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Term 1 Week 7 - Tuesday, 10th March 2020 Issue 7

7 weeks of school have flown by in 3A!

This term we have been busy writing narratives, sending our

favourite Australian animals on big adventures. Our vocabulary

is thriving as we use our senses to describe our characters and

settings with astounding adjectives. In maths, we have been

expanding our understanding of place value to the thousands,

and have learnt some handy new strategies to use when we are

adding and subtracting. We are scientists on a mission in 3A,

and our latest mission was to discover if a giraffe and a camel

could be grouped together based on their features. Did you know

these animals have so much in common?

This term we are working hard to regulate our emotions and

communicate clearly. We use our Zones of Regulation to identify

how we are feeling and have created some strategies to use

when we feel ourselves moving out of our green zone. What we

have learnt so far in our AUSLAN lessons is also helping us

expand the way we communicate.

In 3A we are patient, persistent, polite, positive and passionate

learners who strive to work as a team to achieve our best. We

can’t wait to

achieve our

learning and

behaviour

goals as we

grow and

change this

year!

from

3A and

Miss Hunt

What’s coming up

11th March – Boys & Girls District Football

12th & 13th March – Circus Challenge

12th March – Netball District Trials – CSS

17th to 31st March & 1st to 3rd April – Run -

Around - Australia begins (every Tuesday/

Wednesday & Thursday)

18th March - Boys District Rugby League - CSHS

19th March - CSS Swimming Exhibition (Years 1 & 2)

20th March - Year 2 Sleepover 20th March - Bullying NO Way Day- Wear

Orange 23-27 March - Book Fair (Library) 23rd – 25th March – Swimming State

carnival – Chandler 25th March – AFLX Schools Cup 2-6pm 25th March – P&C Meeting @ 6pm 23rd – 27th March - CSS Harmony Week

Celebrations 30th March – Whole School Assembly –

Concert Band performance 30th March – Girls & Boys State

Basketball Trials, Toowoomba 1st April - Denise & Bruce Morcombe Visit

(wear red) 3rd April - Celebration Day & Last day of

Term 1

20th April – Term 2 commences – Whole

school assembly

22nd CSS Koala Cubs starts 9-10:30am

24th April – Netball Regional Trials – St

George

24th April – Anzac Day parade @ 2pm in

the hall

School contact details:

Chinchilla State School 36-40 Bell Street, Chinchilla Q 4413 or PO Box 414, Chinchilla Q 4413

P: (office) 07+4672 9222/ Absences: 4672 9266 Fax: 07+4672 9200 or Email: the.principal@chinchilss.eq.edu.au

or admin@chinchilss.eq.edu.au

School webpage: https://chinchilss.eq.edu.au Facebook page: @ChinchillaStateSchool absence: 4672 9266

CURRICULUM CORNER WITH 3A

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Sound out and blend words Practice sounding out and blending words with your child. For example, you could say “What sounds can you hear in the word ‘chop’ – What is the first sound? What sound is in the middle? What sound is at the end?” Play word and sound games Games based on recognising sounds are great for developing phonemic awareness. ‘I Spy’ is a good example, or just taking turns thinking of words that begin or end with a particular sound, or that rhyme with a particular word. Remember to focus on sounds rather than letters – for example, if your child is coming up with words that start with the sound /c/, both ‘cup’ and ‘kitchen’ are correct, even though the sound is made by different letters.

