Term 2 Week 8 2022
- Principal's News by Tracy Egan
- Team Mango We All Belong!
- Prep News by Melinda White
- Year 1 News by Kylie Vaughan
- Year 2 News by Ellaine Warner
- Year 3 News by Michelle Alcorn
- Year 4 News by Ben Mills
- Year 5 and Year 6 News by Martin Winney
- Curriculum News by Suzette Holm and Danielle O'Brien
- Sporting News by The PE Department
- News from our Partners
- Community News
Can you volunteer an hour or two?
Our wonderful P & C are raising funds to improve our school playgrounds and have committed to raise $50 000 to achieve this. They will be selling some food and drinks before the Year 2 and Year 4 Concerts next week and a sausage sizzle on the up-coming sports days.
Can you spare an hour or two to help at one of these days?
Imagine how proud and excited your child will feel seeing you supporting the school and what they will learn about contributing to a community. There are benefits for you, your child and our school community. If everyone does a little, we can achieve a lot for our children. Please sign up below!
We also have some upcoming volunteer opportunities on school athletics days in June.
For this to be a success we need at least 3 people to help cook the BBQ or serve for each timeslot.
- To volunteer during the 10 to 12 years athletics day (June 23) please use the following link,
(https://volunteersignup.org/RLQ87)
- To volunteer during the 8 and 9 years athletics day (June 22) please use the following link,
(https://volunteersignup.org/ATT9M)
- To volunteer during the Prep to Year 2 sports day (June 20) please use the following link,
(https://volunteersignup.org/PLCK8)
- Volunteers are needed to sell Food and Drink before both concerts on June 14th.
Please click on the following web link to go to the signup sheet: volunteersignup.org/XTF79
Thank you for volunteering!
Junior Playground taking shape
The P & C fundraising efforts have contributed to our junior playground refurbishment which has started to take shape.
See below for Stage 2 and 3 under construction. The $50 000 from the P & C will allow us to include all aspects of the design so we thank our school community for supporting initiatives to get us to this stage.
P & C Meeting
On Monday we will hold our June P & C Meeting from 6.30-8pm in the studio. We will be discussing the 2023 Student Resource Scheme and other items. All parents and carers are invited to attend.
Concert excitement
Tomorrow night we will hold our mid-year music gala event in Gigum Hall starting at 6pm. The evening will showcase the musical talents of our instrumental and vocal ensembles. I can’t wait to hear our students perform!
Our Year 2 & 4 students, choirs, dance clubs and eisteddfod teams are getting excited for their school concert next Tuesday evening.
We will have around 700 seats for adults so should have plenty of space.
There will be food for sale at the canteen in Gigum hall including chips, small lolly packets and sausage/spinach and ricotta rolls with water, poppers and soft drink. We ask that this food, juice and soft drinks be consumed in the foyer or outside (not in the hall please).
Four Cares Celebration
In Week 10, all students will enjoy a Four Cares Celebration, where they will celebrate our whole school focus of “Gratitude”. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the “Care Class Carnival” to acknowledge this great work and come together to celebrate.
- Prep- Year 2 carnival will be on Tuesday 21 June from 1.15-2.15pm
- Year 3-4 carnival will be on Monday 20 June from 1.30-2.30pm
- Year 5-6 carnival will be on Wednesday 22 June from 1.30-2.30pm
The Four Cares Carnival will consist of classes running various fun activities or games where the children will be allowed to walk at liberty, under supervision, with their cohort participating in the games on offer and enjoying the activities with peers. Additionally, each child will receive an icypole as part of the celebration.
The Four Cares celebration will follow COVID safe protocols and hygiene practices will be adhered to before and during each activity to ensure students hygiene is maintained. Inherent risk level of the activity is low and active supervision will be implemented at each station.
This term’s Care Class Celebration will not require any cost. For further information about the activity, please contact Suzanne McEvoy on swill389@eq.edu.au.
We look forward to celebrating with our students!
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)
Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines.
Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:
- year of schooling
- category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
- level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.
