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18 August 202118 August 2021

FROM THE ACTING PRINCIPALThis is to be my last message as ActingPrincipal. Next week (23 August), Ms JulieStrong comes to us as Principal. Ms Stronghas an extensive history as Principal ofRegents Park Primary, Deputy and Head ofDepartment at various high schools, andworking at regional office. I am sure the

Flagstone community will welcome and work with Ms Strong tocontinue to make our school the great place it is.

Flagstone teachers are currently working alongside aframework called Clarity by Lynn Sharratt. This framework of 14parameters provides guidance regarding narrowing our focusareas to ensure we have great improvement in our teaching andour students. Four fundamental questions around the Sharrattwork are:

We also recognise that all staff need to own all students andnot just the students who sit in front of them in the classroom –shared responsibility and accountability.

We are putting into place a variety of processes to supportall students and to work with teachers to support not only allstudents but also each other in this journey. There are someexamples of this in this newsletter.

COVID:

Thanks for the community support for our COVID lockdown andthe wearing of masks. We have been fortunate that nearly everystudent has abided by the requirements as this Delta Strain isa particular concern for us all. I appreciate all of your support inmaking this process as smooth as possible.

With my move back to DP, I would like to thank Ms Pop forActing as DP in my place for the last 11 weeks. She has donea fabulous job. A big thanks to Mr McDougall as well who hastaken over the role of Head of Department HPE during this time.It has been a really enjoyable journey.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS,BEHAVIOUR AWARDS AND 100%ATTENDANCE AWARDS

Flagstone SCC Semester 1, 2021 Awards were to bepresented on Monday 2 August for the senior students andTuesday 3 August for the junior students. However due toCOVID restrictions, these awards presentations had to becancelled.

The students will still be receiving their awards from their YearCoordinators.

A total of 145 students received a total of 175 awards.Congratulations to the following awards recipients:

• All students can achieve high standards given theright time and right support

• All teachers can teach to high standards given timeand the right assistance

• High expectation and early and ongoing interventionare essential

• All leaders, teachers and students can articulate whatthey do and why they lead, teach and learn the waythey do.

