16 August 2017

Newsletter Articles

The Maroochydore Way

Name the Crane – Sunshine Plaza

Congratulations to Aiden (2EB) for the fantastic winning crane name – Sir Lift-A-Lot!

Mural Wall

Some of our Indigenous students gave a helping hand today.

Fun Run – Cross Country

Monday September 4.

Run, jump, hills, obstacles, a jelly puddle and more to negotiate!

The P&C have sent home the fundraising booklets and in anticipation of your support for the P&C we thank you in advance for your contribution.

After the students, have completed the course there will be an ice block and wrist band given to them for their participation and effort.

On the day please pack a towel to dry wet feet, a plastic bag to put wet shoes and socks into, and have dry socks and shoes to put on!

School Book Fair

All parents are encouraged to visit the Library August 18-25 with their child, before school or after school, and view the fantastic selection of books available to purchase.

All purchases do earn books and learning resources for our school too!

Book Week – Escape to Everywhere

All students are encouraged to ‘dress up’ to the Book Week theme – ‘Escape to Everywhere’on Friday August 25th for our Book Week Parade.

Science Day – Last Friday

Drones, rocket launchers, robots, simple machines and science experiments!

Many thanks to Mrs Nugent for organising a wonderful session last Friday for all students to be a part of the national science week activities. Thank also to Jonathan from the Australia Geographic shop who assisted and amazed all by flying a drone with just a movement of his hand.

Prep Enrolments for 2018

Prep 2018 Information Session – Monday 5pm – 6pm August 28 in The Prep Building.
Prep 2018 Information Session – Monday 5pm – 6pm September 4 in The Prep Building.

We are taking Prep enrolments for 2018.

(A child born 01 July to 30 June 2013 is eligible to enrol in Prep for 2018)

Enrolment forms will be available on these session, or download one from our website.

Bring along your child’s Birth Certificate to fulfil the legal requirement of the enrolment.

School Opinion Survey

Thank you to those parents who have completed the survey already. So many positive and supportive comments of our school already!

A reminder the note with the log on instructions was sent home last week with students.

NAPLAN Online

As part of the NAPLAN Online trial our Year 3 students will sit an omni test (general questions) and our Year 5 students will sit a writing test and an omni test. This trial will be held in our Library using the class set of computers during the first week of September.

Family Fun Sessions

Begins this Thursday!

The program is a free 10-week program for the school and participating families (e.g. 5 weeks this term & 5 weeks next term).

On our school oval.

2:30 – 4:30pm Thursdays
August 17, 24 and 31
September 7, 14

Please contact the Office to have your names added to the list.

Woolworths Earn and Learn

If you are a Woolworth’s shopper be aware they are once again running their Earn and Learn promotion. For every $10 you spend you will get 1 Earn & Learn Sticker. Stick them on a Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet and pop it into a Collection Box at our school or Woolworths. The number of stickers collected by our school store will translate to the amount of educational resources provide to our school.

Attendance Every Day Counts

The school had set a goal of reaching 94.0% in Semester One. However, we have fallen below this figure – 90.6%.

Attending school every day is not an option, it is compulsory.

At Maroochydore State School – Every Day Counts!

Whether it be struggling to recover after a big weekend of sporting events or activities, taking a few extra days after a holiday or celebrating a milestone, the need for students to engage every day is important.

Routines and Expectations

Positive Behaviour for Learning

Please reinforce with your children the idea that we do not solve disagreements by being physical at any time. That we use our words, walk away or seek a teacher to assist.

• I say STOP if someone or something is upsetting me.
• I WALK away from the situation to a safe place.
• I TALK to someone I can trust.
• I CONTROL myself and keep my COOL.
• I can solve problems in a calm manner.

Resilience

In this context resilience means that students need to take responsibility for their own actions.

Regardless of what bad things we experience or others may do to us we are still responsible for how we react. It is not acceptable to justify our inappropriate behaviour as a result of someone else’s behaviour towards us.

Wearing the correct school uniform including a broad brimmed hat for play times.

School learning starts at 8:30am sharp.

There are high expectations around student work, personal achievements and behaviour.

For any student absence please call the school before 8:30am on the day of the absence. 5475 1555

Our 4 School Rules are:

Be Respectful Be Responsible Be Safe Be a Learner

All student mobile phones are to be taken to the School Office for safe keeping during the school day. Students collect them at the end of the school teaching and learning day at 2:30pm.

School Uniform

With the cooler weather beginning a reminder to all parents and students that the School Uniform Policy has support for students wearing a bottle green jumper/jacket as opposed to a variety of colour and branded jumpers/jackets. No hoodies.

Don’t forget to name your child’s jumper as they are often taken off during playtime and left lying about. Having a name greatly assists in the jumper being reunited with it’s owner quickly!

Playground Use

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 3 and Term 4 Dates

August 17 – Family Fun Sessions on the Oval after school. Week 1
August 24 - Family Fun Sessions on the Oval after school
August 25 – Book Week Parade - Escape to Everywhere
August 31 – P&C Father’s Day Stall
August 31 – 7:30am Father’s Day Breakfast in the school hall
August 31 - Family Fun Sessions on the Oval after school

September 4 – School Fun Cross Country Run
September 7 - Family Fun Sessions on the Oval after school.
September 14 – Year 6 Ropes Course
September 14 - Family Fun Sessions on the Oval after school.
September 15 – Last day of Term 3

October 2 – Queen’s Birthday weekend
October 3 – Start of Term 4

November 27 – P&C raffle draw
November 30 – Year 6 to MSHS

December 5 – 5pm End of Year 6 Evening
December 6 – Yr 6 to Aussie World
December 7 – Prep to Yr 5 Movie Day
December 8 - End of school year