Tuesday Telegraph Week Ten Term Three 2019

Texas P-10 State School

Principal’s Report by Toni Day

How is it the end of term 3 already? We have had a busy term and it’s great to see students working right up until Friday’s Rewards Activities. Attendance is so very important and I appreciate everyone striving towards our 93% attendance. Of course, we don’t expect to see students at school when they are unwell and encourage families to call the student absence line if their child is going to be absent from school— 07 4653 3366, stating the reason for the absence.

Harmony Collins and I will continue on in our current roles until the end of 2019 as Justin Kuskie will remain at Stanthorpe SHS for term 4. I understand that the uncertainty of staffing can cause some families concern but rest assured the direction for improvement hasn’t changed.

Planning for 2020 has started to take shape and communications will be sent home via the official channels such as Newsletters, notes and our Facebook page. We are looking are holding our school swimming carnival at the end of term 4 to allow students the Christmas period for training and to ensure a smooth week 1 in 2020. Exact dates will be confirmed in the coming weeks.

As always, thank you for your continued support of both staff and students at Texas P-10 State School.

Toni Day

17th sept 2019

Cognitive Verb—Explore – To look closely, to scrutinise or to examine in detail. We explore the roles of different chemicals in Science and we explore the use of different language techniques in English.

Crazy Hair Day Last Friday students came to school with Crazy Hair and free dress to raise funds for Warwick East State School who had a fire in July to two of their learning spaces and Admin building. These buildings dated back to the 1850’s. The Student Repre-sentative Council came up with the idea to help support our neigh-bouring town. The stu-dents looked great.

September

20th Last day of School for Term 3

28th School Art Exhibition begins

October

7th Queens Birthday Holiday

8th Term 4 begins (Tuesday)

November

8th Texas got Talent Show

25th School Awards Night

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Dates to Remember

Be SafeBe Safe

Always keep yourself safe on the school holidays.

Attendance Award

Whole school = 90.6% Highest Class = 96.9% YEAR 7

STEM Club is not on this week and will resume in week 2 next term.

Prep Whole

Class

Yr 4 Poppy C Yr 5 Harry D

Yr 6

Mackenzie M

Yr 1 Jett B

Year 2/3

Will M High School—

Lexi D

High School—

Emma C

DD Aquathlon Trials

Friday 25th October Dalby Aquatic Centre

Interested students born in 2008/2009 to see

Mrs Day in the office before the end of term.

Students MUST be able to swim 200m

continuously to be eligible for nomination.

Students must be able to make their own

way to and from the trials.

These trials will be used to choose the DD

team to compete at the State Titles in Hervey

Bay on 22 February 2020.

DD Triathlon Trials

The DD 13-19 years Triathlon team will

compete at the Qld School Sport State

Championships in Hervey Bay 20-22

February 2020.

The selection trial for the DD team will take

place on Sunday 10 November at the

Toowoomba Triathlon Race at Oakey.

Crazy

Hair

Day

Cont.

High

School—

Laycee S

High

School—

Ruben W

Year One News—This term has flown by at a rapid pace.

Currently, Year One is completing work in Science, Art and

English. In Science, we have explored ‘Changes Around Me’. We

can now identify natural, managed and built environments. As a

culmination, we are constructing a diorama of an environment. In

Art, we have created different Australian landscapes for the

upcoming Texas State School Art Exhibition. In English, we are

rehearsing our retells of Aboriginal Dreamtime stories. We hope

that everyone has a happy and safe holiday.

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Science

As the term, draws to close students in science have been

working extremely hard on various pieces of assessment.

Year 7’s are presenting to the class their research on the

seasons and how they can affect agri-

culture and farming.

Year 8’s have been looking at cells and

as part of their assessment have pro-

duced come fantastic cell models!

Fantastic work to all students in high

school and good luck to those still

completing assessment.

If your child has an appointment

or is ill please call the absence

line on 0746533366.

This line is active 24 hours a

day, 7 days a week.

Chappy Chatter with Chappy Jason

A place where asking the question “Are you OK?” can really work. Anyone can do it, staff, parents, students;

we can all create a culture where people feel confident asking and answering this simple yet important

question. Because it is ok to not be ok! These conversations can make a real difference to anyone going

through a tough time, especially now with the drought, fires and the floods to come.

If you really want to make a difference, we need your help to champion the message in your workplace, school

and community. You don't have to do

it alone because we've some amazing

resources you can use, visit

www.ruok.org.au KEEP THE

MESSAGE ALIVE EVERY DAY.

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Rewards Day— Last Day of Term

The van will not be coming to Texas now due to being diverted to the bush fire affected areas, they hope to have Texas back on their itinerary soon and will let us know when that will be.

MIT JETS

BreakUp

MIT Jets

Break Up is

on the 13th

October at

11am at

sporting

complex

Year One

News

Cont.

Please contact

the office if

you have

changed any

details so we

can update

our system.