24 November 2020

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Principal’s Report

Colour Fun Run

What a fantastic event our Colour Fun Run was last week, enhanced greatly by being able to have over 100 parents in attendance. Students and staff enjoyed a fun afternoon where laughter was prevalent and smiles were unavoidable. I was extremely proud of our staff who in less than a days’ notice of new Covid regulations were flexible enough to reorganise preparations so this event could allow parents to attend. My day was certainly brightened up after being colour bombed by 12 of our highest fundraising students. A huge thank you to all students that participated in this event and the pre-event fundraising activities that raised over $26,000 in total resulting in a profit for the school of $14,658.74 after admin and prize costs are subtracted. A huge thank you to Shane Turner for his organisation and Kylie McAuliffe (coordinator), Kathy Fernance and Zoltan Bourne from our P&C who organised prizes and distributed these to students on Friday. Visit our School Facebook page to see some great action shots snapped by Mr Greig.

P-3 students post (192 photos) -

Yr4 - 6 student post (246 photos)

On-line Raffle - 5 WEEKS TO GO!!

Please go online and purchase some tickets in our very first online raffle. Over $16,000 in cash, gift cards and prizes have been donated from our local businesses. There are four separate prize draws.

Help us raise much-needed funds for new home reading and library books for our kids in Prep to Year 2 and for extending our Kitchen Garden! Tickets start at $5 - Drawn on 24/12/2020.

We are hoping everyone with an online presence can spread the word and the link to help broaden our purchasing audience further than just our local community.

Year 6 End of Year

This year our Year 6 Awards Ceremony will be held on Tuesday morning at 9:30am in the last week of school. Due to Covid restrictions in indoor venues, students may only have 1 adult in attendance. On Tuesday evening students will enjoy a meal at the RSL with their teachers and admin staff Unfortunately this year parents and guardians will not be able to attend due to Covid and restricted venue numbers. On Wednesday Year 6 students will enjoy a day at Kings Beach participating in activities run by Queensland Life Savers.

Early Finish to 2020 School Year

The last day of the school year will be Wednesday 9th December this year. Thursday 10th and Friday 11th of December will be Student Free Days.

2021 School Year

School commences on Wednesday 27th January 2021.

Uniform Shop 2021 Opening Times

Monday 18th, Wednesday 20th and Friday 22nd January 8:00am – 9:30am.

Volunteers are required to assist sell uniforms. Please leave a message at the office for Corinne who is organising helpers for these days.

Remember all helpers are volunteers giving up their holiday time to assist families to get organised for the start of the year. Thank you for showing them your appreciation.

Donate old uniforms

Good quality used uniforms are needed by our Uniform Shop. This includes hats, black shoes, shirts, jumpers, sports shirts etc. Please drop these into the office or Uniform Shop.

We ask parents of year 6 students if they are in the position to gift any quality uniform items back to the school to assist future families. Your generosity is very much appreciated.

Black Shoes – White Socks

Please ensure your children help to make our school look and feel great in 2021. It is an expectation EVERY student in every year level will have BLACK SHOES (joggers) and WHITE socks to commence the year.

Semester Two Reports 2020

School reports will be emailed to parents in the last week of School.

Register for Prep Now! Don’t wait

It is essential that parents who have not contacted the office to register their child for Prep in 2021 do so now. Please do not assume we know you are coming. Registration can be completed in a one minute phone call (Ph 5499 8333) or an email to admin@malenyss.eq.edu.au.

Note: all students will require a birth certificate before commencing Prep in 2021. I look forward to meeting with you soon. If you know a family in the area that has a Prep eligible student for 2021 please encourage them to contact us immediately.

Final Prep Transition Day this Wednesday

We will be holding our final Transition to Prep day this Wednesday 25th November 9.00am – 10.00am to ease children’s transition from home, kindy and day-care to Prep. Children are invited to attend with an adult. Parents can order uniforms for students on these days. Students need to be enrolled to attend our transition days.

MALENY STATE HIGH SCHOOL – Transition Days

Transition Days: Transition days for 2021 Year 7s will be held this week on Wednesday and Thursday (25th & 26th of November) at the Maleny State High School. This 2-day event will be only for those students who have submitted enrolment applications prior to these days.

Year 5 Camp

Next week our year 5 students are at Mapleton Camp from Wednesday to Friday. I look forward to joining them in activities throughout the week.

