Term 3 Week 7 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
- Sporting News by The PE Department
- News from our Partners
Wandani Arts Fest
We have had another fantastic week at Mango Hill State School and have many exciting things coming up as we approach school holidays. One such thing is our Wandani Arts Festival being held on Wednesday 6 September. The Mango Team would love for you to join us for our annual festival celebrating The Arts. Students have been busy creating individual masterpieces as well as collaborating with other classes to create artwork that will be auctioned on the night. Food and drinks will also be available to purchase.
Parent Teacher Interviews
Parent Teacher Interviews will be held over a four-week window including the last two weeks of Term 3 and the first two weeks of Term 4. Each teacher will choose dates and times depending on when they are ready to share assessment results and other information.
Please book interview times via https://eq.sobs.com.au/pt3/parent.php?schoolid=70371
Bookings are currently open and will be up until 10am Thursday 31 August 2023.
The focus of these interviews is to share how your child is progressing in the key areas of social and emotional wellbeing, English and Maths, and to discuss their learning goals.
If you have any trouble accessing the site, or you don't have an email account, please contact Jasmine Benfer in the office for assistance jbenf10@eq.edu.au
If you are having any trouble with the times offered, please email the class teacher to arrange an alternate time.
Please see below for further instructions.
https://eq.sobs.com.au/docs/sobs-pt3-parents.pdf
Catching on Early
At Mango Hill State School, we aim to create a safe, supportive and inclusive environment for all students and their families. Each year, we teach sexuality education, respectful relationships and child safety in all year levels from Prep - Year 6. All families will today receive an email with further details about this program. To ensure your child has consent to participate in these lessons in Term 4, please complete the form emailed and return to the class teacher by Friday 8 September.
Congratulations to our Wakakirri Team
I had the pleasure of attending Wakakirri on Monday night. It was the first time I have attended such an event. I loved every moment of it. Our team told a story of change through a performance called ‘Struggles to Strength’. Congratulations to the Mango Team for winning two awards – ‘the Lead Cast award for performance in dancing and acting’ and ‘the Spirit of Wakakirri’. To say I was proud of our team, is an understatement. I saw happy, healthy, talented and connected students dance as one. The performance was an absolute stand out. These events are not possible without parent volunteers, so I pass on my thanks to our amazing parents who assisted our team. A huge thank you also to Mrs Kostoglou and Miss Sheehan for their inspirational and clever choreography. These teachers have dedicated so much of their time to this event. Thank you also to Mr Vlieg for helping on the day.
Next Wednesday and Thursday we will hold our annual Father’s Day stall. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to purchase a gift for their Dad or other precious loved one. Students will attend the stall with their class. Gifts range from $1 to $6.
We are looking for assistance from some parents. If you can help for an hour or two at the stalls, please sign up at https://volunteersignup.org/8PYM3
Children love to see their parents helping and showing how much they value our school. Please assist if you can!
Have a wonderful week
Ange Padgett
Principal
apadg6@eq.edu.au
The countdown to our annual Arts Fest is on! We can’t wait to join together as Team Mango to celebrate all things The Arts.
Things to look forward to include the following.
- 1600 individual art pieces, displayed in our Wandani Art Gallery. This is such a fabulous opportunity to enjoy art with your family!
- Our class art piece auctions. Buy an authentic, original piece of art, created by our students. We love high bids! All funds return to us, to create our Arts Fest extravaganza for the following year. Ray White supports our event by joining us with their real-life, professional auctioneer.
- “Join in” activities on our piazza stage. There’ll be drumming and dancing and singing for you to participate in.
- Food, festivities and fun. Join with your family in the piazza for dinner. Our Year 6 grad team is cooking the bbq and having a bake sale. Our Arts Fest team will have pizzas for sale – Meat Lovers, Hawaiin, Vegetarian and Cheese. We ask that you pre-order through Qkr! app by 4 September. There will also be drinks and snacks for sale.
