Term 4 Week 4 2023
Dear Parents and Carers,
The P&C will be hosting the School Disco tomorrow. Thank you to all of the families who have purchased tickets and dinner meals. Ticket sales are now finished. It’s timely to thank the disco organising committee: Casey, Amy, Melissa, Michelle, Kylie, Melinda and Jasmine.
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. Students will be exploring the topic of safety and will go over the 3 Rs.
- React – How can I react if I feel unsafe?
- Recognise – How to recognise my body cues when I feel unsafe?
- Report – How do I recognise a safe adult to report to?
We are not asking for a gold coin donation but rather will use this event to promote child safety.
The school will also be celebrating World Teachers’ Day on Friday 27 October. Let’s celebrate our teachers for their skilled work in educating, inspiring and supporting our students. Let’s use this day to say thanks to teachers for the significant contribution they make to society. I’m sure we can all remember a teacher who impacted on our own life. One of my favourite teachers, Mrs Mitchell, inspired me to believe in myself. As a young person, she reassured me that it didn’t matter what I had but it mattered what I did. Her kindness will never be forgotten. If you have time in your day, please join with me in thanking our teachers. A great teacher can have such a positive impact on the lives of the future generation.
On Wednesday 11 October, two of our Instrumental Music ensembles hit the stage at Redcliffe Entertainment Centre, as part of Peninsula Music Festival 2023. Students in the Senior Concert Band and Senior String Ensemble performed to a large audience, showcasing their best repertoire of the year.
Both the Concert Band and String Ensemble performed brilliantly with wonderful feedback from esteemed adjudicators, Robyn Gray for strings and Matt Chambers for band. We are so proud of how our Mango Musicians performed on stage as well as off stage, encouraging other students from other schools in the wings. A truly Mango Magic moment. A big thank you to our Instrumental Music teachers, Mr James and Mrs Bogdan, who directed these two groups as well as Mrs Nicolopoulos who coordinated the event this year and of course our wonderful classroom music teachers, Mrs Morrell and Ms Almond, for their wonderful assistance while at the event.
Congratulations to all involved!
As usual, the momentum of Term 4 is becoming a reality. Although this time of year can be exciting, it can also cause anxiety for many of us. It’s important where possible, we set our students up for the busyness of this term. As a school, we will continue to help students regulate should they need this. I encourage all families to talk to their child about upcoming events that involve them and what these events will entail. Often if students are aware of what is approaching and what their role will be, this can alleviate any unnecessary anxiety. I will be encouraging students to continue to make sound judgements and to seek assistance in regulating their emotions, should they need it.
The end of the year, can also be a stressful time for us adults as well. Whether it be, battling your way through the crowds in the shopping centres or finding a park at pick up and drop off, it’s important that our community continues to wrap around each other to offer kindness. It’s great for our children to see acts of kindness, even when we are faced with challenging situations that may arise.
Lastly, thank you to the school community for not using the bus zone or the kindergarten car park to pick up and drop off. Traffic has been flowing a lot better as a result.
Have a wonderful week
Ange Padgett
Principal
apadg6@eq.edu.au
P&C Disco
Team Mango Disco: Final Reminders
Ticket sales for our disco have now closed. Thank you to all families for pre-purchasing your tickets. This afternoon, your child will bring home their wrist band, to be worn to enter the disco tomorrow. This will allow for easy entry, as we will know you have pre-paid and your name is on our attendance list at the door.
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 have been pre-purchased via the QKR app. No tickets at the door. Wrist bands will be sent home today 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 and consume 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.
- Pre-purchased hot food, drinks and snacks can be collected in the Piazza. Limited quantities of food will be 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!
Ditto Show
This week our Prep and Year 1 students had the opportunity to participate in the Ditto Show. Ditto the lion shared his messages on personal safety and encouraging children to speak out about any unsafe situation. Ditto shared three rules.
- We all have the right to feel safe with people.
- It’s ok to say no if you feel unsafe or unsure.
- Nothing is so yucky that you can’t tell someone about it.
