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Email:Email: admin@camphillipss.eq.edu.auPhone:Phone: 07 3900 9333

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24 May Under 8s Fun Day

29 May – 2June

Chaplaincy Week/Spellathon Week

30 May ICAS Science Competition – SeniorCampus

30 May Year 3 Excursion

31 May Free Dress Day (Chaplaincy)

Principal’s ReportThis fortnight saw a lot of curricular and extracurricular activity,across the campus and at several off campus venues. Prepstudents explored sustainability with the team at ReverseGarbage; a group of students participated in extensionprograms off-campus; our choirs joined with the famousAustralian Voices in a combined schools choir; studentsthoroughly enjoyed their purchases of Mother’s Day gifts at theP&C stall (I know my mum loved her gifts); we had our first

school Movies on the Oval (with over 380 families attending);NAPLAN was completed for yet another year (with studentattainments released later this year); all of our students arepreparing for the Cross Country events; several studentsrepresented the school at District Sporting competitions;interschool sports commenced and Mother’s Day activitieswere a highlight for many classes.

During Week 6 our campus celebrates Under 8s Day with ourannual Fun Day. This special event brings together students,teachers and family members in a celebration of Early Yearslearning and the partnership between home and school. Thankyou to this year’s committee for their organisation of the event.

Our Step Up team is currently providing a Prep literacy boostprogram across all prep classes – using a range of talented andtrained support staff.

Earlier this year Mrs Annette Archibald retired after a virtuallifetime at Camp Hill – as a student, parent and staff member.Mrs Archibald was our library teacher aide for 30 years and overthat time contributed to thousands of students’ love of literacy.We wish her well in her retirement and will certainly continue tosee her on campus as a grandmother of a current student.

Recently I met with officers from Education QueenslandRegional Infrastructure, and a private consultant, to discuss therecent asbestos incidents at school. I am waiting for a reportfrom the consultant, which I will provide to the community.At this stage we will be: opening up the carpark in front ofthe dental building; leaving the banks on Wiles Street closedfor management of the erosion (not asbestos related) until weconfirm a plan to secure the banks; leave the area immediatelyoutside the School of Arts Hall (OSHC) secured while we waitfor the consultant’s recommendations. Thank you to everyonefor their patience during this time.

The school will commence automated SMS texting to familiesof students who are identified as Unexplained Absences on

the roll each day. Please ensure that you advise the schoolof your son/daughter’s absence by contacting the telephoneAbsence line (phone number 3900 9460 or email the school on(admin@camphillipss.eq.edu.au). This SMS system will ensurethat families are aware of any student unexplainednon-attendance in a timely manner.

Each afternoon our school tuckshop provides afternoon teato our students. I can highly recommend the products andam confident that families will appreciate the opportunity ofproviding their children with quality food after a busy schoolday.

Our school Stop Drop and Go zone is currently moving in anorganised manner and I would like to thank families for followingthe rules of the zone. Recently a young student was injured at aschool Drop Off zone, this incident has certainly highlighted theinherent safety issues associated with these high traffic areas.Please be patient when moving through the zone as the safetyof every Camp Hill student is our priority at all times.

As we move into the cooler months I encourage families toname all winter clothing. Clothes are being taken off, and puton, several times during the school day and we will alwaysattempt to return named items to their owners.

A reminder – please do not share photos of children taken atschool (other than your own) on social media. Some families donot agree to photos of their daughter/son being published onpublic websites.

I hope everyone is enjoying the fading autumn weather – wecan certainly feel the cooler weather approaching with greatspeed.

Best wishes

Deborah DriverPrincipal

Deputy Principal’s ReportOne of the roles of schooling is to help young people learnto socialise and get along with each other. Children learn andexperience the concept of friendship at an early age, as wellas the challenges different personalities can place upon eachother.

Children’s interactions and friendship groups can change fromday to day, often creating some anxiety, frustration andsadness for some or all parties. These moments are often shortlived, but do create a cause of concern for parents who aremanaging their child’s emotional state.

Many parents come and ask the school what they can do abouttheir child experiencing difficulties with friendship groups. Someresponses might be:-

Children will develop many friendships as they grow up andthese will change as their interests and personalities developand mature. With support from both school and home,children’s schooling should be fun and social.

