Principal’s Report

IN THIS ISSUE 29/05/2019

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President - Katy McCallum Vice Presidents - Ben Day and Selina Hill Secretary - Tammy Quinlan Treasurer - Lauren Ryan Fundraising Team - Lauren Ryan, Selina Hill, Renai McLean, Alisha Wason, Krystal Mayne, Carissa Wolgast and Krystle Power. Tuckshop Convenor - Bianca Jackson

P&C Executive

Date Claimer

We are on the home stretch for term 2 and it has brought the cold weather with it. This week has seen single digit temperatures arrive and with it the jumpers and cold weather gear has started to appear. Please remember that part of the uniform policy is that jumpers need to be navy blue in colour, with no or very little branding on it. Jackets can be purchased from the office and they sell for $30. Please come and see the ladies in the office to make a purchase. Pants can also be purchased for $25. Both pants and tights need to be navy blue. Jeans or denim are not to be worn. News and takeaway Garage Sale. Thank you very much to the News and Takeaway for generously donating a space and time to run the Kilkivan Garage Sale. Over $400 dollars was raised or donated to the Kilkivan P and C. Thank you very much to the students who generously gave up their time to help out and Katy and the team who organised this for our community. Beyond Blue It was excellent to see the turn out on Friday for the free dress day for Beyond Blue. Beyond Blue is a not for profit organisation that provides support, advice and action for Australian living with anxiety and depression. Currently 3 million Australians are living with anxiety and depression. Beyondblue.org.au not only has contacts for people struggling with depression, but also for families and colleagues of people living with depression. For further information please contact 1300 224 636.

Cans Can collection in Kilkivan from families and the community has been brilliant and the money raised so far will go a long way to supporting our students travel to Canberra in September. If you would like to continue donating your cans, they can be either dropped up to the school or taken into the Kilkivan Post office. Please mention that the cans are for the school and Jodie and her lovely team will put the money on our account. Thank you for all who have donated and for anyone who is going to donate.

• Photo Gallery • Assessment Calendars • Local Events • Chappy Chat

• Wed 5th June Origin Free Dress Day • Fri 14th June DISCO • Fri 21st June Sports Day

Basketball court upgrade It is great to see the new basketball surface opened up for students. The surface has been completely replaced and we have added a tennis court to the space as well. This is timely as Jake has a week to practise before he heads away to Caloundra to play basketball for the Wide Bay team. Good Luck Jake. Wide Bay Trials Congratulations and well done to all students that competed in the Gympie Athletic Trials last week. A huge congratulations to Bill who made it to the next level for discus and shotput where he will be competing in the Wide Bay Trials in Bundaberg later this term. Kilkivan Touch Football Association - State of Origin Night - Game 1

When: Wednesday 5th June from 6pm

Where: Weier Oval Kilkivan

Weekly Touch Football game at 6pm-7pm $2pp followed by a BBQ dinner and drinks with Origin Game 1 playing on the

telly!

For more info contact:

• Stacey - 0429 179 130

• Rachel - 0419 701 472

Curriculum at Home

Misconceptions in Mathematics Number: Adding Negative Numbers.

Misconceptions involving negative numbers stem from students using the rules of addition used when

adding positive numbers. To help correct this misconception we can use specific language when performing

addition with negative numbers. We can use the term taking away to represent minus and giving back to

represent plus. As an example -8 +6 is read as taking away 8 and giving back 6, which is equivalent to

taking away only two. The equation looks like this -8 + 6 = -2. Practice using the language of taking

away and giving back in the following equations.

-5 + 2 =

-18 + 5 =

-73 + 10 =

-12 + 7 =

-22 + 8 =

Drawing a number line is great for visual learners to be able to draw the steps they need to take to give

back.

Example on a number line: -6 + 3 = -3 (taking away 6 and giving back 3).

Thank you

Rachel Bainbridge

Numeracy Coach.

Principal’s Report Cont..

Boyd Mclean / Principal -

Kilkivan State School � 6 Council Street / Kilkivan Qld

4600 ℡ 5487 3333 | �bvmac0@eq.edu.au

OFFICE NEWS

ASSESSMENT CALENDARS Cont.. If your child is going to be absent from school, please call the office to advise of the absence and the reason so we can enter it into their absence details as this will prevent unexplained absences from occurring, which does show up on their report cards. If we do not receive a phone call an SMS will be sent to your mobile advising you of the absence. Please pay your Student Resource Scheme Fees for term two if you have not already done so. Thank you - Karen & Angie

POPCORN Please help the year 6 class raise money for their pushcart teams that will be competing in the Maryborough Technology Challenge later this year. Popcorn will be sold every Friday starting this week half way through first break for only 50cents. Thank you - Year 6 Class

PUSHCART FUNDRAISER

ASSESSMENT CALENDARS

Year 7

Year 9

7 04.06.19 English Check Date – Cultural Perspectives

05.6.19 Science Assessment. Due in lessons

05.6.19 Stem Assessment. Due in Lessons 07.6.19 Civics &

Citizenship ASSESSMENT: Investigating active citizenship in Australian democracy (work booklet)

Year 10

Positive Behaviours for Learning Schoolwide Focus for week 7 & 8

Expectation - ‘I AM SAFE’

Protect yourself and others from harm. Lessons on having appropriate communication regarding any health or safety issues that may arise or that stand out amongst students, and ways these issues can be discussed appropriately with staff. Continue to look out for and after each other.

