2024 Term 4 Week 6
- Attendance goal: 95% or above
- Date claimers
- Principal news
- Prep - 4 News - Mrs Packenham and Ms Fisher
- Year 4-6 News - Mrs Mac and Ms Fisher
- Jill Boucher - Wellbeing
- Swimming and water safety - Week 1
- PBL Awards
- Student Council
- PBL Focus Week 6 & 7
- P & C NEWS
- CHRISTMAS CAROLS
- Vacancy - relief cleaner
- TOOGOOLAWAH POOL
- Toogoolawah Pictures
- Schoolzine App Code is 8745
Attendance goal: 95% or above
Currently 88.6 %
Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Resilient and Be Here!
Date claimers
Mon. 11 Nov. Remembrance Day Ceremony 9 am
Week 2 Swimming: Mon., Wed., Thurs., Fri. Bring flippers if you have a pair.
Mon. 18 Nov. 2025 Leadership Speeches
Mon. 25 Nov. Year 5-6 Camp Coral Coast
Fri. 29 Nov. Combined Christmas Carols band performance at TSHS
Mon. 2 Dec. Swimming Carnival at Kilcoy (parent or private transport)
Tues. 3 Dec. Graduation Dinner - Toogoolawah Golf Club
(Parents book and pay with the Golf Club)
Wed. 4 Dec. Ten Pin Bowling & Mini-golf @ Caboolture - supported by the HSS Student Council
Thurs/Fri 5&6 Dec. Year 6 Transition TSHS (Parents to arrange transportation)
Mon. 9 Dec. Awards and Christmas Concert at Toogoolawah State High School
Principal news
What a great week of weather to be swimming! It is pleasing to see huge improvement using culminating days of instruction. All groups are on to breaststroke and backstroke. We have a safety entry and a survival stroke at the beginning of each lesson. Thanks to parents who have made sure students have a cap, goggles and swim shirt. This helps enormously. Our swimming program also includes safety and rescue, getting changed and being organised, acting responsibly on the bus and helping out to make the visits enjoyable. Student behaviour has been very good. We have some fun time at the end of each session. Today we had the biggest bomb and the best belly wacker!
We have had one company measure up for our new playground and one more to attend next week. When we are provided with a design, we will make it available for comment from our school community.
Please join us on Monday morning for our Remembrance Day Service. Our Year 6 students will present the commemoration at 9 am. It is important we remember and recognise the sacrifices of men and women in past conflicts and those who are currently in our armed forces. Both Toogoolawah and Colinton have cenotaphs bearing the names of local residents who made the ultimate sacrifice for Australia.
Thanks to Mr and Mrs Blackmore who saved our native bees. Dave has made a box for the beehive with a Perspex viewing window. Let's hope they like their new home and we can watch these amazing little insects. Thanks to Rob Clarkson for your help with the tree removal in readiness for our new playground.
We ask that library books are returned by the end of Week 8. Next week will be our last borrowing week for the term. This will provide Mrs Carey with time to continue with her library organisation and stocktaking.
Mr Maller has retired from his position as Grounds person. We thank Neil for his work in and around our school and wish both Neil and Narelle all the best in their retirement.
We are looking forward to completing our curriculum tasks and then assessment in Weeks 7 & 8. Report cards will begin compilation and available in Week 11.
Have a safe and enjoyable weekend.
Jo McCormick
Teacher and Principal
Prep - 4 News - Mrs Packenham and Ms Fisher
P-4 class Term 4, Week 6
In English, the Year 1s and 2s have been learning to identify and count syllables in lines of poetry. They are working hard to retain the number of syllables when writing their own adapted version of simple poems.
In Science news, our P-2 have been moulding a material. After our work investigating bending, stretching, rolling, twisting, tearing, and folding, students moulded playdough into various shapes to make different objects. Our next task is to fold paper to make an origami boat. Students will also investigate melting as a way to change water! Meanwhile our 3s and 4s have been investigating adding heat to solids to change them to liquids. Last week they melted ice and frozen chocolate to examine whether they melt in the same way.
Last week in Maths, Year 1 and 2 students completed their money assessments. Mac and Charlie were absolute money superstars as they correctly added up collections of coins and notes. Well done boys! This week the Year 1s and 2s started learning about fractions – specifically halves and quarters.
Our 3s and 4s are wrapping up their money unit in Maths this week before moving onto fraction work. Year 3s will be representing unit fractions in various ways while our Year 4s will investigate equivalent fractions and decimal fractions to two decimal places.
Great job Cleo, Eliza, and Bella for performing Oh dear, what can the matter be? on parade last week for our poetry studies. Students have been wrestling with writing limericks this last week so hopefully we’ll have some to share on parade soon!
