Term 4 Week 3 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
Dear Parents and Carers
This year our P&C has donated $50 000 to our school. The money has been spent well and has allowed us to purchase the following.
- $9700 for Health and Physical Education - student incentives, sports carnival equipment, replacing old/damaged PE equipment, sports grounds maintenance, marquees, revitalising the long jump pit.
- $10 000 for Inclusion support – purchasing resources and equipment to enhance reasonable adjustments for students.
- $10 000 for Texts – updating readers, purchasing books to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, decodable texts.
- $10 800 for STEM resources – resources for Science kits, resources for technology.
- $6250 for Early Years resources – Early years play equipment, purchasing phonemic awareness resources, speech language resources.
- $3250 for Pre-Prep resource bags, transition days, community events and meetings with early childhood stakeholders.
Thank you to our P&C for their continued support and partnership in helping us deliver a world class education system to our students. We value what our P&C does and I extend my thanks to all community members for their support of the P&C initiatives throughout the year. You can continue your support by supporting the latest P&C fundraisers – tea towel drive and school disco. You still have until Friday 20 October to place your tea towel order. Please order via the Qkr! app.
On Thursday 26 October the P&C will be holding a school disco. Please refer to further information on the flyer attached. I look forward to seeing as many of our students and families attend.
On Friday 27 October we will be asking our students to wear RED! Day for Daniel is held annually and honours the memory of Daniel Morcombe. It is a day we use to promote conversations with children and young people about personal safety. This will not be a fundraiser so donations are not required but rather we will use this event to promote child safety.
Last week our Year 4 students attended camp at Runaway Bay. I’ve heard great feedback from staff and students. A big thank you to the following staff for willingly giving up family time to attend. It is much appreciated. Mrs Baker, Mrs Doyle, Ms Goodall, Mrs Osbourne, Mrs Lahney, Miss McGuinness, Mr Smith, Miss Thomson, Mrs O'Connor, Miss O'Brien, Mr Olsen, Miss Korman and Mrs Ecker.
On Friday we are holding another Prep transition morning. We would love to see as many of our 2024 prep students attend.
Class preferences: Last reminder
If you have any matters you would like us to consider for your child’s class placement in 2024, please complete a Class Considerations Form and return to Jasmine Benfer jbenf10@eq.edu.au by tomorrow.
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.
Have a wonderful week
Ange Padgett
Principal
apadg6@eq.edu.au
Italian Week
This week we are celebrating Italian week!
The students have been involved in activities such as the following.
- Writing letters to Super Mario who is on an Italian holiday.
- Creating posters for a character from an Italian story.
- Playing a variety of games using Italian words and phrases.
- Enjoying some lunchtime activities.
On Friday of Week 4, we will recognise Day for Daniel at Mango Hill State School, by wearing red. This national day of action advocates for safer communities for children and empowering them to Recognise, React and Report when they feel unsafe.
We believe Day for Daniel is the perfect opportunity to continue our conversations around personal safety. The Day for Daniel also closely links with our Care Class work this year around recognising our body cues when we feel stressed and naming our feelings and emotions.
There are lots of things our bodies do to let us know we might not be safe. These are called body clues. It’s important we can recognise our body clues. Things like feeling sick in the tummy, our hands sweating, or our heart beating faster are all clues we might not be safe. If we ever find ourselves in an unsafe situation, we need to be able to react. This means to find a way, if possible, to become safe again such as saying ‘NO!’, running away or screaming ‘help’. Sometimes we even need to break a rule to become safe again. If we ever feel unsafe it is really important to report it to a safety helper. Keep telling an adult in your safety network until someone helps.
We will reinforce these key safety messages during our Care Class in Week 4.
Focus of the Week
The Care Class focus that will be delivered this Friday is ’Noticing my feelings’. We will also be consolidating this focus next week.
When children learn how to notice their feelings they are using their sensory awareness, using descriptive language and improving emotional literacy.
A key aspect of effective self-regulation is the ability to identify emotions and feelings. Sometimes children do not have the words to express how they feel and may act out these feelings in ways that can be challenging. When we can identify and describe our emotions, we can choose strategies to manage them.
