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Principal’s Report Sarah Comino
Principal’s Report 1
Awards 2
Class Reports 3-6
Date Claimers 7
Literacy News 7
Community Events 8
In this edition...
Fortnightly
Issue 15 Term 4 Week 2
13th October 2020
Magnetic Island State School School Vision: All students can succeed.
Mission: Magnetic Island State School will be a positive and supportive school empowering students to be the
best that they can be. Students, staff, parents, carers and community members will work together to foster an outstanding academic, creative and environmentally sustainable learning environment.
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Be Respectful
Be Responsible
Be Safe
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone has
given me as we launch into what is going to be
an extremely busy and exciting term. Despite
the ever-changing COVID-19 restrictions im-
posed on us, we were lucky enough to be able
to carry on with Year 6 leadership camp. To-
day our Year 6 cohort headed off to Paluma for
three days full of exciting activities. Thank you
to parents and caregivers who have been so
understanding about the late planning. I’m
looking forward to hearing all about their ad-
ventures when they return to school on Friday,
tired and happy. We continue to review COVID
-19 guidelines as we move into end of year
events, and will keep you updated.
A massive congratulations to our P&C who are
Band 6-7 Finalists for the 2020 P&C of the Year
Award! The competition was fierce, with over
50 entries received from throughout the state.
It’s a huge success to make it this far and we
thank each person involved for their hard work
and dedication to our school.
Swimming begins this Thursday for Years 3, 4 &
5 students, and on Friday for Prep, 1 & 2 stu-
dents. Please help us out by reminding your
children to bring bathers, goggles, towel, rash-
ie/swim shirt, underwear, school uniform and
sunscreen. We are happy to be getting back
into the pool as the weather begins to warm up
again.
Over the weekend, some of our children partic-
ipated in the Sounds of Kearney Youth Music
Quest. What amazing talent we have here at the
school – Well done to Esther (1st Place), Rowan
(2nd Place), Andre and Emmy (3rd Place).
Thank you to parents for continuing to respect
the restrictions and challenges in place around
visiting the school. Another change this year is
Oral Reporting, which replaces face to face
Parent/Teacher interviews. This will take place
in the form of phone interviews in week 3 of
this term. You can ring the office, 4758 2333, to
book a time. While face-to-face communica-
tion has been restricted, we still encourage
keeping the lines of communication open via
phone or email.
I am feeling incredibly blessed to have the op-
portunity to work on the island this term. It is
such a pleasure to see the pride each member
of the community has for their school and I am
excited to be a part of that this term.
Every Day Counts!
School target: 95%
Year to date: 91.3%
Mini Mr Andrew (or a Year 4 student pre-
senting our PCL focus on parade.)
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PCL Focus Week 2 Be Respectful Follow instructions from all staff members
Student AwardsAwards for Term 3, Week 10: Awards for Term 4, Week 1:
Class Achievement PCL Achievement PCL Prep Kobe India 1 Bridie Oliver G 2 Ella J Finn W Nya Jeremy 3 Jude Lincoln Clarence Holly 4 Will & Tessa Mitchell Stephanie Jazlyn 5 Starr Anakin McA Marcus Andre 6 Esther Nina Hugo Ella S PE/LOTE Aidan Rowan Denzel Harry PCL COTW Year 1 Year 5 Attendance Year 5 Prep
P&C News
Our little P&C is very excited that we are finalists in QLD
P&C of the Year 2020. There were over 50 entries this year
and some fierce competition. Kristyn and Kate will be trav-
elling to Brisbane for the awards ceremony on Friday 6th
November. Wish us luck!
Fundraising:
The P&C are raising funds this term by putting together a
2021 calendar—an ideal gift to purchase for Christmas. A
note was sent home last week with details on the competi-
tion being run for the students to submit entries for each
page.
We are also doing another Christmas Raffle so be sure to
look out for another note headed your way soon.
