1 June 2022

Newsletter Articles

LEADERSHIP TEAM REPORT

Year 6 into 7 Parent Information Session

James Nash and Gympie High School will be holding an information session for parents of children currently in year 6 on Thursday, June 2 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. This session will be held in the Jones Hill Year 6 rooms, top floor of F Block. You will receive information regarding the transition process from Primary to High School. You will also have the opportunity to meet the staff and learn about life at high school.

Jones Hill Sports Day

Jones Hill Sports Day will be held on the last day of term 2, Friday, June 24. The students are busy practising their running, throwing and jumping skills in preparation for a fun-filled day of competition and doing their best. Parents are welcome to attend this event. Students will need to wear their coloured shirt for Sports Day – Doran is yellow, McPaul is blue and Radford is red. Long distance races will be held on Wednesday, June 22.

Peer Skills: Helping Young People To Help Others

It is often said that while many young people share their problems with their parents, often they turn first to their peers when troubled.

In recognition of this, selected Senior students at Jones Hill State School will be receiving training to support and help their friends through Peer Skills - a Uniting Care Lifeline program. The program will be run by Sensei (Sonny Pellinkhof) and Mrs Munn at Jones Hill State School.

The two-day workshop, planning to be held June 9th and 10th, week 8 of this term, will train students in support skills, help seeking, communication and problem-solving strategies in a bid to prevent everyday problems escalating to more serious mental health issues.

Jones Hill State School would like to thank the People at Uniting Care Lifeline program for the opportunity to present this workshop.

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.

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. Parents are welcome to join us at parade. Parade will be filmed and uploaded to Facebook.

PC: Ada; PM: Elena; PR: Mila; 1B: Ben; 1D: Shaye; 1S: Lilliah; 2A: Jemma; 2E: Noah; 2F: Lila; 2/3B: Jake; 3D: Ashtyn; 3S: Luke; 4B: Ava; 4G: Angus; 4/5C: Ciara; 5/6C: Katie-Rose; 6K: Kaden; 6R: Julian; Japanese: 1D: Hayden, 6K: Naomi

TOKEN AWARDS

20 Tokens: 2E: Ryleigh; 2F: Chloe; 4B: Jaxson, Zanthe, Ethan, Shelby, Carson; 4G: Joseph; 5PD: Indianna, Aubrey, Kaylah, Savannah, Charlee, Lincolne, Ezekiel, Lillianna; 6R: Julian; Jacob

40 Tokens: PC: Mason, Harlow, Hamish; PM: Charlie, Deonte, Sophia, Charlotte, Willow, Avery, Norah, William; PR: Kelsey, Jasper, Eva, Zayne, Alice; 1B: Quinn, Blake, Carter; 1D: Bailey; 1S: Hudson, Sammy, Charlotte; 2A: Austin, Shaleigh; 2F: Lila, Natalie, Thomas, Sienna, Isla; 2/3B: Lorie, Silas, Alec, Aiden, Pypa, Charlie; 3D: Ruby, Jack, Hailo, Shane, Indiana; 4B: Stella, Sadie, Tamika, Makayla, Alani; 4G: Amelia; 4/5C: Ethan, Wynter, Beau, Sophie; 5/6C: Hunter, Lily; 6R: Lollee

60 Tokens: 2A: Evelyn, Marli, Theo

Please note that due to supply difficulties, students receiving 40 token awards will only receive a certificate at parade. Reward prizes will be given out once stock arrives.

FROM THE BUSINESS MANAGER

Year 5/6 Cairns Trip News

As you are aware the Cairns Trip has been postponed until 6/11/2022 to 10/11/22. The postponement was decided upon so that we could reduce the risk of students being isolated due to Covid-19 or flu. Due to this change there was a small rise in price for our accommodation of $40. Invoices for this will be sent home today.

A parent meeting will be held next term. Please don’t hesitate to contact the school office if you have any questions on 54890555.

Vacation Care

If you wish to book in for Vacation Care for the June/July holidays please click on the link below.

Found

These glasses have been found at school. Please come and see us in the office if they belong to you.

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

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

P&C PIE DRIVE

Pie Drive forms were sent home this week. All orders must be placed through QKR and are due by Monday, June 6. (Forms do not need to be returned). Delivery date is Thursday, June 23.

RELAY FOR LIFE

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.

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

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE

The Premier's Reading Challenge has begun. The PRC is not a competition but a way to encourage students to develop a love of reading for life. Students are encouraged to select a range of fiction and non-fiction books suited to their reading ability and record books read during the reading period, between 9 May to 26 August. Teachers will be handing out reading record forms for students to complete.

Over the last few years, we have had great success with having every student at Jones Hill State School complete the challenge and our school has an honourable mention on the PRC website.

To complete the challenge:

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

Class teachers will receive a reading record form for each student to complete. Prep and year 1 teachers can choose whether to complete a whole class form or individual forms.

Students can record books read at home, in home reading, guided reading groups, class reading, library books and books that are read to them or that they listen to.

We encourage all students to complete the challenge. Please send completed forms to the school office.

Every student who completes the challenge will receive a Certificate of Achievement signed by the Premier. I look forward to seeing as many of our students as possible take part in the 2022 Premier’s Reading Challenge.

MATH

Maths Madness in Year 5

Our Year 5PD students have already covered a range of topics in maths this term. They have been working hard on building a range of mental multiplication and division strategies. So far they have developed their capabilities in using the split strategy, the compensate strategy and the area model. These are tough concepts drawing on a deep knowledge of place value and automaticity of number facts so well done to our students for tackling these concepts.

5PD students have also been learning about fractions and decimal numbers. We cut up a cake and found the more people we had to share and divide the cake with, the smaller our pieces of cake got. This helped students understand the relationship between the denominator and the size of the fractions allowing us to order and compare fractions. We also practised adding and subtracting fractions and found equivalent fractions using coloured water and baking cups. The class enjoyed combining some kinaesthetic learning in their Maths lesson on ordering, representing and reading decimal numbers. The class was split into six groups and each group was timed doing four yoga poses. After each group had their turn we recorded the time to the hundredth of the second and then ordered them on a number line. We also practised how to convert numbers written in decimal representation to fractional representation.

We are now learning about reflectional and rotational symmetry. Students have enjoyed the opportunity to use the iPads to photograph symmetry they found in our school grounds and to create rotational symmetrical patterns and designs.

There’s never a dull moment in Maths in year 5 and we are very proud of the all of the effort our students apply to their maths learning.

Mrs Picone and Mrs Dunn

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. Enrolment forms are due by June 24.

JAMES NASH STATE HIGH SCHOOL

Enrolment packages are available now. Enrolment forms are due by June 24.

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

LITTLE HAVEN GRATITUDE WALK

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.

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.