END OF TERM 4

The end of Term 4 is fast approaching. Christmas is nearly here and in the classrooms, there is still learning to be under-taken. Parents please ensure that your child is present each day of the remaining 2 weeks of schooling for 2019. Attend-ance is a very important aspect of your child’s schooling.

NEWSLETTERS

This will be our second last newsletter for this year. During the early part of the last week of school, we will be sending out our last newsletter. This will have important information about the last week of school and reminders for what will be happening. Please be on the look out for this.

2020 SCHOOL LEADERS

Following a process involving expressions of interest, short listing, speeches, voting and interviews, four students from Year 5 have been selected for the Position of School Captains. Our warmest congratulations go to :

Luke Miller, Aariah Smith, Briana-Mae McDonald and Fletcher Weir

Our Student Council Leaders, Music Captains and Sports Captains for 2020 will be announced next week. A special 2020 School Leaders photo page will be included in our last newsletter showcasing our new Leaders. These students will be recognised and congratulated at our final parade in the last week of this term.

PLATINUM REWARD PARADE We will no longer be having End of Term Celebrations. Please refer to Mrs Casey’s Newsletter item for further infor-mation. We are now introducing a Platinum Reward Parade, where those students who have not received a major behav-iour referral for the semester, will be acknowledged and will receive a commemorative badge and certificate. These badg-es and certificates will be given out at our last Parade, which is on Wednesday 11 December at 2.00pm in the Hall.

Issue 18 29 November 2019

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS SS website address is: http://www.fairviewheightsss.eq.edu.au

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this Land on which our school stands; where the Giabal and Jarowair peoples have performed age-old ceremonies of music, dance, storytelling and celebration. We acknowledge and pay respect to the Elders, past, present and emerging, for they hold the hopes, memories and traditions of Aboriginal, Torres Strait and South Sea Island peoples. We honour those who carved their footsteps in the sands of time.

2020 PREP ENROLMENT PLACES AVAILABLE - Children born 1 JULY 2014—30 JUNE 2015

ENROLMENT NUMBERS FOR 2020 We would like to continue to increase our enrolment numbers for 2020. Parents of our school are best promoters for WHAT’S GREAT AND UNIQUE ABOUT FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS. So please promote our school and be a cam-paigner for increasing our enrolment numbers. We are an enrolment managed school, however because we are not at capacity for 2020, we are able to accept enrolments out of the catchment area, until our numbers reach capacity. If you know any families who are living out of the catchment area for Fairview Heights and want to come to Fairview, could you let them know, so we can make arrangements for enrolment procedures. We look forward to further enrolment enquiries.

SPORT SHIRT ORDERS Shirts cost $35.00 and orders need to be returned to the of-fice with payment by TODAY—Friday 29 November. There will be NO LATE ORDERS and PAYMENTS accepted

YEAR 5 & 6 CAMPS Our Year 6 students are having a wonderful time at Talle-budgerra . Please look at our school Facebook Page to view the photos of the students enjoying the beautiful weather. I wish our Year 5 Students and Staff travelling to Emu Gully next week , from Monday to Wednesday, a safe and fun camp. Enjoy the many challenges (Mud, Tunnels, Rock climbing etc) that you will endure.

BULLOCH, TURKINGTON & COMMUNITY SER-VICE AWARDS The time has come around very quickly when as a school we need to call for nominations for the Bulloch, Turkington and

Community Service Awards. Nomination forms are available from the school office and need to be re-turned by MONDAY 2 DECEMBER.

CHAPLAINCY FUNDRAISER

Next Wednesday 4 December the Chaplaincy Committee will be holding a Sausage Sizzle. A sausage on bread will be available for $2 at first break. We will send out a reminder on our app next Monday.

PARENT REQUESTS Parent requests will be considered in the context of teacher judgements, overall school operational requirements and individual unique circumstances. As I have said in the past, a request is never guaranteed, it is considered. No more par-ent requests are being taken, as we are in our final deliber-ations for classes. We have given parents ample time to place their parents requests at the office.

VOLUNTEERS DAY

I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank all Fairview Heights State School volunteers for the important and valued role they play in our school. Next Thursday, 5 December is International Volunteers Day and I encourage our students and staff to take this opportunity to thank our volunteers for their contribution to our school com-munity.

