10 October 2022

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Principal’s Report

Mental Health Week

This year’s Mental Health Week theme - Awareness, Belonging and Connection is illustrated above visually by proud Mayi artist Leah Cummins – “Stronger connection creates strong health", reflecting the important factors that help people maintain positive mental health and wellbeing.

This theme fits beautifully with our school value of creating a supportive learning culture and ensuring everyone feels like they belong.

• Awareness is about understanding the things we need to maintain and boost our mental wellbeing and knowing when we need to reach out for help and where to get it.
• Belonging is about looking out for each other, ensuring we feel safe and supported and understanding that however we feel, we’re not alone and that there are others going through the same thing.
• Connection is about our relationships with our friends, families and those that we care about, as well as the groups, clubs and networks around us that we rely on to help keep us happy and healthy, wherever we live, work or play.

Principal’s Conference

This week I will be attending our State Principal’s Conference in Brisbane along with 1400 other Principals and Senior State Educational Leaders. This is a great opportunity to explore new perspectives, listen to key note presentations on best practice, network with key stakeholders and conference partners and engage in workshops with leading researchers and recognised experts in education.

Year 4 Camp

On the last three days of Term 3, I had the great pleasure of being at Currimundi Camp with our Yr 4 students. I have attended this camp many times but I would have to say this was one of the best camps I have been on. The reason was not due to the facilities, activities, instructors or menu but simply the incredibly supportive nature, respectful manner and excellent behaviour of our students. I would also like to acknowledge the efforts of our staff that put their lives on hold to volunteer and make these camps possible for our students to attend.

Instrumental Music Concert for Preps to Year 3

This Wednesday morning our Instrumental Band will perform for our junior school and our Instrumental Music teacher, Mr Nathan Hill, will introduce our instrumental program to our Year 3 students particularly, who will be eligible to apply to be in the program in Year 4, 2023.

Instrumental music is a great opportunity for your child to begin to learn an instrument, join the school/district concert band and perform at both school and community events.

Instruments on offer to learn are: Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Euphonium and Percussion. If your son/daughter is interested in learning one of these listed instruments, please complete the Instrumental application and return it to school by Monday 7 November 2022. Please note – piano or guitar, is not offered.

All students will be involved in a number of basic musical tests which may determine whether your son/daughter is suitable to learn a musical instrument and which instrument. Please note there are a limited number of instruments available at our school. The easiest way to join the school Instrumental Music Program is to acquire your own instrument for 2023.

For further information, please do not hesitate in contacting Nathan Hill at Maleny State School or on nhill37@eq.edu.au.

Term 4 Camps

We are excited to offer students in Years 5 and 6 the opportunity to go to camp this term.

Week 3: (19 -21 Oct) Year 6 Noosa North Shore
Week 8: (21-23 Nov) Year 5 Maranatha

Swimming Term 4 2022

Swimming commences on Monday 31 October (Week 5). All students will participate in Swim and Survive Lessons. Swim and Survive is a national swimming and water safety program to teach children essential foundation skills in swimming, water safety, personal survival and basic rescue. These lessons will continue until Tuesday 29 November (Week 9).

Leaving our school or have a 2023 Prep student enrolling

Our staffing formula is based on student day 8 2023 enrolment numbers and, as such, it is crucial that all 2023 students, including Prep 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 to ensure our prediction of our class structure is accurate.

Police Road Safety Initiative

In a world-first road safety initiative, new speed camera technology will soon target speeding drivers at selected school zones across Queensland.

Everyone has a role in keeping our roads safe. It is imperative drivers reduce their speed to the signed 40 km/h speed limit and be aware of activity by students on or near the road. Note that our main road into Maleny is 40 km/h, 24 hours a day.

Speed cameras will only operate during school zone times at the selected schools. Parents and carers dropping off or picking up students are urged to comply with school zone speed limits. Those who slow down will not be penalised.

