2025 Term 1 Week 6

Attendance goal: 95% or above

  Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Resilient and Be Here!

Date claimers

10  Mar.            P&C AGM and Meeting 3.15 pm in the library.

12-14 Mar.      NAPLAN

19 Mar.            Manmana Dreaming Meeting - Indigenous Art revamp

3 Apr.               Cross Country

21 Mar.            Mrs Mac - Principal Congress Meeting (Mrs Nutt teaching)

Term 2

21 April          Easter Monday

24 April         ANZAC Service 9 am

25 April         ANZAC Day March at Toogoolawah (Meet opp. Mitre 10)

Principal news

Week 6 down and the term is flying! It was a shame to have a virus and Cyclone Alfred slow down our momentum, but we are itching to get back into routine in Week 7.

Students are practising for the Cross Country every morning, ready to race on Thursday, 3 March.

Great to hear our Year 6 students enjoyed the Grip Leadership Day at Highfields. Blake, Harlan and Henrietta will now use the skills to show and enact leadership with both staff and peers.

We are aiming to use our Facebook Page to not only notify you but also provide snapshots of our learning.  You may find the Newsletter with a few less photos from now on as we utilise the Facebook Page with daily learning. 

The final colours for the playground have been advised to Austek Play.  Our manager is now requesting enough funds to cover the 'extras' (both hard and soft sun-shade) and we look forward to some soil being turned. A copy is available in the office.  I will advise as soon as we have notice of the 'Contingency Fund' covering the 'extras'.

We had our first Outdoor Play last Friday.  If you know of any pre-schoolers, please invite them along from 1.50-2.40 pm. on a Friday. Our 2 engineers design the play with six activities to engage all participants.

We await the rail for the steps from C Block (Yr. 4-6) and over the Easter Break we have tall storage cupboards and a bench going into the Outdoor Learning Centre (OLC).  A Block will receive a new learning wall with storage and an interactive TV where the current whiteboard is situated.

Can we please work together to make sure reading is done each and every night or morning?  Reading is a crucial element of all learning. We have lots of great books and magazines to borrow, every Monday.  Home readers are going home but rarely coming back.  Time flies - don't leave it too late to make reading a priority.

Our Staff Meeting is on a Tuesday.  Late pick-ups and bus students are on the library veranda only, on a Tuesday.  Students who are dismissed to parents out the gate are not to return to school. This has been discussed many times and students are fully aware. When students leave the school, we hand over their supervision and safety to parents.  The toilets are open if required, but it is not okay to come back into the school for play.

Please remember the P&C AGM and first meeting on Monday, 10 March.  We have the most enthusiastic and talented group of parents I have every encountered and I hope they nominate for P&C of the year in 2025. This small group would appreciate more ideas and assistance.  There are many of you who have lots to offer.  Afternoon tea at 3.15 pm. in the library and our Senior students will look after any younger siblings.

Any change to Monday's return to school will be sent via text message on Sunday afternoon.  Let's hope there is no damage and we can get back to learning.

Hoping all of our families and community members remain safe during Alfred’s visit.  

Regards

Jo McCormick

Principal and Class Teacher

Year 1- 3 News

We have had a couple of super-duper weeks.  Our beanstalks have gone berserk and it won't be long and we will be up in the clouds looking for the goose and harp.

Lots of recounts and retells happening and we have started editing to make sure we are using as many parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) as possible to make our work engaging.

Again, reading is our focus both in our AIP and 4 Year Strategic Plan.  There is no homework other than reading.  Reading prowess starts in Kindergarten and builds through primary years.  If is not achieved early, it is often very hard to catch up.  Our reading folders are due back every Friday and will be changed ready for Monday.

Don't forget the story before bed. Here is a lovely quote from Mem Fox - “Read-aloud sessions are times when parents and children fall in love with each other. (Reading Magic)”

Our diorama is growing, and we can now see both dams, the Brisbane Valley Highway and towns in the Somerset Region. Thanks Kirralee and Coulton for your help.

We are constructing graphs from collected data in maths.  Our metalanguage includes; data, x and y axis, most popular, least popular and equally popular.  Students had to construct a question to collect data.  Of course, Hugh's was about sea animals.  Charlie, Keegan and Mac used favourite activities, and one was motorbikes! We have used the on-line program, 'Maths is Fun - Make a Graph' to print the graphs in many forms (table, line, plot and pie).

Students have a Strive word each week to extend our vocabulary.  So far, we have had disguise, bellowed, sturdy and whimpered.

Mrs Mac

Week 5 & 6 Learning

Year 4-6 News - Ms Fisher

The senior class is motoring along with drafting our play scripts for our Fractured Fairy Tale! There is much huffing and puffing as our students grapple with The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig. After their experience with Readers’ Theatre, students are enthusiastic about writing their scripts, which is wonderful to see.

We are almost finished our Geometry work in Maths and will be moving onto a Data unit next. Along the way, students have been reinforcing place value concepts, and playing Bingo to build confidence with decimal fractions.

As a cyclone approaches us here, we continue to study another natural disaster in Science – volcanoes. This week students viewed a video on Mt Vesuvius and learnt about pyroclastic flows. It was intense!

Our HASS studies are moving slowly, but this week we completed our mind map on Toogoolawah during the period 1840-1880!

Just a reminder … Monday is the day for Reading logs to come in! 🤓

Ms Fisher

Leadership Day

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Congratulations to our School Leaders who participated so enthusiastically in the GRIP Leadership Conference last week! It was an early start but well worth the trip. The activities were engaging and purposeful, and Henrietta, Harlan, and Blake showed fabulous commitment in every session. They were keen to go up on stage and represent their school, even when they had no idea what they would be asked to do once they were standing in front of nearly five hundred people!

Our students made plans for how they will work for the good of our school, which we will be enacting over the course of the year. Stay tuned to see what they achieve!

Ms Fisher

Week 5 & 6 Learning

Instrumental and Band with Miss Graham

Jill Boucher - Wellbeing

Awards

Week 5

Congratulations to 

Yr 1-3 Student of the Week - Nate

Yr 4-6 Student of the Week - Austin

PBL - Charlie

Week 5

Student Council

Thank you for your containers and plant pots.  They are much appreciated. 

Glad to see the joy our Rollers are providing at lunch times.

Thanks to our Year 4 & 5 fellow students who have been helping with the watering in the last couple of weeks.

Regards

Harlan, Henrietta and Blake.

Too much fun!

P & C NEWS

Welcome back everyone. 

Our next meeting is locked in for 10th of March at 3.30 pm. See flyer. Would love to see you there.

Regards 

Emily

Car Boot Sale

Toogoolawah Pictures

Tandurinige Bull Ride

2025 Sporting Calendar

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