Leaving Maleny in 2021

As we are currently organising our class formation for 2021 it is important that we are advised ASAP if students won’t be returning to our school next year. Please email or call Desley in the office.

Have a Magic Week in Maleny.
John

From the Deputy Principal

Helpful things to do to help your child become a better speller

Parents can assist us, in helping their children achieve success in spelling, reading, and writing. Here are some helpful tips that will help set your child on the path to word study success!

1. When reading to your child, point out patterns that occur across words “Look! The letters ‘ss’ at the end of ‘mess’ and ‘dress’ make one sound—/ s / .” Encourage your child to look for other words with the same pattern.
2. When your child asks you how to spell a word, don’t automatically spell it for them. Ask them to think about phonemes (sounds) in the word, the letter patterns of other words that are similar, and the meaning of the word.
3. When your child brings home their weekly spelling list, ask him to look for patterns across words and group words together according to the same pattern; we don’t want him to think that words can only be memorized.
4. If your child is stuck on how to spell a word, start by asking them to think about each phoneme they hear in the word and putting at least one letter for each phoneme; make sure they write the letters at the exact same time they say the corresponding phoneme.
5. Point out that words that are related by meaning often use the same base or root. “Hey! ‘Magician’ and ‘magic’ have similar meanings. I see ‘magic’ in ‘magician’ even though I don’t hear it in there.”
6. When your child needs to spell a long word, encourage them to think of smaller chunks within the word that have meaning. “’Comfortable’. Well, I know how to spell ‘comfort’ and I know that ‘able’ is often spelled as ‘a‐b‐l‐e’. Let’s try that.”
7. When you are helping your child learn to spell a word, associate with a word he already knows how to spell. “How do you spell ‘toast’? Well, it rhymes with or sounds a lot like ‘boast’. Use ‘boast’ to help you spell ‘toast’.”
8. When spelling a word, encourage your child to say the individual phonemes – not the letter names – as they write the corresponding letters; we say phonemes and we write letters.
9. Don’t dismiss spelling as something that can always be corrected by spellcheckers. That’s simply not the case!

Paula Heiniger

Students of the Week: Week 5

Students of the Week: Week 6

From the Office

Payments

Payments can be made by any of the following methods.

1. Directly into our bank account noting the invoice number, initial and surname of the student for whom you are paying. Our Bank account details are:
   BSB: 064-462 Account Number: 10080359
2. Credit card using the bPoint reference number that is located on the bottom left hand side of your invoice. Credit card payments can also be made in person at the office.
3. Cash and cheque can be made by placing the cheque/correct change in a payment envelope and depositing it into the drop-safe in the office. Please ensure that the envelope is sealed so the cash does not fall out. Please write the student’s name, class, amount enclosed and what the payment is for, clearly on the envelope.

Office hours are 8:00am to 4:00pm on Monday - Friday.

Contact Details – Do we have your most up to date contact details?

There are times when we may need to contact parents and carers. Do we have your most up to date contact details? If not, please contact the school on 5499 8333 so we can update our records. These details include parent/carers’ name, address, phone numbers, email address and emergency contact details. Please remember to contact the school if any of these details change.

PBL (Positive Behaviour Learning)

Be Responsible - “PLAY FAIR”

This fortnight's new 4B rule is Be Responsible with the Buzz Phrase “Play Fair”.

This means we encourage all students to:

• play fairly
• include all in their games
• share and take turns, giving everyone a go
• help those that are still learning the rules and skills
• be a good loser and a good winner
• accept if others think they’re out or have made an error
• be cooperative and not bossy
• be a team player and show good sportsmanship
• use positive talk to themselves, their peers and adults
• to solve problems with their head not their hands – hands & feet to myself, think first, move away, breathe, report
• let go of what they can’t control
• use calming strategies when feeling upset
• use the high 5 to help solve problems
• move away and re-set

PBL Team

Year 4A, & 4B

What a busy term for the year 4s. In week 4 we had a wonderful time on the year 4 camp at Currimundi. It was most impressive that every child in year four was able to attend this fantastic camp. Body boarding, rock climbing, archery, catapults and the giant swing were among our favourite activities.

