the waffle - booyal central state school · 2020-01-13 · hollier will be working 3 days a week....

Our 2017 focus is reading, reading and more reading!

31620 Bruce Highway, MS 71, BOOYAL Q 4671 Phone (07) 41 260 177 Fax (07) 0741260181

Principal: Mrs Dawn Dolinski E-mail: [email protected]

The ‘WAFFLE’ Issue 8: 24th November 2017

Our vision: We aim to improve the world, one Booyal student at a time, by challenging and

supporting every student to reach their absolute potential in learning and behaviour whilst

encouraging them to demonstrate an enthusiastic ‘can do’ attitude, care for each other,

contribute positively to the wider world, dream big, think ‘outside the box and have a healthy

dose of fun along the way!

Hello everyone,

Term 4 has well and truly whizzed by. It is all systems go around here at the moment,

completing assessments & getting ready for the end of term activities. The countdown is

on!

:

Stalls On Election Day: Election Day is tomorrow, (25th November).

Emma and Jamie will have their Booyal Bunyip Entrepreneur’s stalls,

selling wonderfully handcrafted key rings and feather hat pins.

Both products are selling like hot cakes so get in soon, either to purchase or order.

Keyrings are $3 and most hat pins are $3.50. Both are extremely well made and

would make lovely, affordable Christmas presents.

Stubby coolers and school glasses will also be on sale for the discounted price of

$2:50 each, as well as P&C raffle tickets. The few remaining joke DVDs will be

available for the cost of a donation; they make great Christmas gifts.

High School Induction: Year 6 students will attend high school next

Monday and Tuesday on their orientation program. We wish them all well

and hope they thoroughly enjoy a taste of life in the ‘big school.’ This is a

very exciting time for them and their families. Those six years of primary

school just flew by!

Attachments: (1) Swimming payment reminder/McDonald’s permission form

Here is a list of upcoming bits and pieces for your attention. Pleae read.


Swimming Payments Due: Thank you to everyone who has already

paid their swimming fee(s). Please ensure that all accounts are

settled no later than the last Tuesday of term, (5th December),

so that Ms Day can finalise the accounts.

Free Treat After Swimming: Please sign and return the attached

form giving permission for your child/ren to have a free

McHappy Meal after their final swimming lesson. Thanks to Mr

Pelusi for organising this treat.

Awards & Graduation Evening: A graduation ceremony will

be held in the undercover tennis courts, like last year, on

Tuesday 5th December, commencing at 6 p.m. The

formalities will be followed by a shared supper. Please bring a plate, if you are able.

School Play: The following evening, Wednesday 6th December, you are

invited to Mrs D’s room to see the children perform a hilarious play

called ‘The Amazing Adventures Of Super Stan.’ They have worked

very hard and whilst (in all honesty) it is not perfect (yet and possibly

won’t be on the night either!) we are sure that you will really enjoy it. Please come

along, support the students and have a good laugh. A free sausage sizzle will be

available beforehand, from 5 p.m. Please let a staff member know if you, family or

friends are coming along.

Students are allowed to stay back after school on that day. We will supervise, feed

and get them in costumes etc. so that we can start by 6:00 p.m.

Visitors: On Wednesday 6th December we will be visited by

the AVA Pet representatives (a vet and council worker) and

Mark from S.E.A.T (spinal injuries awareness). Parents and

younger siblings are most welcome to join us.

Hervey Bay Excursion: …and the fun continues!

On the last Thursday of term we will all travel

to Hervey Bay to visit the water park and

historical village. This will be a free trip with a

Subway lunch provided by the Project Club.

The events the Project Club committee have

organised this year, and which all families have

supported, have raised the funds for this

treat. Well done! Permission forms have been sent home.

Reports & Teacher Meetings: Reports will be sent home in the

last week of school. If you would like an end of year parent-

teacher meeting please contact Mrs Hollier or Mrs D to

organise a mutually convenient time.


Picnic Day: Friday 8th December is Picnic Day. This is always a

really enjoyable day, organised by P&C and school staff. Parents

and family members are welcome to come along and join in the fun.

A ventriloquist will perform from 9:30 a.m. His puppets look

extremely cute. The day will be full of games and fun activities,

as well as a free sausage sizzle lunch. More details will follow.

Christmas Decorations: Mrs D’s students will decorate the classroom

next week to get us in the mood for the festive season. This will be

the first time we have really titillated things up since I have been

here so I hope the children get involved and enjoy it. Donations/a

loan of any Christmas decorations would be very much appreciated.

Booklists will be sent home next week and also uploaded onto our website,

in case you misplace them during the holidays.

Spelling Lunch: Congratulations to Term 3’s super spellers!

Danita, Emma, Kaylah & Jessica (Warren) scored 95% or over in

their spelling tests so will be invited for lunch with Mrs Vaughan

and Mrs D, whilst Clinton, Deklyn, Jessica (Mandrek) and Leeroy

earnt themselves a treat of their choice from the bakery by

scoring between 90 – 95%. Well done everyone!

School Leadership Positions: Elections were held today. Thanks

to everyone who nominated and congratulations to our school

leaders to 2018.

