MOSSMAN STATE SCHOOL

www.mossmanss.eq.edu.au

PO Box 163, Mossman Q 4873 ph. 07 40999333 fax 07 40981491 Principal: Randal Smith

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land and pay respects to Elders, past, present and future.

Thursday, 23 November 2017 Dates to remember 24th November- Prep Open Day 24th November- District Swimming Carnival 24th November- Assembly 28th November- Year 6 Graduation Night 30th November- 2pm M Factor Finale 1st December- MSS Swimming Carnival 5th December- Concert Night 7th December- Attendance Rewards 8th December- Clean-up day

Principal News

Dear Parents and Carers, Our teachers are extremely busy at the moment, finalising assessment tasks, writing and proof reading report cards to go out to parents and carers in the last week of school. Many of our students have had a phenomenal year this year and I would like to take this opportunity to thank our teachers, teacher aides and support staff for their above and beyond efforts throughout the year to ensure the success of our students in their many learning areas. Thank you to those parents and carers who also continue to support the learning of their children by encouraging regular attendance at school and reading and other learning at home. All of these things have helped make 2017 a very successful year for our students, our staff and our school. Only two more very busy weeks left. Today we celebrated with our wonderful Prep market morning and a wide variety of fun activities and delicious things to eat. Thank you to all those who donated items or helped support the school by purchasing items on the day. All funds raised go back in to classrooms to purchase resources in 2018. On Monday of this week, we had the privilege of listening to the speeches of our 2018 prospective leaders. Each and every student did a sensational job of delivering a persuasive argument to our school assembly as to why they would make effective leaders in our school. We were very proud of their efforts and the sincerity and humility with which they approached this quite daunting task. Tomorrow we have 23 of our students representing our school in the Interschool Swimming Carnival and we wish them all the very best of luck. Our competitors are:

Our final Prep Open Day will also occur tomorrow morning so if you have any prospective Prep children for 2018, please bring them along to Prep tomorrow morning from 9:30 onwards. Last week was a huge success with 17 new Prep students joining in the Prep program. Next Tuesday, our Year 6 students have their transition day at the High School. All students must be enrolled at the High

School to attend this day. Please ensure that all students wear full school uniform, including hats and shoes on the day. Our Year 6 students are attending their graduation dinner that same night in our RIC from 5:30 onwards, and we look forward to celebrating this major milestone with our students, family members and staff. Our talented M Factor students have been very busy practising for the M Factor Final next Thursday at 2pm. All family members are very welcome to come along. This year we have 8 acts, including, singing, drumming, dancing and a magic show. First, second and third places will be awarded on the day. Our concert and presentation night will be held on Tuesday 5th December. Miss Tilly has been very busy practising with our students this year and we are very excited to see the end product. Please keep this night free and come along to enjoy our class presentations and awards.

Kind regards, Randal Smith

Year 6 (13) Year 5 (6)

Marshontae Maddox

Bayahn Veti

Tom Zavan

Anazarrah Cara

Caitlin Jasmine

Jaymi Xanthe

Kaijah

Marlie Year 4 (4)

Kian Lleyton

Zara Sheniqua

Kodi Milla

Beau Velma

Chad

Students of the Week 7: Prep: Zephaniah for trying hard to make improvements with reading. Prep: Allyssa for making improvements in her book work. Year 1A: Mason for his great listening and participating during Maths time. Year 1/2: Shannon for being brave and presenting her retell of How birds got their colours”. Year 1/2: Rikki for an excellent presentation of his retell of “What made Tiddalik laugh”. A confident, loud and clear presentation. Year 2/3: Dominic for striving to be a respectful and focused learner. Year 2/3: Ty for making positive changes towards his learning. Year 3/4: Liddy for her awesome dance moves. Year 3/4: Julian for his amazing ideas on a class poem. Year 4: Vernon for a huge improvement on his attendance this semester. Year 4: Trinity for committing to proofread and editing her writing and making improvements. Year 5: EJ for working hard to improve his mental computation strategies. Year 6: Tom for his engagement and being enthusiastic about learning.

Quicksilver shirts:

November Attendance: Year 1/2 are proving to be unbeatable in their continued outstanding attendance, with another award winning attendance rate for November of 93.33%. 4A has moved into second place for the month, well done 4A. The class with the highest attendance for the year will be attending an excursion in the last week of term. At this stage, Year 1/2 are going to be very hard to beat!

