Principal’s Messages

Last week saw us learning about snakes, spiders, and all

things deadly with Mark from Deadly Australians and we

had a great time. Not only did we all get to take a Deadly

Australian poster home, Mark also kindly donated a

fabulous book to our library “Wildlife of North

Queensland” where the Yellow Faced Snapping Turtle,

only found in the Bowen River and Burdekin Dam, is

listed as endangered. Students also completed a hectic

round of sports offerings on our Cluster Carnival Day on

Friday with students accessing the Lawn Bowls Club,

Soccer, Touch and Frisbee Golf and as always Scottville

students had fun and conducted themselves in an

exemplary manner. We’re proud to be seen and green!

It’s BOOK WEEK and Scottville State School has

embraced all things Pirate and Treasure orientated, as

this is the theme for the 2018 celebration of reading and

literacy. Come along on Thursday to see our parade on

Thursday morning, 23rd August, when Kindy children

will join us for fabulous stories and activities. Book Fair

is on in our “shipshape” library from this Thursday until

next week Wednesday, before and after school and at

lunch breaks. It’s great for our growing readers and has

lots of gift ideas to share the love of a good book or find

out fantastic facts in the non-fiction offerings, along with

activity sets and novelty items. Stories will be told in our

magical story tent!

Our Family and Community School Celebration BBQ is

on again next week, August 30th Thursday evening, we

look forward to sharing all of our student efforts with

everyone as we relax at the Collinsville Bowls Club from

5:00 p.m. Please let the school know numbers of

attending family members so the Club can cater

appropriately. We would love to share the great successes

our students and teachers. It’s the teamwork that makes

things happen.

Science Week saw our senior class attend Collinsville

State High School to participate in a range of

experiments and this week Anna Reeves conducted

experiments with our P-2 and 3-4 classes making sherbet

and kinetic sand.

THE SCHOOL OPINION SURVEY began on 27th of

July and close on the 24th of August. Parent letters have been sent home and you can access the website on any

smartphone, computer or iPad etc. Please feel free to ask

for assistance if required. If you have not received a letter contact the school and another can be provided.

SHOUT OUTS

Having a birthday in August are :

27th - Kyra.

SHOUT OUTS:

To all our volunteers who work

behind the scenes in the classroom,

our P & C, the tuckshop people,

and our community sponsors.

We thank you.

IMPORTANT DATES

P & C Meeting 5th September 2018

@ 2.45pm in RATCH lab in the hall.

READ EVERY DAY it’s a great way to exercise your brain!

REMINDER: Students require all resources to engage fully with 8 subjects in the Australian Curriculum. If you are

having trouble providing resources, please contact the

school ASAP. Have you asked your child

ATTENDANCE

It is a parent's responsibility to ensure that their child attends school on time, every school day for the educational program in which he/she is enrolled. Attendance includes all times from commencement of class until the end of the school day. At Scottville State School class commences at 8:30 a.m. and finishes at 2:30 p.m. More information: http://education.qld.gov.au/everydaycounts/

Attendance Matters: Please contact the school and let us know if your child will be absent. Every Day Counts. Our goal is 95%

Our attendance Year to Date is 93.5% Remember we have an Attendance Award every week which entitles the winning child to a $5.00 voucher for Tuckshop.

DIGITAL NEWSLETTER STARTS IN TERM 3.

Today, we are trialling sending our newsletter electronically. If you wish to have a hard copy, please see Mrs Sawyer in the office. There will always be hard copies in the office for you to access at any time. The newsletter will also still be available on our website and on our Facebook page. Speed and convenience of reading on the go!

Yours in Education Vanessa Boal

Principal

Be Respectful Be Responsible

Be Safe Be Committed to Learning

KEEP UP TO DATE:

Issue 3 - T3 – 23rd August 2018

Education Queensland Updates:

A MUST READ FOR ALL PARENTS

Policy and Procedures

All state schools must follow the procedures and policies

set out by the Department of Education and the

Queensland Government. It is therefore important for

parents and carers to understand that schools have

limitations to what services it can provide and the

responsibilities that are the parents are different to those

that are the schools. While departmental information is

shared on enrolment that information may no longer be

current as legislation and policies are updated over time.

