21 April 2016 SCHOOL NEWS - Yelarbon State School · 4/21/2016 · will resume in week 3 of term...
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21 April 2016 YELARBON STATE SCHOOL … SCHOOL NEWS Week 2 —Term 2, 2016 UPCOMING EVENTS Principal : Mrs Philippa Sly Administrative Officer: Mrs. Megan Officer Teaching Staff : Mrs Casey Giese, Mrs Trish Quinnell, Mrs. Libby Holland, Miss Lisa Springborg, Mrs Sophie Elsley, Mrs Janelle Wilkie, Mr Del Jensen, Mrs Mary Bates Yelarbon State School, 17 Eena Street Yelarbon QLD 4388, Phone: 07 4675 1109, Facsimile: 07 4675 1299, Email: [email protected] Dear parents and guardians, It was great to see some very keen students here at 7.00am yesterday morning (and the day before) for cross country training with Mrs Quinnell and our P&C President, Mr Tait. All hands were then on deck to provide a cooked breakfast to our runners and our year 3/5 students who came at 7.30am for NAPLAN tutoring. Such enthusiasm from students, parents and staff! For safety and supervision reasons the early morning cross country training run has been offered to students in years 4—6 only. Next week, early morning training will only be offered to students who have been selected to participate in the MacIntyre Zone Cross Country at Inglewood. Monday 25th April is ANZAC Day. All students are strongly encouraged to participate in the town ANZAC Day march and service. Students are to wear full school uniform. The cemetery service commences at 10.00am and students and parents are most welcome to attend. Students are later asked to assemble at the ‘old post office’ between 10.30 and 10.40am for the Town March. The Town Service will commence at 11.00am and with all students competing in the ANZAC Day competition, and our year six students reading resolutions, the school plays a very important part in the service. Please encourage your child to attend. Last weekend our P&C catered for Phil and Ann Donges and Val Lennon’s clearing sale. A big thank you to both the Tait and Elsley families for giving up their weekend to support our school. Well done to Ebony, Brooke, Will and Izzie who were amazing helpers in the canteen. I have heard from a number of people that they made our school proud. Tennis lessons with Conor Sloss commenced last week. This term, we have used Sporting Schools funding to provide this wonderful program. All students from prep to year six are participating in tennis lessons with Conor. We love Thursdays at Yelarbon State School. Our friends from Kindon join us for the day and throughout the day students do French with Madame Wilkie, Music with Mr Jensen and tennis with Conor. Our older students also do Robotics with Mr Fogwell, guitar lessons with Mr Jensen and high jump with Mrs Quinnell. Our younger students do Science with Mrs Giese and Art and Maths with Mrs Quinnell (yesterday they made mini pizzas to learn about ‘whole’ and ‘half’). I thoroughly enjoy walking through classrooms (indoor and outdoor) and watching the learning that is taking place on this day. Students and staff are fully engaged and there is a real BUZZ in the air! Gotta love learning at Yelarbon State School! Hoping to see many of you at Monday’s ANZAC day service. Have a lovely long weekend. Until then, Philippa Term Two, 2016 25 April ANZAC day Holiday 26 April School Cross Country—9.00am 28 April Visit from Deb Park (Child Health Nurse) 29 April Goondiwindi Show Holiday 2 May Labour day Holiday 6 May Mac Zone Cross Country (Inglewood) 9 May Under Fives Playgroup 9 May Visit from Don Grobe (Assistant Regional Director) 10—12 May Year 3/5 NAPLAN Testing 23 May, 6 June, 20 June Under Fives Playgroup and “Triple P—Parenting Seminar” 3 June Empire State Theatre trip ‘The 52 Storey Treehouse’ 17 June School Athletics Carnival 24 June Last day of term 2 St Mary’s Shield YELARBON ANZAC DAY SERVICE Monday 25th April Cemetery Service 10.00am Town March commences at 10.45am with service commencing at 11.00am Bring a plate of food to share for a