Principal’sReport

Flying Fish Point State School

Term 3 Issue 12

DATES TO REMEMBER

• Friday Aug 24 -Book Character Dress Up • Friday Sports

Water bottle and hats

Weekly Activities: • Library book ex-

change on Mondays • Chappy visits us

every Tuesday and every second Wednesday

• HPE every Monday • Music every Tues-

day • High quality

teaching and learning—every day!

• Instrumental Mu-sic is Wednesdays from 2—3pm.

• Lunch Time Library - Thurs-days.

Respect for self—Respect for others—Respect for property

Phone:

07 4063 5111

23 August, 2018

PRINCIPAL’S PEN

STUDENT ABSENCE

MAILBOX NUMBER

40635166

You can also email

Julie on

jschi28@eq.edu.au

Year 4/5/6 Student of the Week

was awarded to Abbey for being a wonderful friend who is willing to assist

people all the time. Congratulations Abbey Butcher!

Week 6

Prep/1/2/3 Student of the Week

was awarded to Gino and Quentin for improved quality of work in writing

tasks. Congratulations Gino Chiozzini and

Quentin Vang!

Week 5

LOTE: CHINESE Seniors will receive their report cards from SDE this week with their results of Chinese lessons. Lessons are continuing this term. PARENT SURVEY Please have your say by going on line and answering the EQ sur-vey. Currently only four parents have responded. Your opinion counts! READING EXPECTATIONS I had the pleasure of listening to lower school students reading to me while waiting for the bus. That is the joy of reading, you can do it anywhere at any time. Please encourage our students to read. Parents and careers, all students should have a reading record kept in their homework folder. All students are expected to read every night and we ask parents to please sign off to let us know our stu-dents have spent time reading.

HUGE THANK YOU

To the parents who diligently worked to make our cent sale and fete such a great success. THANK YOU! To the sponsors of our many, many prizes without you we would not have had the success we did. THANK YOU! To the community who supported our event, we appreciate your generosity. THANK YOU! To the staff at our school, who work endlessly to improve our school. THANK YOU! To the students of our school who worked throughout the day, what a wonderful contribution you are. THANK YOU!

COMMUNITY NEWS

Chappy News

EXPLICT IMPROVEMENT AGENDA -ATTENDANCE

Chappy news

Most children believe that they are “a good friend”, but don’t automa�cally have the skills needed to ac-

tually BE friendly. In the P-3 class we are thinking about the things we should always do, besides the obvi-

ous ones of sharing the conversa�on, listening, using manners, and smiling.

Friendly people remember to praise their friends when they do something well. They do helpful things

for others (without expec�ng return), and always give back things they’ve borrowed quickly.

Friendly people think about other people’s feelings before they speak (if you can’t think of something

nice, be quiet!). If they have a disagreement, they try to work it out quickly. They are ready to try other

people’s ideas, not always needing to be the boss.

Friendly people remember that their friends have a right to their own opinion – you don’t have to agree

about everything to be friends.

In coming weeks we’ll be talking about things we should try NOT to do if we want to be a good friend!

How wonderful it is to see our attendance data improving, well done everyone!

Let’s work together to improve our school attendance data in term 3.

Could everyone please ensure student contact details are up to date so we can call and find out why a child is absent? This will help decrease our unexplained absenteeism.

If we can help with attendance difficulties, please come and have a talk with us.

PREP 89.25%

YEAR 1 79.71%

YEAR 2 91.75%

YEAR 3 91.75%

YEAR 4 91.79%

YEAR 5 93.75%

YEAR 6 90.22%

GRADE % IN JULY

4/5/6 CLASS CAPERS

Prep/1/2/3 Class Capers

Dear Parents and Caretakers the following information is designed to keep you up to date with what your students are learning in our class this term.

English Unit for term 3

Examining traditional stories

In this unit students read and analyse traditional stories from Asia and from Aboriginal peoples' and Torres Strait Islander peoples' histories and cultures. They demonstrate understanding of the stories by identifying structural and language features, finding literal and inferred meaning and explaining the message or moral. Students plan, create and present a traditional story which includes a moral for a younger audience.

Throughout the unit, all students have opportunities to develop their higher-order thinking skills. Students develop skills in thinking when they are encouraged to reflect, inquire, generate, and analyse, synthesise and evaluate.

Throughout this unit, students will require ready access to ICT.

Math Units for Term 3

Year 4 Money and financial mathematics (MFM) - represent, calculate and round amounts of money required for purchases and change

Number and place value (NPV) - model and interpret number representations, sequence number values, apply number concepts and place

value understanding to the calculation of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, develop fluency with multiplication fact families,

apply mental and written computation strategies, recall multiplication and division facts and apply place value to partition and regroup num-

bers to assist calculations Fractions and decimals (FD) - partition to create fraction families, identify, model and represent equivalent fractions, count by fractions, solve

simple calculations involving fractions with like denominators, model and represent tenths and hundredths, make links between fractions

and decimals, count by decimals, compare and sequence decimals Location and transformation (LT) - investigate different types of symmetry, analyse and create symmetrical designs Using units of measurement (UUM) - use scaled instruments to measure and compare length, mass, capacity and temperature, measure are-

as using informal units and investigate standard units of measurement Shape (S) - compare the areas of regular and irregular shapes using informal units of area measurement Patterns and algebra (PA) - use equivalent addition and subtraction number sentences to find unknown quantities.

All students will be bringing home a science sheet about how your family use water at your home. The task is very

simple to do and we will collect all student's data to make a graph about the variety of water uses at different

homes. Please ask (tell them to do it!) your child if this le3er and task hasn't surfaced by Friday this week as it is

due back no later than Monday 27th.

The 'Deadly Australians' presenta�on on Tuesday was brilliant and the students seemed to learn a lot, considering

the amount of ques�ons that they asked the presenter and facts and ques�ons I am now receiving. So we are

going to be wri�ng informa�on texts about some of the animals we saw or talked about at Deadly Australians. I

will send home a copy of your child's completed one so you can share in the excitement.

Math focus for the next couple of weeks is �me (reading a clock and digital �me, o'clock and half and quarter past

for the older students, days of the week, months) and addi�on and subtrac�on strategies. A clock tends to cause

some confusion for a while with most

children so if you get the opportunity

please discuss what 'the �me' is with your

child at home, including minutes and hour

hands.

Does anyone need a hand with sor�ng a

costume for World Expo Day? ....happy to

help with ideas if you let me know.

Lastly, with the cold snap we are gather-

ing a stockpile of jumpers, tracksuit pants

and so on at school. Could you PLEASE

check your child's clothing is labelled so

we can return it to them when we find

them under trees, in covered play areas,

on verandas, in other student's desks and

even on/under my desk!

have a lovely week

Stasia Abraham