Principal’s Report IN THIS ISSUE 21/03/2018 1.09 • Assessment Calendars • What’s On Locally • Photo Gallery President - Selina Hill Vice Presidents - Krystle Powers and Glen Slade Secretary - Tiana Gallaher Treasurer - Nikki Lahiff Fundraising Team - Renai McLean, Glen Slade and Krystle Power Tuckshop Convenor - Chantell Jensen P&C Executive Date Claimer • Kilkivan Great Horse Ride April 4 - 8 • Cross Country Thursday 29th March • P&C Meeting Wednesday 28th April Cross country Cross country is next week. Please come along and support our runners. This year we are hoping to not only have some great times achieved but to also have many of our students dressed to impress showing off their team colours for MacTaggart and Sheridan. I would also like to invite our kindy students and any pre-schooling children to come along and have a run. We will be meeting on the school oval behind our new school tennis courts at 9:00am on Thursday the 29 th of March. P and C meeting Last Tuesday we held our second P and C meeting for 2018. I would like to thank all of the parents that came along. It is exciting to see some of the long term goals that the P and C would like to work toward this year and into 2019. Year 5 and 6 camp I was lucky enough to get out to Barambah for the year 5 and 6 camp. It is a fantastic place that is just around the corner. Our students were learning about the environment, setting animal traps to see what animals are out at night (Don’t worry no animals were caught doing this ) hiking and so much more. I once again would like to thank the teachers and teacher aides that gave up time to take part in this camp and I would also like to mention the huge effort Mrs Hewson put in as the camp cook for both camp, not only was the food incredibly tasty but all students had seconds and thirds if they wanted. Attendance The end of term is just around the corner and currently we have 33 students who are still on track to taking part in the 100%ers club. This is a lunch down at the shop on Wednesday in week ten the celebrates these students who have been lucky enough to come to school every day for the entire term. I would also like to acknowledge a further 70 students who have managed to come over 95% of the time. This is a wonderful achievement as we know that if students come 95% or more they are more likely to achieve their learning potential. HPV – Human Powered Vehicle The HPV team have been training hard, getting fit under the guidance of Mrs Geri, Mrs Jordan and Mrs Bainbridge. On the weekend the HPV team were down at the market raising money for upcoming events selling chocolates and HPV pens. Thank you to all that have supported this great team. Curriculum at Home This week is for our younger students and the focus is knowing the basic and helping our students understand the basic as these are vital to learn and understand to progress into the future. Understanding the basics: Rainbow Facts You could easily be mistaken for thinking that ‘Rainbow Facts’ (also known as ‘friends of ten’) are something that you learn and use only in the early years. The concept of rainbow facts carries through into our adult life, as a base strategy for solving mental problems.
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Principal’s Report
IN THIS ISSUE 21/03/2018
1.09 • Assessment Calendars • What’s On Locally • Photo Gallery
President - Selina Hill Vice Presidents - Krystle Powers and Glen Slade Secretary - Tiana Gallaher Treasurer - Nikki Lahiff Fundraising Team - Renai McLean, Glen Slade and Krystle Power Tuckshop Convenor - Chantell Jensen
P&C Executive
Date Claimer
• Kilkivan Great Horse Ride April 4 - 8
• Cross Country Thursday 29th March • P&C Meeting Wednesday 28th April
Cross country Cross country is next week. Please come along and support our runners. This year we are hoping to not only have some great times achieved but to also have many of our students dressed to impress showing off their team colours for MacTaggart and Sheridan. I would also like to invite our kindy students and any pre-schooling children to come along and have a run. We will be meeting on the school oval behind our new school tennis courts at 9:00am on Thursday the 29th of March. P and C meeting Last Tuesday we held our second P and C meeting for 2018. I would like to thank all of the parents that came along. It is exciting to see some of the long term goals that the P and C would like to work toward this year and into 2019. Year 5 and 6 camp I was lucky enough to get out to Barambah for the year 5 and 6 camp. It is a fantastic place that is just around the corner. Our students were learning about the environment, setting animal traps to see what animals are out at night (Don’t worry no animals were caught doing this ) hiking and so much more. I once again would like to thank the teachers and teacher aides that gave up time to take part in this camp and I would also like to mention the huge effort Mrs Hewson put in as the camp cook for both camp, not only was the food incredibly tasty but all students had seconds and thirds if they wanted. Attendance The end of term is just around the corner and currently we have 33 students who are still on track to taking part in the 100%ers club. This is a lunch down at the shop on Wednesday in week ten the celebrates these students who have been lucky enough to come to school every day for the entire term. I would also like to acknowledge a further 70 students who have managed to come over 95% of the time. This is a wonderful achievement as we know that if students come 95% or more they are more likely to achieve their learning potential. HPV – Human Powered Vehicle The HPV team have been training hard, getting fit under the guidance of Mrs Geri, Mrs Jordan and Mrs Bainbridge. On the weekend the HPV team were down at the market raising money for upcoming events selling chocolates and HPV pens. Thank you to all that have supported this great team.
