17 March 2021

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LEADERSHIP TEAM REPORT

National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence

NAPLAN

Year 3 and year 5 students will be participating in the NAPLAN Online testing this year, in the areas of Writing, Reading, Language Conventions and Numeracy. The testing will be conducted over two weeks, 11th – 21st May. We will be preparing the students with practice sessions in the computer LAB during term 1 and early term 2.

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 or as arranged by the teacher. Thank you for your assistance in helping to keep everyone safe.

Hygiene Measures

We will continue to implement consistent hygiene measures to keep our students and staff safe. The following hygiene procedures are in place 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
• individual water bottles for personal use

Kind Regards,

James Watt – Principal
Stacey Seed – Deputy Principal

EVENTS CALENDAR

STUDENT AWARDS

Behaviour Awards

The following students will receive certificates at parade this Friday. Presentations will be live streamed on Facebook. As of Friday, February 26 we will welcome parents of award recipients to attend parade. Please sign in on arrival, sanitise and use provided seating.

LEARNING: PC - Justice; PM – Robert; PR – Malakai; 1H – Amity, 1/2S – Amity-Rose; 2B – Emily; 2KR – Isla, 3B – Charlotte; 3D – Grace; 3S – Michael, 1H (Japanese) – Amity; 4B – Lincoln; 5R – Tylor; 6GU – Rafferty; 5/6C (Japanese) - Sophia

RESPECT: - 1B - Ryleigh; 1C – Bom; 4MD – Lawson; 5W - Laylalee

ALL VALUES: 5/6C - Madison; 6C - Charlotte

TOKEN AWARDS

20 TOKENS: PM – Ella, Amelia, Georgie, Corbin, Lilliah, Belle, Alex; PR – Jaylen, Katelyn, Skylar, Summer, Malakai, Finn, Jack, Isla, Kobi, Knight; 1B – Archie, Hayden, Jemma, Jada Nixon; 1H – Levi, Rusty; 2B – Bonnie, Emily, Mason, Cooper, Alivia-Lee; 2KR – Milly, Asha, Isla, Isabell, Verissa; 3B – Chace, Caleb, Miah; 3D – Hayley, Jaxson, Garrett, Sunny, ava, Lochlan, Hannah; 3S – Lachlan, 4B – Kyran, Cody, John, Zac; 5R – Caleb, Finely, Cooper; 5W – Billy, Jai, Lillyenna, Layne, Mia, Naomi, Mackayla, Tyler, Tilly, Luca, Joey, Belle; 5/6C – Linkin, Archie, Ben; 6C – Izabel, Amelia, Lola, Harry, Jaxson, Seth; 6GU – Chloe-Jane, Lainey

BEHAVIOUR LEVEL AWARDS

SILVER: 3D - Ciara, Jaxson, Marshal

GOLD: 3D - Alani, Ava

FROM THE BUSINESS MANAGER

Hi Everyone,

PLAYGROUND

If you have been following the Jones Hill School Facebook page, you will have seen the progress of the new junior playground beside the hall. The playground has been almost erected and we are now waiting for the softfall to be laid. This should happen this week as long as we have good weather. Once the softfall is laid it will only take a few days for the playground to be completed!

SCHOOL PHOTOS

School photos are expected back in Term 2.

KOALA KIDS OSHC SERVICE

VACATION CARE

Easter Vacation Care will run from Tuesday 6th, until Friday 16th, of April. Please find attached a booking form. Please return the booking form to the office, or request your preferred days via email before Monday 29 March. The OSHC email address is oshcare@jonehillss.eq.edu.au. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions regarding Vacation or OHSC Services.

To enrol your child for OSHC please click on the link below.

For further information contact OSHC Koala Kids – email: oshcare@jonehillss.eq.edu.au

or phone 0482675161

Student Absence

GUM TREE CAFÉ NEWS

Please note there is no Tuckshop on Mondays. The Gum Tree Café operates every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday first break only.

Birthday Buckets are available for $20 from the tuckshop for your child’s special day. Please allow two days’ notice.

Orders may be made online or using the paper bag systems. Our new menu will be out soon.

Please click on the link below to view the menu and for online ordering instructions.

Richelle, Trina and Cody – Tuckshop Conveyers

JAPANESE CORNER

Minna-san Konnichiwa, (Hello everyone),

Are you ready for this week's Japanese lesson? This week at Jones Hill we have been learning colours with the younger grades. I thought it might be a nice introduction for the kids to teach their family members a few colours in Japanese.

C'mon, you should be able to remember Green and Pink! Take a look around you now. Can you name the colours of the things that you see around you now in Japanese? Good luck!!

Stay Japanesey

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P&C NEWS

Annual General Meeting

The Annual General meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 23. The Jones Hill Student Resource Scheme will be discussed at this meeting.

RELAY FOR LIFE

Each year Jones Hill State School enters a team in the Gympie Regional Relay for Life.

Relay for Life is a fun and moving overnight experience that raises vital funds for the Cancer Council’s research, prevention, information and support services. Relay is a chance for the Gympie community to recognise and celebrate local cancer survivors, patients and their carers, to honour and remember loved ones lost to cancer and to raise money to help save more lives. The 2021 Gympie Relay will be held on Saturday and Sunday, October 30 and 31.

All students are invited to join our 2021 Relay Team. School teams will only participate on the Saturday from approx. 2pm to 8pm. Please note students from Prep to Year 3 will require a parent or guardian to supervise them on the day.

To register for please follow the link below. Student Registration Pricing Structure.

Super Early Bird (before August 6, 2021) - $10
Early Bird (before October 22, 2021) - $15
Week of Relay & on the day - $20

For more information please contact Mrs Hurren (email jhurr5@eq.edu.au)

NAPLAN

Have a go at these NAPLAN questions:

Year 3

Year 5

LEMS PHONICS

In our last newsletter, we had information about syllables. This week we are looking at one of our syllable rules. Here is the rule:

Divide compound words between the words. E.g. sun.set

A compound word is made up of two words. Each word has its own meaning e.g. the sun and a set of pencils. However, when you join them together to form a compound word it creates a new meaning – sunset. When discussing the syllables, we remember that each syllable must contain a vowel and that we divide compound words between the two words.

Have a go at these words:

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boardwalk
catfish
fingernail
firefly
Hotdog
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SAND CASTLE COMPETITION

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.