Term 3 Week 6 2023
- Principal's News by Ange Padgett
- Team Mango We All Belong!
- Prep News by Kris Olsen
- Year 1 News by Melinda White
- Year 2 News by Kylie Vaughan
- Year 3 News by Ellaine Warner
- Year 4 News by Danielle O'Brien
- Year 5 News by Emma Crawshaw
- Year 6 News by Ben Mills
- Curriculum News
- News from our Partners
- Community News
Exciting Week at Mango Hill
I trust everyone was able to enjoy the short week by spending time with loved ones in the beautiful weather we have had.
This week we have more of our Year 4 classes attending the Bunyaville excursion, whilst some of our Year 3 classes will be attending Bike Education. Good luck also to the students representing our school at the AFLQ Schools Cup Finals.
The Wakakirri Heat will be held on Monday 21 August. I encourage our community to get behind our students and join us at the Logan Entertainment Centre for a fun night. Good luck to our Mango Team. I know you will do us proud.
Leadership Team Changes
Congratulations to Mrs Michelle Alcorn, DP Prep, for being asked to take on an acting principal role at a North Coast school. I know Michelle will do a fabulous job and I wish her all the best. As such, Mr Kris Olsen, will be taking on the role of DP Prep. Mr Olsen is an outstanding teacher and has experience in the role of Deputy Principal. I look forward to him joining the leadership team and anticipate that you will join with me in congratulating him.
Putting in a Little Extra
We are half way through Term 3 and students will be starting to consolidate their unit learning. I encourage students to put that little extra ‘effort’ into their learning and really challenge themselves by giving that little bit more. The small one percenters can compound to make big differences.
Have a wonderful week
Ange Padgett
Principal
apadg6@eq.edu.au
Yarn and Eats
Focus of the Week
The Care Class focus that will be delivered this Friday is ‘Ready scale’. We will also be consolidating this focus next week.
In classrooms this week we will be consolidating the new self-regulation tool again, which we call a Ready scale. Our Ready scale will help children to identify where they are on the scale, with the help of simplified words and images, and use strategies to get them “Ready”. We will also be looking at scenarios and placing these on the scale, while also considering some strategies to help us with our regulation and well-being.
Enrolments are now open for students attending Year 7 in 2024 at Mango Hill State Secondary College. Information regarding enrolments, including submitting an enrolment enquiry to access the enrolment application form, can be found on the College Website.
We encourage all future families to complete their enrolment application no so as to ensure all of our future students are able to attend our first Transition event on Wednesday 13 September (Week 10). Students must be enrolled to attend Transition.
There are two enrolment sessions remaining this term to support completion of the enrolment process ahead of the first transition event. These are Thursday 24th August and Thursday 7 September. Submit your application for enrolment ahead of these events so as to secure a enrolment interview this term.
Year 7 Future Scholars 2024
Are you a Year 6 student who enjoys being a problem solver and ‘out of the box’ creative thinker? Do you enjoy facing learning challenges and collaborating with other learners? Then Future Scholar is for you!
Applications for our Year 7 Futures Scholars class for 2024 are now open on the Mango Hill State Secondary College Website.
Future Scholars aims to build adaptable, resilient learners through igniting curiosity in critical local and global contexts. Students will engage in deeply collaborative experiences, developing problem-solving, critical and creative thinking, and self-reflection, towards personal goals and pathways for tomorrow.
Applications, including submission of digital entry projects, close 15 September 2023.
Book Week Posters
It has been so wonderful to see many smiling faces after a fantastic long weekend. Students have been eager to share their outstanding learning in writing as they continue to create a poster for our upcoming book week. I have seen so much perseverance and resilience to try and try again to create our best writing pieces. Has your child shared their poster with you?
Being our best in and out of school takes lots of practice. In Care Classes over the past fortnight, we have been learning about our Ready Scales. This helps our teachers and classmates know how we are feeling and what strategies we can use to move up the scale to be ready. Whether its in the classroom, playground or ANYWHERE, we can use our strategies to help us regulate and be ready. Last week we practised rainbow breaths to help our body combat stresses. I’m so excited to learn more strategies to self-regulate, helping us all be ready.
Have a great week
Kris Olsen
Deputy Principal- Prep
kolse55@eq.edu.au
Working to Excite our Audience
We are working hard to excite our audience with our retells in Year 1 Land this term.
A retell is part recounting what has happened, plus a little bit like a narrative (writing a story). We have to remain faithful to the original text (read in our Shared Reading unit of work) and then decide the important parts to include in our retell, so that we will excite our audience.
Which characters are vital to the story? Which events do we absolutely need to include so our retell makes sense – and in what order do we retell them?
