19 June

2015

Issue 10

LONG SERVICE I am going on Long Service from Friday 19 June until the last Friday of this term, Friday 26 June. During that time I will be travelling back home to Charters Towers. While I am away, Gary Pascoe will become Acting Princi-pal, Pauline Newton will become Acting Depu-ty and Trina Murphy will become Acting Mas-ter Teacher. I know that these staff members will take on these Acting Roles in a very com-petent manner. I thank them for willingly tak-ing on these roles.

SCHOOL REPORT CARDS AND PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS As the Units in (C2C) conclude at the end of Term 2, Report Cards and Parent Teacher Interviews will be held during the beginning of Term 3.

During Week Two and Three of Term 3, the week beginning 20 July, Parent/Teacher Interviews will be held and report cards will be issued during the interview.

A special note for Parent/Teacher Interview times was sent home last week. If you haven’t received this note please contact the School Office.

JUNE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS The year has certainly flown and the June School Holiday Break is nearly upon us. School closes for the holidays on Friday 26 June at 3.00pm and school resumes on Monday 13 July.

This is my last newsletter for Term 2.

FREE DRESS DAY Our Free Dress Day for Term 2 will be held on the last day of Term, Friday 26 June. Could students please bring along a gold coin. The money raised will go towards our Chaplain Fund, which is in need of funds to support the two days we employ Chappy Sarah. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

PBL UPDATE Please be sure to keep informed about the Positive Behaviour Updates included in this newsletter and support the school by reinforc-ing these expectations.

PREP & YR 4-6 SWIMMING LESSONS TERM 3 Keep in mind that swimming lessons for these clas-ses will commence Monday 10 August. Permission Letters and Invoices will be distributed week 1 Term 3. Payment is due before lessons commence. No late payments received. We accept payment in full OR by instalments. Contact the school if you would like to com-mence a payment plan.

SCHOOL MUSICAL This year our Musical is: Cinderella Rockerfella . The Musical will involve students from Years 4-6. During the last couple of weeks I have conducted auditions for the major speaking parts for the school musical. Yesterday the successful students were announced. Next week I will give these students an information sheet for their parents to read and sign, to say that they are willing to allow their child to par-ticipate in the musical. What this means is that they are agreeing to the commitment that is involved in being part of the musical. Students in Years 4, 5 and 6 who didn’t obtain a speaking part will all be involved in chorus items. They will also receive a special note next week as I need to know if students are allowed to participate in the musical, so I can be organized with numbers when I am setting the large scenes. The Musical “Cinderella Rockerfella” will be held at the HIGH-FIELDS CULTURAL CENTRE on Thursday 17 September. As next Term progresses, there will be more notes about costumes and other requests for help. We are all excited about the forthcoming musical and I know that you will enjoy the musical when we present it at the Highfields Cultural Centre.

DOGS Dogs are NOT permitted on school grounds - even those on a leash .

Very occasionally I will grant Permission for a dog to be on site if it is involved in a classroom learning activity or when Run Around Australia is happening.

But for the main, parents are NOT permitted to bring their dogs on school grounds when drop-ping off and collecting children. The reasons are as follows: a. There is always a risk of a dog toileting and this

becomes a health risk for students. b. Managing the complaints of other parents who

tend to report such matters to me. c. Dogs causing harm to students or other members

of our school community

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS SS website address is: http://w ww.fairheigss.eq.edu.au

REMINDER IN THE MORNING ‘DROP OFF ZONE’ AT THE IN THE MORNING ‘DROP OFF ZONE’ AT THE IN THE MORNING ‘DROP OFF ZONE’ AT THE IN THE MORNING ‘DROP OFF ZONE’ AT THE

FRONT OF THE SCHOOL IS A DESIGNATED LOAD-FRONT OF THE SCHOOL IS A DESIGNATED LOAD-FRONT OF THE SCHOOL IS A DESIGNATED LOAD-FRONT OF THE SCHOOL IS A DESIGNATED LOAD-

ING ZONEING ZONEING ZONEING ZONE————2 MIN MAX. 2 MIN MAX. 2 MIN MAX. 2 MIN MAX.

NO PARKINGNO PARKINGNO PARKINGNO PARKING————DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CAR.DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CAR.DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CAR.DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CAR.

2015 DATES TO REMEMBER2015 DATES TO REMEMBER2015 DATES TO REMEMBER2015 DATES TO REMEMBER

Mon Jun 22 Prep-8 yr olds - Sports Day—9.00-11.00am

Mon Jun 22 Yr 6 Boys Strength Bowling Break Up Yr 6 Girls Shine Lunch Break Up

Fri June 26 Free Dress—Gold Coin donation towards Chaplaincy

Sat June 27 Winter School Holidays Commence

Mon July 13 1st Day School Term 3

Mon July 20 Fri July 31

Report Cards issued at Parent Teacher Interviews. Please make an appointment with your child’s teacher.