Here are a few of the key policies that affect daily school

life.

School Attendance

It is a parent's responsibility to ensure that their child attends school on time, every school day for the educational program in which he/she is enrolled. Attendance includes all times from commencement of class until the end of the school day. At Scottville State School class commences at 8:30 a.m. and finishes at 2:30 p.m. More information: http://education.qld.gov.au/everydaycounts/

Schools are obliged to address unexplained or unsatisfactory absences or patterns of absences for example; when a student is absent for three or more consecutive school days, where there is a persistent pattern of unexplained absences or absences without reasonable excuses or where a student’s attendance is reasonably considered unsatisfactory. IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Parents may be prosecuted if they do not fulfil their legal

obligations concerning enrolment and attendance of

their child at school.

Absences

Absence notification process

Please remember to call the school on 07-47855288 or email at admin@scottvilss.eq.edu.au early in the morning if your child is going to be away or late for school so your child’s absence can be recorded correctly.

The safety and wellbeing of students are the highest priorities for the department. Parents need to know if their child hasn't turned up for school, and schools need to know when and why a child is absent. A parent should contact the school to notify if a child is not attending school because of a valid reason. State schools are required to notify parents on the same day that any student is absent from school without explanation.

Each parent has the legal obligation to ensure that the

young person is participating full-time education,

unless the parent has a reasonable excuse. Students

who are or will be absent from school for more than 10

days (e.g because of illness or family holidays) must

request or apply for an exemption. Principals may

approve exemptions only where there is a valid reason.

Before School

Scottville State School hours for student supervision are only during these times by staff; 8:00 a.m. until at 2:45 p.m. For child safety and well-being students, on arrival at or after 8:00 a.m. students are situated under A and B Block and may participate in handball, reading or complete homework. As staff are limited and busy with school tasks at this time, children will be restricted to this area until the class bell rings at 8:25 a.m. Leaving school / after school

If people other than those listed on your child’s

enrolment are to collect children from school, the

parents or legal guardian must contact the school prior

to the child being collected to make arrangements and

proof of identification may be requested if the newly

designated carer or responsible person are people

unknown to the school. This is a matter of child safety

and well-being that parent who are late or unable to

collect their own children contact the school urgently to

make other arrangements before staff leave the office at

2:30 p.m.

Yours in Education Vanessa Boal

Principal

Be Respectful Be Responsible

Be Safe Be Committed to Learning

KEEP UP TO DATE:

Aye’ - come in my Matey’s and come

and see our treasure chest of books on

display for your gandering and

purchase. Come or walk the plank for

great bargains to be had by all.

A sea of reading trinkets are also on

display for sale for you to purchase

with your gold coins starting on

Thursday 23rd August at 8 am.

BOOK FAIR TIMES

8.00 - 8-30am

10.45 - 11.10am

1.15 - 1.30pm

2.30 - 3.00pm

Year 3 - 4

PREP - 2

Year 5 - 6

Congratulations to Claudia who

won the science prize of a Glow in

the Dark Bug keychain.

Last year the P-2s sowed our front garden with sunflowers. We grew a wonderful

garden and harvested the seeds. Today we planted the sunflower seeds that we

harvested! Hopefully we can grow hundreds of sunflowers this year.

Year 3 - 6 experimented with Chemical Changes in the kitchen for science. Definitely delicious results so far. A special shout out to Mrs Kelly, Mrs Laidlow and Ms Boal

for the donation of their equipment.

Our student council

voted to participate

in the campaign of

“Fiver for a Farmer’

to help drought

stricken farmers.

Students and staff

dressed as farmers

for the day and

raised $270.00

towards this great

fundraiser. Great

community spirit is

alive at Scottville.

HPE with Mr Mitch Baskett

Don’t forget to download your child's class Dojo App

directly to your phone or computer to get updated

information on what your child is doing in the

classroom. Your child would have brought home a

number to put in once the App is installed. If your not

sure how to do this, your child’s teacher will be more

than happy to help you with this.

Congratulations to

Cooper who was

successful at the

J.D.S. Tennis

Tournament for 2018 in

Proserpine and came

away with the

Runner-Up

Trophy for Division 5.

Well done Cooper.