We also sung a song call Run and Tell, if you have a no or unsafe feeling. At the completion of this show, students have been given an activity booklet to complete at home. I would encourage you to work through this with your child.
Focus of the Week
The Care Class focus that will be delivered this Friday is ‘Regulation Scale and Recognise, React and Report” to support the Daniel Morcombe Foundation. We will also be consolidating this focus throughout Week 5.
In classrooms on Friday, we will be revisiting the 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”.
The children will also be allowed to wear RED, to support “Day for Daniel and the Daniel Morcombe Foundation. In classrooms today, we will be talking about our safety people, recognising our body signals when we are in an unsafe situation, and how to react.
Click on the link to access more resources you could use at home.
https://danielmorcombe.com.au/keeping-kids-safe-resources/
The diagram below shows some of the signals our body might give us when we are in unsafe situations.
Hats in the Playground
Each day in Prep we have many opportunities to go outside to play and learn. With the weather heating up, it is extremely important that our students come to school with their hats on their heads and wearing them when outside. You can support this from home by ensuring your child’s hat is named and they wear this when travelling to and from school.
Disco
Our Prep friends are so excited for their very first school disco in the Gigum Hall tomorrow afternoon. Our Prep – Year 2 disco begins at 3:30pm and finishes at 4:30pm. All tickets for the event must be pre-purchased on the QKR app. After you have dropped off your children, please make your way down to the Piazza until 4:30pm. In the Gigum Hall, we will be playing lots of games and dancing to our favourite songs. We can’t wait to see you all there!
Have a great week
Kris Olsen
Deputy Principal- Prep
kolse55@eq.edu.au
Using Clocks
We’ve moved from using money in the real world to using clocks and time in the real world!
We’re actually pretty good at reading o’clock times on an analogue clock. We know that there’s a minute hand and an hour hand and that they are two different lengths. We are learning what it means when we say half past. What is past? How do we determine this?
Luckily, we already know how to count in fives, because in Term 3, we focused on our skip counting patterns. So we know that when we start at the 12, and count clockwise in fives, we get to 30 at the bottom of the clock… which is the same as half past the hour.
We just need to put it all together now!
How can you help?
Give us time problems involving hours and half past. We have to be at choir at 3.00 and that goes for an hour and a half, then we have to grab the groceries and that will take one hour. What time will we be home, do you think?
That sort of thing.
And there’s no shame in using an actual clock. I’m a grown up and I still love to look at my analogue watch and count the hours and minutes, just to be super sure…
Have a great week
Melinda White
Deputy Principal- Year 1
mwhit37@eq.edu.au
Learning About Time and Calendars in Year 2
This term the students in Year 2 are learning all about time. They are learning to connect seasons to the months of the year, identify the number of days in each month and are exploring how calendars work.
Check out the children in 1/2B and 2C exploring the calendar as part of their class morning meeting.
Here’s some fun ways you can engage your child in this learning at home.
- Practice saying the months of the year. A great place to do this is in the back of the car on the way to school!
- Practice saying the 30 Days rhyme:
Thirty days has September,
April, June and November,
All the rest have thirty-one
But February’s twenty eight,
The leap year, which comes once in four.
Gives February one day more.
- Talk about which months in the year have the most days and those that have the least.
- Discuss special events that happen throughout the year and talk about what month and season they are in.
- Show your child your family calendar. Talk about the events coming up and how much time there is between events.
- Help your child construct their own calendar on their iPad and enter their weekly activities eg. homework day, library borrowing, specialist lesson days. Use the calendar to talk about what’s happening in the week ahead.
World Teachers’ Day
We are so lucky in Year 2 to be taught by so many amazing teachers. This Friday we will celebrate their contribution at World Teachers’ Day. Please consider getting your child to write their teacher a letter, card or picture to let them know just how wonderful they are!
Have a wonderful week
Kylie Vaughan
Deputy Principal- Year 2
kvaug3@eq.edu.au
Thank you, Year 3 teachers!
