18 August 2021

Newsletter Articles

LEADERSHIP TEAM REPORT

Prep Pop Up Adventure Morning

Last week we were very excited to welcome our Prep 2022 children for a visit and fun activities at school. The sun was shining and the children and parents had a great time meeting new friends, teachers, teacher aides and participating in activities and games. There will be another opportunity for the Prep 2022 children to visit Jones Hill on the 8th September between 9am – 10am for the transition activities.

P&C Disco

Last Friday night we had the disco at school. Lots of fun, games, laughing and dancing was enjoyed by everyone. Thank you to Mrs Krafft, the P&C and staff who attended to make the night a success.

Book Week

Next week 23rd – 27th August is Book Week. Dress up as your favourite book character on Friday 27th August. The theme is: Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds. Mr Watt, the teachers and staff are busy getting their costumes ready. We are looking forward to seeing you all dressed up and sharing in the joy of books and reading.

Read-a-thon

During Book Week, Jones Hill students will be participating in a Read-a-thon. Read your books, get your sponsors and raise money to buy books for our school. Every child that raises $10 or more can choose a showbag prize! The student who raises the most money wins a huge, delicious box of chocolates and lollies! If you need a Read-a-thon form pick one up at the office or ask your teacher.

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

Behaviour Awards

The following students will receive certificates at parade this Friday. Our school parades will now be videoed and uploaded to Facebook. Parents of award recipients are welcome to attend parade. Please sign in on arrival using our QR Code, sanitise and use provided seating.

LEARNING: PC – Kiah; PM – Belle; 1B – Evelyn; 1H – Hunter; 2B – Billy; 2KR – Milly; 3B – Carson; 3D – Ethan; 3S – Beau; 1H (Japanese) – Harry; 4B – Bella; 5W – Layne; 5/6C – Manny; 6C – Ella; 6GU – Lincoln; 6C (Japanese) – Lola
RESPECT: PR – Myah; 1/2S – Richard
ALL VALUES: 1C - Thomas; 4MD – Leilani; 5R - Sienna

TOKEN AWARDS

20 TOKENS: 3B – Olivia; 4B – Bella; 6GU - Tyler
40 TOKENS: PC – Amy; 2KR – Nate, Shane, Mia; 3B – Lincoln, Nixon; 4B – Charlee, Kiara; 5/6C – Isabella; 6GU – Lincoln, Rafferty, Madelyn
60 TOKENS: PC – Justice, Fleur-Bella, Phoebe, Charlotte, Sophie; PR – Jaylen ; 1B – Jemma, Chase, Mason; 1H – Brooklyn; 1/2S – Chloe, Indiana; 2B – Amelia; 2KR – Amayah, Asha, Mackinlee, Piper, Aiden, Logan; 3B – Chase, Caleb, Miah; 3D – Lily, Lochlan; 3S – Zanthe; 4B – Amelia; 4MD – Alisha, Grace, Maddison; 4MD – Alisha, Grace, Maddison; 5W – Daphne, Bethany, Xander, Mackayla, Maliki, Tayla, Laylalee; 5/6C – Ben; 6C – Orson, Taylah, Ella, Luca, Aurora
80 TOKENS: PR – Connor, Frankie; 1B – Ashlynd; 1/2S – Misa; 2B – Emily, Hallie; 2KR – Isabelle; 3B – Sadie; 4MD – Lily, Riley, Clara, Zander, Jakob, Mason, Temujin, Indy; 5/6C – Sophia; 6C – Izzy, Charlotte, Isla, Layla, Lola, Harry, Angus

BEHAVIOUR LEVEL AWARDS

SILVER: 1B – Evelyn, Madeleine, Jemma, Jada, Ashlynd, Maggie, Leo, Mila; 6GU – Jordan, Jazmin
GOLD: 6GU – Kobi
PLATINUM: 6GU - Mitchell

FROM THE BUSINESS MANAGER

Hi Everyone,

YEAR 2 CAMP

This year our Year 2 camp will be taking place in the hall at Jones Hill School on August 27 and 28. Students will receive information regarding their camp with permission and medical forms and invoices today.

Please return filled in permission and medical forms and make payment by Wednesday, August 25.

YEAR 6 FAMILIES

As we begin to prepare for the end of year celebrations for our Year 6 students, we are asking parents to please assist us with our slideshow presentation.

We would like each student to provide four photographs from throughout their primary schooling years. If you are able to scan and email the photographs to rcrow45@eq.edu.au that would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, please send in the pictures so they can be scanned and then sent home.