SENIOR AWARDS RECIPIENTS

Year 10 Year 11 Year 12

Paige Beckhaus Arron Barker Maddison Ashton

Richard Caburong Vincent Cross Giaan Bayley

Marwin Chiangraeng Shawna Doyle Courtney Brown

Link Crosby Rory Henriksen Phoenix Buchanan

Faith Diston Xander Maire Ryley Carr

Lachlan Francis Tanya Mazikana Breanna Cini

Jessika Golby Bailey Moorhouse Bree Connell

Grace Hall Dylan Morris Jesica Draper

Sahrii Hambleton Thomas Oliver Bryce Giang

Madaline Heugh Madison Schuck-Brown Shaqueil Harrison

Charli Kemp Trae Spires Charity Lalensang

Lily Niemerg Darrian Steed Karly Leedham

Karina Orlova Tara Love

Jean-Bosco Ndizeye Tayla Malcolm

Alliyanna Palmer Leah Mallory

Phoebe Pottinger Cindy McKenzie

Jessica Regina Chloe Morgan

Kitura Scott Jackson Niemerg

Zach Zapotezny Ryan Porter

William Scanlan

Kirsty Stephens

Sammi Stevenson

Kheanne Toney

Tahlia Vary

Jodi Wall

Jack Waller

Abbee-Louise Wilkinson

JUNIOR AWARDS RECIPIENTS

Year 7 Year 8 Year 9

Navy Adams Isabelle Anslow Liana Bayley

Indigo Adams Kaden Clarke Kiarah Buchanan

Antony Beckham Scott Donohue Emily Contos

Bella Bond Kooper Farrow Amity Davies

Danica Collins Grace Forrest Jorja Forrest

Veronica Connelly Kyra Gerrard Paddy Johnson

Ella Cooper Eden Goydich Adam Kennedy

Hailey Crichton Cameron Haigh Eriama Maire

Kirala Davidson Isabelle Hall Keira Milton

Daphne Edwards Savannah Hall Jayde Moore

Jenna Follero Tulip Hang Chelsea Olsen

Hayley Francis Charley Herbert Dakota Riggs

Keeley Francis Amelia Jones Noah Shapland

Lucius James Gevaudan Annabella Kemp Adeline Tilley

Chase Granger Faith Kemp Hayley Tomkins

Alexis Ingle Howard Ava Kilgour Tyler Tookey

Grace Jensen Ella King Katie Trapnell

Annika Leith Brianna Lowe Rylan Vaughan

Blayne Leith Lachlan Mackay Clayton West

Phoenix Leith Thomas Magrath

Trinity Lovell-Hughes Sarah McDonald

Nikki Loyd Ana Meade

Brooklyn McConville Alexis Newey

Chloe McKenzie Kayla Oliver

Kaden Mills Shavontei Osborne

Kingston Moore Zak Paraha

Marquez Motu Lucas Riseley

Murphy O'Connor Mika Saarikko

Emma Olsen Emily Schiffmann

Ashley Quinn-Henare Katie Slattery

Sabrina Tilley Gabi Snow-Meredith

Maggie Vang Noah Spencer

Ray Yang Olivia Symons

Emma Thompson

Luke Wilson

Greg ColemanActing Principal

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NEWS FROM THE ACTING DEPUTYPRINCIPAL YEAR 7 AND 8

Engagement News

FSCC is starting up a SWAG HUB it’s aspace which is designed to support ourstudents starting up in week 6 of this term.Mr Adam Engel will be working with theschool Engagement Team and haveoversight over this new initiative.

The following interventions support programs will be starting upin week 6 of this term.

FSCC SWAG Hub Student InterventionPrograms

A.I.M's Project:

The Academic Improvement Meeting's (A.I.M’s) Project is tosupport students failing multiple core subjects in JuniorSecondary. This is a student self-led initiative where the studentreflects and articulates their preferred learning styles as well asidentifies their "blockers" to academic success. Students thenmeet with the HOD of Engagement to talk about how they areleading their own self-improvement to overcome their blockersand given strategies to achieve this.

Tier III – SWAG – Student Wellbeing and AcademicGrowth

Highly individualised level of support with a tailored learningprogram delivered individually or at most in a small group withintensive and explicit teaching of self-discipline, resolvingconflict, communication, decision making and understandingothers. This is explicit and individualised to each student’spersonal qualities targeting areas for them to better integrateinto school and society matched with individualised casemanagement and ongoing monitoring.

Tier II – PRIDE

Focused teaching and intervention in particular areas aligningwith our PRIDE Matrix and whole school expectations. Thisprogram supports students who require focused teaching ofour four expectations of Learn, Do our Best, Respect self andothers, and Respect our College. This intervention is targetedas early intervention and awareness to enable young people tounderstand their own individual needs and empowers them bygiving them strategies to make choices at school that will movethem back into the Tier I universal zone.

Rock N Water:

Rock and Water is a self-development program designed toenhance children’s resilience skills; monitor and identify theirreactive behaviour patterns when placed in times of stress;develop their capacity to work effectively in a group situationby analysing how relationships are strengthened and to standwith focus and determination as an individual. This workshoputilises simple body awareness exercises, boundary andcommunication exercises to cultivate intuition, self-reflectionand control.

B2M: Boys to Men:

The program acts as a support group for students and focuseson areas such as what does it mean to be a man in today’ssociety, creating and maintaining positive relationships,primary/secondary emotions, expressing primary emotions,passive and aggressive reactions, boy Vs. man psychology,positive communication and anger management strategiesincluding mindfulness practice.

G2W- Girls to Women:

The program acts as a support group for students and focuseson areas such as what does it mean to be a young lady intoday’s society, developing identity, confidence, high self-beliefand awareness, vision and personal goals for the future. Thiswill help students to respond rather than to react.

Resilience:

Resilience is a program that aims at equipping students withmultiple resilience skills as well as treating and preventinganxiety and depression. This provides user-friendly tools to beresilient during times of stress, pressure and challenge andstrategies to best care for their own physical and mental health.

RAP: Resource Adolescent Program

This program aims at equipping students with the facts,knowledge and impact of bullying behaviours. This program willhelp students to identify their own triggers just prior to engagingin acts of bullying and establish prevention measures to stopthis and look for opportunities to demonstrate kindness as analternative.

Flaggy Friends:

Flaggy Friends is a new friendship group for Years 7 - 9 to helpbuild confidence, establish friendships and communication,participate in group games and activities and to have fun.

On Mondays and Thursdays during first break 11.30am -12.10pm.

Mindfulness Monday’s:

A space for students in Years 10 - 12 to come and just chill outand relax with Sharon before starting their big week ahead oflearning. On Monday mornings 8.15am – 8.45am

Phase 2- Looking at Programs to Support SeniorStudents out of SWAG

Transition ProgramResume Writing

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SWAG HUB Timetable

This is my last school news article as Acting Deputy Principal,thank you for all your support, and the support you areproviding for our awesome students!

Sulata PopActing Deputy Principal

NEWS FROM THE ACTING HOD TEACHINGAND LEARNING

Jacqui KingingActing HOD Teaching and Learning

NEWS FROM THE ENGAGEMENT HOD OFJUNIOR SCHOOL

The A.I.M. Project

The Academic Improvement Meetings(A.I.M.) Project is a new support programintroduced this semester to guide ourJunior Secondary students, who arecurrently struggling with components oftheir schooling, to establish goals andovercome their learning barriers. This

program is student driven and self-led with staff only keepingstudents accountable for the work and goals they have chosenthemselves.

