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Noosaville State School Newsletter

2019 Organisation There is just over two weeks to go until the end of the year. With this in mind, here are a few reminders about the organisation for the start of the 2019 school year. School commences with the first day on Tuesday 29 January, due to the first Monday being a public holiday for Australia Day. Our school has a ‘meet and greet’ the teacher on Friday 25 January 2019, from 12.00-3.00 pm. This is a time that you can drop in to your child’s classroom with their school books, introduce yourself to the teacher and then be ready to return on the following Tuesday for the official first day of school in 2019. Our P&C also organise a gold coin donation sausage sizzle that afternoon so feel free to drop by and socialise with our Noosaville school communi-ty. Our uniform shop is also open from 8.30 am until 2.00 pm for uniform sales and order pick ups, on Wednesday, Thursday Friday (23—25 January 2019), so avoid the queue on Friday and drop by on one of these days if you need uniforms.

End of Year 2018 Semester Two Reports At this time of the year, teachers are finalising assessments and writing reports. Well done to all students on an amazing learning year. Semester two report cards will be issued on the last Wednesday of the school year.

Booklists See our Noosaville SS website or the attached lists to order your 2019 book-lists from Office Choice (newsagency in Tewantin) or to source them yourself. Please ensure all belongings are named for 2019. A percentage of book sales goes to our P&C, if ordered through Office Choice.

2019 Classes and Teachers Meet the teacher letters will go home with your child in the last week of the term. New Prep students will have their teacher letter emailed home. Please note that classes are always tenta-tive at this stage and into the start of 2019 until the eighth day of the 2019 school year, when staffing is decided and dependent upon our total school numbers.

Week 8 Term 4

Wed 28 to Fri 30 Year 5 Camp—Stanley River

Fri 30 Nov Assembly - Caring Badges presentation Yrs P-3

Fri 30 Nov Surf Skills—Year 6

Week 9 Term 4

Mon 3 Dec Interschool surf skills Challenge

Tues 4 Dec Good Start Kindy 9:00am for reading groups

Wed 5 Dec Preps—Hibiscus Christmas Concert in the hall

Wed 5 Dec Year 4—Art with Brenda

Wed 5 Dec RI Students Christmas Performance

Thurs 6 Dec Crazy Sock Day

Fri 7 Dec Y6 Graduation & afternoon at the NAC

Week 10 Term 4

Tues 11 Dec Y6 Orientation SBSHS and NDSHS

Tues 11 Dec Swimming Carnival Yrs 3-6

Wed 12 Dec Y6 Surf Skills final Carnival

Wed 12 Dec Assembly—School Farewell Bowling/Laser Tag/Cinema

Thurs 13 Dec Y6 Celebration Day

Friday 14 Dec Free Dress Day

Friday 14 Dec Clean up Day

Care for yourself

I walk when moving around the school

I sit quietly in lines I visit the toilet and have a drink

before lining up I stay with the group

Care for others I walk quietly and appropriately

I follow instructions

Care for your School

I return tuckshop boxes I walk on the pathways

Care for your learning

I am on time I look after my belongings

PBL Rules— Transition / Lining up

School Events All known school events can be accessed each month

on the front page of our school website. Go to www.noosavilless.eq.edu.au and click on the

‘Calendar and news’ tab. From here click on the ‘Events Calendar’ link to access the calendar.

Noosaville State School Community

Feedback Link

Events for the Rest of 2018

Week 8 Wednesday 28—Friday 30 Nov - Year 5 Camp Stanley River Wed-Fri

Week 8 Wednesday 28 Nov - Alpha State School Visit – 17 students from year 4-9, Presenta-tion of banner and Lions Club support for drought relief Week 8 – Friday 30 Nov - Gold certificates and Caring Badge presentations to Prep

to Year 3 students on assembly

Week 9 Monday 3 December—Interschool Surf Carnival

Week 9 Tuesday 4 December – End of Year Music Students Concert after school

Week 9 Wednesday 5 December - Hibiscus and Preps Christmas Concert in Hall

Week 9 Thursday 6 December—Crazy Sock Day (P&C gold coin donation)

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Noosaville Celebrates Thank you to all the families who attended Assembly last week. It was lovely to have so many families help us celebrate the achieve-ment of a large number of our Year 4-6 students receiving their Caring badges. The Rock band performance was also a great way to start our Friday! This week, we will be celebrating with our Prep to Year 3 students. Congratulations to all those students who have shown care for themselves, others, their learning and the school all year. Thank you to our wonderful staff for supporting and encouraging our students to be Accomplished, Compassionate and Empowered.

