ROBERTSON STATE SCHOOL Principal’s Update By Ms Margaret Berry VISIT TO JIANGSU SISTER SCHOOL Next week I will be visiting our sister school Jiefang Road Primary School Zhenjiang in the Jiangsu Province, China, to negotiate a sister school agreement and meet members of the school community. The Languages Other Than English (LOTE) and International Programs committee have been preparing for this intercultural exchange for several years. Last year we hosted Principals from Jiangsu Province and have since worked with Education Queensland International to progress this sister school arrangement. The primary school is located in Zhenjiang and has a similar school enrolment population to Robertson. Zhenjiang is a city with approximately 3 million people. I will share more details about our sister school on my return. WELLERS HILL BILINGUAL PROGRAM Last week the Administration Team and the LOTE and International Programs team visited Wellers Hill State School to view their bilingual Japanese Language program. This language program has just been recognised as finalists in the Education Queensland Showcase awards and I would like to pay tribute to Principal John Webster and Deputy, Louise Hart, and all the school staff for the amazing language learning that is occurring in P - 3 years. The bilingual program will move progressively through to Year 6. At Robertson we now have 30 minute lessons of LOTE Mandarin being taught from P - 6 and we are currently investigating other models of language teaching in our school. I would like to thank our LOTE and International Programs team: Kama Zhang, Joy Hsieh, Joy Wang, Cathy Coleman and Geri Kallioinen for their work. To prepare our students for a global interconnected world, being fluent in more than one language is a preferred workplace skill. SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AGENDA – READING AND SYNTHETIC PHONICS At the beginning of the year Synthetic Phonics was introduced to Prep classes at Robertson to have a consistent approach to teaching phonics and to set a sound basis for early reading skills. Master Teacher, Tracey Leong, has been the key teacher leading the introduction of this program with Prep teachers. The program presents sounds and blends at a faster pace and works on decoding. To date we have seen a very pleasing improvement in the confidence of Prep students with their phonics and subsequent improvements in early reading skills. The Synthetic Phonics program has progressively been introduced to Year 1 and Year 2. I would like to recognise the work of Tracey Leong, Deputy Principal, Cartia Balladone and the Prep teachers and teacher aides for their work with reading. CONGRATULATIONS STRING ENSEMBLES Four of our string ensembles performed at the Goodna Jacaranda Festival last weekend. Not only did the groups receive three gold and one silver award, but the Paganinis also won the ‘overall best ensemble performance’ award from the participating groups of both high schools and primary schools. Well done to Mrs Gray and all of the students in our string ensembles. (More details in Deputy’s news) NEWSETTER CONTENTS (Click on links) Calendar Chaplaincy News Chess News Chinese Newsletter Community News Deputy News G&T News ICT News LOTE News Library Music News P & C News Sponsors Tuckshop News You Can Do It Newsletter 3 November 2016 Award winning Paginini Ensemble. Absent: Asher, Jimon & Gianna
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ROBERTSON STATE SCHOOL
Principal’s Update By Ms Margaret Berry
VISIT TO JIANGSU SISTER SCHOOL Next week I will be visiting our sister school Jiefang Road Primary School Zhenjiang in the Jiangsu Province, China, to negotiate a sister school
agreement and meet members of the school community. The Languages Other Than English (LOTE) and International Programs committee have been preparing for this intercultural exchange for several years. Last year we hosted Principals from Jiangsu Province and have since worked with Education Queensland International to progress this sister school arrangement. The primary school is located in Zhenjiang and has a similar school enrolment population to Robertson. Zhenjiang is a city with approximately 3 million people. I will share more details about our sister school on my return.
WELLERS HILL BILINGUAL PROGRAM Last week the Administration Team and the LOTE and International Programs team visited Wellers Hill State School to view their bilingual Japanese Language program. This language program has just been recognised as finalists in the
Education Queensland Showcase awards and I would like to pay tribute to Principal John Webster and Deputy, Louise Hart, and all the school staff for the amazing language learning that is occurring in P - 3
years. The bilingual program will move progressively through to Year 6. At Robertson we now have 30 minute lessons of LOTE Mandarin being taught from P - 6 and we are currently investigating other models of language teaching in our school. I would like to thank our LOTE and International Programs team: Kama Zhang, Joy Hsieh, Joy Wang, Cathy Coleman and Geri Kallioinen for their work. To prepare our students for a global interconnected world, being fluent in more than one language is a preferred workplace skill.
