9 September 2020

Newsletter Articles

LEADERSHIP TEAM REPORT

Dear parents and caregivers,

As we near the end of term 3, we would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the wonderful work our students have been displaying in English and Maths. We have been visiting classrooms and talking to students about their learning and have been very impressed with their efforts and knowledge. Our dedicated teachers and teacher aides have worked alongside the children, so they can reach their full potential and achieve success.

Jones Hill School Relay for Life

The Gympie Relay for Life for 2020 will be run as a virtual event this year. Jones Hill School will hold their relay on Wednesday, September 16 from 1pm to 4pm. Students who have registered to join our team will participate in fun activities while circling the school oval.

All students are welcome to join the team by registering at following the link below -

Registrations must be completed by Friday, September 11 and each student is asked to raise $20 for this worthy cause.

Purple Dress Day

As part of our Relay for Life fundraising staff and students are invited to wear purple on Wednesday, September 16. Please bring a gold coin donation.

Book Week

A fantastic time was had by the whole school when we celebrated Book Week. The dress up costumes were amazing as we all shared a love of reading and books. Well done to all of the children who completed their Read-a-thon and joined in the Book Week competitions and activities in the library.

Parent Teacher Interviews

Teachers have sent home letters to invite you to a Parent Teacher Interview. This is a time to discuss your child’s progress, view their work and to ask questions.

Maths and English Team Challenges

We have teams competing at the Maths and English Team Challenges this week, at One Mile SS. We would like to wish our teams the best and know they will do their best representing Jones Hill.

Broncos Challenge

Mr Littler and Mr Rentz are taking our Rugby League teams to the Broncos Challenge at Albert Park this week. The boys have been busy training and are looking forward to this event. Good luck to our teams competing at this event.

Touch Football Carnival

Next week, on Friday 18th September, Mr Littler will take the Touch Football team to a carnival in Bundaberg. Enjoy the event and we know you will represent the school with pride.

Swimming

Next term our prep classes will be swimming at Deep Blue Aquatics. Year 3B, 3D, 4/5W, 5CL, 5R, 6C and 6G will be swimming at Gympie South State School pool. The children learn essential water safety and swimming skills in this Learn to Swim program. Invoices and permission notes will be sent home this week.

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 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

Sick Students

It is essential that you keep your child home from school if they are unwell. In accordance with Queensland Health Directions parents or carers of any child showing signs of illness will be asked to collect them immediately from the school. If your child is being tested for COVID, please inform the school by contacting the office on 54 890555. We thank you for your support and understanding with these procedures.

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.

LEARNING: PB – Bridgette; PC – Amity; PM – Isla; PR – Tabitha; 1H- Alec; 1L – Lorie, Cohen; 1/2C – Maeson; 2B – Jack; 2/3W – Hayley; 3B – Emily; 3D – Smith; 4S – Xander, Riley, Sianna-Marie; 4MD – Linkin; 4/5W – Jaxon; 5CL – Everleigh; 6C – Hunter; 6G – Ryan; Japanese 5CL - Ella

Behaviour Levels

SILVER – 1/2C – Olivia, Mason, Haiden
GOLD – 2B – Wynter

Token Awards

The following students will receive their token certificates this Friday.

20 Tokens: PB – Mahlee; 4S – Lollee; 4/5W - Hunter

40 Tokens: 1H – William, Mia, Delilah; 4S – Ronan, Lollee

60 Tokens: PC – Austin, Brooklyn; PM – Skylah, Jace, Emerson; PR – Sebastian; 1H - Amelia, Chloe, Bethany, Blake, Mason; 1L – Hailo, Lorie, Verissa, Ryder, Alexander; 3B – Lawson; 4MD – Jacob, Maliki, Tayla; 4S – Riley, Xander, Bailey, Julian; 4/5W – Maddisen, Tyler, Lucas; 5CL – Angelique, Vada, Luca; 6C – Hunter; 6G – Chaesel, Kate, Casey, Mercedes, Cooper

80 Tokens: PB – Archie, Hayden, Jada, Ashlynd; PC – Amity, Maria, Leo; PR – Flynn, Rusty, Tabitha, Cooper, Miley, Levi; 1H – Ruby, Pypa; 1L – Mackinlee, Hallie, Bonnie, Charlie; 2B – Jack, Bella, Makayla, Carson; 2/3W – Riley, Mason; 3B – Emily, Savannah, John; 3D – James, Zander, Miah; 4S – Maiya, Sianna-Marie, Ruby-Rose, Sienna-Grace; 4/5W – Sienna, Layne; 5CL – Manny, Lola, Charlotte; 6C - Ella

FROM THE BUSINESS MANAGER

Hi Everyone,

Cairns

The Cairns itinerary was sent home last week along with some extra permission forms. Please return all permission forms before this Friday 11 September. A Covid-19 Customer Questionnaire will be required to be filled out prior to flying. These forms will be sent home on the Friday before the trip and will need to be in the students travel bag Sunday morning. No passengers will be able to fly without this form being filled in. Student identification badges will be handed to the students at the airport.

