From the Principal THORNTON STATE SCHOOL Newsletter 31st August 2017 Upcoming Events Friday 8th September Ball Games Friday 15th September Speed Soccer/Netball Carnival @ Laidley Recreation Grounds Tuesday 3rd October First Day Term 4 Dear Parents, Camp Last week saw 33 of our 49 students attend camp to the Outdoor Environmental Education Centre of Columboola, 15km east of Miles. Students engaged in many activities including: spear and boomerang throwing, orienteering, low and high ropes course, astronomy walk and discovery, damper making, hut building, indigenous games, water ecology and yabbying. All students and adults who attended had a great time and only three of us got ticks! Students have said that yabbying and hunting for ‘Blue-Tooth’ was one of the highlights. It is fantastic to provide the opportunity for our students to engage in activities that they would other- wise not be able to do. This camp was totally free of charge for families due to the outstanding support of our local community members. P&C representatives gave up their time to sell raffle tickets at the Mulgowie Hotel, but without our community to support the purchase of those tickets, there would be no free camp. As a way of saying thank you to our local community, the P&C are organising a date and preferred time with the Mulgowie Hotel for us to provide some platters of biscuits and cheese etc for our locals. This is a small token on our families part to give back to the people who put their hand in their pocket (sometimes every week) to make it so all of our children could attend camp at nil cost. We are asking for families to send into school something ‘platter’ appropriate before the end of term, so that the P&C can get the platters to the hotel over the holidays (please see the information in the P&C information). Thank you in advance for your support to this gesture to thank our community. No Hat, No Play As head lice have been lingering in our school, I have removed all ‘spare hats’ for student use. This is to help prevent the spread of head lice. As such, if your child does not come to school with their own hat (every child was provided a hat free of charge by our P&C upon enrolment), they will be instructed to sit out of play. Students don’t enjoy missing their play time, so please assist your child to be ready for school by ensuring their hats are in their bags. No sharing of hats will be allowed. We hope you understand this precaution and thank you for helping your child be prepared for school. Ball Games Ball Games Carnival is next Friday on our school oval. We love to see as many parents as we can dur- ing this time and would thoroughly enjoy winning the parent/staff game of file gap pass this year! So please mark your calendar and try and come along to support the students in a day of fun. Games commence at approximately 10am, but parent helpers would be appreciated from 8:30am to support the P&C with getting tuckshop for all four schools organised. Hope to see you then. Last Day of Term Friday 15 th September is the last day of term and two weeks from tomorrow. Children in grades 3, 4, 5 & 6 are invited to participate in the Annual Speed Soccer / Netball Carnival to be held at Laidley Rec- reation Grounds. Students are placed in teams to compete against other local schools for a championship trophy and prizes. It is a day of energy, fun and sun – so please be sure to have your child prepared for the day with their own hat, sunscreen, water bottle and lunch (tuckshops will be operating with no ordering required). A permission note will come out early next week. Until next fortnight, Erika
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From the Principal
THORNTON STATE SCHOOL
Newsletter 31st August 2017
Upcoming Events
Friday 8th September
Ball Games
Friday 15th September
Speed Soccer/Netball
Carnival @ Laidley
Recreation Grounds
Tuesday 3rd October
First Day Term 4
Dear Parents,
Camp
Last week saw 33 of our 49 students attend camp to the Outdoor Environmental Education Centre of
Columboola, 15km east of Miles.
Students engaged in many activities including: spear and boomerang throwing, orienteering, low and
high ropes course, astronomy walk and discovery, damper making, hut building, indigenous games,
water ecology and yabbying.
All students and adults who attended had a great time and only three of us got ticks! Students have said
that yabbying and hunting for ‘Blue-Tooth’ was one of the highlights.
It is fantastic to provide the opportunity for our students to engage in activities that they would other-
wise not be able to do. This camp was totally free of charge for families due to the outstanding support
of our local community members. P&C representatives gave up their time to sell raffle tickets at the
Mulgowie Hotel, but without our community to support the purchase of those tickets, there would be
no free camp.
As a way of saying thank you to our local community, the P&C are organising a date and preferred
time with the Mulgowie Hotel for us to provide some platters of biscuits and cheese etc for our locals.
This is a small token on our families part to give back to the people who put their hand in their pocket
(sometimes every week) to make it so all of our children could attend camp at nil cost. We are asking
for families to send into school something ‘platter’ appropriate before the end of term, so that the P&C
can get the platters to the hotel over the holidays (please see the information in the P&C information).
Thank you in advance for your support to this gesture to thank our community.
No Hat, No Play
As head lice have been lingering in our school, I have removed all ‘spare hats’ for student use. This is
to help prevent the spread of head lice.
