Term 3 Week 9 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
- Sporting News by The PE Department
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
This week there has been a lot of excitement in the air, with the Arts Fest, Team Mango making the Wakakirri finals and holidays fast approaching.
This afternoon we are holding our annual Arts Fest. We are super excited to showcase Team Mango talents and look forward to our community joining us in this fun celebration of The Arts. Thank you to our P&C, Year 6 Graduation Committee, staff (especially Ms Holm, Mrs Benfer and Ms White) and students for bringing this event to life. Thank you also to our parents and caregivers for supporting this event.
Mornings and afternoon pickups are busy times for traffic at most schools. In order to keep our students safe, please stick to the signed speed limits. Our priority will always be focused on keeping our students safe and we ask our community to help us with this by driving safely. I’d also like to remind our school community not to park in the bus zones directly outside the administration block. Please use our drop and go zones or park your car in a designated parking zone. If we all do the right thing, traffic will flow. If there are drivers not doing the right thing, please don’t approach them to inform them but rather let the school know of repeat offenders. Lastly please model patience and kindness towards each other and in front of our students.
Before school drop off.
Some students are arriving prior to 8am. Light supervision commences at 8am so we encourage parents to organise outside school hours care if students are needing to be at school prior to this time. From 8am, as per the Team Mango routine, we ask that students go to their year level designated area as follows.
Prep – Prep undercover area
Year 1 – Junior undercover area
Year 2 – Junior undercover area
Year 3 – Piazza, Middle years undercover area, Senior oval
Year 4 – Middle years undercover area, Senior oval
Year 5/6 – Multipurpose court, Senior oval, Senior astro-turf, Soccer grounds
We appreciate your assistance with helping us ensure students are in the right place at the right time.
We are busy planning facilities, resources and staffing for the 2024 school year. Our enrolments have been fairly steady for the past 18 months and we anticipate we will have around 1600 students in 2024. We will have 8 -11 classes in each year level.
If you have a child due to start Prep in 2024, please contact the office as soon as possible. Our Prep interviews, information sessions, tours and transitions are happening now.
If you have any matters you would like us to consider for your child’s class placement in 2024, please complete the Class Considerations Form (below) and return to Jasmine Benfer jbenf10@eq.edu.au by Thursday 26 October.
If your child will not be returning to MHSS in 2024, could you please let us know so we can ensure our staffing and resources are as accurate as possible. Please email enrolments@mangohillss.eq.edu.au with this information. Thanks for your assistance.
Have a wonderful week
Ange Padgett
Principal
apadg6@eq.edu.au
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 plain cheese. We ask that you pre-order through QKR app prior please for our pizzas and pizza meal deals. 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. 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.
- Toy gift pack valued at over $200
- Hey Caddy - 4 x $100 family passes
- Eatons Hill - $100 dining voucher
- Revolution - 3 x 2for1 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.
Focus of the Week
The Care Class focus that will be delivered this Friday is Attachment. We will be consolidating this focus throughout the coming week and classes will be exploring more about what this means here at Mango Hill State School.
In classrooms this week we will be investigating what attachment means here at school. Attachment is the bond that is formed between people as a result of their interactions. Here at school teachers and children build and shape relationships with each other and their peers by showing unconditional positive regard and therefore providing caring interactions that support each person’s sense of self-worth, self-esteem and confidence.
Attachment is the invisible bond between many of us, e.g. teacher to student, student to student, parent to child, child to grandparent and so on.
Speaking and Listening
It has been so terrific visiting our Prep rooms this week and seeing our funny rhyming poems come together. Our students have continued experimenting with words that have the same end sounds. This week we have looked at one, two and three syllable rhyming words. We have such clever thinkers at Team Mango!
Arts Fest Excitement
This week we have been waiting in anticipation for our Wandani Arts Fest. Our classes have visited the art gallery with their older buddy classes and were amazed at how talented our students are. Our students used their iPads to take photos of our favourite pieces, and some classes wrote about their favourite piece in their Writing Cafe lesson. This was a fantastic opportunity to consolidate the terrific writing we have been working on in Term 3 by sharing their opinion and providing reasons why they liked different peer art pieces. We love sharing and celebrating the Arts at Mango Hill.
