Dear Parents / Carers,

Week 5, Term 4 already and at the end of this week we are half-way through Term 4 and the end of our school year. Needless to say, everyone (students and staff) is very busy putting our end of year plans into place. With students, it’s all about assessment, benchmark testing, learning songs and music for Presentation Evening, learning, and preparing for the many other activities. Year 6 students are particularly busy with the Extended Learning Program (ELP) next week, in Week 6.

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AMIENS STATE SCHOOL “Mens Sana in Copore Sano”

Term 4 – Week 5 Tuesday 6th November, 2018

School Calendar - Term 4

Week 5 Monday 5th November Assembly Book Fair Tuesday 6th November Student Banking Instrumental Music Book Fair Wednesday 7th Nov Swimming Book Fair Thursday 8th November Tuckshop Dance Fever Friday 9th November Swimming Library Sunday 11th November Armistice Day Pageant Week 5 Monday 12th November Assembly Mrs Edwards Away Tuesday 13th November Student Banking Mrs Edwards Away Prep Vision Check Prep Open Afternoon Wednesday 14th Nov Instrumental Music Mrs Edwards Away Election of 2019 School Leaders

Speaking of Extended Learning, the program for the 2 days for individual students came out yesterday and has been shared with students, along with the instruction to take it home for sharing with parents. As well as detailing the exciting activities for each student, session by session, it also reminds students of the following:

They will need to bring morning tea and lunch, swimming gear, old shirt for art projects, sun safe clothing, hat, water bottle, old shoes for abseiling, canoeing and sunblock.

They need to register at the registration desk on arrival at the dam

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The overall program runs as follows:

8.15am Registration (ALL children must register at the desk on arriving each day)

8.45 Bus introduction

9.00-10.30 1st session

10.30-11.00 Morning tea

11.00-12.30 2nd

session

12.30-1.00 Lunch

1.00-2.30 3rd

session

2.30-2.45 Debrief

2.45pm Pickup

What a great (and busy) Friday we all had last week. After swimming in the morning, a delicious sausage sizzle kindly provided by the P&C was enjoyed by the ravenous students and staff. There was then time to prepare for our Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Parade. Thanks to our Student Project team, who fund-raised by providing “Milo and Homebake” for morning tea once a week throughout winter, there was enough funds to hire a jumping castle after the Parade. There were actually two jumping castles, as Mr Ben and Mrs Janelle Kent kindly donated their jumping castle for the festivities. All of the students enjoyed themselves greatly and were very appreciative that their behaviour being recognised and rewarded. We thanks our PBL Coach, Mrs Jenny McCarthy and our Community Policing Officer, Sergeant Dan O’Dea for being an important part of the presentation of our behaviour awards.

On Thursday last week the whole school participated in the Outdoor Classroom initiative. In literacy, the Years Prep to 2 generated rhyming words, alliteration and sound in spoken words in walks around our bush, playgrounds and play areas. I think they also put together their own version of “Wombat Stew”. In Maths outdoors, they had different experiences in show-ing the directions of clock hands using nature’s materi-als and telling the time.

The older students were not left out of the outdoor fun! In Years 3 -6 literacy, speaking, listening and problem solv-ing were enhanced by having the students use a large rope to make mystery shapes, using directional and posi-tional language and instructions. Students in teams then used their knowledge of procedures to design and build a shelter by writing step-by-step instructions. These instructions were then given to another group to test both the level of the instructions and the following of these instructions. Maths was very interesting with students using sticks to make right-angled isosceles triangles. Students then had to use this knowledge and the clinometer they’d previously made, to work out how they could measure the height of a tree.

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Term 4 – Week 5 Tuesday 6th November, 2018

Thanks very much to all of the parents who returned their forms for Remembrance Day participation. We have many of our students attending this commemorative pageant on Sunday 11

th November.

School photographs will arrive during the week beginning 12th November. Please see flyer attached to the newsletter.

Visit by Registered Nurse for Free Prep Vision Screening

Good vision is important for a child’s educational, physical and social development. Vision screen-ing is therefore vital in early childhood, particularly for conditions such as ‘lazy eye’, which if not detected early can lead to blindness.

