WWW. WoodLinks Wednesday Weekly · In English we are continuing our traditional stories unit – my class (4A) has become super amazing at identifying noun groups, verb groups, prepositional

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D A T E C L A I M E R S :

FromthePrincipal’sDesk

WWW.WoodLinksWednesdayWeekly23May2018

OnlyOurBest,

Everyone,

Everyday

STATESCHOOL

WOODLINKS

If you can read, you will succeed!

ASSEMBLY

Every Mon 2.20pm YR 3-6

Every Fri 9.00an Prep—2

25th May, 8th & 15th June

Gala Days

11th June

Fanfare music event

20th & 21st June

Stringtastic & Bandtastic

21st June

Senior Athletics Carnival

29th June

Junior Athletics Carnival

2018 Uniform Shop Hours

Mondays 8.15—9am

Wednesdays 3.10—3.45pm

Evidence of our strong WoodLinks community abounds. Throughout the week and the term there are many opportunities for students to be actively involved in our school community. Currently students have the opportunity to participate in the Premier’s Reading Challenge, Gala Days, lunchtime clubs and activities (e.g. Dance Troupe, Choir), Breakfast Club, Reading Club, Healthy Active School Travel (see information in this newsletter) and our cancer awareness Free Dress day (see information in this newsletter). I encourage all students to get involved in at least one activity that interests them. This involvement strengthens our ties as a school community; helps us to build our communication skills; supports us in building relationships and friendships; and often extends us through developing new skills and interests. It is important to note the following free dress guidelines for Thursday 24th May: • Closed in shoes must be worn; • School policy for jewellery, hair and make-up applies; • Students must wear a navy bucket hat to play in the sun; • Clothing must cover shoulders and be sun safe; • Shirts must be of a reasonable length, covering the mid-riff; and free of

inappropriate designs or slogans; • Skirts and dresses must be of a reasonable length; and bike pants can

only be worn underneath an outer garment (not worn on their own). I wish to advise that I will be remaining at WoodLinks SS as Acting Principal for the remainder of Term 2. This is to enable a recruitment process for a replacement principal at the metropolitan state school where Mrs Caldow is currently positioned. Mrs Caldow will return to WoodLinks SS at the start of Term 3. Finally, please take the time to read the attachment regarding a change in office procedures from the start of Term 3. The changes that will take place from Term 3 will ensure minimal disruptions to teaching and learning in our classrooms.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Cheryl Wilson A/PRINCIPAL

Only Our Best, Everyday, Everyone

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PREP NEWS YR 1 NEWS

Welcome to week 6 of term 2, we are in the middle week of term!

We are learning:

English: In English, students will be reading Giraffe’s Can’t Dance and creating a character description of Gerald the Giraffe. This is their final practice before assessment next week. Maths: In Maths, students are learning subtraction strategies such as count back on a number line and using their rainbow facts and doubles facts to subtract.

General notices: Homework is sent home on Mondays. It includes some spelling/sight word practice, reading and maths and will be returned each Friday for marking. Home readers will be changed on Monday and Wednesday pending time and parent help. Please remind your child to form their letters correctly in preparation for the assessment next week. A friendly reminder that once the bell goes at 8.50am, learning time begins and students need to focus on their tasks. Please say goodbye outside of the classroom and encourage your child to independently unpack their belongings when the bell goes at 8.45am. We have seen a great improvement in the independence of our students by encouraging them to do it themselves. If you would like to stay after the bell, discuss with your child’s teacher to arrange some parent helper jobs within the room. If you need to talk to the teacher please see them before or after school or send an email as once the bell goes our duty of care is with the students.

Have a great week.

Mrs Griffin

1A Teacher

Wow, we are halfway through the term! No more public holidays this term. As assessment time is fast approaching it is important that your child is attending school every day (unless they are sick). It is imperative that you are reading with your child every night. Do not forget to practice sight words every night. To help with the reading of sight words have children identify the words they are learning in their book before reading.

Don’t forget to bring back library books and bags on your child’s library day so that they can borrow a new book. If you are unsure of your child’s day check with their teacher.

Just a reminder that as the weather is getting cooler, as part of the uniform policy, jumpers must be the school jumper or a dark blue (don’t forget to NAME them). Also shoes must be black or white.

In English we are practicing our sentence writing to tell a story. We are focusing on making sure our sentences have the following elements: a capital letter at the start, full stop, finger spaces and that they make sense.

In Maths we are learning about patterns in our environment, making patterns and continuing patterns. We also continue to build our number knowledge.

Enjoy the rest of your week Kind regards,

Miss Nan

Prep C Teacher

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YR 2 NEWS YR 3 NEWS

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Year 3, week 6!

NAPLAN is over! Everyone in year 3 did an

amazing job.

