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51 Gillespie Street, PO Box 182, Moura QLD 4718. Telephone: 49975222 Absence Line : 4997 5260 Email: [email protected]
http://www.mourass.eq.edu.au Office hours 8am—3:30pm
Dear Students, Parents/Caregivers and Friends, It has been very rewarding this week to be able to ‘show off’ our school with the School Review team. The experience was a very positive one with many commendations being noted along with a few recommendations to help guide us in our journey over the next four years in continuing to be striving for great things. Many thanks to all who participated in the chats – staff, students, parents, community members. You have certainly value added to our improvement journey. A strategy in our improvement journey around curriculum implementation is to have streamed reading groups across Years 1-3 for a half hour each Tuesday to Friday morning. These groups are in full swing across the Year 1 to Year 3 classes. Most teacher-aides and support teachers who work on those days are tasked with supporting the reading group times. Pleasing progress in PM Benchmark reading levels for reading continues to be evidenced. Below is a link to a YouTube video that is useful for parents when they are helping their children to read at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korfvEOQb14
1. Sit side-by-side with your child. 2. Don’t ‘tell’ the words, give them
time to work it out.
3. Move beyond ‘sound it out’. Use meaning from the story and pictures, chunking and other words that you know.
4. Have your child re-read some passages for fluency.
5. Allow some mistakes to go uncorrected as long as it still makes sense.
6. Allow reading the same book multiple times.
7. Keep reading to your child.
To assist students in Year 1 and 2 to further develop their writing skills, the relevant teachers have started streamed Writing Hour groups on Thursday middle sessions. The Year 3-6 classes are still having their Writing Hour on Thursday mornings. Narrative writing is the focus for both sectors in Writing Hour this term. All students in Year 1-6 are required to have a student diary that is at school every day. The diary is used across the classes as a valuable communication tool between school and home, and vice versa, especially in relation to sharing progress in student learning (eg sight words, reading levels, assessment task results). The older students are required to record future happenings and messages about things. Parents/carers are also invited to put messages in the diary that need to be shared with the class teacher. Please ensure your child has their diary and is taking it back and forth between school and home.
Speci a l po in ts o f in te rest :
Ordering Your School Photos Online
Reiko Lessons
Term 3 Tuckshop Menu
Tchoukball Tournament Finals
From the Principal’s Desk
Moura Minor
“We strive for great things”
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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. – Carl Sagan
51 Gillespie Street, PO Box 182, Moura QLD 4718. Telephone: 49975222 Absence Line : 4997 5260 Email: [email protected]
http://www.mourass.eq.edu.au Office hours 8am—3:30pm
Congratulations to our Student Council team for coordinating last week’s Free Dress Day. It was the largest number of free dressers we have ever had! The amount raised was a fantastic effort for Wildlife Victoria to support them in helping animals injured in the bush fires. JAPANESE CULTURAL LESSONS A huge thank you to Mitsui Coal Holdings for sponsoring the Japanese culture learning sessions presented by Mrs Reiko Clissold. With the forced changes about how visitors and lessons and so on can happen in schools, Reiko has produced a series of YouTube lessons that Mitsui is making available for us to use. The first lesson was made available at the start of the term with future lessons available each month. KAMISHIBAI: an old Japanese story telling of Momotaro - Peach Boy (the Japanese hero) was the title of this first lesson. Pictures of Year 1J participating in the lesson are to be found further in the newsletter. We are looking forward to our next You Tube lesson being released next week - Let’s learn and sing the Japanese version of the DO RE MI song. SCHOOL PHOTOS School photos are being held next WEDNESDAY 05 AUGUST. Ordering is to be completed online. Just follow the instructions that can be found further in the newsletter. NO sibling photos will be taken. Students will need to be wearing their blue school shirts and black shorts/skorts/skirts. House captains will also need to bring their house colour shirts. REMINDERS FOR TERM 3
ALL students need to bring a water bottle every day;
ALL students need to bring a broad
brimmed hat every day;
Visitors to the school MUST ring the office before entering the school grounds;
Adults waiting outside the school gates need to maintain 1.5m distance from each other;
School winter uniform needs to be blue or black. NO jeans. NO hoods on jumpers; Stay home if unwell. RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOUR PLAN HATS: No Hat No Play (this includes playing in the shade). The Cancer Council Qld recommends hats with a brim of 7.5cm, legionnaire-style or bucket hats with a brim of a minimum of 6cm. Caps are NOT part of the school uniform, thus they need to be removed before coming into the school grounds. Then, at the end of the day, they are not to be put on until students have left the grounds. RUBBISH: Goes in the bins provided! NAIL POLISH: Is to be removed before coming to school. ON THIS DAY July 30: 1915 The first official Australia Day is held as an event to raise funds for troops injured at Gallipoli. Across NSW and Victoria alone, more than one million pounds was raised. 1997 A landslide sees 2000 cubic metres of rock collapse at Thredbo, causing 18 people to die.