1. 1/2 93.33% 2. 4A 89.46% 3. 2/3 89.15% 4. 3/4 87.36% 5. 1A 86.07% 6. 2/3A 84.85% 7. 6A 84.6% 8. Prep 81.09% 9. SEP 80.4% 10. 5A 79.17%

Year 6

The Rocks I climb. Rock by rock. Fingers bleeding and aching, feet stinging like 1000 wasps flying around in my socks. I am tenacious, hard-working man, so I will not let the pain get to me. Sweat drips down my face as I go up and up. I keep reminding myself not to not look down. My clothes and face are covered in red dirt. I keep assuring myself to keep going. I’m almost there, Just as I am a few metres away from the top, from glory, I slip. “Ahhh!” I yell. I hold onto a sturdy rock for dear life. I am dangling off a cliff 10,000 metres up in the air. I use all my strength to hoist myself up to the next rock. I stop. “What if I don’t make it?” I ask myself. I keep going. My body feels like acupuncture all over. My mettle is keeping me going. I reach up onto the last rock. I pull myself up with the last little bit of strength in the tank I didn’t know I had. I made it! A big grin spreads across my face as relief shoots through my body. I have accomplished my goal at last. By Tyson Before the setting sun could hide itself behind the mountains, I had to complete a test, achieve my goal, conquer my objective and most of all battle my fear of heights, until it left my brave, heroic heart. As I grabbed rock after rock, I had realised I was two kilometres from my goal, but then the sun began to turn against my side and began to hide itself behind the dark shadows of the mountains. I had realised I only had limited time to reach the top. And if the sun set I would fail my quest. As the sky began to turn orange and yellow, everything began to lose their shadows, including mine. Night began to rise, throwing away the sunlight like kicking out a roommate. I was now a hundred metres from my goal and the stars began to appear. I grabbed rock by rock, until I had finally reached the top. I realised I conquered my quest, achieved my goal and completed my test. Then another thought occurred to me. That’s another two weeks to get down this cliff. By PJ

Snowmen on the doorstep

“It’s almost Christmas,” I yelled before bed. “If you stay up too late and don’t go to sleep Santa won’t come,” replied mum. “But we have to leave him a cookie, a drink and a carrot for his reindeer,” I screamed. Tonight was Christmas Eve and it was nine o’clock at night and I was ready for bed, but we forgot to get Santa’s snacks ready. I ran down the stairs and ran into the kitchen. I grabbed the carrot out of the fridge, opened the cookie jar and reached for a cookie then lastly grabbed a drink for Santa. After I collected everything I put it all on the plate and placed it onto the table near the chimney. By Rebecca

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. My name is Eric Leech and today I will be talking to you all about my World War 2 experiences. It was a beautiful day with blue skies. It felt like everything was perfect until it happened. The dark green trucks with the Nazi flag painted on the side flooded into the city in the blink of an eye. The Nazis held our city for 3 months until me and my little sister were captured. One gloomy day one of the trucks stopped in front of our house. They stormed up our driveway, broke in and shot my parents. Daisy and I were horrified at what just happened. The Nazi general shouted some words in German and we were picked up and thrown into the back of the green truck. We travelled for days without food. I packed us two water bottles but they were empty fast due to Daisy’s growing problem of thirst. Day after day we kept driving, only stopping for gas until finally we arrived at the concentration camp. There, everyone looked at us strangely, eyeing us out for any water or food. After 2 years of living there, Daisy died of pneumonia and thirst. August 1945 a Russian officer and five Russian soldiers freed me from the horrors that I had seen. I had written a journal of my experiences in this living, nightmarish hell. Now the book lies in the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. To this day I wish I had given my water to Daisy just to have the satisfaction that she lived. Just remember, when things go wrong, hold your head high and you’ll make it out alive. By Jack

Livelife Be sure to shop at any of the local LIVE LIFE PHARMACIES during the month of November, make sure you ask for a Token and donate it towards Mossman State School… every token results in dollars for our school!

Casual Tuckshop Convenor

A casual vacancy exists for the above position of partially paid convenor at the tuckshop of the Mossman State

School. The convenor is to be available for a minimum of three hours each Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

An applicant’s package, which outlines the criteria used to

select a suitable appointee for the position, is available from the school office.

Applicants will need to address these criteria in their application and submit a current resume. Prospective

employees must be able to obtain a Suitability Card from the Commission for Children and Young People and Child

Guardian (Blue Card). Applications close 08 December, 2017 at 3 pm and should

be addressed to:

The Secretary Mossman State School

P & C Association PO Box 163

MOSSMAN QLD 4873

OVERDUE LIBRARY AND HOME READING

BOOKS

To date we still have quite a few unreturned/overdue library books

and home reading books.

We have a great selection of books on our library shelves which we have spent time and

money cataloguing, covering etc. If they are not returned we have lost not only the

books but the cost of processing them as well.

Overdue notes and letters have been sent home with your child/children on a regular basis.

Please check with your child/children.

Please take the time in these

last two weeks of school to help your child/children look for any

unreturned/overdue library books and home reading books

and return them as soon as possible this year.

Some likely places to find them are on bookshelves, in cupboards, between the bedhead and the mattress,

under the bed, in the car and at grandparents’ houses.

If they are still unreturned when school finishes please continue looking over the holidays and return

them early next year.

Thank you for your assistance.

Kay Pike and Julie Cobb (Library Admin)