School ParkingAs you are aware, there is limited closeparking around the school grounds. Pleasebe mindful of parking signage and road ruleswhen picking up or dropping off. A numberof local residents complain regularly whenour parents park across their driveways, making it difficult forthem to get in or out of their homes. Please be aware that theseresidents will photograph your number plates to send to thepolice and you will be fined. Please be respectful to all our localresidents.

• Find someone else to play with! Schools promotehaving a variety of friendship groups. Childrenshouldn’t rely on only one or two friends.

• Understand that it is alright for friends to have otherfriends. Some young children struggle with the ideathat they might have to share someone.

• ‘Tomorrow is a brand new day!’ In most caseschildren will have forgotten about the problems fromthe day before and everything will be back to normal,however, it is still good to suggest making otherfriends.

• No-one can force someone to be your friend. Gettingangry, saying things like, “I don’t like you!” or “Youcan’t play with us!” isn’t going to win friendship. Atthe other extreme, buying gifts, giving money, ‘givingin’ to another’s every want won’t necessarily result ina friendship.

• Children need to be themselves, act naturally and befriendly to others in order to earn friendship. Having asense of fun can also be a strong drawcard.

• More importantly, in most cases, children can oftenfind the solutions for themselves with some positivesupport from parents and educators. Sometimes it isnecessary to make a distinction between ‘children’sbusiness’ and ‘adult business.’ Children will learnmuch from solving a problem themselves withminimal adult intervention. Our Habits of Mindprogram helps students to do this very well.

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Library News

Premier's Reading Challenge

Have your children started reading for thePremier's Reading Challenge? Forms for allstudents in P-6 were given to classes lastweek. Please check your child's bag orcollect a spare copy from either library.

Reading Challenge certificates, collectedover several years and filed in a folder, are the sort ofdocuments your child can take to their interview for high school.Impress everyone by showing your commitment to lifelonglearning and participation!

Parent Borrowing

Our school library welcomes parents to borrow extra books.We have many simple readers for beginning readers to improvetheir confidence and increase fluency. Our parent library alsohas copies of parenting books on those tricky issues thatsometimes only a book will explain!

Storybox Library

Enjoy 148 Australian Children's stories readby Australians on your iPad, phone orcomputer. Our new school subscription,while more expensive this year, enables ourschool families to log on using our schoolaccount. Follow the link and instructions on our school libraryhomepage to enjoy this great resource. This is only to be usedby our school community. Please do not share with others.Username: chips. Password: storybox.

Coming Soon – Book Now!

Ipswich Art Gallery – Master Builder LegoWorkshops

Ipswich Art Gallery is holding LEGO® workshops with RyanMcNaught, the only certified LEGO professional in the SouthernHemisphere!

https://www.ipswichartgallery.qld.gov.au/kids/

Brisbane Makers Fest – STEM fun at The Edge, QldState Library

A range of exhibitions including makers and manufacturers,and pop-up primary and high school makerspaces promotingSTEM activities, Roving robots and more. Register online.

http://edgeqld.org.au/whats-on/brismakerfest/

Fun DayThank you to the hundreds of family members who joined inour school 2017 Fun Day. The annual celebration of Under8s Day continues to provide our students and their familieswith the opportunity to share hands on learning and experienceeducational innovations that they explore each day at school -including, coding, robotics and spheros.

The organising committee put numerous hours into theorganisation of this valued event.

THANK YOU

Habits of the MindIn his ‘20 Things We Should Say More Often’ presentation,Kid President offers some words of wisdom. Of particular noteis Number 15 ‘You can do it’, Number 14 ‘Before you saysomething about the barbecue sauce on someone else’s shirt,have a look at the barbecue sauce on your own shirt’ andNumber 2 ‘It is ok to disagree, but it is not ok to be mean!’ Theyear six students have made up some of their own ‘things weshould say more often’ to each other.

The children in the Junior Campus re-visited Olivia and OscarOrganisation. They are looking at setting goals, doing their bestand making sure they have enough time to get things done bynot wasting time.

Year 4 students are focusing on Habit Number 8 ‘Applying PastKnowledge to New Situations’. This habit reminds us to useknowledge and previous experiences when faced with a newsituation.

“It’s not whether you get knocked down;It’s whether you get up.”

Vince Lombardi (1913 – 1970)American Football Coach

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The students in Year 4 are engaging in activities which enablethem to better understand how this can be applied and howexperiences from our past can affect our future.