Unless you have made other arrangements, all payments are required to be finalised for the trip by Wednesday 16 September. Statements will be sent home this week.

Meetings will be held with the students next term to discuss the trip in more detail. The staff attending will assign students into groups, talk about behaviour expectations and detail the itinerary so the students are well prepared.

Please find attached some forms for the excursion. These forms have been sent home previously, however, if any details have changed please fill in the forms attached and return to the office asap.

Please contact the office if you have any further questions.

Jones Hill State School P&C OSHC Service

Things are well underway for our new Outside of School Hours and Vacation Care Service! The new service will be called Koala Kids and is expected to start on the first day of next term. If you are interested in enrolling in our new service, please email oshcare@jonehillss.eq.edu.au with the following information;

Parent/Caregiver – full name
Phone Number
Email address
Child/rens – Full Names

As soon as the Service becomes active, we will contact you with details on how you can enrol.

Meet Our OSHC Coordinator

Hi my name is Marnie Pearson and I am excited about the joining the Jones Hill Community. You may have seen me around the school as I have been assisting in classrooms this term, but please come and say hello next term at the OSHC service. I have previously coordinated an OSHC service in Bundaberg for 9 years and I completed a degree in Social Science Social Welfare and worked with children and families for many years. I grew up in Gympie and have been home for the last six years and I am looking forward to meeting and working with the families of the community of Jones Hill State School.

Student Resource Scheme

Jones Hill School has developed a SRS for classroom stationery lists, classroom consumables, IT applications and consumables, reproduced class workbooks and worksheets and classroom learning experiences. For more information regarding the SRS, please visit our website

If you have previously opted in to the SRS your participation is assumed for the remainder of your child's enrolment, unless you inform the school otherwise by completing a new participation agreement form. If you are a new parent to the school, this information will assist you in making a decision as to whether you wish to participate in the SRS.

What is provided by the Queensland Government?

The Queensland Government supports children’s education by providing funding for instruction (teachers), facilities (school grounds and buildings, internet), and administration (staff to run the school). Funding for schools does not extend to individual student resources such as textbooks, equipment for personal use and many items used by the student in the classroom.

The SRS helps parents to source these resources. The school can purchase resources at lower rates due to its bulk buying power. Resources such as textbooks or musical instruments that will be used over a period of time are hired to students to further reduce costs for families. Participating in the SRS also offers a convenient way for parents to source the items that their child needs for school and ensures that all students have access to the same standard of resources.

Student Resource Scheme participation forms are being sent home today. Please fill in and return a form for each child, after this form is filled in it will be understood that your child will remain in the SRS until your child leaves the school or you inform us otherwise.

Breakfast Club

Breakfast club will be held every Thursday at 8:30am under the old Administration building.

PREP 2021

Enrolment

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.

RELAY FOR LIFE

5 Cent Challenge

And the winner is ……………..2/3W with a total of $192.45. Second place went to 3B with $160.40. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who contributed to this fundraiser. Our final total for the 2020 5cent challenge is $1345.65. Trophies will be presented to the winning classes on parade this Friday.

Join Our Team

For the last eight years Jones Hill School has entered a team in the Gympie Relay for Life event.

This year, Gympie Relay for Life will be joining the state-wide virtual Relay, which will be streamed online on 10 October. This Relay will focus on what makes Relay for Life so special to all those involved and bring Relayers across Queensland together to fight back against cancer.

We know many of our students will still want to be involved by fundraising to help the Cancer Council with research and support those with Cancer and their families.

The school will be holding a mini relay event on Wednesday September 16 from 1pm to 4pm. To register your child for this event click on the link below. Registration is free, however it would be great if all participants could raise at least $20 to donate towards this worthy cause.

Register here:

SCHOOL WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR

Our School Wide Positive Behaviour Focus has been:

1. Learning- In classrooms and learning settings.

To explore learning in the classroom and in other learning settings, Prep M discussed what learning can look like, sound like and feel like.

Learning can look like:

• “Being ready to listen.”
• “Activities on the carpet with my team.”
• “Sitting at our desks or caring for our garden.”
• “Always having a go.”
• “Trying really hard, even when it’s tricky.”

Learning can sound like:

• “Sometimes quiet and sometimes noisy.”
• “People taking turns.”
• “Helping my friends.”
• “Listening ears ready to listen.”
• “Asking for help when I get stuck.”