shared lunch. *********************** SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY Tuesday 26th April 9.00am All students in prep to year 6 will be participating Parent helpers needed! Dress in house colours - Yellow for Campbell Red for Lalor ***************** ACTIVE AFTER SCHOOL ‘SPORTING SCHOOLS’ will resume in week 3 of term two. ***Weeks three and four ONLY Tuesday—Yrs 2—6 Thursday— P/1 Normal Monday sessions will continue after that. UNDER FIVES PLAYGROUP Every 2nd MONDAY (9 & 23 May, 6 & 20 June) 9.00—11.00am Kindly provided by BushKids and Care Goondiwindi Our school priorities for 2016 are - Improve academic achievement Engage parents and community Support transition
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21 April 2016 YELARBON STATE SCHOOL …
SCHOOL NEWS Week 2 —Term 2, 2016
UPCOMING EVENTS
P r i n c i p a l : M r s P h i l i p p a S l y A d m i n i s t r a t i v e O f f i c e r : M r s . M e g a n O f f i c e r
T e a c h i n g S t a f f : M r s C a s e y G i e s e , M r s T r i s h Q u i n n e l l , M r s . L i b b y H o l l a n d , M i s s L i s a S p r i n g b o r g , M r s S o p h i e E l s l e y , M r s J a n e l l e W i l k i e , M r D e l J e n s e n , M r s M a r y B a t e s
Yelarbon State School, 17 Eena Street Yelarbon QLD 4388, Phone: 07 4675 1109, Facsimile: 07 4675 1299, Email: [email protected]
Dear parents and guardians,
It was great to see some very keen students here at 7.00am yesterday morning (and the day before) for cross country training with Mrs Quinnell and our P&C President, Mr Tait. All hands were then on deck to provide a cooked breakfast to our runners and our year 3/5 students who came at 7.30am for NAPLAN tutoring. Such enthusiasm from students, parents and staff! For safety and supervision reasons the early morning cross country training run has been offered to students in years 4—6 only. Next week, early morning training will only be offered to students who have been selected to participate in the MacIntyre Zone Cross Country at Inglewood.
Monday 25th April is ANZAC Day. All students are strongly encouraged to participate in the town ANZAC Day march and service. Students are to wear full school uniform. The cemetery service commences at 10.00am and students and parents are most welcome to attend. Students are later asked to assemble at the ‘old post office’ between 10.30 and 10.40am for the Town March. The Town Service will commence at 11.00am and with all students competing in the ANZAC Day competition, and our year six students reading resolutions, the school plays a very important part in the service. Please encourage your child to attend.
Last weekend our P&C catered for Phil and Ann Donges and Val Lennon’s clearing sale. A big thank you to both the Tait and Elsley families for giving up their weekend to support our school. Well done to Ebony, Brooke, Will and Izzie who were amazing helpers in the canteen. I have heard from a number of people that they made our school proud.
Tennis lessons with Conor Sloss commenced last week. This term, we have used Sporting Schools funding to provide this wonderful program. All students from prep to year six are participating in tennis lessons with Conor.
We love Thursdays at Yelarbon State School. Our friends from Kindon join us for the day and throughout the day students do French with Madame Wilkie, Music with Mr Jensen and tennis with Conor. Our older students also do Robotics with Mr Fogwell, guitar lessons with Mr Jensen and high jump with Mrs Quinnell. Our younger students do Science with Mrs Giese and Art and Maths with Mrs Quinnell (yesterday they made mini pizzas to learn about ‘whole’ and ‘half’). I thoroughly enjoy walking through classrooms (indoor and outdoor) and watching the learning that is taking place on this day. Students and staff are fully engaged and there is a real BUZZ in the air! Gotta love learning at Y elarbon State School!
Hoping to see many of you at Monday’s ANZAC day service. Have a lovely long weekend.
