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16 March 201716 March 2017

SCHOOL PHOTO DAYTUESDAY 21 MARCHParents, please remember….

On photo day, please send your child to school with:

Thought for the Week:

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence;but by the distance they have travelled from the pointwhere they started.”

― Henry Ward Beecher

PRINCIPAL’S NEWSOn Monday this week, ReconciliationAustralia and the Central AustraliaAboriginal Media Association spent theday at Glenmore to see ourReconciliation activities. Theseorganisations contacted Glenmore last yearabout coming to our school. They filmedour assembly and march and interviewed

students and staff. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive.Thank you to Clem Domic for coordinating the day’s scheduleand visit.

This week, Glenmore had the final visit in the school reviewprocess, after our October 2015 review. Two SeniorReviewers visited, met with the leadership team and talked withstaff and students. The outcome of this visit was very positiveand the feedback gives us direction for the continuation of ourpriorities. I want to acknowledge the work of the leadershipteam and staff over the past year in achieving the most desiredof the three outcomes of the process. Our focus will continueto be on Maths and higher order thinking during 2017.

On occasion this year, Mrs Lanyon and I have met withparents about concerns over bullying. This is somethingwe take seriously at Glenmore. It is very easy for someoneto claim that “the school did nothing about bullying” and it isa statement we hear from time to time in the media and viaother forums. At Glenmore the 4 R’s have been in place since2013 and this process is explicitly taught to students. In casesof bullying, actions we have taken this year in include in-schoolconsequences, meetings with parents and perpetrators,mediation facilitated by the Guidance Officer with regularfollow-up and in serious or repeated cases, suspension fromschool. Unfortunately, fueled by the media, “bullying” is a term

1. A completed envelope (even if not placing anorder or ordering online)NB: family envelopes can be picked up from theoffice before photo day

2. Full school uniform

3. Their best Smile!

both overused and inaccurately used to label certainbehaviours.

The Investing for Success document, outlining thepriorities for the I4S funding, has been submitted. Thisfunding totals $263 000 with expenditure as follows:

Renovations have progressed in H, M and G Blocks.Painting is now underway in H and M blocks. M block will thenbe complete for handover and Mrs Allison HOC will move intothis newly created space. The final stage of renovations for HBlock will be the electrical upgrades of fans and lighting anda new operable wall between H3 and H4. Renovation of thewithdrawal room in G block will then be done. This will create anew learning area for Mrs Harris (STLaN).

While we have very positive and beneficial links withGlenmore High, the number of students using our schoolas a thoroughfare in the afternoon is a concern. High schoolstudents should only be going to classrooms to pick upyounger brothers or sisters who are in Prep or Year 1. Othersshould meet younger siblings at the designated area at the frontof the school, via the footpath, NOT through our school. Thecurrent issue is compounded by several friends accompanyinghigh school students and inapprioriate language being used inthe hearing of parents and primary school students. GlenmoreState School is not a place for congregating after school. Ourstaff will be “moving on” high school students who have noreason to be on our premises. Thank you for your assistancewith maintaining an appropriate and safe environment for ourstudents after school.

Representatives from Bunnings met with me in week 6 todiscuss a major project in connection with their pendingrelocation to the old Masters site. The old courtyard adjacentto the tuckshop has been identified as the target of the project;potentially some market gardens and an attractive, quietoutdoor space will be created. This is an exciting opportunityand I thank Bunnings for their support of our school.

School-wide attendance is tracking at 91.2%. Individual yearlevel attendance shows Year 3 leading on 93.6%. Every daycounts.

Mark DunlopPrincipal

NEWS FROM THE DEPUTY:

Glenmore Standards:

These standards are the basis of aself-improvement journey for students intheir quest ‘to be the best you can be’. Thisinitiative relates to five standards with ‘at alltimes’ requirements, a recording system forteachers and students, and a monitoringcomponent to ensure all staff are involved.

Tracking of these standards started in week 3. We use thefirst two weeks to explicitly explain and discuss each standard.Ask your child how they are going – see if they can tell you ifthey have achieved all five standards yet. If not, they should beable to state the standard that they are trying to improve. Thisreflection and identification of an area that needs to improvehelps to develop resilience. Resilience is needed for emotionalwell-being.

