2 November 2022

Newsletter Articles

LEADERSHIP TEAM REPORT

Hi Everyone,

Day for Daniel – Australia’s largest child safety education and awareness day.

Last Friday, Jones Hill students and staff wore red to recognise and support Day for Daniel – Australia’s largest child safety education and awareness day. We had special guest speakers from the Gympie Police, Detective Cunningham and Detective Stibbard, who spoke to the whole school parade about the importance of child safety, having five adults who can help you and strategies to keep you safe.

Cairns Trip

This Sunday, seventy-eight year 5 and 6 Jones Hill students are heading off on an adventure of a lifetime to Cairns. A fantastic learning journey including snorkelling on The Great Barrier Reef, a visit to the Cairns Aquarium, exploring the Daintree Rainforest and Mossman Gorge, being immersed in First Nations culture, the wonder of the Australian Butterfly Sanctuary and the excitement of the Cairns ZOOM and Wildlife Dome. There will be many stories to share and memories to cherish for a long time.

COLOUR RUN EXPLOSION

Our colour run explosion which was postponed due to the weather will now be held Friday, November 4.

• 11:50 to 1:05pm – Year 3 to 6 including 2/3B
• 1:40 and 2:40pm. – Prep to year 2

Participating students are to come to school this Friday wearing a white shirt. Students are also encouraged to bring a towel and their school shirt to change into afterwards. All students catching a bus, must bring dry clothes to wear home.

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.

CLASS AWARDS

PC – Koah; PM – Willow; PR – Mila; 1B – Bailey; 1D – Fleur-Bella; 1S – Johnathon; 2A – Jakob; 2E – Brooklyn; 2F – Laylah; 2/3B – Aiden; 3D – Sienna; 3S – Alivia-Lee; 4B – Zanthe; 4G – Zion; 4/5C – Inca; 5PD – Jackson; 6K – Bethany; 6R – Hayden; Japanese – Charlie (1B)

TOKEN AWARDS

20 Tokens: 2E – Isla; 5PD - Casey
40 Tokens: 1B – Leon; 2F - Mia; 6K – Tyler
60 Tokens: PC – Emilia, Skyla; PM – Jake; 1D – Riley; 2E – Flynn, Ashton; 3S – Ryan, Blake; 4B – Lily, Lincoln, Shelby; 4G – Jack, Brodie; 6K – Layne; 6R - Archie

80 Tokens: PC – William, Ryan, Marlee, Koah, Ada, Lilly, Braxton, Judson, Harlow, Piper, Kenzie, Hudson; PM – Hamish, Vincent; 1B – Jack, Ben; 1S – Jaylen, Myah; 2/3B – Alec, Maggie, Aiden; 3D – Skye, Jayden; 3S – Alanna, Troy, Emilia, Amelia, Ryder, Alivia-Lee; 4B – Jaxson, Jasmin, Peyton, Alani, Nate, Marshal; 4G – Mia, Lelu, Angus, Isabella; 4/5C – Sophie, Izzabella; 5PD – Indi, Aubrey, Kyran, Savannah, Charlee, Clara, Jackson; 6K – Caleb, Naomi; 6R – Ben, Tilly

100 Tokens: PC – Mason, Hamish, Kingsley, Grace; PR – Zayne; 1B – Connor, Charlie; 1S – Georgia, Kobi, Alex; 2F – Sienna, Bridgette; 3D – Hallie, Amity-Rose; Bonnie, Emily; 3S – Olivia; 4B – Hayley, Stella, Sadie, Tamika; 4/5C – Ciara, Beau; 5PD – Lincolne; 6R – Hayden, James, Jazmyn, Lollee

BEHAVIOUR LEVEL AWARDS

Silver: 1D – Remy, Emelia, Addelynn, Noah, Bailey, Jackson, Knight, Kiah, Quinn

Platinum: 4/5C – Temujin; 5PD – Zeke, Indy; 6R – Tilly, Amali

FROM THE BUSINESS MANAGER

YEAR 5/6 CAIRNS TRIP

Our year 5 and 6 students are eagerly looking forward to their trip to Cairns leaving on Sunday, November 6. The students must be at the Jones Hill School Bus Area at 6am sharp.

The group will arrive back at Brisbane airport at 7pm on Thursday, November 10. They will then bus home to Jones Hill arriving by 10pm. Communication updates will be via text and Facebook.

If your child requires medications please have this to the school office by Friday, November 4.

Water bottles and bag tags will be handed out on Friday, November 4.

STUDENT RESOURCE SCHEME

Invoices for the 2023 SRS will be generated this week. If you have outstanding SRS fees from 2022, you will not be eligible to join the scheme in 2023 until your fees are paid.

Jones Hill School operates a Student Resource Scheme (SRS) to:

• Minimise the costs to parents/carers of providing textbooks and other learning resources for their child/ren, by securing discounts, through early payment and bulk ordering.
• Ensure that an adequate bank of resources is available to guarantee a good quality education for all students.
• The cost per child is $120 and has been this amount since the program started 5 years ago. The majority of parents utilise the SRS.
• The scheme does not provide any funds for the Parents' and Citizens' Association, is entirely voluntary and parents/carers are under no obligation to join.
• The SRS operates under the policies and guidelines of the Department of Education. A parent who does not wish to join the scheme is responsible for providing the student with the items that would otherwise have been provided to the student by the scheme as detailed on the year level subject requirements list, to enable the student to engage with the curriculum.
• Parents wishing to take advantage of the services provided by the SRS sign the relevant form agreeing to the conditions therein upon enrolment and then pay the annual SRS participation fee. The SRS provides the entire package for the specified participation fee and is not available in part.

