3 June 2020

Newsletter Articles

LEADERSHIP TEAM REPORT

Dear parents and caregivers,

Dodgeball – Students V Staff

On Monday, the year 6 students challenged the staff in dodgeball. There was a lot of fun and laughter. The staff defeated the students 4 - 0. We are sure the students are busy planning the next student versus staff competition. Thank you to Mr Littler and the year 6 boys for organising this event. A great way to stay active, healthy and have some fun.

High School Visits

Gympie High State School and James Nash State High School are visiting Jones Hill year 6 students this week. Parents and students are asked to collect an enrolment package from their teacher. Both high schools offer scholarships and these applications need to be submitted to the high school. Students and parents can ask their teacher about the scholarships. More detailed information about each high school is in this newsletter.

We would suggest that parents follow the high schools on Facebook and visit their websites. This allows you an insight into the high schools, their culture, how they operate, upcoming events, transition dates for 2021 year 7 students and date claimers.

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.

Premier’s Reading Challenge 2020

The Premier’s Reading Challenge has commenced and will run until Friday August 28. Students who participate will receive a certificate signed by the Premier during the challenge celebration week November 2 to 13.

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

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

The aim for the 2020 challenge is to engage more students reading more books than ever before.

Experiencing books can include shared reading, listening to stories, or reading picture books.

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.

For more information about the Premier’s Reading Challenge, please visit:

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

STUDENT AWARDS

Behaviour Awards

The following students will receive their behaviour certificates and behaviour level awards this Friday. Presentations will be live streamed on Facebook.

LEARNING: PC – Ayla; PM – William; PR – Laylah; 1H – Amayah; 1L – Verissa; 1/2C – Haiden; 2/3W – Sunny; 3B – Grace; 3D – Noah; 4S – Seth; 5CL – Manny; 5R – Lilly; 6C – Saffron; 6G – Kate; Japanese - Amelia

LEARNING AND RESPECT: PB - Jada

LEARNING AND RELATIONSHIPS: 2B – Dustin; 2MD - Lincoln

JHSS ALL VALUES: 4/5W - Sienna

Behaviour Level Awards

Silver Level

1H – Abbiegail, Amity-Rose, Ruby
3B – Ethan, Alisha, Bella, Ezekiel
3D – Savannah, Casey, Regan
4S – Tom

Gold Level

3B – Aubrey, Summer, Lilianna, John, Savannah, Danika, Lawson
3D – Bronte, Sienna, Inca, Cooper, Delilah

Token Awards

The following students will receive their token certificates this Friday. Presentations will take place in their classroom.

20 Tokens

PC – Austin, Jorden, Amelia, Bom, Leo, Ayla; 1H – Chloe, Ryan, Lejay, Bella, Mia, Edith; 1L – Verissa, Cody, Nate, Alexander; 1/2C – Chace, Logan; 2B – Levi, Cooper, Reaghan, Shaeya; 2MD – Ciara, Riley, Marcus, Clayton, Lelu, Lilly, Chaise, Violet, Grace, Lincoln, Caleb, Ava, Aba-Lee, Hannah-Grace, Breanna, Alana, Nixon, Joseph; 2/3W - Chelsea, Sunny, Zac, Mason, Hunter, Kiara; 4S – Ronan, Seth, Xander, Julian; 6G – Bailee, Tiah, Ryan, Audrey, Dean, Zane, Rylan

40 Tokens

PB – Noah, Archie, Donovan, Bridgette, Ashlynd; PC – Thomas, Mila; PR – Tabitha; PM – Misa, Alec, Kristian, Isla; 1H – Jayden, Amayah; 2B – Jack, Carson; 2MD – Tyler, Angus, Sadie; 2/3W – Kyran; 3B – Grace, Bella, Lincolne, Casey, Tyson, Jakob, Archer, Mitchell, Daniel, Indy, Xavier; 3D - Cooper, Amelia, Mia, Charlee, Tate, Maddison, Linkin, Regan, Zander, Bronte, Leilani, Casey; 4S – Ally, Maiya, Rani, Ben, Sienna-Grace, Sienna, Tom, Maddy, Lilly, Ruby-Rose, Cooper, Tylah-Ann; 4/5W – Ruby, Angus, Sienna, Layne, Jase, Matilda, Joey, Jaxson, Seth; 5CL – Lincoln, Mitchell; 5R – Izabel, Emmett, Isla, Madelyn; 6C – Tahleah, Mackenzie; 6G – Kate, Cooper, Chayse, Lainey

FROM THE BUSINESS MANAGER

Hi Everyone,

Canberra Government Funding Contribution

Students from our school will soon be undertaking an education tour of the national capital. Students will be given the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational programs with a focus on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy.

