EAGLE JUNCTION STATE SCHOOL 49 Roseby Avenue Phone: (07) 3637 1111 Email: admin@eagljuncss.eq.edu.au

Clayfield QLD 4011 Fax: (07) 3637 1100 Website: www.eaglejunctionss.eq.edu.au Student Absence Line: (07) 3637 1166

FLYING EAGLE No. 04 18 February 2015

From the Principal Student Leaders’ Elections continue This week elections for Student Council representatives from Years 4 to 6 have been the focus of student elections. Having to nominate, prepare and deliver an “election” speech is part of the process.

Our Library Monitors for 2015 have also been selected after completing an application for the position.

The Tec. Crew for 2015 are also sending their applications/completing training for their leadership positions.

Building leadership density amongst our students is something we believe has merit. It builds confidence and organisation skills. The roles challenge students to get along, develop persistence and resilience in the performance of their roles.

Student Leaders make great learners.

Student Leaders’ Induction

The Semester One Student Leaders’ Induction Ceremony will be conducted in the hall at 8.45am Thursday 5 March, 2015. All students will need to be at school on time for the first bell at 8.20am so we will be able to begin on time. We have some very special guests who will be joining us and all students from Year 3 to Year 6 will be attending. Space will be at a premium.

All students, Years 3 to 6, should be in full and complete school uniform. (Tartan shirt, white socks and black shoes). This is a formal school occasion.

Student Leaders presented with their badges of office that day include School Captains, Sports and Music Captains, Senior Leaders and Student Council representatives.

Library Monitors and Tec. Crew will receive their badges on 13 March at Friday Assembly at 8.35am.

Library Monitors 2015

Congratulations to the following students who have been selected as Library Monitors for 2015.

Year 4 Vani Aul Srividya Kariot Johnathan Munro Kate Beavis Jack McBride Jasmine Neilson Joe Chai Year 5 Aditya Anand Yurina Matsuoka Aliana Scott Tom Cameron Lily Mitchell Reah Sharma Finn Carey Emma-Rose Neil Amelia Smith Ellie Gillespie Ondine O’Chee Hudson Stein-Smith Kavya Hilario Ramiya Ramanalingam Will Stuart Titouan Laverdure Grace Reilly Anya Tomley Year 6 Ambika Aul Claire Falkenhagen Despina Poullas Gemma Beilby Negin Hassanzadeh Cleo Shave Abbie Chadirchi

Student Absence Phone

3637 1166

Diary Dates

Fri Feb 20 7.40am Senior Choir 8.30am Snr Assembly 6.00pm Blue Light Disco

Mon Feb 23 7.20am Senior Concert Band

Tue Feb 24 7.20am Chess 7.40am Vocal Ensemble 6.00pm Prep Sub Committee Meeting

Wed Feb 25 7.30am String Ensemble 7.40am Junior Choir 1.30pm Junior Assembly

Fri Feb 27 7.40am Senior Choir 8.30am Snr Assembly

Sun Mar 1 3.00pm Prep Family BBQ

Mon Mar 2 7.20am Senior Concert Band 7.00pm P&C Meeting

Tues Mar 3 7.20am Chess 7.40am Vocal Ensemble

Wed Mar 4 7.30am String Ensemble 7.40am Junior Choir 1.30pm Junior Assembly

Thurs Mar 5 8.45am Student Leaders’ Induction ** Note Date change **

Fri Mar 6 7.40am Senior Choir 8.30am Snr Assembly

Mon Mar 9 7.20am Senior Concert Band 6.00pm Music Support Mtg

Tues Mar 10 Class Photos 7.20am Chess 7.40am Vocal Ensemble

Wed Mar 11 7.30am String Ensemble 7.40am Junior Choir 1.30pm Junior Assembly

Fri Mar 13 7.40am Senior Choir 8.30am Snr Assembly

from The Principal (cont'd)

Make Every Day Count in 2015 Make 2015 the year when your child doesn’t miss a day of school or arrive late for school. Research shows that students who have good patterns of attendance are more likely to achieve at school. If students aren’t at school or don’t attend the whole day, they are missing valuable learning.

