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NEWSLETTER NO. 5 GINGIN DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 10th April 2019 www.gingin.wa.edu.au

EASTER ACTIVITIES

he Student Councillors have been very busy

running plenty of Easter activities throughout

these last few weeks of term! They have been

helping the Primary students complete their

colouring in competition entries at lunchtime (which

are due this Thursday 11th April). They have also been

selling raffle tickets before school and at lunch for the

amazing Easter Raffle prizes (which are now on

display in the Front Office). They have also been

selling ‘guesses’ for how many eggs there are in the

jar and all winners will be announced at the end of

this week!

The Student Councillors, with help from the Easter

Bunny, also visited the Kindy and Pre-primary classes

this week to treat them to Easter Egg hunts! They

enjoyed helping their buddies hunt for eggs and

everyone left with a smile on their face – including

the Easter Bunny!

The Student Councillors want to wish everyone a happy holiday and thank those who supported them by

donating Easter items and purchasing raffle tickets!

Thank you! From Student Councillors

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SCHOOL VISION Creating a positive, uplifting community where students succeed.

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Blogging with Year 8 and 9 English students. “Blogging” comes from the word “web log” and is a forum for people to express their views and thoughts online

about various issues or just their daily lives.

The Year 8 and 9 English students had the opportunity recently to take a 20th

century book and bring it to the 21st Century digital age. They studied the novel

“So Much to Tell You” by John Marsden which takes the form of a diary written

by a girl with a disfigured face and her struggles to come to terms with the

traumatic life events which caused her disfigurement. Using the private

blogging site” Twiducate”, students were able to take on the persona of one of

the books characters and write a blog about events that took place in the story.

Students were asked to write 4 to 6 blogs as that character. They were then

encouraged to select 4 class mates to comment on their blogs as characters

from the book and give positive feedback to that character. This activity

provided a great example to students as to how blogging can become part of

a diary for people who can write about almost anything and share their

thoughts on issues with others online.

Big Thank You to Breakfast Club Volunteers! The school would like to thank Mark Ovens and Tiffany Polette who have been spending a great deal of their

own time working to provide nourishing breakfasts for children as they get off the bus or get to school. Kelly

Radalj, Tenisha Kestel, Linda Balcombe and Raylene Maloney provided by the Bendigo Bank and Corey and

Natalie Weckert have also been volunteering each Tuesday for the Breakfast Club. Additionally, the Bendigo

Bank are donating a new toaster for the school! Thanks to Chloe Balcombe and Becky-Sue Dorloff for

volunteering on Wednesday’s. The Breakfast Club helps students by ensuring that all students go into class ready

to learn and positive about the day.

Bullying No Way! Bystander Behaviour. A few weeks ago our school took part in the Bullying No Way! promotional day. Our CRTR values reflect and

promote positive behaviours and we would like to encourage parents to reinforce the positive language and

behaviours at home. Bystanders can be helpful by ‘standing up’ to those who choose to use put downs, teasing

or bullying or they can be hurtful by

encouraging the negative behaviours to

occur. The following links provide parents

the same useful resources and catch

phrases that staff use to explicitly teach

empowering strategies against bullying.

https://bullyingnoway.gov.au/Resources/Documents/student-bystanders.pdf

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Woolworths Earn & Learn 2019 The Woolworths Earn & Learn program is back again in Term 2! Through this program we

will be able to get new educational resources for our school and all we need you to do

is shop for your groceries at Woolworths!

From the 1st of May until the 25th June 2019, you can collect stickers at Woolworths that

go towards Earn & Learn points. For every $10 you spend at Woolworths (excluding the

purchase of tobacco, liquor and gift cards), you will receive a sticker. These stickers can

then be given to your children to collect on a special sticker sheet. Once it is completed,

they can simply bring it back here to school or you can drop them into your local

Woolworths collection box.

Place the Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet and when it’s complete,

the Sticker Sheet can be dropped into the Collection Box here at the school (located in the Front Office as of

Term 2). Sticker sheets will be available at the school if you need to stock up!

At the end of the promotion, we’ll be able to get some great new resources and equipment! The range is

extensive and offers lots of items ideal for our students – including resources for Maths, English, STEM and some

fantastic fun supplies for Arts & Craft, Sport and for our Library.

To find out more just go to: woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn

Lindsey Gilchrist

Honour Award Recipients

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School Holiday Reading Holidays are a perfect time to relax with a good book

and recharge your batteries. Reading for no particular

reason is a pleasure and has endless benefits for our

brains. Children need to use their imagination to tell

stories. Reading texts by other authors models the high

quality language, which in turn, enhances good

writing. If you would like to nominate a book which

was an enjoyable read, go to the West Australian

Young Readers site – [email protected] to

complete a nomination form or get

recommendations for good reads. All details can be

found on this site.

The Gingin Community Resource Centre holds a story

time for young readers on Wednesday mornings from

9:30am. Gloria Hyne runs the story/rhyme time sessions

with colour-in activities to follow.

Grab a book and sit back and read for fun.

