23 November 2021

Newsletter Articles

Date Claimers

Timetable for Maleny State School Swimming Program for Term 4 Weeks 5 – 9

Principal’s Report

There is a very real buzz of Country Fair fever around the school this week for what will be our biggest Fair ever with the inclusion of Conondale State School and the River School. This fits beautifully with our current School Rule Buzz Phrase of “Everyone Belongs”. Thank you for your kind donations to our stalls.

To ensure this event runs smoothly we need as many volunteers as possible to assist set up from 8:00am this Friday and at the Fair from 3:30pm. Many hands will allow volunteers to spend some time volunteering and most of the time having fun with their children. If you can volunteer please let us know now (call Desley 5499 8333) so we can organise a timetable to ensure we are not caught short. Volunteers make our event run smoothly and with a new cashless ticket system it is crucial that all families register and purchase tickets online.

To learn more about the Maleny Country Fair and to pre-purchase Stall Tickets and heavily discounted Rides Wristbands, go to:

Note: Online orders for Passes, Wristbands & Stall Tickets CLOSING 8pm on Thursday! DON’T MISS OUT!

Last week for Class Loose Change

Each class has a drink bottle they are collecting loose change in from now until the Country Fair. The class with the highest total will each receive a free ice block and free play or technology time.

Semester Two Reports 2021

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

Maleny State High School – Transition Days

Transition Days: Transition days for 2022 Year 6s will be held this week on Thursday and Friday (25 & 26 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. Parents will be responsible for arranging student transport to and from school each day to ensure this transition mimics exactly what a day at Maleny High next year will be like. All Year 6 teachers will be in attendance to support students during these days.

Year 5 Camp

Next week our Year 5 students are at Mapleton Camp on Wednesday to Friday 1-3 Dec. I look forward to calling in to see them in action throughout the week.

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 2022 do so now. Please do not assume we know you are coming. Registration can be completed in a one-minute phone call (Ph54998333) or an email to admin@malenyss.eq.edu.au.

Note: All students will require a birth certificate before commencing Prep in 2022. I look forward to meeting with you soon. If you know a family in the area that has a Prep eligible student for 2022 please encourage them to contact us immediately.

Remembrance Day

On Thursday 11 November our School Captains lead our Remembrance Day commemorations with a 9:00 service in our hall. I would like to acknowledge and thank our choir who were excellent and set the mood for this service. Students’ behaviour and respect were outstanding, a dropped pin could have been heard from the time the first footstep entered the hall until the last one left. Two students from each class had the honour of laying a piece of rosemary on a wreath at the front of the hall. Mrs Heiniger is to be congratulated for her meticulous organisation along with our School Captains who spoke beautifully.

Year 6 End of Year

This year our Year 6 awards ceremony will be held on Tuesday 7 December at 9:30am in the last week of school. On Tuesday evening, students will enjoy a meal at the RSL with their teachers and staff. Parents and guardians will not be able to attend due to restricted venue numbers. On Wednesday 8 December, Year 6 students will enjoy a day a Kings Beach participating in activities run by Queensland Life Savers.

Uniform Shop 2022 Opening Times

Mon 17, Wed 19, Fri 21 Jan 9:00am – 10:00 am

Volunteers are required to assist in selling uniforms, please leave a message for Desley at the office. 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.

Purchase Black Shoes and White Socks to start the 2022 year

Please ensure your children help to make our school look and feel great in 2022. It is an expectation EVERY student in every year level will have BLACK SHOES (joggers) and WHITE socks to commence the year.

Leaving our school or have a 2022 student enrolling

Our staffing formula is based on student day 8 2022 enrolment numbers and as such it is crucial that 2022 students enrol now to assist us with our class structure organisation. It is also crucial that if families are leaving next year they alert us now.

Final P&C Meeting

Our final P&C meeting for the term will be held next Wednesday 1 December at 8:50am in the Meeting Room face to face and by Skype. Please click on the link emailed to you on Monday before the meeting for you to join our Skype meeting. We will reflect on the Country Fair, look at the proposed budget for 2022 and future projects, update on refurbishment plans for the Uniform Shop and proposed plans for our new Out of Hours School Care room. With so many important decisions to be made at this meeting, the more parents we can have attend the better. We welcome and encourage new parents and citizens to attend all our meetings.

2022 School Year

School commences on Monday 24 January 2022.

Have a Magic Week in Maleny.