Parent Network Thank you so very much to David and Michelle Pink who welcomed new and returning parents into their home last Friday evening. It was a really enjoyable night with lots of “networking” occurring for our P&C Association and its Parent Network.

Tenders for P&C Projects Close Today Today at 12noon tenders for our P&C projects closed. I will be working with WIM Architects, the P&C architects and school project managers, and DET representatives to select the successful tenders for

Construction of new tuckshop Modifications to pool entrance 3 outdoor play and learning spaces – 2 between A and B Blocks and the other, on the edge of the oval

We are all looking forward to these projects coming to fruition.

Josephine Bottrell (Principal)

From the Deputy Principals

Last week we looked at the importance of choosing a positive attitude to school, learning and oneself as a learner. This week we are focusing on "Being Organised" as a Critical learning Behaviour. Why is being organised so important? There are two areas of organisation in which students gradually develop their skills.

The first is in physical organisation. Being prepared with everything I need to engage with the learning task. Time is lost and focus disappears when a child has to spend 5 minutes looking for their pencil, another five minutes getting it sharpened and then finding the right page in the right book ready to start. Some children are just starting when others are nearly finished. Frustrating for the child! Frustrating for the teacher! How do you model and scaffold the development of physical organisation skills at home? A wall planner or calendar for family activities, a specific place for important notices, a shopping list or a weekly menu, talking through plans of how to get everyone to the right place at the right time and what everyone's responsibility is to make this happen! All of these are organizational strategies which children can learn about and understand. The goal and plans can become more complex as your child matures. The second type of organisation is the organisation of thinking. Teachers teach these skills in all of the learning areas, by clearly defining a goal and setting out the steps for achieving the goal. Teachers model their thinking to students by talking aloud as they demonstrate a new concept. They scaffold students learning by ensuring that children's thinking skills develop in incremental steps, gradually releasing the responsibility to the child. They provide frameworks for thinking whether the task is writing a persuasive text, solving a mathematical problem or finding out something about our world. For some home ideas for young students the following link may be useful. http://www.essentialkids.com.au/younger-kids/kids-education/teaching-kids-to-get-organised-20090623-curp.html For older students try http://www.ccb.vic.edu.au/get_document.php?doc_id=20 Have a great week!

Buffy Lavery and Susie Randel-Kneipp

Chappy Jane sends her love and greetings from South Australia and wants to let you know that

she has been thinking of you all as you begin your new year at the wonderful EJ School.

If you would like to write to her, her new address is: 8 Plymouth Avenue,

Coromandel Valley SA 5051. Email is: maggiejanebaron@gmail.com.au.

From HOC & Master Teacher High Impact Teaching In line with our Improvement Agenda, our main area of focus this year is the consistent implementation of our Pedagogical Framework – Teaching and Learning the EJ Way, incorporating the use of High Impact Teaching. How will students understand what they are going to learn and know when they are successful?

When teachers consider this question, High Impact Teaching guides their instruction. In order to prepare students for learning, the second step in the High Impact Teaching Sequence is to unpack the learning intention (what students will learn in the lesson) and success criteria (how the students will know when they are successful in the lesson). ‘If learners are to take more responsibility for their own learning, then they need to know what they are going to learn, how they will recognise when they have succeeded and why they should learn it in the first place.’ (An Intro to AfL, Learning Unlimited, 2004) Teachers unpack the learning intention and success criteria by:

identifying the curriculum intent - what students will be learning

sharing the reason and purpose for learning, after activating students’ prior knowledge

presenting the learning intention and success criteria in language that students can understand

revisiting the learning intention throughout the activity/ lesson An example learning intention and success criteria could be:

Learning Intention: We are learning to think about the images we ‘see’ as we read

Success Criteria: We will be successful when we can:

- think about what we ‘see’ as we read each section of the text - tell our partner and teacher what we can ‘see’ after we have read each section of the text - find words in the text that helped us ‘see’ the character/event as we read and tell other students about them

Reading This year, we continue our focus on improving student achievement in reading. Word decoding strategies help students to decode, pronounce and understand words. Some strategies to assist students to decode words include:

Strategy Prompt

Connecting to a word you know Think of the word that looks like the unfamiliar word.