More recently, we have been working on assessment tasks for different subjects. In English our assessment task involved the children identifying and describing persuasive techniques used in cereal packaging. They are currently designing their own cereal box and incorporating persuasive techniques to appeal to their intended audience. In Maths the children completed some work on decimal numbers and money. In Science the children have enjoyed designing and investigating their own force game as part of their science assessment for this term.

Kylie Hulm (4A), Lou Walsh & Trish Mackay (4B)

Year 5A, 5B & 5C

Student Leaders for 2021

Recently Year 5 students have been involved in the school’s Leadership process. This has involved students interested in leadership roles in 2021 collecting evidence of service in many areas, e.g. volunteering and representing, which has been incredibly difficult this year. These were recorded in their “Passport to Leadership” booklets and verified by the relevant supervising adults. Following this, students submitted a form detailing the positions they were nominating for (School/Vice, Music, Sustainability and House Captains). Those vying for School Captaincy roles were interviewed and then the candidates presented speeches to the teaching staff and Year 4 and 5 students who voted for the people they believed were the best people to represent them. These votes have been counted and the new School Captains will be officially presented at the Year 6 Graduation ceremony in Week 10.

Last week students running for Music, Sustainability and House Captains spoke to the Year 4 and 5 classes. The candidates who were successful in being voted into these roles will be announced soon.

Congratulations to all students who nominated for any of these roles and who were involved in this process. Many students challenged themselves and stepped outside of their own personal comfort zones. The Year 5 teachers are incredibly proud of the efforts made, and by the way that students have conducted themselves throughout the whole process.

Year 5 Leadership Camp

In Week 9 the Year 5 students will be attending the Leadership Camp at Mapleton (QCC). The focus of this camp is to develop skills as the future 2021 school leaders. Students will undertake many activities which will see them work together as teams where they will show respect, care, compassion, as well as encourage and support each other. Over the years we have found that this experience really brings the cohort together forming strong bonds for their final year at primary school. The camp uses the hand symbol for students to reflect on their own values- especially their personal conduct, relationships and interaction with society and the environment. Students will participate in activities like Canoeing, the Rock Wall climb, Giant Swing and Archery where they will challenge themselves to a point where they feel that they have pushed their own personal boundaries.

Deb Darcy (5A), Eric Faulkner (5B), Caroline Hartley (5C) & Tammalee Johnston (5C)

LOTE Japanese

Sing songs

Singing and writing the lyrics of songs are great ways of learning how to speak, write and read a language. Students in year 5 have learned the song of ‘Oni no pantsu’, the pants worn by Oni, the ogre or troll, popular in Japanese literature, art and theatre. Oni is also the ‘it’ of a group game. Students have produced a colourful poster with the lyrics and the illustration of a ‘Oni’.

Meanwhile, students in year 6 have learned the theme song of the anime ‘Totoro’ and produce a poster with its lyrics. The song is about exploring the nature and the amazing feeling that it brings. Hopefully these students in year 6, will take away with them all the positiveness and the joy of exploring the nature as well as the cultural diversity, as they graduate primary school and move on towards the teenage and high school years in a very near future.

Emi Obara - Japanese Teacher

Enrichment Centre

Our school’s vision is for Connected Learners and Creative Leaders and one of Maleny’s past students Rory O’Chee is an exceptional example of our vision. Rory attended Maleny State School from 2008 to 2011 and participated in particular in the Enrichment Centre’s social clubs which used photography as a platform for developing valuable life-long skills. I would like to celebrate with our school’s community his amazing talent.

Innovation Centre News

Just a reminder that all school library books are due to returned. Please have a look around home and return any books your child has borrowed back to the library.

Adrian Greig- Innovation Teacher

From Our Tuckshop

The Tuckshop is open three day a week – Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

If you can help, please see Gunnar at the Tuckshop. Your support will be much appreciated.

FlexiSchools is our preferred ordering system and is simple and easy to use.

To register go to:

Uniform Shop

If you have one hour per month that you may be able to help us out in the Uniform Shop please contact the office on 5499 8333. Open from 8:30-9:00am on Fridays, bring along a friend and be part of our happy team

The Uniform Shop's regular hours are Friday mornings between 8.30 and 9.00am. Payment options are EFTPOS, cash or cheque at the uniform shop only. Alternatively, orders can be placed online at the link below by 5pm Wednesday for Friday pickup or class delivery.

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