20 May 2020

Newsletter Articles

LEADERSHIP TEAM REPORT

Dear parents and caregivers,

Year 2-6 Returning to School

The Premier has announced that students in years 2-6 will return to school on Monday May 25 (next Monday).

This will see all year levels returning to full time schooling and Jones Hill School running normal timetables for students. We are very excited to see all our students return at this time.

Parents are able to make the decision to remain in isolation due to being vulnerable.

As teachers will be teaching full time on class from next Monday we will not be able to support the at home learning we have been doing for the last five weeks.

While our preference is for all students to return if safe to do so, we understand if this is not suitable for families at this time. In these cases we would direct you to the website below to continue learning and help your student not to lose too much of their 2020 education.

Students who are unable to return to school due to medical reasons or parent/carer choice, please notify the office on 54890555.

Social Distancing Restrictions

Although students are able to be near each other in classrooms, we are still under the direction from Qld Health to adhere to social distancing rules for adults. Therefore, we are restricting adult contact in school, by asking parents/carers to not enter classrooms and to drop off and pick up children in safe designated locations, outside the school gates. Thank you for your assistance in helping to keep everyone safe.

Hygiene Measures

We will continue to implement strict hygiene measures to keep our students and staff safe. The following hygiene procedures will be followed at school.

• regular handwashing and hand sanitising, particularly before and after eating, and after going to the toilet
• encouraging students and staff to cough or sneeze into their elbow
• increased cleaning of school classrooms, particularly high frequency touch points including water fountains or bubblers
• regular cleaning of play equipment and materials
• water bottles for personal use

Parking

With all of our students returning to school it is important everyone follows both the speed limits and parking signs. Please only park in designated parking areas and help keep our children safe.

Report Cards

Due to the learning at home and at school situation at the end of term 1 and half of term 2, the reporting process will be adjusted. Report cards will be sent home on Friday 31st July (week 3, term 3) and teachers will be reporting on term 1 assessments that were completed and term 2 modified assessments.

Report cards will also have achievement and effort ratings only for English, Mathematics, Science, PE, Music and LOTE (Japanese). Comments will be included for Behaviour and Overall Comments. Absences will not be included on the semester 1, 2020 report card.

PREP 2021

If you have a child attending Prep in 2021 and would like them to attend our school, please contact our school administration staff. This may be done by phoning us on 54890555, calling into the office or via email on admin@jonehillss.eq.edu.au. Our staff can answer all of your questions and are happy to help. We do accept out-of-catchment enrolments and last year all of our out-of-catchment students were able to attend Jones Hill State School. By adding your child to our current waiting list you will receive information regarding our Prep Transition Programs and information sessions.

Camp Australia

This term Camp Australia have given notice that they will cease operations at Jones Hill on July 31. This is an unfortunate eventuality for our families and despite negotiations to extend this date to September to enable us to look at options, we have been unable to secure an agreement.

I will keep you up to date if we are able to work with another provider.

SAGE

SAGE Music Academy have become an unfortunate casualty of the COVID-19 situation. Mr Rodway has notified families that the music academy will no longer operate in schools from this point on.

We are sad to see this great program finish up and thank Barney and his dedicated team for the great three years they have been part of our schools.

SAGE has provided students with an outlet to express their musical talent and individual flare and will be missed.

I would like to wish Barney and the SAGE team all the best for future operations.

Premier’s Reading Challenge 2020

We are delighted to invite all JHSS students to join in the 2020 Premier’s Reading Challenge.

Reading plays an important part in students’ lives during their school years and beyond.

It allows children to actively engage their imagination and opens up a world of educational opportunities.

The reading period for the 2020 Premier's Reading Challenge commenced on Monday 11 May and closes Friday 28 August.

This year the Premier has invited all students to take on the challenge:

• Prep to Year 2 should read or experience at least 20 books,
• Years 3 and 4 should read at least 20 books, and
• Years 5 to 9 should read at least 15 books.

Experiencing books can include shared reading, listening to stories, or reading picture books. The aim for the 2020 challenge is to engage more students reading more books than ever before.

Every student who completes the challenge will receive a Certificate of Achievement signed by the Premier. It will be my great pleasure to present these certificates during the Premier’s Reading Challenge celebration weeks of 2 – 13 November 2020.

For more information about the Premier’s Reading Challenge, please visit: readingchallenge.education.qld.gov.au

You can play a big part in your children’s future by encouraging them to be part of this positive initiative.

I look as many of our students as possible take part in the 2020 Premier’s Reading Challenge.