Yours in Education
Laurel
P a g e 2 T e r m 3 , W e e k 3
51 Gillespie Street, PO Box 182, Moura QLD 4718. Telephone: 49975222 Absence Line : 4997 5260 Email: [email protected]
http://www.mourass.eq.edu.au Office hours 8am—3:30pm
Prep F Faith
Prep H Arabelle
1J Ellie
1S Layla
2F Karly
2/3W Jyah
3H Heston
4C Jack
4/5L Tazma
5/6H Xander
6M Spencer
Students of the Week
At our school, we want children to
Be Learning
Be Responsible
Be Courteous
Be Safe
Bee Awards
Tinaye-Prep F, Jhai-Prep H,
Tia-Prep H, Hudson-1J,
Annalise-1S, Will-2F, Nicholas-2/3W,
Libby-4C, Lachlan-4/5L, Nahla-5/6H,
Cash-6M
DATES TO REMEMBER
August 2020
5 School Photos
17 UNSW Assessment - Science
24 UNSW Assessment - English
27-31 Life Education
31 UNSW Assessment - Mathematics
September 2020
01 UNSW Assessment - Spelling
04 Pupil Free Day
18 Last Day Term 3
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SCHOOL PHOTOS Photo orders can be placed online at any time up to and after photo day. Please see the last page of this newsletter for ordering instructions. If you have any questions about ordering, please contact Admin.
51 Gillespie Street, PO Box 182, Moura QLD 4718. Telephone: 49975222 Absence Line : 4997 5260 Email: [email protected]
http://www.mourass.eq.edu.au Office hours 8am—3:30pm
Best times to pick up
children early from
school….
Just a reminder the best time to pick up your child/ren is when we have our breaks and NOT during school time as they are busy learning and, sometimes, it makes it difficult when they are doing other activities that are away from their classrooms. Best times for pick-ups are 11am, 12pm, 1.30pm or 2pm. Also, please give the office a phone call prior to coming to the school to pick the student/s up so as to give admin enough time to notify your child and their teacher, and have them waiting at the office.
Your assistance with this is greatly
appreciated.
TUCKSHOP Our Tuckshop is up and running this term. Please see further in this newsletter for the
Term 3 menu. Don’t forget, ordering is now done through
QKR. PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE APP
NEXT MEETING Our next P and C General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 26 August at 5.30pm in the
MSS Library. Social distancing and hand sanitising will apply
and no children please.
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Breakfast Club
When: Tuesday and Wednesday mornings Where: SEP Time: 8.30am to 8.50am
Please notify the office of
any regular changes to the
afternoon bus travel plans
of your child/ren so that bus
rolls can be adjusted to
reflect these. eg Ballet on
T h u r s d ay a f t e r n o o n s ,
S w i m m i n g o n Tu e s d ay
afternoons.
Every term you need to
update any changes to the bus
routine.
Thank
you.
26th July - 1st August
Will, Zander, Kathleen, Clancy Staff - Miss Lucas
51 Gillespie Street, PO Box 182, Moura QLD 4718. Telephone: 49975222 Absence Line : 4997 5260 Email: [email protected]
http://www.mourass.eq.edu.au Office hours 8am—3:30pm
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Reiko Lessons
51 Gillespie Street, PO Box 182, Moura QLD 4718. Telephone: 49975222 Absence Line : 4997 5260 Email: [email protected]
http://www.mourass.eq.edu.au Office hours 8am—3:30pm
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Tchoukball Tournament The lunchtime Tchoukball tournament wrapped up on Monday after 4 weeks of competition. R346 took on the Parramatta Eels in the decider in which R346 won a great match 12 – 8. Both teams played extremely well and showed why they have been the form teams throughout the competition. Congratulations to R346 as well as all the teams who competed. It was fantastic to watch all matches and the skill and sportsmanship on show. Thank you to our scorers and substitute players as well. R346 – Banjo, Cash, Jace, Saxon, Stirling and Tait Scorers – Kendra and Sienna Substitute – Jackson
Sports News
51 Gillespie Street, PO Box 182, Moura QLD 4718. Telephone: 49975222 Absence Line : 4997 5260 Email: [email protected]
http://www.mourass.eq.edu.au Office hours 8am—3:30pm
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Five Signs That Your Child Might be Addicted to Video Games
Article reprinted directly from https://www.childrens.health.qld.gov.au/blog-five-signs-
that-your-child-might-be-addicted-to-video-games/ ‘Just five more minutes’…. ‘But I can’t save at this point”…. ‘I’m almost levelled up’…If you’re a parent or a carer of a young person, the chances are you’re familiar with these common excuses for why they need more time in the all-consuming world of online multiplayer gaming. Fortnite may be the current unmentionable ‘F’ word in many homes, but there will always be another video game waiting to take its place, and continue the fight for your child’s attention. While online gaming can be fun-and even healthy in moderation-it becomes a problem when the amount of time your child spends gaming starts to negatively affect day-to-day functioning including managing school work, self-care and social connection. So, what are the tell-tale signs that your child’s interest in gaming might be something more serious? Ask yourself these questions:
1. Are they eating and drinking regularly? When a player is deeply immersed in a game, they can become distracted from awareness of their basic needs. This includes feelings of hunger or dehydration. It’s important to teach your child to stop regularly to care for their body. Preventing hunger and dehydration can also help to prevent a child from having an outburst when the game is switched off.
