Term 4 Week 6 2023
Attendance goal 95% or above
Currently 86.9 %
Date Claimers
Term 4
Tuesdays Week 6,7,& 8 Prep Transition Days
Friday 10 Nov. School Remembrance Day Commemoration 9 am (Community welcome)
Thurs/Fri Nov. 10 & 11 Mrs Mac - Twmba Equity and Excellence
Friday 11 Tuckshop
Tuesday 14 Nov. P&C Christmas raffle, donations please to Leisa Young
Thursday 16 Nov. Mrs Enks and Mrs Mac at Nanango for 2024 Budgeting
22. 23. 24 Nov. Swimming.
Friday 24 Nov. Carols in the Park
Monday 27 Nov. Swimming Carnival
Thursday Nov. 30 &
Friday Dec. 1 Year 6 Transition TSHS
Monday 4 Dec. Fun Day - Camp Duckadang end of year celebration
Wednesday 6 Dec. Awards and Christmas Concert
Thursday 7 Dec. Year 6 Graduation Dinner -Toogoolawah Golf Club
Friday 8 Dec. Final parade for 2023. Guard of Honour for Yr 6. Final ringing of the school bell for 2023 by Year 6.
Principal's Report
Students have 4 weeks to commit to a strong finish as assessment tasks begin. At this time of the year, it is essential students consolidate their learning to the best of their ability. We have various celebrations in Week 10 however, everyday attendance is critical for the next 4 weeks.
2024 nominations for leadership positions were distributed last week and applications are due next Monday, 13 November. All year we have been suggesting, discussing and providing opportunities for our current Year 5's to demonstrate their ability to take on roles of leadership. We look forward to well thought out applications.
The Disco on Thursday was lots of fun and behaviour was generally excellent. Thanks to Mrs Packenham and Mrs Carey for the games. Thanks to our Leisa, Lisa, Ash-Lee, Katrina, Emily and Lisa for providing dinner. Thanks to Lisa and Alan Bechly for the smoke machine and disco lights. And well-done Angela Devlin for gate control. It was important for all to stay safe and have a wonderful evening, so we can have the event again next year. It was nice to see a good role up of students for learning on Friday.
Swimming notes will go home this week. The cost is subsidised by the Sporting Schools grant. Payment is essential for participation. Our swimming carnival is on Monday 27 November. There will be events for the whole school to participate in and we will need some help with the Staff/Parent vs. student relay! Families welcome.
Please join us for our Remembrance Day service this Friday at 9 am.
Have a great week.
Regards
Mrs Jo McCormick
Principal and class teacher.
Prep - 2 News - Mrs Packenham
Over the past fortnight in the Prep-2 room we have practised Rainbow Facts, represented 2 and 3-digit numbers, investigated what happens to different materials when they are wet, drew the beginning, middle and end of familiar stories, and practised correctly writing the letters a, g and d just to name a few activities!
On Day for Daniel, we participated in the 2023 Child Safety Lesson. The focus of this lesson was on consent. The concept of consent was explained in child-friendly terms of another student wanting to borrow equipment or share a toy, and extended into interactions with adults such as an adult wanting to give a child a hug, hold hands or have a child sit on their lap. The lesson also explained body clues that students may notice in themselves or others when something makes them feel uncomfortable. It also emphasised the point that an adult should never ask a child to keep a secret and that children should report this to one of their Safety Helpers if this happens. We also revised who our Safety Helpers are. For further information please see the Day for Daniel website.
Last Thursday we celebrated National Outdoor Classroom Day! We embraced the beautiful weather and spent almost 3 hours of our learning time outside! This included reading, phonics, spelling, maths and science. Check out the photos below of some of our activities!
National Outdoor Classroom Day
Year 3-6 News - Miss Fisher
English
Students have worked hard drafting and revising paragraphs about sewage treatment. They turned dot point notes into sentences, using the different conjunctions we have been working with. When revising their drafts, students reworked the structure of sentences, used more precise and sophisticated vocabulary, as well as removing unnecessary words. The results of their efforts are on display in our classroom. Please feel free to come in and view our efforts!