How will we use verb groups and noun groups (Yes! We know what these are!) to build visual images in the readers’ minds
Each week, we write a whole new text. Our teacher models for us. We plan our ideas out, so we don’t get stuck mid-way “lost” with what to write. We use our Bump It Up Walls to help us.
We are also working on building our writing stamina. When we know more words, when we can write more words on the page, then the writing process becomes more automatic for our brains and less of a cognitive demand. We can spend more of our “brain power” tackling the ideas, rather than the mechanics.
Our teachers give us feedback as we go – so we can correct and add throughout the piece. Our teachers give us feedback at the end of our piece – so we can make our next piece even better.
Our Year 1 teachers are so proud of our writing progress since the beginning of the year!
Have a great week
Melinda White
Deputy Principal- Year 1
mwhit37@eq.edu.au
Exploring Multiplication and Division
The children in Year 2 have started to develop their understanding of multiplication and division by exploring ways to group and share collections. They are learning how to multiply and divide so that they can solve a range of problems.
There are three different ways of modelling multiplication:
- Set model eg. There were 4 teams with 5 people in each team.
- Length or linear model eg. There were 3 skipping ropes each 2m long.
- Array model eg. There were 4 rows of chairs with 6 chairs in each row.
It is important that students model and explain multiplication involving all three types of situations in order to develop a full understanding of the concept. By being familiar with all three models, students will learn to recognise multiplication situations because they understand the language and can represent their thinking using pictures and diagrams.
Check out these children from 2C who are have been using the set model to represent multiplication situations. They have been learning about how multiplication and addition are related. Multiplication can sometimes be referred to as repeated addition. Numbers can be multiplied together for example 3 x 4 = 12. This same sum can be represented using repeated addition 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 12
Father’s Day Stay and Play
Special loved ones are invited along to our upcoming Stay and Play afternoons to celebrate Father’s Day. These afternoons will take place on the following days:
- Monday 28 August – 2C, 2R and 2F
- Tuesday 29August – 2O, 2I, 2P and 1/2B
- Thursday 31 August – 2M, 2H, 2L and 2W
Please lookout for your invitation coming home soon. We ask those attending to RSVP to your child’s class teacher. We’d love to see all our loved ones there celebrating with us!
Have a wonderful week
Kylie Vaughan
Deputy Principal- Year 2
kvaug3@eq.edu.au
Learning in Year 3
This week, our Principal (Ms Ange Padgett) and other members of our leadership and teaching teams joined me on a Learning Walk and Talk in Year 3. We visited 3M, 3W, 3S and 3J and spoke with students about their learning in writing. Students are continuing a storyline with events, characters and a mood that is engaging. Next week, our Year 3s will begin their writing assessment in this unit. Classes are finalising their learning in Time and Multiplication in Math. Our next number unit is Fractions.
3W are looking forward to their Bike Safety Education excursion on Friday this week. Enjoy and learn, 3W!
Playing in Year 3
Our Senior Playground remains closed at this stage so our Year 3 students are making the most of the other play areas. Congratulations to our students attending Soccer Club who are showing kindness and fair play this term to each other and the staff who support soccer. I wonder if the Matildas have inspired us?! Well done, Soccer Club friends.
Book Week Parade
Parents are invited to attend the Year 3 Book Week parade next Friday 25 August at 11:45 am. Please see parade details in this newsletter.
Take care and have a wonderful week
Ellaine Warner
Deputy Principal-Year 3
ewarn23@eq.edu.au
Learning in Maths
Over the past week in Maths, our Year 4 students have finished their Fractions unit and have begun their Decimals unit. Students have been collaborating to identify the links between their understanding of fractions and their new learning about decimals. The Year 4 teachers have set up lots of engaging opportunities for students to explore this new concept and show what they know.
Fun at Bunyaville Environmental Education Centre
We have continued this week to have a great time visiting Bunyaville, with students learning about the phases of the water cycle and exploring this with hands-on activities and during bush walks.
See below for some fabulous photos of 4S, 4O and 4H.
Camp Night
Tonight, we will be holding our parent information night for our upcoming camp in Term 4. It will be held in Wandani at 5 pm.
A Teams link was emailed out to families. We will send out the PowerPoint of information presented, but if you are not able to join in-person or via Teams, please do not hesitate to reach out to your child's classroom teacher or myself.