Term 4 Swimming
Next term we begin our Swimming program for 2023. Now is a fantastic time to start having a conversation with your child in preparation for next term. Students will need to bring swimmers, towel, swimming cap and thongs. Students should wear high-visibility swimming attire that is sun safe with goggles being optional. It is essential that all attire is labelled and placed in a swimming bag. We are so excited to learn new things.
Have a great week
Kris Olsen
Deputy Principal- Prep
kolse55@eq.edu.au
Arts Fest
Wow! Time for our second annual Arts Fest in Year 1 Land. We’ve loved visiting the gallery with our class. We hope you can join us at the event tonight, so we can show off all the things we’ve learned about how lines and different sorts of lines can influence our images and help to tell a story.
The other part we’ve enjoyed about visiting the gallery is sharing what art we admire and why, with our friends. Oral language remains important in Year 1. When we have the confidence and the skill to articulate our ideas aloud to others - it helps us navigate our world. Speaking and listening is such a vital part in the curriculum but it’s also a vital life skill. It’s the first thing people usually know about us - that we listen to them, respond to them and share our thoughts with them. They know this about us, before they have any idea whether we can read or write or add!
When you visit the gallery with your child tonight, make sure you have a conversation with them and help them to develop that to and fro in chat. Don’t rush around - take your time. Comment aloud. “I like the way this student has used this blue background colour. What do you think?” Or maybe, “Isn’t this one clever! What can you see?”
Enjoy Wandani Arts Fest Year 1 Families and Friends!
Have a great week
Melinda White
Deputy Principal- Year 1
mwhit37@eq.edu.au
Speaking and Listening in Year 2
The children are finishing their learning in English this term by engaging in a Speaking and Listening unit. In this unit, the students are viewing and listening to a variety of everyday procedural texts. Procedural texts list a sequence of actions or steps needed to make or do something. Typical examples of procedural texts include recipes, science experiments, assembly manuals or instructions for playing games.
In this term’s Speaking and Listening unit, the students are learning to create their own procedures for how to pack a suitcase to go on holidays. Instead of writing a procedure for how to do this themselves, the students are writing a procedure to tell an imaginary character what to pack for a holiday. They are presenting their procedure on their iPads as a multimodal presentation. A multimodal presentation uses two or more communication modes. Students will use a combination of printed text, images and spoken text to present.
Next week, the children will be sharing their multimodal presentations with their peers. Not only will they practise their speaking, they will also have an opportunity to practise active listening by providing each presenter with feedback.
Checkout these superstars from 2F who have been working hard preparing their multimodal presentations.
Have a wonderful week
Kylie Vaughan
Deputy Principal- Year 2
kvaug3@eq.edu.au
Learning in Year 3
Year 3 are superstars! All students are finalising assessments and still showing growth mindset as they learn more about Speaking and Listening and Fractions. I feel so lucky that I get to be in all of our classrooms and see your incredible children and our incredible staff working together. I loved seeing arguments for and against “Children should be allowed to drive cars” in 3T today. Arguments were all very convincing, and used high modality words to persuade the audience. Well done, 3T!
Parent Teacher Meetings
All teachers are offering the opportunity for parent teacher meetings. I encourage you to meet with your child’s teacher to strengthen the partnership between you and make sure you have the chance to share your special understanding of your child. If you haven’t made a meeting time, Sobs is closed but you can still email your child’s class teacher to arrange a meeting.
Events!
Yay for the Arts Fest. I visited Wandani Centre today to check out the art work. Parents, you will be so proud this afternoon if you are lucky enough to visit! Hope you can join us. Then, Year 3 have the Instrumental Music concert for Year 2 and 3 audiences on Thursday of Week 9. We will be the audience for our Senior Concert Band so we are feeling very lucky. Remember also to mark your calendars for our Week 10 Stay and Play in Year 3.