John

From the Deputy Principal

Literacy – Birth to School Year 2

Families play a key role in developing from birth a child’s language and literacy skills. A child’s understanding of the world and their capacity to learn is greatly influenced by how much their family values their literacy skills. Children who start school with greater literacy skills perform better in school, and not just in language-based subjects like English.

It is important to think of literacy in the early years as a range of different activities and forms of communication, including music, movement, dance, storytelling, visual arts and drama, as well as talking, viewing, reading, drawing and writing.

It is never too early to read to your child. Reading should start in the first few months after birth. Even if as an adult you don’t read often, or don’t particularly like reading, it is important that you spend this valuable time with your child to stimulate their language development and to encourage their love of reading.

Talk as much as you can with your child and engage them in conversation often. You may be their only source of language so the more you speak and engage with them, the faster they will learn new vocabulary and speak with greater fluency. Oral language skills are an important predictor of reading and writing skills, so the better your child can speak, the better their overall literacy skills will develop.

And remember, literacy in your child’s early years can always be fun. Excursions and playtime are great activities in which to engage and talk with your child. Fun activities are also the best opportunities to teach your child new vocabulary and new ways of saying things.

Paula Heiniger

Students of the Week

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)

Everyone Belongs!

Our current Focus and BUZZ Phrase is a Be Respectful rule “Everyone Belongs”.

This means we encourage all students to:

• Be kind.
• Be inclusive.
• Use polite and positive language online and in person.
• Treat others the way I want to be treated.
• Encourage and support others.
• Listen to others and accept their ideas.
• Take turns and include others.
• Show good sportsmanship

We are quickly filling our buckets of kindness in each classroom and excitedly watching the ROCKET fill up on assembly.

PBL Team

Year 4A & 4B

Designing Cereal Boxes

In English the students have been busy finishing assessment on advertising. They have been comparing the different visual and language features used on packaging. This week we have been designing our own breakfast cereal package

In Science, children have been busy completing assessments on forces. One of the challenges they completed was called a Teaspoon Catapult where the aim was to launch a table tennis ball, from a teaspoon that is balanced on a rubber, into a cup. They had five attempts to try to succeed. It proved to be quite challenging to apply just the right amount of force for the ball to end up in the cup. As well as this fun component, the children had to complete diagrams and write about all the forces involved.

We would appreciate any cake or biscuit donations for our cake stall for the Country Fair.

Kerry Lees (4A), Lou Walsh & Trish Mackay (4B)

Year 4/5C

English

Over the last few weeks we have started writing our own poems/raps based on well-known fairytales. These will be presented to younger students over the next week. Here are some excerpts of our poems:

Media Arts

Students have been working hard to create e-magazine covers. The Year 4 students have based their creations on the “War on Waste” and sustainable waste management, while the Year 5 students have based their designs on “Getting Ready” for a natural disaster. Here are a few images of our “almost finished” projects which have sound files inserted.

Deb Darcy (4/5C)

Year 6A, 6B & 6C

Camp Report

In week 4, the Year 6 students went on a camp to Noosa Northshore. We had great fun with the activities, such as canoeing, rock climbing, archery, mountain biking and stand up paddle boarding. On the first night we had an amazing night time walk to Teewah Beach. We also played laser tag where we got to shoot Mr Byrne and Mr Corkin. It was a great experience as we learned to keep going and push our limits when something didn’t go our way. The food was amazing and the instructors were really nice. A huge thank you to our Year 6 teachers plus Mrs Marion and Mr Byrne.

Written by Ebony, Bella and Rylee.

English

During English this term, Year 6 had to argue a point of view about the effectiveness of literary and informative texts in conveying their message. Here are some short extracts of student work:

Do you like reading entertaining, emotional stories? If so, Kim Dale’s ‘Moon Bear Rescue’ is definitely the book for you. A good literary text is always far superior to a good informative text, as clearly shown when comparing ‘Moon Bear Rescue’ with ‘Southern Asian Moon Bears.’ Despite the fact that the informative text is naturally packed with more information, it’s scientific language can make it hard to read, especially for younger readers, who could be prone to lose interest, while the literary text has the benefit of an interesting storyline, emotional and engaging images and an elaborate use of language features which make it entertaining for people of all ages. Moreover, ‘Moon Bear Rescue,’ also conveys the message of both texts in a way that makes the reader feel for the moon bears (something ‘Southern Asian Moon Bears,’ fails to do) which better empowers them to do something to save these magnificent creatures. (HG)