Noosaville Expects As usual at this time of year, we are all asking “Where did the time go?” For all staff and students, it is a very busy time of year. As-sessments are being finalised, marked and reports are being written. We will be analysing our semester two academic data carefully as we plan for 2019, but it is timely to consider that aca-demic progress is only one measure of success for our students. Positive results for ‘effort’ will also demonstrate students ‘Care for self’ and ‘Care for their learning’. I am looking forward to reading students’ report cards and to sharing in the celebrations of achieved learning goals. In the last three weeks of the year, I am expecting all students to maintain their focus in the classroom and to strive to be the best they can be, so as to finish the year on a high note.

Traffic congestion is nothing new around school zones, and stu-dent safety is always our prime concern. Representatives from Buslink have been in touch with me recently regarding traffic is-sues around the bus stop area. Parents are respectfully reminded to ensure they are particularly vigilant when driving in school zones and to always drive with due care and attention to other road users. I am advised local police are likely to patrol school zones at pick up and drop off times in the coming weeks. Bus passes: Buslink have requested that the school assist with the distribution of bus pass-es in 2019. I understand Buslink will under-take to leave these in the school office by 25 January for distribu-tion to students. Alasdair Scott Deputy Principal

Transitions: With the closing of fourth school term heralds the end of an era for our year 6 students. This is a very exciting time in the lives of these students and their families. A celebration of so much growth, development and learning. It can also be quite over-whelming, daunting and downright scary particularly for the eldest child of a family. Thus to ensure a successful transition into the next phase of learning, requires a bit of thought, care and prepara-tion. Acknowledge and validate a child’s fears. Seize the oppor-tunity to load a child’s resilience bucket with love, reassurance, reminders of past achievements and efforts made. Show trust in your child. Allow your child to develop independence and accept responsibility. Projecting a positive view to change and to the op-portunities a secondary school environment can offer supports motivation for ensuring a positive shift. Avoid projecting nega-tive personal experiences of secondary school. Just because it wasn’t great for you does not mean it’s going to be a negative ex-perience for your child. Arm your child with strategies and infor-mation for solving problems. What if? Who do I go to for? What happens when? Seek information together by going to the new school’s website and learn about processes and routines. Chat to someone who is al-ready at the school. Ask ques-tions. Take the time to pre-pare – uniforms, book lists, transport plans. Above all take the time to enjoy the journey with your son or daughter.

Events for the Rest of 2018 continued

Week 9 Friday 7 December - Year 6 Graduation and Farewell Ceremony

Week 10 Tuesday 11 December - Swimming Carnival

Week 10 Wednesday 12 December - Farewell Assembly and

Sport Wrap Up Video

Week 10 Wednesday 12 December - Report Cards sent home

Week 10 Wednesday 12 December—Year 6 Surf Carnival

Week 10 Thursday 13 December - Year 6 Excursion Day

Week 10 Friday 14 December - Last Day Clean up and Free

Dress day

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Keeping an eye on student school attendance: At the

time of writing this article there are 14 school days left in the 2019 academic year and whole school attendance is at 92.3%. Students who have managed to attend school for 95% plus will be receiving an acknowledgement letter with their report card. I encourage all children to be attending every day to ensure they have had every opportunity to do their best on class assessments and to celebrate with their peers a great year well done.

Every day counts. Every student deserves to succeed.

White Ribbon Day: Friday 23 November was White Ribbon

Day. Domestic and Family violence impacts on many families which ultimately impacts on children. Children see, hear, and feel the effects of physical and emotional harm expressed on their parent. Exposure to this type of relationship is abuse to children thus reportable.

Children are at risk of learning dysfunctional ways of managing a relationship leading to experiencing difficulties in their own rela-tionships with peers. Let’s be the best role model we can be to our children. Let’s learn to solve problems in a rational and re-spectful manner. No one person should be victim of violence in their home or community. Happy Families = Happy Children

Vicki Anderson-Bain, Guidance Officer

Finance With less than three weeks left in the school year, please be sure to make payment of any outstanding invoices. Our policy is in-voices must be paid before the commencement of any camp, ex-cursion or activity so please bear due dates in mind. Please contact either myself, Kimberley, Amor or Carly in the office for further information.

Leaving NSS? As classes for 2019 are being finalised it is very important that families please advise the office if you are not returning to Noosaville State School this year. We also ask if you could com-plete an exit survey - contact the office for further infor-mation. Please also ensure that you return any library books and home readers.

Facilities Works are soon scheduled for our Prep classrooms, with a renova-tion and refresh taking place. Also, plans and preparation for the senior playground shade cover should soon be finalised to start in the new year and an AV upgrade of our hall equipment was com-pleted last month, Stay tuned!

School Watch - School Holidays Are Almost Upon Us During this period empty schools provide an opportunity for crimi-nal activity, becoming targets for unlawful entry, arson, stealing, graffiti and property damage – all of which become a cost to the community.