BRIDGING PAST KNOWLEDGE TO FUTURESITUATIONS

Creative Dance

CONCERT – Saturday 17th June

Come and see what groovy moves your child has learnt duringthe term in this their Creative Dance classes. The performancesession times will be as follows

Prep & Year 1 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Year 2 & 3 5:30pm to 6:30pm

Year 4, 5 & 6 7:00pm to 8:30pm

There is also a pre-order Pizza Meal Deal on Offer. The ticketand meal deal order form will be distributed to classes nextweek.

Sports News

Primary Campus Athletics Carnival

Our primary campus Athletics Carnival will be held in early term3. Students in Years 3-6 have been learning about athletics thisterm, to help them prepare for the carnival.

All students will have the opportunity to compete in an 80/100msprint, a team relay race and also tabloid event rotations.

Due to time restrictions, on the days of the carnival, it is notfeasible for all students to compete in all events. To compete inother events, students must qualify for them in their PE lessons.Students have the opportunity to qualify for the followingevents:

District Sporting Representative

Congratulations to Elyjah S who has gained selection in theU12 Lytton District Rugby Union side. A spectacular effortconsidering Elyjah is only turning 11 years old this year andtrialled against some of the best players from Churchie,Villanova and Iona. We wish him the best of luck in theupcoming Met East regional carnival.

District Representative Sport Opportunities

Students turning 11-12 years old in 2016 (born 2005-2006)are able to nominate to attend district sporting trials. These

trials are of a very high standard. They are a representativeopportunity and there are 33 schools in our district.

To be nominated, students should have current or pastinvolvement in that particular sport, or similar, and it issuggested they play in the highest division at their club.Students must be nominated by the school to attend becausewe are limited to numbers that we are able to send. For moreinformation, the district website is:

https://bulimbass.eq.edu.au/Extracurricular/Sports/Pages/Lytton-District-Sport.aspx

Sports to still have trials this semester are:

To register interest, please see Mr Bourke as early as possiblein the term.

Lunch Time Basketball Coaching

This term we are very lucky to have Spartans Basketballcoaches, running skills and development sessions for ourprimary campus students.

Sessions are run on the outdoor multi-purpose courts and areat first play break from 11:15-11:40am.

This term we see our Year 3, Year 5 and Year 6 students havingthis opportunity. Year 4 students will have the chance to beinvolved next term. Days are:

Numbers are limited to 30 students in each session.

Term 2 Sports Carnivals

Wednesday 7 June – P-2 Junior Campus Cross CountryCarnival:

Wednesday 7 June – Years 3-6 Senior Campus Ball GamesCarnival:

Monday 19 June – P-2 Infant Campus Sports Day:

Chaplaincy News

Legendary LEGO League

Chappy Mal has been running a focused LEGO play group withYear 2 students selected by teachers on Monday first break.All the LEGO groups are beginning work on a display for theBrisbane LEGO Fan Expo at the end of September. In secondterm LLL is on Fridays in the games room at both breaks(Years 3-6) but will move to Thursday in Semester 2.

• 8-9yr olds – 200m and 400m

• 10-13yr olds – 200m; 800m; Long Jump; High Jumpand Shot Put

• Golf and Girl’s Rugby League.

• Year 5/6 – Wednesdays

• Year 3 – Fridays

• Prep – 9:00-10:00am.

• Year 1 – 10:00-11:00am.

• Year 2 – 11:45am-12:45pm.

• All Year 3-6 students – 1:30-3:00pm

• 9:00-11:00am – Session 1 (Running races).

• 11:45am-12:30pm – Session 2 (Tabloids and fieldevents)

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Chappy Week

Chappy Week at CHSI&PS will be held on 29th May – 2ndJune. During that week there will be a morning tea for all staff,Free Dress Day (31st May) for a gold coin donation themed‘Colourful Kids’ and also the Annual Chaplaincy Spellathon.

Spellathon

The chaplaincy committee was so grateful for the way theschool community supported the online version of theSpellathon in 2016. Based on your feedback from last yearwe are hoping to make it even easier and more streamlinedfor you and your child and get involved. More details will bearriving very soon and, as always, anyone who would like tohelp with Chaplaincy events please contact us atcamphillchaplaincy@hotmail.com

P & C News

Mother’s Day Stall

Thank you to our wonderful convenor Denise Vincent and herband of volunteers and many congratulations. The Mother’sDay stall raised just over $5,000! This is amazing and we knowthe kids all loved shopping for their gifts.