2. How much sleep are they getting? Screens give off a blue light which makes the brain feel more alert. Blue light before bedtime can affect melatonin, which is a hormone in the brain that helps with sleep. When melatonin production is affected, it disrupts the body’s internal clock. Looking at screens before bedtime can also make it difficult to get to sleep and change the sleep cycle. When sleep is affected, it results in sluggishness. It is recommended that screens are turned off at least one hour before bed time to allow time to wind down.
3. How social are they? Online gaming leaves users believing they are socially connected to other people, because they can chat to teammates throughout the game. While this is a form of social connection, it lacks important face-to-face social skills such as reading body language. Body posture, tone of voice and facial expressions are all important non-verbal communication skills a young person needs to learn. The best way to combat social isolation is to learn about why your child is playing so frequently, and have
more direct and positive interactions with them. Pay attention to how much face-to-face social interaction they are getting in their daily lives.
4. Are they falling behind in school work? Sometimes falling behind in school work can be a consequence of gaming addiction. Gaming can also be used to escape for a child that is struggling academically. Set ground rules before your child starts gaming, but more importantly, stick to them. Equip yourself with tools to help you manage your child’s gaming habits. This could mean downloading apps to manage the WIFI at home, educating yourself on safe internet use, and setting consequences if rules are not followed.
5. How’s their posture? Too much gaming can cause posture problems, particularly when children play on their phones or tablets. This is because their heads are bent over a screen, which can cause significant headaches, neck and upper back pain. Bending the head over a screen even just an inch can put six times more force on the neck than usual. Research has shown that bent head posture can affect the hormones responsible for feeling happy, and can contribute to depression. Encourage your child to think about their posture when gaming, and to take regular stretch breaks. It’s also important to encourage exercise and time outdoors in the fresh air.
Why are these games so addictive?
Online multiplayer arena battle can be very visually stimulating. The level of colour and movement within the game keeps the brain alert as it is constantly absorbs new information. This arouses the brain and makes the gamer want to continue exploring.
They offer intermittent reinforcement, which means players receive rewards for doing something simple, then progress to more challenges which, make it more difficult to receive the award. This keeps players hooked.
Gaming offers an escape from reality. When a young person has trouble with peers, exam anxiety or bullying, gaming gives them an opportunity to be in charge, be entertained, have virtual interactions with others and experience the highs and lows of achievement and failure in a safe way. When to seek professional help? If relationships, work, school, study, or other activities are suffering because of gaming and Internet use, it’s time to seek help. You can contact your GP to obtain a referral to private psychology services, a Headspace centre or Child and Youth Mental Health Service if you have any concerns about their mental health. Useful websites: iParents (Office of the eSafety
Commissioner) Generation Next Cyber Safety Solutions Child and Youth Mental Health Service
51 Gillespie Street, PO Box 182, Moura QLD 4718. Telephone: 49975222 Absence Line : 4997 5260 Email: [email protected]
http://www.mourass.eq.edu.au Office hours 8am—3:30pm
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Moura State School
Preparatory Year
Enrolments for 2021
If you have a child who was born between the 1st July, 2015 and 30th
June, 2016, they are eligible to enrol in Prep for 2021.
Enrolment packages will be available from the office
from Monday 27th
July, 2020.
Due to the COVID-19 parents are not able to enter the school
grounds, so please call the office on 49 975222 and we will organise
a package for you.
To assist your child’s introduction into formal schooling, Moura State
School will be holding a Prep Transition Program. Children and
parents will have the opportunity to participate in a Prep Experience.
Dates for these will be confirmed at a later time.
BIRTH CERTIFICATES MUST BE SIGHTED BEFORE YOUR CHILD
CAN ATTEND SCHOOL
51 Gillespie Street, PO Box 182, Moura QLD 4718. Telephone: 49975222 Absence Line : 4997 5260 Email: [email protected]
http://www.mourass.eq.edu.au Office hours 8am—3:30pm
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