Term 2 Week 4 2021

P & C Meeting

Thank you to the parents who attended the P & C meeting on Monday night. Outcomes of the meeting include the following.

• The proposed 2022 Student Resource Scheme has been changed to move reams of paper from the booklist to the SRS. This will mean the SRS will be increased from $90 to $100 and the booklist will be decreased from $100 to approximately $80. This will be a saving of around $10 per student.
• Following the disappointment of very poor service from Kookaburra with the 2021 SRS, it was also agreed that book and stationery lists will be sent home for parents to choose their supplier. No school supplier will be engaged.
• The P & C received over $5000 commission from Kookaburra and this money has now been donated to the school for additional books for the library. Thank you!
• The parents at the meeting endorsed the updated School Dress Code (attached) and Community Engagement Framework.
• It was decided to employ an Operations Manager for 10 hours a week to support the P & C business operations. This position will be advertised in the coming weeks.

Our next P & C Meeting will be held on Monday 14 June at 6:30-8pm.

This Friday we will celebrate National Walk to School Day! Students are encouraged to use active travel to school and wear high visibility or fluoro clothes to draw attention to the important issues around road safety! Gold coin donation for the Student council please.

Mr Winney and Mrs White are ready with their high-vis vests!

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NAPLAN

Great work by our Year 3 and 5 students who have participated in the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) over the past few days. These tests will continue next week and we expect results later this term.

Colour Explosion Fun Run - Save the Date!

This week you will receive a sponsorship form for our planned Colour Explosion Fun Run to be held on 4 June. All sponsorship donations should be made online. The more money students collect for our school, the bigger the prize they receive! Visit myprofilepage.com.au and complete details. Students will need a plain white or pale shirt to see the colour explode!

We will be calling for parent volunteers to assist on the day so please save the date if you can assist!

Additional Facilities for our school

The Department has announced the construction of another 16 classrooms at our school to cater for additional growth expected over the next few years. This 3 storey building will be located where the old bike racks are and move down the hill to where the current multi-purpose court is, clearing some of the garden area. The multi-purpose court will be moved over closer to the environmental area. This area is not currently used as a play area. The building will have an under croft giving us some additional shaded play space.

Site establishment is currently underway and we will start to see building works in the coming weeks. We expect this project to be competed in February/March 2022. Once complete, some of the temporary hire buildings will be removed which will give us additional play space near M block and in the Junior play area.

The Care Class focus that will be delivered this Friday is Road Safety. PLUS this coming Friday all students will be encouraged to wear hi-vis/fluoro to celebrate “National Walk to School Safely Day”. Students will be learning how to care for self by being safe around roads and how to travel safely to school.

Classroom discussions will be based around the following.

When I care for self:

• I wear a helmet to keep my head safe,
• I wear closed in shoes to keep my toes safe
• I look both ways to keep myself safe from being hit by a car
• I use the pathways
• I remain with an adult and ensure I am walking on and near roads.

When I care for others:

• I listen to the crossing supervisors to keep myself safe and respect them
• I follow the road rules and care for road authority by respecting what they tell me.

The following resources put out by the Department of Transport is an excellent way to start some discussions at home too. 

http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au › School transport safety

School Photos

Our School Photos are booked for the 4-6th of August. More details when closer!

ICAS Registration Now Open

Mango Hill State School will once again be participating in the 2021 ICAS Assessments. ICAS is designed to target students’ higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics, Science, Spelling and Digital Technologies. Each assessment celebrates students’ accomplishments by providing opportunities for recognition. Top performers will be eligible for medals and the opportunity to attend a special award ceremony to have their academic excellence publicly recognised.

Please find attached the details regarding registration and Online Parent Payment System. Specific details of assessment days and times will be released in the near future.

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Save the Date: Mid-Year Concert

We are very excited to inform you about our Mid-Year Mango Hill State School Concert which will be in held in two separate sessions. The evening will showcase the juniors and the seniors separately to allow more tickets for families. The night will be held on Thursday 24June, Week 10 of Term 2.

This is always a great evening celebrating and showcasing the students’ performing arts skills and talents. It will be a great opportunity for all our students to be on a stage in front of a large audience!