Maths Lessons
This week I spent time working with a range of classes during Maths. What I loved specifically about all of the lessons that I participated in was the teachers and students use of Formative Assessment. Formative Assessment includes check-in tools to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by teachers to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. I loved watching all three of these classes utilise a range of different Formative Assessment techniques – including Move and Proves and Hinge Questions – to track how students were progressing with a concept. For students that had grasped a concept teachers provided opportunities to stretch and consolidate their understanding. Students that were still demonstrating they needed more teaching received targeted support and intervention to help cause learning. All of these classes had a great learning culture in which students knew that if they could not do something yet, with hard work, they would get there. Great work Year 5!
Emma Crawshaw
Deputy Principal – Year 5
ewils209@eq.edu.au
Learning in Year 6
This week I observed Maths lessons in 6M, 6L and 6W, where students are working with problems involving decimal operations and converting between units of measurement with decimal numbers. Our teachers are working hard with the students to develop their problem solving and reasoning skills as they encourage students to share their thinking while solving problems within different contexts.
In 6M, Mr McGregor challenged the class to use the most appropriate unit of measurement when recording the length of multiple items in the room. They then had to use their knowledge of connecting decimals to powers of 10, to convert these measurements between mm,cm, m and km. It was great to see the high level of engagement during this task and the support that the students offered each other as they engaged in peer tutoring throughout the lesson.
In 6L, Mrs Vafiopulous engaged her students in a lesson on finding missing digits within a decimal sum. The class worked together to co-construct success criteria on how to find the missing digits, before working in groups to answer some word problems to apply this skill. Such outstanding collaboration on display in this lesson!
In 6W, Mr White facilitated a revision lesson on their Decimals unit which is drawing to a close. Mr White cleverly designed some multiple choice questions, based on some misconceptions that had been identified in student work over the previous week. As a class, students answered these multiple choice questions and justified their thinking. It was great to hear the mathematical reasoning from students during this activity, as misconceptions were corrected!
Year 6 Graduation – fundraising help
Thank you so much to all the parents and carers who have responded to last week’s newsletter and email, requesting support at the Arts Fest to raise funds for Year 6 Graduation. This week I will be drafting a roster for the evening and will communicate this with those who have committed to helping.
The more volunteers we have to help out at our BBQ and to sell baked goods (and to bake the baked goods!), the better. If you can spare even a small amount of time on the night to volunteer, please reach out to me via email: bxmil3@eq.edu.au
Have a great week
Ben Mills
Deputy Principal –Year 6
bxmil3@eq.edu.au
Premier’s Reading Challenge
This is your last chance to get started if you haven’t already begun the Premier’s Reading Challenge. All completed forms need to be returned to the Hub by 25 August! We hope everyone has enjoyed reading and is now ready to celebrate with Book Week and Book Fair.
Book Week Competition
We have already received a handful of entries for the Book Week Competition but we can’t wait to receive so many more! All entries are due to the Hub by 25 August!
Book Fair
We are very excited about our upcoming Book Fair. From the 21 August for one whole week the Hub will be transformed into a Book Fair. Scholastic Book Fair provides an opportunity for families to purchase some new books while also supporting our school. A percentage of all sales is provided to the school which enables us to choose lots of new books for our Hub collection.
Book Fair will run from Monday 21 August until Friday 25 August, opening from 8am until 3pm every day. We will also be open every lunch time for students to purchase books. We will accept cash and/or cards. We can’t wait to see you there!
Accelerated Reader
Congratulations to Nina who this week read 1 million words in AR and Hyunsung who this week read 2 million words. We are very proud of both of these students and have added their photos to our special AR Millionaire Display. There is plenty of time left this term if you are working towards an AR goal. Keep reading!
Have a fantastic week
Suzette Holm, Jessica Rivett
shol0@eq.edu.au
P and C Update
Father's Day is fast approaching and the P&C are looking for volunteers to assist with our annual Father's Day stall.
The stall will be held on Wednesday 30 August and Thursday 31 August. You can stay all day and help, or just a few hours, whatever suits you.
We also require some assistance setting up the stall the afternoon of Wednesday 29 August.
If you are interested in helping, please open the link below and choose your preferred time.
https://volunteersignup.org/8PYM3
We also need some help sorting our gift items into classes. We do this so each class gets a choice of ALL the gifts, no matter if they are first to attend or the last class to attend the stall. We'll do this on Thursday 24 August from 8.30am. Again, if you can help, please sign up using the link below.
https://volunteersignup.org/RA7RF
These fundraising events are a great way to meet other parents and to contribute to our amazing school.
Little Bears in Training Program
Come down and try Rugby League for ages 4/5 at the Pine Rivers Bears, Mundin St, Petrie
$30 - includes 4 Weeks of quality coaching and fun, club shirt
Register on this link - https://form.jotform.com/232181919050856
Or email Jodi at rugbyleague@pineriversbears.com.au