Learning to Read: Phonemic awareness

Use songs, nursery rhymes and tongue twisters Keep singing songs, reading nursery rhymes and poems, and reciting tongue twisters, especially those that are built around sound patterns. Most children love learning them, and they’re a great way to strengthen phonemic awareness. Praise Remember to praise your child’s efforts as well as their successes – this builds their confidence to keep trying, and makes them a more resilient learner. Children learn by making ‘mistakes’, so take the same approach as when your little one was learning to walk – praise their effort, then encourage them to try again, or give them a bit of help, or move on to something else. Use your home language If your home language is not English, you can also apply the same ideas in your own language. This will develop your child’s phonemic awareness skills and help them learn to read English (and your own language).

https://www.learningpotential.gov.au/learning-to-read-1-phonemic-awareness

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REPORTING

Term 1, Week 6 overall class attendance: Prep – 92.11% Grade 1 – 93.54% Grade 2 – 94.66% Grade 3 – 90.97% Grade 4 – 94.05% Grade 5 – 90.39% Grade 6 – 90.00% Target: 95% Please ensure you are contacting the school every day that your child is away from school. Please make sure you contact the school by 9:30am via telephone: 4672 9266 to leave your absence message, text message: 0426 305 434 or email: admin@chinchilss.eq.edu.au if your child/ren are going to be absent from school. Please make sure you leave your child/rens name, reason for the absence and when they will be returning.

The job of a teacher has 3 main parts. Firstly, it is a teacher’s job to organise a sequence of learning activities (called the curriculum). Secondly, to design tasks and evaluate student responses to these tasks that allow children to show what they have learnt from the learning activities (assessment). Thirdly, it is a teacher’s job to organise the results of the assessments and provide that information to parents, along with an evaluation of the child’s progress (reporting).

Parent / Teacher Interviews are scheduled for the first three weeks of Term 2. Shortly, you will receive a request from your child’s class teacher to indicate times which you are available for a Parent/Teacher Interview. The school will confirm a day and time with you by the end of Term 1. 3-way reporting for students in Years 1 to 6 will be used again this year. In 3-way reporting the child is included in the interview. This child’s portfolio of work becomes the central focus with the child showing his/her parents the work that has been achieved so far. The teacher acts as facilitator. Learning goals are set for the rest of the year. Feedback from parents in previous years on this form of reporting has been positive.

Pictured is this

week’s Values

Champions.

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This week has seen the School Improvement Unit interview many members of our school community including teachers, teacher aides, cleaners, admin staff, students, parents, P&C members and community members outside our school. The initial feedback from the review team was extremely positive and they were very complimentary of our school and the work we have done around “Teams” and “Wellbeing”. Within a few weeks I will have their report which will outline the next steps for improvement and begin to develop our action plan for the next four years. I look forward to sharing this with you.

Over the last few weeks, I have been keeping you informed about our plans to improve student “Achievement” levels. The reviewers have suggested we focus on one area (English, Maths, Science or Reading) and continue our ongoing work with Dr Lyn Sharratt. As part of her evidence based work our leadership team go on a walk around our school fortnightly that is focused on questioning children in classrooms to gauge a detailed understanding of how the teaching and learning cycles across the school are going in terms of consistency from room to room.

Over the years I am sure as parents we have all heard of Explicit Instruction, and would have seen the WALT (We are Learning to) , WILF (What I’m looking for) and TIB (This is because....) posters in our classrooms. Dr Sharratt uses a similar model that involves a two-step process (Learning Intent – What is the actual intent of the curriculum and my lesson?) and (Success Criteria – What do children of all ability levels need to be able to demonstrate to show they have been successful and do they know?).

The questioning process asks these five questions:

What are you learning today? Why?

How well are you doing?

How do you know that’s how you are going?

How can you improve? and finally,

Where will you go for help?

These five easy questions are vital for ongoing school and classroom improvement. Does the child actually know what he or she is learning, and have they fully understood my instructions? Can they articulate how they are going and how they know they are being successful and why? Is the feedback I am giving to the children strong enough to ensure they fully understand the learning journey, and do they have enough strategies to seek assistance in the classroom beyond simply putting up their hand?

As parents we all question our children at the end of the school day with a simple, ‘How was your day?’ Generally, we get a, ‘Good,’ ‘Ok’ or ‘Alright’ response. As we move forward in 2020, I encourage our parents to try and dig deeper so that our students learn to really articulate themselves and use oral language with high level vocabulary to enhance their learning.

