MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

5C TIP OF THE WEEK

SCHOOL CALENDAR

28

Feb Active School Travel

2

Mar Interschool Sport

7

Mar Active School Travel

9

Mar Interschool Sport

SCHOOL WATCH - 13 17 88

SCHOOL RULES

Our School Rules are: Be safe Be responsible Be respectful Staying safe at the toilets Toilets are not play areas Paper is not to be wasted Flush the toilet after use Wash hands after use Turn taps off

Commitment Be ready to begin classes by: Being organised Have water bottle filled,

pencil, ruler and rubber out

I recently announced the names of our school captains for this year. This week I am very happy to announce and congratulate our house captains, music and chess captains as well as our chaplaincy and special education representatives. House Captains Bowen: Liam Fogarty and Isabella Franco Lavarack: Owen Karlsson and Lydia Martin Wilson: Daniel Gogov and Priya Thaivarayan House Vice Captains Bowen: Tom Reiger and Kameryn Bray Lavarack: Luke O’Sullivan and Jayda Henderson Wilson: Lachlan Smith and Ellouise Richards Chess Captain: Sidney Marshall Vice Captain: Henry Grosser Chaplaincy Representatives: Zoe Carden and Tara Hill Special Education Representatives: Jaye Palframan (rep) and Christopher Wald-Spalding (vice rep) We will soon have our Student Council Representatives to announce. Our badge presentation ceremony will be conducted on Thursday 8 March at 6.30 in the hall. Anthony Gribbin Principal

THIS WEEK—THINK HARD

Think Hard Write all of the palindromic

numbers from 200 to 300. Three times my number

minus 8 is equal to my number plus 6.What is my number?

The perimeter of a rectangle is 42cms. Each side is a counting number of centimetres.

How many different areas are possible for this triangle

Ph: (07) 3421 6222 Student Absences: (07) 3421 6260 Email: admin@hollparkss.eq.edu.au

DATE CLAIMERS

What: Senior Disco

Who: Years 4-6

When: Friday, 9th March 2018

Time: 6:00pm, - 7:30pm

Where: School Hall

Parent Information Evening

Monday 19 March 2018

6:00pm—7:00pm

Venue: HPSS Library

Theme: ACCEPTANCE: Diversity and Equality

MESSAGE FROM THE DEPUTY PRINCIPAL

Daily Maths Routines-Rapid Recalls Skills Recently I spoke to you about our key maths strategy- Daily Maths Routines Rapid Recalls. You can help support your child by practising daily mental computation at home, in the car and any other time conversations around maths can fit into the real world. Some of the key skills that may be developed using daily routines include:

Sense of the relative size and value of very large and very small numbers Operational sense –understanding links between operations and how to use them Fluency (efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility) Good intuition about numbers and their relationships-estimating, reasonableness

of numbers Reasoning-thinking outside the square, using higher order thinking Problem Solving Mental computation

Please see below some ideas to try when talking or using maths at home. Manipulatives We learn by moving from the concrete to the abstract. The meaning isn’t in the manipulatives themselves – it has to be constructed by children over a period of time, through playing around with them and connecting them directly to mental and recorded calculation. Talking about their work The quality of the maths talk is important. It is not simply children sharing how they did a particular calculation, but describing why and how it worked, and how their method is the same or different to those of others. In other words, giving children opportunities to use those higher-level skills of comparing, explaining and justifying. Being able to solve a problem in more than one way, therefore, reveals the ability and the predilection to make connections between and among mathematical areas and topics'. Consolidation in meaningful contexts By offering children practice in context we help them to make links between the types of situations that a particular strategy might suit. Mathematical memory is different from just memorising. Mathematical procedures cannot be "forgotten over the summer" because they are based in a web of connected ideas about fundamental mathematical relationships. Excerpt -Developing Number Fluency - What, Why and How Stage: 1 and 2-Article by Lynne McClure -published April 2014. Leigh Harrod Deputy Principal

AST BIKE AND SCOOTER SKILLS TRAINING SESSIONS

As part of our Active School Travel Program, we are offering Bike

Safety Training sessions for our year 4-6 and Scooter Training

Sessions for our Prep Students. This training has been made possible

by a successful Brisbane City Council grant submission by our Active

School Travel parent group last year.

