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Volume 3, Issue 3

Millaroo State School

MILLAROO IS A GREAT SCHOOL! - Principal Erin Alloway

Hello again, BOOK FAIR Thank you KATE! The children had a memorable time dressing up as bush book charac-ters and purchasing some great books, posters and crazy stationery items. If you did-n’t get up to choose a book for the P&C presentation, don’t panic! Kate had the chil-dren’s wish list and selected something from that so NO one will miss out. Photos in the next newsletter. Sporting Achievements Please check out the photos from the GREAT achievements many of our students did on the holidays on page 4. Well done to Bree who competed in the Queensland Primary Schools Athletics Championships in Brisbane this week. She achieved 9th in QLD and we are all VERY proud of her. A photo will be in next newsletter. BUSH DANCE This was a FUN night and we nearly danced the night away until I looked at the clock and realized it was 10pm and had better call it quits! It was a shame the several date changes meant not everyone could make it and we will try to look at the schedule next year to avoid clashes. Gillian came up with a great idea because we will be small in stu-dent numbers next year and suggested FANCY DRESS CRICKET or fancy dress TEN-NIS. Plenty of options to discuss next year! NEXT YEAR Speaking of next year, it is that time again when planning starts and so we will be send-ing home a note of intended enrolment/attendance at Millaroo school for 2017. We will be asking if your child will be at Millaroo School for next year. With such a dramatic drop from our year sixes our funding allocation will be affected which means Teacher Aide time, Office time and extra teacher days (Mrs Gemma & Mrs Salter) are ALL af-fected by school enrolment numbers. Please keep an eye out for this note early Nov. PRINCIPAL MEETINGS Last week I was out for 3 days at Principal meetings in Townsville. I am also out next week and the week after. (I put dates in calendar on back). One of the GREAT sessions last week was on EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE. Employers not only want people with general intelligence but are seeking those of HIGH emotional intelligence, which means they have the social skills, self awareness, self management and social awareness to work within a team or with others. The most exciting thing is—we CAN learn and IM-PROVE our emotional intelligence. It can be taught and we can all have HIGH Emotion-al Intelligence if we persistently practise these skills and cement the neural pathways of appropriate behaviours, reactions, understandings. Guidance Officer Tanya Munro visited Millaroo today and worked with year 5 and 6 on transitioning to high school WITH Emotional intelligence being part of this preparation. Tanya will return in a fortnight to again help our soon to be high schoolers. Gemma and I will continue Emotional Intelligence teaching to help all our students. Till next month, Erin.

September 2016

Our School

acknowledges the

Juru community as

traditional owners of

this country. We

recognise their

custodianship of

the cultural

heritage and role in

caring for this land.

EVERY DAY COUNTS...attending at school is the responsibility of everyone in the community

ATTENDANCE Whole school

93.6%

Boys 92.9%

Girls 94.2%

SCHOOL FOCUS AREAS in 2016

Successful Learners–embed reading programme Australian Curriculum - deep understanding

Student Performance - goal setting & feedback Teaching Quality—use data sets to inform

Principal leadership - drive improvement agenda Local Decision Making –review RBP

Curriculum update: and Teaching Focus:

All students are learn-ing chance and data in maths. We have learnt to COLLECT survey da-ta about school to help Mrs Gemma make bet-ter decisions about how to teach. We REC-ORDED this infor-mation in tables using tallies and then graphed out infor-mation. The data showed us we are learning and are most-ly happy at school.. But we really like maths and art. As a result we

are learning how to paint in Visual Arts on Wednesdays, now, instead of music.

Behaviour:

Thanks parents for your persistence in sending the message of personal ac-countability. It is important that we continue to work together for this final term this year and encourage your children to think past themselves. Remember your child’s view of the world is still developing and it is important that you explore problems with your child from different points of view, rather than assum-ing your child’s perspective is the only point of view out there. They are still growing and learning. I recently saw this quote, it made me laugh :) : I promise not to believe everything your child says

happens at home, if you promise not to believe every-thing your child says happens at school.

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From the 4-6 Classroom—with Mrs Gemma

Curriculum focus:

Visual Arts:

Creating mood boards and experimenting

with brush strokes to beginning our

painting that represents a scene from our

book we are analysing in English.

Geography:

Completing surveys and graphing our

information about Asia and Australia

trade relationships (yr 6) and Sustainable

practices in our local environment (yr

4/5).

English:

Yr 4/5– Writing a written response to a

dreamtime story we have analysed.

Yr 6– Analysing our literary text and in-

formative text, ready to compare.

Maths:

Year 4/5: constructing and interpreting

data.

Year 6: Finding the observed and relative

frequency of data.

Science:

Looking at force in sport. Constructing

force diagrams and revising push, pull,

magnetic and gravitational forces.