Our next P&C meeting will be held on Monday, November
9th at 5pm in the staff room. All are welcome.
Congrats to our school
Curlew family. The
students love seeing
how much the baby
has grown each day.
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Prep Melissa Digby & Deb Hay
Only one term left of Year 1 so it will
be sure to be busy.
Next week we will welcome Mr Ben
Summers, a preservice teacher, to our
class. Ben has been working with Year
6 and will be with Year 1 for three
weeks.
English: This English unit relates to
procedural texts (like recipes). The
children will be writing a procedure
and presenting it as a PowerPoint.
Maths: Our first unit of the term relates to
interpreting word problems, deciding if
they are addition or subtraction, and
choosing an effective strategy to solve the
problems. We have already been prac-
tising count-ons, doubles facts and rain-
bow facts (friends of 10).
Fridays will be a busy day for Year 1 this
term.
Our swimming will be during the first
session so please send your child to
school with their swimmers under-
neath their uniform (and be sure to
pack underwear for them to change
into). All needed swimming items
should be packed in a waterproof
bag. As always, please name all
items. Due to COVID considerations,
we will not be having our usual parent
helpers to help with changing, so now
is a great time to be sure your child is
able to do this with minimal assis-
tance.
The Preps had a great time today visit-
ing the dental van (see the pictures be-
low). They were all very excited and
interested in what happens there and
they got to sit in the chair and find out
about the various instruments that the
dentist will use to check their teeth.
They were also very excited with their
new toothbrushes they received. The
dental visits started today, after they had
finished their orientation, so if you
would like your child’s teeth checked,
free of charge, please make sure that
you return the dental forms that were
sent home recently, as the dentist can-
not examine your child’s teeth without
permission. If your child requires any
further treatment, the dentist will let you
know. You can then choose to continue
with the treatment, or not, and you can
accompany your child to the appoint-
ment.
Don’t forget that swimming starts on
Friday, so please send your child to
school dressed in their swimmers, rash-
ie and thongs, with sunscreen already
applied. Don’t forget to send along a
towel, goggles and their school clothes,
undies, socks and shoes in a waterproof
bag. Due to restrictions, you will not be
able to stay and watch, or help them to
get changed afterwards. The Teacher
Aides, Mrs Hay and Mr Pullen will help
them get dried and changed at the end
of the lesson. The swimming lessons are
part of the Health and Physical Educa-
tion curriculum and will be assessed, so
please make sure that your child partici-
pates in every lesson (there are only 5
this term), unless they are sick.
Year 1 Jo Terkelsen & Deb Hay
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Year 2 Jacky Roper
Year 3 Janette Blundy I have to say that it is an absolute pleas-
ure returning to school with this happy,
caring class. We’ve had a fantastic start
to our final term together and I’ll be
looking forward to lots of fun and more
great learning with these kids.
Our English focus for the term will be
poetry. We have already learned about
rhyme schemes and described the pat-
tern in the poem ‘My Country’ by Dor-
othea MacKellar. We will be reading
and adapting more poems in the coming
weeks.
In Maths we have been continuing to
practise multiplication and division skills
and in Science we have begun to look at
different types of matter. The students
will soon design their digital true/false
questions for Technology and we will be
looking at different drama skills in The
Arts. We are also going to be working
on some collage pieces which could
potentially be used as submissions for
the calendar competition.
Don’t forget that swimming begins this
Thursday. Students should come to
school wearing their bathers under their
uniforms so that we can be ready for our
8:25am start. Please remind them to
pack underwear in their school bags.
In English this term, we will continue our
work on information reports. The stu-
dents have been learning what types of
information to include in an information
report about an animal. They have also
been developing skills in the area of
turning small facts of information into
informative sentences. Last week we
practised these skills by starting an in-
formation report on Kangaroos.
Our current focus in Maths is on calen-
dars, focusing our attention on months of
the year, seasons and reading calen-
dars. The student have been having fun
singing months of the year songs to as-
sist them in ordering the months.