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This week’s value: Responsibility This week’s rule: Be in the right place at the right time A respectful, orderly, and safe school is the foundation for a successful learning environment. Children and adults have a right to expect standards of behaviour which allow teaching and learning to take place, and which make school a happy and secure place for all. This week’s Value lesson will help students to develop self- control and problem solving skills by following the be in the right place, at the right time expectation. Successfully, this expectation will help them to manage a situation and to make a better decision on being in the right place at the right time. Students will learn that as individuals we do have control over our own decisions in order to prevent the safety risks associated with them. Students will engage in lessons that will also reiterate to students the expectations of them throughout the school day. It is important as a school we ensure students are accounted for from the moment they arrive at school to the moment they leave. Teachers will explicitly teach students what the expectations of them are before school, during lunch times and after school. Chinchilla State School’s P&C Association supports the PBL program in the school.

PBL UPDATE

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Students can support themselves getting through some of the tough times by learning and practicing useful skills and habits. There’s a wide range of apps out there that can help build these positive approaches by helping young people to:

develop resilience and coping skills track and manage their mood and thoughts improve their learning and communication skills track physical health, including sleep, movement and nutrition.

Useful resources and apps include:

Smiling Mind A modern meditation for young people. It's a unique web and app-based program, designed to help bring balance to young lives.

Wellbeing Week: This week there will be a variety of activities on offer at lunch time to promote mindfulness, kindness and general wellbeing for students. Please see below for details.

Wellbeing Week- Community Kindness Rocks

This week is Wellbeing Week for staff and students at Chinchilla State School. Please see some of the

activities on offer below to support and promote kindness and wellbeing for students. As a part of this Term’s

“Wellbeing Week” students at Chinchilla State School will have the opportunity to participate in The Kindness

Rocks Project. This amazing initiative was started in 2015 by an American, Megan Murphy to spread a moment

of kindness for unsuspecting recipients through randomly placed inspirational rocks. This initiative is all about

spreading kindness one rock at a time and has been underway for some time in the Chinchilla Community.

The Kindness Rocks Project has two goals:

1. Inspire others through randomly placed rocks along the way…

2. Recruit every person who stumbles upon it to join in the pursuit of inspiring others through random acts

of kindness

As a part of this term’s Wellbeing Week at Chinchilla State School students will have the opportunity to make

their very own rock over lunch breaks in the library with staff to bring kindness into our Chinchilla Community.

Once Students have made their very own kindness rock there are just two instructions:

1. Take your rock out of the school grounds and share within our community to inspire others

2. All rocks made will be marked “CSS”. We would love to see photos of any “CSS” rocks you may find on

your journey by sharing on our school P&C Page or other social media outlets.

Wellbeing Tips of the Week

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Parents/ Caregivers,

Please ensure that the (coloured forms) School Resource Scheme (books and utensils) and Account forms have been

returned to the office so invoices can be issued, if you do not return these forms your child/ren may miss out on

attending something or not receive their class resources (books) to learn.

o School fees need to be paid in full for Term 1 for students to be able to have access to the School Resource

Scheme.

o Other fees are to be paid in full for your child/ren to be able to attend any camps, school performances, religion

or outstanding fees. (School Performances, camps, religion or music are charged separate to the School

Resource Scheme).

All fees must be paid in full each term for them to be able to attend camps, school performances etc.

REMINDER: We only have three and a bit week’s left of Term 1 and parents/ caregivers need to ensure child/rens

school fees are paid for the term.

Term 2, School Resource Scheme and other fees for the term will need to be paid in advance prior to child/ren having

access to them i.e. books, camps, excursions or other curriculum activities.

Should you require assistance with a payment plan, please contact the office on 4672 9222 to arrange an appointment

or email: bsm@chinchilss@eq.edu.au.

