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Principal’s Report Kacey Constantine

Principal’s Report 1

Student Awards 2

Class reports 3-6

Kitchen Garden 7

Date Claimers 7

Community events 8

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Issue 12 Term 3 Week 4 3rd August 2021

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Hi everyone,

Thank you to our school leaders in Year 6 for

your leadership last week. The students led

our NAIDOC week celebrations, themed Heal

Country, and then planted seedlings for Planet

Ark National Tree Planting Day. Our Peer Sup-

port groups will now care for the plants as they

continue to grow. Thank you also to Mr Ham-

melswang, Mr Pullen, Miss Shirley and Mr

Wood for your organisation and preparation.

Last week we were visited by some First Na-

tions Elders from the Garbutt Magpies. They

gave a presentation to the Year 5 and 6 stu-

dents about the legacy of the Garbutt Magpies

within the North Queensland Community.

Their message was one of respect and enter-

prise for the future. This visit is part of the Gar-

butt Magpies Cup; good luck to the students

who will be participating tomorrow.

Good luck also to the students who are in-

volved in the band workshops at Pimlico State

High School. We hope that you have had a

great time meeting new people, having fun and

learning more about music. Next Monday we

are holding the Arties Entertainer of the Year

competition. With 11 of our students participat-

ing, I look forward to seeing our talented stu-

dents performing.

It has been a tough week this week for all of us

at school as we lost one of our very special

people. Mr Andrew was not just a colleague,

but a mate and a respected friend to all. He

has been an integral part of our school commu-

nity and our positive culture for the past eight

years. Thank you for your compassion and for

the many offers of help in maintaining the

amazing grounds that Andrew cultivated and

cared for. As always, we are doing everything

we can to support staff and students through

this very sad time. Our thoughts remain with

his family at this time, especially with his wife

Helen. He will be missed.

Please look after each other and continue to be

kind. Take a moment to reflect and smile.


Weeks 3&4 PCL Focus

Be Responsible

I take care of the environment

Awards for Term 3, Week 2: Awards for Term 3, Week 3:

Class Achievement PCL Achievement PCL Prep Jakai Jenoah Milo Bella 1 Kobi Matilda Dom Arlin 2 Sunny Bridie Georgia Mc Barney 3 Diamond Baylee Mc Grace Rowan 4 Jack Lily M Lincoln Yvie 5 Amelia Aidan Charley Ray Georgia S 6 Louis Jacob Fynn W Lucas PE/Japanese Bella Eli Alirah Leili PCL Class of the week went to Year 6. PCL Class of the week went to Year 4. Attendance award went to Year 2. Attendance award went to Year 2.


Prep Melissa Digby

Year 1 Deb Hay & Vicki Skinner

For our English assessment this term,

the children have to write a rhyming

couplet. To help them with this at

home, please practise rhyming words

with your child (you only need to do it

orally). Ask them if two words you say

are rhyming words and get them to tell

you another word that rhymes. You can

remind them that rhyming words sound

the same at the end, but different at the

beginning. Most of the children are get-

ting quite good at this, but there are still a

few who are struggling with it, so some

extra help at home would be great,

thanks.

Please ensure that your child reads their

home reader and practises their sight

words every night. We have noticed that

there are quite a lot of children who aren’t

practising every night, doing this daily

will help improve learning outcomes.

If you have any questions or concerns,

please don’t hesitate to contact me,

either by email or see me after school.

Have a great week.

Year 2 Jacky Roper We have been continuing with our pro-

cedural writing and having lots of fun in

the process. We linked our writing with

our work in Maths on fractions. The

students made fairy bread and worked

on their fraction knowledge at the same

time by cutting up their bread into

halves, quarters and eighths.

We have finished reading our unit book,

‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’ and

have loved the entertaining way Roald

Dahl taught us about procedures. We

can’t wait for our assessment, writing a

procedure for a horrible recipe for a

horrible grandma!

Our Science unit, ‘change and grow’,

has been on full display in our class-

room, with our mealworms continuing to

grow. We have seen different stages of

their lifecycle, including; larva, pupas

and adult beetles. Milo has especially

been enjoying this unit and has gobbled

up any spare mealworms. This week we

have been discussing how some animal

babies look different to their parents

and some are similar.