They have all been rehearsing and preparing for a dazzling night of music, dance and drama!  We look forward to seeing you there.

When: Thursday 24 June

Where: Mueller College Performing Arts Centre

Doors Open for Junior Show: 5:00pm 

Junior Show Start time: 5:30pm

Junior Show Finish time: 6:30pm

Doors Open for Senior Show: 6:45pm

Senior Show Start: 7:15pm

Senior Show Finish: 8:45pm

Information regarding ticket sales will be announced in the upcoming weeks!

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School Banking Changes

School banking services will cease to be offered in our school at the end of Term 2. Tuesday 22 June will be our last banking day. In line with several other states and territories, the Department of Education’s decision is in response to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) Review of School Banking Programs report in December 2020. Students will be able to maintain their banking relationship directly with their bank. Consumer and financial literacy will continue to be delivered to students as part of the Prep to Year 10 Australian Curriculum. The school banking team would like to thank all those that have supported the program over the years.

Finance - Gold Coin donation

This Friday we are having a gold coin donation for our HI-VIS free dress. 

Did you know that you can pay your Gold Coin donation via our QKR app? 

QKR is easy to download and the app provides a guide to follow that will assist you in getting started.

If you require any assistance with this please feel free to contact Kylie in the office on email kklip1@eq.edu.au.

Student of the Week - Week 3

Prep B	Mishka	1S	Cooper	3L	Ariarna	5K	Fin
Prep E	LJ	1W	Seojun	3M	Nirvana	5P	JJ
Prep G	Samyu	1/2B	Abby	3R	Kate	5R	Hanish
Prep J	Tali	2E	Caitlyn	3T	Koby	5S	Zac
Prep L	Brody	2J	Samuel	3W	Madden	5W	Prisha
Prep M	Elizabeth S	2L	Harparh-Rose	4A	Charlie	6B	Sophia
Prep O	Brooklyn	2M	Michael	4B	Bentley	6C	Batsi
Prep R	Ruby	2P	Olivia	4C	Gantin	6K	Om
Prep S	Drew	2R	Francesco	4D	Hannah	6O	Cooper
Prep W	Megan	2S	Zoe	4G	Jasjeevan	6P	Sarsha
1A	Keyan	2W	Ruhi	4S	Harper	6R	Adyan
1J	Boston	3C	Sienna M	4T	Jacob	6T	Zoe
1M	Elijah	3E	Lara	4V	Stella	6V	Lakiah & Camilo
1N	Ryan	3F	Lewis	5B	Fergus
1O	Thomas	3H	Angus	5D	Seth
1P	Justice	3J	Jaxon	5I	Coralie

What a busy week it’s been for us in Prep!

• We loved playing with all of our mums, aunts, grans and nans, and other special carers at our two Stay and Play mornings to celebrate the special mums and other carers in our lives. Thank you for coming!
• We started to Bump It Up in our writing. We use our Bump It Up Walls when we write, to help us to know what is our next step to improve. By the end of this term, we will be able to write sentences on our own. Bet you can’t believe this?! But it’s true!
• Ms White visited our lovely playgroup, held each Friday in our Prep area with Miss Livvy. It is such a joy to see all the little ones faces as they explore our Prep play space, sing songs with Miss Livvy and play with their mums and dads. All families are welcome to join! You just need to have a kid to play with, who is younger than school age. We meet in our Prep under cover area each Friday at 9am.
• Miss O’Brien presented a parent information session about how parents can support their child’s reading development in the home environment. We had over 30 parents attend and many others have expressed interest. We will look at holding another session at a different time and how we can share the presentation with you, should you not be able to attend in person.

And that’s a wrap for Week 4. 

Have a lovely week

Year 3 and 4 News

Where have the first 4 weeks of term gone?! As we enter the middle of Term 2, I’m enjoying seeing the learning from across Year 3 and 4 come together. This week I have witnessed students committed to their learning, showing teamwork in class and in the playground, innovating on their own and each other’s ideas, showing respect to one another and striving for excellence!

