EAGLE JUNCTION STATE SCHOOL

FLYING EAGLE No. 08 25 March 2020

49 Roseby Avenue Clayfield QLD 4011

Phone: (07) 3637 1111 Fax: (07) 3637 1100

Email: admin@eaglejunctionss.eq.edu.au

Website: www.eaglejunctionss.eq.edu.au Student Absences Line: (07) 3637 1166

Student Absence Phone

3637 1166

Diary Dates

Regular Events

Monday 7.20am Snr Concert Band

Tuesday 7.30am Chess 7.30am Senior Choir (Years 4, 5 & 6)

Wednesday 7.30am Senior String Ensemble 1.45pm Junior Assembly

Thursday 7.45am Junior Choir (Years 2 & 3)

Friday 7.45am All Boys Choir (Yrs 3-6) Term 1 only 8.45am Senior Assembly

Special Occasions

Fri Mar 27 9.00am NAPLAN Parent Talk - Library

Mon Mar 30 Cross Country Carnival Yr 2-Yr 6

Thurs Apr 2

Cross Country Carnival Prep-Year 1

Fri Apr 3 Last Day Term 1

Mon Apr 20 Term 2 begins

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School Watch 13 17 88

Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000

CANCELLED

From the Principal Final Term One Procedures I would like to thank the EJSS staff, students and wider school community for their support and understanding in these uncertain times. As mentioned in the email that I sent on Friday 20 March to the school community, we have been busily planning for possible alternative modes of learning in the coming weeks.

I would like to reiterate what we have planned for our students:

As Prime Minister Scott Morrison mentioned last night, parents may exercise

their right to keep their children at home. If you do choose to keep your

children at home, students can access the following website to complete year

level appropriate activities in the areas of English and Mathematics. These

activities can be found at the following website:

https://education.qld.gov.au/curriculum/learning-at-home.

In the event of a school closure, we have prepared a student booklet for all

students. If your child has been absent from school in recent times, this

booklet can be collected from the school office. Pleased do not start this

booklet until instructed by your child’s classroom teacher. Your child’s

teacher will email you daily with the activities that need to be completed in

the booklet.

In the event a school closure continues longer than two weeks, the

Department of Education also has a more detailed suite of online curriculum

materials that we will systematically forward to our school community.

These resources are directly linked to the planned Term Two curriculum. You

will receive an email from me with the instructions as to how to access these

online learning materials. Teachers will again be making contact with families

on a daily basis and be available via email to answer any questions or

concerns. Please note that this website is different to the website mentioned

above.

We have also created Prep to Year 6 edStudios where additional resources will be housed. These resources will provide further learning opportunities in the event that you have completed all set work.

As of this week, we have also employed an additional cleaner to work 5 hours during the school day. This cleaner will focus on wiping down student desks, cleaning the toilets throughout the day and focussing on high touch areas such as doorknobs etc.

Students have also been reminded on the importance of social distancing and we are making the necessary changes to our practices and built environment where appropriate.

As always, any additional information from Queensland Health or the Department of Education will be distributed to the school community about COVID-19.

Please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher or the administration team if

you have any further questions.

ANZAC Day School Service Unfortunately, this year EJSS will not be conducting a school ANZAC Day service. Instead, our school students will be encouraged to write a letter to an ANZAC or other veteran, paying their respects, and expressing their thoughts on the sacrifice that has been made on their behalf. We will then compile the letters and deliver the EJSS letters to the Clayfield-Toombul RSL sub branch.

EJ Learning Power - Persistent Our Learning Power for this week is Persistent. Young children who are persistent keep on trying when things seem hard or not fun. They try hard to complete tasks and activities at school and home and do their jobs without always having to be reminded. They seem to know that, to be successful, they sometimes have to work hard and not give up. As well, children who are persistent believe that the harder they try, the better they get. Examples of persistent behaviour in your child:

Cleans up after playing with an activity even though he/she doesn't want to.

Finishes a new puzzle even if he/she needs to ask for help.

Keeps trying when homework is challenging.

Tries to construct something that is hard and doesn't give up.

Does what he/she says he/she will do.

Ways to praise your child for persistent behavior:

'You really put a lot of work into that.'

'You really tried hard. Doesn't that feel good?'

'Good for you. You didn't give up.'

'You found that hard, but you kept trying.'

'Well done, you did that even though it was not easy or fun.'

'The more you practise the better you become.'

Talk to your child about persistent thinking:

I can do it (when work is hard, I can do it).

Giving effort (The harder I try, the better I will get). It won't happen immediately but it will happen.

Working tough (to do the best I can, I sometimes have to do things that are not easy or fun).

Practical things you can do to develop persistence in your child:

Provide your child with accurate feedback concerning the amount of effort he/she is expending and how much effort and time is really needed to complete a task such as project or task.

Discuss with your child repeatedly how his/her big efforts result in learning or success.

Provide strong, immediate reinforcement for effort your child puts toward work that he/she finds hard or boring (especially jobs around the home and homework).

Praise your child when he/she willingly does a task that is not fun without complaining.

Catch your child doing something that requires effort, and praise him/her for trying hard.

Praise your child for ongoing hard work.