This week will be a busy week for year 3, as there

will be assessment this week.

This week in English, we are continuing to look at

our narratives. Students will be writing and

completing their assessment task.

In Maths this week we will be looking at Multiplication. Working on different strategies in a fun and engaging way. Students will be working on concepts for their assessment. In Science students will be revisiting the concepts of the effects the sun has on the Earth, that they have learnt over the term. Students are getting ready for their creation of their science posters. Just a few friendly reminders: • Homework is handed out on Monday and

students are responsible for completing the work throughout the week and submitting on Friday. Homework includes daily reading, spelling and math problems.

• Mr Purdie

3A Teacher

3A was lucky enough to be visited by Hunter.

English: We are continuing on with stereotypical and non-stereotypical Fairytales this week and practicing writing about which we prefer; using coordinating conjunctions. Science: This week the year two cohort are investigating changing incline of surfaces. The objective is to design a toy that moves with a push or pull. We will then need to describe a change to the toy and how it affects the toy’s movement. Lastly, to incorporate reading and comprehension we must pose an investigation question and make a prediction about an object’s movement. Maths: We are counting and comparing money by coordinating notes and coins to their values. We are working hard to remember that dollars and cents have different values despite their sizes. Especially, that $1.00 has the value of 100 cents! PBL: Conflict is a choice but disagreements are a part of life. This week our social skills lessons will focus on learning to solve problems and managing conflict so that we can be safe, respectful WoodLinks learners. Reminders Science — We require recyclable materials: small cardboard boxes, drink containers, drink lids, string and sticky tape. Please note for hygiene purposes, all plastic materials need to be pre-washed thoroughly before we can use it. Thank you again to our wonderful parent helpers who assist us with home readers—we greatly appreciate your time to help us succeed in reading.

Ms VanSchamelhout 2C Teacher

BJ and Jamie-Lee grooming a snoozing Hunter—Thank you to Mr Crichton for letting his puppy visit our classroom last week

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YR 4 NEWS YR 6 NEWS

Year 6 students have been working hard on finishing their multi-modal advertisement this week. They are using descriptive and persuasive language to convince the reader to travel to an exotic, relaxing, or exciting holiday destination. Because it is a multi-modal advertisement, they need to choose appropriate images and add audio to match their ad. They have been enjoying creating these on the laptops. In Math, students have been looking at a range of angles and working finding unknown angles. Ask your child to explain supplementary or vertically opposite angles! In History this week, students are writing a news feature article explaining the significant contributions of Sir Henry Parkes to the Federation movement. Year 6 students are also looking forward to GALA Day activities that begin this week. If your child is a part of a GALA Day team, please ensure their permission notes are back to school on Thursday at the very latest. The Student Council have been busy this week organising a fundraiser to raise money for brain cancer research. We will be having a Free Dress day on Thursday 24th May. Please make sure your child wears safe and respectful attire on this day and brings a gold coin donation for this worthwhile cause.

Ms Brady 6A Teacher

Hello Parents and Guardians of Year 4, This Friday is our first gala day! Please make sure you have returned any notes with payment if your child has signed up for a team! We would love to see as many of our Year 4’s out there – especially my netballers! In English we are continuing our traditional stories unit – my class (4A) has become super amazing at identifying noun groups, verb groups, prepositional phrases, adverbs, and text connectives. I see great progress in their writing. We collectively did a story about a monster teacher, and some of the writing was absolutely fantastic. In HASS, we are learning about cultural, social, and religious groups – the students have been fantastically respectful in discussing these topics. We have discussed our participation in social groups, our culture and links to it. We’ve discussed our identity, and the many facets of it – getting to know ourselves better, as well as our fellow classmates. We’re getting into the second half of term now – fingers crossed the second half is as good as the first!

Mr. Wilcox 4A Teacher

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YR 5 NEWS


English This week in English we started our 2nd assessment. We are writing and publishing our own multi modal feature articles. In our article we need to share our opinion about flying foxes in residential areas. Our articles will be published using power point and book creator. We need to choose persuasive images that will support our arguments.

Maths In Maths this week we are revising symmetry. We used mirrors to make sure a shape was symmetrical. We practiced drawing lines of symmetry and enlarging shapes, as well as reducing shapes.

Gala Day Gala Days begin this week on Friday. Students will be participating in netball, soccer and rugby. “This is a good opportunity to have fun and get fit.” Amelia, year 5 student. We need to remind other students to wear a hat, and complete school uniform on Gala Days. Students that are not participating in Gala sport will be doing fun stuff with Ms Brady, Mr Vayo, and Ms Roberts.

NAPLAN NAPLAN was last week. We were tested on writing, language conventions, reading and numeracy. 5B teacher, Ms Wilson said “I am very proud of all the year 5’s as they put in a lot of effort.” We appreciate all the support and encouragement our teachers gave us. 5B student, Amelia says” I was so happy that we got pancakes before we did the test.”