Recently, I had the pleasure of spending some time in 4B and 4T. 4B were looking at their diary entries based on a chapter of Rowan of Rin and giving each other feedback about what they did well and what their next steps could be. It was nice to see the growth mindset of these students as they celebrated what they were already doing well and considered what they could do to continue to improve.

In 4T, students were working away at finding unknown quantities to solve problems. Mr Thomas was so excited to see the collaboration of his students on display, as they worked together to not only find the answers to these problems, but prove them too!

A special shout out to Kaiden in 4G and Santiago in 3T this week. Kaiden was a superstar mathematician displaying the MHSS value of innovation as he discovered a new way to solve problems with unknown quantities. He left Mr Mills and Ms Cosmo speechless with his thinking! Santiago has shown the MHSS value of commitment recently, by practising regularly to be the first student to solve Mr Mills’s Rubik’s Cube!

Electives

Electives have continued this term for Year 3 and 4. It is a wonderful opportunity on a Friday afternoon for students to spend time pursuing their interests with other students and teachers from their cohort. Last Friday, I enjoyed visiting the ‘painting’ elective as they worked away at some beautiful abstract art pieces.

NAPLAN

Congratulations to our Year 3 students on completing their very first NAPLAN tests this week. I was so proud of the way they engaged with these tests to show us what they know. Thank you to teachers who have worked hard to set their classes up for success by providing such calm learning environments. Best of luck to all of our students in Year 3 and 5 participating in NAPLAN online over the next fortnight!

Care for Learning in Years 5 and 6

It has been another big week in Year 5 and 6 classrooms. Congratulations to Year 5 for their first week of NAPLAN testing. Students worked hard in applying the concepts they have leant in class this year to the requirements of the test. In Year 6 this week I had the opportunity of working with some students while they continued their work on text analysis. Year 6 are examining the novel Blueback by Tim Winton this term and analysing the meaning of language choices and the overall message by Winton. I enjoyed discussing with students the choice of metaphors and Winton’s character choices and how these contributed to the messages of the novel. Well done Year 5 and 6!

Electives - Digital Art

In the Digital Art elective, students have been using the Sketchbook app to create and manipulate a variety of images. Our challenge last Friday was to create a galaxy using a variety of effects, including smudging, spray paint effect, and gradient fill. They also used multiple layers to build up the components of their galaxy picture. These were some of the many amazing artworks produced!

Accelerated Reader

We are very excited to announce that Amaan has recently reached one million words in AR. This is an outstanding achievement and we are very proud of Amaan’s persistence and resilience. Pop on down to the Hub sometime soon to see the photos of all of our Millionaire Readers! The Hub is open from 8.15am each morning and until 3pm each afternoon. In the mornings students should wait in the piazza until 8.15am and then come across to the Hub. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Premier’s Reading Challenge

Don’t forget to start your reading for the PRC this week! We have until the 27 August, but what a great chance to read, read and read! All books read (or listened to) should be recorded on the special PRC form. These are available here or in print form in the Hub. This year there are also some special bookmarks to print and use while heading towards your target!

Number Facts Parent Information Session 

On 18 May (8:30-9:30), I will be holding a parent information session on Number Facts. We will have a quick look at how we teach Number Facts at Mango Hill SS. You will get some hands-on games to take home and play with your child to help reinforce the strategies learnt at school. It will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions about our program. Our session will be held in the Hall, and I look forward to presenting some practical ideas for you to engage with your children at home around Number Facts. 

We are still running a Pantry Drive for Mango Manchies and Sole Cafe. 

We are looking for donations for staple items. For example jam, vegemite, margarine to name a few and all the things we need to continue to run a growing canteen.

For each item donated your child will receive a raffle ticket.

Every Friday 2 tickets will be drawn and 2 children get to choose from our prize basket.

Louise, Bec and the Canteen Crew

Uniform shop hours during the term are:
Monday 8:00am-10:30am
Wednesday 1:30pm-3:30pm
Friday 8:00am-10:30am
Online @ www.wearitto.com.au/schools/mango-hill-state-school

Have a great week!

Belinda and Zoe
Uniform Shop Convenors