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AGENDA – READING AND SYNTHETIC PHONICS At the beginning of the year Synthetic Phonics was introduced to Prep classes at Robertson to have a
consistent approach to teaching phonics and to set a sound basis for early reading skills. Master Teacher, Tracey Leong, has been the key teacher leading the introduction of this program with Prep teachers. The program presents sounds and blends
at a faster pace and works on decoding. To date we have seen a very pleasing improvement in the confidence of Prep students with their phonics and subsequent improvements in early reading skills. The Synthetic Phonics program has progressively been introduced to Year 1 and Year 2. I would like to recognise the work of Tracey Leong, Deputy Principal, Cartia Balladone and the Prep teachers and teacher aides for their work with reading.
CONGRATULATIONS STRING ENSEMBLES Four of our string ensembles performed at the Goodna Jacaranda Festival last weekend. Not only did the groups receive three gold and one silver award, but the Paganinis also won the ‘overall best ensemble performance’ award from the participating groups of both high schools and primary schools. Well done to Mrs Gray and all of the students in our string ensembles. (More details in Deputy’s news)
NEWSETTER CONTENTS (Click on links)
Calendar
Chaplaincy News
Chess News
Chinese Newsletter
Community News Deputy News
G&T News
ICT News LOTE News
Library Music News
P & C News
Sponsors Tuckshop News
You Can Do It
Newsletter
3 November 2016
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Award winning Paginini Ensemble. Absent: Asher, Jimon & Gianna
Deputy News Prep to Year 3
By Ms Cartia Baladone
JACARANDA FESTIVAL
CELEBRATIONS
Congratulations to Mrs Robyn
Gray for the outstanding results
of our Corelli, Mini Mozart,
Paganini and Vivaldi Orchestras. Each of the groups performed at
the Jacaranda Festival with
Robertson achieving three gold
and one silver award.
The competition involved primary
and high schools students
performing in various levels of
competitions over the day. All
entries were judged within their
categories and also considered for the overall perpetual trophy. The
perpetual trophy was awarded to
the performance which was
considered the most outstanding
on the day.
It was exciting news to find out
the Robertson Paganini
performance was awarded the
perpetual trophy for 2017. Our
students were compared to the high school performances and
considered exceptional. Well
done!
Thank you to all the parents for supporting this competition.
Many thanks to Ms Vanderbyl
and Mrs Waldie for their support
on the day and leadership in the
Music department at Robertson.
SUPPORTING READING IN OUR
COMMUNITY
Can you assist in the donation of
reading books?
We are currently assisting
Crestmead State School with
their ‘Books in Homes Project’.
If you have second hand books at
home that your children have out
grown or no longer read, please
send them to school. They will be
sent to Crestmead and donated to their families in Term 4.
The books can include hardcover
books for toddlers or younger
readers, picture books or chapter
books, Encyclopaedias or damaged books would not be
donated. Thank you for sharing
your love of reading with our
community and thank you for
extending that love to another community in need.
Bring your books to the office for
collection.
LEARN TO SWIM PROGRAM
PREP - YEAR 3
Final payments for the swimming program are coming in, thank
you to our families for getting
these updated. The closing date
for money collection will be
Friday 11 November. Payment
can be made online or at the administration.
If your child is not a strong
swimmer this will be a perfect
program for them to participate in as the lessons are structured at
their ability levels. Alternatively,
if your child is a confident
swimmer they will have an
opportunity to work with other
skilled swimmers and instructors on their techniques around the
pool.
If you have any questions please
contact the classroom teacher or our office.