A parent's participation or non-participation in the scheme will continue as per their previously completed Participation Agreement Form. A parent can opt in or out of the scheme in subsequent years by completing another “Participation Agreement Form".

MATH

In Mathematics, Prep M have been using number to represent quantities up to 20 and beyond. We make quantities by using many varied materials such as counters, teddies, paddle pop sticks, farm animals, rubber bugs, pom poms, sticks, leaves and other items which can be manipulated through ‘hands on’ investigations.

We gain understanding by connecting number names, numerals and quantities. Our fluency is built through counting numbers in sequence and continuing patterns. We use problem solving when we use familiar counting sequences to solve unfamiliar problems and discuss the reasonableness of our answers with our friends. We use reasoning when we explain our solutions to our team members. And most important of all, we have fun while we learn new mathematical skills and grow our understanding of numbers together!

WRITING COMPETITION

One of our year 5 students, Indy recently took part in a Writing competition. She wrote a very moving poem called The Outback. Indy was in the top 5% and received an Excellence in Writing certificate. Congratulations Indy. Below is the poem she wrote.

PEER SKILLS

In the coming weeks, ten of our Year 5 students at Jones Hill State School will be chosen to participate in a Uniting Care/Lifeline 2-day Peer Skills Workshop facilitated by staff of the school. These students will be selected from the current Year 5 cohort.

Peer Skills is based on research that suggests that while many young people share their problems with their parents, often they turn first to their peers and friends. Research supports the idea that young people view their peers as an approachable and credible source of support, and that young people can successfully help each other. Help seeking and help giving skills are also significantly increased through training.

The workshop will aim to provide our students with the confidence and skills they need to respond in the best possible way when a friend turns to them with a concern and/or problem.

The students will be supported by Mr Sonny Pellinkhof (Sensei) and we look forward to building on our positive and supportive school environment.

KOALA KIDS

Vacation Care

Koala Kids OSHC will once again provide Vacation Care for the December/January break. Please find attached a booking form that should be returned as soon as possible. If you are wanting to use our Service but have not yet enrolled your children, please click on this link;

LITTLE KOALAS PLAYGROUP

Great News! Little Koalas Playgroup will be continuing in Term 4. Mrs Mitchell and Mrs Adamson will be running the playgroup from 2pm-3pm in the PM classroom. If you have a little person, aged 0-5 years and would like to attend the playgroup, please come along and join in the fun. If you would like more information please contact Julie Mitchell on 54 890 555.

REWARDS DAY

On Friday, December 9 students will be given the opportunity to celebrate their behaviour achievements for 2022.

• Years 4-6 Gold and Platinum students we be attending a day excursion to Coolum Aqua Park.
• Years 2-3 Gold students will be attending a day excursion to the Gympie Aquatic Centre.
• Years 1-6 Silver students will be attending a half day excursion to the Gympie Aquatic Centre.
• Years 1-6 Bronze students will remain at school and participate in fun rotational activities.
• Years 1-6 Orange and Red students will remain at school and be involved in building a plan for improved behaviour for 2023.

Invoices, permission, medical forms and information will be sent home in the next weeks. Those attending Coolum Aqua Park must also fill in and return a waiver. Please return payment and all forms before Friday 18th November.

Permissions are signed on the understanding that a student’s behaviour level may change during the time period leading up to Rewards Day. A drop or rise in behaviour level will change the Rewards Day activities that your child is eligible to attend.

The approximate costs for activities are:

• Years 4-6 Platinum and Gold (Coolum Aqua Park): $50
• Years 2-3 Gold (Gympie Aquatic Centre): $27
• Years 1-6 Silver (Gympie Aquatic Centre): $12

BOOK FAIR

We wish to say a huge thank you to everyone involved for supporting our School Library’s Book Fair, “Paws for Books.”

It was so much fun, having so many visit our Book Fair to ‘paws’, read through a great ‘tail’ or two and select some great buys.

Every book or product you bought from our Book Fair, earned free books for our School Library!

We are now lucky enough to be able to buy approximately $2000 worth of new books and valuable resources for your School Library … again, thank you!

Our “Guess How Many Dog Bone Biscuits” in the jar competition was very popular. Each winner received a $10 voucher to spend at the Book Fair. Great guessing from our winners.

P- 2 jar had 16 biscuits. Winners were: William B, Khai (PM); Ferris, Carter, Jack (1B); Fleur Bella (1D); Stanley (1S) & Theo (2A).

3-6 jar had 40 biscuits. Winners were Sunny (4/5C); Zac (5PD); Charlee (5PD) & Mrs Delisser.

Reading Rocks … Mrs Walters & Mrs Spence

GUM TREE CAFÉ NEWS

Tuckshop

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

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.