ONLY 67 DAYS LEFT FOR EACH & EVERY

CHILD THIS SCHOOL YEAR!!

Dear Parents

Term 3 is quickly coming to a close and

we will be 3/4 of the way through the

year. It has been great to see the students

showing improvement in their reading this

term not only in PM levels but also in their

use of strategies.

Our focus this year will remain on reading

and ensuring that students understand

what they are reading. Before and during

school students are given the opportunity

to read with teachers and teacher aides to

allow us to improve their fluency,

understanding and comprehension skills.

This term we are seeking parent or

community volunteers who would like to

assist us in the classroom with listening to

students read and learning sight words. If

you are available before or during school

and would like to be placed on a regular

timetable please email or call me.

Attendance

The 2018 School Attendance Target is

94%, for Term 3 our school’s attendance

rate is 86.9%. Our yearly school’s

attendance rate is 91.0%.

Regular attendance leads to enhanced

achievement and learning progress. Let’s

ensure all students attend school to reap

the rewards of consistent participation

and engagement. Unless your child is ill, it

is expected that your child will be at

school learning every day of the school

year.

DA TE

CLAI MERS

Glenmorgan Gazette Principal: Miss Caitlin Crothers P O Box 29 Phone: 07 4665 6757 Clive Street Fax: 07 4665 6794 GLENMORGAN QLD 4423 Email: the.principal@glenmorgss.eq.edu.au

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From the Principal…...

Current

Attendance: 86.9%

EVERY DAY COUNTS!!!

30th August School photos

31st August Tennis

1st September Condamine Football /Netball

6th September Tuckshop

7th September Tennis

14th September Tennis

20th September Tuckshop

21st September End of term 3!

22nd September Meandarra Show

8th October Day 1 Term 4

12th October Just For Laughs

22nd October Pupil Free Day

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Yearly

P A G E 2

Road Safety Awareness week

Too many people die on Queensland roads,

and the effects can be devastating. The

financial costs are enormous, and the

social and emotional impacts are even

bigger. But the sad truth is, road crashes

are largely preventable. Join the Drive to

Save Lives is a road safety initiative with

the goal to get the whole of Queensland to

rally together behind being road safe.

Queensland Road Safety Awareness Week

is a chance for all of us to be involved in

making our roads safer. ‘Speaking up for

road safety—road rules refresh’ is the

focus and we’re encouraging the whole

community to have their say and refresh

their road rules knowledge. Queensland

Road Safety Week is also about challenging

the status quo. Let’s stop accepting death

and serious injury as just ‘part and parcel’

of using our roads. Speak up. Be heard.

https://jointhedrive.qld.gov.au/

School Notes…….

G L E N M O R G A N G A Z E T T E

Happy

September

Birthday

to:

Miss Crothers

Student of the week 3

Ella Stanford for focussing on reading strategies

Maddie Stanford for her outstanding attitude towards learning

Brooke Coggan for using advice and persuasive techniques in her writing

Jordi Cau for using sounds independently in his writing

Well done to these students

REMINDER to all parents— School banking is every Tuesday, don’t forget to send you child’s banking book to school with them. There are great prizes to be won for those that regularly deposit money into their account.

NAPLAN Online Update Preparations for the move to NAPLAN Online are underway. We will be attending training later this year to learn how to use the national assessment platform. The department is also supporting our school to ensure we are technically ready to participate in a national School Readiness Trial in October 2018. The trial allows us to check our technical readiness and provides our students and staff with an opportunity to become familiar with the types of test items and online assessment process. The teachers are supporting students to become familiar with the ICT skills needed for online assessment. These skills are a regular part of lessons and are described in the Australian Curriculum. The tailored test design adapts to each student’s level of performance, and another benefit of online assessment is that students can listen through their headsets to the questions (except in reading).

The national demonstration website features test items that support students with a disability. http://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/ Until next Term

Miss Caitlin Crothers

Tuckshop

Dates

Thursday 6th Sep

20th Sep 3rd September

Awards Term 3

Maddie Stanford—Blue sight words

Jordi Cau—Orange & Green sight words

Heath Scholefield—Reading Eggs & Super Speller

Ella Stanford—Pink sight words

Payton Scholefield—Mathletics: Platinum

Nancy Schmidt—Mathletics: Silver

Brooke Coggan—Super Speller & Mathletics Bronze

William Schmidt—Mathletics: Silver

Athletics Carnival: On Friday the 3rd of August, Teelba held the Annual Small

Schools Athletics Carnival. Congratulations to Heath Scholefield

who received runner up age champion, and to all Glenmorgan

students who gave 100% effort in each event they participated

in. Thankyou to Teelba for hosting the carnival and all parents

and friends who supported our students on the day.

