Issue 19 12 December 2019

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS SS website address is: http://www.fairviewheightsss.eq.edu.au

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this Land on which our school stands; where the Giabal and Jarowair peoples have performed age-old ceremonies of music, dance, storytelling and celebration. We acknowledge and pay respect to the Elders, past, present and emerging, for they hold the hopes, memories and traditions of Aboriginal, Torres Strait and South Sea Island peoples. We honour those who carved their footsteps in the sands of time.

Year 6 Awards:

2019 Dux Sophie Gray & Noah Butler 2019 Principal’s Award Annabelle Glass

Digital Technology Award Phoenix Torney Trevor Watts All Rounder Award Jake Wilson

PE Award Lydia Boney Instrumental Music Award Piper Wiemers

German Award

Riley Becker, Sophie Gray & Piper Wiemers Deadly Ones Award Tasha Hall & Ella Morgan

Fiona Caffery’s Creative Arts Award Chaplaincy Award Emily Cummings

Piper Wiemers

WSHS Van Tricht Family Scholarship Recipient School Captains Cutting the 2019 Graduation Cake

Sophie Crowe

Congratulations to our 2019 end of year School Award recipients: The Turkington Achiever Award—Jenny Turnbull

Jenny has made amazing improvements in all aspects of her schooling. The management of her behaviour has enabled her to make good gains in her learning.

The Bulloch Staff Recognition Award— Karen Oster

Karen has been a positive role model to all students who access the Library. Her ability to engage students in their learning is her special talent. She has had a positive effect on the school community in 2019. She doesn’t think of her job as work as she loves the FHSS community.

The P&C Community Service Award—Amanda Becker

Amanda has continually been a great support to our FHSS community in a voluntary capacity and currently holds the position of P&C Treasurer. She always demonstrates the generosity of volunteering to enhance the learning opportuni-ties for students and services at the school.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

REPORT CARDS Report cards were emailed to parents/carers yesterday. If you did not receive you child/ren’s Report Card please contact the school today.

DATE CLAIMERS Check in the Date Claimers Section of this newsletter. There are some activities already planned for 2020. We hope that this prior information will help with your financial planning for 2020.

URGENT—STUDENT MOVEMENT Please inform the school office if your child/ren will not be attending Fairview Heights next year. This information is vital to classes and staffing arrangements for 2020. Please let the Office Staff know the school that your child/ren will be attending and the last date of attendance so that transfers can be prepared.

ENROLMENT NUMBERS FOR 2020 We would like to continue to increase our enrolment num-bers for 2020. Parents of our school are best promoters for WHAT’S GREAT AND UNIQUE ABOUT FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS. So please promote our school and be a cam-paigner for increasing our enrolment numbers. We are an enrolment managed school, however, because we are not at capacity for 2020, we are able to accept enrolments out of the catchment area, until our numbers reach capacity. So if you know any families who are living out of the catch-ment area for Fairview Heights and want to come to Fair-view, could you let them know, so we can make arrange-ments for enrolment procedures. We look forward to further enrolment enquiries.

2020 PREP ENROLMENT PLACES AVAILABLE - Children born 1 JULY 2014—30 JUNE 2015

CLASSES FOR 2020 Following the same practice as last year we will be texting the most important information that is required for parents regarding Class placements, that is the Class teacher’s name and the name of your child’s class only. This infor-mation will be sent out to parents/carers during the first week of the Christmas holidays that is the week of Decem-ber 16. Please be on the lookout for this information. So once again, your email and mobile phone number should be up to date.

FINAL DAYS Friday 13 December is the last school day for 2019. This day is a designated school day and we use it as a clean-up day. Students attending school on this day will assist with general clean up duties and help with the shifting of learning materials to different classrooms. If parents do not wish to send their child/ren on Friday 13 December we ac-cept this decision. School will conclude for 2019 at 3.00pm on Friday 13 December and resume on Tuesday 28 January 2020. Monday 27 January is a public holiday to celebrate Australia Day.

CONTRACT TEACHERS We have had a number of contract teachers at our school throughout this year. Julie Rush and Dennis Lockhardt are completing their contracts this year. Each of these teachers have enriched the lives of their students and contributed in a variety of ways to our Fairview Heights school community. We wish them well in their future endeavours One of our permanent teachers, Liesa Harris, is taking leave for 2020 to have her 2

nd child. We wish her all the best and

look forward to receiving news of the baby’s arrival. Leisa will be back with us in 2021. Phil Ryan our Instrumental Music Teacher is undertaking a new circuit in Toowoomba next year. FHSS Band has cer-tainly grown in confidence and skill throughout the year be-cause of the quality of Phil’s teaching and guidance. Our Speech Therapist Sarah Megram is moving to Brisbane and our Guidance Officer Sharon Robertson is transferring to Toowoomba West Special School. Each of these staff mem-bers will be replaced in 2020 and their replacements will be introduced in our first Newsletter. I would like to thank these two ladies who have each given amazing support to ensure that our Students learning has been enriched.

P&C MEETING The first meeting for 2020 will be a General Meeting for the Fairview Heights State School on Tuesday 11 Febru-ary. Our Annual General Meeting next year will be our second meeting for the year, which will be held on Tues-day 10 March at 7.00pm. You are all very welcome to at-tend and I encourage you to mark these dates in your diary for 2020.

THANK YOU I would like to take this opportunity to thank our hard working P&C members. Barbara Wyatt and her executive team have provided great leadership for our school community and I thank them for their diligence, enthusiasm and loyalty throughout the school year. To the members of the P&C who have regularly attended meetings we thank you for your sup-port. New members are needed next year, so come along, you are very welcome.