Last week we engaged in Learning Walks and being persistent was certainly a skill that many of our children exhibit when completing learning activities. For some students, persistence is the Learning Power that they have identified as wanting to become. Next week we will introduce you to our seventh and final Learning Power - Reflective.

Adam Mathewson

From the Deputy Principal

Prep - Year 2 Home reading serves a dual purpose - one is reading to your child and the other involves your child reading to you. Both aspects of home reading are essential to your child’s success as a reader.

Reading to your child teaches children the importance and joy of reading. It provides children with opportunities to hear fluent reading, the rhythm of language and exposes children to new vocabulary.

When your child reads to you it creates a safe environment for children to practise the strategies they have learnt in class. This form of home reading aims to build ‘reading mileage’ to reinforce, stimulate and motivate students to become confident readers.

Many parents ask how they can assist their child when engaging in reading at home. Here are some ideas you might like to try:

Book language

Talk about what’s happening in the picture

Give explanations about what’s happening

Ask the child why? How do you know?

Use Think Time

Give children 3 - 5 seconds of undisturbed "wait-time," after asking a question or opening a book as this encourages the child to think about the text.

When given Think Time, the length and correctness of their responses increase. The number of their "I don't know" and no answer responses decreases.

Take a Story Walk

Show your child the book cover and browse through the pages in order.

Ask your child to predict what might happen in the story.

Talk about what he sees and what may be happening in an illustration.

Talk about the story

Ask questions and discuss the story.

Question at child’s level, comment at the next level.

Adult should be making more comments than questions.

Expand Vocabulary

Everyday words - rarely require instruction, e.g. clock, baby, ball, happy, walk, run, etc.

Discuss Tier Two words - ‘sophisticated’ words used to describe concepts already understood by your child (e.g. magnificent, absurd, glance, gather, announce, intrigued)

Some prompts to use when reading with your child:

When your child makes a mistake

When your child makes a mistake WAIT until the end of the sentence. This gives your child a chance to notice and fix the mistake.

If the mistake is not fixed

SAY “It could be (tiger) but look at (the first letter).”

OR “You said……. Does that make sense?”

OR “You said……..Do we say it that way”?

OR “ You said……Does that look right?”

If the mistake is fixed

SAY “I like the way you fixed that. Great reading work!”

OR “Well done! Now it makes sense!”

OR “Good! You reread it and made it sound right”

OR “Terrific. You noticed it didn’t look right and fixed it.”

I encourage you to enjoy a book with your child today.

Fleur Provost

From the Head of Teaching & Learning More on Partitioning Last week I explained partitioning in the early years. Later, partitioning becomes critical for efficient mental computation and related written methods.

Partitioning into standard place value parts Standard place value partitioning reflects the individual values of each digit in a number. Standard place value partitions can be represented with structured materials and on number expanders.

Partitioning into non-standard place value parts Non-standard place value partitioning shows flexible ways to break numbers up. Some, but not all non-standard partitions can

For example,

35 + 23 76 – 33 458 + 135

For example,

245 as 253 as

For example,

327 as

Other non-standard place value partitions can be described as ‘splitting numbers where one ten ends’. This can be represented effectively with 2-digit numbers using place value bead strings.

Note on partitioning Larger numbers can be partitioned in ways that do not directly relate to place value.

This non-standard form of partitioning becomes valuable in mental computation as students look for compatible numbers to make calculation easier.

Special Programs and Competitions Unfortunately, some of our outside school programs and competitions have been either postponed or cancelled. The Kelvin Grove High Achievers Program will no longer go ahead this year. INFUSE for our Year 3 and 4 students has also been cancelled. We will no longer be participating in the Problem Solving Challenge Day at Wavell State High School on 23 April.

Have a safe week.

Angela Dawson

For example,

32 as 20 and 12

32 as 10 and 22

For example,

32 as 25 and 7

For example, a student is presented with this mental computation problem:

32 + 25

The student may partition 32 into 25 and 7, and complete the computation as: 25 + 25 + 7.

A child’s informal written method may resemble the following:

Library News Before School Borrowing The library will be closed for cleaning and stocktake until Term Two.

This Week in Library Lessons…… Prep To be able to use the alphabet helps us find Junior Fiction Books. Year 1 To be able to use photos and the ‘lasso’ feature of the app Explain Everything. Year 3 To be able to use Scratch to complete basic coding tasks. Year 4 To be able to give quality feedback to a peer about their Word document.

New Books

Author Feature Mo Willems (born February 11, 1968) is an American writer, animator, voice actor, and creator of children's books. His television work includes creating the animated television series Sheep in the Big City for Cartoon Network as well as working on Sesame Street, The Muppets, and The Off-Beats. Some of his books include:

Student Pick (Series) I love reading this series because it’s mysterious and the action in it makes you curious to see what will

happen next. Each book in the series leaves you with a cliff hanger, so you want to read the next book.

Amy Dougherty (6D)

General Fiction Junior Fiction General Fiction Junior Fiction

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General News & Messages

Please contact library staff if you have time available to help us cover books, put resources away and tidy shelves during Term Two.

Harmony Day Display Term One, 2020

Vanessa Tuck and Jean Forsyth (Resource Centre Staff)