4 May 2022

Newsletter Articles

LEADERSHIP TEAM REPORT

ANZAC DAY

Jones Hill continued the proud tradition and community spirit by attending ANZAC Day Services this year. Mr Watt, Mrs Crow and the Leadership Team travelled to Brisbane for the ANZAC Day commemoration in the city. Our School Captains and students attended the ANZAC Day Dawn Service and we had over 100 students and staff participate in the ANZAC Day School March down Mary Street. We showed our respect and acknowledged the sacrifice that so many men and women made and continue to make to keep our country safe.

RUGBY LEAGUE GALA DAY

The Jones Hill Rugby League Team competed at the Gala Day last week. Mr Littler was very proud of their team work and the spirit in which they played the game. The team had a great day developing their skills and competing against other schools.

DISTRICT CROSS COUNTRY

On Tuesday, Jones Hill students competed at the District Cross Country at the One Mile Ovals. The students competed with determination and gave their best effort. Congratulations to Lily who came 1st and Joey, who came 3rd. These students were selected for the District Cross Country Team and will compete at the Wide Bay Trials later this term.

GYMPIE SHOW

Our students and staff have put together a beautiful display for the Gympie Show. If you are attending the Show don’t forget to pop upstairs in the pavilion for a look.

REPORT CARD

Report Cards will be emailed home in Week 1, Term 3.

This is to allow teachers more time to complete units of work and assessments, due to Term 1 interruptions.

NAPLAN ONLINE

NAPLAN is used by governments, education authorities and schools to determine whether young Australians are meeting important goals in literacy and numeracy.

All students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are expected to sit the NAPLAN tests, which are held in May each year.

NAPLAN gives a snapshot of how children are performing in reading, writing, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and numeracy. It complements other effective classroom assessment and reporting practices.

Online testing

In 2020, federal, state and territory education ministers agreed that all schools will transition to delivering NAPLAN online by 2022.

Benefits of online testing include:

• 'tailored testing', which gives students questions better suited to their ability, resulting in more precise results
• improving student engagement through computer-based tests.

2022 Test dates

NAPLAN testing window — 10–20 May 2022.

For information regarding the NAPLAN testing timetable, contact your child’s school or visit ACARA’s NAPLAN test timetables website.

Test times and materials

This document summarises the session time of each test and lists the materials allowed.

Format of the tests

For all eligible year levels (Years 3, 5, 7 and 9) there are 4 test domains: writing, reading, conventions of language and numeracy. Below is a summary of the format for each test.

• Writing: Students are given a stimulus and asked to construct a response to the task. Their response will be based on a particular text type (narrative or persuasive). Students in Years 3 and 5 will receive different writing stimuli to students in Years 7 and 9, both of the same genre. All Year 3 students sit the writing test on paper.
• Reading: Students are given a range of texts to read. They respond to the test items using a range of response types such as multiple choice, hotspot and drag and drop items.
• Conventions of language: Students will respond to grammar and punctuation as well as spelling items. The response formats will be multiple choice, short response and other interactive response types such as hotspot and drag and drop items.
• Numeracy: Students will respond to numeracy items. The response formats will be multiple choice, short response and other interactive response types such as hotspot and drag and drop items. Students will also have access to online numeracy tools (ruler, protractor or calculator), depending on their year level. For Years 7 and 9, the numeracy test includes a non-calculator section and a calculator-allowed section.

More information

For more information about NAPLAN:

• visit the National Assessment Program (NAP) website
• email naplan@qcaa.qld.edu.edu

Kind Regards,

James Watt - Principal
Stacey Seed – Deputy Principal

EVENTS CALENDAR

PARADE AWARDS

CLASS AWARDS

The following students will receive Behaviour Awards for displaying the school values of Respect, Learning, Safety and Relationships. Parade will be filmed for parents to view on Facebook.

PM: Zavier; PR: Zayne; 1B: Phoebe;1D: Kahleesie; 2A: Evelyn; 2E: Isabella; 2F: Chloe; 2/3B: Silas; 3D: Logan; 3S: Lucy; 4B: Peyton; 4G: Isabella; 4/5C: Inca; 5PD: Zac; 5/6C: Anabelle;6K: Naomi; 6R: Cooper; Japanese: 2/3B: Leo; 4G: Amelia

TOKEN AWARDS

20 Tokens:

PC: Braxton, Ryan, Marlee, Skyla, Harlow, Grace; PR: Kyron, Elleena, Torben, Aubrey, Lavinya; 1D: Emelia, Bailey, Ally, Caleb; 2A: Felicity; 2F: Lila; 2/3B: Charlie; 3D: LeBron, Cohen, Tyler, Blake, Ryder, Emilia, Luke, Jack, Delilah, Mia; 4B: Hayley, Jasmin, Clayton, Grace, Peyton, Makayla, Alani; 4G: Chace, Annabelle, Zion, Chase, Lewis; 4/5C: Ciara, Maddison Kelly-Gallagher, Shaeya, Madison, Lochlan, Inca, Miah; 5PD: Indy, Jakob; 5/6C: Savanah, Charlize, Bella; 6K: Bethany, Garry, Adelayde; 6R: Benjamin, Amali, Madison, Tyler, Tilly, Luca, Linkin, Maliki, Belle

BEHAVIOUR LEVEL AWARDS

SILVER: 2E: Isabella

FROM THE BUSINESS MANAGER

Winter Trees on Mary

Our school is making a new creation for Winter Trees on Mary this year. We are looking for donations of white or black wool. If you have any spare white or black wool please drop it into our school library.

