm – 5pm

Monday 21 Aug 2017

Week 7 Pub Raffles – Tenthill Hotel Friday 25 Aug 2017

Week 8 Landcare Education Day –

Mount Sylvia P&C Catering

Saturday 2 Sept 2017

From the Principal’s Desk

School Improvement Agenda – 2017 1. Reading comprehension

2. Writing skills

Term 3, 2017 is off to a great start. Our students started

the term full of enthusiasm and vigour indicating the holiday

break was good for them. As usual they are full of stories

about their adventures and exploits during the break.

Our P&C have been working very hard over the past couple

of months to get our first ‘Up the Creek Festival 2017’ up and

running. There have been many families and individuals

working behind the scenes to plan for this big event. The

P&C have supported this initiative so that our school

community can focus on building one large event each year

to raise as many funds as possible. The P&C executive will

be contacting families over the next couple of weeks to seek

volunteers to help on the day. Your support to provide as

little as one hour to several hours will be a great help.

A group of year 4 and 5 students recently visited the

University of Queensland, St Lucia campus as part of the

Education Queensland’s IMPACT online learning Big Day

Out. These students participated in two online learning

activities in term 1 & 2 this year for literacy and numeracy.

This was a culminating activity which allowed our 6 students

participate with over 500 students from other State Schools

in activities which gave them experience of university life for

a day. Our students were in a group with students from

Caboolture East State School. Mount Whitestone students

also participated in the day so they will be able to compare

notes about their experiences at UQ – Big Day Out 2017.

UQ - Global Change Institute with our guide Nobel.

Global Change Institute Sustainable Building is a $32 million

state-of-the-art building which opened in 2013. It employs

sustainable design, construction and operating practices.

The students toured the facilities and got to find out how the

building controls its own environment through smart

technology and sensing climate controls.

UQ – Global Change Institute basement

United Nations Sustainability Goals activity

Exploring the lakes at UQ

Gatton Show 2017

Mount Whitestone State School were invited to sing the

National Anthem at this year’s Gatton Show and invited our

school to join them. It was a great evening with most of our

students participating. Thank you to all the families who

were able to make it on the night.

Getting ready for the Anthem at the Gatton Show 2017

Thank you to all the families who were able to make it on

the night.

Mark Thompson Principal

Super Spellers Awards

Bronte, Ella, Emma, Natalie, Bly, Taneisha and Dylan

Great Home Readers

Bly and Emma -150 nights, Leigha, Ella, Cooper, Bronte -

125 nights, Clare and James -100 nights

Wow! Champion Kade for winning his computer game

challenge against staff - Mrs Maguire.

Mrs Maguire commented on Kade’s good sportsmanship

and helping behaviours. Even though he was more skilled in

the game, he stopped to show Mrs Maguire how she could

do better at different skill levels.

Student Awards Student awards are part of our school routine. The awards

will be in the following categories.

Principal Award

Student of the Week for P-2

Student of the Week for 3-6

Literacy Achievement for P-2

Literacy Achievement for 3-6

Numeracy Achievement for P-2

Numeracy Achievement for 3-6

The Principal Award is awarded to a student who has

demonstrated outstanding learning and/or citizenship

qualities throughout the week. This award may not always

be given weekly as students need to demonstrate

outstanding qualities.

The Student of the Week awards are linked to the

behavioural expectations for the week and awarded to

students who have demonstrated behaviours above and

beyond what is expected on a daily basis.

The literacy awards are for students who have

demonstrated growth and commitment to their learning in

literacy skills across all areas of the curriculum.

The numeracy awards are for students who have

demonstrated growth and commitment to their learning in

numeracy skills across all areas of the curriculum.

Student Awards – Term 3

Week 1 Student awards are part of our school routine. Each week

on Friday afternoon (when possible) we celebrate our

success. Here are another great set of photos and proud

students.

Student Awards - Week 1

Principal Award

Emma - For using your initiative to help other students’ learning across the age groups by supporting before school readers; sharing your expertise with film making and sharing your knowledge and skills in the classroom. Well done Emma!

Student of the Week for P-2

Matilda - For demonstrating the expectation of being a learner by putting her best effort into all areas of learning. Well done!

Student of the Week for 3-6

Ella - For being a learner by putting in her best effort in all key learning areas this week. Well done, Ella!

Literacy Achievement

for P-2

Zaria - For working hard to write neatly with spaces between words. Your writing is improving because of your efforts. Keep it up!

Literacy Achievement

for 3-6

Leigha - For using her reading skills to interpret online texts to support her iMaths investigation.

Numeracy Achievement

for P-2

Mia - For accurately skip counting by fives when saying and writing number patterns. Great work!

Numeracy Achievement

for 3-6

Isabella, Matikah and Adrian - For using problem solving skills to measure and cut pieces of string accurately to the nearest centimetre. Well done!