Reread the sentence Think about what word might make sense in the sentence. Try the word and see if the sentence makes sense.

Fleur Provost (Head of Curriculum) and Michael Coad (Master Teacher)

Sports Report

Lunch Time Swim Clubs A select group of students have been invited to participate in a variety of swim clubs to be held during lunch times. If your child has been selected to participate then it is very important that students arrive on time to make the most of this opportunity.

Representative Swimming Eagle Junction sent 38 students to represent the school at the City District Swimming Carnival. All students competed well and gained valuable experience competing against other talented swimmers from local schools. From the carnival EJ had 10 students selected to represent City District at the upcoming Metropolitan North Championships to be held at Lawnton Swimming Pool on Wednesday 25

th February. Congratulations to Phoebe Bradley, Eva Formosa-Kerr, Freya

Caine, Lily Carrick, Ashleigh Pomeroy, Tomas Gregory, Ben Barter, Nicholas Jones, Lucas Hassall and Finlay Schuster on their selection in the City District Swimming Team.

Cross Country Students in Years 3-6 who are looking for cross country practice - there will be sessions held on the School oval from approximately 7:45am – 8:20am on a Tuesday and Thursday morning. All students wishing to participate must wait on the seats next to the oval until the teacher in charge (Mrs Vander Velde) arrives. Here is a suggested training program for students wishing to do extra practice at home. This thirty minute training session should be attempted three times during the week.

5min warm up / stretching

3min jog/1min walk repeated (aerobic / talk test)

5min warm down / stretching

Mark Summers (Physical Education Teacher)

Tennis Court Hire – Weekend Only Our system for using the school tennis court will apply again this year. A new lock will be put on the gate and families with children at this school will be able to obtain a key to the court for $100.00. An extra fee of $10.00 will apply for a key deposit, refundable on return of the key. Priority bookings, using the form below and enclosing payment, must be delivered to the school office by 11.00am, Friday, 20 February 2015.

Payment must accompany booking requests.

Tennis Court Booking Form – Please indicate preferences 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and return to school office.

7-8am 8-9am 9-10am 10-11am 11-12pm 12-1pm 1-2pm 2-3pm 3-4pm 4-5pm 5-6pm

Saturday

Sunday

Name:………………………………………………………..……Contact Phone No……………………………..Child’s Class: ………………… Payment must accompany this form.

Red & Green groups performing ‘Let it Go’

Order online - Munch Monitor – Information on the Eagle Junction SS website in

Facilities/Tuckshop

We welcome our Year 6 students to the Eagles Nest, who kindly volunteer during first and second break to help with over the counter sales. They do a wonderful job!

Munch Monitor online ordering system is going from strength to strength! Thank you to everyone that has contacted me with such positive feedback.

Please note – unfortunately the Eagle’s Nest is unable to store ice blocks bought from home in our freezer.

Parent Network Welcome Parent Evening Thank you to everyone who was able to make it to the Parent Network Drinks last Friday night. It was a terrific night and everyone enjoyed meeting new families and catching up with old.

A big thank you to Michelle & David Pink for hosting the evening and all the effort you went to make it the success it was. Thank you also to the families who provided the food, absolutely delicious and very much appreciated.