2023 ENROLMENT

Enrol Now

Do you have a child who will be starting Prep in 2023? Please fill out the form below and return it to our school office or email to jhurr5@eq.edu.au to add their name to our enrolment list.

PREP 2023 Transition Program

During this year we will hold a number of different events to help children who are enrolling for Prep in 2023 become familiar with our school, our staff and give them and their parents and understanding of what school life is like. All prospective Prep students and their parents are welcome to attend as many of these events as they can.

Our first morning will be a Teddy Bear Play Day being held on Thursday, May 19. It will run from 9:00 to 10:00 in our Prep Playground. The morning will include lots of fun activities for you and your Teddy Bear. Please bring a water bottle and hat. R.S.V.P. can be emailed to jhurr5@eq.edu.au

To view our full Prep Transition Program please click on the link below:

RELAY FOR LIFE

Taste Buds Fundraiser

We are excited to announce we are holding a Taste Buds Fundraiser. Tastebuds offer a range of Flavourful Spices, Savoury Salts and Rubs, Decadent Chocolate Powders and Versatile mixes. Tastebuds products are handcrafted and blended on the Sunshine Coast.

This is a fun, tasty and easy way for you to support our Relay for Life Team and the Queensland Cancer Council. 50% of all sales will go directly into our team fundraising for Gympie Regional Relay for Life. Orders are placed online and delivered straight to your door.

To check out the great range of products and to place an order click on the link below.

The website will also give you access to great recipes.

When finalising your order please use the following code to ensure the sale is allocated to our fundraiser.

Code: joneshill

For more information the brochure link above

Join Our Team

Gympie Relay for Life will be taking place in September this year. We would like to invite all students to become members of our 2022 team. To register for our team please follow the link below. If you would like further information please see Mrs Hurren or email jhurr5@eq.edu.au.

NAPLAN

NAPLAN Online

Staff and students are excitedly anticipating our upcoming NAPLAN online sessions. Students have been eagerly practicing their skills in the online platform. Students have practiced how to use the tools to answer a variety of numeracy questions, spelling and grammar, reading comprehension questions as well as typing an imaginative or persuasive text.

Here are some questions to try:

SWPBS

What a wonderful start to the term we have had. Students have been demonstrating our expected behaviour of Respect, Learning, Safety and Relationships when lining up before and after break times.

This week, students have been reminded about how to play safely in the playgrounds. Classes have discussed that playing safely includes:

• Wearing a sun safe hat
• Using play equipment safely
• Waiting for turns patiently
• Following instructions
• Allowing others to have personal space
• Walking on concrete
• Being in the correct areas

Student leaders have been helping classes to learn about the expected behaviours by supporting behaviour lessons with short videos. The student leaders have been making short videos explaining the behaviour lesson for the week and interviewing some students and staff about what that lesson is. Teachers are then able to show these videos to their class.

MATH

In 2/3B we love to play maths games! Why math games? Games give students opportunities to explore fundamental number concepts, such as the counting sequence, one-to-one correspondence, and computation strategies. Engaging mathematical games can also encourage students to explore number combinations, place value, patterns, and other important mathematical concepts. We slowly introduce a repertoire of games and over time the kids become familiar with each one. Here are some pictures that we would like to share.

GUM TREE CAFÉ NEWS

The Gum Tree Cafe is open four days a week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at first break only.

• Orders are to be placed online only using the QKR! app.
• All orders need to be placed before 9am.
• A reminder that two days’ notice is required for Birthday Buckets.

Richelle and Trina – Tuckshop Conveyers

HOTSHOTS TENNIS COACHING PROGRAM

Gympie and District Tennis Association Coach Michael Morton will commence Hotshots lessons at Jones Hill State School starting from the May 9.

Lessons will be on Monday and Wednesday mornings from 8:00am to 8:45am.

• Monday will be red or orange ball, ages 5 to 9
• Wednesday mornings will be green or yellow ball, ages 9+.

Price is $150 for the term (10 x $15) or based on what week you start in the term.

Registration

To register for the program please contact Michael on 0408 306 859 or Michael.tennisgympie@hotmail.com.

Payments can be made directly to Michael either by direct deposit BSB: 084 602 Acct: 75 144 8789 students name as reference or by cash.

Thanks Coach Michael.

GYMPIE STATE HIGH SCHOOL YEAR 7 ENROLMENT INFORMATION

With enrolment processes for 2023 commencing this week, please find below electronic copies of Gympie State High School “Enrolment Processes”, “Intent to Enrol” and “Scholarship Application” documents.

GYMPIE JUNIOR GOLF

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.