Bike Safety Skills Training

When: Tuesday March 22nd

Grade: 4, 5 & 6

Time: 9:30-11am

Cost: FREE

Location: School Oval

Student Requirements: Students are to bring your own bike and helmet

Please find the attached Brochure at the end of the newsletter, parent consent

form are to be returned to the Admin office before Friday 9th March, Late entries

will not be accepted.

Scooter Safety Skills Training

When: Tuesday March 27th

Grade: PREP

Time: All Day

Cost: FREE

Location: School Hall

Student Requirements: Students are to bring your own scooter and helmet. If you need to

borrow one, please tick the box on the parent consent form.

ACTIVE SCHOOL TRAVEL

COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICER

2019 Enrolments

Enrolments for in catchment prep and siblings are now open.

QParents

Don’t forget to register for QParents. We would very much appreciate you registering absences via QParents, as this saves admin so much time each morning. If you haven’t registered or are having problems, please contact me.

Karen Oliver

Email: koliv33@eq.edu.au

SCHOOL PHOTOS

TUCKSHOP HELPERS NEEDED Helpers needed once a month on a Monday & Wednesday. Hours are 9am - 11.30am. If you can help out PLEASE txt Mel on 0408628800.

Helpers needed once a month on a Monday & Wednesday.

Hours are 9am - 11.30am. If you can help out PLEASE txt Mel on 0408628800.

School Photos

The school photos have been scheduled for Tuesday 13 March and Wednesday 14 March.

We will publish this schedule and more information in next week’s newsletter.

All photographs will be taken in the school hall with sibling photos beginning at 8:00am on both days.

CURRICULUM NEWS

CURRICULUM NEWS CONT’D

HPE NEWS

Cross Country Training We have had a fantastic response to our Cross Country training session this week with 171 students attending over the two training sessions. On behalf of all students attending training I would like to thank Mrs Moore for giving her time to support our students. Please remember to be there on time, have a hat and bring along your water bottles. Training sessions are Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 8.15am. We will monitor the weather and modify or cancel the training sessions as required. Coles Sports for Schools Thank you for the enormous support so far with vouchers collected over the last two weeks. This weekend Coles are offering double vouchers for every dollar spent. Let's go shopping!

PYM NEWS

2018 Chinese New Year . Year of the Dog

On Tuesday 20 February 2018 PYM celebrated Chinese New Year Year of the Dog.

PYM students created and designed their colourful vibrant dragons for their Dragon Dance .

Mr Danielewski our Deputy Principal greeted PYM families who came to the event .

PYM Student Oscar announced the Dragon Dance to PYM parents and grandparents.

Drums, cymbals tambourines and mascaras were heard in PYM classroom as PYM parents

and grandparents played a range of musical instruments to welcome PYM Dragons as they

performed their Dragon Dance. Students presented their dragons in a circular dance and

then performed individually dances.

PYM students wish all Holland Park families a safe and prosperous New Year.

SCHOOL BANKING

School Banking - Account Opening Day Holland Park State School is excited to offer the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program to all students. The School Banking program provides children with an opportunity to deposit money into their Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account at school each week. The program is about how often your child makes deposits, not how much they deposit. To encourage regular savings behaviour the program offers an exciting Rewards Program. Every deposit earns your child a Dollarmites token, and once they’ve collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for a reward. School Banking day is Wednesday. Each week you simply need to pop some money in your child’s yellow bank folder, complete the banking slip and ask your child to place their bank book in the grey banking bag available in each classroom. When a student first starts banking, they won’t have a student number – this is provided by the volunteer banking mums when they make their first deposit through the school. We will be holding an Account Opening Day at our school: Date: Wednesday, 28 February Time: from 8.15am Location: next to the playground near the Prep classrooms If you are interested in opening a Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account for your child please bring along your current driver’s licence or another form of photographic identification. Alternatively, you can open an account at your local branch. All you need to bring is your current identification as well as your child’s birth certificate. If you are an existing Commonwealth Bank customer and have NetBank, you can open an account online. If you would like to know more about School Banking, please ask for a 2018 School Banking program information pack from the school office.