But this doesn’t have to only be school driven and for studentsstruggling with aspects of their schooling. Here are a couple ofthings that could be done at home to maximise your studentslearning outcomes:

Student Well-being

With the current COVID situation, lockdown in week 4, andthe consistent media attention our students are faced within the current world, it is vital that we supporting their andour well-being. Here are some quick tips for supporting yourstudent through the current climate:

1. Establish a SMART (specific, measurable, achievable,realistic and time-orientated) goal with your studentand each of their subjects

2. Discuss what is stopping them achieving that goalalready, the “barriers” to their learning

3. Come up with 2 - 3 actions they can achieve eachweek to overcome those barriers. This could be assimple as 5 - 10 minutes of revision per subject perweek in Junior Secondary, or writing 4 sentences intheir answer instead of 2

4. Check-in with your student. Ask them once a weekor fortnight how are they going with their actions.This isn’t doing the work for them, but holding themaccountable

5. Cross those barriers off. It is very satisfying to crossoff something that has been preventing us fromachieving, so celebrate those small success

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Chris GoldsmithHOD Engagement

YEAR 12 NEWSNow that we are past the point of half wayfor term 3, the Year 12 cohort is beginningto finalise the fundraising events for theyear! So far, we have raised a whopping$3000 to go towards the Year 12 Formaland Mystery Tour! This is a spectaculareffort from the Year 12 students who havededicated a lot of time and energy into the

fundraising!

Throughout this term, a group of Year 12 students have beenrunning a Coffee Fundraiser in the College Restaurant. This isan especially great fundraiser as not only are students raisingmoney for the formal and mystery tour, but they have alsobeen working on their barista and customer service skills! Thishas been such a hit, especially for the teachers who needthat coffee pick-me-up on these chilly mornings! A specialshout-out to Miss. Carmichael and Mr. Buckingham who havebeen running the coffee fundraiser with our Year 12 students –we couldn’t do this without you!

On the 27th of August, we have our car wash fundraiserscheduled, where a group of Year 12 students will be washingteachers’ cars. The car wash will be our final fundraising eventbefore the formal and mystery tour permission notes will behanded out, so keep an eye out in the coming weeks for thespecific details!

Emilie JonesYear 12 Coordinator

VISUAL ART NEWS

What a fabulous andchallenging year ithas been for theVisual Artsdepartment!

This year our talented artstudents from Years 7 and 8 have learnt about the elements ofart and created expressive still-life artworks, our Year 9’s havepainted Australian and Aboriginal style artworks and createdfigurative sculptures, our Year 10’s have created, found objectshoe sculptures and mixed media paintings based on a theme,our Year 11’s have been taken out of their comfort zones bybeing made to swap traditional ways of creating artworks andmade to combine a variety of mixed media and techniques suchas tissue paper, clay, glue, ink, sand and texture paste to createtheir artworks and the Year 12’s have been busily working asyoung artists in a studio style atmosphere to create a variety ofimaginative artworks that interpret a given theme.

Artwaves Art Exhibition

Once again, the talents of several exceptional visual artstudents will go on display as part of the annual Logan andadjacent areas secondary school’s art exhibition, also knownas “ARTWAVES”. This prestigious exhibition showcases aselection of artworks that have been chosen by a panel ofgallery members from approximately 32 Logan and adjacentarea schools. Only five artworks are chosen from each of theschools, this year we are extremely proud to announce that 7artworks were chosen from our school, proving that we haveamazingly talented art students.

We are very proud and excited to announce the 7 chosenartworks of our talented students for this exhibition. We arethrilled to congratulate Tayla Malcolm (Year 12) for her artworktitled ‘Inside my head’, Lakeiah Harrison-Maea (Year 12) forher artworks titled ‘Departure’ and ‘All that remains’, AshantiThomasz (Year 12) for her artwork titled ‘Self portrait’, JessicaRegina (Year 10) for her artwork titled ‘Nicely disturbing’, YindiWild-Rose (Year 10) for her artwork titled ‘Ancient One’ andJealani Brookes (Year 8) for her artwork titled ‘Surrealist minds’.

The Artwaves exhibition will be held at the Logan Art Galleryand the public are invited to view the display from the 10thof September until the 16th of October. This is a very specialoccasion to view the amazing talent of not only our students butalso those from the schools in our area.