Until then,
Philippa
Term Two, 2016 25 April ANZAC day Holiday
26 April School Cross Country—9.00am
28 April Visit from Deb Park
(Child Health Nurse)
29 April Goondiwindi Show Holiday
2 May Labour day Holiday
6 May Mac Zone Cross Country
(Inglewood)
9 May Under Fives Playgroup
9 May Visit from Don Grobe
(Assistant Regional Director)
10—12 May Year 3/5 NAPLAN Testing
23 May, 6 June, 20 June
Under Fives Playgroup
and
“Triple P—Parenting Seminar”
3 June Empire State Theatre trip
‘The 52 Storey Treehouse’
17 June School Athletics Carnival
24 June Last day of term 2
St Mary’s Shield
YELARBON ANZAC DAY SERVICE
Monday 25th April
Cemetery Service 10.00am
Town March commences at 10.45am with service commencing at 11.00am
Bring a plate of food to share for a shared lunch.
***********************
SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY
Tuesday 26th April 9.00am
All students in prep to year 6 will be participating
Parent helpers needed!
Dress in house colours -
Yellow for Campbell
Red for Lalor
*****************
ACTIVE AFTER SCHOOL ‘SPORTING SCHOOLS’
will resume in
week 3 of term two.
***Weeks three and four ONLY Tuesday—Yrs 2—6
Thursday— P/1
Normal Monday sessions will continue after that.
UNDER FIVES PLAYGROUP Every 2nd MONDAY
(9 & 23 May, 6 & 20 June)
9.00—11.00am
Kindly provided by
BushKids and Care Goondiwindi
Our school priorities for 2016 are -
Improve academic achievement
Engage parents and community
Support transition
21 April 2016
Top Tips for Taking Tests!
With some of our students sitting the NAPLAN tests in the next couple of weeks, I thought it timely to share some of these tips that may ease any anxiety around ’tests’. Teachers will be discussing these tips with our stu-dents and you may like to also discuss these with your children. 1. Remember everyone gets stressed during tests and everyone has to learn how to manage these feelings. 2. Know that stress is your body’s way of getting ready to take on a challenge and perform at your best. “Stress can help us to perform at high levels - as long as we know how to keep it in check” Andrew Fuller, Clinical Psychologist. 3. Write down your concerns about the upcoming test as questions – and then write answers to those questions. “Just writing out your fears, getting them out of your head and onto some paper helps you to gain some perspective” Andrew Fuller, Clinical Psychologist. 4. Focus on doing your best with the questions in front of you, rather than thinking about how you did in past tests. “Performance in any area requires presence- focus on what you have to do right now” Andrew Fuller, Clinical Psychologist. 5. If you breathe out and count silently, “one thousand, two thousand, three thousand”, you will start to feel calmer. “The part of our calming system is activated when we breathe out slowly” Andrew Fuller, Clinical Psychologist. 6. Maintaining a powerful posture sends a signal to your brain that tells it you are feeling in charge of things. “Your brain is extremely clever but it can also be pretty stupid. It believes what you tell it. If you hold a power posture your brain notices and decides that you’re feeling fine and lowers the levels of stress” Andrew Fuller, Clinical Psychologist. 7. Eat breakfast – a mix of protein (like eggs) and carbohydrates (like toast). “Usually a higher protein, lower carbohydrate mix increases memory, concentration and energy” Andrew Fuller, Clinical Psychologist. 8. Drink water. Avoid energy drinks, which may interfere with your levels of concentration. “Energy drinks increase your levels of adrenaline making you feel wired. If you are feeling stressed you are better to drink water as it reduces your levels of cortisol- the stress hormone” Andrew Fuller, Clinical Psychologist. As in previous years, our P&C will be providing a nutritious NAPLAN breakfast (see Tip 7) before each of these tests. Breakfast will be followed by a 20 minute walk around the school oval. Research tells us that walking boosts brain func-tion. Working on the physical, does wonders for the mental. They are all connected.