SWIMMING CARNIVAL Our Year 4-6 Swimming Carnival will be held next Friday 6 December at Harristown State Primary School Pool. All children will be travelling by bus to the pool leaving FHSS at 9:45am. The cost of the bus will be met by the school. The children will need a hat, water, sunshirt and sunscreen for the day. We will be at the pool all day so students will require lunch and morning tea. Children should wear a swimming cap. All permission forms should have been re-turned to the classroom teacher by now – if you have not received a form please call into the office to complete one.

REPORT CARDS This term, all report cards will be sent to parents/carers

by email. Please ensure that your emails are up to date. If in doubt please check with the Office ladies. The emailed report cards will be sent out to parents on the Wednesday of the last week of school, which is Wednesday 11 December. If your emails are not up to date, you will not be able to ac-cess your report cards.

FREE DRESS DAY Our last free dress day for 2019 is on the last Thursday of Term. This is Thursday 12 December. Please bring along a gold coin for our Chaplaincy fund.

FINAL DAYS Friday 13 December is the last school day for 2019. This day is a designated school day and we use it as a clean-up day. Students attending school on this day will assist with general clean up duties and help with the shifting of learning materials to different classrooms. If parents do not wish to send their child/ren on Friday 13 December we ac-cept this decision. School will conclude for 2019 at 3.00pm on Friday 13 December. School will close for the Christmas Break on Friday 13 December and resume on Tuesday 28 January 2020. Monday 27 January is a public holiday to celebrate Australia Day

PAST STUDENTS Every year at this time, we have past students just arriving at our school to offer to help during the last week. These numbers have grown over the years and has become an issue for us. Every day counts at school as a learning oppor-tunity and having past students at our school for a number of days during the last week has created issues for our stu-dents as the past students are distracting for our students and legally they do not attend our school. So our Policy is that past students are not able to come to our school and remain at school during school hours unless they are under-taking a Work Experience opportunity that has been signed off by their School Principal.

EVERY DAY COUNTS

The holidays are fast approaching. While it may be tempting to let your child stay home for the last day or even the last week of term, our school would prefer to see every child on every day of every term. We strongly believe children need to attend school every day to receive the most benefits from their education. Did you realise that skipping the last day of every term adds up to more than a whole term of schooling missed throughout a child’s education? Skipping a whole week of school each term means your child will miss more than 15 months of their education! For further information on the importance of regular school attendance, please visit www.education.qld.gov.au/everydaycounts/posters.html

Julie

2019 DATES TO REMEMBER

TERM 4

Wed Dec 4 Sausage Sizzle Fundraiser 11am $2—for Chaplaincy

Fri Dec 6 Swimming Carnival 9-12 yrs—All Day

Fri Dec 6 Last Day Tuckshop

Tues Dec 10 Yr 6’s to Visit their State High Schools for the day

Tues Dec 10 Yr 6 - Awards Evening @ 7.00-8.30pm

Wed Dec 11 Report Cards Emailed to Parent/Carers

Wed Dec 11 Final Parade 2pm

Thurs Dec 12 Free Dress Day—Gold Coin Donation

Fri Dec 13 Final Day of School 2019

Sat Dec 14 - Sun Jan 26

Summer School Holidays

2020 – TERM 1

Mon Jan 20 School Office Reopens 8.00—3:45pm

W-Th--F Jan 22-24

Pupil Free Days—Staff Only

Fri Jan 24 2nd Hand Uniform Shop @ Tuckshop Open 1.30-3.00pm

Mon Jan 27 Australia Day Public Holiday

Tues Jan 28 First Day School—2020

Tues Jan 28 2nd Hand Uniform Shop @ Tuckshop Open 8.00-9.00am

Wed Feb 5 Tuckshop—1st Day for 2020

February Year 6 Senior Shirt Orders placed

Wed Feb 26 School Photos

Mon Mar 2 Swimming Lessons Yr 1,2,4 & 6 (2 weeks M,T & Th)

Sat Apr 4—Sun 19 Apr

Easter School Vacation

REGULAR ACTIVITIES

Mon/Thurs/Fri Thurs

Tuckshop Yr 1-6 Tuckshop Prep

2nd Tuesday of Month

P&C Meeting – 7.00 pm – Staff Room—All Welcome

Wednesday Chess Lessons 8.00am in Library—All Welcome to Join

Wednesday Instrumental Band Practice 7.50-8.50am (arrive 7.45) Instrumental Music Classes

Wednesday Breakfast Club @ 8am

Wednesday Woodwork Option—1st Break

Wednesday Assembly (in Hall) 2.20pm. Parents/Carers welcome.