Curriculum at Home This week is for our younger students and the focus is knowing the basic and helping our students understand the basic as these are vital to learn and understand to progress into the future. Understanding the basics: Rainbow Facts You could easily be mistaken for thinking that ‘Rainbow Facts’ (also known as ‘friends of ten’) are something that you learn and use only in the early years. The concept of rainbow facts carries through into our adult life, as a base strategy for solving mental problems.
Principal’s Report Cont..
The obvious rainbow facts are: 0+10=10, 1+9=10, 8+2=10, 7+3=10, 6+4=10, 5+5=10. Rainbow Facts are a quickly recognise a pair of numbers that can easily join (as the parts) to make ten (the whole). We love working with tens when we are solving mental maths problems. It makes life a whole lot easier. For example, if you are buying a cake for $5.80 and bread for $4, then mentally you would be most likely to assume the cake is close to $6 and easily recognise the two amounts as being rainbow facts, therefore close to $10 – obviously the thought process is a lot more automated as an adult as we have practised this a lot. Similarly we love to use this strategy with tens as well, where the extended rainbow facts are: 0+100=100, 10+90=100, 20+80=100, 30+70=100, 40+60=100, 50+50=100. And also with the hundreds and thousands place value as well. An example of this is when you are in the Bunnings line and you double check the amount you will need to pay prior to reaching the counter – you know you have bought a hose $30, plant $15 and a metal box $70 – the most efficient mental strategy here is to add the $30 and $70 to give us $100, then add the $15 = $115. If students know their rainbow facts then they can usually add this string of numbers very quickly, and can explain how they did it (in an efficient way): 7 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 5 + 8 = __
7 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 5 + 8 = 10 + 10 + 10 = 30
“Children making use of mental strategies are ‘working mathematically’ and thinking about numbers rather than remembering procedures,” (Swan and Sparrow 2001).
Boyd Mclean Boyd Mclean Boyd Mclean Boyd Mclean / Principal -
Kilkivan State School � 6 Council Street / Kilkivan Qld 4600 ℡ 5487 3333 | � [email protected]
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CENTREPAY We now have our Centrepay Number : 555085617 B For families that wish to have your childs Student Resource Scheme or future camps deducted directly out of your fortnightly Centrelink Payments. Forms are available from the office or you can set this up directly on the Centrelink Website, using the Centrepay Number. If you do not have internet access you can call into the Centrelink Office and set this up in person.
OFFICE NEWS HPV NEWS
ASSESSMENT CALENDARS
If you happen to be in the area of Kilkivan around the back of the school and bowls club around 7am on a Thursday you will see our committed band of students training hard on bikes, in the HPV and core training. These students are becoming stronger in more ways than the physical. They are: • Challenging their understanding of themselves and their abilities. • Coming together as a cohesive unit and • looking out for each other and celebrating each other’s achievements. We finish off training by sharing breakfast to top up our brains after the exertion and prepare us for a day of traditional learning. Finally these students are assisting to raise money to help fund this valuable program. Thank you to the Kilkivan Community Markets and the Men’s Shed for being so welcoming and helpful. So, if you happen see us training give us a wave, it will help to know that you support us.
Year 7
Year 8
The Year 6 class will be selling Icy Cups every Wednesday at morning tea in the 3-6 eating area for only 50cents! we are trying to raise money for our junior team to enter into the Pushcarts Category at this years Maryborough Technology Challenge. Please support us and bring along 50cents every Wednesday so that you can enjoy an Icy Cup and also help us with this fundraiser. Thank you Year 6 Class
KILKIVAN GREAT HORSE RIDE
HURRY DON’T MISS OUT! Tickets are selling fast for the Great Horse Rides “Dinner Under the Moon” with Matt Golinski. See attached flyer for additional Information. Tickets can be purchased at: www.kilkivangreathorseride.com.au/dinner
10 History Collection of work: Greece. To Sequence events & describe the effects of conflicts & contacts between Greece & Persia on societies, groups & individuals; to explain the significance of Pericles; & to describe events & developments involving Pericles from the perspectives of different people who lived at the time.