Science
We continue to enjoy hands-on tasks in our Science work. Check out the photos of our 3s and 4s investigating the tensile strength of different materials. 5s and 6s, in their quest to understand the different between physical and chemical changes, investigated the impact of depriving candles of oxygen. We are coming to grips with how candle wax changes to a gas!
Science
Instrumental - Mr Adam Smith
“I liked the confidence with which our band performed at the Moore Soldiers Memorial Hall last Saturday. Thanks so much to our big crowd of supporters as well. We looked great and sounded great. Thanks to all the Mum’s and Dad’s for bringing everybody out to play. I know some of our performers were a bit nervous but you really came through and the feedback from the community was great. I am so impressed with our music team.”
“Bridi learned a new hack this week for playing F major scale on her Clarinet plus another for getting the high notes more easily. Henrietta made a major breakthrough by achieving something she thought was impossible by reaching a high C on her Trumpet. Tijana continues to do battle with the high notes on her Level 3 scale of Eb major and has struck the first blow with outstanding fingering. These notes are really hard and high. Our Year 6’s are tackling some high school level music. Charts like, ”Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Mango Tango”. Our students are fearless and will have a go at anything. Our next performance event is Friday November 24 when we combine with Toogoolawah SHS, Toogoolawah SS and Linville SS to do “Carols in the Park” at McConnell Park, Toogoolawah. Free sausage sizzle at 6pm. Starts at 7pm.”
PBL Week 5 & 6
Week 4 & 5 Awards
Students of Week 4: Adelaide, Tijana, Harlan and Bella
PBL Week 4: Sommer and Brax
Special Award: Wide Bay Sport - Brax
Week 4
Students of Week 5: Oscar, Laird, Penny and Pippa
PBL Week 5: Reid
Week 5
Student Council
Student Council News Term 4 Week 6
CONTAINERS FOR CHANGE
Containers are now being picked up by EE Waste Toowoomba. They have requested that we don’t crush the containers as their machines need to read the bar code. Containers will be picked up fortnightly. Wine and spirit bottles are now included in the recycling.
PLANT STALL
The plant stall did really well over the holidays. Thank you Tony, Amanda and Pippa for doing such a great job. It has begun to get really hot so it is a challenge to keep the plants watered.
We have some beautiful BAY LEAVES, dried and packed ready to use. We have to keep them out of the heat so they are in the office. ONLY $2.00 A BAG.
FUN DAY
POPCORN MONEY
Week 6 | CALARNI/TAYTE | STEELE/SOMMER |
Week 7 | STEELE/TIJANA | ADELAIDE/PIPPA |
Week 8 | CALARNI/ADELAIDE | SOMMER/STEELE |
Week 9 | TIJANA/SOMMER | TAYTE/PIPPA |
Week 10 | STEELE/TAYTE | ADELAIDE/ CALARNI |
Please try and get here for your rostered day so we can all share the work.
Steele and Tayte are in charge of the containers.
Pippa, Sommer and Tijana look after, water and fertilise (15th and end of the month) the plants and water plants around the school.
Day at Duckadang has been booked for the 4th of December. Will keep you updated if there are any changes.
Together we can do great things.
Pippa, Calarni, Sommer, Steele, Tijana, Adelaide and Tayte.
Harlin SS P&C
This week the P&C have Nachos on the menu for Tuck shop. Please be sure orders are in by Wednesday morning.
We had an amazing turnout at our school Disco! It was such a fun night and it was great to see everybody having a good time and behaving so well. Thank you to everyone involved & a special Thanks to the parents that helped to organise the music, lights, smoke machines & food.
The year is flying by and it will be the Christmas concert before we know it. We are going to hold a raffle this year and are looking for donations for prizes. If you can help out by donating something or can ask for donations please let Leisa Young know by 14th November.
Thank you,
Emily.
(P&C Secretary)
Disco
Grandparents' Day
Community Events
