2025 Term 2 Week 4
Attendance goal: 95% or above
Currently 91%
Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be
Responsible, Be Resilient
and Be Here!
Date claimers
Term 2
Fri. 16 May Emily Kettleton and Kirralee Pevy - Guest speakers
Thurs. 22 May Volunteers Afternoon Tea - 1 pm
Wed. 4 June Excursion to Wivenhoe Dam - parents and younger siblings welcome.
Wed, 18 June Readers Cup - Fernvale
Mon. 19 May P&C Meeting
Fri. 30 May Postponed - Jenny Kent Manamana Dreaming - Community Consultation 9 - 12 noon
Thurs. 19 June Athletics Day - Linville SS (parents to provide transport, please.) Note date change.
Fri. 27 June Bike Ride Toogoolawah to Harlin - Students, parents, friends, & grandparents.
Principal news
We are grateful to our guest speakers who have been enlightening our students on their reading journey and its importance. I'm hoping that real life experiences resonate with both our students and community.
At Harlin State School our aim is to make our units of work engaging and we love to provide a myriad of activities to support our students. However, our core business is learning and in particular, our focus is reading, which underpins success in all other subject areas. We can only improve student learning with the support from our parents and the wider community. We need more than 50% of our students returning home reading on a Friday or Monday. I am happy to support the 'extra activities' our students enjoy, but we need to see a commitment to our reading goal.
Next week, we celebrate our volunteers with an afternoon tea on Thursday. We have many volunteers who we never see, volunteers that we see once in a while or volunteers that we see every day. These volunteers help our signature programs to happen. They allow money to be saved and be better spent on student learning. They assist with the upkeep of our grounds, displaying to our visitors, our collective pride in Harlin State School. A special group of volunteers is our P&C, and we are very grateful for the selfless support of these members.
Also, next week we are marking halfway of our term. This signals a focus on working towards a completion of tasks for reporting at the end of term.
Now that our days are a little cooler in the morning, please take the time to check our winter uniform, endorsed by our P&C. The preference is for no hoods on jumpers as there has been a serious incident in the past in a Qld School with a hood getting caught in equipment and a lifelong neck injury. Please also remember, long hair requires a tie. It is not only safe but a way to mitigate catching nits.
Please note that we received on Tuesday a date for the Linville/Harlin Athletics which will be on Thursday 19 June. We originally had our carnival in the last week of the term. This changed when we combined with Linville as they are the hosts.
Brisbane Valley Small Schools Sport will begin in Week 6. It is on a Friday afternoon and we will be asking for an indication of parents/grandparents who will be able to provide transport. I am unable to leave the school unless Mrs Nutt is available and not booked elsewhere. Students may be picked up from Toogoolawah State School or catch their bus from Toogoolawah State School. The afternoon sport is for our Year 4-6 students.
We had a great time today, planning 'Upcycling' of our crockery and bits and pieces. This unit of work is based on the artwork of Sylvia Zacchello. Thanks to Mrs Guy for her expertise in finding and organising fabulous art and craft units of work. We are grateful for all the extra work you do for our school community.
Today, we displayed the framed Zentangle artwork that our students will be entering in the very fast approaching Toogoolawah Show. We are hoping to have our 'Upcycling' ready too. Some students are busy preparing Lego entries while waiting for the bus each afternoon.
Have a great weekend and I look forward to seeing you at the P&C Meeting on Monday at 3.15 pm.
Regards
Jo McCormick
Principal and Class Teacher
Kirralee Pevy - help in the classroom and bread making (procedure - recipe)
Emily Champ and Mrs Blacklock - Mother's Day gifts
Parents for your great supply of crockery, nuts and bolts, glasses and bits and pieces.
Year P - 3 News
We have had lots of fun with lots of procedures! We have used readers to follow instructions to make a parachute and find the language features and text structures. We have watched video to make an origami rocket and a water bottle rocket. We followed a recipe to make Chocolate Crackles and today we made bread. We now set about remembering the language features and text structures of a procedure as we create our own procedure.