CARNIVAL SPORTS DAY

Our Glencore carnival day was a

huge success. Lots of fun was had

by all schools involved. Lawn Bowls,

Golf , Frisbee Golf and Soccer were

just some of the great activities on

the day that were available for

students to participate in.

Thank you to sponsors

Congratulations to our selected

students Karmen, Claudia, Clay,

Cooper and Ivan who participated in

the Whitsunday Trials in Bowen on

Monday 20/08/18. Each student

showed great stamina and ability

when competing along with excellent

sportsmanship to their team and

other school competitors.

Congratulations to Clay who was

selected to compete as a Whitsunday

team representative at the NQ Trials

for Shotput on 4th September in

Townsville. Clay placed first in Shot

Put at the Whitsunday trials.

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BE SAFE BE RESPONSIBLE BE RESPECTFUL BE COMMITTED TO LEARNING

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

REMINDER: GREEN BAGS EVERY DAY!!!!!!!

Students of the Week T3 W5

Sione, Jayme-Lee, Karmen, Kyra and Ben

Students of the Week T3 W6

Tyler, Kingston, Matthew and Emily

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Look out for our raffle �ckets in a

50litre Big Bear esky filled with drinks and

snacks on sale for $1.00 each from this

Thursday a ernoon at IGA and the

Pit Pony Tavern, as well as before and

a er school at the gate .

Next Meeting date: Wednesday - 5th September 2018

Where: SSS - RATCH Lab Time: 2.45pm

Previous minutes are available in the office for your perusal

YOUR P & C COMMITTEE 2018

President: Lyn West

Vice President: Natasha Colls

Secretary: Karla Fisher

Treasurer: Susan Carmody

Tuckshop: Belinda Kelly

URGENT

NO TUCKSHOP IF

NO-ONE VOLUNTEERS

Please note that there will be NO

Tuckshop for the rest of term unless

more volunteers are available to help.

The same few parents do it every week

and we are very grateful to them. We

have 32 families at our school

community. A community who works

together, stays together.

Please give 2 hours of your �me and

give them a break.

Please see Lyn West if you can help.

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Thankyou to our tuckshop volunteers

Sam Swan and Amanda Honnery.

These people are community members

who volunteer their �me.

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Thank you Emma Fisher,

Susan Carmody and Lyn West for

manning our Colour Run booth, so

much fun and loved seeing so many

Sco3ville State School community

there.

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Cricket day is fast approaching please

get involved in our last fundraiser for

the year .

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Thankyou to our Bacon Busters

Bartenders Karen Brunker,

Tammy Brown, Sharon Bromley ,

Hayley Drinkwater, Heather Brown,

Vanessa Boal, Lyn West,

Susan Carmody and Karla Fisher .

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Term 3 – 2018 Scottville State School

Week

Monday Tuckshop Day

Tuesday Instrumental Music Day

Wednesday Thursday Friday

6 August 20th Prep Trans 11am - 2.30pm Book Fair Week →

August 21st No Instrumental Music Science with CSHS P-4

August 22nd →

August 23rd Instrumental Music Book Week Dress Up Kindy visit SSS →

August 24th Daffodil Day →

7 August 27th Prep Trans 11am - 2.30pm

August 28th August 29th Yr. 5-6 visit Kindy Yr. 6 transition –HPE 1.30-2.30pm

August 30th Meet & Greet BBQ

August 31st 1st Sept - P&C Cricket Day 2nd Sept - Fathers Day

8 September 3rd Prep Trans 11am - 2.30pm P & C Meeting Smart-e week (Cyber Safety week) →

September 4th →

September 5th →

September 6th P - 2 Kindy Visit 9.30am to 10.30am →

September 7th Footy Colours Day 8th - Mrs Laidlow B’ Day →

9 September 10th Kookaburra Show Prep Trans 11am - 2.30pm Energy Week →

September 11th →

September 12th Yr. 5-6 visit Kindy Yr. 6 transition Visual Arts 1.30-2.30pm GO in →

September 13th →

September 14th Prep - 2 Sleepover 15th - Tentative →

10 September 17th Prep Trans 11am - 2.30pm

September 18th September 19th A+ Day

September 20th September 21st Carnival Day Last day of Term 3