COMING EVENTS Note the following dates in your Diary: P&C Meetings Fourth Monday of the month in Staff Room Fundraising 6pm General 7pm MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS: Adult English lessons, 9am, Staff Room THURSDAY: Craft Morning 9am, Function Room. UNIFORM SHOP Open Tuesday from 8.30am - 9.30am and Thursday from 2.30pm - 3.30pm. TUCKSHOP Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 8.15 am - 2.00 pm DATE CLAIMERS 14th March, Harmony Day 26th March Cross-Country Carnival 28th March, Toowoom-ba Show Holiday YMCA O.S.H.C

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL HARMONY DAY INVITATION Parents and community, please take time to enjoy this year’s Harmony Day celebration. We have many activities for student, parents and visitors to share in, including: Morning tea with ambassadors in the hall Prep and Year One Harmony Day activities Other Year Level activities Shared morning tea with classes Visit Harmony Hands Tree in CPA 1 Harmony Tree planting Harmony Hedge planting All parents please feel welcome to attend and to wear your national or cultural dress to help make our day special. We also invite parents and guests to stay and enjoy morning tea to-gether.

Until next week, Mark

Illustration Credit goes to: Tony Flowers

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PBL (POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING) MATTERS

HARMONY DAY This week’s value that our school is focusing on is: Safety. Our students will be follow the rule: I respect cultural differ-ences. Students will develop skills and understanding of being tolerant and fair and to accept and acknowledge differ-ences in other. Our behaviour focus links with Harmony Day. Harmony Day will be held this year on Thursday 14

th March to coincide with the United Nations International Day for the

Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The message of Harmony Day is ‘everyone belongs’. It’s a day to celebrate Austral-ia’s diversity – a day of cultural respect for everyone who calls Australia home. This Thursday, our school will celebrate Harmony Day with a special parade. We want to take this opportunity to recog-nise and thank all of the communities and people who make our school such a fantastic place to come and learn. You are all welcome to attend our special parade this Thursday 14

th March (9 – 10am) in the school hall.

SOCIALISATION Schools provide an important opportunity for your children to practice and refine their skills in ‘getting along with others’ while achieving their education. We are all part of Darling Heights State School and we all have a vested interest in en-suring our school community is happy and healthy. We are a community of people all working towards the same goal; the education and socialisation of our children. Research clearly indicates the importance of the development of a partnership approach between parents and schools to learning and school attendance, to ensure children achieve to their ability. The playground environment and the classroom are areas which both provide their own socialisation challenges and it is important for parents to feel confident in approaching the school to discuss issues of concern. Some tips for problem solving in partnership with schools:

Listen clearly to your child’s concerns.

Encourage them to think of things they can do to remedy the situation.

Avoid absenteeism as a solution – this teaches that running away from problems is a valid solution.

Make a time to see your child’s teacher to discuss the issue. If necessary, also make an appointment with the Principal or Deputy.

Avoid blaming – state your concerns clearly.

Work in partnership with the teacher to decide how best to support the situation, looking at the problem from all sides, considering all options and making a time for review.

Remember, the school is a dynamic people community with thousands of social interactions occurring daily. It is only nat-ural that there will be occasions when there are socialisation issues. Schools are about ensuring the safety and happi-ness of every child and are only too happy to work with parents to quickly resolve an issue or concern. A special thanks to all parents who take the time each week to sit down and talk to their child/ren about the week ’s Value and focus. If any parents have any queries or concerns or wish to discuss anything, please feel free to contact Mrs Keiryn Clements (Deputy Principal) on 4636 8333.

SENIOR NEWS Camp is filling up fast with over half of the 80 spots taken. To avoid disappointment you need to send in your deposit as soon as possible. Please make sure your child is dressed in their national dress or orange on Thursday for Harmony Day. The more national costumes we have, of course, the better the pa-rade will be! Finally, we’d like to remind parents to make sure that your child is bringing their diary to school every day so that we can acknowledge their good work with passport stamps. Furthermore, participation in interschool sports is for Star Students who make great behaviour choices in the class-room and playground as well as on the sporting field. SCHOOL TIMES This year, we have an even greater expectation that chil-dren will be at school on time, ready to start their day. School starts at 8.45am.

Lateness not only disrupts the learning of individual chil-dren, it also disrupts teachers and other students as those who are late need to catch up on what they have missed. It is important that all parents realise that children need to be at school for the maximum amount of time available to ensure quality learning can occur. Any absence can have an impact on a child’s overall learning so please remember that school finishes at 3.00pm. However, in the event that you need to collect your child/ren during the school day please remember that we will endeavour to locate them but this can be very difficult dur-ing break times and during Friday afternoon sport.