- Our gelato friends are joining us again for you to purchase scoops of delicious gelato.
- A range of arts activities for you to enjoy together as a family. Our parents supervise their own children at this event. On offer we have: painting, maker space, STEM activities, Italian mosaic craft, mandala and rangoli chalk drawings, cartooning and henna. The henna is provided by our parents and this year will be $5.00 for each design. We encourage you to pre-pay for this via our QKR app. Parents will need to accompany their own child to the henna stall, to give permission for their child to have a henna design on their hand.
Show your support to our Year 6 students fundraising for graduation and purchase a raffle ticket. There are some amazing prizes to be won including the following.
- Hey Caddy - 4 x $100 family passes
- Eatons Hill - $100 dining voucher
- Revolution - 3 x 2 for1 vouchers
- Australia zoo - 1 x Child entry pass
- North Lakes Sports club - $50 Venue voucher
- Dolphins NRL - Raffle prize pack (Wine included)
- Victoria Park Mini golf - 1 x $60 family pass
- Luke Howarth - Gift hamper - (Wine included)
- 1 x professional family photography session
Tickets can be pre-purchased between now and 5.30pm on Wednesday 6 September (Arts Fest night) via the Qkr! app. Tickets can also be purchased on the night. Prices are 1 ticket for $2.00 or 3 tickets for $5.00.
Silent Auction – bid on an artwork by a local artist!
Some artists in our school community have donated 5 beautiful pieces of work that could be yours! All proceeds will go towards the Year 6 graduation. Place a bid on the night for your chance to secure one of these outstanding works of art!
Please see below these amazing art pieces.
Pace Classrooms 2024
As we continue our journey in the redesign of the Mango Hill State School Reach Framework our goal is to continue to enhance and enrich the learning and wellbeing of high ability learners but broaden and recognise the scope of enrichment opportunities being offered across the school.
In 2024 we will move to Pace Classroom placements; these classes will no longer be called Reach. Using a range of data sets students are identified for the Pace classroom placement as they tend to be learning at a faster pace than their peers. These students often require less repetition in most areas of the curriculum; therefore, they tend to move through the learning at that faster pace. This allows for enriched learning opportunities such as Personal Projects with a focus on going deeper in the learning.
Pace classrooms are designed to meet the differentiated needs of students demonstrating very high academic achievement in multiple learning areas. To further ensure we continue to support the wellbeing and connection of our learners, Pace classrooms will be engaging in collaborative learning experiences and curriculum areas with their fellow peers from neighbouring classes, that is another exciting opportunity for our students. It is very important to acknowledge that Mango Hill State School has many very high achieving students across each and every classroom. Through quality curriculum design and collaborative approaches all teachers in all classrooms modify the learning journey, catering for the needs of each child, based on ongoing student data and engagement to stretch, enrich and provide every opportunity for all students to reach their potential.
2024 Pace Classroom Identification Process
Data collected by class teachers, support personnel and parents are triangulated and utilised to identify individual students who may require curriculum modification and inclusion in the Pace Classroom Placement and/or provided enrichment and extension opportunities under the wider Pace Framework. A combination of subjective and objective measures is utilised in the identification of students to inform classroom selection and further enrichment and extension.
These data sources include
Whilst there is one Pace classroom in each year level, Mango Hill State School ensures inclusive programming and curriculum design for all students through rigorous moderation and differentiated learning opportunities. Each year, Pace class placements are reviewed based on current student data sources. We are excited to be on this journey and look forward to continuing to enhance and enrich the learning of all our students at Mango Hill State School.
Focus of the Week
The Care Class focus that will be delivered this Friday is ‘Unconditional Positive Regard’. We will also be consolidating this focus next week.
In classrooms this week we will be learning about what it means to have unconditional positive regard towards others. Students will begin to understand that this means expressing empathy, offering support, regardless of what the person has said or done e.g. offering compassion to people even if they have done something wrong.
Unconditional positive regard emphasizes the healing power of human connection by offering kindness to one another even if they have made a mistake.