Deputy News Year 4 to Year 6 By Mrs Jennifer Johnson STUDENT LEADERSHIP
Next week we will begin to speak
with students about the next step
in the process towards gaining a
leadership position for next year. Shortlisted School Captain and
School-Vice Captain applicants
will be asked to prepare a speech
to give their fellow students and
teachers. Voting will commence
after that.
WRITING
We have been working hard to
measure the improvement we are
making in teaching and learning in writing. The teachers are
pretesting students at the
beginning of the term to
determine the specific learning
needs of the students in their
classes. At the conclusion of the term, they are assessing to check
how well the students have learnt
the concepts they have taught.
We are making some very
pleasing growth in all areas of the 6 Traits of Writing.
Congratulations to the teachers
for the effort they are putting in
to differentiate for their students.
YEAR 6 GRADUATION Our final celebration for the Year
6 students and teachers will be
on Monday 5 December at the
graduation. It is being held in the
hall. We will be serving refreshments at 5:00pm for a
5:30pm start to the ceremony. A
letter will soon be sent out to the
parents of Year 5 asking for
volunteers to assist with the set
up for the night. We would appreciate your help if you could
Thu 17 Bookfair Playgroup 9:00am–11:00am Story Telling 2:00 – 3:00pm
Fri 18 Bookfair
Mon 21 Swimming Prep to Year 3 Assembly 2:15pm
Tue 22 Swimming Prep to Year 3
Wed 23 Swimming Prep to Year 3
Thu 24 Playgroup 9:00am–11:00am Story Telling 2:00 – 3:00pm Swimming Prep to Year 3
Fri 25 Swimming Prep to Year 3 Junior Assembly 2:15pm - 3:00pm
Mon 28 Swimming Prep to Year 3 Assembly 2:15pm End of Year Instrumental Concert 6:00pm
Tue 29 Swimming Prep to Year 3 Library monitor meeting – 1:30 pm
Wed 30 Swimming Prep to Year 3
DECEMBER
Thu 1 Swimming Prep to Year 3
Fri 2 Swimming Prep to Year 3
Mon 5 Prep Puppet Show
Year 6 Graduation 5:30 pm
Tues 6 Religious Concert 11:45 m – 1:30 pm
Report Cards emailed home
Wed 7 Christmas Concert Prep – 3 9:00 am – 11:00 am
Year 6 Breakup Party 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Brooklands Christmas Concert
Thur 8 Classes announced for 2017 Final Assembly for 2017 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Fri 9 Clean up day Report Cards available through QParents
JANUARY
Mon 23 School Resumes for 2017
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Music News
Congratulations to the 4 string orchestras who performed on Saturday at the Jacaranda festival. Another lovely proud moment for Robertson State School. Thank you to Mrs Gray for directing these children and to their parents who accompanied them to the lovely park.
Senior choir is at 7:30 am this week, as we prepare for our final concerts.
Instrumental Recruitment 2017 Information Night for all Year 2s interested in joining the Strings and the Year 3s joining the bands program is on at 6:00 pm on Thursday 10 November in the hall. Notes will be sent home with all Year 2 and 3 children in the coming week. Please note that Year 3 children already in or have been in the program previously, are NOT ELIGIBLE to join the bands program in 2017.
Ms Josephine Vanderbyl Music Teacher
Musician of the Week: Cantabile The whole Cantabile
Choir
Songbirds The whole Songbirds Choir
Corelli Ava L
Vivaldi Tahlia P
Paganini Jamie P
LOTE & International Program News
Nǐ Hǎo! 你好
YEAR 2 Prep to Year 2 students start their self-introduction assessment this week. Most of the native speakers used their confident voices to introduce their names, ages and their favourite colours. I look
forward to listening to more wonderful self-introduction next week!
Ms Joy Wang (王老師)
YEAR 3 – 6 LOTE ASSESSMENTS – Years3 -6 The LOTE assessments will commence from Week 6 (7 November) to Week 7. Students have received their assessment task information in class. Due to the upcoming reporting timeframe, please make sure your students/children participate and complete the designated assessment tasks on time. QUIZLET LIVE ‘Quizlet Live’ is a collaborative classroom game. This program allows the students to revise topic knowledge and reinforce their learning in a collaborative way. From the below snapshots from Year 5 and 6 classes, the students were really enjoying learning LOTE in this fun way.