Please click the link below for a copy of the Premier's Reading Challenge record sheet.

Kind Regards,
James Watt - Principal
Stacey Seed – Deputy Principal

EVENTS CALENDAR

FROM THE BUSINESS MANAGER

Hi Everyone,

P&C Day

P&C Day is this Friday 22 May. It is celebrated during National Volunteer Week and is an opportunity to acknowledge and thank our stellar P&C for their generous volunteer work and the amazing contributions they make to the Jones Hill school community.

Isolation Recipe Book

We would like to remember all the good things that were happening during our isolation from school so we thought that we would collate a student recipe book. It would be great if students, both learning at home and learning at school, could make their favourite recipe and then send us the recipe and a photo of the students with their dish to use in our “Isolation Recipe Book” written by the students of Jones Hill State School. Please type your recipes and email to admin@jonehillss.eq.edu.au or send through to Facebook by Thursday May 28.

GYMPIE HIGH SCHOOL INFORMATION

Enrolment information packs for Gympie State High School will be available for year 6 students who will be attending in 2021 from their classroom teachers next week. These packs including date claimers, information on the 2020 Highlights program, Intention to enrol forms and important date claimers.

Gympie High School Scholarship Program information will also be available from year 6 class teachers next week for those students who are interested in applying.

Jones Hill School year 5 teachers will also have 2020 Gympie High School Highlights program forms for any students who are interested in attending.

MEET THE STAFF

Jennifer Hurren

As I have only been working at Jones Hill School for going on 27 years some of you may not know me very well. I was born in Gympie and am lucky enough never to have left. In my role as a teacher aide I work in a number of areas with a vast variety of jobs including classroom and office work. I am well known at school for my love of dressing up. My two favourite days are book week dress-up and sports day, where I always wear a new yellow outfit for my favourite sports team Doran.

Out of school my husband and I have five children and six grandchildren who we love to spend time with. One of our favourite things to do is our Christmas lights display which over the years has become bigger and bigger, and now takes us three months to put up.

MATHS AT JONES HILL STATE SCHOOL

In our last newsletter, there were examples on how to use different strategies with addition and subtraction. Below are how to use these same strategies with multiplication and division.

Have a go:

Have a go at using the split strategy:

Split strategy with division:

Use the compensate strategy to solve this problem:

399x5=

Compensate strategy with division:

Another example:

Mental computation strategies, like the ones above, are explicitly taught. The goal is for students to develop preferred personal strategies that are suited for different number contexts. As we practice these strategies, student develop confidence in justifying their answers and applying strategies to varied problems.

SWPBS

The SWPBS behaviour focus for week 5 is safety in the playground.

This means that we:

Play safely at all times.

• Use play equipment properly.
• Be sunsafe and wear a hat.
• Move safely and walk on concrete.

In week 6 the SWPBS behaviour focus is about using the toilets appropriately.

This means that we:

• use the toilets safely/correctly
• wash our hands
• go directly to and from toilets
• respect the toilets/toilet block

LEMS NEWS

Over the next few weeks, students will be looking at the rules of position for the phonogram ‘a’. The phonogram ‘a’ has five sounds –

/a/ as in fat, /a/ as in baby, /a/ as in bath, /a/ as in all and /a/ as in wash.

The third sound of ‘a’ in the word bath, is making the sound /ar/. We also have the phonogram ‘ar’ that makes the same sound. We use /a/ for the /ar/ sound when it is followed by two consonants like in bath/path, but we use /ar/ when it is followed by one consonant like in dark/cart.

The fourth sound of ‘a’ makes the /or/ sound and it is always followed by ‘l’, ‘ll’ or ‘lk’.

The fifth sound of ‘a’ makes the /o/ sound like in was. The phonogram ‘a’ makes this sound when it is preceded by a ‘w’, ‘wh’ or ‘qu’.

Can you sort these words into the correct sound column?

FROM THE TUCKSHOP

Week 5 Tuckshop

Order forms for this Friday’s tuckshop (May 22) were sent home last Thursday. Please return forms with cash payment to the school office no later than Wednesday, May 20.

Week 6 to 10 Tuckshop

Tuckshop will continue to operate on a pre-order basis until the end of this term. Parents are still able to pre-order online. Years Prep to Year 3 will pre-order tuckshop for Thursdays each week and Years 4 – 6 will pre-order each week to have tuckshop on Fridays.

Term 3 Tuckshop

In term 3, the tuckshop will graduate a return to the normal menu on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays only. The tuckshop will return to four days later in term 3.

Cody and Trina – Tuckshop Conveyers