Shout out to our amazing team of Year 3 teachers on International Teacher’s Day. Ms Tanner, Ms Louw, Ms Huston, Ms Shanahan, Ms Krosman, Ms Linnane, Ms Stewart, Ms Balfe, Ms Capell, Ms Gough, Ms Whitta, Ms Fitzpatrick and Ms Skewes, you are inspiring teachers and we thank you for all that you do.
Learning in Year 3
Our poetry unit is well underway now. Ms Padgett and I were in classrooms for writing and were thrilled to hear students talk about the big purpose of their writing and how they were using precisely chosen noun and verb groups, and figurative language such as alliteration and personification to match a mood and create a picture in their readers’ minds. I thought I would share a poem written by 3L with you.
Friendship in Year 3
We are lucky to have nearly 220 wonderful students in Year 3. Nearly all year, they have used their friendship skills to stay connected and have fun, talking through any issues and solving play problems together (eg whose turn is it). They have sought teacher help if required. All children have learned about the Ready Scale. When you are regulated and “ready” you can remember all the other skills that help you with friends such as staying solution-focused, communicating to come to a joint agreement, resolving disagreement and restoring relationships, listening and then responding, sharing, turn taking and so on.
Shoes
At our school, plain black shoes (as per the uniform policy) are required. We understand that sometimes, students' shoes have been left at a house, become wet in the rain etc. However, the expectation is that every effort is applied to wear black shoes daily. Please reach out to your child’s class teacher if we need to work together so that your child wears black shoes.
Take care and have a wonderful week
Ellaine Warner
Deputy Principal-Year 3
ewarn23@eq.edu.au
Allergies and Anaphylaxis
We just wanted to give our Year 4 families a reminder that we have a number of students in Year 4 with allergies of different levels of severity up to and including anaphylaxis.
Allergies are a regular occurrence for many people and often don’t need any urgent action to be taken (except for removing the allergy). Think about sneezing when you go near a dog or when the flowers all bloom in spring. Some people may benefit from an antihistamine to settle down a reaction from a rash, runny eyes or sneezing for a more severe reaction.
Anaphylaxis on the other hand requires an immediate response including removing the allergen causing the reaction, calling an ambulance and giving an injection of adrenaline to help control the reaction. Anaphylaxis is a life and death medical condition where the best management is to eliminate the exposure as much as possible. Reactions can be caused by ingestion of the allergen or by bites and stings but can also be as serious as simply touching the food/object or being breathed on or touched by someone who has recently ingested the allergen.
As we have a number of students with varying levels of allergies it would be appreciated if you have a chat with your children to discuss how to respond if they are told a student has an allergy or anaphylaxis. Depending on classroom needs we may also request that lunches brought to school not include allergy inducing foods (as indicated by class teachers), especially in the case of anaphylaxis. Students may also be requested to eat in another classroom or the kitchen area of our building if they are bringing foods which may cause an allergic reaction to a student in their class.
We also request that we are updated on any confirmed allergies (not just foods students don't like eating) so that we can best support students to manage their allergies.
We appreciate your support to help keep our students safe and healthy!
Science Fun!
Our Year 4 students are having so much fun completing different investigations to observe forces in their every day lives. They are showing how objects move when subjected to pushes and pulls and have been exploring gravitational and frictional forces. Check out the fun investigations below!
Have a wonderful week
Danielle O'Brien
Deputy Principal- Year 4
dxobr0@eq.edu.au
Gold Rush
This week, our Year 5 classes had the opportunity to take their learning outside of the classroom and participate in the Eureka Gold Rush Excursion at Beenleigh.
The excursion forms an important part of our HASS unit for Year 5. It provided an interactive learning experience for our students where they immersed themselves into Australia’s historical and cultural past and learnt what life was really like in the 1850s. I had the opportunity to talk to some students who went on the excursion on Monday and they said they loved participating in the role play as it gave them a good understanding and empathy for the different roles people played during this time.