The

School Watch Program is a partnership between Education Queensland, the Queensland Police Service and the State Govern-ment Protective Security Service. It aims to reduce criminal activi-ty in Queensland schools and encourages everyone to look out for after-hours crime in our schools. If you see anything suspicious, please don’t attempt to intervene. Call the School Watch number – 13 17 88 Let’s work together to help create safer school communities. Kelly Williams

A/Business Manager

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2019 Annual Swimming Carnival The 2019 Annual Noosaville State School Swimming Carnival will be held this term on Tuesday December 11. The Swimming Carnival will be for students born 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 on Tuesday December 11 (Week 10) at the Eumundi Aquatic Centre. The emphasis is on student participation and all swimmers will earn points for their Sports House. Students in Year 6, even if born 2007, will not compete in the carnival, but rather, compete at their high school swimming carnival early next year. The State, Regional and District dates for all sporting codes have been scheduled earlier to cater for the 2019 Primary and Secondary National Athletics Trials being held in Darwin. As a result, our school carnivals need to be moved forward as well. Our school cross coun-try will be conducted a couple of weeks earlier in Term 1 as will our Athletics carnival in Term 3. The carnival will be conducted at the Eumundi Aquatic Centre. Payments of $11 to the class teacher before Friday 7 December. Apologies that this is a late addition to the calendar, however all schools were only made aware of the changes towards the end of Term 3, as the State, Regional and District calendars were being finalised. Shane Luhrs HPE Teacher

Year Six Surf Skills The year six cohort have just completed their first two lessons of surf skills at Noosa Main Beach. Conditions have been fantastic with beautiful, sunny skies and calm conditions. The Noosa Surf Life Savers have been upskilling our students in surf safety and teaching them board craft and signalling. Our activities so far have included surfing, ocean swimming, boogey boarding and the rescue board. They have also competed in re-lays, swimming and running events in preparation for the school’s surf carnival being held on Wednesday, December 12 from 11:15 am to 2:00 pm. Good luck to our Noosaville competitors that will be competing in the interschool surf carnival on Monday December 3 at Noosa Main Beach. The children have been enthusiastic and extremely well behaved. Bring on the next 3 lessons! Sven McNiven 6M Classroom teacher

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The Concert Band with Ms Deady Students on assembly were excited to see their friends playing with the concert band on stage in week 7. A huge congratulations to Ms Deady for her work with the Concert band. The student musi-cians have obviously worked very hard and performed beautifully for the whole school. Well done Kiddos!

The Strings Program wants YOU!

Mrs Flynn is still waiting on the return of applications for year 2 students to join the strings programming 2019. Get them in quick and secure your position.

Farewell Ms Deady and Mrs Flynn! It is with great sadness that we are losing not one but two instru-mental teachers at the end of the term. Ms Deady (Band) and Mrs Flynn (Strings) have worked tirelessly to teach our young musicians and create music for our school audiences throughout the year. They will be sorely missed by staff and stu-dents alike. We wish you the best in your endeavours for 2019. Ms Lesley Pearson will be our 2019 strings teacher and Ms Sarah Tollner will teach band.

Dear Families We would like to invite you to join the Preps for our Christmas sing-a-long with the Hibiscus Residents and the Bushlands Good-start Kindy on Wednesday 5 December at 9am in the hall. Younger siblings and family members (Grandparents etc…) are welcome to come along. Come along in your Christmas accessories – Santa hat, Reindeer ears, tinsel hair ties, ribbons, socks, earrings. Preps are to wear their full school uniform. We will also be sharing a yummy morning tea. Please let your class teacher know if you can come along for catering purposes by Friday 30 November. Thanks! Michelle, Steph, Shay, Bernie and Lizzy Kind Regards, Stephanie Rex Prep Teacher

Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday

Junior Singers Club Marimba Senior Choir Concert Band

8:00am in the

Music Room

Big Lunch in

the Music

Room

8:00am in the

Music Room

Lessons

Big lunch—and

Rehearsal

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Music Celebration Concert 2018 The music department is gearing up for their final showdown for 2018 - The Music Celebration Concert. We hope to see as many staff, students and families there on Tuesday 4 December at 5.30 in the hall.

Applications for Instrumental Music Applications for IM are closing soon. Many students have returned their application forms but there are some still outstanding. Get them in ASAP to secure your spot. Thanks everybody.

Young Composers In The Classroom Year 4 Music students completed their ‘do, re, mi’ composing tasks this week. Each child devised their own rhythm and melody and arranged their notation on felt staves using the notes G, A and B. Well done Dylan and all the Year 4 students. Super work Kiddos!