2023 Classes

Class Preference Forms Due in by Week 3 Term 4

Please ensure you have completed a class preference form in writing by Friday 21 October 2022 if you would like us to consider any educational reasons about the placement of your children in 2023. I remind parents that we are a relatively small school and most year levels will have two full class cohorts, this does not allow for a great deal of flexibility around which class or teacher some requests may ask for. All requests made on time are considered but ultimately decisions are made by the school to benefit all students rather than specific individuals. We aim for balanced classes and an incredible amount of time is put into making up classes by teachers who consider numerous factors including: academic, behaviour, social-friends, emotional, students with special needs, disabilities, physical classrooms, legitimate on time parent requests. Sorry late requests from parents will not be able to be considered. For requests to be considered they must be lodged on time on the correct form and any request previously submitted in a past year must be resubmitted again this year if you wish the same circumstances to be considered. Once classes are formulated changes will not be made. Our staffing formula is based on student day 8 2023 enrolment numbers and as such it is crucial that 2023 Prep 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.

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 2023 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 2023. I look forward to meeting with you soon. If you know a family in the area that has a Prep eligible student for 2023 please encourage them to contact us immediately.

Prep Enrolment Interview Dates:

If you have not booked your Prep enrolment interview with your child please do so as soon as possible.

Interviews commenced last week and will continue this week, Wednesday 12 October and Thursday 13 October and Monday 24 October 2022.

Please call 5499 8333 to book your 20 min interview with your child and collect enrolment forms from the office or on the School’s website.

Welcome to Prep and Transition Days

Students need to be enrolled to attend our transition days on 2, 9 and 16 November from 9:00am to 10:00am. Parents can order uniforms for students on these days. Parents must attend these sessions unless children are coming with Good Start Centre staff.

Prep Information Session

A Prep information session will be held in our school Innovation Centre on Wednesday 26 October at 5:00pm. Teachers will explain in detail to parents what Prep is all about and answer specific questions on matters of interest.

P&C Meeting This Week

Our next meeting will be this Wednesday 12 October at 8:50am in the Innovation Centre. We hope that you can attend to hear the success of both our Country Fair and new Out Of School Hours Care program and offer your feedback.

Have a Magic Holiday in Maleny.
John

From the Deputy Principal

Year 5 Leadership

All Yr 5 students received an information package at the beginning of last week outlining the nomination and election process and timelines.

The process for the election of School Captain positions this term, will include completing a nomination form and 1 typed page detailing how they plan to fulfil their role as a school leader and how they meet the criteria, with Passport included. Students who are shortlisted will then take part in an interview process, students shortlisted after this process will be required to present speeches to staff at a staff meeting, and the Yr 4/5 student bodies.

The qualities that we value in our school leaders at Maleny State School are:

1. Shows an interest in and participates in school activities.
2. Is helpful to fellow students and teachers.
3. Has or can develop leadership qualities.
4. Demonstrates good behaviour.
5. Is reliable and trustworthy.
6. Can communicate effectively amongst all year levels.

We wish all our Year 5 students the best of luck in their leadership journeys.

Year 3 & 5 Naplan Student Reports

NAPLAN reports were sent home with students from Yr 3 & Yr 5 on Thursday 15 September.

All students who participated in the NAPLAN tests receive an individual report of their results.

NAPLAN individual student reports provide information about what students know and have achieved in reading, writing, conventions of language and numeracy. The reports also provide information on how students have performed against the national average (over one million students participate in NAPLAN tests each year) and the national minimum standards.

In May 2022 most students sat NAPLAN online, while Yr 3 writing was completed on paper. As students for both online and paper are assessed on the same literacy and numeracy content, results are reported on the same NAPLAN assessment scales.

What is in the NAPLAN student report?

The front page of the student report provides general information about the tests and an explanation of how to read the report.

The second and third pages have diagrams showing the relevant part of the assessment scale in bands for that year level. For each year level, only 6 of the 10 bands are shown on the student report.

• Year 3 student reports show bands 1–6. The national minimum standard is band 2.
• Year 5 student reports show bands 3–8. The national minimum standard is band 4.

A student’s result in each area (reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy) is marked on the common assessment scales. Diagrams in the student report also show the range for the middle 60% of students, the national average result, and the national minimum standard for each year level. Reports in some states and territories also show the school average.

The final page of the report has a table that provides a brief description of what students have typically demonstrated in the tests at each band.

For more information about how to understand the results in the student report, see How to interpret .