The photographs can be of the students:

• by themselves
• with classmates
• at school events such as Athletics Carnivals, Book Week Parade, camps etc.
• school photos
• at other schools they have attended

Photos need to be supplied by the end of this term.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Crow on the email address above.

2022 YEAR 5/6 CANBERRA TRIP

Students attending the 2022 Canberra Trip will have now received their second invoice installment ($300). This payment is due by the end of term 3.

If you have any questions at all regarding the Canberra Trip 2022, please don’t hesitate to contact us on 54890555 or admin@jonehillss.eq.edu.au .

KOALA KIDS OSHC SERVICE

Koala Kids Vacation Care – CCS Update

With the September school holidays fast approaching we are preparing and updating all our Vacation Care enrolments. We have noticed that many CCS enrolments for our Koala Kids families have ceased due to inactivity. If your child/ren are attending Vacation Care for the September school holidays, please check your Xplor app for your CWA or your MyGov app for your CCS enrolment. If you notice that your CCS enrolment has ceased or you are unsure, please contact the office of 54890 555 or email for more information.

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

BOOK WEEK READ-A-THON

During Book Week students have the opportunity to raise funds while reading. If you raise $10 or more you can choose a PRIZE. All money raised can be entered on the QKR!. Any amount can be entered. Once your reading record and sponsorship form are complete, please return to the office. Book Week is August 23rd – 27th.

QKR!

Qkr! Online Payment System

Qkr! by Mastercard

Jones Hill Primary School has a preferred online payment system for parents to pay for P&C events and eventually tuckshop. This term we have commenced using QKR! as our preferred payment method for P&C events. You do not need a credit card to use Qkr!, it will work with debit cards as well.

The first two events you can use Qkr! for are;

• Read-a-thon – August 23 to 27

Qkr! pronounced ‘quicker’ is a convenient and secure system allowing you to pay for P&C events. Qkr is a Mastercard product and comes with all of their security.

Qkr can be used on smartphones, ipads, tablets, laptops and desktop computers.

Qkr assists our school community by:

• saving time allowing parents/guardians to pay for P&C activities at any time of day or night, every day of the year;
• reducing the need for students to bring cash to school and parents completing credit card details on payment envelopes and forms
• reducing paper consumption;
• reducing the time school staff spend on administrative tasks;

Step 1. Download the Qkr! by Mastercard app from;
- App Store for iPhone
- Google Play for Android

Step 2. Select Australia as Country of Residence

Step 3. Find our School – Jones Hill State Primary School

Step 4. Follow the prompts to set up your account.

Qkr! Website – Make Payments Via a Computer

Using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox please  click here  to open Qkr on a desktop or laptop computer

Qkr! Help

View our  Qkr! Help Questions and Answers

Please don’t hesitate to call the office if you need any assistance.

Introducing Qkr - School payments from Qkr by MasterCard on Vimeo.

MUSIC NEWS

We are very excited to be starting our Jones Hill Junior Choir this term. Last week, interested students signed up to be part of this choir, which is offered to Prep-Year 2. Any interested students who were away will be able to sign up this week as well.

Our Junior Choir will run at first break on Fridays. Teachers and student leaders will collect students from eating areas every Friday, after eating time, and walk them to the hall.

To make sure we have a consistent group coming each week, we do require that students who have signed up keep coming to rehearsals for that term. After we perform on parade students would then be able to decide to re-join, sign up if they hadn't before or not sign-up for the next term. We have discussed the term-long commitment (or pinkie promise as the Prep students like to call it!) with the students and will have staff supporting them with being able to remember what day and time this is on and where to go.

We anticipate that towards the end of each term we will have a song or two ready to perform on parade. Please keep an eye out in the newsletter and on Facebook for information when these dates have been confirmed.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me on lrose67@eq.edu.au

We look forward to making some (very cute) music with our Junior Choir!

Mrs Rose, Mrs Berry, Ms Newman and the Year six Music Leaders

GUM TREE CAFÉ NEWS

TUCKSHOP

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

Please note we have a limited tuckshop menu for this week due to lack of staff. There will be no wraps, pizzas or butter chicken.

A reminder that we require two days’ notice for Birthday Buckets. These have become very popular. At only $20 they are a great way to celebrate your child’s special day.