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.
Positional Language to Describe Location
Over the past weeks our Prep superstars have been learning how to use the appropriate language to describe location in maths. We have been using our positional language to describe and explain the position of everyday objects. By playing different games, sharing scenarios, and even drawing pictures, we have been able to represent our understanding. This language is important to help our students with their communication skills, ability to follow directions and cognitive development.
Please check out our photos below.
Book Week
This Friday we are very excited for our first book week parade. The theme of this year is Read, Grow, Inspire. Our Parade will begin at 9:15am in Gigum Hall. I can’t wait to see our students dressed in their favourite book characters and parade around the hall. We are also looking forward to having our local kindy and playgroup joining us. We hope to see you there.
Fathers Day Stay & Play
Special loved ones are invited along to our upcoming Stay and Play morning to celebrate Father’s Day. The mornings will take place on the following days:
Wednesday 30 August 7:45am -8:30am - Prep J, Prep L, Prep B, Prep S, Prep V
Thursday 31 August 7:45am – 8:30am - Prep N, Prep T, Prep W, Prep R
We’d love to see all our loved ones there celebrating with us!
Have a great week
Kris Olsen
Deputy Principal- Prep
kolse55@eq.edu.au
Understanding Regulation
Through our Care Classes we’ve been working hard to understand regulation and what it means to be a regulated human in the world. In Year 1, there’s been some Big Feelings recently and this Care Class work has helped us to help ourselves and our friends to be their best at school.
We are very proudly an inclusive school; if you’re in our catchment, you’re welcome to join Team Mango! We’re diverse; with many different cultural backgrounds, social needs and disabilities.
We’re a family. And like any family who spend a great deal of time together, sometimes our Big Feelings can get the better of us! Plus, we’re kids - so we’re bound to make mistakes. We work hard to reflect on our choices so that if there’s something we can change, we can try to do better next time.
You can help to support us at home by doing the following.
* asking open ended questions, “tell me about” - this helps our kids to learn to share in their own words
* helping our child see the world from all perspectives, “I wonder how Sam felt when you said he couldn’t play?”
* promoting kindness, always. “You don’t have to be best friends with everyone, but we do expect you are kind to everyone.”
* acknowledging Big Feelings by noticing and naming these feelings and talking them through, “I can see you’re frustrated. How can I help?”
* modelling self-care, “Gosh, that was tricky, I’m going to need some big, deep breaths to regulate.” Or perhaps, “Today was a tough day for me, I’m going to have a shower to relax.”
We don’t always get along, in families, in friendship groups, in life. But we can always learn the skills needed to manage conflict and to be kind to everyone.
Have a great week
Melinda White
Deputy Principal- Year 1
mwhit37@eq.edu.au
The Ready Scale in Year 2
The children in Year 2 have spent the last three Care classes learning all about our new whole school Ready scale.
What’s the purpose of a Ready scale?
A Ready to Learn scale is a prompt to support students to check in on their internal world of sensations and emotions. If students are not yet ready to learn, this is an opportunity to support them to label strong emotions or sensations. Next we can offer strategies for de-escalating the stress response so that they can get back into the learning – Berry Street Education Model.
Ultimately, we want students to be able to recognise, name their feelings and choose a strategy to help them de-escalate when they feel stressed. The Ready scale gives students a way to name how they are feeling. In Care Class we have been exploring strategies that can help students feel more regulated.
Look at these students from 2I who have been drawing how they look and feel when they are at a 5 on the Ready scale.
The children in 2I have also identified the following strategies to help them feel more regulated: draw, sing, go for a walk, cuddle a Squishmallow, do yoga, do some breathing, count and jump on the trampoline.
Book Week Parade
We are very much looking forward to our Year 2 Book Week parade on Friday. Please join us at 11:00am in Gigum Hall for a parade of costumes. At this parade, children are invited to dress up as their favourite book characters. We’d love children to bring along a copy of the book their character comes from to share at this parade.
