ROBERTSON STATE SCHOOL Principal’s Update By Margaret Berry WELCOME TO TERM 2 IMPROVEMENT AGENDA 1 - 2% IMPROVEMENT IN READING AND WRITING After undertaking the four day great hike on the World Heritage Fraser Island on the holidays, it confirmed for me that Australia abounds with natural beauty and wonder. Seeing the magnificent rainforest trees growing on the largest sand island in the world, and swimming in the beautiful fresh water Lake McKenzie at the end of a long walk with a heavy back pack, refreshed me for the term ahead. Holiday experiences are a great source of inspiration for both staff and students. Reading and Writing are our key literacy improvement agendas. Each student in the school has an everyday writing book and they will continue to develop writing stamina and move to the more technical requirements of writing in their literacy blocks. Reading data for each class has been analysed and teachers are working with the master teacher and Deputy Principal to established reading goals and reading behaviours that improve student performance. We have restructured the school timetable to better address a non- interrupted time for literacy and numeracy. Parent access to their students’ weekly timetable will soon be available for those who have joined the Qparents email group. Together with parents this term our theme is “to achieve more than we thought was possible” in literacy and numeracy. TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS During the holidays some of the recommendations from the Traffic Management Group have been put into operation in the Estoril Street car park. Clearer directional arrows and drop off, pickup and parking areas have been painted. So far, teacher aides and teachers on duty have seen a significant improvement in parent and student safe driving and walking behaviours. Well done! Parent member of our Traffic Management Group, Geoff Peck, has used his wonderful map making skills to develop a clear representation of 2 minute and 15 minute drop off zones on Musgrave Rd. For this term we want to encourage respectful and safe parent driving behaviours to adhere to these traffic rules. Parents can you please study the map above and join in our school campaign to improve traffic management for the safety of our children. BUSINESS BREAKFAST WEDNEDAY 20 APRIL Next week local business representatives are invited to a our annual business networking breakfast. This breakfast is sponsored by our Local, State and Federal politicians. Dr Mertens, Lecturer from QUT will speak on ‘How Small Businesses Disrupt Global Economies’. If you have an interest in business networking and sponsorship of the school and would like to attend the breakfast please contact Mel Kennedy by email [email protected]. CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Jorja who has won a place in the Queensland swimming team to compete in Darwin in September. See full story in PE News. NEWSETTER CONTENTS (Click on links) Calendar Chaplaincy News Chinese Newsletter Community News Deputy News ICT News LOTE News QParent News Sponsors Tuckshop News Update Contacts You Can Do It Newsletter 14 April 2016 PLEASE NOTE THE 2 MINUTE DROP/ PICK UP AND 15 MINUTE PARKING ZONES Robertson State School Musgrave Road Traffic Zones
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ROBERTSON STATE SCHOOL
Principal’s Update By Margaret Berry WELCOME TO TERM 2 IMPROVEMENT AGENDA 1 - 2% IMPROVEMENT IN READING
AND WRITING After undertaking the four day great hike on the World Heritage Fraser Island on the holidays, it confirmed for me that Australia abounds with natural beauty and wonder. Seeing the magnificent rainforest trees growing on the largest sand island in the world, and swimming in the beautiful fresh water Lake McKenzie at the end of a long walk with a heavy back pack, refreshed me for the term ahead. Holiday experiences are a great source of inspiration for both staff and students. Reading and Writing are our key
literacy improvement agendas. Each student in the school has an everyday writing book and they
will continue to develop writing stamina and move to the more technical requirements of writing in their literacy blocks.
Reading data for each class has been analysed and teachers are working with the master teacher and Deputy Principal to established reading goals and reading behaviours that improve student performance.
We have restructured the school timetable to better address a non-interrupted time for literacy and numeracy. Parent access to their students’ weekly timetable will soon be available for those who have joined the Qparents email group. Together with parents this term our theme is “to achieve more than we thought was possible” in literacy and numeracy.
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT GROUP RECOMMENDATIONS During the holidays some of the recommendations from the Traffic Management Group have been put into operation in the Estoril Street car park. Clearer directional arrows and drop off, pickup and parking areas have been painted.