Year 8

7 03.6.19 Health Assessment due. Completed during lessons.

05.6.19 Mathematics Written assessment

06.6.19 Science Assessment Due. Completed during lessons

07.6.19 English DRAFT ASSESSMENT: Gentle art of persuasion (writing task).

8 14.6.19 English FINAL ASSESSMENT: Gentle art of persuasion (writing task).

11.6.19 Japanese Oral Traditions Story Due

11.6.19 Food Studies Farm to Fork Theory Workbook Due

12.6.19 HASS Water Assessment

10.6.19 Stem Assessment. completed during lessons

8 14.6.19 Japanese Time Capsule Written Assessment Due

11.6.19 Maths Exam Unit 3&4

11.6.19 STEM Design Task Due

12.6.19 Health Assessment due

12.6.19 Art Assessment piece due

12.6.19 English Due Date – Cultural Perspectives

7 04.6.19 English Check Date – Aussie Aussie Aussie!

04.6.19 Health Assessment .Due in lesson

07.6.19 Civics & Citizenship

ASSESSMENT: Investigating change in Australia’s political systems(written response collec-tion of work in class)

8 14.6.19 Civics & Citizenship

ASSESSMENT: Investigating change in Australia’s political systems(written response collec-tion of work in class)

14.6.19 Hospitality Theory Workbook Due

12.6.19 English Due Date – Aussie Aussie Aussie!

12.6.19 Maths Exam Units 3 & 4

13.6.19 Science Tectonics – Exam

7 04.6.19 Health Assessment. Due in Lesson

07.6.19 Civics & Citizenship

ASSESSMENT (continued).

04.6.19 English Check Date – Romeo and Juliet

04.6.19 Careers Learning Journals due

8 14.6.19 Hospitality Theory Workbook Due

13.6.19 STEM Individual 3D project due

10.6.19 Maths Exam Unit 3&4

10.6.19 Science Reaction Rates - Exam

12.6.19 English Due Date – Romeo and Juliet

It has been a fun packed Term 2 for me as Chappy at Kilkivan School, so far. We have had some fun visitors come to school in Week 4 to help celebrate the completion of NAPLAN week. They were a team from YWAM, which is an International Organisation that trains youth to be of service to the community. They organised sports and craft activities and shared about the countries where they live. Students especially enjoyed chatting, the Inflatable soccer, Kazoo making and balloon tag game. I had some feedback from the YWAM Team too, who said how respectful and especially nice the Kilkivan students are. They asked me to pass this onto teachers and parents. So…Well done Kilkivan! Then on the weekend, I helped man a stall at the Goomeri Pumpkin Festival, to fund- raise for School chaplaincy. This makes up for the shortfall in the Federal Government Funding and allows our local Chappies to be in their schools, for more hours. It was a great day and we handed out hundreds of balloons to kids watching the parade and blew up hundreds more at our stall to give away. Thank you to our wonderful helpers. Chappy - Janelle

Last week's answer was: If you re-write the 2s to face each other you get the shape of a fish. 3s to face each other you get the number 8 and 7s to face each other you get a triangle!!

This week:

1. The more you take out of it, the bigger it becomes. What is it? 2. Every evening I get my assignment and I always fulfil it, but every time I do, I get scolded. What am I?

Mrs Rohan’s Mental Moment

Photo Gallery

CHAPPY CHAT

Winners of this week’s Tuckshop Vouchers: Stuart, Caleb and Dustin

Photo Gallery

Congratulations to all students that received awards and certificates this week, well done!!

This term has been incredibly busy for our year 1’s , 2’s and 3’s! We have had many fun things happening and quite a few holidays but d espite that we are still going great guns with our learning and always endeavour t o do our best. In week 3 Deadly Arthur Conlon visited our school a nd taught us how to paint, it was an amazing experience! In this same week we had our Small School Sports Carnival down at the town oval. It was a fun day an d everyone participated well! In week 4 our year 3 students sat their first NAPLA N assessments. We were all very positive and excited about this experience and all worked hard and did our best! We also had a visit from YWAM in week 4 who played games with us and did craft activities, this was organised by our Chappy which we greatly appreciated. Week 5 was another exciting week with Under 8’s day happening. The year ones and twos joined in the activities while the year 3’s, w ho are over 8, helped run the activities. An enjoyable morning was had by all. This term has also seen us have our Parent/Teacher interviews. All were very positive and it was a credit to our p arents to have so many attend. In class time we have been learning how to write pe rsuasive and procedural texts in English and in Maths we have been learning how t o tell time, add up coins and calculate change. Science this term is all about ou r world, its features and how it moves. Thank you! Miss Wiggins - Year 1,2,3 Teacher

What’s happening in Year 1,2,3

Free Dress Day

What’s on Locally

Kilkivan Clinic Dates: 5 - 6 June Nurse 12 - 13 June Doctor 19 - 20 June Doctor 26 - 27 June Nurse

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