School Captain: Mary Vella

Sports Captain: Clinton Warren

Project Club President: Jamie Carter

Project Club Secretary: Mary Vella

Project Club Treasurer: Clinton Warren

Reading Results: Mrs Savage tested reading progress. The results show that our students

are overwhelmingly reading and comprehending above the level expected for their age and

have continued to make improvements this semester. The Daily Rapid Reading program

definitely makes a real difference to every child in every subject. Hopefully, we will be

able to fund this program again next year.

Some recent happenings……


- In Week 2 we welcomed Mrs Hollier back from her exciting African adventure.

Everyone enjoyed seeing a variety of photographs and listening to her reliving some

amazing experiences.

- Prep Induction: Next year’s Prep students are already getting their first taste of

school. Mrs Hollier has organised a range of activities to introduce them to their

new friends and school routines.

- It rained ..and rained…and rained some more. The tanks are full.

Maintenance & New Works: The facilities department will install two new tanks near

the tennis courts during the holidays. Thanks to P&C for purchasing one of those

tanks. They will also build, (hopefully by the start of Term 1), an outdoor chess

board outside Mrs D’s room. The bore behind the shop will be repaired. A lot of our

water comes from there and due to damage with the bore and casing there has been

no end of problems in the past year or so. Fingers crossed that this next lot of work

will solve things, once and for all.

Students left: Doc and Delaney left to start a new school. We wished them well.

Sports Coach: Over the past few weeks the children have benefitted from expert

Futsal coaching from Mrs Fiona Stevenson. Thanks to Mr Pelusi for organising the

funding for this. There is some money left over which will be spent on sports

equipment. Fiona will, hopefully, return next year.

Hitting The Right Note: Earlier in the

term, Mary and Danita enjoyed two days

in Bundaberg. They were from one of ten

participating schools at this year's

Intermediate String Workshop, held at

Bundaberg South State School. Whilst

Danita practises regularly at home, she

enjoyed the opportunity to play with over

60 other students. Mary found learning

the three pieces quickly a challenge,

however knows the two days made her a

better and more confident player. The girls are pictured here with the conductor,

Miss Kate. Both girls are to be complemented on their behaviour and efforts over

the two days. They are a fine example of Booyal students doing their ‘Booyal Best'.

Other happenings this term…..


World Teachers’ Day: The students acknowledged and thanked Mrs Hollier and Mrs

Ilett for their work and dedication on World Teachers’ Day. At our school, teacher

aides also have a huge role in teaching; something that is pretty special and of great

benefit to the children. We have a wonderful team whose influence goes beyond

school work in the classroom as they support and guide our students and help equip

them for a bright future. It is my privilege to work with such a special

professionals.

Earn & Learn: Thanks to community support we had over 10,000

Earn & Learn points to spend. As discussed at P&C, they were used

to purchase some sand pit machinery; a John Deere excavator, tip

truck and digger, as well as a Spiro (computer coding/programing

gadget) and other everyday pieces of classroom stationery.

Yesterday Project Club organised a chess afternoon for all

ages. Practice makes perfect so we are getting better all the

time! Thank you to everyone who made a gold coin donation.

Recent excursions have been to the Life Education Van at Wallaville State School, a fun

ObstaCOOL Day at Dalarnill, a Snakes Down Under trip for Mrs Hollier’s class, swimming

lessons for everyone and the Grade 6 students experienced a day at Isis District State

High School. Many thanks to Bendigo Community Bank in Gin Gin for covering the cost of

the Life Ed trip.

Students have been out and about over the past few weeks.


Remembrance Day: A solemn Remembrance Day service was held at school for

Remembrance Day. Mrs Hollier and school captain, Jessica, also represented our school at

a community service in Childers on Saturday 11th November.

Leadership Day: Most students in Years 4 – 6 participated in a leadership day at Bucca

Retreat, along with students from Cordalba and Dalarnill State Schools. This was the third

day of a program that ran throughout the year, teaching team work, communication,

problem solving and resiliency skills.


- We currently have 25 students enrolled. Based on predictions for next year, Mrs

Hollier will be working 3 days a week. If more students enrol by Day 8 this will

change. At this stage we plan on running the students as one class. Mrs Hollier will

primarily be responsible for teaching subjects such as Science, History &

Geography, (perhaps also Art and Technology). Mrs Vaughan, Mrs Kovacs and I will

teach literacy and numeracy based lessons to all students. Having said that, staffing

is still ‘up in the air’ since we never know our exact numbers until Day 8 of the new

school year. Stay tuned!

Thank you to everyone who has sold and returned raffle tickets. We

appreciuate your support. Please return any sold OR unsold tickets no

later than Friday 1st December (next Friday). Thank you. Thanks also to

everyone who has donated prizes for the hamper. More donations are

needed and will be greatly appreciated.

Supplies of some uniforms are very limited, especially the smaller sizes.

If you need shirts for next year please see a P&C member by next

Friday (1st Decmber) so that an order can be submitted.

Looking Ahead To 2018


The Preps and Year 1s and Year 2s have been having a wonderful time challenging

themselves to try new experiences and learn about the natural world. Thanks to our

wonderful parents and grandparents who assisted in transporting us on our excursions.