School Procedures and Routines For new parents and as a reminder to all parents, there are a number of procedures and routines to help our school run smoothly. Listed below are some school routines:- Lunch Breaks: During lunch breaks, year levels are assigned to various eating areas that are supervised by a rostered staff member. At the conclusion to the eating time, the staff member on duty will check that the area is clean and tidy and then release the children to play. Children are required to play safely, sensibly and in a friendly manner. Caps are not to be worn. Wide brimmed hats are to be taken with children at breaks. A ‘NO HAT, NO PLAY’ rule applies in the playground. Children without a hat are required to remain in the library or an undercover area. On the first siren at the end of play, children return to their classes and wait outside in an area designated by their teacher.

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PREP A

Paityn Stevenson

PREP B

Charlotte Davidson

PREP/ 1C

Kirsty Howlett

1A

Lamickey Conway

1B

Xanthe Mead

2A

Alex Roberts

“HIGH FIVE” AWARDS

For listening carefully when making your plant features craft. You are a

caring member of the class who has been

lining up straight after the hooter goes. Keep up the fantastic work!

For being a super star at lining up and transitioning

around the school. Paityn always lines up

quietly and walks in two straight lines.

Well done!

Your hard work does not go unnoticed in the classroom. You are a model student by consistently completing all tasks in a timely manner

both with teacher assistance and

independently. What a great role model to the

class. Keep up the fabulous work!

For demonstrating the Learning value. You

have been trying really hard to listen and answer questions.

Well done, Lamickey!

For being an enthusiastic learner this week and

putting her best effort into her work. She has been an exceptional role model for her peers. Keep it up

Super Star!

For being an active learner and striving to

finish all his work to the best of his ability. It’s so wonderful that you are so

curious and eager to learn.

Keep up the amazing work Alex!

You’re FANTASTIC!

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2B

Carter McConville

2C

3A

Kayden Fenech

3B

Aaron Bui

3C

Henry Lowry

4A

Selena Robinson

Thank you for always working hard on your learning, and being an

active member of our class. Your bright and happy

personality brightens up our classroom. Keep up

your incredible effort!

Caring, hardworking, respectful, helpful and creative are just a few

words that describe you! Thank you for consistently

following the 5 school values and being a valued

member of our class.

For showing the school values of learning and

responsibility. Well done for taking the time to come to Homework club to get your

jobs done. Keep up the great work!!

For consistently following the five

school values. You always try your hardest

and take on every challenge with a

positive attitude. It’s amazing to watch you

in action. You’re a superstar!

For becoming more responsible. You have

shown great improvement in the last few weeks. 2B is very proud of you. Well

done, SUPER STAR!

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4B

Nick Nguyen

4C

James Martin

5/6A

Damien

5/6B

Lilly Ward

5/6C

Cooper Girdler

5/6D

Zaylen Foley

You have had a fantastic Week 6. I am impressed with your effort towards your Learning and your

work on the Respect value. Keep up the

amazing work.

For consistently showing the value of responsibility. James tries his hardest to be organised and ready for his learning. Keep it

up!

For always bringing joy to the classroom. Cooper you

have been showing the value of Responsibility,

Respect and Learning this week and it hasn’t gone unnoticed. Keep up the

fantastic work!!

For being an active learner and striving to

finish all his work to the best of his ability.

Fantastic effort Zaylen! Keep up the great work.

For his dedication to being the best learner and role model that he can be.

This is a student who works diligently and

follows the school values; thoughtfully encouraging others to do the same.

You rock!!! Congratulations Damien!!!

For always giving everything your best

shot. You demonstrate all five school values in

and out of the classroom. You are a delight to have

in the classroom!

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5/6E

Kobi McConville

5/6F

Riley Oliver

ACES 1

Lachlan Grogan

ACES 2

Will Sugden

LOWER MUSIC

Shae Sippel

UPPER MUSIC

Zaylee Mead

You have been sharing your positive

attitude with your classmates. You

have a great growth mindset and value your own learning.