I am very proud of our Glenmore uniform and it is very pleasingto see so many of our students following the GlenmoreStandard – I always wear my uniform with pride. Students knowthat this means the following:

The majority of our students arrive well-dressed for school everyday and it is wonderful to see the pride on their faces whenthey receive acknowledgement for following this GlenmoreStandard.

Parent article:

Student wellbeing continues to be a priority at our school.Building resilience is essential to a positive wellbeing. Thisweek’s article has some helpful advice when your child hasdifficulty seeing the positive..........

• Purchasing additional teacher time

• Purchasing additional Guidance Officer time 2 daysper week

• Purchasing additional teacher time for Prep to Year 2intervention

• Purchasing additional EAL/D teacher time

• Professional development for teachers with JohnFleming

• Purchasing additional teacher aide time to supportstudents

• shirts are tucked in during class learning time. Theschool recognises that children can get a bit untidyduring play time – running around, having fun andexpending energy at play is encouraged. However,the students all know that when the bell rings itsignifies time to tidy up and get ready for learning.

• black shoes with white (girls) or grey (boys) socks.

• hair is tidy – long hair is tied up into a bun or ponytail.

• arms and legs are clean from writing, fake tattoos.

• no nail polish.

• earrings are studs or sleepers.

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Help kids change their perspective when things gowrong

By Michael Grose

Parents can help catastrophisers learn to change theirperspective when things go wrong.

It’s natural when things go wrong to think that life will neverbe the same again. I recall as a teenager doing poorer thanexpected in my end of school exams, and missing the tertiarycourse I had set for myself. At the time it was such acatastrophe. I thought that there was no point taking anothercourse – naturally, I would hate it. Of course, I undertook ateaching course, which I really enjoyed and I didn’t look back.

Breaking up with a friend, losing close sports events and beingon the receiving end of teasing can at the time seem like eventsfrom which we will never recover.

Catastrophising (jumping immediately to the worst possiblescenario) only exaggerates kids’ worries and makes them feeleven more anxious. It always helps to keep your sense ofproportion, but it’s not easy when emotions run high. We allexaggerate our problems from time to time, particularly, whenwe are under stress. It takes a cool customer to moderate theirthinking the whole time, but some kids are prone to jumping tothe worst-case scenario, even when the events are quite minor.

If your child is a serial catastrophiser , always seeing the worstcase in a negative situation, try to change their thinking sothey learn to keep things in perspective. Ask them the followingquestions to challenge your child’s catastrophic thinking:

When children experience hardships it ishelpful if parents and teachers can assistthem to process what happened to them.Children are faulty observers and often havedifficulty seeing the full picture particularlywhen they are so close to the situation. Help your child see thefull picture and in doing so they may realise that things may notbe as bad as they seem.

NUDE FOOD DAY

Nude Food Day21 March 2017

As part of the Reef Guardian program we willbe having a Nude Food Day each term. Thisterm it takes place in Week 9- 21st March.

Nude Food Day is a nationwide initiativedeveloped to encourage kids and parents to eat well and livewell, and eliminate all unnecessary packaging and wrappingthat goes into schools. Essentially, kids bring their food – nude!

Nude food is simply food that has not been wrapped in foil,plastic or commercial packaging. The best type of nude foodconsists mainly of fresh food, so that it is healthy, nutritious andenvironmentally friendly.

Tips to go nude

http://www.nudefoodday.com.au/

Parking in school grounds:

This is a reminder that entering and/or parking in theschool grounds are not allowed. This includes the staffcarparks (both Farm Street and McLaughlin Street) as wellas the service entry for deliveries in Farm Street.

Staff does not expect to have adults or children walking in theseareas and such practices are dangerous.

Please support the School in this matter.

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

• ‘What’s the most likely scenario?’ Sometimes it’suseful to introduce a dose of old-fashioned rationalthinking for those kids who always assume the worstwill happen to them. ‘Yep, you could break your leg ifyou go skiing. But the odds are that you won’t.’

• ‘You may be right, but does it really matter?’ Oneway to help hard-core catastrophisers is to admit thatthey could be right, but then ask them to imaginethat the worst possible scenario actually happens.Then challenge them to understand that even theworst possible scenario is not so bad after all. This isthe type of reality check many kids need.