Written by the Year 5 Writing Club

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MUS IC NOTES


FREE DRESS DAY!

WoodLinks is having a free dress day on the 24th May!

While many of us have been touched by cancer in some form or another, part of our WoodLinks family has been hit particularly hard by brain cancer!

To raise money for research into this terrible disease, we are having a free dress day and asking for a gold coin donation.

All contributions will be donated to: www.curebraincancer.org.au

BANDTASTIC IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note the cut off date for returning forms and payment for students participating in Bandtastic with Mr Humphreys, is this Friday 24th May.

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Years 3-6 3D- 100% 4B- 100% 4A- 96% 5B- 95.65% 3B- 94% 6B- 92.86% 6A- 92.59% 6C- 92.59% 5A- 92.5% 5C- 88.64% 4C- 88.46% 3C- 87.5% 3A- 86.96%

4/5- 83.33%


ATTENDANCE

At WoodLinks SS we believe that attendance matters! By attending school everyday students have the very best opportunity to achieve success. Each week we monitor individual and class student attendance. We celebrate attendance every Monday at Assembly with the announcement of the previous week’s winners. In Prep-Year 2, classes are involved in a weekly horse race and in Years 3-6, students are involved in a superhero race (located outside the library). The WoodLinks Attendance Policy can be found on our website.

‘Every day counts’ is a state wide initiative that aims to assist in improving student attendance at school through a shared commitment by students, parents, caregivers, schools and the community. To do this, Every day counts promotes four key messages:

• all children should be enrolled at school and attend on every school day

• schools should monitor, communicate and implement strategies to improve regular school attendance

• truanting can place a student in unsafe situations and impact on their future employability and life choices

• attendance at school is the responsibility of everyone in the community.

Attendance target is 95% Recent WoodLinks data shows that the days with the lowest attendance rate are

Mondays and Fridays.

At WoodLinks we believe that ‘Every Day Counts’.

Our Attendance Target of

95%

PREP- YEAR 2 PREP D- 100% PREP C- 95.65% 2A- 95.65% 2C- 95.45% 2D- 95.24% 1D- 92.31% 1C- 92% PREP A- 91.06% 2E- 90.91% 2B- 90.91% PREP B- 88% 1B- 87.5% PREP E- 84%

1A- 84%

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Abs en ce L i n e

Remember if your child is going to be away please call the

Absence Line: 3381 4688

and leave a message stating child's name / class / and brief reason. (ie—sick/doctors appointment etc)

a reason MUST be left or the absence will be recorded as UNEXPLAINED


Un i f o rm Shop

STUDENT RESOURCE SCHEME FEE (SRS)

Reminder that all Student Resource Scheme fees must be paid by end of this term.

Payments for SRS and excursions can be paid the following ways:

Online via BPoint , In person via Eftpos or cash

Admin News

SMS Notification If your child is away from school for an unexplained reason, you will receive an SMS notifying you. Please ensure you reply back (before 3pm) to the message with a reason for the students absence do not include any emoji's or pictures as these cannot be read. Do not reply to the SMS after 3pm, you will be required to contact the school the next day or send in a note about the absence. If you can’t return the SMS you must phone the school with a valid reason. Remember that if your child is not in class by 9am when the rolls are marked, they are required to obtain a late slip from the office. Without this they will be marked as absent and you will receive an SMS.

Please only reply to sms that are sent to you. DO NOT use this number for any other messages or to put in

future absences.

Monday 8.15 - 9.00am and Wednesday 3.10 - 3.30pm

Please remember that there are NO EFTPOS facilities in the Uniform shop.

CASH ONLY Can you help out in the uniform shop? If so, please see Melissa in the uniform shop.

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What we’ve been doing in OSHC at Camp Australia!

We’ve been trying heaps of new activities at Camp A ustralia recently, including ex-ploring the outdoors with our bug catcher and resea rching about different insects,

learning about the importance of healthy eating, fa cts about fruits and vegetables and making a new display all about our prehistoric frie nds.

Our students have led the way in exploring these ac tivities, having lots of fun and sharing ideas along the way and discovering interes ting facts, they can share with

family and friends.

We’ve got more great activities planned next week – as well as a lot of fun we don’t even know about yet! Come along and join in on the fun and excitement !

Program details

We’re here to make Outside School Hours Care the best experience possible for your child. To find out more about our program, view fees and to register visit www.campaustralia.com.au We look forward to seeing you and your family soon.

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WWW. WoodLinks Wednesday Weekly · In English we are continuing our traditional stories unit – my class (4A) has become super amazing at identifying noun groups, verb groups, prepositional