We have now started our last Science
unit of the year called, ‘Save Planet
Earth’. We have started discussing what
living things need to survive and what
resources will rely on from the Earth. In
the coming weeks we will conduct ex-
periments to see how plants grow and
what they need to grow well and sur-
vive.
We are all looking forward to a wonder-
ful Term 4 for the year 2 students!
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Year 4 Rosie Pullen
Year 5 Jodie Wilson Year 5 hit the ground running in Term
4, with all students returning from holi-
days with a positive and hardworking
attitude. We discussed the terms
‘optimism’ and ‘exuberance’ on day 1,
and challenged ourselves to approach
everything with these words in mind.
Students participated in ‘cooperative
(paired) writing’, based around these
ideas, where they had 8 minutes each
to create a story, with no consultation of
ideas. There were some fantastic sto-
ries created to show the meaning of
these two words. I was proud of every-
one for putting a little extra effort into
lifting the spirits in the classroom and
putting energy into being positive and
energised with their learning.
This term, our class are learning about
‘matter’, and students were excited and
intrigued to learn that everything
around us is made up matter- which is
defined by having mass and taking up
space. They discovered what atoms
are, and we also had fun discovering
the periodic table of elements. Further
from these ideas, the class will be in-
volved in plenty of experiments to in-
vestigate properties of matter, states of
matter- including physical (reversible) and
chemical (irreversible) changes, diffusion,
density and compression of matter, and
finally have some fun learning about col-
loids and catalysts. I’m sure you will hear
all about the exciting experiments that par-
ticipate in, so remember to ask your child
what the purpose of the activity was, and
what they learned about that concept.
You may have noticed your child discuss-
ing ‘Healthy Habits’ and telling you about
their healthy eating challenge? As we are
learning about ‘Preventative Health’ this
term, Year 5’s will have the opportunity to
try new healthy foods, and they are also
challenging themselves individually to cre-
ate new healthy habits such as: balancing
the foods they eat, exercising regularly,
reducing technology time (especially be-
fore bed) and looking after their wellbeing.
This unit initiates some great discussions
about the importance of developing good
health habits, and it allows Year 5 students
to make some choices about their health
now, so it may benefit them for their fu-
tures. Their assessment will involve creat-
ing a lesson, which they will deliver to
younger students in the school, to teach
them about a healthy habit. This can be a
powerful lesson in which older students
are passing on positive, healthy mes-
sages to the younger students- so that as
a community, we can all support each
other to live healthy lives. Please en-
courage this thinking and be involved
with conversations at home regarding
healthy habits.
On that note, students are very lucky to
have the opportunity to be involved in
the physical activity of swimming this
term. Your child should have received
a note, explaining the importance of this
program, and that it is compulsory- just
like any other subject at school. Please
ensure your child gets into a habit this
term, of remembering their swimming
gear on the Thursdays outlined in the
note. Students are able to wear the
swimmers in the morning (under their
uniform), but please make sure they
have a towel and clothes (including un-
derwear) to change into for the rest of
the day.
Looking forward to a busy and exciting
end to the year.
Keep Smiling. Keep Striving.
This week it became very clear to me
just how much our class have grown
over the year. As we begin the last
term of the school, they have already
shown that they are capable of working
harder and faster than last term. They
will be ready for Year 5 in no time!
We are currently reading the novel
‘Rowan of Rin’ by Emily Rodda in class.
This is a quest novel that follows the
adventure of Rowan and his comrades
as they travel up the mountain to solve
their problem. Most students are very
much enjoying the book! As our assess-
ment task, we will be analysing the novel
and talking about the language features
that Emily Rodda uses to describe Rowan.
In Mathematics, we are investigating loca-
tion and direction. We have been using
compasses in class and describing direc-
tions. Any extra practice that students can
have at home would be beneficial. You
could have your child verbalise direc-
tions to a friend’s house, or to and from
a trip out.