Richelle and Trina – Tuckshop Convenors

RELAY FOR LIFE

JONESY’S 5 CENT CHALLENGE

Week two saw PM step up to first place, but only $1 separates them from 3D in second place.

Keep those coins coming in for this very worthy cause. Remember any denomination is accepted. The class that raises the most money will be presented with the annual trophy on parade, September 3.

JOIN OUR TEAM

2021 Gympie Cooloola Relay for Life will be held on Saturday, October 30.

All students are invited to join our Jones Hill School Relay Team.

To register please follow the link below.

Super Early Bird (before August 6, 2021) - $10

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

MATH

Pizza, smarties, marshmallows, apples, oranges and playdough. Are the Year 4 students having a party? No, they have been learning about fractions. This term our Year 4 students have been learning about common fractions, mixed numbers and improper fractions. They have located fractions on a number line using string and pegs and have compared equivalent fractions using playdough. To investigate that the denominator signifies the number of equal pieces in which a whole is divided, we ordered pizzas from the tuckshop. We found as more people came to our pizza party and the denominator increased, the size of the slice of pizza unfortunately decreased. We have found a fraction of a whole number by making equal groups of smarties and cut up pieces of fruit to share a mixed number. Fractions can be a difficult concept for some students but our year fours have done really well and have enjoyed a mix of explicit teaching of concepts and hands on activities.

JAPANESE CORNER

Shimajiro!

We have had a very special guest in the Prep to Year 2 classrooms helping us learn our body parts. It was really wonderful to see so many kids bring in their teddy bears and show so much enthusiasm to learn Japanese. I am one very proud Japanese Teacher.

Here are a few body part words that Shimajiro showed us:

Head: atama
Nose: hana
Eyes: me
Ears: mimi
Mouth: kuchi
Shoulders: kata
Legs: ashi
Hands: te

I am sure the kids would love to teach any parent willing to listen the body parts in Japanese.

Stay Japanesey.

From

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE

Only two weeks to go. The challenge finishes on 27th August 2021. Our goal is for all students to complete the reading challenge and have read 20 books. Please send in your reading log sheets as soon as they are completed.

A book is a dream you hold in your hand.

P&C NEWS

MEMORY TILES

A reminder to year 6 students that your Memory Tile artwork/order form and payment is due by Monday August 23.

JAMES NASH SCHOLARSHIPS NOW OPEN

2022 Year 7 Scholarships are now open!

We are pleased to announce that scholarships for Year 7 students joining us in 2022 are now open.

The James Nash State High School Parents and Community Association (P&C) has sponsored the Scholarship program for the past 13 years. Recently the decision was made to extend the Scholarship program to provide an additional 4 scholarships, which recognises high performing students who may be experiencing financial hardship.

Scholarship Overview:

* English/History/Geography Scholarship
* Mathematics / Science Scholarship
* The Arts Scholarship
* Sporting /All Rounder Scholarship
* Equity Scholarship

Three scholarships are available in each category for high performing students who demonstrate high levels of achievement in their area.

Download an application form on our website here.

All forms must be returned to the School by 3pm 17 September 2021 or emailed to kwalk308@eq.edu.au by this time.

PREP 2022

If you have a child attending Prep in 2022 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. By adding your child to our current waiting list you will receive information regarding our Prep Transition Programs and information sessions.

ART COMPETITION FOR CHILD PROTECTION WEEK

Students have the opportunity to enter the Gympie Kids Creativity competition for Child Protection Week. This could be a drawing, painting, collage, short story, poem or even your own song lyrics. Get your entry in before Friday 27th August – you can leave your entry at your school office, drop it off at Gympie Community Place, 18 Excelsior Rd, or take a photo of your entry and email it to llagympie@gcp.org.au Click on the link below to download your entry form.

TENNIS GYMPIE PRIMARY SCHOOL CHALLENGE YEARS 2 TO 6

Tennis Gympie will be holding the 4th Primary School Challenge for 2021 at The Reg English Memorial Tennis Centre on Cartwright Road on Thursday 26th August from 3.30pm to 5.00pm

The cost is $10 per player, $15 for 2 players from the same family or $20 for 3 or more players from the same family including a free sausage sizzle. The challenges will be based on our Hot Shots Tennis in Schools programs and Holiday Fun Tournament events and all players will be placed into groups of appropriate skill levels (eg Red, Orange and Green Ball Levels).

Heaps of fun and prizes and a chance to represent your school.

Note: Players from the winning school must play a minimum of 4 challenges to be eligible for a medallion.