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Prep Stars PM Jessica Wyatt PT Seth Johnston PW Asher Knight Year 1 Stars 1B Malak Al Shawawreh 1M Calin Martin 1S Thomas Foster Year 2 Stars 2A Ayla Marshall 2D Zach Thompson 2N Cassidy Johnston 2S Maryam A. Setar Year 3/4 Star Students 3M Ahmed Algayyim 4R Wed Aljuaky

Year 3/4 Merit Award 4R Katelyn Strungaru Year 3/4 Student of the Week 4R Andrew Kavuala Year 5/6 Star Students 5/6A Bella Forsdike 5/6B Elouise Greene 5/6C Maddison Dorman 5/6D David Weston 5/6E Ramez Al Nasser SEP Star Students SEP B Jayson Carandang SEP S Asher Peters Ethan Bryde Jayden Lobwein

STAR STUDENTS

Team Week 7 Mar 15

Boys AFL Seniors

1:45 Vs East

Queens Park 1 Boys AFL Juniors

1:00 Vs Glenvale

Queens Park 6 Hot Shots Tennis Seniors

1:45 Vs Glennie 2

Nell E Robinson 3 Hot Shots Tennis Juniors

1:00 Vs Concordia 2

Nell E Robinson 4 Girls Cricket 1:00

vs East Captain Cook 1

Girls Touch Seniors

1:00 vs Fairholme

Kearney Springs 10 Girls Touch Juniors

1:45 vs Holy Name

Kearney Springs 9

TERM 1 SPORTS

CROSS COUNTRY 2019

This year’s Cross Country Day is being held on Tuesday, 26th

March. Parents are invited to attend to watch this event. Train-ing has begun where teachers have set aside some time each week for their students to go for a run. Below, is the outline for the day:

9:00am – 11:00am

Grades 3 – 6 will run in this timeslot. Points are allocated to sport houses in these age groups. At the conclusion of this ses-sion, winners and placegetters will receive medallions and the sporting house that receives the most points on aggregate will be announced as champions. The day will begin with our young-est year 3’s and we will progress to the year 6’s.

11:30am – 1:00pm

This session our Year 1’s and 2’s will compete in class groups. We will begin with our year 1’s and will conclude with our year 2’s.

2:00pm – 3:00pm

This session belongs to our Preps and SEP H. Be sure to come out and watch your child run in their very first event.

Distances

Prep to Year 2 – 500m

Children Born 2011 – 500m

Children Born 2010 – 1km

Children Born 2009 – 2km

Children Born 2008 – 3km Children Born 2007 – 3km

TUCKSHOP NEWS Tuckshop is open Wed, Thurs and Friday, 8.15am – 2pm. Please have your order written out on a paper bag before joining the queue. This will make the queue flow more easily and hopefully lessen wait times. Printed Brown paper bags are available at the Tuckshop - 20 for $1.50. Please see the back page of the Tuckshop Menu for how to complete your order. CRAFT NEWS Craft – Thursday from 9am in the Function Room. Ever thought about coming along to our Craft Day? We are currently working on various items for our Mothers’ Day Stall coming up to be held from the 9

th-11

th May. Any profits we make go

back to the school. Come for an hour, half a day, once a fortnight, whatever works for you. Craft Day is Thursday from 9am in the Function Room (next to the Tuckshop). All welcome! If you cannot make it on Thursdays but would like to contribute either by making or donating something please contact Bec on 0452268404. New people = new ideas and skills to share!!! THANK YOU! Thank you to everyone who enjoyed our Disco and especially to those who helped out on the night. It was a great success!

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ADULT ENGLISH LANGUAGE LESSONS are held every Monday and Thursday in the Staffroom from 9:00 to 10:30. Child care is available for a gold coin donation. For further details please see Ricky Adams. Would you or someone you know, like to join us as an English Tutor for our Adult English Lessons? Would you like to take the opportunity to meet some of our parents from other coun-tries? Well we have a great opportunity for you. English clas-ses are on Monday and Thursday mornings, come to one or both. You will be taught how to work with the adult students by the Leaders of this program, you will make new and interesting friends and importantly you will have a great time. If you would like to join us next term, please contact Ricky at radam67@eq.edu.au or on 4636 8367 to find out more.