The Australian Government recognises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit the national capital as part of their Civics and Citizenship education. To assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion the Australian Government is contributing funding of $60 per student under the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate program towards those costs. The rebate is paid directly to the school upon completion of the excursion.

Student will travel to Canberra from 23 August 2020 to 28 August 2020.

Isolation Cookbook

There is still time to send us your recipes for our Isolation Cookbook. Email your recipe and photos to admin@jonehillss.eq.edu.au. Below is a preview of a couple of the tasty recipes that will appear in the book.

Lemonade Scones

By Jai – 4MD

Ingredients

• 1 cup Pure Cream
• 1 cup Lemonade
• 3 cups Self Raising Flour
• Pinch of Salt
• Flour, for dusting
• Jam and Cream to serve

Preheat the oven to 180 C (fan-forced) or 200 C (conventional).

Sift the flour and a pinch of salt (3 times) into a large bowl. Make a well and add the cream and then the lemonade

Use a knife to quickly (but gently!) combine the ingredients into a dough in order to trap as many bubbles as possible into the mixture.

Turn the dough onto a floured surface and, once again gently, shape it into a square about 2cm thick.

Cut your scones out into squares using a knife or use a cutter for circles. Arrange evenly on a tray, brush will a little bit of milk and bake for about 15 minutes, or until golden. Serve with jam and thickened cream.

CRUNCHY ANZAC BISCUITS

By Riley – 2/3W

Ingredients

1 ¼ cups Quick Oats

1 cup Plain Flour

1 cup Castor Sugar

¼ cup Desiccated Coconut

½ cup Shredded Coconut

150grams Butter, chopped

2 tablespoons Golden Syrup

1 teaspoon Bicarbonate Soda

2 tablespoons Boiling Water

1. Combine oats, flour, sugar, and coconuts in a bowl, mix well.
2. Melt butter and golden syrup in a medium saucepan over low heat.
3. Dissolve water and soda in a jug. Stir into butter mixture.
4. Pour butter mixture into dry ingredients and mix well.
5. Roll rounded tablespoons of mixture into balls and place on lightly greased oven trays. Press lightly to flatten.
6. Cook in a moderately slow oven for about 15 minutes or until golden brown.
7. Stand biscuits on trays for 10 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to cool.

LOST PROPERTY

We have a large number of unnamed jumpers and other items in lost property currently. These items will be displayed underneath the old administration building at the front of the school until Friday June 12. Any items remaining after this time will be donated to a local charity.

Please remember to name all items e.g. lunch boxes, jumpers, water bottles. If items have are clearly named it is much easier for us to return them to the rightful owner.

MEET THE STAFF

Julie Mitchell

I am Julie and am one of our Prep teachers. I first joined the Jones Hill team in 2014 and am privileged for this to be my sixth year of teaching our preppies. Every day is a fun filled adventure and our beginning students are a pure joy to be with.

Away from the classroom, I am ‘Mum’ to three children- Two growing teenage boys and a daughter in Year 1. On the weekends during the summer months, we can regularly be found swimming and picnicking at our local beaches. We also like getting out in our garden together, spending time digging holes for new plants and spreading mulch.

At home, our pet family includes an elderly cat enjoying her retirement years, a very energetic dog whose life goal is to play continuously and two very quiet and rather spoilt chickens.

JAPANESE CORNER

With Sensei

What a weird couple of months it has been at Jones Hill and for planet Earth. I certainly hope that during this challenging time, we have all had a chance to reflect and acknowledge what is truly important to us.

Speaking of overcoming challenges, here is another proverb that may have merit for some

Ame futte jika tameru

English translation: After rain falls, the ground hardens.

(I wonder if any of our students can read any of these Hiragana?????)

This phrase comes from the same idea as in the English, “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Challenging times in our lives are there for us to learn from. It is how we respond to our challenges in life that makes us the people that we are.

Japanese Students: keep up the truly SENSEItional work with your Hiragana Belts. You are doing a truly awesome job!!