As such, if your child does not come to school with their own hat (every child was provided a hat free
of charge by our P&C upon enrolment), they will be instructed to sit out of play. Students don’t enjoy
missing their play time, so please assist your child to be ready for school by ensuring their hats are in
their bags. No sharing of hats will be allowed. We hope you understand this precaution and thank you
for helping your child be prepared for school.
Ball Games
Ball Games Carnival is next Friday on our school oval. We love to see as many parents as we can dur-
ing this time and would thoroughly enjoy winning the parent/staff game of file gap pass this year!
So please mark your calendar and try and come along to support the students in a day of fun. Games
commence at approximately 10am, but parent helpers would be appreciated from 8:30am to support
the P&C with getting tuckshop for all four schools organised.
Hope to see you then.
Last Day of Term
Friday 15th September is the last day of term and two weeks from tomorrow. Children in grades 3, 4, 5
& 6 are invited to participate in the Annual Speed Soccer / Netball Carnival to be held at Laidley Rec-
reation Grounds.
Students are placed in teams to compete against other local schools for a championship trophy and
prizes.
It is a day of energy, fun and sun – so please be sure to have your child prepared for the day with their
own hat, sunscreen, water bottle and lunch (tuckshops will be operating with no ordering required).
A permission note will come out early next week.
Until next fortnight,
Erika
Page 2
Photos: School Camp
Thornton State School
Senior Classroom News
Hello Parents and Families.
Last week most students were at camp with just a few students here at school. We were busy working and hav-ing fun with students from Prep to Year 6 all in together.
There were opportunities to share news, learn technology skills as well as working on maths, English Geography and art activities.
It was lovely to see how the children of all ages worked and played together in the classroom and in the play-ground. We welcomed our campers back on Friday.
This week we will be working towards wrapping up our digital technology unit where the students have been
creating there own games on computer! Very clever .
Have a great week ahead,
Ms Kemp
Newsletter 31st August 2017
Junior Classroom News (Prep & Year 1)
Page 3 Thornton State School
Mrs O’Sullivan’s Class
Welcome to Prep / Year 1 news
Book week was amazing and we all had so much fun in our
Book week parade. Here are some snap shots of the day.
We all worked hard at
school while the other
students were at camp. The good workers were rewarded with
lots of prizes and technology time and, of course, time in the
corner building and doing puzzles.
What are we learning?
In English students are still enjoying learning about rhyme and poetry and we are reading lots
of books with rhyme in the stories. In handwriting we are learning upper and lower case letters
and learning a poem with each letter.
In Jolly Phonics we are still concentrating on read-
ing and using our sounds to read simple words. We
are learning all about the vowels and singing the
long and short vowels. We have commenced the
STARS program for reading. Students are still do-
ing well with their daily journal writing!
In Mathematics, students are learning about the numbers from 11 to 20. We are also learning
ordinal numbers, simple sharing, subtraction and addition of numbers. Students are revising
shapes, chance and data and measurement.
In Science, we are learning about the seasons and how the seasons affect both plants and ani-
mals.
In Geography we have looked at our school as an important place. This week we are looking af-
ter our special place, the Prep corner, and we will organise and label each area with new words.
In Media arts this week we will be choosing an animal and using Google to find out about the
animal. We will use a photo of the animal and apply an App called Chatter kid to make the animal
talk. In Digital technology students are learning the capital letters on a keyboard.
Thank you so much for all your support.
Warm regards
Sandy O’Sullivan
DATES TO REMEMBER
Ball Games carnival at Thornton, Friday 8th September.
****Please ensure your child returns their Reading folders every Monday morning. These fold-
ers will then go home that afternoon.***
Newsletter 31st August 2017
Middle Classroom News (Year 2, 3 & 4)
Thornton State School Page 4
Hello again from the Ninja Class.
First things first… Camp. Was. Amazing! The kids all had an absolute blast,
learnt some fabulous bush (and life) skills and came together as a phenomenal
support network for each other (and some of us adults).
As this term races towards it’s end (yes, already – only 2 weeks left!), our units of
work are coming to a close in the Ninja Classroom. In Media Arts the students
are currently working on a promo they are filming for the Ninja Class while
prepping themselves for their very own filmed advert. Our Digital Technology
and Data unit is culminating in individual PowerPoint presentations outlining the
benefits and uses of various charts and graphs. The Geography unit is almost
complete, with the last few weeks consisting of Atlas Challenges to test their un-
derstanding of place, use of the atlas and even their group work skills.
In English we’re right in the middle of a poetry unit – so if you child starts wax-
ing lyrical at the dinner table, or describing your cooking with similes (rich as
chocolate) and metaphors (this dinner is heaven) then we have a win!
While at the shops, or even at home, if you have to opportunity to explore money
and change please do. We’ve been doing money this term and have just reached
change and money problems so any extra opportunities to explore this would
be fabulous!
As always, please don’t hesitate to drop in, message me via Dojo or even email
me if you’d like to chat about your child or where they are at!