239 Gympie RoadTinana QLD 4650Subscribe:Subscribe: http://tinanass.schoolzineplus.com/subscribe

Email:Email: principal@tinanass.eq.edu.auPhone:Phone: 07 4120 8000

Fax:Fax: 07 4121 3148

29 March 201729 March 2017

Principal’s MessageDear Parents

Thank you for your support of your child’s education over theduration of Term 1. I feel very proud of the effort that is deliveredto ensure progress for every child, every day. This effort firstand foremost comes from your child teacher(s). Additionally,on any given day, there could be any of a range of additionalpeople supporting your child inclusive of specialist teachers,teacher aides, guidance and learning support education staff,special education staff, administration and parent volunteers.It has been said that it takes a village to raise a child andat Tinana, there is a community of people dedicated to yourchild’s success.

QParents is an online platform for parents to be able to interactwith the school 24/7 to view and check invoices, makepayments, advise of student absences and view report cards.(Report Cards will continue to be printed and issued as before)More functionalities will become available as time goes by.QParents at Tinana is about to go live in Term 2. Parents canwatch a brief video accessed through links in the newsletter andon Facebook. Invitations to join QParents will go out in week 1of Term 2.

Our learning focus for 2017 is in the areas of Reading, Writingand Numeracy. At the professional learning team (PLT)meeting this week, teachers analysed reading records andplanned instructional goals for students leading into Term 2.The assessment of reading using both the Probe (yr3-6) andPM (Prep-Yr3) resources gives teachers extensive informationabout how a student is reading and any issues that may exist.It also gives a benchmark level that allows us to track reading

progress from term to term to ensure all students are making12 months progress from 12 months of instruction.

Term 1 Reading Benchmarks

Prep Year1

Year2

Year3

Year4

Year 5 Year 6

PM1

PM8-10

PM16-18

PM22-23

Probe7-8

Probe9-10

Probe11-12

The big news last week was the announcement that Tinana hadbeen granted a new purpose built music block. The facilitiesplanning committee representative of the staff, parents andregional officers have been planning this for many years. Thiswill doubtlessly enhance our school music program which isservicing record numbers of students at present. The intentionis to remove the old music block and redevelop that part of theschool for a senior area.

On assembly last week, we witnessed a video entry in theNational Bluethumb Competition which netted our schoolsecond place nationally. Our Sustainability Leader BonnieQuinn-Hennessy spoke about the award and the work of theSustainability Squad specifically focussing on the Clean UpAustralia Day activities at school. Well done to our SustainabilitySquad and to all of our volunteers.

The RSL hosted a briefing meeting last week regarding theANZAC Day March. This year, students will form up in schoolgroups stepping off approximately a half hour before the fullparade to march to a designated schools area in Sussex Streetwhere students will watch the parade and honour the returnedservicemen. Only the four school leaders from each school willmarch in the full parade and any students who wear medalsof family members who have passed away are also invited tomarch. Further information will be provided prior to the day.

Our school will host an ANZAC Ceremony at school as is ourtradition on Monday April 24.

Unfortunately due to the wet weather and badly affectedfootball fields, Friday afternoon Interschool Sport wascancelled last week. The selections for Maryborough Districtsport teams had been completed on Gala Day the week before.Congratulations to all of the students who were selected inDistrict Teams, too many to mention. We wish you everysuccess at Wide Bay Trials this week and after the vacation.

Last Tuesday was Harmony Day and we were privileged tohave a special visitor in the school. Tony Summerville is anon-verbal author who uses adaptive technologies tocommunicate. It was inspiring for students to hear from aperson who has overcome severe disability to live a successfuland rewarding life. Thanks to Chappy Amanda for organisingthis experience for our students.

As we conducted our whole school assembly last Friday, therewill be no assembly this week. Cross Country has beenpostponed due to the weather and will now be run on FridayApril 21st (first week back next term).

The Easter Vacation begins this Friday afternoon for twoweeks. The Easter long weekend ends the vacation period withstudents returning to school on Tuesday 18 April for term 2.

David BurnsPrincipal“EVERY STUDENT, EVERY DAY, LEARNING ANDACHIEVING.”

Q-ParentsQ-Parents is an exciting online parent portal, which will allowyou to access information about your child’s schooling likenever before. In Term 2, we will be inviting all families to signup for Q-Parents. This will give you instant access to yourchild’s profile, allowing you to see and inform us of changes tocontact information, attendance data and absences, invoicesdue and paid, and early access to report cards! We think thisis going to be an amazing tool, and new enhancements arebeing continuously added as the initiative grows. We hope allour families get on board. If we do not have your correct emailaddress on file, you won’t receive an invitation, so please takea few minutes to check which email address we have on fileat the office. Please take some time to watch the video to getsome more information!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDOEufRCR-Q

And here is another video with information on how to register.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=femcmL1X_7o

Chappy NewsWe have already made it through Term 1. Congratulations onsuch an amazing effort – our school community has certainlykicked some big goals this term.

