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Proston State SchoolStrive to Excel 18 OCTOBER 2019

NEWSLETTER

Principal’s MessageOn behalf of the Proston State School P-10 staff welcome back. I trust everyone has enjoyed the school holiday period and children have had an opportunity to reflect, rest and reset for the Term 4. It has been pleasing to see a river of smiles on faces and a sea of enthusiasm from students as I walk through the classrooms and around the school grounds. A special welcome to our new families and thank you to the appointed buddies who, together with their parents, have made the transition to Proston for new families smooth and positive. We positively recognise students for demonstrating good manners, friendliness, kindness and courtesy.

There are a number of new faces on staff for students to work with this year.

New staff include: Miss Lisa Vandenberg – Student Support Teacher, Mr Andrew Dobson – Secondary Teacher,

Mrs Wendy Lenihan – District Area Relief Teacher, and Mr Christopher Osborn – District Area Relief Teacher.

Communication is the Key! We value communication at Proston State School P-10. If you have any questions or queries about your child/ren’s school work, we encourage you to make an appointment through the Administration Staff; Mrs Michelle Sanewski, Mrs Rachel Jolley or Miss Jessica Scanlan who will arrange a time for you to speak directly to the Classroom Teacher, Student Support Teacher Miss Lisa Vandenberg. If you require further support then Administration Staff will arrange for you to communicate with the Head of Curriculum, Miss Beth Stanley, and finally the Principal, Mrs Samantha Skerritt. We look forward to partnering with parents in your child’s education and value effective communication as an important feature of this partnership.

‘The greatest resource in the classroom is the teacher and the greatest resource the teacher

has is the students’ imagination. Fan it, feed it, fly!’ Sir John Jones

At Proston State School P-10 our core business is learning and we aim to provide our students with the skills necessary to develop a desire for lifelong learning, leading to becoming a valued member of society. So being at school every day counts. If your child is absent one day per week, this quickly adds up to two months of missed school in a year.

Every day counts is an initiative aiming to improve attendance at school. The initiative promotes four key messages:

• all children should be enrolled at school and attend on every school day • schools should monitor, communicate and implement strategies to improve regular school attendance • truanting can place a student in unsafe situations and impact on their future employability and life choices • attendance at school is the responsibility of everyone in the community.

Find out more about the Every day counts initiative from Education Queensland. http://education.qld.gov.au/everydaycounts/

To everyone in our school community, embrace and acknowledge our past and also look to our future: be critical, be creative, ask questions, have fun, look after yourself and look after each other. A famous philosopher, Aristotle, once said “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

I offer this ongoing challenge to all members of the Proston State School P-10 community, students, staff, parents and friends, continue to make excellence your habit. In doing this, our great school, and each and every one of us, are sure to become even greater.

Bis später (means until later in German) Mrs Samantha Skerritt Principal

Diary Dates

“Every day Every Student is Learning and Achieving in Every Classroom”

94 Rodney St (PO Box 70), Proston QLD 4613 Ph 4169 4333 Fax 4169 4300 E [email protected] Website https://prostonss.eq.edu.au Office Hours 8am-4pm Monday to Friday

Report Student Absences by 9:30am: Ph 4169 4333, E [email protected] or SMS Text 0457 530 680

✓ Be Safe ✓ Be Respectful ✓ Be Cooperative ✓ Be a Learner

Key ContactsPrincipal Mrs Samantha SkerrittAdministration Jess Scanlan, Michelle Sanewski, Rach JolleyUniform Shop NB Inspirations (Ph: 4168 9013)

Monday 21 October • Pupil Free DayTuesday 22nd October • World Teacher’s Day/Support Teacher Celebration DayFriday 25th October • Free Dress Day (gold coin donation)Friday 1st November • “Get Pinked” Day Monday 11th November • Remembrance DayThursday 21st November • Awards NightMonday 25th November • Day for Daniel (wear red)Wednesday 27th November • Year 10 Rewards DayThursday 28th November • Year 10 GraduationFriday 29th November • Year 10 finishFriday 6th December • Christmas Concert Wednesday 11th December • Iron and Clay performanceThursday 12th December • Rewards Day Friday 13th December • Last day of Term 4

Pre-Prep sessions:Parent information Session 24th October – 9.00am to 9.30am

Prep Transition Sessions 1: 31st October – 9.00am to 10.15am 2: 7th November – 9.00am to 10.15am 3: 14th November – 9.00am to 10.15am

Regular events: Assembly is held on the first day of the school week at 8:50am.P&C Association Meetings are now held on the second Thursday of each month at 3:30pm in the school library. All welcome!

Proston State SchoolStrive to Excel

NEWSLETTER 18 OCTOBER 2019

Uniform Expectations

School Watch

Lost/Missing/Stolen

Clothing. Clothing should fit neatly and be sun safe. It must be suitable for full participation in all curriculum areas and the playground. It should not be inappropriate.