We have welcomed back Esther to our
class, everyone was very excited to
have her back at our school. Unfortu-
nately, at the end of the week, we also
have to say goodbye to one of our amaz-
ing classmates as Cai will be moving
away from the island. Thanks for your
amazing input in class Cai, and all the
best for your future!
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Year 6 Martin Hammelswang
Garden News
We have been conducting a bit of an experiment over the last few weeks about the best way of growing sweet potatoes. We
were lucky enough to harvest some from last year that we grew in tubs. Our first job was to wash and sort them ready for
the experiments. The larger ones we took home to taste test - delicious!
Experiment 1. Place in a small container and fill with water, the top of the sweet potato needs to be exposed. They sprouted
over the two weeks of the holidays. We have now planted them in the tub.
Experiment 2. Plant chunks of sweet potato straight into the soil, water and see what happens. They spouted before the holi-
days and this was by far the best way to grow them. The tub is full of new shoots and looking very healthy.
Happy Gardening from the Garden Crew
Year 6 left for Leadership camp at Paluma this morning—Yippee!
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Date Claimers: October 2020
13th—15th Oct Year 6 Leadership camp
Thurs 15th Oct Swimming starts—Years 3, 4, 5
Fri 16th Oct Swimming starts—Prep, Years 1, 2
19th—23rd Oct Oral Reporting—call the office on 4758 2333 to book a time
Fri 30th Oct World Teachers’ Day
November 2020
Wed 4th Nov Prep class for 2021 transition morning at school #1
9th—13th Nov NAIDOC week
Mon 9th Nov P&C meeting, 5pm
Wed 11th Nov Prep class for 2021 transition morning at school #2
Wed 11th Nov Remembrance Day service at school
Thurs 26th Nov Interhouse Swimming Carnival
December 2020
Tues 8th Dec Year 6 Graduation
Wed 9th Dec Last day of the school
Term 4 has started well with some wonderful work across the whole school in our Seven Steps lessons. Here are some high-
lights from work that some of the younger children did at the end of last term.
Year 1 learned how great stories are planned by creating story graphs—one of which is pictured here. Year 2 students cele-
brated everything ’insect’ even including creating some new ones like the Flyug. Well done everyone. Keep practising
those Seven Steps skills!
Thank you to everyone who has come to see me about their short stories for the ‘My Life in the North’ competition. I have one
student who is on her fifth draft, which shows her great determination to do her very best. She has inspired me to keep work-
ing on my story. All entries need to be submitted by Wednesday 21st October. Come and see me if you need help submitting
your entry.
Literacy Sharon Jupp
SAME DAY ABSENCE
NOTIFICATION
0472 868 244
After School Care Welcome back to Term 4 with Miss Fiona. I am absolutely thrilled to be the
new coordinator of our wonderful after school care program.
We have some great ideas coming from the children about what activities
they would like to do this term. Some cooking, craft & outside games just to
name a few.
I am really looking forward to meeting you all and getting to know your chil-
dren through Educating Kids.
If anyone has any questions about enrolments or you would like to have a
look through our room, I am available Monday-Friday from 1pm.
Regards Fiona Starr
0466 010 311
School Cleaner Needed
Magnetic Island State School Casual part-time position
17.5 hours per week, 2.00 to 5.30pm Monday to Friday
The ideal applicant will have
the ability to carry out cleaning duties with limited supervision and co-operatively participate as a team member when required.
the ability to use and maintain or learn quickly to use and maintain, cleaning equipment, materials and chemical supplies.
the ability to apply Workplace Health and Safety standards, especially in the use and application of cleaning equipment and materials.
awareness of the need for security in relation to rooms and buildings, personal property and equipment.
Blue card required (can be applied for if position application successful)
Please send applications (maximum of 2 pages) to info@magneticislandss.eq.edu.au by Friday October 16th 2020.
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