Recommendations: *Australian Author

Picture Books Shortlist 2019

A Bag and a Bird by Pamela ALLEN

Message in a Sock by Kaye BAILLIE illustrated by

Narelda JOY *

Pig the Star by Aaron BLABEY *

The Very Sleepy Bear by Nick BLAND *

This Book is Out of Control! by Richard BYRNE

The Day War Came by Nicola DAVIES illustrated by

Rebecca COBB

Was Not Me! by Shannon HORSFALL *

A is for Australian Animals by Frané LESSAC *

After the Fall: How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up

Again by Dan SANTAT

Cicada by Shaun TAN *

Room on Our Rock by Kate TEMPLE; Jol TEMPLE; Terri

Rose BAYNTON *

The Sloth Who Came to Stay by Margaret WILD;

Vivienne TO *

Younger Readers’ Shortlist 2019

Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss BERTMAN

To the Lighthouse by Cristy BURNE *

The Missing Ace (Mysterious World of Cosentino #1)

by Jack HEATH and illustrated by James HART *

Ninja Kid by Anh Do *

Dungzilla by James FOLEY *

104-Storey Treehouse by Andy GRIFFITHS; Terry

DENTON *

Kid Normal (Kid Normal #1) by Greg JAMES; Chris

SMITH

Clockwork War by Adam KLINE; Dan WHISKER

The Getaway (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #12) by Jeff

KINNEY

The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte

Mettlestone by Jaclyn MORIARTY and illustrated by

Kelly CANBY *

Lintang and the Pirate Queen (Lintang #1) by Tamara

MOSS *

Camp Castaway (Pippa’s Island #4) by Belinda

MURRELL *

Quark’s Academy by Catherine PELOSI *

Amal Unbound by Aisha SAEED

Never Fear (Friday Barnes #8) by R.A. SPRATT *

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor

#1) by Jessica TOWNSEND *

Bad Dad by David Walliams

The 1000-year-old-boy by Ross WELFORD

The Adventurer’s Guide to Successful Escapes by

Wade Albert WHITE

RED ALERT: Book Week is coming, be prepared!!

CBCA Book Week 2019

Theme: Reading is My Secret Power

Dates: 17 - 23 August 2019

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Older Readers’ Shortlist 2019

Skyfire (Seven Signs #1) by Michael ADAMS *

Red Queen (Red Queen #1) by Victoria AVEYARD

The Fall by Tristan BANKS *

S.T.A.G.S. by M.A. Bennett

In The Dark Spaces by Cally BLACK *

Someone to Love by Melissa DE LA CRUZ

Maybe (The Felix series #6) by Morris GLEITZMAN *

The Truth App (Liars #1) by Jack HEATH *

Lifel1k3 by Jay KRISTOFF *

Renegades (Renegades #1) by Marissa MEYER

Whisper by Lynette NONI *

Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark duology #1) by Veronica ROTH

Scythe (Arc of Scythe #1) by Neal SHUSTERMAN

Forever Geek (Geek Girl #6) by Holly SMALE

Horizon: Survival Is No Game (Horizon #1) by Scott WESTERFELD

P & C News Thank you to all the amazing new and old P&C Members for such a great start to the year and all the effort you

have put in. Thank you to everyone that has supported the P&C at events so far. We would like to invite anyone

to come along and join the P&C and help improve our school.

Our next meeting will be held on the 13th May at 6.30pm in the Conference Room at the school

P&C Mothers’ Day stall will be held on Thursday the 9th May, the second week of Term 2.

Gifts will be available to purchase with prices from 50c to $20.

If anyone would like to kindly donate wrapping paper, please drop into the office or contact President, Ashlee

Howard on [email protected] or Secretary, Stephanie Maloney on [email protected]

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Coming Events

Term 1 Term 2 WEEK 10 WEEK 1

Friday 12th April Monday 29th April

ANZAC SERVICE Professional Development Da y-NO STUDENTS

Last Day- Term 1 Tuesday 30th April

Term 2 commences

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@kaportos_klassroom For more information- Visit www.gingin.wa.edu.au

Corey Smith - Room 1 Eco-Warrior

Corey selflessly spends his playtime looking for rubbish to help keep our school

clean. He also spies rubbish when we walk through the school to different classes.

Corey is the epitome of our PBS CRTR, Zooma Care, following the rules to put rubbish

in the bin and care for our school environment. Congratulations, Corey, on your

outstanding efforts. We hope students throughout the school will follow your

excellent example.

Room 1 Fun! Room 1 students have had lots of fun in Mathematics this

term, making patterns, comparing the weight of things and

playing lots of games like the "Heavier Than, Lighter

Than" Game. Maths is so much fun! Also, this term, Helena

has been teaching us about Protective Behaviours. We

love it when she comes to read us stories and she lets us

use the puppets for role-play. We have been learning

about our feelings, using Emojis. We can now identify

the early warning signs we might have if we are scared of

something or in a situation with a strange person. Helena

gave us all a balloon to blow up and some of us were very

scared the balloon would pop whilst others thought it was

funny. We think Helena might be showing some early

warning signs that she is scared of balloons popping!

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