Unfortunately we are again receiving reports regarding cars being parked across driveways

of neighbouring properties. Please consider all the residents around the school grounds and

their ability to drive in and out of their own properties without restriction.

Yellow lines on our roads are there for a reason and their message is very clear- do not park

there.

This week cars were parked all the way up Abbotsleigh Street up to and beyond the school

crossing making the area unsafe for our students and the crossing supervisor.

A final reminder is for everyone to wait for the crossing supervisor’s whistle before entering

the crossing. This is for both student and adult safety. Your cooperation in these matters is

appreciated.

ROAD SAFETY / CROSSING SAFETY

FRIDAY NIGHT CLUB

Unfortunately the weather was not kind and we had to cancel our first

club night for many years. Thanks to the parents who helped in the

canteen and cooked the BBQ, ensuring most of us didn’t have to cook

when we got home. If you are unable to get to the pool to nominate

for this Friday, I will carry over the nominations from last week, but the special will be the

100m Backstroke.

Only two more club nights before Age Championships, so make sure you nominate for the

next two weeks.

The Age Championships is run over 2 Friday nights. This is when the children get to swim

against their own age and gender. Medallions will be awarded on the night to the top three

times in each age group for both girls and boys. No finals will be swum. The night starts a

little later with warm-up at 5.30pm and racing from 6pm.

At the Age Championships, children 8 years and under swim only 25m events and 9 years

swim the four, 25m events plus a 50m Freestyle. Children 10 years and older swim the

four, 50m events, plus 100m Freestyle and the IM. The age of the swimmer for the

Championship is the age they are on Friday 9th March 2018.

The order of events this week are:- 13m/25m/50m, Backstroke, Butterfly, Breaststroke,

Freestyle, and the 100m Backstroke is the special race for the night. Nominations for club

night need to be in prior to 5.00pm Thursday.

WET’N’WILD CLUB BREAKUP

This is the Swim Club’s Annual Break-up fun day on Sunday, 25th March, 10am-5pm. The

cost per person is $34. Please pay cash or transfer the money to the Swim Club’s Account

using : WW family name as the reference. Payment is due by Wednesday 14th March for

Wet’N’Wild.

Please email - michelle.elsey@optusnet.com.au - when your transaction is completed and

state how many will be attending. For those families that already hold yearly passes please

send details of numbers attending, to Michelle’s email. Our allocated seating is at the “H2O

Area”.

DATES FOR THE DIARY Ron Hall Shield – 3rd March; Age Championships – 9th and 16th March; Trophy Night – 23rd March; Wet’N’Wild – 25th March.

SWIMMING CLUB

PAST STUDENTS

Mr Gribbin had the pleasure of attending the School Leaders

Induction Ceremony at Holland Park State High School on Thursday,

22 February where past Holland Park State School student Daelin Lis

was inducted as one of the School Leaders. Congratulations Daelin.

FROM THE FINANCE OFFICE

Please remember to utilize credits remaining from 2017

COMMUNITY NEWS

Worm Pee and Tea

Hello parents, teachers and students,

My name is Samuel James, I’m in year 5 in 5KJ. Recently I have started a business that I want to tell you about today. I noticed that mum and dad’s garden needed fertiliser so I spent some of my birthday money and bought a worm farm.

Every week the worms produce a natural by-product from digesting our food scraps. I bottle this natural worm pee and can sell it to you for your gardens at a cheaper and more environmentally friendly way to get your plants and grass looking healthy.

I present Worm Pee (worms don’t pee). You should buy my fertilizer as this is what Google says about worm pee –

Worm Juice is the liquid by-product of your worm farm, worm juice is a fantastic fertiliser.

Back to my business, Worm Pee and Tea: For only $1 you will receive 1 litre of undiluted worm pee. If you would like to order email samuel@jamesanz.com please note, email/s are checked once a week. We will wait outside the office on Friday to deliver 3:05pm to 3:15pm no delivery fees. I take pride in this work and want to make you happy w ith your purchase, we have 4 litres in supply per week.