Hair. Hair should be clean, tidy (brushed or combed) with no extreme colours (natural colours) and tied back if below the collar. Fringes must not interfere with a student’s vision at any time.

Jewellery. Students may wear one set of stud or sleeper earrings and a watch. All other jewellery is considered to be a danger to the child’s safety and must be left at home. Students will be reminded to remove unauthorised jewellery worn to school.

Uniforms are available for purchase from NB Inspirations in the main street of Proston.

We need everyone to look out for after-hours crime in our school. If you see anything suspicious, please don’t attempt to intervene. Call the School Watch number - 13 17 88.

The School Watch Program is a partnership between Education Queensland, the Queensland Police Service and the State Government Protective Security Service. It aims to reduce vandalism, theft and arson in Queensland schools. Let’s work together to help create a safer school community.

A push bike helmet is missing from Proston State School. The helmet is blue with a dog on the front/back. It was missing after school on Tuesday 15th October. If seen or found, please hand it into the office.

Swimming notes have gone home.

out for them

Principal’s Student of the Week is

AaliyahCongratulations!!

Every Thursday 2nd Break

Zooper Doopers will be available for 50c

All proceeds going towards Year 10 Graduation

HEADLICE

Friday 25th October

Gold Coin Donation

All proceeds going towards Year 10 Graduation



PREP

ORIENTATION

PROSTON STATE SCHOOL P-10 INVITES YOU TO

PARENT INFORMATION SESSIONWHEN: Thursday 24th October at 9.00am

WHERE: Proston State School - Prep Classroom

STUDENT TRANSITION SESSIONS Children are invited to attend 3 sessions to

experience Prep at Proston on:*Thursday 31st October

*Thursday 7th November *Thursday 14th November

TIME: 9.00-10.15amWHERE: Prep Classroom

Children to bring fruit snack, hat and water bottle.

ENROLMENT INTERVIEWSInterviews will be held at the end of November.Bookings are to made through the school office.

Ph (07) 4169433

WHEN: FRIDAY 1st NOVEMBER

WHERE: PROSTON STATE SCHOOL

WHY: TO JOIN THE PROSTON COMMUNITY IN RAISING FUNDS FOR NATIONAL BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

COST: GOLD COIN or ANY OTHER DOLLAR AMOUNT

Dress up in PINK for the day.

All collections will go directly to The McGrath Foundation

“Get Pinkt” FREE DRESS

Administration NewsWelcome back!

Please remember that the school office will be locked from 8:15am until 9:45am and 2:45pm until 3:30pm. Admin staff are still available through the counter window.

APPOINTMENTS - If you would like to arrange an interview with Mrs Skerritt or any Teaching staff, please do this by phoning 4169 4333.

OUTSTANDING FEES - need to be paid BEFORE December 6th 2019. Statements will be sent home with Centrepay forms attached. Please fill out and return to the school asap.

LET’S PINK UP PROSTON STATE SCHOOL!! - Staff and students will be participating in the “Proston Get Pinked” campaign on November 1st. We are encouraging everyone to come dressed in pink to support the McGrath foundation. Please bring a gold coin donation for this.

SWIMMING SEASON - Make sure that students are coming prepared for their swimming lessons – Admin staff WILL NOT be calling home for forgotten swimming gear. Students must also be wearing appropriate sun safe swim wear. Students WILL NOT be allowed to swim in their school uniform. This is a WHS ruling.

DROUGHT CONDITIONS – We understand that families may be suffering from a shortage of water during this severe drought. We would like to invite students effected by this to use the school’s facilities. Students may bring their school uniforms and other clothes to wash and dry to take home. Students who choose to do this will be shown what to do and be responsible for the washing and drying of their own clothes. The school also has showers available on the grounds and we invite students to use this if needed. We will also be providing shampoo, conditioner and body wash for students to use at the pool after their swimming lessons. We are here to support and help our students and by opening up the use of our facilities to them as it may lighten the pressure of dwindling water supply in the family home. If you have any questions please contact the office.

10 FRIDAYS until CHRISTMAS!

Miss Jess, Mrs Jolley & Mrs Sanewski



Students of the Week

PBL Award Winners!

Premier’s Reading

Challenge



Music NewsThis year our school has again registered to participate in “Music: Count Us In”. This is Australia’s biggest school initiative, and it is anticipated that in 2019 there will be involvement of more than 700,000 students from over 4000 schools nationwide! Its’ aim is to promote and celebrate the value of music by bringing teachers, parents, students and the local community together in a celebration of music. At Proston we will be having our own celebration day on Tuesday 5th November. In the past Music: Count Us In has received fabulous support from both Proston and the wider South Burnett community, and it is hoped that we can continue to grow this. Students have already started learning the performance song.... so now I have a couple of jobs for you (the parents/caregivers) to do!

• Task 1: Ask your child/ren what is the name of the song our school is performing? • Task 2: Ask them to sing you some of the song. • Task 3: Mark the following date in your diary – Tuesday 5th November 11:30am, P-6 performance of song for parents, staff and High School students.