Student Awards Photos - Week 1

Principal’s Award – Emma

Students of the Week – Ella and Matilda

Literacy Awards – Zaria and Leigha

Numeracy Awards – Isabella, Matikah, Adrian and Mia

Student Awards – Term 3

Week 2 Student awards are part of our school routine. Each week

on Friday afternoon (when possible) we celebrate our

success. Here are another great lot of photos and proud

students.

Student Awards - Week 2

Principal Award

No award this week

Student of the Week for P-2

Zahra - For demonstrating the expectation of being respectful by using appropriate behaviour and language during eating times.

Student of the Week for 3-6

Bly - For being respectful during eating times by using your manners, listening to others and contributing to conversations in a meaningful way. Well done!

Literacy Achievement

for P-2

Benjamin - For being able to use accurate recall to fill in information on a timeline about a story. Great job!

Literacy Achievement

for 3-6

Adrian - For using his reading skills to interpret activities in Rainforest Maths to support his maths learning.

Numeracy Achievement

for P-2

Dekota - For displaying great mathematical knowledge about 2D shapes and their attributes. Well done!

Numeracy Achievement

for 3-6

Clare, Bailey and Taneisha - For using problem solving skills to understand how arrays help understanding multiplication strategies. Well done!

Student Awards Photos - Week 2

Students of the Week – Zahra and Bly

Literacy Awards – Benjamin and Adrian

Numeracy Awards – Clare, Dekota and Bailey (Taneisha

absent)

Special Teacher Award – Mrs Hall

Mason - For putting in a magnificent effort to complete your

homework this term. You are demonstrating maturity by

attempting your work independently and you should be very

proud. Keep up the great work!

Great Home Readers

Zahra and Ella -150 nights, Dylan and Adrian -125 nights,

Isabella -75 nights

Chappie Amy and Bailey – Playgroup Day

From little schools - big things grow!

Mount Sylvia State School –Term 3-2017 UPDATED: 14 July 2017

Month Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

July 2017

Music Lesson Mrs Hall

PE Lesson Mrs Hall / Mrs Bauer

STLaN / Chaplain Mrs Hall / Mrs Bauer

Principal Admin Day Mrs Ritchie / Mrs Bauer

Religious Instruction Mrs Hall

24 Week 3 Music National Tree Day-11.30 am P&C General Meeting 3.45 pm

25 PE

26 Jennifer STLaN Staff Meeting – PBL/Curric/PD

27

28 Ma Ma Creek Exhibition – Sat 29. Student performance – Mrs Martin

31 Week 4 Music

1 PE P-2 Fire Service Visit-9.30-11am

2 Jennifer STLaN Playgroup 9 – 11am

3 PD – e Library digital books Gatton SS 3.30-5pm

4

Aug 2017

7 Week 5 Music Prep Vision Screening-QH

8 Caffey Small Schools Athletics 9-12yo students

9 Jennifer STLaN Lockyer Cluster Meeting Staff Meeting – PBL/Curric/PD

10 Caffey Small Schools Athletics Whole School

11 12 August 2018 – P&C Event Junction View Hall

14 Week 6 Ekka Show – Public Holiday

15 Principal Business Mtg PE

16 Jennifer STLaN Playgroup 9 – 11am

17 German activity 10 am Gatton Student Council Mtg – 1 pm Science Fair – High school

18

21 Week 7 Music P&C General Meeting

22 PE

23 Jennifer STLaN Staff Meeting – PBL/Curric/PD

24

25 Pub Raffles – P&C

28 Week 8 Music

29 PE

30 Jennifer STLaN Playgroup 9 – 11am

31

1 Under 8s Day – Gatton Helidon – Cricket Landcare Education Day Sat - 2 September

Sep 2017

4 Week 9 Music

5 PE

6 Indigenous Literacy Day Jennifer STLaN Staff Meeting – PBL/Curric/PD

7 Tipp – Kick German - Gatton SS

8 P&Cs Qld State Conference 9 September 2017

11 Week 10 Music

12 PE

13 Jennifer STLaN Playgroup 9 – 11am

14

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Term 4 – Date Claimers

Week 2 Depart Sunday 8 Oct Mon-October 9 Year 4-6 School Camp

Tues-October 10 Year 4-6 School Camp

Wed-October 11 Year 4-6 School Camp

Thurs-October 12 Year 4-6 School Camp

Return Friday-October 13 Year 4-6 School Camp

Week 3 Mon-October 16 Student Free Day – No School Staff Professional Development

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Friday-October 20 Swimming – (Week 3 to Week 7) UQ Gatton 12-2pm Pub Raffles – P&C

Week 4 Mon-October 23 Year 6 – Transition Day High School

Tues-October 24 Year 6 – Transition Day High School

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Friday-27 Day for Daniel Swimming – UQ Gatton 12-2pm

Week 7 Mon-November 13 School Concert – Baptist Church Hall - Tenthill

Week 8 Thurs-November 23 Caffey District Swimming Carnival – Gatton