For our Arts unit this semester we are

looking at dance. We have looked at

some inspiring dance videos to start the

unit, including some great flashmobs!

We have learnt how to warm up our

bodies with some warm up games and

stretching activities on Gonoodle. As

we continue throughout this unit we will

continue to develop confidence with

simple dance moves.

A very big thank you to all our families

that have donated recycled materials for

our science projects. We are learning a

lot about materials and their properties.

We enjoyed designing and creating with

these materials. We have started our

Lego collection, with some kind dona-

tions and we will continue to search for

more. Donations welcome!

We have learnt more about writing pro-

cedures over these last few weeks. We

have looked at recipes and craft ideas.

We helped Mrs Hay learn how to make

fairy bread and we all followed the steps

to make some ourselves.


Year 3 Janette Blundy

Year 4 Megan Ward

The weather has been beautiful and per-

fect for our Schools National Tree Plant-

ing which happened last week. The Year

3 class went on a nature walk around our

beautiful school and used their senses to

describe what they could hear, smell,

see and feel around our trees. They dis-

covered lots of amazing creatures and

even spotted a koala.

In English we are still working on writing

a retell from a different perspective. In

Maths we have completed a unit about

patterns and addition and are now learn-

ing about angles.

We conducted an investigation of heat

transfer in Science and are learning

about hardware and software in Digital

Technology. HASS has seen the class

expand their knowledge of the Torres

Strait Islands and the meaning of ‘country

and place’ to Indigenous Australians.

Some of the students have painted dried

leaves using the colours of the Aboriginal

and Torres Strait Islander flags. We will

be stringing these together to create a

festoon (one of our recent spelling

words) for our classroom.

How amazing that we could experience

the Strand Ephemera last Thursday. So

many incredible art installations and we

were lucky enough to find some of our

incredible marine creatures on display.

The students have been engaging with a

text, ‘Eliza Bird’ about a young convict

girl aboard the Charlotte destined for

Botany Bay. This week they will be

asked to imagine themselves as a young

convict child at the time of the landing at

Botany Bay. They will be asked to de-

velop a cohesive text through the use of

linking devices and convey a perspec-

tive of a particular historical context. In

the coming weeks they will deliver their

spoken recount in the role as their char-

acter.

We’ve also had some fun in Science ex-

ploring materials, their properties and

uses. We have been conducting investi-

gations and looking deep within using

iPad microscopes.


Year 5 Jodie Wilson

I can’t believe we are not far off the mid-

dle of term 3 already! Year 5 are well

underway with their units, and are work-

ing very hard. We have been having

many discussions about growth mind-

set, and how it important to train our

brain for learning. Last week we fo-

cussed on “Effort is Key”, and the class

was set a challenge, to work on one

mathematical concept in class, as well

as practise for homework. It was great

to see many students feel positive by

the end of the week with this concept,

because they worked hard to put the

effort into developing this skill.

This week, we are focussing on “Failure

is learning”. As Thomas Edison ex-

plained to a reporter who asked him

how he felt after failing 10,000 times

before achieving success: “I didn’t fail.

The lightbulb was an invention with

thousands of steps. Steps that I made,

along with several other people before

me. You can only call something failure

after you’ve stopped trying.”

Thomas Edison, and many other suc-

cessful people, see failures as opportu-

nities - little setbacks in our journey

forward. After a little activity to allow

students to see this, they reflected on

what zone of regulation they were in,

and what strategy they used to over-

come this. We had a great class discus-

sion about how we have noticed many

athletes in the Olympics using growth

mindset to help them through their set-

backs. It is very important for every-

body to understand and develop their

mindset, to help them move forward,

and it is great to see the Year 5 students

working hard at this already, even if it

can be more of a challenge than they

would expect. Please discuss these ide-

as with your children throughout the

term, and ask how they are regulating

their emotions during challenging

times. Together, we can help our chil-

dren achieve, even if just a little success

at a time.

Keep Smiling. Keep Striving.

Kitchen Garden

Our school garden has a

bumper crop of Roselles

which we have been busy

picking and storing in the

freezer.

The Roselle is a type of Hibis-

cus, whose flower pods can be

used for jam or tea, it’s leaves

can be used for curry, the cal-

cyces for food colouring and

the stems can become a fibre

for cloth making.

With help from the students,

we hope to be enjoying some

delicious jam in the near fu-

ture.

