“Striving for great things” Page 1

Moura Minor

22nd June, 2017

In this edition:

• Athletics Day

• Chaplaincy Program

• Dental Van

• Stationery Requirements

• Lost Property

Dear Students, Parents/Caregivers and Friends

What a fabulous start to Week 10 with a visit from

six University of Sunshine Coast education students

who started their Coast to Country school visit

program at our great school. The students were so

keen to be here and to learn as much as possible

about our school and what it is like working and

living in a community like ours. They loved what

they saw and heard so hopefully we will see one or

more of them back here again to do a practicum or

to teach full time.

Then this great visit has been followed by an

awesome day on the oval for our annual athletics

carnival. The weather was perfect, maximum effort

given and lots of smiles covered faces. Well done,

Mr Chantler and your team of helpers for your

preparations and tasks on the day. A special thank

you to Ebaia Galele and Lindsay Wragge for their

efforts in getting the grounds ready for the day. This

was much appreciated. And also to the Moura SHS

students we had helping – Olivia, Lachlan, Bri,

Nadjwa, Kimberley, Conor and work experience

student Kye Finlayson. Add in a few parent helpers

and we had many hands making light work!

Blink and another term has gone! Thank you all for

keeping your focus on our core business – teaching

and learning – especially despite the shorter weeks

we have experienced this term due to public

holidays and extra school activities. The extra school

activities have certainly value added to our

curriculum so we are happy with that.

The A-E data indicates a successful term/semester

of teaching and learning with 90.8% of all students

across all subjects achieving an A-C result. We had

predicted 85%. 96.3% of students were rated A-C

for their behaviour (79.7% A/B behaviour) while

98.5% gave A-C effort (81.4% A/B effort) to their

learning. Striving for great things as our school

motto states!!

The School Annual Report 2016 has been uploaded

to our school website for your perusal. A hard copy

of the report is also available in the Office.

Enjoy the two week break from the routines of

school time. Rest and be prepared for another great

term/semester on Monday 10 July.

STATIONERY SUPPLIES

With holiday time approaching, please start a

shopping list of items your child will need to restock

depleted supplies. Pencils, erasers and other such

items should be put at the top of the list.

DENTAL VAN

The dental van has arrived! And the dental

therapists are preparing the van and making a

schedule of appointments. Screening of students

who returned their forms earlier in the term has

started too starting at the upper end of the school,.

Please note that if you are accompanying your child

Gillespie Street, PO Box 182 Moura QLD, 4718. Telephone 4997 5222 Fax 4997 5200 Absence Line 4997 5260

Website http://www.mourass.eq.edu.au Email principal@mourass.eq.edu.au Office open 8:30am – 3:30pm Page 2

to the dental van, you will need to sign in at the

Office. For enquiries and urgent appointments

please phone 49927137.

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

Congratulations to Oxley House for earning the

champion House trophy of the day and to Flinders

House for winning the Spirit Trophy.

Congratulations also to the Age Champions and

Runners Up.

AGE

GROUP

CHAMPION RUNNER UP

9 years Sam Gassman

Makalah Hewitt

Alex Sheehan

Stevie-Lee

Gosling

10 years Thatcher Powell

Indy Eriksen

Coen Saxby

Shakira Ingleton

11 years Alex Zimpel

Lara Coombe

Dawson Foden

Eden Heath

12 years Fraser Bradshaw

Miah Powell

Jack Simmonds

Hayley Moreland

A good sports day is always made better when there

are records broken and yesterday we had two new

records set – Alex Sheehan for 9 years Shot Put (old

7.86m, new 7.97m) and Makalah Hewitt for 9 years

100m (old 18.03sec, new 16.66sec).

Congratulations to you both!

Moura SS will be hosting the Dawson Valley

Athletics Carnival on Wednesday 20 July.

CHAPLAINCY PROGRAM

Next term we will welcome Mrs Karen Westbrook as

our Chaplain. Chappy Karen will work with us on

Wednesdays and Thursdays. We are very excited

about having Chappy Karen with us and are really

looking forward to working with her. She loves

children and wants the very best for them, has great

ideas of things to do, is flexible in her programming,

and so on. Welcome aboard, Karen!

LOST PROPERTY

A number of jumpers and water bottles have

appeared in the Lost Property box. If you know your

child is missing items, please check in the box that is

located under B Block (ie near where the students

wait before school for the 8:30 am bell).

Any leftover items at the end of the term will be

cleaned and given to St Vinnies.

RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOUR PLAN FOR STUDENTS

Silver Certificates: 81% of our student population

received their Silver certificates at this week’s

Parade. A number of other students received their

Bronze certificates. Congratulations to you all for

upholding our school expectations of being safe,

being courteous, being responsible and being

learning.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every

person leaves a mark. – Chinese Proverb

Yours in Education

Laurel

June 23rd Last day Term 2

June 23rd FUN RUN - CANCELLED

July 10th Term 3 Resumes

July 12th State of Origin Calcutta

July 19th P&C Meeting 6:00pm in the

Library

July 21st DV Athletics Trials-Moura

July 25th School Photos

July 26th/27th NAIDOC Day Celebrations

Aug 1st UNSW - English

Aug 23rd Coal Festival - Community

Concert

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Prep F Allie Hutchinson

Prep/1 F Philippa Walker

1/2F Brayden Ponton

2B Kendra Broadhurst

2/3P Chase Richmond

3/4R Mia Koczorowski

4G Tom Mactaggart

4/5C Maddison Johnson

5/6U Milton McGeachin

6S Riley Macrae

Gillespie Street, PO Box 182 Moura QLD, 4718. Telephone 4997 5222 Fax 4997 5200 Absence Line 4997 5260

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BIRTHDAYS

18th June – 8th July

Millie Bensley, Jyah Saltner, Bobby Gilliland,

Cruza Hay, Jackson Hutchinson, Mason Lambert-

Barker, Jake Kerr, Gregory Blyton, Makalah

Hewitt, Levi Whatman, Brendan Conway, Blake

Weier, Bryce Clark, Dawson Foden, Haylee Kerr.

BRONZE CERTICATES

Conner Finlayson, Mackenzie Turner, Leifel

Wade, Tazma Saltner, Brodie Gosling, Chelsea

Hams, Stevie-Lee Gosling, Amelia Blanch.

