20 June 2018

Newsletter Articles

LEADERSHIP TEAM REPORT

Hi Everyone,

Last week I had the privilege of taking part in a school review as part of the School Improvement Unit. Every four years schools undergo a rigorous review process to plan their improvement agenda for the next four years.

I would like to thank Mrs Seed for keeping things running smoothly in my absence.

We are fast approaching the end of term 2. Students are looking forward to Sports Day on Friday and representing their house teams.

Our year 5 & 6 students are excitedly preparing for their trip to Canberra next week. What a wonderful experience. Pack your woolies!

Students not attending Canberra will be engaged in normal school activities and be our school leaders for the week.

School Athletics

Friday June 22 – Sports Day

• First bell will ring at 8:40am.
• Students will go to their class line up areas and rolls will be marked. Students will then assemble above the year 1 -3 play area to march down to sports day.
• Students are to bring a hat, water bottle, pin for ribbons and lunch (if no sausage sizzle has been ordered). Please name all items.
• Races start at 9:05am sharp. Preps students will race first.
• Students can dress in house colours. Doran – Yellow, Radford – Red, McPaul – Blue.
• Due to a change in our track configuration we have changed the spectators seating area.
• Students, marshals, officials etc. will be located in the centre of the track (middle of the oval).
  Spectators are welcome to sit on the left hand side of the track (Closest to Heilbronn Road) or on the hill at the back of the office. No spectators are to be in the middle of the track. Thank you.
• Drinks and home baking available for morning tea.
  (Home baking donations are still welcome).
• The Sausage Sizzle lunch will be served in grade levels starting with year 1. Parents are asked to wait for all students to be served before collecting their orders. (Prep orders will be sent to their classroom).
• Programs are available for $2 from the school office.

If parents or visitors are able to help at the end of the day with cleaning up we would be very grateful.

Canberra

Only four more sleeps until we leave for our Canberra trip! Please have all medications and spending money handed in at the office before Thursday. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to pop in and see us.

Bus – The bus will arrive at Jones Hill School at 8:00am on Sunday morning 24 June. Students are asked to wait with their parents at the bus shelter where the bus driver will supervise the loading of the luggage. The bus will leave at 8:30am sharp.

Morning Tea and Lunch – This will be taken in students’ backpacks for the trip to Sydney. It should be packed in packaging that can be thrown away as we will not require lunch boxes during the trip. All students will be given a water bottle for use during this excursion on the Thursday before the trip. This is the only water bottle children can bring and use on the trip.

Flight – Our plane takes off from Maroochydore Airport at 11:30am. Please ensure that your child is wearing their school uniform shirt and new black jacket for identification. This shirt needs to be worn on the flight home as well. They can wear jeans or tracksuit pants with their shirts. Canberra jackets will be sent home on the Thursday before we leave. Luggage should be a single suitcase on wheels and weigh no more than 23kg and their carry on backpack should weigh no more than 7kg. Please make sure that you use the blue luggage tag that will be issued on the Thursday before.

Medication – All medication should be handed in on the Thursday before we leave and if not it will need to be handed in on the Sunday morning prior to leaving the school. Please don’t hesitate to come and discuss any conditions in more detail at the office.

Don’t Bring – Mobile phones, cameras, lollies, electronic devices. These will be confiscated if students bring them along. We will be taking a class set of cameras for students to use. All students will receive a USB at the end of the trip with the photos taken.

Spending Money – This should be no more than $10 per day. Money needs to be handed in on the week prior. The money should be distributed into an envelope for each day with the students name clearly marked on it.

Communication – Facebook will be updated daily. If parents have any questions or concerns while the students are away then they need to contact the school on 54 890 555.

Thursday 21 June – Please ensure that you receive these items that will be given to your student on Thursday 21 June prior to leaving on Sunday 24 June. These items must be brought on the trip.

• 1 water bottle
• 1 luggage tag
• 1 black jacket with the school logo on it

1 blue beanie will handed out Sunday morning on the bus.

Please don’t hesitate to phone or come in and ask any questions. We are only too happy to help you out.

PJ and Crazy Hair Day

The students at Jones Hill SS showed their community spirit on Friday 15th June by wearing their pyjamas and having crazy hairdos.

The children were showing their support for the Gympie Salvation Army, making a gold coin donation for people less fortunate than us. This was a lot of fun and a great way to support a good cause. What fantastic citizens our Students are! We raised $440, which was handed to Major Brian Smith today by our School Leaders.

We may have had our PJs on and Crazy Hair but we still worked hard.

Report Cards

Report cards will be issued tomorrow, Thursday June 21. While parent, teacher meetings are conducted in terms 1 & 3, parents are always welcome to make an appointment to discuss the report cards if needed.

Dance Fever

Jones Hill School will be running Dance Fever lessons again this year in term 3. Students have been invoiced and payment needs to be completed by Friday June 29. These lessons form part of our HPE curriculum. Over the last three years the students have enjoyed these lessons immensely and then enjoyed showing off their new skills to their parents during a dance presentation at the end of the term.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The Premier’s Reading Challenge is on again, running from May 14 to August 24. This year the Premier has challenged all state and non-state school students from Prep to Year 2 to read or experience 20 books, Years 3 and 4 to read 20 books and Years 5 to 9 to read 15 books. Experiencing books can include shared reading, listening to stories, or reading picture books. The aim for the 2018 challenge is to engage more students than ever before.

Students from year 1 to 6 have received forms to record the books they have read. More forms are available from the school office.

Prep students will have their reading recorded by their teacher.