Hello Families It's that time again where days fly by and the craziness of end of

year kicks, hence we are holding a CRAZY SOCK DAY! We want you to wear your CRAZIEST socks with full school uni-form, for a cold coin donation on Thursday 6 December. All proceeds will be going back into our school and contributing to the new shade structure for the oval playground that will be due to commence in early 2019. The P&C have also recently met to look at our forms and policies for the school in order for everything to transition smoothly into 2019. The subject of uniforms has come up as we have reviewed our School Uniform Policy and with this we are asking can we please have students wearing either WHITE or GREY ankle socks which is part of our uniform policy. This policy will be posted on the P&C Facebook Page soon. So get ready to show us how you rock your craziest socks!! Sincerely Kayla Weitering P&C President Noosaville SS .

ABC Documentary: Don’t Stop The Music A school principal joins forces with musical experts and a sing-ing superstar on a mission, to transform the lives of disadvan-taged Aussie kids through the power of music. I highly recommend this program to all our music families. You can catch up on the whole documentary through ABC iview.

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Gotcha 5

10 Katie H, Eliot C

20 Phoenix B, Xed B, Tayla O, Nelson E, Ella H, Amy M, Zara A, Alex B,

Amaya F, Byron A, Lilly B, Levi C, William L, Nara L, Anais M, Alex M,

Stella A, Charlie B, Mia C, Alyssa D, Shawn J, Jack L, Patrick R, Marco W,

Lily A, Alexis B, Chelsea D, Raquel S.

30 Jett C, Sigrid B, Lola G/B, Lyton N, Laila M, Abby H, Tulip B, Kaia Y,

Darcy D.

40 Alexia B, Ayla W, Brodie W, Savannah L, Amaya M, Connor S, Jye C,

Linden H, Layla C, Chloe S.

50 Eliana H, Saskia L.

60 Tyler G, Murray P, Ava S, Chloe R.

70 Mason B, Harry C, Shekinah J.

80 Beau L, , Bella A, Hailey B, Amy B, Jade M, Rebel Z.

90 Madison A, Bella A, Hailey B, Shelby H, Lilli J, Rebel Z.

100 Jemma G, Shelby H, Lilli S.

110 Jemma G, Kyra S/H,

120 Eva T, Asha VV, Josh W.

Noosa’s finest battle it out for debating title As the school year begins to wind down, some great young minds from our local state schools have been hard at work. Those in the ‘affirmative’ took on those in the ‘negative’ in the annual Noosa District Inter-school Debating competition held last week. Students representing Cooroy, Cooran, Tewantin and Noosaville State Schools participated in a competition where round robin debates occurred on various subjects such as the best things in life are free. Held annually since 2012, the tournament has proven to be a real hit, with students from Years 4-6 finding a fun way to inspire de-bating with a little competitiveness between the schools. The skills and passion were on display during the finals held at Noosaville State School last Monday. For the record, Noosaville’s Year 4, Cooroy’s Year 5 and Noosaville’s Year 6 teams were crowned champions for 2018. Tournament co-ordinator and Noosaville State School teacher, Sue Silburn said the Noosa District Debating Cup was a great success and is now a sought-after title between the four schools and feels it will grow from strength to strength each year it’s held. “The kids have really embraced the annual Debaters’ Cup and we thank Bendigo Bank for their ongoing financial support of this event. Because of it, we’re able to purchase medallions and pre-sent the trophies for the junior and senior team winners. Each student who takes part also receives a certificate of participation. The standard of competition was high again in 2018 and we all had a lot of fun,” Ms. Silburn said. “The students have worked really hard under the guidance of their coaches and adjudicators. We sincerely thank Rick Cass (Tewantin State School), Kathy Facer (Cooran State School) and Hillary Dwyer (Cooroy State School) for their assistance over the past few weeks. “Debating is a great skill for the kids to have as they get older and we certainly have a few budding experts on our hands. At the end of the day the tournaments’ success is measured by the enjoy-ment of the students taking part,” she added. Cooroy and Pomona Community Bank branches’, Simone Flavelle said the bank is delighted about its continued involvement in sponsoring tournaments that develop students’ learning and sportsmanship.

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Alpha State School Visit 17 students from year 4-9, Presentation of banner and

Lions Club support for drought relief

We’re really proud to sponsor this competition and this is just an extension of the great relationship between our Community Bank branches in Cooroy, Tewantin and Pomona and all the schools represented. We look forward to offering our support for the Noosa District Debating Cup in 2019,” Simone said.

Chappy Michelle’s Year 6 Girls Group

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P&C meetings held one Monday of each month at 2:45pm in the Training Room.

Address: PO Box 1079, Noosaville DC 4566 Key Contacts:

Sharyn Rieger (Principal )

Alasdair Scott (Deputy Principal)

Philip Yang & Jenny Graham (Inclusive Education)

John Graham & Eleanor Burns (Head of Curriculum)

Kelly Williams (Acting BM and Admin)

Kayla Weitering (P&C President)

Telephone: General - 07 5440 3222

Absentee - 07 5440 3266

Fax - 07 5440 3200 Email: admin@noosavilless.eq.edu.au

Website: www.noosavilless.eq.edu.au