Here are some ways that you can help your child act on their feelings in positive ways.
Stop, Drop and Go and Lookout
To continue teaching our students independence in our first year of learning, our Prep students now have the opportunity to use Stop, Drop and Go for our morning drop off. This is an easy and efficient way to get all our students to school safely and a great way to prepare our students for greater independence. Should you like to start using this area, please follow the signs to our Stop, Drop and Go area, saying goodbye to your children as they make their way across the crossing.
Students can walk across the crossing, saying a big Mango Hill hello to our crossing supervisors and the staff member on duty and make their way to the Prep undercover area. Students can wait in the Prep under cover area from 8:00am with our team supervising. Students can still play on the Prep grassed area if accompanied by a parent or carer.
To support this transition, I would encourage you to make a plan with your child. You might like to discuss:
- How to cross the road safely by waiting for the crossing supervisor to blow the whistle.
- Walking safely on the concrete and with an older sibling or friend if possible.
- Mapping out the path to take from the crossing to the Prep under cover area.
There will be additional staff and senior leaders supporting this process from 8:00am. If you would like to continue dropping your children off to the Prep area, please remember to park in the main school car park. The small Kindergarten car park, located next to our Gigum hall is a no parking zone for Mango Hill State School families.
In the afternoons our Prep staff will continue to escort students using the Lookout for afternoon pick up.
Writing
This term our Prep students are entertaining peers in their writing by creating new events that continue with the storyline. In class we have been reading many picture books and using our mind mapping and brainstorming to create the next sequence of events. This week I have been fortunate to visit many classrooms that have been reading ‘Harry the dirty dog’.
It has been amazing to see our creative brains at work. Yesterday in Prep J, students created a story where ‘Harry’ visited the beach and then dug his own swimming pool near the ocean. I particularly loved hearing how the character felt during this event and what he might say. What a fantastic way to describe the events!
Have a great week
Kris Olsen
Deputy Principal- Prep
kolse55@eq.edu.au
CASH!
In Year 1 we’re working with money and we’re loving it! Give us all the cash please parents!
When we go to the shops with you, please give us coins and notes to give to the shop keeper because WE LOVE buying things at shops. Each class has a buying shop situation right now and it’s possibly the reason we are getting up in the mornings.
Everyone loves money, right?
In this cashless society it can be tricky for our children to know the value of money. When we tap and go or order online, our children don’t see how much of our money is being spent - and let’s face it, the money is mostly on them!
We need to work together to ensure our children deeply understand the value of coins and notes because real world experience is the best type of experience!
We’d love to see some pictures up in our classrooms of our students out and about in the real world, using money. Send them in to our teachers!
Have a lovely week
Have a great week
Melinda White
Deputy Principal- Year 1
mwhit37@eq.edu.au
Narrative Writing in Year 2
This term in English, the students in Year 2 are exploring a range of picture books. They are using these books as a basis for writing their own narratives. They are focusing on creating stories that engage the reader by including a beginning, middle and an end with a dramatic complication or problem to be solved.
Telling stories is such an integral part of our daily lives as we recount events and experiences, and use these to entertain others. Many of the best stories have a series of events, and this unit provides students with an opportunity to use their imaginations to create some new events for familiar characters.
This unit of work also gives students lots of practice as they prepare for NAPLAN at the start of Year 3. Students practise generating ideas in a mind map, planning their narrative and then writing it just like they do in the NAPLAN writing test.
I was lucky enough to be invited by 2L to read some of their narratives. The children did a wonderful job engaging me as the reader by including noun and verb groups to add detail to the events as well as figurative language and dialogue to help paint a picture about how the characters in their stories were feeling.
We can’t wait to read everyone’s narratives at the end of the term.
Have a wonderful week
Kylie Vaughan
Deputy Principal- Year 2
kvaug3@eq.edu.au
Reminder
Due dates are closer than they appear Nominations for the Excellence Badge are due this Friday 20 October, 2023. Students in Years 3-6 can apply for a gold badge for academic, sport and/or cultural excellence. I encourage students and parents to read the nomination forms and apply if they wish to. Students who meet the criteria can only be awarded a gold badge if they have submitted a nomination form.