Public Speaking: On Tuesday the 28th of August the annual Small Schools

Public Speaking competition was held at Meandarra State

School.

Congratulations to the students that were selected to

represent Glenmorgan State School with their persuasive

speech:

William Schmidt—Country Living is Better than City Living

Brooke Coggan—Cats have Superpowers

Nancy Schmidt—More Homework not Less

Payton Scholefield—JoJo is Better than Slim Dusty

Congratulations to Brooke Coggan for her first place.

Around the Classroom: Dogs are better than cats—By Ella Embrey

Good morning teachers and classmates. Today I am going to convince you all that dogs are

way better than cats. I believe that dogs are better than cats because dogs can help people

and they also make the worlds best friend.

Firstly, everyone knows that dogs can help people I many different ways. They can help blind

people do lots of things, even open doors for them! They help us on farms, such as protecting

us from snakes, barking to let us know if someone is coming onto your property and even

helping us muster cattle. Can you imagine a cat doing that? They just sleep and

purr!

Secondly, dogs are the best, most fun and loyal friends in the whole entire uni-

verse. When you go horse riding with your dog they love o run along beside you

and always do what you command. You can also tell your dog anything and they

will keep your secrets. You have to always look after your dog and always keep it

fit. Your dog will look after you and keep you fit too—just like a best friend should.

Finally, they say dogs are a mans best friend, well I say they are a girls best friend too! So if

you don’t get a dog, then you wont have a great helper and the cutest and most lovable

friend in the whole entire universe! I hope that now I have convinced you to GET A DOG NOT

A CAT!!.

On Friday I went to the athletics

carnival at Teelba. I liked discus

because I got third.

Maddie Stanford—Prep

At athletics I improved at shot put. I got 1st for

shot put, 2nd for my 50m sprint and 1st for

high jump. I got runner up age champion. I

competed against Westmar, Teelba, Moonie,

The Gums and Hannaford.

Heath Scholefield—yr 1

At the athletics carnival I liked run-

ning the best. I liked the food be-

cause I liked the sausage rolls.

Ella Stanford—yr 1

P&C News

Next Meeting - Tuesday 23rd October 3:15pm

Next Event - Catering Small Schools Swimming Carnival

- Friday 30th November at Meandarra Pool

Unfortunately due to the weather conditions the annual

campdraft planned to be held on 6th & 7th October will

be unable to go ahead. Fingers crossed the season im-

proves for everyone.

Help Yourself! 8 tips for

teaching kids to be

more independent Do you do too much for your kids? It’s time to flip the script.

By Jackie Gillard – Today’s Parent

It’s 7:55am and my six year old daughter is singing Pharrell’s “Happy”

in her pyjamas while bopping to the beat. I’m not happy, knowing

that the school bell rings in 15 minutes. I pull her PJs off like they’re

on fire and tug up her tights so brusquely that I practically lift her off

the floor. We make it, barely.

I know she can dress herself, but my blood pressure starts to spoke

watching her stalling shenanigans, and I often end up doing it for her

to avoid facing yet another late slip.

Sound familiar? Jeanner Williams, an Edmonton psychologist, sees

many parents coping with the time crunch by using a “parenting to

get through the day” approach: They worry about what needs to be

done in the here and now, not about the long-term effects of these

daily choices. “I’d go so far to say that all parents do this at some

point,” she says.

Well, if we’re all doing it, it cant be that bad. Right?

Unfortunately, this isn’t a strength-in-numbers thing. “Habitually

doing things for your child that she’s capable of doing herself sends

an inadvertent message that you don’t have confidence in her abili-

ties,” Williams warns. The outcome is a child who lacks independ-

ence, self-esteem and problem-solving skills and who can’t – or wont

– do age-appropriate tasks. This is sometimes called “learned help-

lessness.” Learned from whom? You guessed it.

But Williams doesn’t want us to feel guilty. She knows we’re just

trying to keep all those balls in the air and explains that this problem

is fixable – and there’s a huge payoff: confident, capable kids, and

tasks removed from your plate. Here are eight tips for teaching kids

to be more independent:

Give Notice Get your child on board by encouraging her to help “you” change.

When Williams realised she was doing way more for her son than

was necessary, she told him, “I’m sorry. I’ve been treating you like

little kid when you are reading to do some big-kid jobs!” She warns

against using phrases like “You are not a baby anymore”; baby can

be a sensitive word in this age group.

Identify Opportunities Make a list of things she could be doing herself.

Mine had 13 tasks including brushing her teeth. Ask her which duties

she feels she’s big enough to take on – it’s likely to increase her will-

ingness to try.