FUNDRAISER

FOR CHAPLAINCY PROGRAM

Wednesday 4 December

1st Break

$2.00—Sausage/Bread/Sauce

This shirt is not a replacement of our current green “Formal” Polo Shirt but an addition to our school uniform. All students in the school are able to purchase this shirt and wear to school on any given day. These shirts have proved extremely popular and are an excellent addition to our uniform and really make Fairview Heights stand out from the crowd. Our 2020 Prep Parent/Carers are able to purchase shirts at the Office.

PERKINS -Blue sleeves and collar BORDER - Yellow sleeves and collar FREEMAN - Green sleeves and collar

You are welcome to come to the office foyer if you are un-sure of sizes and try a shirt on. For 2020 students in Year 1—6 orders need to be returned to the office with payment ($35) by today, FRI-DAY 29 November.

There will be NO LATE ORDERS and PAYMENTS ACCEPTED as we are on a tight timeframe for the order

to be processed for start of school 2020.

SPORT SHIRTS ORDERS

Last Tuckshop Day is Friday 6 December Next year we will be trialling Tuckshop on a

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Due to power disruptions over the school holidays we need to run our frozen and fridge foods down to minimal. Therefore, over the next week some tuckshop items may not be available and will have to be substituted with another product.

The first day of Tuckshop for 2020 will be Wednesday 5 February. We need volunteers - if you are able to help please come and see us at the Tuckshop. A note will go out early next year asking for volun-teers May you all have a wonderful and safe holiday break and the team looks forward to providing wonderful food next year.

Wendy—Tuckshop Convenor

0400 246 679

Hall-Thorpe Sports provides fun and educational care for

children outside of school hours. Our program encourages an active and healthy lifestyle with a focus

on the children’s interests.

The service is conveniently located on the school grounds and offers a fun filled Vacation Care program.

To book a spot in our program please call

46 387 965

or visit www.hallthorpesports.com.au

Check out some photos on our Hall-Thorpe Sports

Facebook site.

Fairview Heights SS

2nd Hand Uniform Shop

Mon, Thurs & Fri 9.00am—1.30pm

Last day of Tuckshop 2019

Friday 6 December

2020 Friday 24 January 1.30—3.00pm

Tuesday 28 January 8.00—9.00am

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Congratulations to our band and Mr Ryan on a great performance during our Soiree evening. Your parents and the whole school are very proud of your achieve-ment. There will be no band practices for the rest of the year. Band uniforms and instruments have to be handed in ASAP.

A very big THANK YOU to all our parents and guests for your wonderful support at our Soiree evening. It truly was a celebration of the ARTS! Thank you to Mr Seng and Mr Traynor for their support which made the evening something very special. Thank you to ALL the teachers for your contributions of fantastic art works and your help during the evening. We wish you all a very merry Christmas and an exciting 2020.

Phil Ryan &

Carien Pelcher

Music Teachers

FHSS

LIBRARY NEWS

LIBRARY BOOKS WERE DUE BACK TODAY! Children often need help to find their lost books, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Please contact the Library if there are any problems. Favourite hiding spots seem to be in bags, under beds or on the book shelf.

YEAR 6 STUDENTS Due to our Year 6 students being on School Camp this week their books are due back on Monday 2 December.

Congratulations to our Students !!

Term 4

Week 6

Hayley, Aleeah, Makenzie, Billy, Parker, Dominic, Ainslee, Kobe, Zander, Lesly, Paige, Calla, Aleah, Gabriel, Lilly-May, Charlotte, Quinn, Jessica, Lachlan, Theo, Luke, Ben, Chloe, Blaze, Jason & Matilda

Week 7

Riley, Isaac, Jack, Hunter, Therese, Eli-jah, Nayte, Annabelle, Alyssa, Amelia, Tiana, Byron, Xander, Axyl, Jack, Jack-son, Phoebe, Aariah, Maddyson, Nicho-las, Anabelle, Brooke, Tahlia, Ariah, Zac & Jarrakye. Week 8

Oliver, Andrew, Mitchell, Corban, Ruby, Eden, Georgia, Xzavier, Dakota-May, Byron, Hailee, Aiden, Isabella, Lachie, Phoenix, Darcy, Aiden, Landan, Cooper PBL BARREL DRAW