Learning in Year 3
We love learning together in Year 3. In every year level including Year 3 students have many opportunities daily to collaborate with other students for learning. In Science students are doing experiments to investigate how heat can be produced and transferred. Students are exploring factors affecting heat transfer and safety practices required. Below are some photos …
Hats!
Each and every day of the school year, students should wear their hats to and from school and at each break. This is a really important way to protect children from the sun. Teachers are helping your children by ensuring they head off to play wearing a hat. If your child is not wearing their hat when they leave the house in the morning, please prompt them to head back into grab it as they need it at school. Please remind your child each morning to comply with the uniform requirements and do their future self a favour by limiting sun exposure.
Take care and have a wonderful week
Ellaine Warner
Deputy Principal-Year 3
ewarn23@eq.edu.au
Year 4 Camp
What an amazing experience last week was for our Year 4 students who attended camp. The purpose of camp was to support students to develop and practise their leadership skills, autonomy and teamwork. The camp spoke about the character strengths of communication, positivity, resilience, self-regulation, creativity and empathy in building the confidence of our students to lead. Our students rose to the occasion.
There were a range of amazing activities and experiences for the students on offer. When discussing camp highlights with students, laser tag and archery were the clear favourites!
I know the staff that attended were incredibly proud of the way the students conducted themselves at camp. It has been wonderful to hear from students and parents alike, and to receive so much positive feedback about their experience last week.
Learning about Money in Year 4
This term the students in Year 4 are solving a variety of purchasing problems using efficient strategies (such as rounding). They are learning to calculate change, calculate total amounts and determine items that can be purchased for specific amounts of money. Not only are the children learning to calculate money, but they are developing their understanding of mathematical words associated with money.
Some ways you can help your child to learn about time include the following.
- Reading different menus, catalogues, price lists and calculate the totals for purchasing of particular items.
- Calculating change for every day items purchased.
- Using play money at home and role playing buying items.
- Taking note of different items you could purchase for a specific amount of money.
Have a wonderful week
Danielle O'Brien
Deputy Principal- Year 4
dxobr0@eq.edu.au
2024 Student Leader Nominations
As we near the end of the year, we are already shifting our thinking to 2024. For our current cohort of Year 5 students, 2024 is an important year and one that presents some wonderful opportunities for them. One of these opportunities is in the form of student leadership.
Student Leadership passports were handed out to Year 5 students during the middle of Term 3 and are due to be completed on Friday of Week 5 (3rd November) for those wishing to be nominated for a captain position in 2024. This includes school, sports, diversity, performing arts, sustainability and reconciliation captain positions. Once forms have been submitted by the due date, the nomination process will begin. Below are some timelines to be aware of:
- Week 6: Group interviews conducted by Principal and Deputy Principal of students who have nominated to be a captain in 2024.
- Week 7: Year 5 students vote based on those who nominated by completing the passport on time. From this and the interview process, students will be shortlisted for the captain positions.
- Week 8: Shortlisted students present speeches to Year 4 and 5 students. Year 4 and 5 students, as well as staff, complete the voting form. Votes are counted.
- Week 10: 2024 Students Leaders are announced at the Year 5 awards ceremony.
I am so proud of our Year 5 students and I know there are many who are already great leaders within our school. I am looking forward to the opportunity of formalising these positions at the end of Term.
Emma Crawshaw
Deputy Principal – Year 5
ewils209@eq.edu.au
Year 6 Graduation
Throughout the year, our Graduation Committee have been working away in the background preparing for the Year 6 Graduation to be held on Wednesday the 6 December. While there is still some planning to finalise, we are excited to share some details for the evening!
Below is a rough guide for the timing of the evening.
5-5:30pm – Arrival
5:30-6:30 – Ceremony
6:30 -8:30 – Dinner, disco and activities
Dinner will involve students and their families pre-ordering from one of either Subway, Sushi or Dominoes (more details on how to order to follow soon). Dinner will be informal, with the disco and other activities including lawn games, running simultaneously. Ice-cream and Gelato vans will also be onsite selling dessert, along with the Graduation cake.
