Term 4 Week 7 2020

Celebrating 2020

With only 3 weeks to go we are busy planning many of the end of year events. Below are our plans to date.

Awards Assemblies will be held on Monday 7 December at the following times

Year 1 & 2 - 8.30-9.15am

Year 3 & 4 - 9.30-10.15am

Year 5 & 6 – 11.30-12.30pm

These assemblies will be held in the piazza so parents are able to attend. To meet COVID guidelines, we will need a maximum of two adults per family to attend. These adults must be seated 1.5m apart and all adults will need to sign in.

If your child is receiving an award you will be notified by Wednesday 2 December. We will also outline the COVID safe procedures for all parents attending.

Report Card Distribution and 2021 Class Placement Information will take place on Monday 7 December. Report cards will be emailed home on this day. Your child’s 2021 class placement and other information regarding procedures for the start of 2021 will also be emailed on this date. Students will have the opportunity to meet with their new teacher on this day (where possible).

The Farewell Parade will be held on Tuesday 8 December. Unfortunately with the number of students we cannot have parents at this assembly.

Break up Party Day will be held on Tuesday 8 December. Teachers will communicate food arrangements for the day in the coming weeks.

The Year 6 Walk Out will be held on Tuesday 8 December from 2.15pm. Year 6 parents will be invited to gather on the oval (1.5m apart) to see the students finish their walk out. Students from the rest of the school will form a guard of honour which the Year 6 students will parade through. More details will be sent soon to Year 6 parents.

Clean up Day will be on Wednesday 9 December. No formal lessons will be held on this day.

A reminder that there are two additional student free days on Thursday 10 December and Friday 11 December.

Carpark Safety

Once again, I remind all parents to prioritise student safety in our carpark and surrounding streets. When dropping or picking up students, please use the stop, drop, go lane or the Look Out Program. Please do not use the bus lane or be stopping in the middle of the carpark. This puts our children’s lives at risk. The parking has been reduced as we start work on our hall project so please consider using active travel, the bus service or the stop, drop and go system.

Have a wonderful week
Tracy
tegan4@eq.edu.au 

Focus of the week- 2020 NAIDOC day 

NAIDOC Week celebrations are usually held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. NAIDOC week is a great opportunity to participate in a range of activities and to support local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.  In 2020, NAIDOC Week celebrations have taken place in November.

We were very lucky to receive an art lesson from the inspiring Gregg Dreise. Classes participated in an online indigenous art lesson during care class time. The junior classes even had a visit from the school mascot Sole. Sole reminded everyone to “stick” to the four cares and encouraged everyone to have fun participating in their art lesson.

Have a good week 
Kara 

Our NAIDOC Cares Project

During NAIDOC week, we were lucky to have our Reconciliation Leader, Alyvia, and Ms O’Gorman lead our students who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in developing a Cares project. The results are stunning!

Our clever students from the Photography Elective, Finley, Allira, Gian, Oliver, Indigo, Louise, Madelyn, Simran and Sophia, were on hand last Friday to photograph these creations. Super photographs!

Learning about Diwali

On Monday, we had the pleasure of celebrating Diwali with our Mango Hill community. This is a special celebration honoured by many of our community members each year and we believe a great opportunity for all of our students to learn about the Hindi Festival of the Lights.

Thank you to those wonderful students who shared their cultural perspectives with our classes!

Italian News 

Italian Excellence 2020

Our Years 5/6 Italian Excellence students have explored Vivaldi’s Le Quattro Stagioni, and the Four Seasons Artwork of Renaissance artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Integrating the learning area of Media Arts, students are creating visual and oral impressions of the artwork that reflect their own viewpoints. Students are enjoying the opportunity to use the Italian language spanning the topics of the seasons, seasonal produce, facial features, emotions, and viewpoints. They are looking forward to displaying their artwork in the Hub in Week Nine.

 Italian in Year 4

Year Four Students, this term, have been re-creating the fairy-tale of Cappuccetto Rosso (Little Red Riding Hood)  and Lupo, Lupone, Lupaccio (the wolf), sequencing the story from illustrations and text and adding their own new villain. The students enjoyed the challenge of discovering how illustrations supported text by matching, sequencing and writing captions.

