Pilton News

Thursday 21st November 2019

Pilton State School

Fairholme Swimming Program Next week we will be undertaking the Fairholme Swimming Program during the day on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (26-28 Nov.) This will be the culmination of the swimming lessons that we have had each week this term, setting students up for great gains in their swimming and providing the chance to have a safe swimming season over the summer holidays. This program will see students grouped by ability and have 6 intensive lessons over the three days. The transport for this is provided by bus and will be conducted without any impact on school start and pick-up times from school. Clifton Cluster Swimming Carnival – Year 3-6 Tuesday 3 Dec Our Year 3-6 students have been invited to compete in a swimming carnival at the Clifton Pool on the 3 Dec with Clifton State School and the other small schools in our cluster. This will be a great chance for students to put all their hard work in the pool to the test, and see how their swimming standards have been progressing since this time last year when we last recorded times for our students. As always, win-ning and losing is not of any concern and we expect all our ‘Strong and Willing’ students to simply have a go and try their best. End of Year – Collect your photos for 2019 Mrs. Cox has done a tremendous job in filing all the photos from the many activities that our students have been involved in throughout 2019. If every fam-ily is able to send in a USB stick in the last week of the term, we will copy all the applicable images of your student/s onto a USB stick for you to keep. If anyone needs a hand with this, please come and let me know. Finally, I look forward to seeing many of you at the Bunnings BBQ this Saturday, or at the pickup from our great LeagueStars program that will be continu-ing on Thursday afternoons until Week 9 on the 5th Dec. All the best, Jon Robertson

With only a few weeks left at school for the year we are working hard to finalise assessment and end of year benchmarking with our students. It was fantastic to see the ICAS results for our Year 3-6 students come back this week. This competition is an international competi-tion of the highest academic standard, so I don’t want students that received ‘Participation’ awards to be dis-couraged. We have had some credits and distinctions but overall, any of the results received, help to motivate students to keep pursuing excellence in their academic endeavour rather than having a ‘big fish-small pond’ view of their education. Report Cards and Parent Teacher Interviews I would like to encourage all parents to come up and see us during the last week of school to discuss your students’ progress for the semester. As always, we are very keen to share the work that happens everyday at our school with parents and we value the united ap-proach to education that exists at our school. We will be sending Report Cards home on the Wednesday of the last week, and this will allow us to keep students actively engaged in the curriculum for as long as possi-ble. Prep Transition Day 2 – Next Friday 29 Nov We are very fortunate to have such a wonderful team of staff supporting our students coming into Prep. Miss Ryan and Miss Stewart are really looking forward to the second Prep Transition Day, and seeing the seam-less start to school that we can provide for children from our community. Prep students for 2020 are en-couraged to join us at 8:45am for Parade and then stay for the whole day taking part in Playgroup, targeted transition activities, a chance to meet Mr. Healy (in a shortened introduction to HPE) and have a heap of fun! Pilton Christmas Tree – End of Year Performance I look forward to seeing everyone at the Pilton Christ-mas Tree on Friday the 6th of December. We have been working on a short performance that will be in-cluded in the night called “AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS MINUTES.” We ask that all students be brought to school in order to prepare for the perfor-mance at 5:30pm and we will then walk them down to the hall to commence by 6:00pm. The hall commit-tee will be providing a BBQ after the performance and there is a tradition of gift giving that all parents need to be aware of, so please ask someone about this tradition if this is your first year in attendance.

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Term 4 Issue 4

Remembrance Day Congratulations Charlie for receiv-ing a Certificate of Achievement

in piano lessons

Charlie and May show-ing us their new chicks

Students feeding the cows.

Year 1’s using Bee-Bots

Swimming Lessons TERM 4-Every Monday -Week 5 to Week 9

NRL League Stars Program Thursday 3pm-4pm Week 5 to Week 9

Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Saturday 23rd November

Fairholme Swimming Tuesday 26th to Thursday 28th Full Days

Prep Transition Day 2 Friday 29th November 8:30am-3pm

Small Schools Swimming Carnival Tuesday 3rd December 9:30am - 2:30pm

Ham Drive Delivery Friday 6th December 2:30pm @ Pilton SS

School Concert Friday 6th December Students at School 5:30pm

Picnic Day Thursday 12th December 4:00pm @ Pilton SS

Come and join the Fun! Friday from 9am to 11am

School Leader Icy Poles

During the last 3 weeks of the term school leaders will be selling fruit juice icy poles every Tuesday and Thursday at morning tea for 50c each. This is to raise money for next year’s leader shirts.