Have a wonderful week
Kylie Vaughan
Deputy Principal- Year 2
kvaug3@eq.edu.au
Learning in Year 3
Our Year 3 students are in the thick of assessments this week. Teachers continue to make reasonable adjustments during the assessment tasks so that all students can showcase the best of their learning. Teachers also ensure that students are having lots of Ready to Learn breaks. That way, students can get a social break, a movement break or some other cognitive break. Do you know our teachers make very deliberate decisions about the sort of Ready to Learn break the class will take? Sometimes, the teacher may want to lift the mood or energy, at other times the teacher sees that students need to moderate the energy, excitement or restlessness in the group. I have included some photos of learning in Year 3 this week. Check out our engaged learners!
Friendships
If your child is having trouble finding a friend at break time, encourage them to try out the lunchtime Clubs. Our clubs are led by teachers and students are all joining in on a common interest. It’s a great way to meet or even just catch up with a friend in another class. If the issue is ongoing, please make a time to discuss this with your child’s teacher. Our upcoming parent teacher meetings are a possible opportunity. For longer meetings, please request a special meeting time with your child’s teacher.
Attendance
It’s so important for your child to attend school each day they are well enough. Students are impacted by absences, in their learning, in their relationships and sense of belonging at school, and in their routines. If your child is experiencing attendance issues, please reach out to your child’s teacher so we can work in partnership with you for your little one’s best outcomes.
Book Week Parade
Yay, we are counting down to Friday! Parents, you are invited to attend the Year 3 Book Week parade this Friday 25 August at 11:45 am. We’ll be parading around, showing off our Book Week costumes. Please see parade details in this newsletter.
Take care and have a wonderful week
Ellaine Warner
Deputy Principal-Year 3
ewarn23@eq.edu.au
Traditional Tales
This term, Year 4 have read and written traditional tales based in Asia. Students have learned how many tales include a moral or lesson that becomes clear in the end. They have been cleverly working away for the past 6 weeks at creating their own tale that teaches an important lesson. It has been inspiring to read some of the incredible work from our Year 4 authors recently!
Check out these photos!
Book Week
We love Reading!!! On Friday, we are celebrating Book Week with our year level parade in Gigum Hall starting at 10:00 am. Reminder to students to dress as a favourite character from a book. Lots of students bring the book with them, but you can also take a colour copy of the book cover if the book is precious. All parents are welcome to attend the parade and see us as we honour books.
Stay and Play
On Tuesday 29 August our Year 4 classes are hosting a Stay and Play from 2:15 – 2:45 pm. You will receive further information from your child’s class teacher, so please keep an eye out for this.
Have a wonderful week
Danielle O'Brien
Deputy Principal- Year 4
dxobr0@eq.edu.au
Year 5 Authors
This week our Year 5 authors are busy finishing off their writing pieces for their assessment. They have worked diligently to create an imaginative text that maintains a consistent mood and point-of-view in response to a stimulus. I visited 5F during the week and enjoyed watching students work collaboratively in small groups to brainstorm many language features that matched the given mood. I saw wonderful examples of idioms, hyperboles, similes and personification! The discussion and creativity amongst the groups was exciting to see. Following on from the group activity, students were able to take their new learning and use it to bump up their own writing. Well done Ms Faulkner and 5F!
Emma Crawshaw
Deputy Principal – Year 5
ewils209@eq.edu.au
Learning in Year 6
This week I had the pleasure of visiting 6D during a Maths lesson where they were exploring 3D shapes and their properties. Students are working towards designing their own complex shape and describing this shape based on their properties including the number of faces, edges and vertices they have. 6D spent time analysing a variety of 3D shapes, pulling them apart and exploring the 2D shapes that combine to create the 3D shape. I look forward to seeing some of the complex 3D designs that students create by combining multiple 3D shapes.