Target Opportunities Tackle one item at a time, so you don’t overwhelm her.

Make time If it takes her 10 minutes to brush her own, start your morning 10

minutes earlier (and put down the brush!).

When she is not being micromanaged, she may surprise you with her

co-operation, and you’ll be a calmer influence when you’re not rac-

ing against the clock.

Negotiate compromise If she digs in her heels, compromise and inject some fun.

For a few days, I took shirt duty, and she did the bottoms. I said that

her tree branches (arms) needed their leaves (her shirt) and that she

did a great job – and would be awesome at putting on her own shirt.

Forget perfection Accept that she won’t do the task as well as you.

If the milk spills, show her how to clean it up without criticism and

assure her it happens to everyone.

Praise something Instead of pointing out that her shoes are on the wrong feet, say,

“You put on your own shoes! Good job!” She’ll discover the discom-

fort on her own. Give the positive follow-up like, “I bet you’ll get

them on the right feet tomorrow.”

Consider circumstances If kids are tired, sick, stressed or adjusting to a change, it’s not the

time to introduce new responsibilities. And don’t be discouraged if

they regress, wanting you to do a task after they’ve mastered it. This

is normal. Temporarily sharing the load can help them bounce back

more quickly than if you scold or criticise them.

Don’t rush in to solve minor issues when they crop up, says psycholo-

gist Jeanne Williams. Encourage your child’s problem-solving skills by

asking if she can come up with a fix. If she’s stumped, give her time

to think before offering up your ideas.

Try to stay relaxed. Like me, you may find more messy beds and pud-

dles of milk, but hearing your child proudly say, “I did it all by my-

self!” is so worth it.

Morning Routine for

school: tips

By Raising Children Network

Moring routine for school: the whys and hows

Children don’t understand time in the same way as adults. This

can make school mornings a stressful time of day for families.

Staying calm and being organised in the morning will help you all

feel positive about the day ahead. On the other hand, fighting

with children in the morning makes it harder for your child to

enjoy school and for you to work well. It even increases the risk

of you having an accident at work.

The most useful way to reduce morning chaos is to set up a

morning routine. Sticking to a morning routine for school helps

your children predict what’s coming, and remember what they

need to do.

Planning ahead for school mornings

The first step in your morning routine for school is to think about

what you need to do and work out a plan for doing it. You’ll

probably find that you

and your child can do

many things the night

before.

Here are some ideas:

Try to find out the night before (or even earlier) if

there’s something special happening at school the next

day.

Organise lunches and get breakfast things ready for the

morning rush. Breakfast is one of the most important

meals of the day, and helps your child to concentrate

better at school.

Think about having a weekly schedule or calendar with

reminders of what your child needs to take to school

each day – for example, library books, sports clothes,

show and tell, and so on. You can keep this on the fridge

so everyone knows what’s happening.

You might know something is going to come up that

could cause conflict, like your child not wanting to eat

breakfast, or wanting to wear sneakers rather than

school shoes. Talk about it the night before when every-

body has time and you’re all less likely to be stressed.

Think about getting ready for your day the night before

as well, to help ease time pressure in the morning.

Try to read school newsletters and check bags for notes the

night before. You could also try to prepare clothes, sign school

notes, and get school bags ready the night before.

Your morning routine for school: tips

Rushing can really increase everyone’s stress levels, so it helps

to give yourself a bit more time in the morning. One of the best

ways to do this is to get up 15-30 minutes earlier.

Here are more tips to take the stress out of mornings:

Think about an alarm for children who find it hard to wake up or

don’t like getting out of bed.

Tackle the morning as positively and as optimistically as you can.

Good moods can be infectious. One way to do this is to be fo-

cusing on the positive aspects of your children’s behavior and

praising them – for example, ‘Great to see you eating some

toast’.

Give your children calm, clear instructions about what you want

them to do, and follow up with specific praise as soon as they

start to cooperate. You might need to remind younger children

more often about what they’re meant to be doing and when.

Simple ‘to do’ checklists, even with pictures, can help.

As your children get older and more capable, encourage them to

do more for themselves. For example, an eight-year-old can get

dressed on his own, make his own breakfast, and tidy up after

himself. A five-year-old can do things like putting his lunch box

in his bag. Cut down on distractions like television, tablets and

other devices. Many families have a rule about no screen time in

the morning. Think about leaving screens off, unless screen time

is a special treat for being ready on time.

Try not to give your children extra attention for arguing, witch-

ing or stalling. Even negative attention is an incentive for them

to keep going with this behavior.

How things go at home in the morning can set the tone

for the day ahead. A predictable and positive morning

routine for school can help children arrive at school

feeling calm, well fed and ready to make the most of

the first few hours of the day.

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