Take care and have a wonderful week
Ellaine Warner
Deputy Principal-Year 3
ewarn23@eq.edu.au
Speaking and Listening
This week I’ve had the pleasure of seeing our students participate in activities to support their speaking and listening unit. As a part of the unit, students are required to participate in a group discussion, responding to others' ideas and sharing an opinion. Across the classrooms, students are listening to, reading and viewing stories from and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, to retell a familiar story as a multimodal text. It has been great seeing students participating in group discussions, listening for key points and responding to others.
Stay and Play
Thank you to family and friends who were able to attend our Stay and Play last week. We had such fun! Check out these smiling faces …
Hats!
As I have been out and about, I have been reminding students to wear their hats while they are having fun outside.
Have a wonderful week
Danielle O'Brien
Deputy Principal- Year 4
dxobr0@eq.edu.au
Ready to Learn Breaks
Our Year 5 students are very busy working on assessment pieces this week. Our teachers continue to make reasonable adjustments during the assessment tasks so that all students have the opportunity to show what they have learned in different ways. Teachers are also making sure that they are using lots of Ready to Learn breaks throughout this time. A Ready to Learn break happens around every 20 minutes and lasts somewhere between 2 to 5 minutes. Our teachers will choose whether they need to lift the energy in the room, or support students to calm their mind and body. In Year 5 we love ‘Desk Drumming’, ‘Go Noodle’, ‘Find the Fantail’ and ‘Brain Bender’ puzzles.
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 to support their attendance at school.
Emma Crawshaw
Deputy Principal – Year 5
ewils209@eq.edu.au
Learning in Year 6
Visiting classrooms during learning time is always one of the highlights of my week. This week was particularly exciting with our Year 6 classes beginning a new unit on Slam Poetry. Over the past few weeks, their teachers have been slowly exposing them to examples of Slam Poetry, that communicate powerful messages. Examples of topics our students are presenting on include pollution, bullying, migration, social media, discrimination, self-doubt and COVID, just to name a few.
On Tuesday, I happened to visit 6R as they were presenting their poems to each other in small groups. I heard some brilliantly crafted poems that were delivered with passion and enthusiasm during my time in 6R. I can’t wait to visit more rooms over the next week to hear some more!
If you haven’t already, you may like to ask your child to present their poem to you!
Thank you!
A massive thank you to everyone who has reached out over the past few weeks to help out for the Year 6 Graduation fundraising efforts. We have parents who have prepared baked goods, loaned their eskies, provided raffle prizes and offered their time for the Arts Fest.
What an amazing community Team Mango is!
MHSSC Transition Day
The first MHSSC transition day will be a half day next week. For students to attend, they must be enrolled and had their enrolment interview. The final opportunity to do this before the first transition day is on Thursday 7 September. Information regarding enrolments, including submitting an enrolment enquiry to access the enrolment application form, can be found on the College Website.
Students will need to be dropped at MHSSC between 8 and 8.15am on Wednesday morning. After they complete the transition activities, they will be transported back to MHSS by bus between 11 and 11.15am.
Have a great week
Ben Mills
Deputy Principal –Year 6
bxmil3@eq.edu.au
Book Week Competition
Thank you to all of those students, parents and teachers who submitted their votes for their favourite entries. Earlier this week we counted all of the votes and the top 11 entries have been awarded their prizes. Congratulations to Maci PJ, Zoe 1R, Lilliah 2H, Gwyneth 2C, Gurnoor 2L, Lucas 2L, Sumedh 3S, Hyunsung 3T, Neeva 3S, Liam 4T and Lucy 5F. Look at these clever students with their competition entries and their prizes!
Book Fair
Special thanks to all of those who supported our Book Fair. We were very excited to have raised more than $2000 worth of Scholastic points which we will be able to use to purchase lots of new books for the Hub. Here is a photo of some of the books we have already chosen! We look forward to processing these so that they will be ready for borrowing in the new term
Have a fantastic week
Suzette Holm, Jessica Rivett
shol0@eq.edu.au
P & C Update
Mr Hills & Mr Newell, Miss Richards and Mr Lisha
Physical Education Teachers