The literary text has beautiful hand drawn illustrations that evoke emotions and make the reader feel sympathy for Star. The brochure just uses photos and graphs, which give you information, but don’t provoke emotions. The literary text uses crayons, oil pastels, pencils and watercolours to make the pictures radiate emotion. Kim Dale is a very talented woman, as she wrote and illustrated the book. The brochure is also informative and well written, because the images show what the text is talking about. But, Moon Bear Rescue also does this. One example is when it says “She roared from the depths of her soul.” The image on the page is Star’s mother opening her gaping mouth and roaring in sadness in front of the moon. This ties in the images with the text. It also provokes emotions and make the reader feel sad for Star’s mother. This is another reason why Moon Bear Rescue gets a better message across. (FC)

Most readers aren’t looking for lots and lots of information, they’re looking for a good emotional story, and that’s exactly what ‘Moon Bear Rescue’ is. The text structures, visual features and language features all work together to make the narrative the best that it can be. The brochure doesn’t express any of these topics as strong as the narrative because the brochure has too much bulky information. Overall, the narrative delivers its message much better than the brochure. (EO)

The language features in Moon Bear Rescue help to develop the message a lot better than the informative text does. Dale uses personification like ‘the rainforest glowed’ to engage the readers and to entertain them as well. She also uses descriptive language like ‘the energetic cub’ and ‘moss covered log’ to help you create an image in your mind. Using language features like personification help to convey your emotions and to make you feel happy, sad and worried all the way through. Moon Bear Rescue has great language features to explain the reality of moon bears being captured. (EC)

A good literary text can deliver a message far more powerful than a good informative text. ‘Moon Bear Rescue’, a brilliantly structured picture book, illustrated and written by Kim Dale, displays the meaning of the moon bear`s plight through the use of its text structure, language features and visual features. It brings awareness to the fact that these poor, innocent creatures are being taken from their natural habitat and tortured for their bile, in an entertaining way which appeals to all ages. It shows the rehabilitation of a species through the point of view of a young moon bear called Star. Whereas, in the scientific brochure, ‘Southern Asian Moon Bears’, they might give you informative paragraphs and factual images but it lacks all the engaging things the book contains, sending the message not nearly as effective as the literary text. (EH)

IMPORTANT DATES

Transition Days – Maleny State High School – Thursday 25 November, Friday 26 November

Country Fair – Friday 26 November 2021 – from 3.30pm

Graduation Ceremony Maleny State School – Tuesday 7 December 9.30am – 11.00am (approx)

Graduation Dinner (Students only) – Tuesday 7 December – starting at 6pm (note to come)

Beach Day – Year 6 Beach Safety Program – 8 December (school hours)

Emma Back (6A) & Greg Corkin (6B), Kylie Hulm (6C)

War on Waste

Outstanding Leaders for the Future

I was so very proud of the ten students who represented our school at the Waste Management Expo last week in town. Our stall looked amazing with all the beautiful artwork from Year 4’s promoting our waste systems in the school. The students spoke so well to members of the public and managed to sell all the salad bags they made up from our school garden.

Our New Native Beehive for the Rainforest

Last week, Dean from Brymac Native Bees delivered our new native beehive for the rainforest. It was very exciting for the students to watch the bees being released after their trip up from Glasshouse Mountains. We were able to look through the viewing window to see the hive inside. We now have 5 native beehives in the school!

Planting our New Richmond Birdwing Butterfly Vines

Last week we added some more Richmond Birdwing Vines to our fence in the garden. Justin (our lovely groundsman) has been helping us tidy up the garden area. We picked some vegetables today which was exciting.

The Garden Club members planted a Richmond Birdwing Butterfly Vine in our rainforest today, and we will add more over the next few weeks.

It has certainly been a wonderful week!!!

Kind Regards
Lou Walsh

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.

P & C News

Uniform Shop

The Uniform Shop's regular hours are Friday mornings between 8.30am and 9.00am. Payment options are EFTPOS, cash or cheque at the uniform shop only. Alternatively, uniforms can be purchased via the P&C online store.

Flexischool ordering is now only available for Tuckshop.

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

School Holiday Open Days:

Monday 17, Wednesday 19 & Friday 21 January 9am - 10am

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 the link below:

Community News

The Maleny branch of the Sunshine Coast Libraries is participating in the State Library of Queensland Summer Reading Club. Keep up your reading over the summer holidays by participating in this great activity. Parents and carers can sign up children to participate in the online club that has heaps of activities to keep you busy reading before the new year begins. Visit Sunshine Coast Libraries or the Summer Reading Club site at for more information.

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