Thur Jul 16,23,30 Aug 20,27

Footsteps - Musical Students Only @ 1.40pm

Fri Jul 24 Yr 5 & 6 Interschool Sport commences 8 Fridays up until Friday 11 September

Tues Jul 28 ICAS English

Mon Aug 10 Swimming Prep + Yr 4-6 Commences (Mon/Tues/Wed for 3 weeks)

Thur Sep 17 School Musical @ Highfields Cultural Centre

Sat Oct 24 “Family Fun Day—FHSS 20th Birthday Celebrations!!!

REGULAR ACTIVITIES REGULAR ACTIVITIES REGULAR ACTIVITIES REGULAR ACTIVITIES

M/Th/ F

Mon Only

Thurs Only

M/Th/F

TUCKSHOP - Yr 1-6 ONLY P-1F & PH —1st Break only PF & PV—1st Break only P/1FS— 1st Break only

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

THE ARTS CLUBS FOR YEARS 3-6 @11.15-11.45AM Visual Arts Choir - Year 1-6 Percussion Band Drums & Gumboot Dancing for Boys Recorder

Tuesday Woodwork Option—1st Break

2nd Tues Month

P&C Meeting – All Welcome

7.00 pm – Staff Room

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

Friday Breakfast Club with Chappy Sarah. 8.00-8.30am

Friday 3pm—Ice Blocks for sale @ front of Admin $1.00 . Proceeds go towards Chaplaincy Program

Tues Aug 11 P&C Meeting—7.00pm in Staffroom

Wed Jun 24 P&C Chocolate Drive Collection for Ordered Chocolates @ Hall 1.00-3.30pm.

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P&C MEETING Our next P&C Meeting will be held on Tuesday 11 August, commencing at 7.00pm in the Staff Room. Everyone is welcome to attend. There will be No July P&C Meeting as we only return from the June/July holidays the day prior to the scheduled July Meeting.

CHAPLAINCY Some parents have approached me regarding Chaplaincy Sponsorship. We would love parents or Fairview Heights Community members to consider supporting our Chaplain-cy on a regular basis. We have attached to today’s news-letter a Sponsorship form if anyone is interested in doing that. At the top of the form is the postal address to return this form or if you would like our school to return the form on your behalf, please return the form to the School Office. We look forward to our community considering regular sup-port of our Chaplaincy.

EVERY DAY COUNTS The holidays are fast approaching. While it may be tempt-ing 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 chil-dren 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 at-tendance, please visit www.education.qld.gov.au/everydaycounts/posters.html

KEEP A WATCH ON OUR SCHOOL THESE

HOLIDAYS With the holidays fast approaching, we need you to look out for after-hours crime in your school. If you see anything suspicious call the School Watch on 13 17 88. The School Watch Program is a partnership between the department and the State Government Protective Security Service. It aims to reduce vandalism, theft and arson in schools. Call the School Security Program on 3237 0874 for more info. www.oneportal.deta.qld.gov.au/Services/Facilities/Forms/Documents/Endoftermsecuritychecklist.pdf

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URGENT URGENT REQUEST At times we need to supply spare shorts or trackpants to students. Currently our supply is extremely low. If you have any school shorts or trackpants that your children have grown out of please consider donating them to the school.

Congratulations to our Term 2 Students of the Week: Week 8 Tobie Breeze, Paityn Ritchens, Phoenix Rittmeyer, Ebony Maier, Braith Tillyer, Tristan Sloan, Kaiden Philp, Seth Cooke, Brock Ceissman, Holley Davis, Amber Solomon, Amelia Hickmott, Kaylee El-lis, Charlie Radke, Jacob Cross, Savanna Campbell, Hunter Reid, Hayley Castles, Emily Lammas, Zach Walker, Jemma Fing, Liam Marshall, Natania Hor-rocks, Laila Cooney, Brayden Young, Marcos Knauth, Kynan Smith, Achilles Lappin, Oliver McLachlan, Ashton Nicol, Lydia Hunt Gold Awards Teliah Reid, Charlie Stiller, Emily Lammas, Tahlia Adams, Elise Baxter, Leah Bell, Tobie Breeze, Phoe-be Collins, Sophie Dawson, Christian Douglas, Bian-ca Flanigan, Annabelle Handford, Katayah Hooper, Zayden Hill, Jackson Nichols, Brydee Paech, Emma Robson, Shayla Rudd, Tyler Rundmann, Jaxson Sou-lis, Billie Stubbs, Riley Warburton, Jack Weis, Lachie Weston, Jett Young, Lucy Davis Our 1st Ever—Platinum Award Winner Amelia Hope Announcing this weeks Students of the Week Week 9— Tahlia Adams, Jake Berry, Isabella Williams, Seth Campbell, Ebony McLeod, Shaydan-Leigh Collins, Katelyn Doorley, Taylor Condie, Hunter Whitmore, Mikayla Bethune, Nicholas Coney , Owen Ferguson, Bodhi Soulis, Joe Head, Sebastian Ward, Madison Whitmore, Cody Horsburgh, Lachlan Cronberger, Holly Corcoran, Callum Butler, Nicholas Navin, Kel-era Waqairatu, Izia Behan, Ryan Ferguson, Dominic Skjonnemand, Amelia Achilles, Matilda Hope, Santia-go Vargas Hernandez, Jiaha Wagner, Mia Conroy. Due to Cancellation of Parade these students will be recognised and photographed at next weeks parade.