Italian Madonnari (Chalk Drawing Club)

During the term, the students have had the opportunity to join our Cultural Clubs. One of these clubs was the Madonnari Chalk Drawing Club.

Chalk drawing on the pavement began in the 16^th Century in Italy. The artists would paint images of the Madonna (Mary) (therefore were known as madonnari.) and lived solely from coins tossed onto or next to their drawings as homage to the Madonna (Mary) and their skill. They would paint onto the paved piazza with chalk, brick, charcoal and coloured stones.

Today, street chalk art has become so popular that it has spread worldwide with a festival occurring yearly.

At MHSS, the children enjoyed becoming madonnari and created some beautiful artwork.

 Signora Connie Lammertsma.

Student of the Week 

Banking News 

 The last school banking day for this year will be Tuesday 1 December, Week 9.

The school banking team is seeking new volunteers to assist with the 2021 school banking season. If you are interested, please email Melinda White on mwhit37@eq.edu.au.

Change to Bus Times

Creative Writing in Prep

We are enjoying creative writing in Prep! Now that we have finished our writing unit of work, where we invented new events for a familiar story, we have turned our attention to writing for a broad range of reasons - because in real life, we write to communicate with others!

We are making lists (and checking them twice!), writing signs and labels, writing cards and letters (Ms White has been lucky to receive a few!).

Now that we see ourselves as writers - such an important part of writing, to truly believe you can write - we think we can pretty much tackle anything in Prep!

Across this whole term, we have been preparing for our move to Year 1. The transition to Year 1 is big! So we started introducing our Preps to Year 1 from the very beginning of this term. We have:

*enjoyed time each week in the Year 1 area with our Year 1 buddy class
*visited the Year 1 area, to become familiar
*our classroom teacher aides have been helping our Year 1 friends, so we can learn to problem solve, seek help and have a go, without our supportive teacher aides by our sides
*increased our skills of independence even further, packing our own bags, sorting our own lunches and organising our own equipment ready to learn
*helped our kindy friends during their visits to us, being a buddy to them, showing them around and showing them how to be a Mango Hill SS Kid.

We are all very excited about being Big Year 1s. We enjoy our visits and can’t wait to show our new teachers how amazing we are! (Plus, we are also writing letters to them to tell them how amazing we are.)

Have a lovely week
Melinda 
mwhit37@eq.edu.au

Focus on the Learning – Look at our stories!

This week we have been able to see the fabulous results of the work the students have done creating their stories in writing! Feeling proud, students in every classroom have wanted to share their writing and are at the moment working on their best draft.

Year 1 students have created some entertaining problems for their Lighthouse Keepers’ characters – Mr Grinling, Mrs Grinling and Hamish their cat. Mr Grinling’s boat has broken down on the way to the lighthosue, Mr and Mrs Grinlng have had a fire, Mr Grinling’s light in the lighthouse has been destroyed…The students have also worked hard to create some great solutions for their stories. Such super authors in Year 1!

The Highway Rat stories from the Year 2 students have be equally as entertaining to read! They have worked on a new story for the character (the Highway Rat) ensuring that they incorporate the character traits of the character. This evil villain is a wonderful character to work with and so our Year 2 authors have developed some very entertaining storylines.

Have a great week!
Gabrielle
gdoug7@eq.edu.au

The Hub is the Place to Be!

There no better happy snap than one of our students sharing a beautiful moment in the Hub, quietly reading together. Visiting the Hub in Year 3 and 4 is always super exciting. It is a great chance to borrow a book written by your favourite author or to find a new one that a friend might have told you about earlier that week. For our students in middle school it is also the time were many of them start to progress and become AR readers.

With only a few weeks to go be sure to get down to the Hub and borrow! It is lovely to see our students reading before school as they wait to go to class or as a quiet retreat at lunch times.

Have you read with your child lately? This week ask them about their favourite character or event in the story. I wonder what made them say that?