Emma Crawshaw
Deputy Principal – Year 5
ewils209@eq.edu.au
Learning in Year 6
This week, I’ve enjoyed spending time in a few different Year 6 classrooms to watch some of the innovative and engaging learning opportunities provided to our students. In 6L, I saw students learning about the steps involved to determine the rule to patterns represented by shapes. In 6B, students were practising patterns that involved fractions. In 6H, students were being introduced to the ‘order of operations’ and co-constructed ideas for a learning wall to support them through this unit.
Across our school, we have a continued focus on digital learning that engages, is inclusive and can be used as a tool to enable and extend all learners. In each of the classrooms I visited this week, students were using digital technologies to share their thinking, collaborate on ideas and solutions and represent their understanding of different concepts. It is great to see our Year 6 teachers providing enriching experiences through digital technology on a regular basis.
In Science this term, students have been learning about circuits and the flow of energy. Check out the circuit diagrams produced by 6H!
Year 6 Graduation
Our next Graduation Committee meeting is scheduled for Thursday the 2 November at 5pm. Following this, information including how to order food as well as formal invitations will begin to be sent out to families.
A reminder that graduation will be on Wednesday 6 December, with arrival between 5-5:30pm, with the ceremony beginning at 5:30pm. Parents of students will be invited to the event and will need to RSVP.
Following the ceremony, students and their parents will be able to enjoy dinner (Subway, Sushi or Dominoes), dancing, lawn games and dessert!
We are looking forward to celebrating this important milestone with all students and their parents.
Have a great week
Ben Mills
Deputy Principal –Year 6
bxmil3@eq.edu.au
Assessment in English
Throughout this term students will have an opportunity to demonstrate their developing understandings in all aspects of English. They will be provided with an opportunity to read independently to their teacher, and answer reading comprehension questions to show that they understand the text they are reading. They will also have a chance to show off their writing skills by producing a final piece of writing in the coming weeks.
These samples of work, combined with teacher observations and conversations with students are used to make an overall on-balance decision about a students’ progress in English. At Mango Hill SS we collect a range of reading and writing samples, as well as observations from Speaking and Listening tasks completed in Term 3, to inform our reporting decisions. All students will receive an overall mark for English at the end of this semester.
In the coming weeks we look forward to students continuing their learning, but also demonstrating to us how much they have learned throughout the year. Of course it is not too late to improve, which is why we will be reading and writing right up until the end of the school year.
Accelerated Reader
Some of our senior students have been consistently working on AR for many years. One of these students is Jasnoor, who has now reached the very top of AR. She has now read and successfully completed the quizzes right up to AR 9.0. Well done Jasnoor!
For many other students, the next few weeks will be a great time to work towards their AR goals. AR will continue right up until Week 8 so there is still plenty of time to read and quiz! Pop into the Hub if you would like a hand to find a suitable book.
Hub display
This week in the Hub we have a special display from the Qld Museum highlighting a range of Asian cultures. Pop on down to have a look and celebrate the ways in which Asian cultures influence our food, our celebrations and our general way of life. You might also be able to find your favourite Asian country on a globe or a map!
The Hub is open every day from 8.15am and until 3pm every afternoon. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Chemical Reactions in Future Science Friday 20 October
A chemical reaction is a process in which one or more substances, also called reactants, are converted to one or more different substances, known as products.
This week our Future Science friends investigated what would happen when we combine dry yeast, warm water, dish soap, hydrogen peroxide and food colour.
What makes the foam appear?
When the hydrogen peroxide meets the yeast, it starts breaking down into water and oxygen. Oxygen is a gas and therefor wants to escape the liquid. The dish soap that was added, traps the gas bubbles, forming foam.
How amazing is science!
Have a fantastic week
Suzette Holm, Jessica Rivett
shol0@eq.edu.au
Uniform Shop
Monday - 8:00am-10:30am
Wednesday 1:30pm-4:00pm
Thursday 1:30pm-4:00pm
Friday 8:00am-10:30am
What wonderful spring weather we continue to have! 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.