HOMESTEAD HEADLINES HOMESTEAD HEADLINES HOMESTEAD Issue June 2020 www.homesteadss.eq.edu.au Included in this edition: Principal’s report Calendar of events Birthday wishes P&C News Around our school As COVID impacted normal school mode, Wednesdays have became fun days. The first week we went to the Creek. A fun day was had by all catching fish, playing footy and just playing in the sand. We have also had a Music Day with Chappy, Mini Olympics, Sewing with Mrs Lingard, Tie Dying, French Knitting, Kite making, dissected a cows heart and lungs, built a Robotic Beetle and to finish off the term back down the Creek.
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HOMESTEAD HEADLINES HOMESTEAD HEADLINES HOMESTEAD
Issue June 2020 www.homesteadss.eq.edu.au
Included in this edition:
Principal’s report
Calendar of events
Birthday wishes
P&C News
Around our school
As COVID impacted normal school mode, Wednesdays have
became fun days. The first week we went to the Creek. A fun day was had by all catching fish, playing footy and just playing in the sand. We have also had a Music Day with Chappy, Mini
Olympics, Sewing with Mrs Lingard, Tie Dying, French Knitting, Kite making, dissected a cows heart and lungs, built a Robotic Beetle and to finish off the term back down the Creek.
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It’s hard to believe that we are already at the end of yet another term at Homestead. It has definitely been a term that has given us as a community many challenges. It was great to have all the student’s at school participating with the modified curriculum. This gave us as a school, time to extend the student’s learning beyond the class-room. Thank you to the community members that came to the school and offered to share experiences with the
students.
This term we also say goodbye to Mr S, who is about to embark on a new teaching journey in Charters Towers. We
wish him all the best.
Term 3 will see the arrival of Mr Nicholson, he is very excited to be working in a small rural location, between
Homestead and Pentland.
I hope you all have a well earned break.
It is time to relax, spend time recharging and spending time with friends and family.
Please check the calendar of events as Term 3 is very exciting.
Principal
Tania Hollis
As Term 2 comes to an end, so does my time at Homestead State School. I would like to say a big thank you to everyone in the community who has helped me over the past 18 months. Being my first full time teaching position, it is safe to say that everything I know about teaching I have learnt here.
Over the last 18 months I have been given some amazing opportunities to not only improve my teaching but to learn new skills and grow as person.
They say you never forget your first school, and your first students and I hope that’s true. I have had the distinct pleasure to meet some of the most caring and generous people I ever have. The way you are all so welcoming and open, willing to let me into your communities and lives is something I’ll never forget.
To the students, I would like to thank all of you for letting me share in your educa-tion. I can say with some certainty, that I have learnt just as much (if not more) from you than you would have learnt from me.
I am not moving that far away, so I’m sure it won’t be the last you will hear or see from me. Again I would just like to say thank you for this amazing opportunity.
Teacher
Ben Sutherland
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Our Wednesday fun days
Sewing
Creek day Music day
Mini Olympics
Tie Dying
French knitting
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Robotic Beetle
Butcher Time Kite making
More Wednesday fun days
Blowing up lung
My favourite day was…..
Tyler– Creek Day
Jake– Mini Olympics
Cooper– Mini Olympics
Mackaydee– Music day
Peyton– Music Day
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3 Sarah Epong
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5 Alison Barnicoat
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7 Natalie Whyte
8 Taryn
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Chappies Corner
What a fun-tastic term. Your children have been so full of laughter as they learn. My highlight was joining them in a day of fishing in two square metres of water. The same fish were caught by every student more than once. By the end of the day there were many floating fish who were loved till their end.
Chaplains have a unique job role- we give social, emotional and spiritual support to students, staff and parents keeping in mind the school environment.
Part of my role is to listen and keep things private. If anyone would like to have a cuppa contact me at [email protected].
Here is some good self-talk.
I like being me. I make mistakes that’s being a human. I learn from life.
I’m ok being me. I don’t have to compare myself to anybody.
I deserve to be loved. I have inner beauty. I have inner strength. I like who is in the mirror.
Enjoy the school break and thank you for welcoming me into the community.
Any additional flyers or inserts must be pre printed before submission.
The next issue will be printed in the last week of Term 1, 2019
13 July First day of term 3
7 August Dalrymple Cluster Sports Day in Pentland
14 August Show Day Holiday
24-28 August School Camp
24 August– 4 September Book Fair
4 September Pupil Free Day
4 September Staff PD (First Aide Course)
18 September Full School Review
18 September Last day of term 3
School Watch Keep a watch on our school these holidays
With the holidays fast approaching, we need you to look out for after-hours crime in our school. If you see anything suspicious, please call School Watch on 13 17 88.
The School Watch program is a partnership between the Department of
Education, Training and Employment, the Queensland Police Service and the State Government Protective Security Service. It aims to reduce vandalism, theft
and arson in Queensland schools.
If you do see something suspicious, please don’t attempt to intervene. Call the School Watch number and let the local police or State Government Protective
Security Service deal with the matter. Keep the number handy —
13 17 88 — and let’s work together to help create a safer school
community.
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Hello Homestead State School community.
My name is Tom Nicholson and I grew up in the Western
Outback town of Charleville. I moved to Brisbane in 2014 to
study for my Bachelor of Early Childhood and Primary Teaching
at the Australian Catholic University.
I am involved in many sports, especially Cricket, Touch Football,
Soccer, Rugby League and Tennis which I play regularly in
Brisbane. I enjoy socialising with friends, meeting new people
and taking on new challenges.
Since Graduating from University, I have been working as a
Coordinator for a ‘Before and After’ school care company called
Helping Hands in Brisbane, organising activities for up to 60
children each day and overseeing the company’s vacation care
programs.
I am looking forward to joining the Homestead community and
super excited about making the most of this great opportunity