So far, teacher aides and teachers on duty have seen a significant improvement in parent and student safe driving and walking behaviours. Well done! Parent member of our Traffic Management Group, Geoff Peck,
has used his wonderful map making skills to develop a clear representation of 2 minute and 15 minute drop off zones on Musgrave Rd. For this term we want to encourage respectful and safe parent driving behaviours to adhere to these traffic rules. Parents can you please study the map above and join in our school campaign to improve traffic management for the safety of our children.
BUSINESS BREAKFAST WEDNEDAY 20 APRIL Next week local business representatives are invited to a our annual business networking breakfast. This breakfast is sponsored by our Local, State and Federal politicians. Dr Mertens, Lecturer from QUT will speak on ‘How Small Businesses Disrupt Global Economies’. If you have an interest in business networking and sponsorship of the school and would like to attend the breakfast please contact Mel Kennedy by email [email protected].
CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Jorja who has won a place in the Queensland swimming team to compete in Darwin in September. See full
story in PE News.
NEWSETTER CONTENTS
(Click on links) Calendar
Chaplaincy News
Chinese Newsletter
Community News Deputy News
ICT News LOTE News QParent News
Sponsors Tuckshop News Update Contacts You Can Do It
Newsletter
14 April 2016
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PLEASE NOTE THE 2 MINUTE DROP/ PICK UP AND 15 MINUTE PARKING ZONES
Robertson State School Musgrave Road Traffic Zones
Tues 19 Yr 5 Excursion – St Helena Island P & C Meeting 7:00 pm
Wed 20 Business Breakfast 7.00 am Teddy Bears’ Hospital – Prep
Thur 21 City ANZAC Ceremony
Story Telling 2:00pm-3:00pm
Fri 22 School ANZAC Ceremony 2:00 pm,
Mon 25 ANZAC DAY Public Holiday
Fri 29 Gala Day 2
May
Mon 2 Labour Day Public Holiday
Tues 3 District Cross Country
Wed 4 Mother’s Day Stall
Thurs 5 Mother’s Day Stall
Tues 10 Naplan Yr 2 Excursion Beenleigh Historical Centre
Wed 11 Naplan Yr 2 Excursion Beenleigh Historical Centre
Thur 12 Naplan
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QParents Could you please complete your QParents form and return to the
office as soon as possible.
Update Contacts Please contact the office if you are not receiving emails from your child’s teacher. It is important to keep the school up to date with your most current email address in order to assist communication. We are getting a few bounced emails from the mailing list and can’t work out who’s not getting our communications.
Music News
All music groups are busy rehearsing for upcoming
performances this term.
Please ensure your child is
on time to their appropriate
rehearsals. Also, we ask you to notify us if your child is
absent from their required
rehearsal by texting the
Music Mobile Phone
Number : 0409 263 402.
Music socks are available at the Uniform Shop at
theTuckshop on Monday
afternoons or Thursday
mornings. These are required when performing
as part of the dress
uniform.
Robertson Music Bags are available for $15 from Uniform Shop. This is a
good way for your child to
keep their music organized.
A reminder that only children are permitted to drop off and collect their
music instruments in music
store rooms. Only parents
of the large Tubas and
Double Basses are
permitted to collect these instruments. This is a
security measure.
LOTE News
Nǐ Hǎo! 你好Nǐ Hǎo! 你好
Welcome back! (huān yíng huí
lái 欢迎回来!)
The LOTE extension
program will resume from
Week 2 this term. This
program is free for our
students after school during
school terms. The purpose
of the program is to
enhance and promote
students’ Chinese learning
in four macro skills
(speaking, listening, writing
and reading). All students
from Year 4 to Year 6 are
eligible to enrol in this
program. The policy of the
enrolment is “first come,
first served”. The timetable
of this program is a 30
minute lesson on Tuesday
and Thursday in 2016. The
class size is up to 12
students. Students are
required to enrol term by
term depending on their
interests and availability.