Thank you to Monica Collins, Wendy Gall and their small band of tuckshop volunteers for providing our children with tuckshop throughout the year. Students, parents and Staff are appreciative of your efforts.

Thank you to all of my Fairview Staff for their wonderful work ethic throughout the year. Every staff member at Fairview is valued for the amount of time and effort that they give at all times to their given role. Each staff member has an integral role in making our school a GREAT SCHOOL. Con-gratulations!

2020 MEET THE TEACHER & BRING BOOKS AFTERNOON You are invited to bring your child/ren's School Re-sources to your child/ren's classroom where you will be

able to meet the Teacher between 3.00 – 4.00pm ONLY on Thursday 23 January 2020. There will be staff available to give directions to your class-rooms. We are hoping these arrangements make it easier for our families on the first day of school.

Julie

Yesterday at our final parade for the year, we celebrated the success of those students who have not received a major behaviour referral for the semester. These students were acknowledged with a commemorative badge and certificate. Congratulations to all our Students who consistently strive to uphold our PODS Values at Fairview Heights SS.

PBL BARREL DRAW

Week 10 Winners Phoenix & Lily

Wishing our Fairview Heights Community

a Wonderful Christmas with Family and Friends.

Enjoy the break & return refreshed for a fantastic

2020!!

Regards Julie & Team

As announced in our last Newsletter our 2020 School Captains are:

Luke Miller, Aariah Smith, Briana-Mae McDonald and Fletcher Weir

Student Council Leaders, Sports Captains and Music Captains were announced on parade yesterday.

Sports Captains:

Border House— Jacob Fry, Andre Diem, Theo Aston, Lucy Doherty

Freeman House— Flynn Edards, Hunter Doyle

Perkins House—Katelyn Doorley, Kaiden Philp, Zane Schefe, Milly Miller, Zoe Milne, Mikaela Blades

Music Captains:

Alana Chipisuboff, Savannah Parry, Angelina Rittmeyer, Zhyloh Darcy, Jorja Brockman, Tamara McAlister &

Harlen Sturgeon.

Student Council Leaders:

Alana Chipisuboff, Taylor Condie, Jorja Brockman, Savannah Parry, Hunter Doyle, Angelina Rittmeyer,

Tamara McAlister, Gao Joua Chang Jeyes, Andre Diem, Zoe Milne, Harley Dodds, Brooklyn Weaver, Shaydan Leigh Collins, Madalyn Schumann, Harlen Sturgeon, Chase Willmot, Theo Aston, Flynn Edards, Kaiden Philp, Zane Schefe, Sienna Mansfield, Bella Evitt, Jessica Steger, Jacob Fry, Hayddon Ford & all other school leaders.

2019 DATES TO REMEMBER

TERM 4

Thurs Dec 12 Free Dress Day—Gold Coin Donation

Fri Dec 13 Final Day of School 2019

Sat Dec 14 - Sun Jan 26

Summer School Holidays

2020 – TERM 1

Mon Jan 20 School Office Reopens 8.00—3:45pm

W-Th--F Jan 22-24

Pupil Free Days—Staff Only

Thurs Jan 23 2nd Hand Uniform Shop @ Tuckshop Open 2.30-4.00pm - NOTE Time Change

Thurs Jan 23 2020 Meet the Teacher & Bring Books Afternoon 3.00-4.00pm

Mon Jan 27 Australia Day Public Holiday

Tues Jan 28 First Day School—2020

Tues Jan 28 2nd Hand Uniform Shop @ Tuckshop Open 8.00-9.00am

Wed Feb 5 Tuckshop—1st Day for 2020

February Year 6 Senior Shirt Orders placed

Wed Feb 26 School Photos

Mon Mar 2 Swimming Lessons Yr 1,2,4 & 6 (2 weeks M,T & Th)

Sat Apr 4—Sun 19 Apr

Easter School Vacation

Hall-Thorpe Sports provides fun and educational care for

children outside of school hours. Our program encourages an active and healthy lifestyle with a focus

on the children’s interests.

The service is conveniently located on the school grounds and offers a fun filled Vacation Care program.

To book a spot in our program please call

46 387 965

or visit www.hallthorpesports.com.au

Check out some photos on our Hall-Thorpe Sports

Facebook site.

FUNDRAISER

THANK YOU

for supporting our Sausage

Sizzles. We raised

$709.00

for our Chaplaincy program!

Fairview Heights SS

TUCKSHOP AND

2nd Hand Uniform Shop

2020 Thursday 23 January

2.30—4.00pm Tuesday 28 January

8.00—9.00am

1st Day Tuckshop

Wednesday 5 February

Please Note: 2020 Tuckshop will be open Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

These are the winners with the most Literacy Pro points in each class for Term 4. They all received a book prize.

Congratulations!!

Year 2 Roman McLune and Caleb Bell Year 3 Bailey Fitzgerald 3/4T Harriet Johansen 4F Leah Bell 4V Samuel Briese 5F Ewan Mortimer 5V Briana-Mae McDonald 5H Mikaela Blades 6F Zach Farquharson 6V Noah Butler 6H Hayden Gooderham

2019 FINAL SWIMMING CARNIVAL RESULTS

AGE CHAMPIONS - BOYS AGE CHAMPIONS - GIRLS

AGE NAME

10 Roman Hill

11 Theo Aston

12 Jake Wilson

AGE NAME

10 Mikaela Blades

11 Lilly Wiemers

12 Sophie Gray

OVERALL CHAMPION HOUSE

PLACE HOUSE POINTS

1ST

Perkins 555

2ND

Freeman 445

3RD

Border 386

HOUSE SPIRIT AWARD

PLACE HOUSE

1ST

Freeman

2ND

Perkins

3RD

Border