SILVER CERTIFICATES

Bryce Clark, Megan Clark, Lara Coombe, Laura du

Plessis, D-Lee Hawkins, Shona Hodgson,

Emmasen Hutchinson, Jack Hutchinson, Conor

Leeson, Riley Macrae, Meg Mactaggart, Chloie

McGeachin, Miah Powell, Angelique Saltner, Jack

Simmonds, Emmett Sutton, Lara Swaffer-Selff,

Georgina Walker, Ashlynn Wrigley, Ben Beyers,

Fraser Bradshaw, Bond Brazaitis, Brendan

Conway, Makayli Craze, Scout Dickson, Jack

Edwards, Indyanna Eriksen, Macy Francis, Eden

Heath, Mark Kachel, Haylee Kerr, Ebony Lambert-

Barker, Sarkara McLeod, Rachel Morgan-Jones,

Tate Neumann, Tahley Oberle, Thatcher Powell,

Peter Stephenson, Rylee Vaughan, Lane Wolski,

Nathan Adams, Henry Ballentine, Dylan Barsby,

Cooper Berndsen, Ned Coady-Lohmann, Laura

Collins, Xavier Elgowhary, Maree Forster, Sam

Gassman, Arianna Hanson, Mitchell Harmer,

Shakira Ingleton, Seth Jackson, Maddison

Johnson, Louis Kachel, Ethan Lace, Hamish

Macrae, DJ Mardon, Clare Marendaz, Kyla Owens,

Harry Simmonds, Savanah Smith, Bevan Solomon,

Ben Walker, Spencer Ballentine, Griffin Bennett,

Oliver Bennett, Patricia Blyton, Banjo Brown,

Abigail Conway, Giselle Dickson, Rosabella

Elgowhary, Montana Gilliland, Sean Ginez,

Annaka Hanson, Lacey Hinchliffe, Sophie

Hutchinson, Mia Koczorowski, Stirling Macrae,

Ashley Meier, Jace Saltner, Alex Sheehan, Garreth

Walkube, Noah West, Levi Whatman, Nicholas

Armstrong, Saige Bellert, Baylee Bentley,

Harrison Corr, Madelyn Davidson, Mia Dawson,

Aurelia Heath, Makalah Hewitt, Heidi Hutchinson,

Summer Krebs, Tom Mactaggart, Tristan Senica,

Heidi Swaffer-Selff, Alice Theodore, Alex Walker,

Braedyn Walker, Sophie Watson, Jill Werth,

Kendra Broadhurst, Dennii Bull, Charlotte

Dawson, Neve Gassman, Connor Hay, Lachlan

Hewitt, Jackson James, Sophie Jameson,

Ebby Mosslar-Galele, Lara Pritchard, Alicia

Rasmussen, Rylan Reynolds, Tayla Roberts,

Reegan Saxby, Carter Smith, Nixon Sutton, Eden

West, Charley Williams, Hunter Worzfeld, Declan

Ziebell, Archie Becker, Ace Bernsden, Darrell

Blyton, Sophie Blyton, Klancy Brown, Bobby

Gilliland, Ella Holcombe, Libby Hutchinson, Nate

Hutchinson, Bridie Krebs, Mason Lambert-

Barker, Leila Mosslar-Galele, Brayden Ponton,

Xara Rawsthorne, Zali Reynolds, Jackson

Richmond, Lawson Sharples, Spencer Swaffer-

Selff, Jaeda Townsend, Lillian Becker, Billie

Davidson, Paige du Plessis, Luke Edwards, Chad

Eyles, Samuel Finlay, Reagan Hartley, Cash

Hodgson, Bella Hutchinson, Max Mallinson,

Saxon McPherson, Cooper Poppe, Cassian Radke,

Chase Richmond, Finnley Watson, Pippa Wolski,

Sethe Zimpel, Lisbeth Ballentine, Charlotte

Becker, Jake Berndsen, Chace Blyton, Ari Chater,

Emma Conway, Elise Corr, Jack Dawson, Liam

Finlay, Cruza Hay, Imogen Holcombe, Jackson

Hutchinson, Zach Hutchinson, Wylie Leo, Archie

Mallinson, Rhyder Neumann, Belinda Norris,

Caleb Poppe, Asher Radke, Skylha Smith,

Philippa Walker, Sahkiah White, Benson

Worzfeld, Hope Bellert, Millie Bensley, Harley

Broadhurst, Jorjah Bull, Ken Cole, Moss Dickson,

Caden Eyles, Chloe Harmer, Alex Hinchliffe, Allie

Hutchinson, Philip James, Zayalen Kohl,

Kourtney Lee, Zaxon Morgan, Abbie Pritchard,

Arella Radke, Hallie Rayner, Jyah Saltner, Charlie

Suttle, Heston Tranchida, Harlow Wardle, Chayse

West, Ethan Wood.

Gillespie Street, PO Box 182 Moura QLD, 4718. Telephone 4997 5222 Fax 4997 5200 Absence Line 4997 5260

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SPORTS NEWS

Congratulations to all the students who competed in

the Athletics Carnival yesterday. The shool team to

compete at the Dawson Valley Trials will be

announced early next term. Dawson Valley trials

will be held here at Moura SS on Friday 21st July.

Gillespie Street, PO Box 182 Moura QLD, 4718. Telephone 4997 5222 Fax 4997 5200 Absence Line 4997 5260

Website http://www.mourass.eq.edu.au Email principal@mourass.eq.edu.au Office open 8:30am – 3:30pm Page 5

P&C News The next P&C Meeting will be on the 19th of July

at 6:00pm in the Moura SS Library. We hope to

see you there. The role of Fundraiser still remains

vacant. As a result, we have already had to cancel

fundraising events as the existing committee

already have a busy workload. If it is something

that you feel you could do - it is not a large role, it

is more co-ordinating events etc, please speak to

a committee member.

The 3rd State of Origin Calcutta will be held on

12th July at 7pm at the Coal and Cattle Hotel.

Please come and support the P&C and see our

amazing Auctioneer James Bensley in action.

School Banking - Banking will resume the first

week back on the 10th July.

FOR TENDER by Moura State School

FORD TRACTOR

� Ford 1710 – Model AL 3138

� Comes with operator manual

� 3 Cylinder diesel

� Good Condition

� Runs well

� Tyres in good condition

� 1487.7 hours on the clock

� Slasher underneath

� Hydraulic manifold block – used to

supply fluid to items such as front

loader & dozer blade.

Closing Date: Friday 28th July 4pm

Contact: Moura State School, Gillespie Street

MOURA 4718 or Administration Office (07)

4997 5222 for an information pack

NEEDED

4 LITRE ICE CREAM NEEDED.

IF YOU HAVE ANY 4 LITRE CONTAINERS,

PLEASE BRING THEM TO THE OFFICE.

TUCKSHOP NEWS

Tuckshop will start back on the first

day, Monday 10th July. The menu will

be the same as this term.