This information assists schools to:
- formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
- consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
- develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.
The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.
The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au). If you have any questions about the NCCD, please feel free to contact Ellaine Warner, Deputy Principal.
Focus of the Week
The Care Class focus that will be delivered this Friday is ‘Mindfulness’. We will also be consolidating this focus throughout next week.
We are learning how to use mindfulness to support our wellbeing.
Being mindful is about concentrating on the activity at hand. Any activity can be done with a sense of mindfulness, even eating dinner with your family. For example, you can teach your child to pay attention to the texture and flavors of the food. You can guide them to think about how the food nurtures their body and keeps their body healthy. It could be a mindful activity that takes less than a minute to calm the mind before reacting to a problem.
Here are some mindful minute activities that you can try with your family
Smiling minds - guided meditation https://www.smilingmind.com.au/
Student of the Week
Upcoming Parent Forum
Our First Semester of School
We’re well into the home stretch for our very first semester of school! Over the next few weeks we will continue to dig in and try our very best with all of our assessment tasks. There’s still time for us to “Bump Up” our work!
In our writing, we are looking for one-to-one correspondence, finger spaces and using all of the most obvious sounds in words. We’re looking for one-to-one correspondence in reading too. This means that we know that each word is one word. You can help us at home with our readers, making sure that we point to one word, when we say one word. When we write with you at home, it’s the same thing - please help us to point to each word as we read our writing to you.
We are also exploring feelings. When we can explain how we feel, we can show others what we think! This is helpful for learning and for play. We are learning to walk away when we are frustrated with others but it helps if we can tell our teachers why we are frustrated!
In my parade message this week, I have spoken to our Preps about the importance of being on time each day. We are noticing many of our Preps arrive late each morning and this makes it very hard for them and their class to settle into learning. When we are on time, we are set up for success! Parents and carers, please help us to be on time each day so we can do our best right from the beginning of the day.
Have a lovely week
Melinda White
Deputy Principal - Prep
mwhit37@eq.edu.au
Music in Year 1
This semester our students in Year 1 have been working with Mrs Morrell learning Music. The students have been making and sharing music played on classroom instruments. Through this process they have been able to explore pitch, rhythm and beat.
Have a look at these superstars in 1W engaging in rotations this week. There were children constructing rhythm patterns showing their thinking making tas and ti-tis with paddle pop sticks. There were groups writing rhythms with whiteboard markers and turning them into melodies by playing them on bells. Another group played a game rolling a rhythm dice and clapping what they rolled. The final group wrote their own music and then played their music on the glockenspiels.
Bucket Filling
Last week in Care Class we explored Bucket Filling. Bucket filling is a term used to refer to positive attitudes and behaviours. It relies on the analogy that every person carries with them an invisible bucket. This bucket contains a person’s feelings and emotions. When the bucket is full, this represents us feeling happy and contented. However, when it is empty, we feel low, upset and dissatisfied.
A bucket filler is someone who says or does nice things for other people. By doing this, they are filling other people’s buckets and filling their own bucket at the same time. On the other hand, a bucket dipper says or does things to cause other people to feel bad.
In Year 1 we try really hard to fill each other’s buckets by using kind words and caring for one another.
Check out these posters from 1P that explain bucket filling and bucket dipping in more detail.
Sibling Pick Up in Year 1
Just a reminder that children waiting for siblings to pick them up in the afternoon should be waiting in the Piazza between 2:30pm – 2:45pm. When children meet siblings or parents in other areas, they are unsupervised for fifteen minutes. To keep everyone safe, we ask that all students meeting a sibling wait in the Piazza under the supervision of our wonderful teacher aides.
Learning in Year 2
We always strive for best practice in inclusive education at our school. This is why your Year 2 student may have 2 teachers for some lessons. Co-teaching is a practice where two teachers deliver the curriculum in an inclusive way to students in the same classroom or learning environment. Your child may have their class teacher and Ms Tanner (our Inclusive Learning Teacher) or two class teachers jointly planning, instructing and assessing them in a particular curriculum area eg writing. Both teachers collaboratively differentiate the curriculum to suit the needs of their class.