Watch this space for more details in coming weeks!
Being Safe Online
Last week I shared the link to the Safety Commissioner website: https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents. Here you will find a range of fantastic resources targeted at parents to support them to keep their children safe online. Our Year 6 teachers will also be sharing some of the resources in the Educators sections with their classes throughout Term 4. Let’s continue to work together to ensure our children are safe and aware online.
Have a great week
Ben Mills
Deputy Principal –Year 6
bxmil3@eq.edu.au
Learning in Maths
Developing number sense and the ability to work effectively with numbers is critical to being an active and productive citizen who is successful at work and in future learning, who is financially literate, and who engages with the world and other individuals.
Mathematics has a more fundamental role in the development of numeracy compared to other learning areas. The mathematics curriculum provides opportunities to apply mathematical understanding and skills in other learning areas and to real-world contexts. Financial mathematics is an important context for the application of number, algebra, measurement and probability.
Students in Year 1 are beginning their journey in financial mathematics by exploring the features of coins and notes. By Year 3 our students are investigating change and in Year 5 our students begin to investigate income, expenditure, calculate costs and make financial decisions.
Number Facts and Rapid recall
As our students finalise their units for the year in maths, they will have multiple opportunities to practice and consolidate their learning in preparation for the new year through our Number facts and Rapid recall program. Our Rapid Recall program was developed to provide consolidation of previously taught essential math concepts and skills and take this knowledge from the short-term memory to long-term memory, providing automaticity.
Students in Years 1-6 learn, practise and consolidate Number fact strategies. Below are the strategies targeted for each year level. It is important to continue and practise these facts at home.
Scholastic Book Club
Thank you to all of those families who generously supported our school by purchasing books from the latest Scholastic Book Club brochure. Orders have now closed.
Once the books arrive, we will need some willing volunteers to help sort and distribute the orders. Please email Suzette (shol0@eq.edu.au) if you are able to spare an hour or so to help out.
Code Camp 2024
Families will receive a $15 Early-Bird saving if you enrol by 5th January. Use the following discount code when booking on the website: AST1EB.
Please find the booking link HERE
See what’s on at your school and book at www.codecamp.com.au/mangohillss
Have a fantastic week
Suzette Holm, Jessica Rivett
shol0@eq.edu.au
Physical Education News
Important PE Dates in Term 4
- 30 November (Thursday, Week 9) – MHSS Swimming Carnival (8-9yrs)
- 1 December (Friday, Week 9) – MHSS Swimming Carnival (10-12yrs)
Clinics and Extra-Curricular Opportunities
In Term 4 we are lucky to have several class clinics and after school extra-curricular sporting opportunities for students. Please keep an eye out in the coming weeks for more information. This will include the following.
- Brisbane Roar Soccer Program (see below flyer)
- AFL QLD Auskick Program (class clinic plus an additional paid after school program, information handed out next week to classes via a flyer)
- 3-4 AFL Training Program (free after school program, see below)
Year 3-4 AFL Training Program
At Mango Hill State School, we have a program for students in Year 4-6 called the “AFLQ Schools Cup”. Each year a MHSS AFL team of boys and a team of girld is selected with students completing training at school and then playing in the AFLQ Schools Cup competition throughout the year.
In Term 4 we will be running an optional afterschool 4-week training program for Year 3 and 4 students to develop the skills (punting, handballing, marking) as well as AFL game rules and awareness. We would like your son/daughter if in Year 3 or 4 to attend if they are interested.
Dates/Times: Tuesdays 3.00pm-4.00pm - 31 Oct, 7, 14, 21 Nov
Venue: MHSS Oval
Cost: Nil
Forms: If your son/daughter is interested, a permission form needs to be collected from Mr Hills in the PE Office and returned prior to the first session.
Activity Risk: This is a medium risk activity (risk assessment completed by Mango Hill State School staff in conjunction with AFL QLD employees). The program has been designed to teach skills and rules of AFL. There will be no tackling in all games and activities and instead a “touch” version will be played. Mouthguards are not compulsory for AFL training sessions, but are recommended.
