COOLABUNIA

NEWS Est. 16 June 1891

Principal: Mr. Murray Johnston Newsletter 28 Phone: 4160 0333 Email: principal@coolabuniass.eq.edu.au 6th September2019

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This Newsletter has been made possible through the generous support of the above businesses and the School Parents & Citizens Association

South Burnett Book-Keeping Trudy Kelly ANIA, CBK, Bas Agent, JP (Qual.)

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Coolabunia State School celebrated 125 Years of education in June 2016

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Lisa O’Neill Kingaroy

Fresh Flower Arrangements

What’s on next week?

Mondays ……………………….…………….….…. School Banking Monday 9th ………………………………………… Tuckshop Tuesday 10th ………………………………………. NAPLAN School Readiness Testing (Yr 2,4,6) Tuesday 10th ………………………………………. P&C meeting 7.30pm Wednesday 11th ……………………………………. NAPLAN School Readiness Testing (Yr 4,6) Thursday 12th………………………………………… Payment & Consent forms due P-3 Excursion Friday 13th …………………………………………… P&C Disco 6.30pm

Page 2 Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. - Mae West

When students are not going to be at school on a tuckshop day, parents are asked to follow these procedures:- Orders on Flexi-school – go on-line to Flexi-school and cancel

your order BEFORE 8.30am and your money will be refunded immediately. After 8.30 is too late and your money will not be refunded.

Orders handed in – parents must call the school BEFORE 8.30am to cancel orders, otherwise your money will not be refunded.

Understand that food preparation begins as early as 7.30am. Late notification will mean food is prepared & wasted.

Agenda:- Executive & Committee reports Disco Preparations Tennis court project update Principal

NAPLAN

Reading

ARD Meeting feedback

Today is Teacher Aide Day. It is a special day because our Teacher Aides are people who work with our students EVERY day and make an enormous difference to student learning. They are multi-skilled and our teachers couldn’t get by without them. They are an extra line of support for all students. We thank them for all the extra work they do that isn’t really part of their job description. Thank you – Julie, Sandra, Penny, Fiona & Fiona! We think you’re amazing!

This year’s NAPLAN Student Reports have arrived and have been given to students today. We are very pleased with the consistency of Reading progress across the testing. Writing has shown growth, particularly with Year 3. This is encouraging following the effort being applied to the teaching of writing. This is a complex and long term project for us. Spelling and Grammar are also at pleasing standards. We are also encouraged by the number of students in the upper two bands across the testing. Deeper analysis of all data will occur in the coming weeks and will inform our future planning for all year levels. NAPLAN 2020 School Readiness Testing – next Tuesday & Wednesday School Readiness Testing (or NAPLAN On-line practice) allows all schools to test their computer network and its ability to cater for the testing; and it is important that those students who will be using the new platform in 2020

get the chance to experience it. There will be no reporting on the practice tests, just feedback from students and the staff about its operation. Anyone not wanting their children to do this practice testing is asked to contact the school on Monday. The NAPLAN On-line practice testing for Year 2, 4 & 6 students will be next Tuesday & Wednesday. There will be two tests – a combination of Grammar, Language Conventions & Numeracy plus a Writing test. Each test will take approximately 45 minutes. The SRT is delivered to students using a lockdown browser so that students cannot access the internet or spell checkers while trial testing. NAPLAN On-line will:- Feature tailored testing which gives students questions that are

more suited to their ability, resulting in better assessment and more precise results.

Provide a more engaging test experience for students. Provide more precise results so teachers can identify learning

priorities and meet individual student’s needs early. Students were shown the style of the SRT today and showed no concerns at all. It is very straight forward. Parents can familiarise themselves with the NAPLAN On-line platform by using the public demonstration site available at www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/naplan-online/naplan-online-public-demonstration-site. The regional NAPLAN Testing Coordinator will be visiting the school in Week 10 to discuss any concerns with staff. Schedule

Families are asked to let us know if they are not continuing at the school in 2020, or if they know of any prospective family likely or interested in enrolling in 2020.

It is of great importance that we get a clear picture of our likely enrolment total ASAP. The staffing process for the region is well underway.

Week 9 9.00 – 10.00

10.00 – 11.00

12.00 – 1.00

Tuesday 10 Sept SRT 19 Omnibus

Year 6

Year 4

Year 2

Wednesday 11

Sept SRT 19 Writing

Year 6

Year 4

Year 2 not doing on-line

writing next year

2020 Enrolments

Tuckshop Ordering

P&C Meeting Tuesday 10th September

NAPLAN 2019 Results

Teacher Aide Day

Page 3 One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Children’s Health Queensland is running a vision screening program for

Prep children. A Registered Nurse will visit the school on 15th October to

provide this free screening service for Prep children. More information and

a consent form for Prep families is attached to the newsletter. Please return

the consent form to the school by 13th September. Thank you.

Book Club vouchers winners: Maddison Yr1, Grayson Yr 3 & Mia Mc Yr 4 Lucky helper draw winners: Jenny Yr 6 & Wade Yr 6

Congratulations again to Alaric Prep, Dominic, Abigail Yr 1, Myka, Adisyn Yr 2, Grayson, Chayse, Eleanor Yr 3, Eligh, Emily Yr 4, Liam, Clay, Amy, Jacob Yr 5 & Nicole Yr 6

Donations:-

If anyone can spare some time on Monday to help in the Tuckshop, either in the morning (Stop, Chop & Go) or through-out the day, please let Leann

know (Mob 0417 982 475). Any help will be much appreciated.

Thank you

Leann Douglas (Tuckshop Convenor)

Banking Certificates were awarded on Assembly . Congratulations to the following students :- Charlie L, Nicole P, Ella Mc, Mia Mc, Zoe Mc, Dominic L & Payton N

The department has introduced new consent forms to satisfy legal require-ments when students may use a Third party website at school. Parental/guardian consent is a requirement by law under the Queensland Information Privacy Act 2009. Third party website consent forms need to be completed when students are required to create an account or provide personal information to a third party website which is any website which is accessed at school but hosted and managed outside of the Department of Education and Training (DoE) network.

At Coolabunia SS, these websites include sites such as: classdojo, cool-

mathgames, educationperfect, mathletics, reading eggs, scratch etc. Full

information is included in the attached form. Please read the information

and complete the consent form page only (yellow paper) and return it

to the school as soon as possible.

Aussies of the Month

Free vision screening test—Prep students

Stamp Club—next meeting will be Thursday 17th October in the Library 1pm

Reading Room—Congratulations to the following students!

New consent form—Third Party Websites

Tuckshop—Monday 9th September

Home Bake JO Town Belinda Schultz

Pikelets Amanda May

2L Custard Jacqui Dixon Sarah Aitkin

Eggs Kylie Barron

3L Milk Fiona MacDon-ald Leonie Black Kim Brackin

Poppers Belinda Schultz

School Banking

Page 4 If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.—Dalai Lama

The Danish Navy has barcodes, so when they return home,

they can Scandinavian.

Think! It gives you something to do when the

computer is down.

DATE CLAIMERS Mondays - School Banking Sept 9 Tuckshop 10 NAPLAN School Readiness Testing 10 P&C Meeting 7.30pm 11 NAPLAN School Readiness Testing 12 Consent forms & payment due P-3 excursion 13 P&C Disco 6.30pm 17 Prep—Yr 3 Excursion 20 Last day of Term 3 Oct 7 Public Holiday 8 First day of Term 4 15 Prep Vision Testing program 17 Stamp Club 1pm