2B have started this with Ms Tanner, and Ms Hartmann and Ms Jayawardhana will be co-teaching Math in Term 3.
Do you know our teacher aides?
We have two teacher aides who work across Year 2. If you are hearing happy tales of Ms Allen and Ms Rayne and have wondered what they look like, I include their photos below. Please say hello next time you see them.
Ellaine Warner
Deputy Principal- Year 2
ewarn23@eq.edu.au
Gratitude
Our schoolwide theme this term has been all about Gratitude. What are you grateful for and what ways can you show gratitude? What we have been modelling and teaching our students is that it can start with a simple thank you. A show of kindness and acknowledgement, maybe even a compliment. Being grateful takes practice. It’s a habit. A routine. Showing gratitude can be so heart warming and really fill our friends' buckets. What works well in our Year 3 classes is taking a moment in circle time or class meetings to show gratitude to our friends and teacher. At play we are really trying to remember to say thank you when someone helps, shares playtime toys or does something kind for us. I wonder what your little person would say if you asked them what were they thankful for at school today?
Year 3 Super Stars
It has been lovely seeing our students working so hard this week to represent their learning in writing and number. I loved the hands on learning in 3M and my super star writers in 3H. Ms Curran this week worked with a small group of friends to help them bump up their skills in maths. What a bunch of super stars!
Have a great week
Michelle Alcorn
Deputy Principal- Year 3
malco14@eq.edu.au
Using feedback to improve
While visiting classrooms across Year 4 this week, I have been impressed by the way our students have been taking on teacher and peer feedback to improve their work. In 4R, I had Jason and Arham proudly approach me with their writing and their scales to show me their progress throughout the term. There were many examples of where they could show me how they had applied their ‘next steps’ and were now conquering 3 stars. Brilliant commitment from these students!
Check out these great photos.
Morning Connection Time
Each morning, our Year 4 classes connect with each other and their teacher in different ways. 4Z begin each morning with a greeting circle, allowing Miss Thomson to check-in with each student and for the class to share their thoughts and ideas with each other. This week I walked in on a discussion about what you would rather be; “A sea creature or an insect?” Of course, some entertaining discussion and justification followed!
Fun in Maths
Who said Maths wasn’t fun? Certainly no one in 4L! During a visit to 4L this week, I saw students engaged in fun and laughter while sharpening their maths skills as they played a range of board and card games to warm-up their ‘Maths brains’. I am sure our students would love to teach their parents some of these games at home too!
Mid-Year Concert
This week, Year 4 have all been practising for their big performance at the Mid-Year Concert. I’ve been lucky enough to get a sneak peek and we are all in for a treat next week! We are looking forward to welcoming you all to Gigum Hall this coming Tuesday for the big performance. Doors open at 6.45pm for Year 4.
Have a super week
Ben Mills
Deputy Principal – Year 4
bxmil3@eq.edu.au
Care for Learning in Year 5 and 6
Thank you to all of the Year 5 and 6 classrooms that opened their doors to me this week. It has got to the point of the term in which teachers make strategic decisions about how to stretch the learning outcomes of students and how to provide precise differentiation to ensure all students are able to achieve. I had the wonderful opportunity to work with 6T this week as they continued their learning about crafting open-ended investigable questions in Science. It was great observing students use the co-constructed success criteria to develop their own science investigation questions. They approached this task with inquiry and wonder. I also had the opportunity to be a member of 6R’s maths lesson. It was great observing students engage in peer tutoring to help stretch their class mates. Finally in 6W it was wonderful observing students engage with a hinge question (a question that checks for understanding) and then observe Mr White and Mrs Penrose change their lesson to stretch students mastering the concept or support learners not there yet. Great care for learning Year 5 and 6.