Have a lovely week
Michelle 
Malco14@eq.edu.au

Care for Learning in Year 5 and 6

As assessment rolls on it has been great getting into classrooms and celebrating the fantastic achievements of our Year 5 and 6 students. I have had the opportunity to read some well-crafted diary entries from Year 6 and some great Storm Boy analyses. It has also been great to see the work Year 5 students are doing to get ready for their Market Day, real-world learning task. This task helps prepare students develop financial skills needed later in life. It has also been great to observe students using the scales and bump-it-up walls to help assist them when they are finding the learning difficult. I spoke to some Year 5 students this week that said they helped their teacher create the bump it up wall, using their own work, and it helps all of their class improve their work.

Year 6 Graduation and Excursion

Over the next three weeks we have Year 6 Graduation and the Year 6 Excursion on our calendar. This week I am organising the seating plan for the Graduation night. A vast majority of students have been sat with one of their four seating preferences and for the small group that it was difficult, I have met with them to ensure they are ok with their seat. For Graduation please ensure your tickets are paid for by Monday 23November. The excursion on December 1 and 2 is also fast approaching. If you have not done so, please pay for your excursion as soon as possible. This excursion is in place of the cancelled Year 6 camp.

Have a good week
Martin
mwinn7@eq.edu.au

Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds at MHSS

At Mango Hill State School, we have many students who speak English as an additional language or dialect. These learners come from diverse language and cultural backgrounds. Some of these students have taken on the challenge of learning English whilst learning the curriculum in and through this new language. During 2020 over fifty students have received additional language and learning support as necessary to enable them to access the intended curriculum. We acknowledge these students who have worked so diligently all year. In some instances students have progressed from new users of English to becoming increasingly fluent users of English, skilled in speaking, listening, and reading and writing the English language. Congratulations to those students.

Take Care
Ellaine 
ewarn23@eq.edu.au

Book Fair

We are very excited to announce that our Book Fair is almost here! Next week the Book Fair will be held in the Hub from Monday 23 November until Friday 27 November. The Hub will be open for purchasing books every morning before school, at first break, and every afternoon! We look forward to seeing you then!

There will be lots of lovely new books to purchase, and for every book sold the school receives 30% as commission for free books. We are always keen to add to our Hub collection, so your support of this special event will be greatly appreciated.

AR Millionaires

Congratulations to Anmisha, who this week reached one million words in AR. She has been working hard all year to reach this goal, and was so very proud of herself when all of her hard work paid off. Well done Anmisha!

Congratulations to Jesani who also reached one million words in AR this week. As you can see from her smile, she was also so very proud of her amazing achievement. Well done Jesani!

We were very excited to add photos of these two super readers to our special 2020 AR display.

Diwali

Our other celebration this week was Diwali. We had visitors from all year levels visiting to help complete the rangoli in the Hub. They are now on display and look super! Thank you to everyone who participated and showed great care for others while completing this special activity.

Returning all books

As the year draws to a close, we now need to start returning all of the Hub resources. All books should be returned over the coming weeks so that we can stocktake and make plans for new purchases in 2021. Your support in returning all library books as soon as possible is greatly appreciated.

Have a great week
Suzette
shol0@eq.edu.au

P&C Meeting Minutes for November 

Helping Hands News 

Uniform Shop Updates 

Uniform shop hours during the term are:
Monday 8:00am - 10:30am
Wednesday 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Friday 8:00am - 10:30 am

Did you know that you can order online? If your unable to come into the shop during the opening hours please see the link below. 

Orders can also be placed online at http;/www.wearitto.com.au/schools/mango-hill-state-school. 

This Friday is the last week that we are running the new 2021 Prep appointments.  I hope that we have seen your little Prep student, and have them all fitted out ready for next year.  We are still open during our regular trading hours up until the last week of term, Wednesday 9 December. 

Monday 7 December 8:00am - 10:30am
Tuesday 8 December 8:00am - 10:30am
Wednesday 9 December 1:30pm- 3:30pm

Canteen Christmas Meal Deal