The enrolment time for
Term 2 is open from
Monday 11 April to Friday
15 April. Please contact Ms
Hsieh if you have any
queries. The information is
below:
When: 3:10 pm – 3:40 pm
every Tuesday (with Ms
Wang) & Thursday (with
Miss Zhang)-from week 2 to week 9
Where: Teaching Block 3
close to the LOTE office (in
2M classroom)
What to bring: Stationery and
a folder
2016 CHINESE SPEAKING
COMPETITION organised by
the Confucius Institute at
QUT will be held on
Saturday 28 May 2016.
Year 5 and 6 students are
eligible to enrol by 13 May.
If your students would like
to take part in the
competition, please see Ms
Hsieh to collect the full
information of the
competition by the due day.
Our prep students started
learning LOTE this term.
The below photos were from
PA class with Ms Hsieh and
Miss Zhang on Monday.
SCHOOL ABSENTEE LINE 3452 4166
Please call this number for all student absences.
Today’s phrases:
Good morning! 早上好 zǎo
shàng hǎo;
Good afternoon! 下午好 xià wŭ
hǎo;
Good evening! 晚上好 wǎn
shàng hǎo
Xièxie! (谢谢)
Ms Hsieh (谢老师)
Library News
BOOK CLUB
Issue 3 order forms have been
distributed this week to classes. Orders are due by
3:00 pm on Friday 29 April.
Cash orders can be placed at
the office, or orders can be
placed online.
BORROWING
Borrowing has recommenced
this week. Could you please
ensure all students have a
library bag to protect their books and return their books
on time. Invoices for
replacement fees for books
more than 30 days overdue
will be sent home soon. Please
ensure the fee is paid at the office to enable children to
continue borrowing.
BOXES PLEASE
We would love donations of any LARGE cardboard boxes
please. Refrigerator or large
TV size would be perfect.
Please deliver these to the
library between 8:30 am and
3:15 pm.
STORYTELLING
Our storytelling program for
pre-prep children commences
Thursday 14 April. All younger siblings of currently
enrolled students are invited to
join us every Thursday from
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm in the
library. Children of all ages
are welcome; including babies, toddlers and those beginning
CHAMPIONSHIPS Robertson was proud to have two students at the titles having both Lilli and Jorja swim over three 3 days, from 20 to 22 March. The girls placed highly in the events they entered, with Jorja participating in 6 finals and Lilli being in an amazing 9 separate events. Jorja has made it into the Queensland Schools Swimming Team again and frustratingly Lili missed out by 0.01 of a second from making the same team. Jorja will now join the Queensland team in Darwin in September for the National Swimming Championships. Congratulations Jorja and oh so close for Lilli, well done.
Tuckshop News Tuckshop Opening Times 9:00
am - 2:00 pm Monday - Friday
www.flexischools.com.au
Welcome back to Term 2!
The holidays passed so quickly and we're back for another round in Term 2.
TUCKSHOP OPEN MONDAYS The tuckshop will be open 5 days a week from Monday 18 April 2016. Ordering is available via
the flexischools website www.flexischools.com.au
We will be needing volunteers to help on Mondays between 9:00 am and 11:15 am. If you are available to spare some time to help please let me know at the tuckshop or email me at [email protected]
ROSTER 18 April – 22 April
Monday 2 x Volunteers Needed
Tuesday Jayne Tacon 1 x Volunteer Needed
Wednesday Dipa Kothekar
Sandi Beckman
Thursday Wendy Beattie Candy To
Friday Adele Tenant 1 x Volunteer Needed
Mary Maric
Tuckshop Convenor
Ph: 07 3452 4111
Marketing News ROBERTSON STATE SCHOOL FACEBOOK PAGE We have an official Facebook page. We invite our community
to like and share our posts. The
page name is Robertson State School and has a photo of our school logo on our page. Our hope is for the school community to easily be able to view, interact and exchange information in a professional and respectful manner. All derogatory and negative comments will be removed. Thank you for your assistance, we look forward to your likes and shares.
ANNUAL BUSINESS BREAKFAST Our Annual Business Breakfast is coming up next week on
Wednesday 20 April at 7:00 am. This breakfast is a great way to increase your contacts by meeting many new and like-minded local business owners. If you are a business owner and would like to attend, please contact me for more details.
