Welcome to Country P&C MEETING CALENDAR OF EVENTS Georgetown SS Explicit Improve- ment Agenda – Reading Compre- hension and Higher Order Thinking Skills Last week saw two major conferences held by Education Queensland that involved staff at Georgetown State School. Mrs Day attended the first ever Kindy conference where she had a great deal of input of where our program should be heading. She was able to report back that the Kindy team in Brisbane were very pleased with the current program in place and put it forward as a model for other schools to follow. Congratulations to the early childhood staff of Lau- ren, Robyn and Amanda. The kindy kids do appear to be having a great time at school. I have had the pleasure of observing their rest time, which is a very creative use of the term, “rest time.” Following the kindy conference I attended the Principal confer- ence which had the focus on innovation, equity and impact. Again I believe Georgetown is doing very well when measured up against these goals. A major focus is the use of technology and the need to be focussing on skills such as computer coding in the school as more than half of the new jobs in the near future will require skills in this area. We have started work in this area and the students will be well placed when they leave for secondary school. Another major point to come from the conference was that stu- dent achievement can be directly linked to how many words they read each day and the amount of conversation in the household. We talk about reading a great deal but not about how much we talk to our students. Oral language development is critical to developing strong reading skills and this starts at home. It starts at home with young children and continues through their developmental years. Ask questions of your children. What are you learning in science? What about Technology? What is coding? The students are continuing to rehearse for the dance eistedd- fod. It is coming along really well. We are organising costumes for this event and will give Parents the opportunity to purchase them if you want to keep them. Information will be sent home regarding this. We will also be sending home a note requesting information as to which children will be staying with the school so that transport can be arranged. I would like to thank Mrs Tincknell Mrs Le Brocq for their work in preparing for an upcoming audit. To assist in this it would be ap- preciated if Parents could return outstanding requested forms. We live in a small community where every-one knows every-one but un- fortunately we all live a big world that exists outside of Georgetown that requires what at times seems to be an endless procession of paper work. All the same we need to comply as it is a legal require- ment. If you are having problems locating the form or have questions please contact the school for further information. The P&C A.G.M. and monthly meeting will be held next Mon- day, March 13. Come along and have some input into your child’s education. Daniel Smith Next Meeting AGM 13th March 3.30pm BER Room MARCH School Swimming Juniors Wed Morning 9.30 - 11am. Middle class Wed 11.30/1.00pm Senior class Fri 11.30 /1.00pm Touch Football Training. Junior– Yr 4 Tuesdays Seniors-5/6 Tue-5pm & Thur 5pm. Mon 13th March– Funky Hair Day Sat 25th March– Touch Football Clinic Wed 29th March– Interhouse swim- ming Carnival 12th-14th Sept– Karumba Hockey/ Basketball Carnival Term 1 Week 7 2017 Tuckshop Georgetown SS acknowledges the Traditional Custodians the Ewamian people of the country in which this school is located and pays respect to their Elders past and present 10th March Chicken & Salad Wrap– Parent Helper-Kelly Bethel 17th March Corned Beef & Salad Sub-Parent Helper-Kristy Bethel 24th March Vietnamese Chicken & noodle salad– Parent Helper-Jennifer 31st March Best ever beef stew & brown rice– Parent Helper– Dale
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Welcome to Country
P&C MEETING
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Georgetown SS Explicit Improve-ment Agenda – Reading Compre-hension and Higher Order Thinking Skills
Last week saw two major conferences held by Education Queensland that involved staff at Georgetown State School. Mrs Day attended the first ever Kindy conference where she had a great deal of input of where our program should be heading. She was able to report back that the Kindy team in Brisbane were very pleased with the current program in place and put it forward as a model for other schools to follow. Congratulations to the early childhood staff of Lau-ren, Robyn and Amanda. The kindy kids do appear to be having a great time at school. I have had the pleasure of observing their rest time, which is a very creative use of the term, “rest time.” Following the kindy conference I attended the Principal confer-ence which had the focus on innovation, equity and impact. Again I believe Georgetown is doing very well when measured up against these goals. A major focus is the use of technology and the need to be focussing on skills such as computer coding in the school as more than half of the new jobs in the near future will require skills in this area. We have started work in this area and the students will be well placed when they leave for secondary school. Another major point to come from the conference was that stu-dent