Stay Japanesey
From

MATHS AT JONES HILL STATE SCHOOL

Lego is a great resource for teaching maths. Students can use Lego animals and people to model different maths stories and or make buildings and calculate the volume and capacity of the buildings.

An example for lower grades.

I am standing behind a fence and can see 10 legs and feet between the gap in the ground and fence. What could be standing on the other side of the fence? Have them build a fence and put animals and people on the other side so the legs add to 10. This is an open ended task so has many different answers, such as, two chickens, a three legged dog, a pirate with one leg and a person with two legs. See how many different solutions they can build. They can then write down the equation that matches their build 4+3+1+2=10.

An example for the upper grades.

Build a rectangular prism that is so many bricks long, wide and high. How many bricks in the whole prism? How many for a solid prism compared to just the outside layers. This leads them to understanding the formula for volume.

There are hundreds of ways maths is involved in Lego, so more ideas to follow in future newsletters.

SCHOOL WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT

The School Wide Positive Behaviour Support behaviour focus for week 7 is about promoting positive relationships in the classroom and learning settings.

That means we:

• Be cooperative and join in all class activities
• Be willing to learn and help others
• Accept difference.

In a classroom, we all have an active role to ensure it is the best learning environment. We can help others feel valued and help them to learn by co-operating, accepting differences, helping others, participating, listening and recognising our own rights and responsibilities.

The School Wide Positive Behaviour Support behaviour focus for week 8 is around behaviour before and after school, playground and around classrooms.

That means we:

• Remain in designated areas until bell goes
• Enter classrooms only when teacher is present
• Play safely in correct areas
• Follow correct routines before and after school
• Use problem solving skills
• Play safely and follow the rules
• Respect school routines before and after school
• Use respectful language with adults and peers
• Act responsibly when travelling to and from school
• Be considerate of others and follow correct routines
• Cooperate with adults and peers
• By working together we make our school a safe place for everyone to be.

LEMS NEWS

Phonics Focus: Why is it important to focus on sounds?

It all begins with what we hear.

Being able to hear and work with the sounds (phonemes) of spoken words allows students to relate the sounds into written letters (graphemes). The process for building an awareness of sounds and how they come together to make words is Phonemic Awareness.

Phonemic Awareness is gained through a series of stages and strategies which include the ability to rhyme, segment words into single sounds and syllables, blend sounds together, identify sounds in different positions in words and manipulate sounds within words.

Phonemic Awareness Strategy 1 is Rhyme:

1.Rhyme

• Students recognise rhyme.
  e.g. hat, cat, mat, sat.

• Students complete rhymes.
  e.g. ‘Hickory, dickory, dock.
  The mouse ran up the _________.’

• Students produce their own rhymes.
  e.g. ‘The little dog,
  jumped up on the log.’

What you can do at home:

• Play rhyming games in the car on the way home. Take turns at adding a rhyming word. How many words can you think of that sound the same at the end ? (Pan, man, can. Kite, night, light. Truth, youth, booth. etc).
• Begin a rhyme and allow children to finish it. e.g. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty……..
• Create your very own new rhymes together. Say them aloud or write them down.
• Look for and talk about rhyming words in songs or raps.
• Poetry and rhyming with a touch of silly added are effective tools for older children also.

(Adapted from, LEM Phonics: Ark Educational Consultancy Gregory P. O’Keefe, 2003 (Updated 2008)

YEAR 1 LEGO CLUB

Hey year 1’s! Do you like Lego?

Then come on down to the library during first break this Thursday for Lego Club!

There will be a competition for who can build the best Lego robot and the winner will get a prize! So get those thinking caps on and start planning with your friends some awesome designs.

All Lego will be provided by the school.

P&C NEWS

Pie Drive

Our Pie Drive forms went out on Friday to the eldest in the family. Order forms are also available from the school office or see the link below. Please return all forms and money by June 24. Delivery date will be Thursday July 23.

FROM THE TUCKSHOP

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. 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.

Cody and Trina – Tuckshop Conveyers

YEAR 7 HIGH SCHOOL INFORMATION

James Nash State High School

Gympie State High School

Enrolment information packs for Gympie State High School are available for year 6 students who will be attending in 2021 from their classroom teacher. 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 is also available from year 6 class teachers for those students who are interested in applying.

Year 5 High School Highlights Program

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