SCHOOL ABSENTEE LINE
3452 4166
Please call this number for all
student absences.
Chinese for today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgsflnEgqY Listen to the video to learn to sing the pinyin song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDs26e_mjuU Learn number song in Mandarin 1-10
Xièxie! (谢谢)
Ms Joy Hsieh (谢老师)
LOTE
Chess News BRISBANE INDIVIDUAL AGE CHAMPIONSHIPS The Brisbane Individual Age Championships chess competition will take place on Wednesday 9 November at Brisbane Boys College. Attached to this newsletter is a copy of the permission form for the competition. Please fill out and return the form to the office before Monday 7 November. Cost is $18 per student which will be invoiced to parents after the competition. MORETON BAY BOYS’ COLLEGE INVITATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT 2016 Students of Robertson State School have been invited to participate in the Moreton Bay
Boys’ College Invitational Chess Tournament taking place on Tuesday 8 November from 4:30-8:30pm. This competition is only open to students with a ranking of under 700. For more information and the entry form please email Mr Grant at [email protected]. Mr Andrew Grant ICT Teacher
ICT News IPAD PROGRAM From 2017, Robertson State School will be allowing every student to bring their own (BYO) iPad to school. A parent information session will be held on Tuesday 8 November at 6:00 pm in the Music Room. This session will cover topics including, recommended devices and peripherals and how to set up your student’s iPad ready for school. Mr Andrew Grant ICT Teacher
Library News BORROWING Just one week of borrowing left to go this year!! Borrowing for students finishes at the end of Week 6, with all books due for return at the end of Week 7 so that we can commence our stocktake. BOOK FAIR Our final Book Fair for this year commences at 3:00 pm on Tuesday 15 November and runs until 4:00 pm on Monday 21 November. The Fair will be open from 8:00 am – 4:00 pm each day, selling books, posters and novelties, with prices starting from just $1. All sale help us to buy new resources for our school. Book it into your calendar now!! BOOK COVERING HELP Thank you to the wonderful volunteers who have helped us with covering books. We still
have lots more to go! We would love your help with book covering in the library. If you are free to come in to the library at any time to help out with some covering it would be greatly appreciated. It is not hard, just time consuming! And it is much easier than covering children’s school books. Babies and toddlers are welcome to come along and we have tea, coffee and milo for all volunteers. STORYTELLING Storytelling for pre-preps and younger siblings of current students continues this term. We have another packed schedule including fairy tales and a Book Fair! We are so excited to work with the youngest members of our school community. Join us every Thursday afternoon from 2:00 – 3:00 pm in the library. Mrs Claire Ennis Teacher Librarian
Marketing News SEEKING SMALL BUSINESSES – WOULD YOU LIKE A LARGER CUSTOMER BASE? I know the Spring Fest is a lifetime away; however I’d love to know if any families have small businesses that they may want to promote at the Spring Fest in 2017 by holding a stall on the night. Examples could be jewellery, cleaning products, clothing, food stalls. If you would be interested please send me an email on [email protected] Quote of the week: If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Mrs Mel Kennedy Marketing Officer
THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS On behalf of the P&C I would like to thank all of our volunteers and food donators from Friday’s World Teachers Day Breakfast. We had our best ever breakfast supplied, and served, by these wonderful people. Our teachers felt valued and thoroughly enjoyed the yummy offerings they were given so a great breakfast was eaten and with full tummies our teachers were off to a great start to their day. LET’S GET PREPARED!! Do you own a small business? Need more customers? Contact me today to discuss the possibility of running a stall at next year’s Spring Fest. [email protected] P&C MEETING – THIS WILL BE OUR LAST MEETING FOR 2016 Our next P&C meeting will be on next Tuesday night, 8 November at 7:00pm in the boardroom. There will be lots of important matters to discuss and supper will be provided. We hope to see you there for our last meeting of the year and hope to get your input. If you haven’t been to a meeting before, it’s never too late and all are welcome. We hope to see you there!! Mrs Mel Kennedy P & C President
Tuckshop News Tuckshop Opening Times 9:00 am -
2:00 pm Monday - Friday www.flexischools.com.au
GET FRESH AT THE TUCKSHOP! Now that it's getting hotter why not order lunch through the school tuckshop and have it delivered fresh straight to the classroom? We have a lot to
offer on our menu with something for everyone. Fruit salad is a lovely, healthy way to cool down or how about a cold drink on a hot day? We have a variety of drinks on offer from chilled water through to juice, flavoured milk, iced tea, aloe drinks and flavoured springwaters. Go to www.flexischools.com.au to view our list and prices. DISH OF THE MONTH - NOVEMBER We will be serving a vegetarian 'Indian Style' Rice. Biryani Masala is an aromatic, colourful basmati rice infused with spices such as cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and turmeric to name a few. Served with mixed vegetables and chick peas which are stirred in. Served warm in both small or large sizes. Go to www.flexischools.com.au to order.