• ‘Where does this fit on the disaster meter?’Catastrophisers tie themselves in a knot aboutrelatively insignificant things. Okay, making a fool outof themselves when they give a talk at school maynot be insignificant to kids, but there are plenty ofworse things that could happen. Help them get someperspective by giving their worry a score out of tenon how important the issue really is.

• ‘Is that helpful thinking?’ Sometimes kids’ thinkingis so out of whack with reality that they becomeanxious about minor things. Thinking things such as,‘Everyone must like me,’ ‘I must never make amistake’ and ‘Bad things always happen to me’ areextreme and need to be replaced by more moderate,realistic thoughts, such as, ‘It would be nice ifeveryone liked me but not everyone will. It’simportant to have some good friends.’

• Send reusable cutlery for yoghurts etc.

• Use a refillable drink bottle not plastic

• Buy food in larger packets and that youcan decant these into smaller reusable containers orlunchbox.

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CONGRATULATIONS to the following students for theirachievements over the past two weeks.

PREP YEAR 2 YEAR 5

IslaGreen-McMillan

Stanley Neal

Saleen Zaro

Timothy Brandt

Kaitlyn Bray

Kalani Doyle

Courtney Miller

NathanielSchumacher

Elannah March

Sierra McDermott

Zion Zaro

Shova Yadav

Rawari Bristow

Eliza Jones

Nuatufi Mann

YEAR 1 YEAR 3 YEAR 6

Gabriella Currie

Sophia Tiegs

Tyler Mullins

Jayden Bicknell

Lenaye Spencer

Grace Crawford

Brodie James

Angus Fulton

Mai McVeigh

Dimity Richards

Verna MaeCatubig

JameliaGrimshaw

Charlise Wyvill

Jade Borley

Raya Barrett

LIBRARY YEAR 4 SEP

Sharnise Moore

LOTE

Gary Cron

Sally Harmsworth

Tiarna Hermann

Jayden Chopping

Meadow Russell

Riyan Gautam

Amelia Gyemore

Blake Millar

ZakayahMcMahon

Susie Li

P&C – PRESIDENT’S BLOG!On Monday night the P and C held theAnnual General meeting for 2017. Thismeeting saw some changes to the P&CCommittee. The new committee is asfollows:

President: Sarah SchuemakerVice-President: Gavin PointingSecretary: Krystle McCulloughTreasurer: Shane BurgessFundraising Co-ordinator: Sarah Schuemaker

A very big thank you to all those who attended the meeting, wehad a good turn out. I wish to take this opportunity to thankthe previous committee for their hard work and commitmentover the last 12 months. A big welcome to the new committee.The new committee has already been working hard supportingthe Glenmore School community and are looking forward tocontinuing this work throughout 2017.

As always the P and C welcomes all members of the schoolcommunity to attend meetings or to put forward ideas andsuggestions to the P and C for tabling at meetings.

I look forward to sharing the exciting events and improvementsthe P and C provides to the Glenmore State School communityover the next 12 months.

Kindest regards

Sarah SchuemakerP and C President

UNIFORM SHOPReminder you can use Flexischools to order uniforms.

OPENING HOURSMonday, Wednesday and Friday

8.30 – 9.30am

ICAS COMPETITIONSReminder to parents with students entering ICAS comperitions:

To take advantage of the 2016 cheaper entry fees, money mustbe paid to the office by Thursday 23 March.

Students can still pay for entries after that date but at 2017prices.

Final payment dates for all AcademicCompetitions

ICAS Digital Technologies – 23 March 2017Primary Research Project – 23 MarchICAS Science – 19 AprilICAS Spelling – 19 AprilAMT Aust. Maths Competition – 13 JuneICAS English – 13 JuneICAS Mathematics – 13 June

If you would like more information about any of thesecompetitions please contact Mrs Allison.

2017 HARMONY DAY CELEBRATIONS @GLENMORE SS

Harmony Day, 21 March, celebrates Australia’s culturaldiversity. It’s about inclusiveness, respect and a sense ofbelonging for everyone.

It is a day for all Australians to embrace cultural diversity and toshare what we have in common.

