The Mount Murchie Mail Your connection to Mount Murchison State School; where improvement is our language

Week 3 Term 2 21stmay 2019

To report suspicious incidents around the school grounds

please call:

School Watch 131 788

Contact us:

Ph: 49922253

Office Hours:

Tuesday , Wednesday,

Thursday

8.45 am — 2.30 pm

Administrative Officer

Mrs. Robyn Matheson

Principal:

Mrs. Linda Holman

2019: Fearless improvers of reading and writing

Junior Journalists

A feature article on school events from our Year 5 and 6 students

Your junior journalists

The P & C kindly donated the year 6 students, senior shirts to wear. The year 6 students would like to thank

the P & C for kindly gifting us with these awesome shirts. The senior shirts match our school colours which is

green and gold. The Year 6 students will most definitely wear these with pride. We wore the senior shirts

for our senior school group photo. WE LOOK AWSOME! We are enjoying wearing these shirts at our school.

Amy & Awhena

Mt Murchie Shining Stars

Week 2

Darcy, Braxton & Shakina

Week 3

Tama, Bastian & Zach

Week 4

Felicity, Alexis F, Awhena

Week 5

Carter, Zoe, Shakina

News from the Principal’s Desk Greetings school community

Firstly, thanks for your patience and understanding with the impact on our communications created by our server having technical issues. Whilst we are not

quite there yet, we are working towards having a full solution to the challenges presented.

ANZAC Day

It was a lovely rainy day for the town ANZAC Day Ceremony this year. The rain did not keep people away and it was wonderful to march with the staff and students. A special mention to Lilly who read during the ceremony and represented our school community with pride. I was also extremely proud of our students who demonstrated respect for the ANZACs at our school ceremony. Sports Update The Callide Valley Small Schools Athletics Carnival was a wonderful community event at Goovigen State School. A big thanks to all of our families for making sure that the students were able to be part of this day. A special mention to Blake, Shakina, Awhena, Bridget and Amy who were selected to represent the Callide Valley Small Schools at the Callide Valley trials. A further congratulations to Blake and Awhena who will be representing the Callide Valley at the Port Curtis trials this coming Friday. Parent Teacher Interviews This is such an important part of our communications and which occurred on Monday 13th May. We always feel that we are better able to support students in their learning journey using the conversations that we have with families. I thank each family for their time in coming to meet with the teaching team. NAPLAN National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is now completed and the testing has been posted off to be processed. I thank families for making

sure that their children have been well rested and ready for the challenge of the testing process.

Biloela State High School Transition

Transition into secondary education is a very important process for all of our students. Year 6 students have had a visit from Mr Hall from Biloela State High

School which is an important part of that process. All families should be attending the information evening this Wednesday.

Callide Valley Show

Can I thank all families for their contributions to making this major fundraising event a success once again in 2019. A special mention to those of you who either

bought your children along for the duration of the Show or loaned one parent whilst the other looked after the kids. It is a massive amount of work but is certainly

worth the effort as the money we raise benefits all of our children and helps promote our school within our community.

Canberra Camp Update

Due to unforeseen circumstances the scheduled Camp Meeting has been shifted to 3 p.m. on Monday 10th June. The information is critical for you to be able to be

prepared with plenty of time. All families need to attend.

Digital Technology Workshops

Students in Years 3-6 will be joining students from our other Small Schools at Wowan State School for a Digital Technology workshop next Tuesday. Don’t forget

that it is an early start and the bus will be unable to wait for late arrivals. Students need to be here and ready to get onto the bus at 8 a.m. for an 8:15 departure.

Earn and Learn

Please don’t forget to collect and bring in the Woollies Earn and Learn stickers. This is a great initiative to support our students. In 2019 we are hoping to use our

Earn and Learn Stickers to get at least one (hopefully more) microscopes to support our students in their Science curriculum.

Chaplaincy Update

I am very pleased to share that we have secured additional funding for our Chaplaincy program for the remainder of this year. This will mean that we are able to

have Chappy Lyn all day on Mondays AND Fridays. Chaplaincy is such a wonderful support for all members of our school community and I am very excited to be

able to have more time.

This term, Chappy Lyn has worked with me to develop a Leadership Program for Year 5 & 6 students which will run on Friday afternoons after school from Week 6—

9. Further information will be sent home to these families this week.

Typing Tournament

The ability to touch type is becoming more important for the future education and working lives of our children. This week we have purchased the program Typing

Tournament to support our students to develop these skills. We will be working with the students to ensure they know how to access the program. Just like

Reading Eggs and Mathletics, students will be able to access this program from home. We will be

sending the details for students to log on at home in the coming weeks.

Skipping for Fitness

Over the remaining weeks of this term, all students will be working on developing their skill and

proficiency in skipping (with a rope) as part of our Health and Physical Education Program. Students

will all have set goals to work towards by the end of the term. I encourage families to support

students and perhaps become involved with a bit of skipping at home.

We will be having a P&C Meeting on Monday 3rd June—the agenda will be sent home next week.

Yours in learning

Linda

Teach Girls To Build Each Other Up

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Canberra Camp Update

18-23rd August

Final payment is to be made by

Monday 17th June.

We support families who would like to make

weekly / fortnightly payments. Please

contact the Admin team to make

arrangements.

Next

Meeting:

Monday

10th June

3 p.m.

Mount Murchison State School Term 2 2019

Week 1

22nd April

Easter Monday

23rd April

24th April

9 a.m. ANZAC Day

Ceremony

25th April

ANZAC Day

26th April

Newsletter

Mothers day dona-

tions due

Cluster Athletics notes

due

Week 2

29th April

Moderation CoP Leader-

ship Meeting: Linda

Chappy Coffee Catch Up

30th April

Small Schools

Athletics Carnival

1st May

Lead Principals Telecon-

ference 3:30-5

School Photo forms due

2nd May

Parent teacher inter-

view notes due back

School Photos

3rd May

Tuckshop

Port Curtis Cross Coun-

try Trials

Week 3

Sunday 12th May

Mothers Day

6th May

Labor Day Public

Holiday

7th May

8th May

Biloela State High School Yr 6

transition visit

9th May

10th May

Newsletter

Callide Valley Athletics

Trials

Week 4

13th May

Chappy Coffee Catch Up

Parent teacher

interviews

14th May

NAPLAN

15th May

NAPLAN

Lead Principals Telecon-

ference 3:30-5

16th May

NAPLAN

17th May

Show Holiday

Week 5

20th May

21stMay

22nd May

Biloela State High School

Year 6 Transition Infor-

mation Evening

23rd May

24th May

Port Curtis Athletics

trials

Newsletter

Week 6

27th May

Chappy Coffee Catch Up

28th May

Digital Technology

Workshop: Year 3-6

29th May

30th May

Prep Vision Screening

Lead Principals

Teleconference 3:30-5

31st May

Tuckshop

Week 7

3rd June

P&C Meeting 3 p.m.

4th June

5th June

6th June

Gladstone Youth

Parliament: Year 5 & 6

7th June

Newsletter

Week 8

10th June

Compulsory Camp

Meeting 3 p.m.

11th June 12th June

Unit Planning PD : Moura SS

Lead Principals Teleconference

3:30-5

Final Canberra Camp payment

due

13th June

14th June

Week 9

17th June

18th June

19th June

I4S Inschool

Moderation

20th June

I4S Inschool

Moderation

21st June

Newsletter

Biloela State Highschool

Year 6 transition day

Week 10

24th June

Callide Dawson

Moderation

Chappy Coffee Catch Up

25th June

PCYC Day

26th June

27th June

Star Day

28th June