Additional materials to explain the NAPLAN student report:

• Download the  Individual student report – FAQs for parents/carers (PDF 232 KB) , which provides detailed information about how to understand your child's individual student report. See below for translations.
• Watch:  Overview of the student report (1 min 41s)
• See example student reports (we recommend using Adobe to view the documents):
      Year 3 example individual student report (ISR) without school mean (PDF 294 KB)
      Year 5 example individual student report (ISR) without school mean (PDF 309 KB)

Paula Heiniger – Deputy Principal

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)

New PBL Focus

Welcome back everyone, we can’t believe it’s Term 4 already! What a fantastic year so far. This fortnight we introduce a new Buzz Phrase “Play Fair” which is a Be Responsible Rule.

For our students this means: ·

• I will play fairly and for fun, not win at all costs
• I will co-operate with my friends
• I will take turns when playing games
• I will follow the rules
• I will share and show respect
• I will be a modest winner and good loser
• I will help those still learning to play
• I will include all in games and not exclude others
• I will speak appropriately to all
• I will walk away and cool down by myself if I get frustrated
• I will seek a teacher on duty’s assistance if a problem arises

Play Fair

This Buzz Phrase is particularly helpful to teach students about the virtue of cooperation and helps students understand why we need rules at school and in life. You might discuss with your child how rules at school maybe different to your rules at home or on the soccer field for example and reinforce the importance of sharing and taking turns to be inclusive.

Have a great fortnight!

The PBL Team

Prep A & Prep B

Visualising

Our latest reading goal is Visualising. Good readers make pictures in their minds when they are reading. They visualise what they see, hear, feel, smell and taste.

The Preps enjoyed visualising an imaginary creature called a Nogard. They listened to a description of this creature and made pictures in their minds. They then drew the creature as it was described. It was wonderful to see how different everyone’s pictures were. Do they remind you of something? What word do you get when you spell Nogard backwards?

Mandy Bauer (Prep A) & Jenny Jenkinson (Prep B)

Year 2A

Welcome Back! A busy term ahead

I would like to start by saying all students in Yr 2A have made a wonderful effort in creating their Information Reports on the Northern Blossom bat. The details of labelling their image and high standard of sentence writing was excellent to see. Well done 2A.

We have completed our Science investigation on our Mealworms (Darkling Beetles). It was great to see them transforming before our eyes.

We have another busy term ahead, finishing off our HASS, Drama and Digital Technology units. Along with our English and Math.

Just a reminder, hats are required every day and homework is due on a Friday. It is great to see everyone back for Term 4.

Sarsha Anthony, Tam Johnston (2A)

Year 2/3C

Welcome Back Term 4

Only 9 weeks to go and so much to do! Students in 2/3C have been working hard to complete their Informative Assessment pieces on Australian animals. Not only are the labelled diagrams looking fantastic but the use of language specific vocabulary in their writing has been impressive. We will be moving on next week to humorous poetry for our final English unit this year. Our maths focus in these first weeks will be on location and transformation. Students have enjoyed using the computers to consolidate learning of these concepts.

I wanted to once again acknowledge all the parents who volunteered at our Country Fair, I could not have done it without you!

Olivia Cox (2/3C)

Students of the Week: Week 10, Term 3 2022

P & C News

Next P&C Meeting Wed 12 October @ 8.50am

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 visit the link below.

Uniform Shop & Online Store

Due to delays in the refurbishment of the existing space, the Uniform Shop will only be able to take and process online orders with delivery to classrooms.

For online orders and to check out our new items, please visit the link below.

Chappy News

Self-worth

I recently had the privilege of running a session for our Yr 6 students on self-worth. We discussed our natural abilities and passions as well as our own uniqueness. We also touched on how regularly comparing ourselves to others can have negative effects on our esteem.

We brainstormed ways that we can look after ourselves, body and mind. We spoke about how positive input and messages can greatly improve our own view of ourselves and how we can contribute to the community.

So, how are you working on your own self-worth? I believe it is important no matter what age you are. I encourage you to review your own gifts and talents and be inspired to use these to assist you in boosting your own mental health as well as serving your community. How are you looking after yourself body and mind? You are a treasure, fearfully and wonderfully made.

Chappy’s quote for the day: “If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person”. – Fred Rogers

Chappy Chris

From the Office

Payments

Payments can be made by any of the following methods.

1. 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.

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