1. Get some exercise. Instead of them exercising theirthumbs on their phones and consoles, 30 minutes ofphysical activity, particularly outside, can haveenormous positive effects

2. The right amount of sleep. Our teenagers forget theyare growing and developing, and that 8 hours ofuninterrupted sleep is vital for their full developmentand well-being

3. Talk to them, let them know they can ask questions,you are here to listen to them, and it is okay to beunsure. If there are any major concerns, Kids helplineis there for any reason, anytime – 1800 55 1800

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Tayla Malcolm Year 12Tayla Malcolm Year 12

Lakeiah Harrison-Maea YearLakeiah Harrison-Maea Year1212

Lakeiah Harrison-Maea YearLakeiah Harrison-Maea Year1212

Ashanti Thomasz Year 12Ashanti Thomasz Year 12 Jessica Regina Year 10Jessica Regina Year 10

Yindi Wild-Rose Year 10Yindi Wild-Rose Year 10 Jealani Brookes Year 8Jealani Brookes Year 8

Yours in the ArtsSally Jones and Caitlin HalsallVisual Arts Teachers

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL AND BASKETBALLCHALLENGE

Athletics Carnival 2021

It was great that once again we could runour Athletics Carnival for all ages, with our2020 carnival being cancelled and areduced carnival being run for seniors only Iknow all students were keen to have a fun 2days competing once again in events.

This year’s carnival, although threatened by rain, ran verysmoothly with many students dressing in house colours onthe Thursday, and many students taking part in our superherotheme on the Friday. Costumes looked great and it was evenbetter seeing these students in costume participate in manyevents.

Although not the result I personally was after congratulations tothe winning house Blaine Dragons with 1223 points, but creditto the other houses with students competing at their best andrepresenting their house in such a great way.

With lockdown cancelling Districts Athletics I would like tocongratulate all our students that gained a position on theFlagstone SCC Athletics team.

Finally, I would like to congratulate our age champions for theday, competing in their events to the best of their ability.

12 Years Age Champions

Murphy O’ConnerChase Granger

13 Years Age Champions

Jasmine IzzardSebastian Morgan

14 Years Age Champions

Holly CavanaghJosh Ndayishimiye

15 Years Age Champions

Kirsty DuncanOscar Chapman

16 Years Age Champions

Brook LaceyJake McKay

17 Years Age Champions

EllaKobe

18 Years Age Champions

Jesica DraperPacee Hodge

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Beauy/Flaggy Basketball Challenge Term 3

This term we welcomed Beaudesert State High School to ourschool to play basketball. It was a great afternoon with gamesstarting from 2pm. Our junior teams played hard butunfortunately went down to Beaudesert. Our seniors againplayed well with both our teams coming away with wins.

Douglas McDougallActing HOD HPE & Sport

YEAR 7 SCIENCE ACE CLASS NEWSThis week in the Year 7 Science ACE classMr Poels and myself performed an excitingdemonstration where we set our hands onfire! Actually, it was a handful of soapybubbles filled with methane gas that wasset on fire and no hands were harmed inthis demonstration. The students loved itand definitely increased their engagement

with Science.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkz_fg7Rbxo

Susan WateneYear 7 Science ACE Teacher

SEP NEWSStudents from our SpecialEducation Program havebeen selected to take partin the College’s AthleteEngagement Program againthis year. The mission of theprogram is to empowerstudents with a disability to

break down barriers, particularly in sport. The key focus of theprogram is to empower students and increase their self-efficacyand self-esteem through participation in sports and physicalactivity.

This term, students have been working on communication skillsand hand-eye co-ordination through a variety of sportsincluding basketball, touch football, table tennis andbadminton. It has been amazing to see the student’sconfidence grow as they master new skills. In particular, some

of our senior students have taken on coaching roles withinthe program, where they have been taking students throughdifferent training drills learned through club sport.

Well done to all our students for their awesome efforts so far!We can’t wait to get to some inter-school competitions!

Cathy SelbyHOSES

Alana RoseYear 8 Year Coordinator & PBL Team Leader

PAYMENTS

LOST PROPERTYWe have large amounts of lost property - jumpers, caps etc.without names please encourage your student to come to thebook room before school and or during break times to look forlost items.

Parents/caregivers please ensure all clothing has your studentsname, so we can return to the owner ASAP. All lost propertynot collected will be donates at the end of this term.

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CANTEEN NEWS

Sandi HayesUniform Shop Convenor

UNIFORM SHOP NEWS

Sandi HayesUniform Shop Convenor

FLAGSTONE TIGERS TAG COMPETITIONA great community initiative is about tobegin. Flagstone Tigers are our local RugbyLeague Club and are proud to be offeringthe community the Flagstone Tigers Tagcompetition.

A range of divisions are available so jumpon and register now! For more information,contact the Flagstone Tigers at

secretary@flagstonetigers.com.au

We would love to see a few awesome teams from FlagstoneState Community College competing.

DATE CLAIMERS

3 September Student Free Day

7 September P&C Meeting

8 September Dance Night Dress Rehearsal

13 September Year 12 – Tourism Excursion

13 September – 17September

Year 10 – Taster Days for Year 11,2022

15 September Charlie & the Chocolate FactoryExcursion

15 September – 16September

Year 11 – Sport & RecreationAquatic Excursion

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