Harmony Day.

Our year 4-6 students were so well behaved and attentive forguest speaker, Mr Tony Summerville last week. They had somefantastic questions and waited patiently for his answer. Hismessage was strongly received – all of us are valuable. None ofus were born with a barcode -we are all of equal value.

Chappy Blockbuster—LEGO BATMAN MOVIEFUNDRAISER

To maintain the chaplaincy program at our school, we needto raise finances. One way to do this is through our Movienights. The first one is the Lego Batman movie which will air thisweekend.

March 31st and April 1st (no it’s not an April Fool’s joke)is a fundraiser for our school chaplaincy program. The LEGOBatman movie will be open to several schools screening at6:30pm with tickets costing $10. A percentage of ticket salesgoes directly to our school chaplaincy program and seats arelimited with more schools participating….so I amencouraging Tinana families to please pre purchase yourtickets from the cinemas to make sure as many seats onthese nights as possible will be raising money for our school.

I will be at the event with a popcorn bucket with our school logoon it – please encourage your family and friends to put theirtickets in our bucket. Each ticket in the bucket equates to $4for our school.

2

Thank you for supporting school chaplaincy.

HOLIDAYS

Please take time to enjoy family over the school holidays. Thereare many things you can do with your children that don’t costloads of money. It’s a great time to stop, breathe and laugh withyour children.

HOLIDAY PROGRAM

Each school holidays Chappies are encouraged to participatein school holiday activities. These holidays, my husband andI will take some local high school students to Cunnamulla torun holiday activities with the students out there. We cameup with the idea of hosting a ‘Pop Up Give Away Shop’ forthe students in Cunnamulla, and the other outback, droughtaffected communities we work in. Our youth group arecollecting donations of clothes and sporting equipment to giveaway out west. If anyone would like to donate to this cause,please contact me.

Have a wonderful week and remember: every daycounts.Have an enjoyable holiday time with your family.

Music NewsBeginner Strings Concert this Thursday 6:15pm in the Hall!Please make sure your child arrives by 5:45pm and is dressedin their best school uniform, white socks and black shoes ifpossible.

Music Folder invoices will be coming home via email this week!

Library News

Blue Thumb Competition - Tinana State SchoolSustainability Squad - 2nd place!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubriqT-__Y

And a write up in the local paper!

https://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/news/tinana-green-thumbs-score-silver-in-national-award/3158637/

BOOKFAIR!

Ahoy mateys!

The Scholastic Bookaneer Book Fair iscoming to our school!

A boat-load of books will wash ashore onMonday 24th April and everyone is invitedto join our crew! There will be fun activities, awesome contests,and a fabulous Pirate Dress Up Day on Thursday 27th April.

Plus, if you bring all your kin to the Fair,you’ll have the chance to win FREEBOOKS!

Get hooked on reading at the BookaneerBook Fair!

You can find information on some of the books available byclicking below:

3

Physical Education News

Due to the weather conditions CROSS COUNTRYwhich was scheduled for this Friday is now

POSTPONED. We will now be running the CrossCountry in Week 1 Term 2 on FRIDAY 21st April.

Important Office News

School Photo Day is scheduled for Thursday, 27th of July!

Tinana State School has a Facebook page! Subscribe toget up to date information about what’s happening atschool!

https://tinanass.eq.edu.au/Pages/default.aspx

MONEY COMING TO SCHOOL

Would parents please ensure that any money sent to school forany purposes other than tuckshop is sent directly to the officeand is placed in an envelope with student’s name, grade andparticular item or excursion they are paying for, clearly markedon the front of envelope. Pre-printed envelopes are availableat the office for any payments. Parents that prefer to depositthe funds directly into the school bank account are requestedto advise the office of the deposit and to use the studentsurname and invoice number as the payment reference. Aslarge amounts of money pass through the school office itbecomes difficult and time consuming to identify paymentswithout this information.

Invoices via Email

You should now be receiving all your child’s invoices via email.If you need to provide the office with an updated email address,please do so as soon as possible.

4

ABSENCES

Please Phone 4120 8066 and leave a message on theAbsence Line in the event of a student being absent.Please phone each day your child is absent from schoolunless the office has been previously advised of theabsence. Verbal messages by the student are notsufficient. This prevents any misunderstanding andensures the safety of your child. Please note that, bylaw, we are required to report any long term unexplainedabsences from school which may then be investigated bythe police.

LATE ARRIVAL

The school day begins at 8:45am and all staff will begininstruction at this time. Arrivals after 8:45am areconsidered to be late. Late arrival should beaccompanied by a note but parents may ring the officewith this information. Students must first report to theoffice to obtain a late slip that is to be given to theirteacher.

SMS NOTIFICATION

The school is now utilising an SMS system to notifyparents of any unexplained absence. If you receive a textmessage stating your child’s absence is unexplained, youcan reply via text, stating your child’s name, and reasonfor absence. If you believe your child should be presentat school, please phone the office immediately on 41208000.