Everyone is invited and encouraged to come along and see our P-6 students singing as part of one big choir!

If you have any queries or concerns regarding the above (or any other music related matter) please feel free to contact me at the following email address: [email protected]

Mrs Ginny Salmon

Music Teacher

Primary Science

Primary HPE

Mrs Patricia Morris HPE, Science and Food Studies

Primary Science is focusing on the birds and the trees, as part of Biology. Students will be exploring the natural environment and discovering how everything in nature is connected. Science Club has started on Tuesday and our budding Science Club members have made their rockets and are ready to launch next Tuesday. We are looking forward to seeing how far they fly.

Science Students of the Week are: Trent, Bianca and Jaxon. Each of these students provided an amazing scientific answer during classes this week - well done.

Welcome back to Term 4! We are looking forward to swimming starting next week. Thanks to all of the parents who have returned notes. Remember if your child is unable to swim please write a note or ring the office, so that your child can be provided with alternate work. Looking forward to seeing each student progressing and learning a life long skill.

Mrs Patricia Morris HPE, Science and Food Studies

Head of Special Education ServicesLisa has been a local for many years in the area and has recently made a transition from working in Mental Health back to Education. She comes to Proston with much experience in programs, people and behaviour across many sectors of health

and education. Looking forward to becoming part of the ever growing, strong team at Proston, Lisa is keen to be involved at the school with any educational, social, emotional or behaviour questions you may have.

Lisa Vandenberg Head of Special Education Services



Year 7/8 English

Mr Nicholas Blanch Year 7 Form and Secondary Teacher

We are back for our final term of 2019! Both English classes have hit the ground running, with a lot of work to cover within the next eight weeks.

The Year 7 students are investigating poetry and song lyrics, and have already begun evaluating famous Australian ballads. Meanwhile, the Year 8 class

have been busily developing their descriptive writing skills, with a focus on invoking emotional responses from their audience and crafting specific

atmospheres and moods within their prose. Please expect students from both classes to bring a portion of homework to complete each evening!

Year 5 & 6 English

This term in English the Year 5/6 students are studying the difference between a book and its movie adaptation. They were very excited to kick off their Term 4 English lessons by reading the book version of The Lorax and then on Friday were excited to view the film adaptation of the book. This week they got to work at pulling apart the main elements of the storyline by working out the orientation, complication, climax and resolution.

Miss Katrina Hayward and Mrs Amanda Wagner Year 5/6 Teachers

Year 3 & 4 News

Welcome back after the break. It has been great to see students return refreshed and ready for the term. Students

have been working hard in English this week as they begin planning and writing their own poems. We have been

discussing how to make our poems more interesting to an audience through using language features such as

alliteration and adjectives.

Rebecca Connell

Year 3/4 Teacher



Community Notices

TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBERPROSTON COMMUNITY HALL

10am

A Pink Melbourne

Cup Lunch

P R O S T O N Q C W AP R E S E N T S

FASHIONS OF THE FIELD PRIZES FOR MALE AND FEMALE

(PINK THEME)RAFFLES SWEEPS

$20 head for a 2 course mealBookings by 27th October with

deposit please to Coral Graham on 0429 689 558

ENJOY A RELAXING LATE AFTERNOON/EVENINGIN THE PARK. BYO PICNIC OR PRE-ORDER FROMJACARANDA TEAROOMSMOVIE "RACING STRIPES" 6.30PM, SPONSOREDBY PROSTON LIONS CLUB, GOLD COIN DONATIONPOPCORN & COLD DRINKS - SCOUTSSAUSAGE SIZZLE - PROSTON MEN'S SHED

Presented by The Proston Men's Shed in support of

"Pinking the Region." All donations from the day go to The McGrath Foundation.

Let's Pink UpProston!

JOIN IN THE FUN AND ...

Pink up your homes, fences, trees and

especially yourselves!Prize for best decorated shop window.

And let's get together as a community

to enjoy a PINK-NIC IN THE PARKSATURDAY 2ND NOVEMBER

FROM 4PM IN RAILWAY PARK

1-11 November 2019(as part of Pinking the South Burnett)

Secondary English

Reading

Congratulations to all the students who received their Premier’s Reading Challenge certificates on Monday morning Parade! What a great sight to see so many of our students rewarded for their efforts.

Year 9 English

A new topic has begun this term and students are excited to explore the iconic Australian novel, ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’! We have been delving into the assessment requirements for this unit and enjoying experiencing new texts. As a class we will also watch the film version of the novel, so keep an eye out for permission notes.

Year 10 English

The Year 10 students have just finished their Work Experience and most have had an excellent learning opportunity. Back at school we have begun our new topic and are exploring poetry in relation to global, social and environmental issues. We will be reading some iconic Australian ballads within the next few days!

Mrs Peta-Ann Clarke

Year 10 Form and Secondary Teacher

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