achievement can be directly linked to how many words they read each day and the amount of conversation in the household. We talk about reading a great deal but not about how much we talk to our students. Oral language development is critical to developing strong reading skills and this starts at home. It starts at home with young children and continues through their developmental years. Ask questions of your children. What are you learning in science? What about Technology? What is coding? The students are continuing to rehearse for the dance eistedd-fod. It is coming along really well. We are organising costumes for this event and will give Parents the opportunity to purchase them if you want to keep them. Information will be sent home regarding this. We will also be sending home a note requesting information as to which children will be staying with the school so that transport can be arranged. I would like to thank Mrs Tincknell Mrs Le Brocq for their work in preparing for an upcoming audit. To assist in this it would be ap-preciated if Parents could return outstanding requested forms. We live in a small community where every-one knows every-one but un-fortunately we all live a big world that exists outside of Georgetown that requires what at times seems to be an endless procession of paper work. All the same we need to comply as it is a legal require-ment. If you are having problems locating the form or have questions please contact the school for further information. The P&C A.G.M. and monthly meeting will be held next Mon-day, March 13. Come along and have some input into your child’s education. Daniel Smith
Next Meeting AGM
13th March 3.30pm
BER Room
MARCH School Swimming Juniors Wed Morning 9.30 - 11am. Middle class Wed 11.30/1.00pm Senior class Fri 11.30 /1.00pm Touch Football Training. Junior– Yr 4 Tuesdays Seniors-5/6 Tue-5pm & Thur 5pm. Mon 13th March– Funky Hair Day Sat 25th March– Touch Football Clinic Wed 29th March– Interhouse swim-ming Carnival 12th-14th Sept– Karumba Hockey/Basketball Carnival
Term 1 Week 7
2017
Tuckshop
Georgetown SS acknowledges the Traditional Custodians the Ewamian people of the country in which this school is located and pays respect to their Elders past and present
10th March Chicken & Salad Wrap– Parent Helper-Kelly Bethel 17th March Corned Beef & Salad Sub-Parent Helper-Kristy Bethel 24th March Vietnamese Chicken & noodle salad– Parent Helper-Jennifer 31st March Best ever beef stew & brown rice– Parent Helper– Dale
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Jemma Blinco, Lionel Wallace
Sebastian Hawking, Hannah Mitchell, Jorja Bethel
Congratulations to the Upper Class for receiving their Swimming Awards.
The Child Dental Benefit Schedule will continue in 2017, providing eligible children with access to a benefit of $700 for eligible dental services. The CDBS provides individuals benefits for a range of services including examinations, x-rays, clean-ing, fissure sealing, fillings, root canals and extractions. Benefits are not available for orthodontics or cosmetic dental work and cannot be paid for any services provided in a hospital. The CDBS continues to be means tested, which requires of Family Tax Benefit Part A or a relevant Australian Government payment. CDBS is available at Robert Street Dental Practice . If your child is eligible and has not had a check up in the last six months, please call us to make an appointment. Phone 4091 1387 or Email [email protected]. 1/154 Robert Street, Atherton
The Junior class will be going across to join Little Gems Childcare in their Funky Hair Day celebrations on Monday the 13th of March.at 9.00am. They will head over to the centre and join in the activities, returning to school at 11.00am. All students are welcome to come to school with their best “Funky Hair”. Please bring a gold coin donation to help raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation.
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• Book Club is due Monday 13th of March • P & C AGM Monday 13th of March in the BER Room. 3.30pm
Wednesday the 29th of March will be our Interhouse Swimming Carni-val. All Students P-Yr6 to be at the Georgetown Swimming Pool around 8.30am for a 9.00am start. Could Parents please provide a plate for morning tea. The P & C Association will be providing a sausage sizzle for lunch. Presentations and Lunch are usually around 12.30pm. Children can be col-lected from the pool but those who are staying until 3.00pm will walk back with staff to the school. Kindy Parents please note that Kindy will be on Tuesday the 28th and Thursday the 30th for this week only due to the above Carnival.
Mr Ray Higgins from Peninsula Sport Qld will be in Georgetown to hold a touch training session for the Seniors (Yr. 5 & 6) on Saturday the 25th of March. It will be held at the Gregg Bethel Memorial Oval commencing at 2.00pm. Ray will be doing some drills with the kids and hopefully play a game in the evening. If there are any adults who would like to come and have a game with the kids at approx. 6.00pm, that would be great.
Karumba Hockey & Basketball will be held in the last week of term 3 (12th,13th & 14th of September) The school will travel up on Monday the 11th and return on Thursday the 14th. Hurry and book your accommodation if you are joining us.
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