Air Conditioning Update

Prep Green and Yellow – your air-conditioning is on its way!!Funds have been approved and we are currently liaising withthe school and contractors for an agreed installation timetable.

Funding has already been approved for the SEP room on theJunior Campus; however installation is dependent upon someadditional electrical works being undertaken. We will be keepingyou up to date with the progress.

For Year 1 and 2 blocks, again because of your generousdonations to the Building Fund, the air conditioning isunderway. This is a momentous project that the P&C andschool community has been working so hard for. We still needyour help to keep the work going and to also get the Years 1and 2 blocks done. Please click the link below and contributeto the Building Fund.

https://camphillipss.eq.edu.au/Supportandresources/Formsanddocuments/Documents/School%20forms/201702%20PC%20Building%20Fund%20Donation.pdf

Entertainment Books

Available now in the uniform shop. Orderonline for your hardcopy or digital version. So many discountsavailable for you to use.

https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/223190

Tuckshop Tidbits

We have added some nice warm nibblies toour Afternoon Tea menu. Open Mondays,Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridaysbetween 3.00pm-3:30pm for afternoon tea orders. You canpre- order through Flexischools and the cut-off time for the preordering for afternoon tea is 12:00pm.

https://camphillipss.eq.edu.au/Supportandresources/Formsanddocuments/Documents/School%20forms/Afternoon%20Tea%20Service.pdf

Remember from Term 3, there will be a small increase of 10cents per item across the entire menu in the Tuckshop, to coverthe increased costs from all our suppliers. This is the first priceincrease that we have had in 3 years.

SharynTuckshop Convenor

Uniform Shop News

The students are growing and we have soldout of Size 10 Shirts and Sports Polos.Stocks will be replenished shortly and allitems are available for backorder. Weapologise for any inconvenience…. Keep inmind we also stock very good 2nd handitems instore.

https://schoolshoponline.net.au/camphillipss

If you cannot make it to the shop, please email us, we arealways happy to help.

Uniform Shop trading hours are:

Tuesday and Thursday 8:15 – 9:30am under “D” Block,Senior Campus

Lee-Anne CurrieUniform Shop ConvenorEmail: uniforms@camphillpandc.com.au

OSHC News

Many new families to our service may not beaware that we have native bees on site atCamp Hill OSHC. The reason for this is that‘sustainability’ is embedded into ourprogram by both desire and in adherence toour regulated framework (which so many people are stillunaware we have). Our bees do from time to time provide uswith a delicious citrus infused honey, but their introduction toOSHC was for much bigger reasons.

The global bee population, including that in Australia, is inquite rapid decline. This is largely attributed to disease andpesticides. This is a much bigger problem than just a potentiallack of honey. Bees, both domestic and wild, are responsiblefor pollinating a staggering percent of both crops and wildplants. Their reduction has a very real threat on agriculture andeven the propagation of natural forest. It was with this chiefconsideration in mind that we acquired them.

Over the period of time we have had the bees, we have noticeda direct effect on our fruit and vegetable gardens. In additionto this, it has given staff an amazing opportunity to discusssymbiotic relationships that occur in nature and are oftenoverlooked. And yes, every now and again, delicious honey.

Angus Gorrie

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General

Carina C&K Kindergarten -Saturday 3rd June 2017

Carina C&K Kindergarten are holding theirOpen Day on Saturday 3rd June from 9am-12pm at 26 Arrowsmith Street, Camp Hill.Please email admin@carinakindy.org.au or phone 3398 4904 ifyou require further information. All Welcome!

Camp Hill Kindy Open Day - Saturday 3 June2017

Camp Hill C&K Kindy at 71 Wiles St, CampHill (next to the fire station) will be having anOpen Day on Saturday 3 June 2017 from10am to 1pm. We invite all families withfuture kindergarten children to come andenjoy the C&K experience. This morning is a great opportunityfor future families to meet the staff and other families, and tolearn about our kindergarten program. There will be activitiesavailable for children to enjoy and our beautiful playground toexplore. Waiting list enquiries are welcome and staff andcommittee will be available to answer any questions. Pleasebring your hat and water bottle. If you have any questionsplease email the centre on admin@camphillkindy.org.au.

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