English how to use speech marks properly

how to write a letter to the future, incorporating a sense of time and place

we read traditional stories and learnt how to write them

what morals are

what ellipses are and how they can sometimes help make our writing better

“I lount abount speling” (Oh dear!! …he’s a work in progress! )

how to persuade people

about suffixes and prefixes

that if the word won’t fit I must write it on the next line

how to change a poem into a story

the different parts of a story

that planning your writing is important – Mrs D says we must ‘P on the paper’: P1, P2 etc. to

write notes about our paragraphs before we write

we turned ‘Fur & Feathers’ (a Banjo Paterson poem) into a story

how to write neatly and remember to use capital letters

what a metaphor is

how to do joined up writing

all about contractions

that it’s hard to wrote a newspaper article well

what a homonym is - words that are spelt the same but pronounced differently and mean

different things

when you write formally you don’t use contractions – it’s posh writing

Maths how to add fractions and Roman numerals

how to turn a fraction into a percentage

how to turn improper fractions into proper fractions

how to times three digit numbers without doing the full sum

how to do difficult times tables

how to multiply decimals the easy way

I am a better problem solver

I almost know all of my times tables off by heart

how to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000….it’s easy!

what line graphs are and how to plot them

how to stay in the boxes in my Maths book

the symbol for ‘about’ – it’s like the equals sign but the top line is a bit wavy

how to do sums quickly

how to do division sums

how to continue patterns and figure out the missing number in patterns

how to do long division – extremely hard ones!

What I Learnt Last Term


History a lot about Henry Parkes

Federation

that convicts were whipped with the cat-o-nine tails

I learnt a lot about convicts

convicts travelled by ships from England

Henry Parkes had three wives – the last one was only 23 and he was eighty something. He died

soon after he married her.

Henry Parkes is called the Father Of Federation

that to federate means to unit – the colonies united

that the constitution is a set of rules our country follows

all about the First Fleet – there were 11 ships

all about the olden days

that Henry Parkes was on the $5 until a few years ago

that ife in the olden days was hard work

Science that they had periscopes in World War 1

that if light cannot reflect off an object you cannot see it

how day and night happen

how long it takes the Earth to rotate and how long it takes to orbit the Sun

that the Sun is really just a big fat ball of gas that doesn’t move. It gives us heat and light and is in

the centre of the solar system\how to get light through a maze of mirrors

all about light and light rays

about refraction and shadows

the order of the planets and a little rhyme to help remember them

that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates at the same time

that light travels in straight lines

that Earth rotates on its axis

how to make a periscope

how to use mirrors to reflect light to a different place

Other how to use a 3D printer and how to draw better

more German words

healthy recipes and learning that if you east too much non healthy food you get fat

what a ‘zoom’ is – an upside down hat with a dot after it and it is worth 6 beats in music

how to make ‘stuff’ with the 3D printer

how to dribble a ball, climb, play a ukulele, be a good friend and do the Mexican wave

that the word ‘sport’ in German is spelt s-p-o-r-t but pronounced differently

We made wooden coasters with patterns put on by hitting nails on them.

how not to get distracted


Mr and Mrs Horner are chasing two items to help students across all

year levels develop their confidence and understanding of music theory.

Bottle caps from milk bottles etc. for use with staff work would be

awesome..and old plastic letters, preferably capitals, that use to have magnets (but don't need these

anymore) for sorting the Music alphabet from general alphabet would be wonderful! Please bring

these to school and Danita will happily hand them onto her parents.

AND FINALLY……

“What did you really enjoy doing in the wet weather?”

Milton: playing in the sand, making holes

Zayde: going out in the playground

Beau: being outside starting the tractor

Callum: jumping in mud puddles

Keenan: riding my bike in the puddles – going fast

Lucia: playing cards

Hayley: running through the rain then going inside with

dirty footprints

Jessica: playing the WII, board games and riding my bike through puddles, getting dirty

Aliyah: spraying Jayden and Keenan with mud off my quad bike

Charlie: playing board games, the WII and watching TV

Danica: playing Monopoly

Danita: colouring in and reading a book

Gypsy: playing the DS and watching movies on the TV

Mason: watching TV and playing video games

Deklyn: watching TV, movies and listening to the radio

Leeroy: watching TV and listening to the radio

Clinton: riding my pushbike

Jamie: swimming

Jayden: running around in the rain

Mary: crawling under my bed and reading

Kaylah: riding my bike and stomping in puddles

Jessica: riding my pushbike through puddles

Mrs D: the new Richard Branson book + chocolate = very happy teacher!

DIARY DATES

9 a.m. Mondays Parade

Monday 27th & Tuesday 28th November High School Orientation – Year 6

Tuesday 5th December Graduation/Awards Night

Wednesday 6th December AVA Pets & S.E.A.T visitors

Wednesday 6th December School Play

Thursday 7th December Hervey Bay Water Park excursion

Friday 8th December Picnic Day – last day of term


Photos of recent award recipients, GOTCHA winners and students of the week will be sent

home next week.

Keep smiling,

Dawn

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