You have been making a huge effort in class to be

respectful of others’ learning and following

adult instructions straight away. Well done and

keep it up!

Wow! What a little champion you have been

this week! You have made a huge effort to listen to adult directions and be a

safe learner in our classroom. Keep it up

legend!

For following the school value of Learning. You

tried your best while completing your maths

assessment. You had a great positive mindset to improve your work! Keep the amazing work going!

For choosing appropriate instruments for her

Hickory Dickory Dock soundscape composition.

Fantastic Work Shae!

For actively participating in Music lessons and contributing to class discussions and for

accurately completing a class rhythmic dictation.

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AUSLAN P-4

Madison Turner-Robinson

LOTE 5-6

TECHNOLOGY

Lachlan

HPE

Hydie Sturgess

This week’s school value:

Responsibility:

Be in the right place at the

right time.

For using the value of Learning by always being willing to contribute to the class and working to your

very best ability during your Technology lessons.

Keep it up Lachlan!

Showing great initiative towards assisting fellow

classmates. Hydie demonstrates all

school values to an excellent level and is a pleasure to teach.

Well Done!!

For displaying our school value of respect and being inclusive of other people.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge of Auslan with

others.

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What a big few weeks it has been from District Swimming, Basketball and now getting children into District Soccer, Rugby League and Netball trials. Good luck to all students involved with these trails and we hope to mention your names in the upcoming newsletter articles.

As mentioned last week in the newsletter, Run Around Australia is beginning in week 8 and we urge all students to participate and work as a team to run around the country (in terms of kilometers) together as one. We will have a slight change in the modelling of R.A.A so look out for what happens in this space.

Swim shirts must be worn by all students during all water-based activities including swimming lessons. If a swim shirt is unavailable, students can wear a t-shirt. All classes are issued with a pump bottle of SPF30+ water-resistant sunscreen which is available for use during all outdoor activities.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Week 8 15 - 20 Mar

2C 8:45-10:00am

1A 8:45-10:00am

Years 1 & 2 Swimming Exhibition

2B

10:00-11:00am

1B 10:00-11:00am

2A 11:45-12:45pm

1C & ACES 1 11:45-12:45pm

Please note the Chinchilla Swimming Pool’s Heath Policy below. In fairness to children and staff, please refrain from using our facility if your child is unwell. This means, we will say NO to: • Green mucus noses • Stomach bugs • Cold / School Sores • Head Lice • Conjunctivitis • Croup &/or Whooping Cough Thank you for understanding.

Parents/ Caregivers, if you have any black shorts or underwear which no longer fit your child/ren, the school would be greatly appreciative of any sizes you may have for our health room use. If your child/ren has come home with any of our spare clothes, can you please wash and return to the front office thank you, as we only have limited sizes.

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There are times when we may need to get in touch with you. Do we have your most up to date details? If not, please call into the office to update your records. These details include your name, address, phone numbers, email address and emergency contact details. Please remember to let the school know if any of your details have changed.

Up to Date Contact details

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MONDAY

9-03-2020

WEDNESDAY

11-03-2020

FRIDAY

13-03-2020

Tamara Scorgie Tamara Scorgie

Tamika Sippel

Tamara Scorgie

Natalie Ennis

MONDAY

16-03-2020

WEDNESDAY

18-03-2020

FRIDAY

20-03-2020

Tamara Scorgie Tamara Scorgie

Natalie Ennis

Tamara Scorgie

Amanda Maguire

Tuckshop Roster UNIFORM SHOP

Please note that our Uniform Shop is open every:

Monday and Wednesday morning from 8:30am to

9:00am for any uniform purchases (NO EFTPOS

available). You can also place your order through the

front office, by placing your order form and payment

in the white box at the office. Orders will be available

for collection from the tuckshop. If you would like

them to come home with your child/ren please specify

on your order form.