Term 2 Week 9 2021

Upcoming events and celebrations

As our students complete their final pieces of assessment for the term and our teachers commence their planning for Term 3, our school community also looks forward to the various opportunities to connect and celebrate our school’s achievements. Over the coming days and weeks we excitedly wait for the following events.

• On Wednesday 16 June our Years 3-6 students are participating in their behaviour celebration and celebrating their commitment to our Team Mango culture. On Wednesday 23 July our Preps-2 students participate in a similiar event.
• Our students have the opportunity to demonstrate the value of teamwork as they participate in a range of sporting activities. The dates of the Sports Day and Athletics Carnivals are as follows.
  • Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 Sports Day is on Thursday 17 June.
  • Years 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 qualifying students will participate in discus, 800m and 200m on Friday 18 June.
  • 8 year olds and 9 year olds Athletics Carnival on Monday 21 June.
  • 10 year olds, 11 year olds and 12 year olds Athletics Carnival on Tuesday 22 June. 
• On Thursday 17 June our Instrumental Music students will demonstrate the value of excellence by showcasing their musical talents at our Instrumental Music Concert.
• On Thursday 24 June we celebrate our Performing Arts curriculum by connecting as a community at the Mid-Year Concert.
• Throughout the last week of term, each year level will be holding a showcase in which they celebrate each child’s learning. These will occur on the following days.
  • Preps will open up their classrooms on Wednesday 23 June at 1:45pm.
  • Year 1 classrooms will be welcoming parents and carers on Friday 25 June at 8:30am.
  • Years 2-6 will be providing a digital showcase to be enjoyed by families at home.

Report from P & C

Thank you to all of the parents and citizens that connected on Monday night for our latest P & C meeting. I would like to acknowledge the fabulous work the P & C does in working with the school to ensure our continued success. Thank you to the P & C for their ongoing commitment to achieve quality learning outcomes for our students by kindly donating $5000 to the school to subsidise our Year 3 PCYC excursion. This excursion will provide our students with the necessary skills to safely travel around our community on their bikes. I would also like to thank the P & C for their donation of $1000 to support our efforts in connecting with our families. Thank you!

Do you have a skill you can share with us?

MHSS offers a range of lunch time clubs and activities to support students with positive play and provide additional opportunities for them to experience different things. We would like to expand these options by using the expertise of parents who are willing to volunteer some time on a regular basis or a  one off ‘pop-up activity’. If you have skills in a sport, art, craft, yoga, meditation or anything children may be interested in and you can volunteer some time, please contact Ben Mills bxmil3@eq.edu.au by next Wednesday and we will be in touch. Thanks for your help!

Care for Learning in Year 5 and 6

This week I had the pleasure of working with a fantastic class, Year 5B, as they continued their work on solving problems using multiplication and division. It was great observing students use their scale to track their learning and to monitor what they have successfully achieved and what their next step to success is. I also loved watching students access their class Bump-It-Up Wall to assist them in bumping their work from a three star to a four star.

Well done 5B! Last week I had the opportunity to meet with all Year 5 and 6 teachers as we moderated the English and Maths folios from Semester 1. I really appreciated having conversations with colleagues about the achievements of our students. With a couple of final weeks to go it looks like 98% of Year 5 and 6 students will achieve the standard for English and Maths. We are really proud of our achievements and look forward to working really hard in Semester 2 to ensure that all students continue to succeed.

Debating

In Week 8, our Year 5 & 6 Debate Teams participated in the first round of the QDU Primary Schools Debating Competition. All members of the teams worked incredibly hard to plan, write and present their arguments. It was the first time ever debating for all our team members. All 3 teams performed extremely well, only narrowly missing out on the win, with the adjudicators commenting on how impressed they were with our teams. The teams will participate in the second round of debates in Week 1 of Term 3.

Prep News

We’re still working hard in Prep with only a week and a half to go this semester!

We can’t wait for our first Sports Day tomorrow and have been preparing for our events in our PE lessons with Mr Newell and Mr Hills. We’ve also read a social story, so we know what to expect. Tomorrow, we are going to try our best at everything because that’s what Team Mango students do!

Next Wednesday afternoon, June 23 we’d love for our Prep parents to visit us in the afternoon to see our wonderful work from this semester. Our Prep Showcase will be from 1:45pm. We hope you can join us! 

What’s happening in Term 3? Well, we start our interviews for our Preps beginning school in 2021! If you know of any family in our catchment not yet enrolled, please encourage them to hand in their enrolment forms so we can book an interview. To participate in our transition sessions, which are so very valuable for our students to help them transition positively to school, students do need to be enrolled and the interview completed.

Our playgroup continues each Friday morning from 9-10am. Miss Livvy does such a lovely job of facilitating! If you have a child younger than school age, please come along. We meet in the Prep area.

Have a lovely week

Have a great week

Diversity on Display

We are continuing to showcase our Mango Hill diversity with a special display in the Hub for the next couple of weeks. This time we have lots of special things from India, so pop in now to see these soon! Special thanks to the Sharma family for sharing so many special artefacts.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

Don’t forget it is not too late to begin the Reading Challenge. We have until the end of August to complete the Reading Record form (attached here). All completed forms should be handed into the Hub. As part of the Reading Challenge, participants are also invited to enter a competition hosted by QSuper. Follow the link below to record your name and school and we could win a visit from an author!

https://qsuper.qld.gov.au/campaign/premiers-reading-challenge

Congratulations to Anika who this week reached one million words in Accelerated Reader! This is a super goal to have reached and we are very proud of Anika’s efforts. She has been reading and reading all year to make it to one million words already!

Late last week we also celebrated with Ipshitha who has just reached the outstanding milestone of 3 million words in AR! This is an extraordinary achievement and we are all very impressed. Ipshitha looks like she is well on her way to 5 million words this year!

To celebrate super reading by both these girls, we have added their photos to our special display in the Hub. Pop on down to see them and all of our AR millionaires!

Borrowing

This week will be the last week for Class Borrowing from the Hub. Students are welcome to keep their current loans over the holidays and we will be open all of next week before and after school for those eager readers who would like another book. The Hub is open every day from 8:15am until 3pm.

Don’t forget for any lost or missing books, we ask that you replace the book with another one. The replacement book may be of any kind, new or pre-loved. Let us know when you are replacing books as this enables us to keep track of all of our resources.