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The central message for Harmony Day is that ‘everyonebelongs’, reinforcing the importance of inclusiveness to allAustralians.

Glenmore State School is well-known for its colourful culturaland linguistic diversity. Our school community has beenembracing students and staff, not only of Aborignal Australian,Torres Strait and South Sea Islander descent, but also fromSudan, Brazil, Taiwan, China, Germany, Nepal, the Philippines,New Zealand, Samoa, India and Vietnam.

We will renew our strong commitment to ‘everyone belonging’to our school community during this year’s Harmony Daycelebrations:

Date Event Student and

parent

involvement

Monday, 20March2017,Lunch 1,schoollibrary

Harmony Dayactivities:

Japanese origamiand script writing

Chinese story telling

Dances from aroundthe world

colouring ourRainbow serpent

Students - pleasecome and join us

Friday, 24March2017,

wholeschoolassembly

Harmony Dayparade

celebrating our richcultural and linguisticdiversity

Parents andcommunity members -please come and joinus (traditional dresswelcome)

March2017

Growing ourGlenmore HarmonyTree

in our library duringlunch breaks

Language of theMonth, learn basicphrases of one ofour communitylanguages

Students have beenvisiting the library

classes have beeninvited to choose alanguage and learnthe basics

All events are being enthusiastically supported by our studentforum and library helpers and would be impossible without thededication of numerous staff.

You can contribute to making our assembly even morecolourful by attending and maybe even wearing traditionalclothes! We are looking forward to seeing you on Friday, 24March 2017.

Did you know:

These facts are taken from ABS 2011 Census Data.

100k in 10 DAYS CHALLENGEFrom 1 – 10 March some of our staff took on the 100k in 10days Challenge. This meant we walked , ran, swam or cycled100 kilometres each in 10 days. The challenge required teamand individual efforts. Our biggest walk as a team was 17kilometres on Sunday morning.

Altogether we raised $558.40 and clocked up 1267 kilometreswhich is from Rockhampton to Bloomfield, a small place pastCape Tribulation. Go the Glenmore Team!

FRIDAY SPORTS DRAW

17/03/2017

OZTAG – All games playedat McLeod Park

Boysvs RGS Black – 1.10pm (game

being played at RGS)

Girlsvs BYE

Mixedvs RGS Black – 1.10pm

AFL – All games played atKele Park

vs Allenstown SS – 12.30pmvs Frenchville SS – 1.30pm

SOCCERYear 6

vs Frenchville SS – 1.35pm @Glenmore SS

24/03/2017

OZTAG – All gamesplayed at McLeod Park

Boysvs Mary’s – 12.30pm

Girlsvs St Mary’s Blue –

1.10pm

Mixedvs Crescent Lagoon –

1.10pm

AFL – All games playedat Kele Park

vs RGS – 12.30pmvs Allenstown - 1.30pm

SOCCER

TBA

• around 45 per cent of Australians were bornoverseas or have at least one parent who was

• 85 per cent of Australians agree multiculturalism hasbeen good for Australia

• apart from English the most common languagesspoken in Australia are Mandarin, Italian, Arabic,Cantonese, Greek, Vietnamese, Tagalog/Filipino,Spanish and Hindi

• more than 60 Indigenous languages are spoken inAustralia

• 92 per cent of Australians feel a great sense ofbelonging to our country?

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Year 5vs Frenchville SS – 12.40pm @

Glenmore SS

Girlsvs The Hall SS – 1.35pm @

Norbridge 1

FAMILY CONNECTFamily Connect is one of several programs run at GlenmoreState School for students and their families, by volunteers fromRockhampton Baptist Church. These programs include BrekkieClub, KidsHope and RI. Family Connect runs on Wednesdayafternoons during school terms from 5:30 – 6:30 pm. As it isa family event – connecting families with each other, and withother families - parents must accompany children to an excitingprogram of games, activities and stories. We like to describeit as Fun! Food! and Faith! …and we also provide a free mealeach week as well. We love to see you there!

Family Connect Wednesday afternoons 5.30-6.30pm

COMMUNITY NOTICES

Gymnastics

Vici Park Gymnastics will once again be providing our holidayfun program over the Easter vacation.

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