Principal (Acting) Katrina Hayward

HOC (Acting) Mark Eisenmenger

Administration Sue Heit

Uniform Shop NB Inspirations 4168 9013 November 23 Year 10 Graduation 24 Year 10 Last Day 25 Cake Stall & Sausage Sizzle December 1 Return raffle tickets 4 Raffle drawn 8 Last Day Term 4 (Dates in italics are community events)

Principal’s Report Class changes and teachers It is hard to believe that the 2017 school year is coming to a close. As we prepare for 2018, we have decided to make a few changes to the structure of primary classes at Proston State School P – 10. Next year, the Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 classes will all be separate classes. There will be a 3/4 class and a 5/6 class. This will balance out some of our class sizes and allow for a more individualised approach to early childhood education which will hopefully lead to better educational outcomes and set students up for greater success as they move through middle and upper primary and then through to junior secondary. The class structures, teachers and classrooms for 2018 will be as follows: Principal – Miss Liz Cumming HOC – Miss Liz Gundry Master Teacher – Miss Katrina Hayward SWD (Students with Disabilities) teacher – Beth Stanley Prep – Mrs Sue Jones in the prep room Year 1 – Miss Pip Linton in G Block Year 2 – Mrs Traci Holland in K Block Year 3 & 4 – Mrs Peta Clarke in A Block Year 5 & 6 – Mrs Stacy Love in A Block The secondary teachers will be Mr Mark Eisenmenger, Mr Joe Amery, Mr Nick Blanch, Miss Katrina Hayward and we will potentially see the return of Mrs Selena Salter (to be confirmed in 2018). LLI (Levelled Literacy Intervention program) - Mrs Rose Cook Library – Ms Fiona Gill Music – Mrs Ginny Salmon Teacher aides will be confirmed in 2018. Katrina Hayward (Acting) Principal

Election Day

Cake Stall

and Sausage

Sizzle

Saturday

25 November

8am till sold

out

2017 NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 23

NOVEMBER 9

PROSTON STATE SCHOOL P: (07) 4169 4333 94Rodney Street P&C Association Meeting will be the third Tuesday of

F: (07) 4169 4300 Proston, each month at 5:30pm in the school library. All welcome!

www.prostonss.eq.edu.au QLD 4613

Students of the Week

Method: Fry bacon and onion

Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl.

Press into a tin for a meat loaf. Pour 1/2 tin

tomato soup over top, cover with alfoil till

the last 15 minutes of cooking. Cook in a

moderate oven for about 45 minutes.

Or roll into balls.

Meat balls are dipped in beaten egg and

rolled in bread crumbs.

Deep fry in oil and serve hot or pack in

lunch boxes.

Chappy’s Chat Hi All, The end of year is upon us and the holidays are coming up very quickly. Congratulations to all award recipients at our recent Awards Night and also to the choir who did such a great job of their song! Well done everyone. The last few weeks of school will go so quickly now. This week I want to share another of my favourite lunch box recipes; Deep fried meatballs. They are fun to make with the kids and yummy to eat for school lunch or any time. They are full of vitamins, minerals and protein which are the building blocks for our children to grow strong and healthy. Children are continually growing and this means that they need to eat the right type of foods on a daily basis. You can also save yourself so much money if you plan a little bit ahead. The meatballs are much more economical than buying packaged snack foods, and healthier too. Give them a try! Chappy Janelle

Ingredients:

1 onion diced finely

2 bacon rashers diced finely

250g sausage mince

250g beef mince

1 egg,

1 tbsp Worcestershire or Soy sauce

Salt and pepper

Add 1/2 cup cooked leftover vegetables that

have been mashed up. (This is a good way to

hide green vegetables, carrots, pumpkin)

½ cup finely grated raw carrot/ zucchini

(optional)

½ cup bread crumbs ( use stale bread not shop

bought crumbs)

MEATLOAF or DEEP FRIED MEATBALLS

Cake Stall and Sausage

Sizzle On election day, Saturday 25 November, the P&C will be holding a Cake Stall and Sausage Sizzle. This will be held from about 8:30am until sold out. If you are able to donate baked goods or other suitable items for the stall, please send them to the school office. Raffle tickets for the Christmas hamper will also be available on the day. Tickets are $1 each and will be drawn on Monday 4 December.

Proston Swimming Pool Follow us on Facebook (Proston Swimming Pool) for events, Aqua aerobics/training/BBQ/Pizza nights and extended opening hours. Key Dates: 21 Oct, 4 & 18 Nov, 2(Xmas Party), 16 &30 Dec Operation Hours: Mon – Fri: 6-8am & 3-6pm Sat/Sun/Holidays: 1-5pm P: 4168 9132 or 0437 373 577

Prep News There isn’t much of Term 4 left. The Preps have been working hard on their assessment. If you are leaving early on holiday this year, please let us know so that we can send books and other items home earlier. Yours in Education Mrs Sue Jones

Textiles Students in the Textiles elective have been creating fantastic patchwork projects.