The Social Side

Year 2 Friday 20 February Straight after school

Melrose Park Bring a plate to share and BYO drinks

Prep K Friday 13 March Straight after drop off

Coffee Guy Coffee Catch Up

Prep K Thursday 26 March After school

Melrose Park Play in the Park

Year 2 Friday 27 March 7pm

Siam Pagoda Thai Restaurant 318 Junction Rd, Clayfield

Parents Dinner BYO

School Phone Directory 2015 – Last chance! – Closing date Friday 20 February Yellow forms have been sent home asking if you would like your family to be included in the 2015 Parent Network School Directory. Please complete the form and return it to your teacher or the school office ASAP

Remember – you need to complete a new form even if your details have not changed from last year. Due to space there is only one entry per child.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Class Child’s Preferred Name FAMILY NAME

Child 1 Mother’s name

Child 2 Father’s name

Child 3

Child 4 Phone no.

Child 5 Email or phone

One listing per family (due to space restrictions).

Keep our children safe!

See last page of newsletter for more information

about Road Safety around our school .

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Family Fun Day - 21 February 10am-2pm. Jumping castle, Fire engine visit, Market Stalls, Sample Bags, Toddler Play Space, Craft Stall, Crafts and Games, Cent Auction, Soccer workshop (11am-12.30pm), Sausage Sizzle ($2.50), Performances, Fairy Floss ($3). All at St Mark's Anglican Church, Cnr Bonney Ave and Bellevue Terrace, Clayfield, 4011.

COMMUNITY NEWS

E.J Prep Families Fun

Sausage Sizzle

Sunday 1st

March

3.00pm-5.30pm

Kalinga Scout Hall

Bertha Street, Wooloowin, QLD 4030

Come along with your family and join an afternoon of fun whilst

meeting new prep families.

Sausage Sizzle and kids drinks provided

$20.00 per family or $5.00 per person.

Your kids will be entertained by the fantastic Shaun from Cheeky

Monkeyz whilst you chat with old and new friends

Please RSVP for catering purposes

BYO adult drinks, chairs, picnic rugs and mozzie sprays

Any Queries please contact Michele Pink 0433 001 231

LET US KNOW IF YOU ARE COMING!

To RSVP, cut this slip, fill it in an put it in an envelope with your family name on it. All

monies to be paid in advance. Please pass the completed envelope onto your prep

teachers.

Family Name ____________________ Number of Adults _________ Number of Children _________

Pay $20.00 per family Yes/No (please circle) or $5.00 per person ______ x _____ =$____

Your children remain under your responsibility at all times.

In case of severe food allergies, please BYO food, as we cannot provide allergy free foods.

Kalinga Scout Group Sign-On Day, Sunday Feb 22, 10am – 1pm

Scouts are a great way for young people to get active, enjoy the outdoors and be involved in the local community.

Join us for a Sausage Sizzle and activities on Sunday February - 22 10am – 1pm. Kalinga operates 3 Scouting groups:

Scouts (Ages 10.5-15) - Friday evening Cubs (Ages 7.5–11) - Sunday morning

Joeys (Ages 6-8) - Sunday Morning Where: Kalinga Park, Bertha St Car Park,

Web: kalinga.scoutsqld.com.au Email: kalinga.scouts@gmail.com

Phone: 0418 807 446 (Paul)

VALLEYS JUNIOR RUGBY LEAGUE FOOTBALL CLUB

Still Signing On new players! Emerson Park, Bega St, Grange

Under 6s to Seniors

Fee specials for February: U6’s FREE,

U7, U11, U12, U14 now half price, only $100

All other age groups $200 No weekly game fees! No need to pay upfront! Come to trial and train before you sign!

Extra Siblings only $150 Fees Include club polo shirt for new players

Training Tuesday nights for U6 to U8’s and all other age groups Tuesday and Thursday nights

Contact: Shahra, Secretary on 0413 850 601 for more information Email: diehards@valleysrugbyleague.com Website: www.valleysdiehards.leaguenet.com.au

ENROLMENT DAY Clayfield Pre-Prep, Bayview Terrace

for Pre-Prep in 2017

(children born 1 July 2012 – 31 July 2013)

Tuesday, 10 March 2015 (8.00am)

$30 waiting list fee (payable at enrolment) Waiting List Application forms can be downloaded

via the website below.

