A Letter to the

Community

SCHOOL NEWS No.14 26th May 2017

“Thought for the Week”

STILL WANTED – P&C President for 2 0 1 7

If you feel that you would like to lead this year’s P&C and achieve some great things for your school and your children, we need you! Please come along to the next P&C meeting, 20th June or let the school know of your interest.

Rathdowney State Primary School 143-155 Mount Lindesay Highway, Rathdowney 4287 Phone: (07) 5540 4333 Fax: (07) 5540 4300 Principal: Tina van Bennekom www.rathdownss.eq.edu.au

Bikers’ Morning Tea – 4 June

The P&C will be catering for a Brishogs Bikers’ visit to the school for morning tea on Sun-day, 4 June. We are expecting about 100 bikers and the P&C will need the help of as many of our parents as possible on the day. Notes asking for help were sent home with the students yesterday. Please fill in and return these forms ASAP or by Wednesday, 31st May, at the latest. We are looking for volunteers that morning to help set up, heat food, make sandwiches and prepare fruit and cakes and slices for serving and to help clean up at the end of the visit. We need helpers to collect en-try money and sell raffle tickets. Workers are needed from 8am to about 11:30am. You could also help by making or donating cakes or slice, or even sending along a money donation so that others can buy the ingredients needed and prepare the food.

This is the first major fund rais-er for our school’s P&C this year and with everyone’s help it promises to be a very successful one - at $10 per person that’s $1000 for the school’s P&C! It is only for a short time on a Sunday morning and is usually a lot of fun for the people who come to help. CAN WE COUNT ON YOU?? The P&C’s funds will directly benefit all your children this year. It will pay for the buses to take the students on camp and will also help to spruce up the playground and build a large sandpit for the students to play in.

Year 3-6 News

Our class has grown in the past

two weeks with the return of

some of our past students.

Taylah and Dennison in Year 4

and Saphina in Year 6 have in-

creased our class enrolment to

22. We have been busy com-

pleting work on our C2C units

for this semester and we’re

presently working on the as-

sessment tasks that complete

each unit in English, Science,

History and Geography. Our

specialist teachers (for technol-

ogy, Japanese, Music, Art and

HPE) are also busy assessing the

students on what they have

learned this semester. We’ve

been giving the students a

number of diagnostic tests in

English and maths to support

and clarify our judgements

about each student’s progress.

At present Mr Kroll is teaching

students about healthy eating

around the world on Wednes-

day afternoons and this has had

a double benefit for the whole

school, as the dishes he has

cooked in his class form the ba-

sis of the Student Council’s

‘healthy lunches program’

which involves selling healthy

lunches to the student body

every Friday.

In maths we continue with

learning new concepts and re-

vising older ones, with some

students still finishing off revi-

sion tests from last term’s

work. The Year 3 students are

finding telling the time on ana-

logue clocks challenging at the

moment. If parents of students

in Year 3 could help out by dis-

cussing this at home it would

be very beneficial for the stu-

dents.

In Year 3 and 4 Geography we

are continuing with our work

about our Australian States and

Year 5 and 6 are continuing on

with their lessons about how

people and places affect one

another with a focus on North

America and Europe.

This week’s Super Spellers were: Tori Rebekah Ila Mia Haley Belleny

More from our room next time,

Tina and Jenny.

Junior School Camp – 14,15,16 June

This week forms for our annual school camp for Prep to Year 3 students (to be held on 14-16 June this year) will be sent home. Please fill out and re-turn the forms at your earliest convenience before Wednes-day, 31 May so that we can let the accommodation and venues know our final numbers for camp. Parents are welcome to come along on this camp. Please find below our proposed itinerary (with some revisions for Day 2) for our camp this year. Parents are invited to come along on camp with us. The cost for both students and parents will be the same as for last year - $150 per student and $175 for adults. This will cover the cost of the catering and the accommodation for the time we are in Brisbane. To encour-

age maximum participation, our camps are heavily subsidised. The bus cost and the cost of entries into the venues is cov-ered by the both the P&C and the Student Council. Day1 – Wednesday, 14 June 7:00am – Depart from

Rathdowney Post Office carpark

9:00am-9:30am - The Work-

shops Railway Museum (Ips-

wich) – for guided viewing of

taxidermy large wild animal ex-

hibition

9:45am –Arrive at Ipswich Art

Gallery for Lego workshop

“Towers of Tomorrow”

11:30pm – Depart for lunch at

Queen’s Park, Ipswich and a

visit to the Nature Centre at the

park.

1:45pm –Arrive at Mt Cootha

Gardens for geography lesson

“Exploring a Local Place”

3:30pm – Leave gardens for Mt

Cootha lookout

4:15pm - Leave for Brookfield

accommodation

6:00pm – Dinner

7:00pm –Ten pin bowling .

Day 2– Thursday, 15 June 8:30am – Drive to Brisbane Air-

port domestic terminal for walk

through terminal and watch the

planes land and take off from

observation point north of the

airport.

11:00am – New Farm park for

play and lunch

12:00pm – Catch ferry from

New Farm to Southbank

!:00pm - Visit Qld Museum his-

torical exhibits

2:00pm – Visit the Sciencentre -

includes a science lesson at

2:15pm

4:30pm – Leave for Hostel

7:30pm – Activities at the hos-

tel - games/movie

Day 3– Friday, 16 June 7:30am –Depart accommoda-

tion

9:30am – Arrive Currumbin

Wildlife Sanctuary

12:00pm –Drive to beach for

lunch

1:30pm – Arrive Q1 Tower for

Skydeck tour

2:30pm – Life Education Centre

at Broadbeach

4:30pm – Depart for

Rathdowney

6:00pm – Arrive at the

Rathdowney Post Office carpark

Junior news

The Preps are beginning to learn 2 new double vowel sounds each week. This week, we focused on the sound ‘oa’. In Art, we decorated some jelly-fish by crumpling crape paper into little balls and stuck them

to their bodies. This is a great activity to help the students develop their fine motor skills which helps them develop bet-ter pencil control when writing. We also threaded around a thong which also helped with their fine motor skills and their hand/eye coordination. The students really enjoyed these activities. In Maths, the Preps have been working on their po-sitional language as well as ex-ploring 3D shapes. In English this week, we have been reading stories that con-tain a lot of descriptive lan-guage. We have been identify-ing adjectives that tell us more about the character and set-tings. Later in the term, the students will complete their C2C assessment. In this assess-ment, the students will make a power point presentation of their favourite story discussing what happened in the begin-ning, middle and end while us-ing adjectives. In Maths, the Years 1’s, 2’s and 3’s have been learning the properties of 3D shapes as well as position and direction.

In Geography, the students were learning about directions and the language we use to de-scribe how we get from one place to another. They also looked at places at a personal, local, state and regional scale. In History, the Preps learnt about witnesses and evidence of something that has hap-pened in the past. The Year 1’s compared how schools have changed over time. The Year 2’s and 3’s have looked at how land use has changed over time. This week’s Super Spellers were: Mitchell Maklan Linden Daytona Summer Harlow Keith Max More from us next week. Kasey, Cathy and Kay

Book Club

Book Club order forms were sent home with the students this week. If students wish to purchase any of the books, please return orders and money by Tuesday June 6.

Dates to Remember – May/June 2017

Monday Tuesday Wednes-day

Thursday Friday

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29 30 31 (h)Janine Reilly © Toni Aldred

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5 6 7 (h) Bilinda Binstead ©Bilinda Binstead

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12 13 Parent/ Teacher Interviews

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Junior Camp

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P&C Meeting

21 (h) Janine Reilly © Janine Reilly

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26th June – 7th July School Holidays