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IMPORTANT DATES FEB 17th Isisford Industry Recreation & Develop.

Association AGM 23rd Blackall Weaner Cattle Sale MAR 2-3rd Qld State School Principals Conference 2-3rd Netball/Touch Football Skills Day – Lr 3rd Schools Clean Up Aust 13-14th Full School Review 17th National Day of Action Against Bullying 27-29th The Arts Cultural Workshops for Small Schools at Ilfracombe 31st Easter holidays begin

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FEB

1st Honey Andersen 3rd Billie Edwards 5th Barney Kent Rob Bauer Vicki Bauer 10th Matthew Vanderwolf 11th Chelsea Bailey 12th Christine Littlewood 15th Clayton Wright 22nd Wendy Bailey Wes Lines Mary Killeen MAR

2nd Wayne Littlewood (Snr) Clementine Cochrane 4th Wayne Ross 8th Ailsa Bond 9th John Avery (Jnr) 14th Wayne Littlewood (Jnr) 15th Sally Edwards 16th Tyler Littlewood

DATE CLAIMERS Isisford Sheep & Wool Show

Saturday 27th May, 2017

Windorah Sports Camp Monday – Friday, 19th – 23rd June, 2017

Yaraka Horse & Bike Gymkhana

Saturday & Sunday 1st – 2nd July, 2017

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Welcome back to 2017! While it feels like so long ago, I

hope that everyone had a Happy & Safe festive season

and now in the full swing of the New Year, as we are

here at Isisford State School!

We are a little late with our first newsletter for 2017 as

our school has been undergoing a Server upgrade, which

has meant we have been working with no Internet

connections, printing ability or Network access. While a

little inconvenient, the process is necessary for us to

keep our technology resources up to date and working

to the best of its ability.

Leadership

This year our process around leadership appointment of

our student leaders has been altered, whereby students

had to nominate and meet a criteria to be eligible to be a

student leader. This process has been completed and I

am happy to say that Makybe Edwards and Skyla Jackson

have been appointed for 2017 as our student leaders.

Sip & Crunch

The school will be supplying a fruit break for the

students each day again in 2017. Students are still

encouraged to bring another piece of fruit with them to

school, as we should not only be eating one piece of fruit

each day. Fruit break occurs at 10am each day, and

students are only permitted to eat a piece of fruit.

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Clean Up Australia Day

Clean Up Australia Day is upon us, and as a school we

will be partaking in this event a little early. Isisford

students and staff will participate in the Clean Up

Australia Schools Day on Friday March 3rd

at 9:00am.

We will clean around our school grounds, the route to

the park and in the park itself. Any community

members are welcome to join us on this day.

Our full school review — an opportunity to have your

say!

Our school is scheduled for a school review on

Monday 13th

and Tuesday 14th

March 2017.

The Department of Education and Training regularly

reviews Queensland state schools to ensure they’re

delivering quality education to students. The reviews

are conducted by the department’s School

Improvement Unit.

The reviews do not rate or compare schools, but

provide teachers and other staff with independent

feedback to help them continue to improve learning

outcomes for students. All schools have a review at

least every four years. Key findings from the review

will be made available to parents and the community

on the school’s website. The review team would like

to hear from our school community and I encourage

anyone who is interested to have their say. Your

feedback is important and will help us continue to

deliver a great education for students.

Feedback can be provided to the review team by

phone or in person. All feedback is confidential. Please

contact the school office if you are interested in

speaking to a reviewer. Alternatively, you can register

your interest by emailing [email protected].

More information about the review process is

available from the department’s website at

www.schoolreviews.eq.edu.au.

Breakfast & Homework Club

Every Friday morning at 8am students are invited to

breakfast club. We vary our breakfast options each

week, with the odd exception we aim to stay healthy.

This time is for students to catch up on any homework

that may be missed before it needs to be handed in.

Students are not permitted to play until 8:30 as

ordinary school days, they must remain in the eating

area with staff. Quiet drawing or activities can be

brought from the classroom, or homework only.

IMPACT Projects

IMPACT Centre is run by the Brisbane School of Distance

Ed. They are programs designed for students in Year 3

and up as differentiated learning. They offer booster

programs to support improvement, or they offer

extension programs to further student’s abilities. To

start the year we have a Digital Technologies program

for year 5 and 6 and we have Reading and Maths for

year 3.

Bullying – No Way!

The National Day of Action against Bullying is on March

17th

. Our students will participate in some lessons

around social/emotional learning and Anti-Bullying

messages in the lead up to this day. We will then also

have a special breakfast to recognise the significance of

the day and take a stand together! On Friday March 17th

students are allowed to wear orange to school, as we

participate in this day ☺

Netball & Touch football Skills Day

It is that time of the year again when Longreach Distance

Ed hold their Netball and Touch skills day for students to

come and learn new skills. Every year they invite small

schools to participate over the two days. Day one will

focus on skills and on day two we will have round robin

games using skills learned. Please keep an eye out for

the permission notes and information.

Tamikah Mawn

Principal

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5 minutes of

Fame!

Name: Bella Wright

Age: 5

What did you learn this week?

Working

What is your favourite thing about school?

Why?

Drawing, because we draw our names.

Following school rules is important, how do

you follow the school rules?

Listening

If you could change one thing about our

school, what would it be?

Having Pyjama Day – so we can wear our

pyjamas.

What do you think you could work to

improve at school?

Learning

What do you want to be when you grow up?

A gardener.

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What’s happening in the teaching world?

Principal Business Meetings:

At the commencement of the year, we have Student

Free Day’s where staff engage with professional

development or learning. Principals from the Outback

Advantage Cluster got together to work on a

curriculum focus, as well as, leadership capability and

building.