1-2 Maths
3-4 Maths
P-2 Science
3-4 Science
INVESTIGATING A BUG FROM THE SAND PIT
P-4 OUTSIDE SPELLING PRACTICE
P-4 ROOM ON THE BROOM READING
Year 4-6 News - Mrs Mac and Ms Fisher
Students are revising and editing their Coral Coast projects and will create a brochure to entice our Indonesian Neighbours to our beautiful country. Hayley had a great idea to send the brochure to Kinota Braithwaite, our author from Japan. This will be done in Week 9 after first-hand experience from our camp at Bargara. We are learning lots about turtles, the East Australian Current, the history of cane farming, and some interesting "Did you know?" facts.
"Did you know that a loggerhead turtle was tracked swimming an amazing journey of 20,558 km?"
Next week we will complete a reading comprehension task based on a graphic novel (Year 6) and an indigenous story (Year 5).
Invitations for the Year 6 Graduation at the Toogoolawah Golf Club were sent home today. Year 6 students are excited with this end of primary school tradition.
Both Year 5 & 6 are completing fractions and decimals in anticipation of their final assessment. Tilly, Harlan and Blake were making merry in our 'sand kitchen.' Henrietta and Penny were battling with difficult equivalent fractions to beat each other around the race-track.
Library borrowing will finish in Week 8.
Students have enjoyed testing the viscosity of different liquids. There were some surprising results when comparing bodywash, honey, and custard. Planning a fair test was also a focus for this task! Students have drawn a swanky diagram of the water cycle in preparation for their assessment task, which is planning and conducting an investigation into a variable that affects evaporation
Fractions and decimals
5-6 Science
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Jill Boucher - Wellbeing
Hi Harlin Family,
This is Jill the Wellbeing Social Worker at Harlin school I visit on a Thursday once a fortnight on the even weeks. Today’s piece for the newsletter is about Happy Chemicals. These are chemicals naturally produced in our bodies and they include; Dopamine our Reward Chemical, Oxytocin our Love hormone, Serotonin our Mood stabiliser and Endorphin our Pain killer.
I have attached a poster to give you more details on what stimulates each Happy Chemical. I encourage you to try some of these suggestions. You never know you might enjoy them.
If you have any questions about the poster, contact me on my email and I can organise a time to meet in person. My email is jbouc17@eq.edu.au
Swimming and water safety - Week 1
Stride entry and rescue
Free time fun!
PBL Awards
Week 5 Student of the Week: Hayley & Bella
Week 5 PBL Award: Reid
Week 6 Student of the Week: Penny & Mac
Week 6 PBL Award: Austin
Week 5
Week 6
Student Council
CONTAINERS FOR CHANGE
Thank you for the donations. We had a request to have the bin placed back outside by a community member so hopefully it will fill up with containers and not rubbish.
PLANT STALL
$900 to go until we have made it to our $10,000 profit for 2024. Not sure if we will make it but we sure will give it a good crack.
Student Council would like to have one more fun fund raiser day this year. It will be a free dress day.
POPCORN/ZOOPER DOOPER ROSTER
POPCORN MONEY
Week 7 | BRIDI HAYLEY | OLLIE JASMINE |
Week 8 | BRAX OLLIE | BRIDI HAYLEY |
Week 9 | CAMP | CAMP |
Week 10 | BRIDI APRIL | BRAX HAYLEY |
Please support our Popcorn and Zooper Day. Every cent gets us closer to our goal.
Together we are doing great things.
Brax, Hayley, Reece, Bridi, Ollie, April and Jasmine.
PBL Focus Week 6 & 7
P & C NEWS
Our next meeting is Thursday 21 November at 3.30 pm.
We will be discussing a lot about our end of year activities, so I encourage you to come along & help organise some fun for our kids.
Regards
Emily
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Vacancy - relief cleaner
We have a vacancy for a relief cleaner when Ken is absent. Hours are usually 5 - 8 am however, they can be after school from 3 pm if required. Please contact the school office.
TOOGOOLAWAH POOL
UP AND COMING DATES AT THE TOOGOOLAWAH POOL
FREE POOL SCHOOL BREAK UP CHRISTMAS BEACH PARTY FRIDAY 13TH DECEMBER (END OF SCHOOL DAY) 3.30PM TO 7PM - ALL FREE, DRESS UP BEACH STYLE, MUSIC, GAMES, PRIZES, STAFF AWARDS, LEARN TO SWIM AND SQUAD AWARDS. EVERYONE WELCOME
FREE DIVE IN MOVIE NIGHT AND BBQ FRIDAY 20TH DECEMBER
SWIM SQUAD INSTRUCTORS COURSE SATURDAY 4TH JANUARY - MORE INFO CONTACT KAREN GILCHRIST ON 0410 810 273
HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING CARNIVAL FRIDAY 14TH FEB 2025
FRIDAY MORNING 6.30AM SQUAD TRAINING WITH GRACE JARDINE. INVITED SWIMMERS ONLY.
Somerset Health & Fitness Pty Ltd
Jayne McKenzie
Director
0420 974 683
Managing Kilcoy Indoor Sports Centre and Toogoolawah Swimming Pool and Community Gym
Toogoolawah Pictures
Schoolzine App Code is 8745