Happy Gardening from the

Garden Crew


Another busy fortnight has happened,

and we have lots going on. We have

some children involved this week in the

Supernova Band Workshop in Towns-

ville. Several children will participate in

the Garbutt Magpies AFL competition on

Wednesday, and the whole class has

been invited to participate in the ‘Town

High Experience Day’ on Friday.

We have made good progress in our

English unit. We have viewed and dis-

cussed both the literary and factual

texts, and now we need to analyse the

texts at a deep level to be able to ex-

plain and describe how the authors’

devices and choices act to persuade

readers.

In Maths we have explored multiplica-

tion by two digit numbers, we’ve contin-

ued our work on averages, and we

looked at line graphs, both interpreting

information from given graphs and cre-

ating graphs from data.

In our HASS work we have begun to in-

vestigate demographic data about coun-

tries, to see what else we can learn and

infer about other countries, and there-

fore about Australia.

For Peer Support last week the leaders

took their group members through a

variety of activities related to NAIDOC.

Connected to this, but also tying in

Schools National Tree Planting day, the

leaders each planted a tree in the gar-

den near the library. Each Peer Support

group will have the opportunity to water

and watch their tree grow over time.

Please be sure to contact me if you have

any concerns regarding your child’s

progress.

Year 6 Martin Hammelswang

In Session 4, the Leaders asked their

groups if they had the chance to show

kindness during the week. Everyone fo-

cused on a new personal quality, which is

patience. We completed a chart to show

what patience looks like, sounds like and

feels like. The groups also discussed how

hard it can be to be patient in different

circumstances.

In Session 5, the Year 6’s explained what

NAIDOC is and the theme for this year’s

celebration “Heal Country’. This means

that if we stop polluting the planet and

being wasteful the people in our country

will heal. We also discussed the history

and meanings behind the Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander flags. The group

read a traditional Aboriginal or Torres

Strait Islander story. We coloured in a

large NAIDOC poster to celebrate these

cultures. The Leaders planted a bottle-

brush tree for Schools National Tree day

on behalf of their group, which also con-

nects to the theme ‘Heal Country’. The

trees are planted in the garden between

the library and Block B.

Report prepared by Oliver Wallace Smith

and Finn Howl

Peer Support

August 2021

2nd-4th August Band workshops at Pimlico High

Thurs 5th August Australian Maths Competition 9am

Fri 6th August Town High Experience day for Year 6 students

Mon 9th August Entertainer of the Year, 3pm, Music room

16th—20th August National Science Week

Mon 16th August Interschool Athletics Carnival, Red Track

Thurs 19th August ICAS English assessment

23rd—27th August Book Week—Old worlds, new worlds, other worlds

Mon 23rd August P&C meeting, 5pm staffroom

Thurs 26th August ICAS Science assessment

Fri 27th August Book Week parade

Fri 27th August Performance parade, band & dancers

Sat 28th August Pleasure Divers Rainbow Run, P&C fundraiser

September 2021

Thurs 2nd Sept ICAS Maths assessment

Fri 3rd Sept HOLIDAY! Student Free Day

Date Claimers:


We are just under 4 weeks out from our Pleasure Divers Rainbow Run! There are

17 stations this year, including the popular Cargo Crawl and Ninja Run, but we

have added some extras like the Dach n Slide and The Floor is Lava obstacles.

The course will be open from 10am- 1pm.

We have Ceylon Curry Corner, Magnetic Island Rotary, Shaka, DropBear Cafe

and Maggie Lees providing delicious food from 10am -3pm. Entertainment is by

our incredible Magnetic Island Musos all day, and Adrenaline Games back by

popular demand in the Laser Skirmish Arena.

We will also be running a huge raffle all day, with prizes now totalling over

$3800.

Tickets can be purchased online at the link below or scan the QR code here or on

the flyer. When you buy your tickets online you will also have the opportunity to

buy the unlimited package for Laser skirmish. $25 for unlimited games all day.

Don't forget to wear white clothes & old shoes are a must!

https://www.ticketebo.com.au/miss2021rainbowrun

P&C News Rainbow Run prices

Adult (14 years plus) $15

Child (5 to 13 years) $10

Child (under 5 years) Free

Family pass (2A 3C) $50

https://www.ticketebo.com.au/miss2021rainbowrun

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