Music Practical - (perform music on a guitar & recorder with a group) - Tuesday
Maths Exam 1: Understanding and fluency Exam 2: Problem Solving and Reasoning
HPE Continuation of Assessment Tasks both theory and practical
Science Biology Exam (50 mins)
English Final Draft Due: Memoir
English Homework booklet due in on Monday
10 Science Exam – Particles Matter (Thursday)
Maths Exam: Unit 2
HPE Final date for Food for life Research Task
History Exam: (90 mins) The Middle Age and Renaissance in Europe
10 STEM Lighthouse Animation
10 Maths Exam: Unit 1 & 2
Science Evolution Investigation – (Friday)
STEM Lighthouse Animation
History Exam: (60 mins) Examining artefacts and Australian History
Year 9
Year 10
Training Fun
Selling chocolates and supporter pens at the
Kilkivan Markets.
ICY CUPS
Year 6 By Kaitlin McLean Over the past couple of weeks, the grade 6 class have been conducting experiments that show reversible and irreversible changes. We have learnt all of the potential risks and how to reduce them, which is important to know. When learning about burning, we saw that heat can affect a substance’s original form and change its state of matter. To show this we made pikelets, cut them into small pieces and put them over a tea light candle, which resulted in irreversible changes to the pikelet’s colour, smell and appearance. When learning about rusting, we experimented with salt solution, vinegar, olive oil and tap water, to determine which of these liquids would make steel wool rust. We placed steel wool in all of the substances and, over two days, watched whether or not the steel wool would rust. This experiment showed us that only the salt solution caused the steel wool to rust, thus creating an irreversible change. We concluded that both burning and rusting are irreversible changes, along with evaporation and condensation for which we also conducted experiments. We also identified reversible changes. One method we used was the process of freezing and melting. In this experiment we started by freezing Bicarbonate Soda, wax, cheese and ice, then melting each substance over a tea light candle. We then tried to refreeze each of these substances to see what changes had occurred. We made the following conclusions: Bicarbonate sodaBicarbonate sodaBicarbonate sodaBicarbonate soda – does not freeze or melt, thus no reversible or irreversible change occurred. Wax and cheeseWax and cheeseWax and cheeseWax and cheese – both can freeze and melt, meaning there is reversible change, but neither wax nor cheese return to their original shape after being melted. IceIceIceIce – can be melted to become water, then refrozen again to its original state, thus causing a truly reversible change. In learning about reversible and irreversible changes, it was interesting to try to predict what changes there would be, if any, to different substances before conducting our experiments. We weren’t always correct in our hypotheses, so it was cool to see the end result.
What's Happening in Year 6
Rusting Salt Water with Steel Wool
Salt Water Drawing
Pancakes: Irreversible Change Melting of Cheese
Year 5 and 6 Barambah CampYear 5 and 6 Barambah CampYear 5 and 6 Barambah CampYear 5 and 6 Barambah Camp
This week’s $5 Tuckshop Voucher Winners are Kerry and Justin. Congratulations!!
Photo GalleryPhoto GalleryPhoto GalleryPhoto Gallery
Congratulations to Stuart for being organised for English drafting, Tobi for Doing an amazing job learning all of your Hiragana , Natarlia for making improvements in her science assessment, Lucas for Being the quiet achiever and working hard, Isabell for passing her first level of reading, Sophia for always taking the time to make sure our classroom is tidy, Mia for trying your best in Japanese, Chloe for trying your best in Japanese, Wyatt for beautiful Japanese writing and Talen for working well in Japanese.
Congratulations to all who received 20 Double Delight Certificates!
Pet Talk and Crazy Dress / Hair Day
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Tech Savvy SeniorsTech Savvy SeniorsTech Savvy SeniorsTech Savvy Seniors
More About SmartphonesMore About SmartphonesMore About SmartphonesMore About Smartphones
Learn new tips and tricks and how to get more use
out of your smartphone, including downloading apps,
sharing between devices, using Bluetooth/Airdrop and more.
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Thursday 26 April,
10am – 12 noon HOLIDAY FUN HOLIDAY FUN HOLIDAY FUN HOLIDAY FUN – KILKIVAN LIBRARYKILKIVAN LIBRARYKILKIVAN LIBRARYKILKIVAN LIBRARY
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Lego CompetitionLego CompetitionLego CompetitionLego Competition
Bring along your lego to make a fun creation.
Awesome prizes to be won!
There will be some lego you can borrow.
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Robotics Fun @ KilkivanRobotics Fun @ KilkivanRobotics Fun @ KilkivanRobotics Fun @ Kilkivan
Come and try Ozobots, Sphero, Cubetto,
Code-a-pillar and Bee-Bot, just for the fun of it.
Whether you are into lego, painting, cooking, sfx makeup or cartooning, there are lots of activities on offer around the region for children and youth over the Easter holidays. Jump onto holidayfun.com.au for a full list of what’s on, or grab a brochure from the Library, Gallery or Council outlets. Sandra Ross OFFICER – EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS Gympie Regional Gallery
39 Nash Street
Gympie QLD 4570
(07) 5481 0737
www.gympie.qld.gov.au
Holiday Fun coming up during the Easter
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