Great Work Everyone!!!

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VACATION CARE JUN/JUL HOLIDAYS 2015. MON Jun 29 TO FRI JUL 10. SPORTS BASED PROGRAM WITH AN EMPHASIS ON FUN. ALSO IN-CLUDES TEN PIN BOWLING, MOVIES, DISCO AND MUSIC DA Y, SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS, EXTENSIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS PROGRAM AND MANY MORE ACTIVITIES. ST MARY'S BASKETBALL STADIUM. CCB REBATES AVAILABLE. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. CONTACT HALL-THORPE SPORTS. PH: 4638 7965 MOB 0438 764 752 Email admin@hallthorpesports.com.au Website www.hallthorpesports.com.au

Our team of 5: Jaymie Macleod, Zaine Peasley, Georgia Wright, Jade Hodkinson & Kynan Smith competed in the regional compe�-

�on at Fairholme College this week, par�cipa�ng in a quiz of detailed ques�ons from 5 challenging novels. Students read these books

across the term, mee�ng for weekly discussions and quiz sessions, then competed against 20 teams from across the Darling Downs,

with teams coming from as far afield as Goondiwindi. We made a bold finish in the top cluster of schools, with very �ght scores, com-

ing in at 8th. We achieved a score of 54, with few points between the top cluster of teams. Our students looked very impressive in

their formal year 6 shirts, drawing comments from other schools about our outstanding uniform. They carried themselves with pride

and were wonderful ambassadors for our school. It was a great evening and this group of readers was a joy to work with. May they

go on to bigger and be1er things!

Mrs Judy Humphries

Teacher-Librarian

We have had lots of Students shopping this week for rewards which is fantastic!! Congratulations to all of the Students showing positive behaviour at Fairview Heights State School! Thank you to all of our Parents and Carers who continue to talk about our Behaviour Expectations (PODS) at home.

Last week we saw two of our Year 1 Students, Ameleah-Paige Miller and Jake Guymer , enjoy lunch with their special friends Theo Aston and Nichalis Beezley at the PODS Table. This is a huge achievement for these Students, as it takes lots of PODS Stamps to receive this reward. Well Done Ameleah-Paige and Jake!! Mr Pascoe and Mrs Raitelli also joined in the fun!

Next Friday 26 th June, we are rewarding our Students who keep displ aying our Whole School Be-haviour Expectations (Practising Safety, Overall Respect, Demonstrating Learning, Showing Re-

sponsibility) with an ‘End of Term Celebration’. We will be holding Discos for our Lower, Middle and Upper Students in the Hall, throughout the day. Lots of dancing and games will be had and a special treat will be given to each Student upon the conclusion of each Disco.

The focus of recent PBL Expectations has been

Practising Safety “Out of Bounds” & “Walk Bikes & Scooters within Sch ool Grounds”

Showing Responsibility “Be Prompt when leaving the School Grounds”

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NEWSPAPERS

The wheelie bins located at the front of the school are our collection point for Newspapers. This is raising funds for sporting equipment etc. It is so easy to do - put your newspaper in the bins and the D & S paper company PAYS the school for the Newspapers. Many thanks to the families that are sending their newspaper to Fairview for recycling.

STUDENT ABSENCES

USE : THE SCHOOL APP

Parent eForms>Absentee Note

Or 46 592 860

Please Leave: � Name � Class � Days Absent � Reason �

No need to Call if your child is late. Collect late slip on arrival.

JUNIOR SPORTS & U8’S JUNIOR SPORTS & U8’S JUNIOR SPORTS & U8’S JUNIOR SPORTS & U8’S

DAY RESCHEDULEDDAY RESCHEDULEDDAY RESCHEDULEDDAY RESCHEDULED

Monday 22 June � � � � Prep – 8 Years Carnival � � � � 9.00am—11.00am

In Music Room

with Mrs Pelcher

@ First Break 11.15—11.45am

Woolworths Earn & Learn program is back. This community program enables schools to earn educational resources when anyone from the school community shops at Wool-worths. We are proud to partner with your school to help you earn learning equipment and resources for your stu-dents. Taking part is easy Starting on Wednesday 15 July when anyone from our school community-staff, parents and friends shop at Wool-worths, they can collect stickers to place on their sticker cards. 1 sticker for every $10 spent. Once the card is com-pleted you can place it in the collection box at school or at your local Woolies. The program closes on Tuesday 8 Sep-tember.

The P&C CHOCOLATE DRIVE COLLECTION will be tak-ing place next Wednesday 24 June. Chocolates will be available at the Hall for parents who have placed orders. Please collect from 1pm-3.00pm from the hall canteen ar-ea (until parade finishes) and then from the back of the hall until 3.30pm Thanks again, Sharyn Samuels