The curriculum focus of these days was shared with

our cluster teachers, and we looked closely at the

Australian Curriculum and the way in which we are

delivering that curriculum to our students. These

workshops were hosted and facilitated by the Central

Queensland Australian Curriculum Advisor.

6 Pillars of Reading:

During our Student Free Day’s, our teacher aides and

our teachers attended a Reading professional

development in relation to Reading. The day was

spent looking at the 6 key elements involved in the

teaching of reading, along with producing a well-

balanced reading program in our schools.

Essential Skills of Classroom Management

During our Student Free Day’s, our teacher aides and

our teachers also attending a professional

development around Behaviour Management. This

day was presented by our new regional Guidance

Officer Miss Jolie Hannah. Jolie delivered the

professional development around the Essential Skills

that are a ‘toolkit’ for managing behaviour in schools.

Week 3:

This week Mrs Waterford and I took two days off

class, to sit and plan for the next Semester of school.

Over these days we looked at important strategies for

teaching such as our curriculum implementation, our

classroom timetables, our collection of student data

and our writing and spelling programs. At this present

time, we are very happy with the routine we have

going in our school around teaching and learning with

some very valuable learning happening each day. It is

also fantastic to have the students so engaged and

bringing their best attitudes to school each day.

I will also be away on the 1st

, 2nd

and 3rd

March

participating in the QLD State Schools Principals

Conference.

Miss Mawn ☺

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LONGREACH REGIONAL COUNCIL

ABN: 16 834 804 112 Email: [email protected] Phone: 07 4658 4111 Fax: 07 4658 4116

Main Office:96a Eagle Street, Longreach. Phone: 07 4658 4111 Isisford Branch Office: 20 St Mary Street, Isisford. Phone: 07 4658 8900 Ilfracombe Branch Office: 1 Devon Street, Ilfracombe Phone: 07 4658 2233

Any emails related to council complaints, business etc

can be sent to : [email protected]

ISISFORD POOL OPENING HOURS: As of Monday 20th February 2017, the new pool opening hours will be:

Monday to Friday 3.30pm - 6.30pm

Saturday and Sunday

10.30am - 1.30pm 3.00pm – 6.00pm

CWA Longreach/Central West

Division Photo Comp 2017 OPEN to anyone. 50c per entry. Entries close 24 March 2017. CATEGORIES: 1a Black &white or sepia , any subject. 1b. professional or ex professional. (photo must not be computer photo shopped) 2: QCWA memorable moments 3a: photo by a child up to 9years inclusive 3b: photo by a child 10-15 years inclusive 4: Nature Close up. Animal, bird or insect. 5: Sky, land or water. 6: Colour me green 7 :View from my window 8: Heritage 9: International Year for Sustainable tourism for development. Tourism transport 10: People, single, group or crowds, including children. ( must have signed parental permission to submit photo of children) 11: Plants or parts of a plant 12: Special Category Ginger Please read rules carefully. Send entries to Fiona Owens , PO Box 589 Longreach or drop into 117 Wompoo Rd, Longreach by 24 March 2017. More info phone 418 870 186 or email: [email protected]

Isisford Industry, Recreation & Development Association

Will be holding their

AGM

Friday 17th February 2017 (today)

in the Council Board Room

5.00pm

Everyone is encouraged to come along.

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VISITING SPECIALISTS TO ISISFORD PHC

Please ring 46588 500 for appointments.

Tuesday 21st, 28th February

Glory Baker (Nurse Practitioner) will be visiting.

Ring 46588 500.

Wednesday 22nd February

Dr Christine Ross – G.P

Jacquie Appleby – RFDS Psychologist

Occupational Therapist

Tuesday 28th February

Glory Baker (Nurse Practitioner) will be visiting.

Ring 46588 500 for appointments.

Tuesday 7th March

Physiotherapist & Sports Therapist. Ring NWRH

on 46527100 for appointments.

Thursday 16th March

Podiatrist. Ring NWRH on 46527100 for

appointments.

Wednesday 22nd March

Jacquie Appleby – RDFS Psychologist

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2017201720172017 Hi Everyone,

I hope this email finds you well and that your all

had a good Christmas and New Year. This is just

an email to gauge interest in a RAFS playgroup in

2017, if there is enough interest we aim to come

at least 3 times a year we are happy to negotiate

times and days to cater for your needs. So if you

are interested in attending please let us know

either by email or giving us a call on 46581104,

we had a great time in Isisford in 2016 and hope

to come back in 2017! If you could please forward

this email onto any family you think would be

interested that would be great. We are looking

forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind Regards,

Tash HodgsonTash HodgsonTash HodgsonTash Hodgson

Early Years Educator

Longreach Remote Area Families Service

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P:P:P:P: 07 4658 1104 M:M:M:M: 0439 963 603

E:E:E:E: tash.hodgson @uccommunity.org.au

[email protected]

W:W:W:W: www.uccommunity.org.au

A: A: A: A: 21 Jabiru Street, Longreach, QLD 4730

YARAKA HORSE & BYARAKA HORSE & BYARAKA HORSE & BYARAKA HORSE & BIKE IKE IKE IKE

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(Middle weekend of the June/July School

Holidays)

SATURDAY, 1ST JULY 2017

(Horse & Motorbike Gymkhana)

SUNDAY, 2ND JULY 2017

(Horse Team Penning and Horse Time Trials)

MARK IT ON YOUR CALENDAR

St Brendan’s College 2018 Discovery

Day St Brendan's College invites all 2017 Years 6 to

11 boys to come and experience a day in the life

of a St Brendan’s College Student

Where: St Brendan’s College

When: 2018 Discovery Day

will be held on

Tuesday 14th March 2017

9.00am to 2.30pm

For more information please contact

Kylie Hedges on 49 399 485

Email: [email protected]

R.S.V.P : 7th March 2017

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