For further information contact: Clayfield Pre-prep, Bayview Terrace

28 Bayview Terrace, Qld 4011 Telephone: (07) 3262 2765

admin@clayfieldpreprep.com.au www.candk.asn.au/clayfieldpreprep

Blue Light Disco

Friday 20th February

6pm-8pm Eagle farm racecourse

(Entry via Lancaster Rd) $5 Entry

Primary school aged

children only Join us for our end of

year celebrations & prize

draws Fully supervised by police

and blue light volunteers

Murraysgardens@hotmail.com - Murray is an EJ Dad

http://www.murraysgardeningandmaintenance.com.au *Specialise in PREPARING PROPERTIES FOR SALE!! *

SPECIALISE in GARDEN RENOVATIONS! *Lawn Mowing & Maintenance, * Hedging, * Landscaping * shrub & tree trimming

*Garden bed - barking, gravels, pebbles, mulching, * Green waste removal

KUMON CLAYFIELD EDUCATION CENTRE Scots Presbyterian Church 29 Bellevue Tce Clayfield Class: Every Mon and Thurs 3-6pm

Tel: 3273 5580

EJ HOUSE SHIRTS & SHORTS MUST BE ORDERED BY FRIDAY 27TH FEBRUARY

The Year 6 students and parents of 2015 are delighted to offer these

popular items as part of fund-raising efforts for their Graduation

Celebrations.

Please note that these items are not compulsory but have become a much

loved EJ tradition over the years. They may be worn for Cross Country,

Athletics Carnival and Swimming Carnival days only and do not replace the

normal school sports uniform.

HOUSE SHIRTS Now available in modern, light-

weight Cool Flow poly-mesh

fabric and featuring an

embroidered EJ Eagle on the

front and printed house name

across the back.

* Please note colours shown are an

indication only.

HOUSE SHORTS Now available in modern, light-weight taslon

fabric, featuring embroidered EJ Crest in

house colour on the front and printed house

name across the back.

$25

$25

*House Shirts & Shorts will be available in Sizes 4-14 and Adult Small.

*Yr 6 Parents will be at the Uniform Shop on the following days & times to assist with orders:

Tuesday 17th February

Thursday 19th February

Wednesday 25th February

7.30-9.00 & 2.30-3.30

Payment may be made by EFT, cash, credit card or cheque (payable to EJSS Uniform Shop)

NOTE: PLEASE ENSURE SIZE ORDERED IS CORRECT AS THERE IS NO CAPACITY FOR EXCHANGES!

Enquiries: Fleur Weier 0439 509 653 or Amanda Fox 0488 404 788

HOW TO USE THE LOADING ZONE

Your passenger pickup zone / 2 minute zone

allows for the quick pick up of children during

congested peak school "let out" times.

THE CONCEPT

Vehicles move slowly along the loading zone

towards the front of the queue

Children see the vehicle and are ready to get in

The vehicle can be stationery for a maximum of

two minutes only

Motorists "give each other a fair go"

RESPECT THE TIMING

Do not stop for more than two (2) minutes

Do not park in the zone and walk away from

the car

PICKING UP AND LOADING BAGS

Plan your arrival time. - Does it have to be

before students are released from class?

Do you have older children? Could you ask

them to be ready and waiting 15 minutes after

school gets out?

You can get out of the vehicle only to assist the

children to load bags

If your child is not waiting please drive away

and return to the queue or park legally and walk

to collect them

Never double park to pick up children – it is

illegal and dangerous

www.roadsafety.qld.gov.au

1300 360 135

All children are expected to enter or leave a vehicle on the footpath side of the vehicle. Using the roadside door of a vehicle increases risks.

All parents not using the provided 2 minute zone are requested to respect the neighbours driveways. Parking in or across driveways of neighbours is not appropriate.

All parents walking children to and from school, even if parked outside the 2 minute zone should use the supervised crossings. Crossing behind or in front of parked vehicles makes visibility difficult.

Pick up your “Look Out Registration” form from the office.