VOLUNTEER CLASS Week 6 Term 4 (Monday 7 November - Friday 11 November) Next week's Volunteer Class will be 3P. If you are a parent from this class and have not yet volunteered to help out in tuckshop any day Tuesday to Friday next week please either see your parent rep or come and see me at the tuckshop. Your help is very valuable to us as we have many lunches to pack each day. No experience is necessary and no cooking is required of you. We just need help packing meals and orders. All welcome! Mrs Mary Maric Tuckshop Convenor
Chaplaincy News
FREE DRESS DAY - SILLY SOCKS On Wednesday 9 November we are having a Free Dress Day with an option of Silly Socks to raise funds for Chaplaincy. We saw some great silly socks in the last Chaplaincy free dress day and are looking forward to seeing many more fantastic socks! Also, the students in the class who raise the most money will each receive an ice block! Normal free dress rules apply, with school hat and closed in shoes to be worn. Thank you for your support of Chaplaincy.
Mrs Nicky Stirling Chaplaincy Chairperson
TUCKSHOP ROSTER
7 November – 11 November
Monday Hamida Ali Faina Dobrenko
Tuesday Hamida Ali 9:00 – 11:00 am Wendy Beattie 9:00 – 10:00 am
Sweta Verma 9:00 – 11:00 am
Wednesday Sandi Beckmann
9:00 – 11:00 am 2 x Volunteers Needed
Thursday Wendy Beattie
9:00 – 11:00 am Tonia Chernih 9:00 – 11:00 am 1 x Volunteer Needed
BRONZE SPONSORS Retail First Sunnybank Plaza LUSH Garden City
FRIENDS & PARTNERS The Wheel of Brisbane
Zarraffas Sunnybank Plaza
BCC Planetarium
Kinn Thai Restaurant Garden City
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary
Gardiner Chess
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
Pancake Manor Garden City
Graham Perrett MP
Priestley’s Gourmet Delights
Shingle Inn Sunnybank Plaza
Brisbane Milk Distributors
Underwater World Mooloolaba
Gloria Jeans Sunnybank Plaza
Hoggs Breath Garden City
The Workshops Rail Museum
Ice World Acacia Ridge
AMF Bowling Macgregor
Amanda Greenslade – Author
Spa Universe Sunnybank Plaza
Australia Zoo
Hair 4 Now Sunnybank Plaza
Subway Sunnybank Plaza
Golden Showcase Jewellers
Sunnybank Plaza
Coopers Plains
COMMUNITY NEWS
ROBERTSON STATE SCHOOL HELPING HANDS COMMUNITY SURVEY - OSHC - $100.00 GIFT VOUCHER TO BE WON To assist us in providing an OSHC program that meets both your and your child’s individual requirements, and to understand what is important to your family we would appreciate if you could please take a couple of minutes to complete this survey. Please include your name and contact details to be eligible to go into the draw to win a $100 gift voucher (one survey per family). Follow this link to complete the survey online https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HH_Robertson or email [email protected] to get a copy emailed to you. The survey closes on 18