Kentville State School Newsletter 33/Term 4 Week 6 15 November 2019

Our School Expectations: Be A Learner; Be Responsible; Be Respectful; Be Safe Independent Public School as of 2017

Dear Parents & Caregivers,

Welcome to week six—camp week! Lost Property We have an extraordinary amount of winter cloth-ing that needs to find a home. Unfortunately, none of the garments are labelled, therefore, if you think you’re missing some items, please feel free to come and collect them. Thank you, Cindy & Crew Last week, the P&C catered for a Christmas break up, which proved to be highly successful and profitable too. I’m always amazed, and inspired, by the relent-less commitment that our P&C has towards fund-raising, and more importantly, their intent, which is to improve the outcomes of all of the students in our school. Farewell to our Year 12 Students Today, we say farewell to our current cohort of year twelve students, throughout Queensland. We congratulate them for completing their school-ing and for graduating with their QLD Certificate of Education. Thank you, to all the teachers and support staff, who got these fine young citizens, across the line. School Improvements The latest technology is coming to Kentville, thanks to the P&C and their very generous dona-tion for a new interactive TV panel, iPads and new desktop computers. Our aim, is to ensure that our teachers are using the latest technologies , to enhance the learning opportunities of our students, and secondly, to make sure that our student ’s transition to high school, is seamless. We can only try, and thanks to the P&C, a vision has become a reality. Assessments have started! It’s that time again, when we ask that student at-tendance is a premium priority, as we head into a few weeks of assessments. Thanks for your sup-port. Quote of the Week

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” Nelson Mandela

Denny Taylor - Principal

From the Principal’s Desk

Weekly Awards

Calendar of Events

Parent-Teacher Interviews: Weeks 7 & 8 Rewards Days: Tuesday, 10 December (Bundamba Pool, Ipswich) & Friday, 13 December (Tenpin Bowling, Toowoomba) Year 6 Graduation Dinner: Wednesday, 11 December at the Gatton Bowls Club Lawn bowls starts at 5 pm. Dinner will start at 6 pm. P&C meeting: Friday, 22nd November, from 12noon

Chappy’s Corner

Junior Class: Charlotte, Claire, Harry, Isabella, Isiah, Joseph, Laila, Levi, Lilly, Mavrick, Thomas P-J, Tom A

Senior Class: Alisha, Amber, Cooper, Credence, Dean, Dwayne, Kayla, Jackson, Mackenzie, Liam, Mia, Peter, Phoenix, Shannon, Tiarna

Students of the Week

Parent Tips

Holly (P-3) - for consistently giving her best effort in all activities

Kiana (4-6) - for helping other students with their Japanese project

GREAT WAYS TO MANAGE SIBLING SQUABBLES

Michael Grose

Resolving conflict between siblings, between you and your children, or you and your partner requires skill, subtlety and self-control. It means that you need to have a range of responses at your fingertips rather than just rely on one or two strat-egies. Here are 5 emotionally-intelligent responses that you can call on to de-escalate family and sibling conflict: Stay calm When emotions are charged in a group, the leader will

be the person who stays calm. Families are no dif-ferent. Emotions can be charged. This is the time for parents to stay calm. Use a low, ‘Green’ tone of voice when you talk with kids. Your calmness is essential to de-escalate anger.

Use open-ended questions Ask open-ended questions to encourage others to share

their feelings about a situation. Say, “How can I help?” instead of “You seem angry”. Children and young people are calmer when they are teaching or explaining rather than being patronised.

Hear the feeling rather than see the behaviour Empathise with children’s feelings without accepting

their behaviour. There is nothing better than being understood so when they are upset try statements like “You have every right to be angry about that.” Avoid addressing the behaviour at this point. Choose a time when everyone is calm and ready to listen to talk about better ways of behaving.

Use selective listening In the heat of the moment children and young people,

like parents, will often say things they don’t mean. It’s easy to respond to the heated “I hate you” or other insults while ignoring the original problem when a child yells “You never listen….” Try clarify-ing by saying, “It seems that the last time we spoke wasn’t great for you.” Show interest, take the wind from their sails by agreeing, and don’t try to respond to everything someone says in anger.

S E E M O R E P I C S O F A C T I V E K I D S O N B A C K

If you would like your child to share some birthday cheer with classmates,

cupcakes are preferred.

Levi celebrated turning 8 on Tuesday, and Claire turns 7 today.

We have mountains of

LOST PROPERTY looking for home

When you go on a camp or excursion, a lot of planning and preparation has taken place. Not only the school staff, but the venue staff where the activity takes place have put in a lot of effort to make your experience enjoyable and educational. So it was great to see our kids getting involved. With all the different activities offered on camp, everyone had the opportunity to have fun, learn and share. I was very proud of the way Kentville Kids held up the standards of our school while out and about. Quotes Camp is the best therapy there is. I went to camp expecting to make friends, but ended up with family. I don’t need therapy, I just need to camp. Finally... camping in nature has abundant rewards.

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