Issue 9 31 May 2019

AMAZING— CRAZY HAIR, FREE DRESS DAY! Thank you to our school community for their generosity last Friday when the Student Council held their Free Dress Day for Chaplaincy Week. The Student Council raised $435.00 for our Chaplaincy program. Thank you to everyone and con-gratulations to our Student Council and Mrs Murphy for their willingness to organize the ”Crazy Hair Day.”

SCHOOL MUSICAL As you know from our last newsletter the Musical for 2019 is: Cinderella Rockerfella. It was last produced in 2015, so none of our Students in Years 4-6 would have been part of the Musical. The Musical will involve students from Years 4-6. During the Week of 17th June we will be conducting auditions for the major speaking parts for the school musi-cal and will announce which students have these parts at the end of this Term. I will then give those successful students an information sheet for their parents to read and sign, to say that they are willing to allow their child to participate in a Major Part of the musical. What this means is that they are agreeing to the commitment that is involved in being part of the musical.

All Students in Years 4-6 have received a Musical note. 102 Students have already signed up!! If your child/ren wish to sign up please read this note carefully and return the permission form by the extended date, Wednesday 5 June. If you have not received the note you may collect a copy from the school office.

The Musical “Cinderella Rockerfella” will be presented at the HIGHFIELDS CULTURAL CENTRE on Thursday 19 September.

As next Term progresses, there will be more notes about costumes and other requests for help sent home.

We are very excited about our 10th Musical and know that you will really enjoy the production.

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

DENTAL VAN VISIT The Dental Van has arrived and are seeing students already! A large number of forms have already been returned. If you haven’t completed and returned your form please do so as soon as possible to receive an appointment.

FOOTSTEPS Footsteps continues. The course objectives are to learn about the traditional forms of dance, dance skills, social skills and confidence. This is an 8 week course and is held each Monday during school time between 1.30pm and 3.00pm for students in Prep to Year 2

TERM 2 DISCO Save the date for the P&C’s Term 2 Disco on Friday 21 June. The theme for the night is ‘State of Origin’! I wonder which State will have the most supporters? Be on the lookout for the Disco Flyer next week.

P&C MEETING Our next P&C Meeting will be held on Tuesday 11 June, commencing at 7.00pm in the Staff Room. Everyone is welcome to attend.

SOUP & MUSIC WINTER CONCERT This evening is a great night for our band to perform for their fami-lies.. The Soup & Music Winter Concert is on Wednesday 12 June —6.30-7.30pm—in the School Hall. Please be sure to mark this date on your calendar. The concert will involve ALL Instrumental Music Students and our “Sing-Along” Choir.

EVERY DAY COUNTS School absenteeism and truancy can impact significantly on stu-dents' learning and wellbeing.

Research shows that in Queensland, higher student attendance is associated, on average, with higher student achievement. Addition-ally, attending school every day helps children to build social and emotional skills such as communication, teamwork and resilience.

Under the law, you must make sure your child is enrolled and at-tends school on all school days unless there is a reasonable ex-cuse. Schools must monitor attendance of students and follow up with parents and caregivers any unexplained absences

Please take the time to read the Department of Education’s “Regular School Attendance” flyer included at the end of this News-letter.

NEWSPAPERS NEWSPAPERS NEWSPAPERS

The wheelie bin located at the front of the school is our col-lection point for Newspapers. This is raising funds for sport-ing equipment etc. It is so easy to do - put your newspaper in the bins and the D&S Paper Company PAYS the school for the Newspapers. Many thanks to the families that are sending their newspaper to Fairview for recycling.

Julie Principal

2019 DATES TO REMEMBER

May 27 June 3,12,17

Footsteps Lessons Prep-Year 2

Tues June 4 West Zone Athletics @ O’Quinn St. Bus departs 7.45am SHARP!