Equipment/Uniform: No equipment is required but it is advisable for students to wear a change of clothes if they like. Students can also provide their own protective equipment (mouthguards) and can wear football boots (no metal tags), but again this is optional. If they do not have football boots, normal shoes can be worn.
Sporting Schools
Mr Hills & Mr Newell, Miss Hodges and Mr Lisha
Physical Education Teachers
P & C Update
Volunteers needed
The P&C are urgently seeking voluteers to help out in the canteen. If you can spare some time in the monring please sign up via clicking the link below.
https://volunteersignup.org/J7D8H
Tea Towels!
Last call for Tea Towel orders!! Orders must close this Friday 20 October.
All orders can be placed via the Qkr! app.
DISCO!
The P&C disco is getting close! Tickets, food and drinks are now available for purchase via the Qkr! All Disco tickets are to be pre-purchased via Qkr! It is recommended that all food and drink be pre-purchased via the Qkr! app also to avoided disappointment on the evening. Further information below and in the photos.
Here is what you need to know.
We want everyone to have a safe and happy experience at our disco and market stall event! Please follow these rules and expectations.
- Only current Mango Hill State School students may attend the disco, at their allotted year level time. No pre-purchased ticket. No entry.
- All disco tickets must be pre-purchased via the QKR app. No tickets at the door. Wrist bands will be sent home on Wednesday 25 October for your child to wear to the disco, to allow for easy entry.
- Students to wear appropriate clothing for dancing safely, including enclosed shoes. Shoes will be worn during the disco.
- Parents will drop their child at Gigum Hall, using the door near the kindy entrance. Parents will collect their child at end of the disco, using the door near the kindy entrance.
- School staff will supervise students inside the disco at Gigum Hall. Parents are to remain on site in the piazza, for the duration of the disco and collect their child from Gigum Hall promptly at the end of the disco.
- Students must remain inside Gigum Hall for the duration of the disco. No food or drink is permitted inside Gigum Hall. Food and drinks may be purchased before or after each disco, in the Piazza.
- Parents will supervise their own children when in the piazza; looking at the market stalls and having dinner. Play areas are out of bounds.
- Hot food, drinks and snacks are available to pre-purchase in the Piazza via QKR. Limited quantities of food available for purchase on the night. Eftpos and cash accepted.
- All students and families to follow signs and directions from school staff and P&C volunteers.
Note: Our Team Mango student disco and family dinner and market stalls are organised and run by volunteers; both school staff and parent volunteers. Please model the Team Mango way, by showing kindness and respect to our volunteers. Model to our students how grateful we are, to have the help needed to run this event!
Volunteers needed for the Disco!
Please see links below for volunteering opportunities.
Food Volunteers
https://www.volunteersignup.org/W8MA8
Market Volunteers
https://volunteersignup.org/BQKQE
Tea Towels!
Last call for Tea Towel orders!! Orders must close this Friday 20 October.
All orders can be placed via the Qkr! app.
Monday - 8:00am-10:30am
Wednesday 1:30pm-4:00pm
Thursday 1:30pm-4:00pm
Friday 8:00am-10:30am
As we start to settle into the term, if you are a new family starting prep, you are welcome to book an appointment for a uniform fitting. These are being run on each of the Friday Prep orientation mornings and occur from 9:45am-11am at 15 minute intervals. If you are unable to make a booking time, you are more than welcome to pop into the shop during our regular opening hours. It is advisable for Prep parents to have their uniforms sorted by the end of this to term to avoid the busy January rush that occurs just before school goes back. You can book appointments at the following website Wearitto Mango Hill SS | Scheduling and Booking Website (simplybook.me)
Attached below is also our updated price list. We also offer layby with a minimum purchase of $50 and 10% deposit and regular payments required.
We also offer online orders. Orders can be placed through our website any time at www.wearitto.com.au/schools/mango-hill-state-school
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Orders are packed through the uniform shop during our opening hours and an email is sent to let you know when your order is ready to be picked up, or, if you'd like your student to bring the uniforms home with them, email us at mangohill@wearitto.com.au with your student's name and class name and we can get it to them.