Do you own a business and want to help your school with the
added bonus of getting advertising for your business at the same time? If the answer is yes, please see me for
sponsorship and advertising information. Sponsorship can be as little or as big as you would like.
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK Our work should be mainly education, both moral and intellectual education for all of those learning about life.
Mel Kennedy
Communications and Marketing Manager
Chaplaincy News YOU CAN CHAT WITH YOUR CHAPPY Some we need a little extra help to deal with the social and emotional challenges of school life. There
are just 6 words that I want you to remember: "YOU CAN CHAT WITH YOUR CHAPPY" I am at the school on Wednesdays and Thursdays for students and teachers, and sometimes parents if needed. You can find me through the yellow door at the end of Teaching Block 2 (that's the special needs area near the library). Or you can make an appointment at the office on the days that I am unavailable. Chaplain Ben Chapman
"bringing hope to a young generation"
MOTHER’S DAY HIGH TEA FUNDRAISER FOR CHAPLAINCY – DATE CHANGE Our high tea fundraiser will now be held on SATURDAY 7 MAY from 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm in the Music Room. Tickets are $20 each and are AVAILABLE NOW! Invite your mum, bring the whole family or just spoil yourself. Contact Vicki Lewis on 0408 066 387 to secure your seats for what is sure to be a delightful afternoon of delicious treats and wonderful
• You Can Do It! Education (YCDI) is a system for helping all children achieve to the best of their
ability and to develop social-emotional-behavioural well-being. Through a set of unique educational programs, YCDI supports the development of every child's unique potential.
It provides all children with the Foundations for Achievement and Social-Emotional-Behavioral Well-Being
BRONZE SPONSORS Red Rooster Coopers Plains Keyboard Kidz Priority Choice Mortgages Storage King Acacia Ridge Graham Perrett MP FRIENDS & PARTNERS The Workshops Rail Museum Priestley’s Gourmet Delights Shingle Inn Sunnybank Plaza Michael Hancock – Broncos NRL K-Mart Sunnybank Plaza Dairy Farmers Dan Murphy’s Sunnybank
COMMUNITY NEWS
SPEECH AND DRAMA TUITION. PREP – YEAR 6
We have two spots available in the Speech and Drama program for this term in the
Friday class.
Thursday class is fully booked.
This term children are consolidating their group performances to present work at a group examination in June. This is a great class to build and improve
communication skills and develop confidence and learn performing arts skills from
Qualified Speech and Drama teachers.
Please enrol online – www.ltkspeechanddrama.com.au or call 3821 5755. Forms are also on the noticeboard.
WHIZ KIDZ – SCIENCE HANDS - ON EXPERIMENTING = LEARNING THAT`S FUN
Is your child driven by curiosity?
Does your child love science?
Does your child ask lots of questions?
Your child will have fun, enjoy learning and come to understand how the world works!
SUPER SCIENCE CLUB PROGRAM - Fortnightly on Saturdays – 11:00 am – 12:30 am (Years 1 - 5) CONCEPTS (Term 2)
1. PENDULUM OF DEATH – Things that swing are constantly converting energy. Is there a volunteer for the Pendulum of Death!
2. BURIED TREASURE (crystals) - There are thousands of
different crystals, everything from salt to diamonds. Grow the crystals of your choice for fun and enter them for judging in the crystal growing competition - if you dare!
3. TOTAL RECALL – Brain work - remembering to remember and remembering to forget!
4. WEATHER WATCH - The atmosphere`s movement and how it creates the Earth`s constantly changing weather.
5. HILLARY HAMBURGER - Without plants all animals on Earth would die. The digestion of foods is linked to the chemistry of foods.
WHO – Years 1-5 WHEN – Fortnightly from Saturday 16 April WHERE – School Hall Foyer (access via Estoril Street) FEE – $125 (normal length term) (Cash, money order or cheque
payable to D. Bennett) ENROLLMENT - Your child must be properly enrolled to be accepted. For the enrollment package and a full program – contact Donna Bennett before Session 1- see below