Wed June 5 Musical Permissions Due—NO late notes accepted

Thurs June 6 Monday Meal Deal Orders due

Fri June 7 Prep Cobb & Co Excursion—Permission & Payment due

Mon June 10 Tuckshop Monday Meal Deal

Tues June 11 P&C Meeting 7.00pm in the Admin Building

Wed June 12 Soup & Music—Instrumental Music Concert 6.30-7.30pm @ Hall

Wed June 12 Life Education– Permission & Payment Due

Thurs June 13 Prep Cobb & Co Excursion

Fri June 14 Year 5 Camp Deposit Due

Fri June 14 Bookclub Due —Online orders ONLY - No Cash

Mon June 17-27 Life Education Prep-Year 6

Fri June 21 Under 8’s Day AM

Fri June 21 P&C Disco

Mon June 24 Yr 1 Highfields Pioneer Village Excursion—Permission & Payment due

Thurs June 27 Yr 1 Highfields Pioneer Village Excursion

Fri June 28 PBL Celebration Day

Fri June 28 Last Day Term 2

Sat Jun 29—Sun Jul 14

Winter School Holidays

TERM 3

Mon Sep 16-17 Musical Practise @ Highfields Cultural Centre 9am-2.45pm

Thurs Sep 19 School Musical Performance

TERM 4

Mon Nov 25-29 Year 6 Camp @ Tallebudgera

Mon Dec 2-4 Year 5 Camp @ Emu Gully

REGULAR ACTIVITIES

Mon/Thurs/Fri Thurs

Tuckshop Yr 1-6 Tuckshop Prep

2nd Tuesday of Month

P&C Meeting – 7.00 pm – Staff Room—All Welcome

Tues & Thurs “Sing-Along” (Choir) - Music room 8am till 8.30 P-Yr 6

Wednesday Instrumental Band Practice 7.50-8.50am (arrive 7.45) Instrumental Music Classes

Wednesday Breakfast Club @ 8am

Wednesday Woodwork Option—1st Break

Wednesday Assembly (in Hall) 2.20pm. Parents/Carers welcome.

MUSICAL At this point in time most of the permission slips for the mu-sical have been returned. If not - the final cut-off date is WEDNESDAY 5 June. After this date NO permission slips will be accepted. Students who wish to audition for speaking parts will get their “practice-scripts” on FRIDAY 7

JUNE and Auditions

will happen in WEEK 9 in the MUSIC ROOM. Mrs Raitelli will announce the successful students BEFORE the holidays.

SING-ALONG CHOIR We would like the Sing-Along choir to sing “Waltzing Matil-da” with the band on the night of the Soup & Music Winter Concert on Wednesday 12 June in the School Hall. ALL students received a note and permission slips are due back on Wednesday 5 June. Please encourage the students to participate in this great performance!

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC The band is working very hard to be ready for our Soup &

Music Winter Concert and they sound fantastic! Band uniforms will be handed out next week. Students will then keep the uniforms at home until the end of the year.

Thank you to all parents for their support of our Music Pro-gram!

Phil and Carien

The world's

most expensive musical

instrument, a Stradivarius

violin, was sold in 2011 for

US$15.9 million

2019 Darling Downs Maths Team Challenge

Congratulations to the two teams of Year 5 & 6 students who represented Fairview at the recent Maths Challenge. There were 22 teams from the DDSW district competing in the Challenge! In the first part of the challenge, teams had to problem-solve a list of tricky maths problems. The second part of the chal-lenge was a relay, so students had to work in pairs as fast as they could to solve maths problems. To prepare for the challenge, the Fairview students worked with Mrs Murphy before school every day for a couple of weeks. The enthusiasm the students showed for learning was inspiring and it was a great way to start the school day! Results: Team B came a respectable 15

th place overall; and

Team A came 7th overall. Well done!!!

Team A: Savannah Parry, Angelina Rittmeyer (Reserve), Daniel Purdy, Aariah Smith, Harry Young (Captain) Insert: Zane Schefe

Team B: Noah Butler (Captain), Luke Miller, Ella Morgan, Ewan Mortimer & Riley Becker.

Farewell to one of our Fairview Families who are off on a BIG adventure travelling around Australia in a converted Stonestreets Bus! Yesterday they came to show their friends their new home and to say goodbye…. then they hit the road!!

Congratulations to our Students !!

Students of the Week—Term 2

Week 4

Riley, Lily, Hunter, Axel, Grace, Nayte, Sunmu, Liam, Amelia, Sophie, Sophia, Isla, Jade, Alliera, Christian, Hunter, Zach, Brooke, Lilly, Wyatt, Tobie & Nate.

Week 5

Lincoln, Elijah, Mia, Sophia, Corban, Andre, Ella, Anabelle, Ainslee, Annabelle, Zander, Lewis, Amarah, Zoee, Matilda, Hallie, Ashton, Jack, Jessica, Abbie, Patrick, Andre, Aariah, Lilly, Brooklyn, Daniel, Luke, Bella, Mikaela, Ella, Isabel, Ryan, Amber, Ruby-May & Ada.

Week 6

Kyeesha, Ava, Austin, Parker, Biannca, Cierra, Lauren, Willow, Alyssa, Beau, Lesly, James,

Byron, Holly, Ruby, Chloe, Max, Bodi, Blair, Samuel, Caydence, Charlie, Darcy, Dean, Trinity, Blaze, Jayden & Shelby.

Literacy Pro—Term 2

Ryan, Riley, Beau, Mia, Ben, Emily, Tahlia, Caydence, Lachlan, Lily, Tyler, Logan, Noah, Zane, Taleiya, Lauchlin, Phoebe, Brydee, Cayneisha, An-nabelle, Bodhi, Caleb, Bailey, Lara, Max, Lachlan, Lucas, Patrick, Latisha, Angelina, Lucy, Katelyn, Mikaela, Aariah, Millie & Max.