Chess Competition
This week Years 4-6 students went to Nundah State School to compete in the Gardiner Chess Competition. We played 7 rounds against different schools and showed care for others and respect to every opponent that we faced. We learned some new moves and I know many students are now committed to practising them at our weekly Chess Club. Students supported one another and Team Mango was definitely well represented by all. We can’t wait to compete again next term! If your child missed out this term and would like to join us in representing Team Mango next term, please come and join us at Chess Club Tuesdays at 1st break. Everyone is welcome!
Student Leadership – Sustainability
This year our school elected to put in place two new leadership positions; Sustainability Captains. These captains along with school staff have been putting in place some key projects to help ensure Mango Hill State School is more environmentally sustainable. One of these initiatives being driven by our captains and Mrs Carlsson is the 7-Eleven Simply Cups project. Our school has accessed two stations – one at the canteen and the other near the old hall – in which students can recycle their coffee and hot chocolate cups. Each week a member of staff takes these cups to our local 7-Eleven and recycles them. Our two Sustainability Captains will be front and centre in upcoming virtual parades and in classrooms educating our students on what rubbish can go into these bins so that we are always caring for the environment. Go Team Mango!
Martin Winney
Deputy Principal – Year 5 & 6
mwinn7@eq.edu.au
Writing Café
As many students finish their final piece of writing for their current English unit, they will have a bit more time to focus on their folio of work for Writing Café. Writing Café is our way at Mango Hill to develop real writers who have an opportunity to write a range of texts. From Year 1 to Year 6 our students are provided with an opportunity to write stories, instructions, posters, arguments, songs and recipes as they build up a writing folio. As part of the Term 2 English marks, students will be required to reflect upon their writing folios and to edit or redraft where necessary. Being an author is a complex task and sometimes we need to write, write and rewrite as we sort our ideas and experiences. In Writing Café we are also trying to provide some space for creativity, artistry, fun and enjoyment so students are given some scope to choose the topics and the style and genre. You might like to ask the budding authors in your house about something they have written for the Writing Café folio. Perhaps you’d like to share some of your creative writing ideas too? We look forward to reading some of these texts in the coming weeks.
Book Club
Many of the back orders from the Scholastic Book Club have arrived this week. Delivery of these to individual students will be organised as soon as possible. Thank you to all those families who supported our school through this program. In Term 3 we look forward to having a Book Fair, where students will be able to purchase books from the Hub.
Premier’s Reading Challenge
Don’t forget to keep reading and recording your books on the special reading form. All completed forms need to be returned to the Hub by the end of August.
Museum display
This week we have a special display from the Museum celebrating the special contribution that migrants and their families make to our multicultural community. In particular, our display highlights the contributions made by those people arriving from Vietnam, Afghanistan and Sudan. Pop on down to the Hub to have a close look at some of these special things. You might even be able to find these countries in a work map or in an atlas. The Hub is open every morning from 8.15am and until 3pm each afternoon.
Have a fantastic week
Suzette Holm and Danielle O'Brien
shol0@eq.edu.au
Sports Day and Athletics Carnival
In Week 10, the Mango Hill State School Sports Day and Athletics Carnival will be held. Attached are the overviews for each day. Please check the relevant document for your child’s event so you aware of the day/day’s they will be competing.
- Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 – Sports Day
- Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 – Athletics Carnival
The overview document includes all information including the following.
- General Event Schedule
- Timetables
- House Groups
- Age Groups
- Individual Event information
- Points Scoring
- Age Champion
- Food/Canteen
- Spectator Expectations
- District Qualification.
Physical Education Teachers
nhill96@eq.edu.au
tnewe20@eq.edu.au
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Uniform Shop Updates
Good news! The uniform shop is now open an additional day. We are now open on Thursday afternoons 1:30pm-4:00pm.
Uniform Shop hours during the term are:
Monday - 8:00am-10:30am
Wednesday 1:30pm-3:30pm
Thursday 1:30pm-4:00pm
Friday 8:00am-10:30am
Online orders - can be placed through our website 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.
Zoe and Rochelle
Uniform Shop Convenors