Time is the focus for our maths. We will be busy reading clocks, knowing our days of the week, months of year and seasons.
in HASS, it is our turn to investigate the history of the Somerset Region. We have started with 'the past' looking at Mrs Mac's collection of old kitchen implements. Next week we look at the collection of historical information contained in the school memorabilia.
P-3 Science
After revisiting our play-dough mixture in Week 3, this week we created mixtures of liquids. We combined:
- water and detergent
- oil and detergent
- water and oil
- water and oil and detergent
Students made predictions about what they thought would happen when we mixed the different substances and were sometimes surprised by the results! They turned their hands to drawing scientific diagrams and labelling them.
Ms Fisher
HASS
Science P-3
Year 4-6 News - Ms Fisher
Our Science this past fortnight has involved evaporating water, and dissolving salt in water. Sounds simple, right? Our challenge has been communicating our results scientifically. We are using our English time to work on how to describe the “what” and the “why” of our findings. Students have worked collaboratively to revise sample responses, before they attempt their own.
As a class, students have read a text on physical changes and chemical changes and are getting their heads around how atoms and molecules work! This too, will inform their science writing.
Science 4-6
English 4-6
HASS 4-6
To “show what we know” in HASS, students have been recording audio to accompany pictures relating to their local history topic.
In our Maths time, we continue to focus on our number facts for multiplication and division and have grappled with mental strategies to add, subtract, multiply, and divide two-digit and three-digit numbers. So far, students have engaged with the split strategy and the compensate strategy. Armed with these mental strategies, they are now enjoying the challenge of the “Number Game” each day.
We now have a sticker chart in our classroom to track home reading! I’m looking forward to seeing how many stickers I can add next Monday when all the reading folders come in! 😊
Miss Fisher
Maths 4-6
Awards
Week 3 & 4
Congratulations to
Week 3
Yr 1-3 Student of the Week - Archie and Nate
Yr 4-6 Student of the Week -Bella
Week 4
Yr 1-3 Student of the Week - Leo
Yr 4-6 Student of the Week - Eithan
PBL- Keegan
Jill Boucher - Wellbeing
Hi Harlin Family,
This term I am going to focus on Behaviour as Communication
I will put a snippet of information in each newsletter along with a visual to expand on the information.
As promised in the last newsletter today I have included a visual of “What is Happening in the Brain.” I am hoping this visual shows the upstairs and downstair aspects of the brain. This is a crude understanding, but I find it helpful way to see why our children (and us) behave the way we do.
Upstairs thinking means we can respond because we have room to pause and decide what to do next. We feel safe and connected. Downstairs thinking means we react, survival and safety are our main concerns, and we act before we think.
Perhaps the next time your child appears to be not listening or acting without any thought maybe it’s downstairs thinking and their brain is just not able to access their upstairs thinking.
In my next newsletter piece, I will talk about what we can do to help promote upstairs thinking and reduce downstairs thinking.
If you want to know more feel free to contact me on my work mobile number 0473 679 686 or email jbouc17@eq.edu.au
Jill Wellbeing Social Worker at Harlin school visiting on a Thursday once a fortnight on the even weeks
Bus Safety
Student Council
ALUMIMIUM AVENGERS
CONTAINERS FOR CHANGE:
We have had some wonderful donations from cyclists who have spotted our bin out the front. Last pick-up gave us $68.30.
PLANT STALL
How lucky are we to have some amazing community members who are happy to grow and donate plants for our stall.
Marianne Horne, Kay Bishop, Barbara and Joe donate potted up plants quite regularly which has given us a huge boost. Of course, Mrs Blackmore is always walking in with a tray of something to add to our collection. This week we banked over $168 and Student Council are in the process of picking out a few things for our lunch play times.
HELP……WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF POTS.
AND….Looking for a few bales of Lucerne for our veggie garden please.
POPCORN/JELLY AND CUSTARD
Term 2 and 3 we will be serving Jelly cups $1:00 a cup.
Together we do great things.
Harlan, Henrietta and Blake
Thank you, Joe.
P & C NEWS
Toogoolawah Pictures
2025 Sporting Calendar
Somerset Council
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