Savannah

Athan

James

Montanna

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ENGLISH—

This week we finished our unit assessment and I was VERY PROUD of the way children com-

prehended, created and recited the poems. Prep had to comprehend and demonstrate:-

Year 1 showed their ability to

Year 2/3 were assessed comprehension using the following criteria markers

For creating poems Prep had to demonstrate understanding of rhyme, Year 1,2 and 3 had to

create, present and explain an imaginative reconstruction of a poem.

Our next unit the children will be comparing different versions of fairy -tales and writing a persuasive response about the likes and

dislikes of a chosen charac-ter or events by comparing the two versions.

GEOGRAPHY—this term Mrs Salter is broadening the children’s knowledge of special places to global proportions! Today they were having fun learning about the continents! P.E— Swimming—every second Mon-day and Friday we will be swim-ming. Thanks to Jane Keyes who is helping on Mondays with the P-2 swimmers @ 11:45am. Keep up the great home reading! Thanks Kerrie Cervoni for chang-ing our reading books regularly.

Listens for rhyme, letter patterns and sounds in words.

Draws on developing knowledge of concepts about print and sound and letters.

Recalls one or two events from texts with familiar topics.

Understands the purpose of different texts. Identifies language features and vocabulary used to describe

characters and events.

Recalls key ideas and recognises literal and implied meaning in poetry.

Identifies text structures and language features used to describe characters, settings and events.

Identifies literal and implied meaning, main ideas and sup-porting detail.

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What a talented bunch!!!!!!!

Sporting holidays!

Athan represented the Burdekin U12’s in the Northern Touch Championships October 01st – October 3rd. Athan attended the “John

Bomben Soccer Carnival” in Cairns 18th

September – 23rd

September. He represented the Burdekin in the U11 team. The team won the Grand

Final in their division, only the second time a Burdekin team has won in the history of the carnival.

INTERSCHOOL GYMKHANA—Jack, Montana Lily Bree

Lily and Savannah at Representative

Netball Joel carving up the competition at Dirt Bike Championships

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Small Schools ARTS fun day Drama, Dance, Music, Visual Arts plus loads more

Mowing Roster

Oct 22/23 - Petersen

Nov 5/6 - Graham

Nov 5/6 P&C WORKING BEE @ SCHOOL

Nov 19/20 - Sexton

Dec 3/4 Croatto

Dec 10/11 Ferguson

Jan 14/15 2017 EVERYONE working bee Please remember that mowing around the school is the essential mowing that is required

every fortnight during the winter months. If you are unable to mow on weekends, you

are more than welcome to mow after 3:30pm during the school week. Each family is re-

sponsible for the mowing to be done on their weekend. If you are unavailable to do it

on your weekend, IT IS UP TO YOU to find a family to replace you or swap with.

Millaroo Pool has reopened

For memberships

Contact Sharon on 0405 462 189

Judy 0438 849 203

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Millaroo State School

2016 improvement agenda

Successful Learners – continue to embed whole school reading programme

Australian Curriculum – develop deep understanding

Student Performance – goal setting and feedback

Teaching Quality – build teacher capacity to use data sets to plan, assess and differentiate

Principal Leadership – drive improvement agenda using North Queensland Quality

Teaching and Learning Framework

Local Decision Making – review and embed Responsible Behaviour Plan for Students

Millaroo State School

Cunningham Street

PMB 8

MILLAROO QLD 4807

Phone: 07 47849139

Fax: 07 47849287

School Mobile: 0466379508

E-mail

Principal: [email protected]

Admin: [email protected]

We are on the Web

www.millarooss.eq.edu.au

Important Dates in 2016

Oct 21 Daniel Morcombe Day BBQ with Clare SS & Snr Const

Shane @ Clare SS SWIMMING

Oct 24 SWIMMING P&C meeting 3pm

Oct 27 Principals’ Meeting Erin away Ayr SS

Oct 28 World Teachers Day

Nov 1 ARD—Reid Thompson visit (Erin’s boss)

Nov 4 SWIMMING

Nov 7 SWIMMING

Nov 9 Pre Prep day - welcome Grace

Nov 10 Principals’ Meeting Erin away Ayr SS

Nov 11 Playgroup

Nov 15 Life Ed van visit

Nov 16 Qld Symphony Excursion to Townsville

Nov17 Pre prep day

Nov 18 SWIMMING

Nov 21 Pre Prep day SWIMMING

Dec 2 GRADUATION NIGHT SWIMMING

Dec 5 SWIMMING

Dec 7 Small schools swimming carnival

Dec 8 END OF YEAR CELEBRATION excursion

Dec 9 Last day of term

YOU CAN DO IT

5 Keys to Success

Getting along

Organisation

Confidence

Persistence

Resilience

Emotional Intelligence Development is

JUST as important as having a high IQ.

Being aware of yourself and others along

with managing yourself and having social

skills continues to be a focus here at school.