2019 Prep Transition Day

We would like to invite all children who will be starting Prep in 2019 and their parents to attend our next Prep Transition Day, Pop Up Adventure Play Day.

If you or someone you know have a child who is eligible to start Prep next year (born between 1 July 2013 and 30 June), please see our office staff to register their names.

Kind Regards,
James Watt and Stacey Seed

EVENTS CALENDAR

PARADE AWARDS

There will be no parade or awards this week due to sports day.

This week’s School Photo Gallery

LEMS PHONICS NEWS

Reading and Spelling Rules

Rule 20: Silent Servant ‘e’ sometimes serves no purpose and is referred to as ‘no job ‘e’’ or ‘helpless ‘e’’. The ‘e’s that remain in the spelling of modern English words are remnants of English words from the 13th century (Chaucerian English) when many words ended with a sounded ‘e’. Most of these ‘e’s have been dropped over the years but a few remain and have become silent.

Rule 21: Use ‘ay’ not ‘a’ for the /ay/ sound at the end of a word.

For example: play, stay, away, clay

Exercises:

Add the correct phonogram representing the /ay/ sound to the end of these words. Why did you use that phonogram to say /ay/?

tod___ del___ midw___ repl___ displ___

BRONCOS CHALLENGE

Round 1

On Friday June 15 Jones Hill participated in the Broncos Challenge, a rugby league competition at Albert Park. After playing five teams from the Gympie region, Jones Hill ended the day being undefeated. Despite being a preliminary event, Jones Hill State School is immensely proud of our team and would like to congratulate the players for their resilience, skills and hard work. Round two of the event is when schools will be competing for the Broncos Challenge Shield, this will be played on Friday 14th September.

In addition, the team would like to acknowledge and thank Phil Rentz (head coach) for giving up his time to train, organise and support the players.

YOU CAN DO IT

"In practising HUMILITY (thinking of others more than ourselves), each class, as part of Team Thor, has hammered together a wooden flower pot holder to give to Grevillea Gardens Aged Care.

This will bring the residents a lot of cheer that someone is thinking about them. Bunnings has offered a special deal on the potted flowers, but if any children would like to donate 50c or a dollar to the cost, they can deposit it in the tin in the Library. The flower baskets will be presented to Grevillea Gardens on Friday, 29 June."

CHIROPRATIC CHARITY PROGRAM

Dr. Mo Waters of Waters Edge Chiropractic is running a Charity Program called Good Posture for a Good Cause, where we support the community by doing kids posture checks, using cutting edge digital technology, for only $5. The money will be donated to the Australian Spinal Research Foundation. Just give us a ring on 5482 8477 to book your child in during the school holidays. Good posture promotes health and wellbeing!

P&C NEWS

Sports Day Baking

We are looking for donations of baked items i.e. slices, little cakes for our upcoming sports day. Items can be left at the school office Thursday afternoon June 21 or at the hall kitchen on sports day.

Pie Drive

If you ordered pies from our recent pie drive they will be delivered Thursday June 28. These will be available for pick up from the Tuckshop.

BUILDING FUND DONATION

Tax Deductible Donation - School Building Fund

The end of the financial year is just weeks away. Would you consider making a donation to the P&C's School Building Fund? This is a very cost effective way to support the school. The fund is endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office and you can claim any donation of $2 or more as a tax deduction. All money donated will go towards improving school buildings or fittings and fixtures in school buildings.

If you would like to know more, please download this form or pick up one from the school office.

MEET OUR STAFF

Tanya O’Hanlon

Hi everyone my name is Tanya O'Hanlon and I am a teacher aide at Jones Hill State School. I have had the pleasure of working here since 2015. Being a teacher aide is such a fulfilling job, I just love helping the students to learn, this has always been my dream job and I'm now doing it.

I grew up in the small town of Kandanga which is in the Mary Valley. This is where I met my partner Shane. We decided to buy a house in Jones Hill and have been here for 11 years now. We unfortunately don't get to see Shane as often as we would like as he works away in SA doing FIFO. We have two beautiful children, that help keep me busy and both attend Jones Hill State School. Thomas is in year 5 and Izzy is in year 3. We have two super cute dogs, Louie and Charli who are spoilt rotten and one very cute cat, Poppy.

Some of my favourite things to do when I'm not working is to get into my garden, I just love plants and it's so relaxing. I also love going to the beach with my family relaxing and fishing. We love going to Borumba Dam and taking our speed boat out, but only in summer otherwise it’s too cold. But unfortunately these don't happen as often as we would like. So if you see me around the school please say hi and I look forward to many more great years at Jones Hill State School.

Suesane Walker

My name is Suesane Walker and I work in the front office at Jones Hill State School. I have been working in Administration for Queensland schools for the last seven years. My husband Matthew and I have three beautiful children James (who currently attends Jones Hill State School), Charlie and Penny. We also have two fur babies, a kelpie x puppy named Sadie and a cat who we have named Bunny. My children enjoy sport especially soccer, so we spend most of our afternoons after school and weekends participating in different activities and sport. When I do have some spare time I enjoy the gym and spending time with my two beautiful nieces.

CARD BUFFET

HOLIDAY FUN

Looking for something to keep the kids amused over the holidays – we have heaps of things for kids of all ages to do around the Gympie region during the July school holidays. Check out ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ Storytime, mountain bike riding, tie dyeing, make paper lanterns, printmaking, fun with clay, colourful painting, jigsaw collage, Dennis Sisters Band performance and lots more. Jump onto the link below for a full list of what’s on.