Week 7 Sam, Anabelle & Nate

Week 8 Xzavier, PJ & Jett

Literacy Pro is almost finished for another year as books need to be back to the library! Students can still access their subscriptions up to the end of December. Points however do not carry over into next year! Winners of book prizes for the term will be announced next week! So those students who are almost at the next certificate level need to try really hard to get there by next week! Thank you for supporting your children in their reading this term and I am looking forward to some exciting new things to share in the new year!! Thank you to Scholastic who always donate our book prizes each term! Karen Larsen Literacy Pro Co-ordinator

LITERACY PRO

Week 6 & 7 Aron, Lincoln, Roman, Addy, Leah, Hallie, Devi, Imogen & Mikaela. Week 8 Lilly, Jackson, Lachie, Bodi GOLD AWARD

Leah

As our school year draws to a close we have seen our PBL framework flourish in our classrooms and whole school community. Our students are speaking our PODS language freely and understanding the explicit meaning of our whole school behaviour expectations and how they translate into their own be-haviour. So many of our students, without prompting, display positive, commendable behaviour daily, helping each other to do so. I think that is what sets the Fairview Heights community apart, is our sense of to-getherness and wrapping support around those who need it, when they need it, however that looks on any one day. As with all effective frameworks, revising and making changes that reflect the growth in our school com-munity is important. This has seen some streamlining of the PBL framework in classrooms and across the school context in 2019. We will no longer be holding End of Term Celebrations, pulling these reward days into our classroom communities, so that all students feel that sense of belonging with their teacher and peers. We will, however, for those students who have not received a major behaviour referral for the semester, acknowledge them at our Final Parade on Wednesday 11 December with a commemorative badge and certificate. This parade will commence at 2pm. The success of any framework is dependent upon the community, teachers and students, who implement it and abide by it. Our PBL framework at Fairview Heights has been recognised as being very successful, receiving a 100% score when audited. This is due to the tireless, heartfelt efforts of staff and parents and the eagerness of our students. Well done everyone! Here is looking forward to a positive 2020 at Fairview Heights State School. Bec Casey Acting Head of Special Education Services PBL Behaviour Coach

2019 ICAS Results

This year, ten Fairview students participated in the ICAS tests. Congratulations to the following students on receiving the highest score at Fairview in their ICAS test. Eden Ott (Year 2) – Merit in ICAS Spelling Charlie Stiller & Andre Diem (Year 5) – Merit (equal score) in ICAS Science Aariah Smith (Year 5) – Distinction in ICAS Writing Congratulations Trina Murphy ICAS Coordinator

Mikaela Blades - Bronze

Andre Diem - Bronze

Seth McInnes - Bronze

Milly Miller - Silver

Jake Wilson - Silver

Flynn Edards - Silver

Lilly Wiemers - Silver

Theo Aston – Gold

Lydia Boney – Gold

Brydee Paech—Athletics Record

SCHOOL TEAM T&F Swim XC

WEST ZONE / TWMBA Swim

SCHOOL TEAM T&F Swim

WEST ZONE / TWMBA T&F

SCHOOL TEAM T&F Soccer XC

WEST ZONE / TWMBA Soccer

SCHOOL TEAM T&F Soccer XC Touch

WEST ZONE / TWMBA Soccer

SCHOOL TEAM XC T&F

WEST ZONE / TWMBA XC T&F

SCHOOL TEAM Softball

WEST ZONE / TWMBA Softball

Darling Downs Softball

SCHOOL TEAM Swim

WEST ZONE / TWMBA Swim

DD Swim

SCHOOL TEAM XC Touch T&F Swim Union

WEST ZONE / TWMBA XC T&F Touch

DD Touch

SCHOOL TEAM R League T&F Touch

WEST ZONE / TWMBA R League Touch

DD R League Touch

High Jump - 1.07m Broke 18 year old record of 1.01m (Courtney Sweet 2001)

2019 SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

After all the points were totalled, for the first time ever, we have a dead heat for our Sportsperson of the Year. Congratulations to our joint winners Lydia Boney and Theo Aston.

2020 PLAYGROUND GUARDIANS-NEW RECRUITS Welcome to our new Year 5 Playground Guardians who successfully completed their Playground Guardian training this term. Now you will see them out and about during play breaks, wearing their new pink vests.

Congratulations: Toby, Briana, Harlen, Brooklyn, Jorga, Shaydan, Alana, Sophie, Jacob, Harley & Bella The aims of the Playground Guardians are: To provide positive role models for younger students – like wearing a hat and following the school rules To encourage students to play together in a safe, positive way To help students who are new to the school to settle in, or help those students who are looking for a friend To assist those who are hurt or need encouragement Trina Murphy Playground Guardian Co-ordinator