From the Principal As we come to the last few weeks of a remarkable term, we have much to celebrate. All staff, students and community members pulled together to find a successful way through learning from home. Relationships have been cemented, an appreciation for teaching and learning has been underlined and staff and students equally happy to return to face to face tuition. We have had to forgo a number of community/special events this term due to the regulations put in place from COVID. At present we continue with the same operating guidelines under which all students returned to school on Monday 25th May. To this end the Student Council are currently looking to arrange a celebration day for the final day of school Friday 26th June, a time for all students to celebrate the completion of this tumultuous term. Further details will follow once finalised. In 2021 a new primary school will open on Yawalpah Road and as such our catchment boundary will change for next year. Our enrolment process for 2021 will begin when we return from the June/July holidays for families that are already enrolled and are looking to enrol siblings for 2021. For new families we will be postponing the taking of enrolments until the catchment boundary has been published on the Department of Education Website to ensure accuracy of numbers at both schools. The new school will enrol new students across Prep to 6 and as such it would be gratefully appreciated if you are leaving PSPC for this that you inform the office at your earliest convenience to facilitate staffing conversations at both schools. We would normally be preparing to deliver Semester 1 Report Cards at this time of the year. With the changes to all of our lives this year, we will not be completing reports cards until Week 3 Term 3. They will again be emailed home and will look very different to previous reports as we will be only reporting on 4 subjects for Semester 1. It has been determined that the Gold Coast Show Holiday (normally held towards the end of August each year) will now be moved to Friday 14th August to coincide with the moved Ekka Show Day holiday. This has been done by the State Government in an attempt to generate some tourism in the Qld regions. Please note this change in your diaries. Prep parents may have received an SMS message from QLD health advising that vision screening will be happening onsite next week. Please note this was an automated message organised before COVID and the testing we had arranged has been postponed. We are currently negotiating a new date in Term 4. Please disregard the message and we will advise soon of a new screening date. Kind regards, Donna Gosling | Principal

Issue 8 - Week 8 Term 2, 2020

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From the Deputy Principals

Attendance Week 7 Our current attendance rates (school targets 95%)

This week we held PSPC’s first virtual Assembly. Students of the Week and PBL awards were presented, as well as our Aussie of the Month, to the selected students and their names were displayed for the school to see during the assembly. We will also publish the winners names on the next page. We also named our Year 5 and 6 class leaders during the assembly. Congratulations to all winners.

Stuart MacKenzie Matt Weir & Kellie Fletcher | Deputy Principals A reminder for strings students that Year 3 lessons occur on Tuesday and Year 4-6 lessons occur on Wednesday. Strings Levy Payments Due to the pandemic the due date for the Strings Levy Payment has lapsed. We understand the difficulties the pandemic restrictions have presented to families and we offer our support by extending the levy due date to the end of this term. Please find information on how to pay your levy in your invoice email. If any families are experiencing difficulties would you please get in touch with our BSM regarding arrangements for the payment of the levy. Mrs Burley | Music Co-ordinator

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Prep Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

85.9% 83.6% 83.3% 86.8% 86.6% 89% 86.9%

Every day counts

From the Music Department

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5D have been working on starting sentences with verb, adverbs and adjectives – here are some of their sentences…

Giant footsteps, stomp stomp, the powerful metallic robot appeared out of the shadow to destroy Earth. Oliver & Kymarni Glowing brightly the deer showed the fairyland creatures how spectacular the deer are in the world. Sawyer & Ella Mysteriously out in front on the misty fog, an interesting tree appeared with an unexpected door. Nathan & Khoruz Dark, eerie mist surrounded the mysterious, disturbing wooden door. Corey, Lincoln, Kaleb, Kauri Tall majestic trees swayed as a holographic glowing reindeer ran by. Tamika & Skye Robotic Boggati rose taller to a gigantic transformer and became shiny and silver like he had been polished many times. Sahib & Wade Haunted and hidden, the doorway to the magical wonderland creaked open to reveal enchanted trees swaying peacefully. Savannah & Liv Florescent and magical the stag stood strong on the enchanted mythical floor. Ayzha & Leah Opaque foggy mist coming towards the strong, powerful robots, it looked like it was about to rain. Jayde &

Suvannah

Quintynn from PB sounded out this

writing independently. We are learning

to record letters and sounds we hear in

words, as writing is just “Speaking On

Paper.”

Jayani 4M. Lashae 4M.

3J have been working on writing sizzling starts and a backfill – here are some of their sentences… "Whoosh". The toxic trees swayed hauntingly around the forest as creaking sounds caged Ave in. She felt lost in nature’s lush green path. Peace wandered all around her. La'Taya Toxic trees were blowing in the howling, growling wind of the forbidden forest. Ava "Whoosh". A big gust of wind closed all around me as I made my way through the deep dark woods. Halo Towers crumbled down to the ground as the Earth cracked open revealing hot lava beneath. Carter She was a smart girl who made the dumb decision of opening a door that screamed BEWARE! Baylee

Swish! Casper the friendly and kind ghost glided through the abandoned forest with his friend Eva the mummy. Eva the mummy was a funny and forgiving mummy. Eva got sad sometimes but Casper didn't mind. After all they were friends. It was a dark and gloomy night in the forest. Eva and Casper could hear the rain tumbling from the sky. Sienna Swish! The leaves flew off the old trees. Skylah was shivering. She slowly crept backwards then bumped into Casper. It was a dark silent night in the forest. Skylah could hear owls hooting loudly and she could feel goosebumps. Kelia Bang! As Riley bumped into a giant tree. Sienna, kind and lovely, asked if he was okay. Riley, naughty and cheeky, giggled as Sienna looked at the enormous tree and was so terrified. It was a windy winter day in the woods. Riley and Sienna were playing but then Sienna noticed the tree nearly fall on Riley. Nimrat

Here is some writing

from Madison in 2L.

She has been working incredibly hard on her

Information Text.

5B have been working on extending sentences by adding a ‘when’ statement - here are some of their sentences…

The spacecraft stopped when it got struck by lightning then it slammed into power poles causing it to explode into dust. Ryan & Bradley Grandma vanished when the shiny, silver, metal UFO struck light down on her then gravity pulled her with brutal force and her husband was in a harsh, terrified panic. Brydee & Mikaela Dark in the evening, Grandma when out to collect corn but the intriguing white light pulled her up and she was never seen again. (Probably became an alien). Sunie & Julia 90 year old grandma vanished into thin air as the silver, smooth spacecraft lifted her into the dusty air with green creepy aliens and she was never to be seen again. Riley, Josh & Lochlan Suddenly Grandma vanished when the creepy alien grabbed her. Noah & Zavian Suddenly a mysterious spaceship hovered over grandma, it shone a bright light onto her body and caused her to vanish. Kearley & Maekah Grandma vanished into the dark, star filled night when the only light that could be seen is from a UFO. Taj & Kalani Grandma was playing with her dog when dark clouds appeared and lightning struck down then a UFO approached and kidnapped her. Chayse & Maddy The lightning sucked Grandma up into the UFO and flew into space. She vanished. Devon & Jordan When the stormy clouds rolled in angrily, grandma vanished into a thrilling, bright light. Ava & Raukua

The thick velvety purple wrapped him around softly he had hated this color he had almost been killed every time he wore this color this very deadly color. Vishv The police were standing around the dead man wearing a purple helmet. "He hates purple!" Exclaims his wife. "This isn't right!" Ava BOOM! A massive explosion blew from the wall. A strange man flew across the room and hit his head on the wall and fell on the ground. I went to go help him and his last living words were... "I HATE purple." And died. Michael