Learning can feel like:

• “Having fun!”
• “Hard work.”
• “Great, when I can do something new!”
• “Making mistakes, and that’s ok, because mistakes are part of learning and I have another go.”
• “Exciting, I like to do new things!”

2. School values- Respect, Relationships, Learning and Safety.

To explore our four school values, we used role play to experience and practice how we can use Respect, Relationships, Learning and Safety throughout our day.

MATHS AT JONES HILL STATE SCHOOL

Partitioning Warm-Up

Play the Covers game (on the sheet Covers Game Board) to build student fluency in partitioning single-digit numbers.

This is a game for two or three players. Players share a game board and a 10-sided die. Each player has a different coloured set of counters.

Have students –

• Take turns to roll a 10-sided dice.
• Partition each number rolled.
• Cover these digits on the board, e.g. if 8 is rolled, a player could cover: 4 and 4 OR 6 and 2 OR 1, 5 and 2.

The Player to first cover four digits in a straight line, using only their coloured counters wins the game.

Note: When a 1 is rolled, the player places a counter over a 1 on the board. If a zero is rolled, miss a turn.

Please click on the link below to download a copy of the Covers Game Board.

LEMS NEWS

Phonics Focus: Which sounds should students learn?

Multiple Phonograms

Sometimes two or more letters are grouped together to represent a single sound. Multiple phonograms contain more than one letter to make one sound. As with single phonograms, a multiple phonogram may be able to say several different sounds.

What you can do at home:

Underline the multiple phonograms in the following words and read the words

(Adapted from LEM Phonics Pathway to Literacy, 2005)

JAPANESE CORNER

With Sensei

Minna-san konnichwa,

Only 2 more weeks to go until a well-earned holiday. Well done to all of the students for putting in a SENSEI-tional effort, not only in Japanese but all subject areas. Here is this week’s Japanese saying:

Makeru ga kachi

Translation: To lose means to win. (Makeru= to lose, kachi= to win)

This can be very difficult to understand, but its meaning is quite simple: don’t compete over foolish matters.

Sometimes, just staying away from a conflict is much smarter. Walking away from a competition or challenge can be the better decision. Choose your battles wisely.

Have a fantastic week and a great holiday.

Stay Japanesey

From

NETBALL

I have been coaching the year six children in netball over the last seven weeks. We have three teams – Doran, McPaul and Radford.

These teams are made up of four girls and three boys. The children are thoroughly enjoying the experience and they have learnt many skills.

Two weeks ago, we started a competition between the teams. Doran defeated Radford in the first round and in the second round there was a tie between Radford and McPaul. The third round will take place on Thursday September 10 between Doran and McPaul. The two highest scoring teams will play off in a grand final match on Tuesday September 15. Nat Bates

P&C NEWS

Fathers’ Day Stall

Thank you to everyone who supported our recent Fathers’ Day Stall. An extra big thank you to the parents who volunteered their time to man the stall.

FROM THE TUCKSHOP

NEW TUCKSHOP MENU

The Gum Tree Café operates every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday first break only.

Please remember that orders can be placed at the tuckshop or online. Instructions for online ordering are on the back of our new Tuckshop menu. Copies are available from our school office or see the link below.

Cody and Trina – Tuckshop Conveyers

MEET THE STAFF

My name is Renee Berry and I teach year 2. I was very fortunate to join the Jones Hill family mid-way through last year, teaching year 4. Over the past year, I have met many wonderful people including staff, students and families and I feel so lucky to teach in such a great school.

Before moving to Gympie, I was out West teaching at Barcaldine P-12 State School. It was such a wonderful experience and I was fortunate to meet my husband Tim there. We are both really enjoying living in Gympie and raising our two children in a nice town where we are closer to family.

I am having a lot of fun working with my lovely Year 2 class and cannot believe how fast the year is flying. I am very much looking forward to seeing the students of 2B learn and grow over the rest of the year.

CONTAINERS PLEASE

Keep bringing in your containers for recycling. All plastic bottles, aluminium cans, tetra packs can be dropped off to the office. Glass bottles can be brought in by adults only.

The Jones Hill SS community is doing their part to reduce landfill and keep our waterways clean. Thank you to all of our families and students for supporting this very worthy cause.

THANK YOU

A big thank you to Tracey Devereux who did a fabulous job taking promotional photos for our school. We are very excited and looking forward to seeing the finished product.

JAMES NASH SCHOOL NEWS

Scholarship applications for 2021 are now open. Sixteen scholarships across various areas worth $300 each are on offer for Year 7 students joining our school in 2021.

Find an overview and application form online at our website