8 December 2016

Newsletter Articles

2016

The 2016 school year is coming to a rapid conclusion with a number of end of year activities happening at the moment. Movie Day – SING, and Party Day!

It’s been another busy year for our 230 students and school staff with many highlights around the student’s learning and development, and the tone and setting of our school.

Sincere thanks to:

• our school families for your support of your child’s teacher and the Maroochydore State School across the school year
• all our school staff (teachers, teacher aides, specialist teachers, school admin, school support staff, cleaners and grounds staff and our volunteer supporters) for their ongoing commitment to the student’s engagement and learning each school day
• our P&C who have worked hard to promote and support the activities of the school

On behalf of all school staff, Mrs Pool and I wish our whole school community a wonderful and safe Christmas and holiday period and look forward to welcoming you and a number of new families back to the new school year on Monday January 23 2016.

Semester Two Reports

Semester Two reports were distributed via email on Wednesday morning.

If you did not receive an email with your child’s report please contact the Office.

Talent Quest

Our three judges had number of serious conversations around the student’s performances on Tuesday afternoon. After a number of standout performances, the results were close, very close and had not only the students but also the guest host, Mrs Sinclair, waiting in anticipation.

Students, sung, danced and played with great pride and enthusiasm. Two wonderful qualities alongside being an active participant.

Congratulations to – Slade (1st place), Bianca and Slade (2nd), Jake (2nd), Liliyan (2nd), Jade and Elle (3rd), Manreet (3rd)

Highly commended – Slade, Johnrev and Teshauna, Shari-Lee and Zoe, and Amy, Nikki and Erica.

End of Year 6 Night

Congratulations to Mrs Hill and our Year 6 students for an entertaining and wonderful Tuesday evening. The school band played and then all Year 6 students played the Djembe drums and performed a quality dance to Can’t Stop the Feeling.

Mrs Hill was very proud teacher for the way all students performed.

Congratulations again to our award winners – Sam, Zhiane, Slade, Enzo, Kahlan, Hayley and William.

Science Show – Street Science

With huge thanks to our P&C, all students attended the Street Science show on Monday morning in the Hall.

For 45 minutes the students were dazzled and amazed by light, air and fire! There was a number of loud bangs and chemical reactions to raise curiosity and spark an interest in science.

Prep 2017

At the moment, we are preparing for 30 new Prep students!

The ‘Prep Practice’ morning will be on January 20 for our enrolled students. A 9am start for an hour with a 10am finish time.

2017 Year Level Book Lists

Is your booklist still at home? You can now take the booklist form direct to Swan Newsagency which is located in the Sunshine Plaza.

All Book List packs will be ready to collect at School in the main forecourt area on Thursday, January 19 2017 from 8am to 3pm.

Prep to Year 6 in 2017

Next year our school will have classes from Prep to Year 6.

We hope to welcome nearly 30 new Prep students into our school in the new year.

As usual with our changing class numbers, there will be some classroom and teacher changes.

Proposed classes for 2017 shall be published outside the School Office on January 19.

Where a year level has more students to fill one class – teachers this week have reflected on student friendship groupings and academic achievement to help create the proposed classes.

With the transient nature of our area please note that these are proposed classes and they may change to fit within the school allocation of staff.

With much sadness, we are saying goodbye to our contract teachers Mrs Blanch and Mrs McSweeny, as well as School Support teachers Mrs Blackburn and Mrs Sharp. Teacher Aides Miss Mandy, Mrs O are also finishing their contracts for the year. They have all inspired our students and been a wonderful and successful part of our school across 2016. To you all, a sincere thank you and I hope our paths cross again in the very near future.

Playgrounds after school

It is great to see students and families enjoy the wonderful facilities and playgrounds straight after school. However, I need all of the community to please support this practice in the following way. If students are to use the playground after school, their parent must be actively supervising their child from right next to the playground. I appreciate everyone’s support with this.

Term 4 Dates

Prep to Year 5 Movie Day – Thursday December 8
Term 4 finishes – Friday December 9

Positive Behaviour for Learning

Our student attendance average is just over 91% - we still think we can obtain 95%

Every day counts

Parents are reminded of the importance of sending children to school every day. Being at school every day is important, if with one day absent each week quickly adding up to two months of missed lessons in a year.

Unless your child is ill, it is expected that your child will be at school learning every day of the school year.

More information on the importance of regular school attendance is available at the link below. The videos associated with this link highlight issues often faced by parents and dispel some myths about absences form school and are worth a look.

By sending your child to school every day we are together developing good habits for success at primary school and beyond. When parents do not support developing a solid routine of attending school every day issues of truancy and poor work habits can emerge.

If you have any concerns regarding your child’s attendance, please do not hesitate to contact the school for support.

This week’s rule of the week is – Be Safe. Evans Street Upgrade – Be Safe and us the traffic lights correctly when crossing any road.