A Registered Nurse will be visiting the school in 2018 to commence vision screening for all Prep Year children. If you wish to have your child participate in this free vision screening program, please complete and sign the consent form sent home with your child and return this to your child’s class teacher as soon as possible. You will be advised in writing of the outcome of your child’s screening.

Please note that if your child has had a vision assessment in the past 12 months it is not neces-sary for him/her to participate in this screening program. If this is the case, please complete the consent form and indicate that you do not wish for your child to participate, and ensure that you follow the schedule of reviews recommended by your eye health professional.

Primary School Nurse Health Readiness Program

Child and Youth Community Health Services

Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service

P & C News

Book Fair - Last Day - Wednesday 7th November! Parents, this is your last chance to purchase books for your children. Books can be purchased by cash or credit card

facilities. All proceeds from the book fair benefits your child / children. Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far.

Janelle

Have a wonderful week.

Dale

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From the Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 Classroom

Congratulations to all the students who were awarded their PBL medals last Friday. Thank you to Mrs Jenny Mc Carthy and Sergeant Dan who presented the medals and comments. Also a big thank you to Mrs Kelley who printed and laminated each child’s reason for their award. This week, we will be Respectful by using kind words and actions.

During Maths sessions, we will be investigating, discussing and solving problems using flip, slide and turn activities. The children will also be manipulating concrete materials involving the concepts of multiplication and division. Yr 1 and 2 children are learning their number facts for 15. Thank you to the parents who assist with maths homework - nightly practice is evident with accuracy on Friday number fact tests. The Prep boys are continuing to enhance their skills for addition and subtraction. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be completing the 3 Minute tests for addition and subtraction.

The Year 1 and 2 children are completing their Unit 7 C2C booklet. Only one more for this year!. The Prep boys are continuing on their Phonic booklet. Handwriting activities /booklets are being written in daily with success. Most children are experiencing success with their PM Readers. Please continue to discuss, listen and then ask questions about the text. What is a pronoun? When do we use it? – part of Grammar this week. Research will continue ready for our written information and poster presentation.

On Tuesday afternoons, Year 2 are looking at a map of the world, locating and naming the continents. What are the states/ territories of Australia and their capital cities? All children are investigating “Exploring local connections and investigating connections with other places” concepts to be covered over the next couple of weeks.

“Spin it” – how and why people design and make things. Plan, make and evaluate is the process we will be following to design our mowing toy.

Dance class with M P. was very popular and continues until Week 9 when we have our Presentation. Mrs Yates takes a short video of the dance moves so we can practise during the week.

Thank you to Cara and Candy who have volunteered to help with swimming. Friday will be our last

swimming lesson for this year. Ryder Kecic has lost his new swimming goggles. They are named and

are blue. Please check swimming bags.

Enjoy your week

Anne, Kayleen and Candy

Playgroup News

All are welcome to attend our Playgroup – (weather permitting) Prep Gazebo or in the EEC room 9

– 10.30. On Monday, we began working on our Christmas activities – the children coloured their

Christmas Tree ready for a photo and more collaging next week. Playdough always seems popular.

Next week, the children will construct a candy cane and begin making a Christmas card. All children

enjoyed the outdoor activities.

Prep Open Day Nov 13 – 1:00 – 3:00 Children are asked to bring a

hat, lunch and some water. At one o’clock, they will play with the other

children in the Prep yard. Lunch time commences at 1.20. In the afternoon

session, rotational Geography activities will be completed.

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PBL (Positive Behaviour for Learning)

Be Respectful Be Responsible Be Safe

Congratulations to these students who consistently followed the school’s PBL focus for Week

4.

India

Well done to the following students who have achieved 100% in their spelling and number

facts for Week 4. Bonnie, Dustin, Kodi, Riley, Ethan, Ben, Stephie, Holly, Lilly, Jade, Isaac,

Oscar, Jaxon, Kayden and India

Continuing with the accolades congratulations must also go to India, Jade and Bau for

achieving 75 Positive Behaviour for Learning acknoweldegments.

Well done to you all and keep up the fantastic work.

This week we are focusing on Being Respectful - by using kind words and actions.

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Happy Birthday Trey.

We hope you have a lovely day.