Gold Award

Congratulations to Patrick Ryan for earning a GOLD AWARD!! What an awesome effort!!

Fairview Heights SS

2nd Hand Uniform Shop

Tuckshop Days

Mon, Thurs & Fri 9.00am—1.30pm

Have you tried a BRAIN FREEZE or a

PIZZA?

Small Slushie 2.00 Large Slushie 2.50

Pizza (ham & cheese/BBQ chicken) 2.50

RECYCLING DRINK CONTAINERS

Tuckshop is now recycling drink containers.

All proceeds go to the P&C.

Monica—Tuckshop Convenor

Literacy Pro students have read over 26 million words this year and have completed 4 390 quizzes!! Our pass rate of quizzes is only at 77% at the moment so let’s aim to get it above 80%. How can a Literacy Pro Student help get the pass rate high-er? By reading the book carefully, doing a quiz immediately after reading and not just doing a quiz because you read the book a long time ago! Let’s keep reading and passing the quizzes! Can we get 5 million words read in the next 3 weeks?? I wonder!!

Karen Larsen—Literacy Pro Coordinator

BOOKCLUB Brochures were handed out to students this week .

Please note the DUE DATE for ORDERING ONLINE is 14/06/19. Reminder: NO CASH ORDERS ACCEPTED

LIBRARY HOURS Come and visit our Library OPEN: 8.30 –8.45am Mon-Fri 11.15-11.40am Mon-Fri CLOSES: 2.45pm Mon-Fri Mrs Oster & Mrs Lunn

CONGRATULATIONS to Ewan and Addison Mortimer on their stellar performance at the recent Eistoddfod receiving 2nd Place in the Year 5 & Under Category. They performed “Grammy Appleby” on parade for us last week and were very entertaining indeed.

The Tuckshop has now introduced the “MONDAY MEAL DEALS” on a fortnightly basis. Keep a look out for the order forms. Orders can be made through flexischools or handed in with Cash through the Classroom Tuckshop Box or the School Office by the Thursday before each Monday Meal Deal Day. Meal Deals are $6.00. There will be no other Tuckshop available on these days.

This week students enjoyed Dagwood Dogs, Chips and a Drink. Next Meal Deal on Monday 10 June - Pizza, Pikelets and a Drink is available. Orders are due back Thursday 6 June. There will no longer be any LOOT BAG days on Wednes-days.

Big Write In 1/2W we are working on our writing. Each week we take home a picture for Big Talk. We talk about the picture with our family to think of ideas for our writing. We try to think of exciting WOW words and openers to use to make our writing more interesting. When we write we have calming music and magic candles to help us concentrate and write great stories. We love Big Write.

1/2W Leanne Wilson

Year One are embracing the cold by getting comfy and reading for enjoyment. We have been exercising our imagination through story and picture and taking the time to talk about the stories we have read. We have been reading quietly to ourselves, listening to stories from our teachers and storyline online as well as shar-ing our favourite books with our friends. Reading helps develop sounds, words and language knowledge, improving literacy and learning outcomes for each and every student. Reading has so much value, whether it is learning to be curious, learning the difference between ‘real’ and ‘make believe’, understanding change, big life events and feelings. We encourage every family to read for fun. Easy and cheap ways to do this is through our school library as well as the Toowoomba town library on Herries Street. Storyline online created by the SAG-AFTRA foundation is another great tool for busy families. This web page provides free storytell-ing videos, read by well-known actors and celebrities, of recently released children’s books as well as our old favourites, there’s hundreds to choose from. Don’t forget there is always the scholastic Book Club out this week that offers cheap books and delivers straight to the class room. Who doesn’t like reading through the Book Club brochure and circling what we want? Happy reading from Year 1. 1F Toni Montefiore

Have you DOWNLOADED OUR FREE SKOOLBAG APP? If not you are missing important information—we regularly send out reminders ! Search for Fairview Heights State School. Then download the FHSS APP to know what’s happening. Messages and reminders are sent regularly to Parent/Carers (who have subscribed). Our aim is to keep our whole community up to date with what’s happening!

HAVE YOU LIKED US YET? Check out our

Fairview Heights State School FACEBOOK page!

If not—Search for Fairview Heights State School. If you “follow or like” the FHSS page, you will keep up to date with what’s happening around the School.

Hall-Thorpe Sports

OUTSIDE SCHOOL HOURS CARE

Hall-Thorpe Sports provides fun and educa-tional care for children outside of school

hours. Our program encourages an active and healthy lifestyle with a focus on the chil-dren’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.