ITD – Construction Students have completed their practical assessment task this week. Our Thursday group completed a 2.7m x 2.7m concrete slab that will serve the purpose of a discus area. They have also concreted 6 post holes with a sleeve to drop posts in for a safety cage to help out the PE department allowing Mr. A the opportunity to teach the discus turn in a safe way when running his PE classes. The Friday group poured a 2.3m x 2.3m concrete slab to be used as a second shot put area. This will allow for events to be completed with more efficiency during sporting carnivals. Both groups learnt how to ratio the materials and mix consistent batches in a concrete mixer. Some statistics from the combined efforts of both groups major construction project:

Two electric concrete mixers used Just short of 2 cubic meters of pre mix aggregate shoveled into the mixers 18 bags of 20 kg cement bags used 5m x 2.4m of reinforcing used Over 30 batches of concrete mixed Approx. 4 hours to complete both projects, with a total of 28 man-hours.

Thank you to the following boys for putting in a 110% effort and showing how learning can be hard but enjoyable and rewarding: Lachie, Colby, Aaron, Dylan, Blake, Josh, Brendan, Jakob, Jett & Aiden. Thanks also to Mr. Hams and Mr. Hoyland for supporting students through this project.

Enrol for Prep 2018 It isn’t too early to enrol for Prep 2018! If your child turns 5 by 30 June 2018, they are eligible to enrol for Prep in 2018. Please contact the office for an enrolment package and information as soon as possible.

The Nightmare Before Squidmas Part 1 Since the dawn of time or anything before it a distant universe was made, a land called Cybertronain; it is the second most important thing in the universe as it made the big bang. Now hundreds and hundreds of years later modern Earth was finally made as well as a planet in the Cybertronain galaxy called the Cyberverse. This is a happy planet of people, human people with some animals and one of those recently became a hero, Stampy Cat. Now he just wants to go back to his old life as an ordinary Joe by celebrating Squidmas with his friends by making snow golems, riding the mechanical reindeer, drinking eggnog and failing how to spell Santa’s name in the love garden. This Squidmas he also got a new friend to share his Squidmas traditions, Blake the target, a strange thing dressed up in a fancy tux. Now that Squidmas Eve was almost over they hung up their leather boot stockings and they dozed off to sleep, but they were not expecting an unwanted guest, a black and white cat with a fish sword and a dark and evil laugh. He was Stampy’s evil twin ……. EVIL STAMPY CAT, (all

the other names were taken). He looked up into the dark sky. He saw the red and green lights racing across the cloudy sky and then it suddenly crashed right in front of him and the reindeers tried to run but then the dark cat took the chains away and they ran into the fog and Evil Stampy Cat threw Santa out of the sleigh and laughed. To be continued By Blake

P&C Christmas Raffle Prize: Christmas Hamper

Price: $1 each Return by: Friday 1 December Drawn: Monday 4 December

Please return all tickets and money to the school office by Friday 1 December. Tickets may be purchased from the school, at the election day stall and from selected Proston shops.

Garage Sale Election Day

Saturday 25 November

19 & 20 Wondai Road

From 7am until sold out

Daniel Morcombe Program: Report This week we are starting to implement the final key message of the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum: report. This means that when children or young people have been in a situation that is unsafe that they are taught to report what has happened to an adult. Even if a child has been able to make themselves safe, it is vital that they still report what has happened. Adults need to know about unsafe situations so that some action can be taken to help the child be safe again or ensure it doesn’t happen again. Students involved in the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum will be encouraged to make a list of adult safety helpers. These are adults the children and young people nominate whom they can talk to when they are feeling unsafe or have experienced an unsafe situation or feel they are at risk of something that may cause them harm. This list will include a selection of adults who live in and outside the home. Report also includes telling an adult about unsafe or inappropriate incidents which may occur when children or young people are online. This might occur when surfing the net or using social media sites like Facebook and twitter, and can include cyberbullying, viewing or receiving inappropriate images or messages or communicating with unknown contacts.

Meet Our 2018 Student Leaders School Captains for 2018 are Brooke Nielsen and Lachlan Doessel. Student Council President is Gracie Kerlin. Boyne House Captains are Mersadeez Nielsen and Blake Flint. Stuart House Captains are Kayla Delsureto and Jett Dotta.

Remembrance Day Remembrance Day 2018 commemorated 70 years of Peacekeeping. All the classes presented a short speech on the topic before the formal elements of the ceremony.

Production Mangement Elective Mrs Clarke and the Production Management Elective have been working on a Shadow Puppet Theatre. Recently they performed an impromptu production of “The Evil Dinosaur versus The Beautiful Unicorn” for the e-Kindy students. They really enjoyed it and asked for an encore!

Star News Star News We have been working on our Design and Technology unit. Students worked hard to design a toy that was suitable for a Prep student. Students had to draw their plan and write a list of the supplies that they would need when creating their design. Students then built and made their toy. Students then took their toy to Prep and received feedback after the Prep students played with their toy. There was a range of interesting toy designs. Some of the toys they created were marble mazes, fairy houses, hover CD and princess castles. Books will start to be sent home next week so your child’s bags are not too heavy in the last week of school. Please let Mrs Holland know if you are planning to leave for the holidays early so Mrs Holland can pack books and personal items. Mrs Holland

Awards Night 2018 Highlights