EARLY DEPARTURE

Children leaving school early must be picked up from theoffice. Parents may ring in advance to arrange for theirchild/ren to be ready for collection, or send a note to theclass teacher. Your child will be given an early departureslip from the office.

Student Attendance – Same Day AbsenceNotification

The safety and wellbeing of students are the highest prioritiesfor the Department of Education and Training and for theQueensland Government.

At Tinana State School we endeavour to contact a parentor carer via text message when a student's absence isunexplained after the first roll marking of the day.

As home and school work together, student safety will beincreased. Here are some guidelines to make this process moreefficient:

Free Hearing and Vision Tests

• Notify the school by phone or email before 9:00am ifyour student is going to be absent that day. Pleasegive a brief explanation for the absence.

• If you receive a text message regarding anunexplained absence, please respond promptly,either via text or phone call.

• Please ensure that your mobile phone number andother contact details are up-to-date on the schoolrecords. This is critical, as we need to be able tocontact you in case of emergency.

• If your student arrives late to school, they must go tothe office for a late pass before going to theirclassroom. If they are leaving early, a leave passmust be obtained from the office.

5

TuckshopMenu available here:

P&C Fundraising Information

Easter Fundraiser

Thanks again to everyone who supported the EasterFundraiser. We made a profit of $560.80. If you haven’t alreadypicked up your order, please contact the office regardingcollection.

Mother’s Day Stall

Once again there will be a Mother’s Day Stall held fromTuesday, 9th to Thursday, 11th May out of the Tuckshop from8.00 a.m. As this is NAPLAN week there will be extraopportunity for the Year 3’s and 5’s to purchase from the stallon Tuesday at 2.00 p.m.

Cookie Dough Fundraiser

Look out for the Cookie Dough Fundraiser coming home inTerm 2 after the holidays.

Uniform ShopUniform Shop is open Mondays & Fridays from 8am to 9am.

SPORTS SHIRT SALE!!!

Come check out the major sale happeningon Sports Shirts. Get in ready for CrossCountry at the end of term and purchase anew sports shirt for just $18.50! If you are

unable to make it to the Uniform Shop when it is open, pleaseleave your order and money at the office and we will get theorder to you.

School Banking

School Banking

Our first term of School Banking for 2017 is nearly over and hasbeen very successful. We had over 100 students depositingeach week, and more than 30 new accounts opened. For everynew account opened, our School receives $5.00.

Well done Tinana families!

Remember our School Banking day is every Tuesday. Eachclassroom from Prep to Year 6 has a grey school banking bagfor students to drop their bank books into.

PARENTS - Can you PLEASE fill out your child’s depositslip and ensure the correct money is placed in their bankbook.

Banking Rewards

Term 1 Rewards

If you have 10 Silver Tokens you can redeem straight away bycompleting your reward coupon and place in your school bankbook.

Banker of the Week

Our lucky school bankers are Isaac and Amelia. Each week alucky banker will be drawn and gets to choose a prize from ourprize bank. Don’t forget you have to bank each week to go intothe draw.

• Cyber Handball

• Colour Change Markers

6

Important School Banking Notice !!!

Due to ANZAC DAY (25th April) this year falling on a Tuesday,we will be doing the school banking on the Monday 24th April2017.

Hope everyone has a safe and Happy Easter.

School Banking Co-Ordinators

Community NoticesATTENTION: Under 11 Girls Tinana Hockey Club still needsyou!!! 2017 Hockey Season got off to a late start last week. Butit is NOT TOO late to sign on. Would you like to develop newsporting skills? Would you like to improve your fitness? Wouldyou like to have fun? Then come along and join Tinana HockeyClub. For more information Contact Kathy on 0448215248 orGloria on 0429050316.

OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TOEXPERIENCE ANOTHER CULTURE, MAKE NEWFRIENDS AND IMPROVE THEIR LANGUAGESTUDIES AT HOME

In July 2017, we will be receiving exchange students fromDenmark, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy andNorway. Our new arrivals will live with a host family and attenda local school for 3, 5 or 10 months. As we plan for theirarrival, we are keen to hear from suitable families who might beinterested to host a student.

Hosting an exchange student can be a truly rewardingexperience. It allows a family to experience a foreign culture firsthand, be exposed to a new language and pass on a bit of ourown culture. They might even make a friend for life!

All students have at least basic levels of English, would attend aschool in your local area and live the life of a local.

Student Exchange Australia New Zealand is a not-for-profitorganisation that is registered with all state and territoryDepartments of Education around Australia and with theMinistry of Education in NZ. We are the first and only secondaryexchange organisation in Australia and New Zealand to becertified to ISO 9001 (Quality Management System) and weensure the highest standards of care and support to ourparticipants. You can find out more about our organisation byvisiting the link below or call our office on 1300 135 331.

http://www.studentexchange.org.au/

7

8

9