Well, what a busy term the school has had so far! School Camp sounded amazing! Thank you, to teachers, staff and helpers, for taking such good care of our precious students, and thank you for the amazing experiences they got to enjoy! The P&C have been busy also. We recently hosted a Beer & Wurst Night at the Pilton Soldier’s Memorial Hall, and it was a lot of fun! We have managed to raise some valuable funds to go towards improvements and updates at the school. Thank you to our amazing Sponsors – please give them your business if you are looking for any of the services that they offer: EZALI Pty Ltd – Hydro Excavation & Telecommunications phone 46 301 319/Anthony Bowe 0408 453 522 LANDMARK HARCOURTS COOKE – your local Real Estate phone 46 123 779/ Peter Cooke 0437 719 777 RAILWAY HOTEL ALLORA- Host Robyn Miles 46 663 402 ALLORA JOINERY- Carpentry & Cabinet Maker phone 46 663 346/ Jamie Mutch 0427 365 676 WILLY’S WIRING- Professional Electrical services 0407 500 677 PB AGRIFOOD – Specialists Feeds & Seed Traders and Agricultural Services 46 335 555 WOOLWORTHS DRAYTON – 46 132 819 COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL, PARKLYON HAY SUPPLIES, PHOENICIAN RESORT, KERRY’S BAGS N RUGS, ALLORA TYRE SERVICE, WHITE’S GARAGE, iFLY, RAFF CLIFTON, FOODWORKS CLIFTON, ALLORA HARDWARE, WILD SAGE WELLNESS STUDIO ALLORA, BIG W DISTRIBUTION CENTRE, O’SHANLEY’S IRISH BAR CLIFTON, BWS DRAYTON, AUSTRALIA POST ALLORA, CITY GOLF CLUB, HANDMADE HORSE GEAR, SANDY McLEAN OUTBACK ARTIST, EUGENE HOLLIS-NEATH, PARENTS OF PILTON STATE SCHOOL. Thanks must go to Mr Dan Dwan, of Colliers International, who was a Master Auctioneer on the evening, Tom Bazley and Jon Robertson as bid spotters. Ian Brady was Master of Ceremonies, and he kept the evening running smoothly. Thank you to John & Wendy Ellwood from the Sports Club at Allora for superbly running the bar. Thank you to Gemma Thorpe and Jon Robertson for supervising at the school, thanks to Sarah Rossiter, Community Development Officer for our local area, with her staff, for hosting “Dumbo”on the Big Screen at the school. Thank you to Clayton, Piper, Levi and helpers for the BBQ and food & drinks for the kids at the school. Thank you, to the parents, for helping clean/ set up/ pack up/ baking desserts and donations for the Auc-tions. The biggest thanks and appreciation must go to Mrs Wendy Noller, who has no children at the school – Wendy secured Sponsorship, Donations, chose the beers for the Tasting Competition, ran around picking up do-nations, bought the alcohol and contributed greatly to the success of the evening. We could not have done it with-out Wendy, and we are infinitely grateful! Last, but certainly not least, thank you to the lady that did the bulk of the work – Mrs Melinda May, planned, cooked, baked and executed the amazingly delicious catering on the night, secured Sponsorship, donations and organized the smooth running of the Event. Please make sure you let Melinda know how much you appreciated her gigantic efforts. The P&C are running the sausage sizzle at Bunnings West on Anzac Avenue on Saturday 23rd November, from 9.00am to 4.00pm. Please come and support us, any way you can. Please see the roster below, for helpers on the stall. We are still needing a helper from 12.00pm – 2.00pm, and if you find yourself available on Saturday, feel free to pop in to give a hand. We would never say no to extra help! We will be selling sausages on bread, soft-drinks and water. 8.00am – 9.00am – SET UP: Kellie, Ian, Bek 9.00am – 10.00am Kellie, Ian, Bek, Brendon 10.00am – 11.00am Kellie, Ian, Bek, Brendon 11.00am – 12.00pm Kellie, Ian, Kelly, Jon 12.00pm – 1.00pm Kelly, Jon, Natalie 1.00pm – 2.00pm Kelly, Jon, Natalia 2.00pm – 3.00pm Kelly, Jon, Natalie, Amy, Brooke 3.00pm – 4.00pm Amy, Brooke, Robyn, Gemma 4.00pm – 5.00pm- PACK UP: Amy, Brooke, Robyn, Gemma Please contact me on 0488 964 559 if you are able to assist with the 12.00 – 1.00 or 1.00 – 2.00 or both shift, or if you haven’t been rostered on, and would like to help! Best Regards, Kellie Brady

P&C BANK DETAILS Account Name: Pilton State School P&C

BSB: 084 610 Account Number: 508 683 666

The Clifton Progress Association will be holding our

* Family Christmas Party *

again this year.

When: Friday 13th. December from 4.30pm.

Where: F.E. Logan community hall.

Why: Because of the stormy conditions experienced in the past,

we have decided to trial another venue this year.

The Christmas committee are busy arranging a FUN Filled

family night.

SANTA , FOOD, RAFFLES, ENTERTAINMENT , GIVE

AWAYS

FUN! FUN ! FUN!

Thank you for your valued support over the past years, which

we hope will continue now and into the future.

Regards,

Rhonda & Ruth ( Christmas committee)

SPONSORED BY: Clifton Business Houses * Clifton Jockey Club * CEFN * TRC *