Yesterday, I spent some time in 6H as they began a unit learning how to calculate percentage discounts; a valuable life skill! Miss Hutton worked with Mrs Vaf to get an understanding of the students prior knowledge on this concept, before dividing them into groups to teach to their area of need. The students in 6H were able to walk away with a clear understanding of the process for calculating percentage discounts and some resources that can help them with doing this in the future. Well done 6H!
Student Leaders
A special shout-out to our student leaders who do a wonderful job every week visiting classes to share and promote the focus of the week and to collect Golden Tickets from classrooms. Every Friday our student council meet to discuss upcoming events and what they can do to continue to make Team Mango a great place to be. Thank you, student leaders, for all that you do for Team Mango!
Year 6 Graduation – fundraising help
We have had an amazing group of parents offer their support for fundraising at the Arts Fest. We are still in need of some more people who can help out on the BBQ. Please let me know if you can spare some time on Wednesday 6September at bxmil3@eq.edu.au .
MHSSC Transition Day
The first MHSSC transition day will be a half day in Week 10 of this term. For students to attend, they must be enrolled and had their enrolment interview. If you need any support with this please let me know.
Have a great week
Ben Mills
Deputy Principal –Year 6
bxmil3@eq.edu.au
Updated AR Webpage
Our Accelerated Reader webpage has recently been updated to a new and improved site. When students next log in they will be automatically prompted to go to the new web page. Don’t forget to save the new link and to delete the old shortcuts. We have created a new QR code to help students find their way to the new site.
Students should continue to log in with their previous username and password, and should now be able to continue quizzing! Please let Class teachers know if there are any issues with the new site.
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 Fair
As part of our Book week celebrations, this week we are hosting a Scholastic Book Fair in the Hub. We are open every morning from 8am, as well as every first lunch break, and after school. There are a range of books for purchase, and a percentage of all sales go towards new books for the Hub. Thank you to all those shoppers who have already visited the Book Fair this week. We accept cash and cards and hope to see you soon!
Book Week Competition
We have been excited to receive lots of additional entries in the 2023 Book Week Competition. The entries and the prizes are on display in the Hub. If you’d like to enter there is still time – we will be receiving entries up until Friday.
Next week we will begin the voting for the Book Week Competition and all students will be invited to vote for their favourite entry.
Premier’s Reading Challenge
All completed forms are now due to the Hub. Please return your forms by Friday 25 August! Once we have all of the data processed we will forward our information to the Premier’s Office. All participants will receive a certificate from the Premier some time later in the year.
Have a fantastic week
Suzette Holm, Jessica Rivett
shol0@eq.edu.au
AFLQ Schools Cup Brisbane North-Wide Bay Finals
The MHSS AFL teams last week competed at the AFLQ Schools Cup Brisbane North-Wide Bay Finals. This day comprised the winners of each regional AFLQ Schools cup competition day so both teams were going to be up against some of the best schools in Queensland.
For the girls this was their first attempt at this level of competition. Great commitment at training had the girls excited and raring to go to represent Team Mango. Unfortunately, results didn’t go our way with 2 losses in the pool games which included an agonising 8-6 loss to St Thomas. This led to a Qtr. final payoff against Yeronga State School. Yeronga proved too strong for our girls and we were bundled out of the competition.
All of the girls performed extremely well as a team and we are very proud of their efforts. The commitment shown by these students to not only attend the day, but also to participate in training after school is a credit to them and their families.
The boys were now in their 3rd year at the Brisbane North-Wide Bay Finals. While we had a couple of early losses, the boys played very well and were competitive. We then won our quarter final game convincingly. Unfortunately, we were outplayed in the semi-final game, with the ultimate winner of both pools progressing to the State Titles.
Coaches look forward to next year when the current team’s year 4 and 5 students compete again building on from this years’ experience.
Go Team Mango!!
2023 Pine Rivers District Track and Field Trophy Winners!
Mr Hills & Mr Newell, Miss Richards and Mr Lisha
Physical Education Teachers
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 Tuesday 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.