Issue 5

From the Head of Department

5 March 2020 E d u c a t i o n Q u e e n s l a n d

Inside the Gate

Important Dates to

Remember

17 March

Student Leader Induction Ceremony

12.00pm

Gayndah Town Hall

P and C Meeting

19 March

Year 7 + 10 Immunisation Day

(please ensure all forms are returned to the office as soon

as possible)

SATE rollout – Confirmation stage As we move towards the end of Term 1, the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) is preparing to roll out the next stage of the Senior Assessment and Tertiary Entrance process. This stage requires the confirmation of student work to ensure there is consistency in awarding marks in subject specific assessment items across the state. In the coming weeks, Year 12 students who are studying General subjects (subjects that will contribute to ATAR calculations) will be completing their first pieces of internal assessment. These assessment pieces will contribute between 10 – 25% of their final result, depending on the subject. Once assessment pieces have been submitted, teaching staff will mark the students work and students will then be awarded a provisional mark. The mark is considered provisional as it is yet to be confirmed by QCAA. Once teachers have submitted subject results to QCAA, they will be asked for samples of student work to be sent to QCAA. QCAA have recruited and trained approximately 3000 teachers across the state in the process of Confirmation. During this process confirmers will examine student work and make a decision on the consistency of the marking process. If confirmers agree with the marks provisionally awarded to the students, those marks will be confirmed and then finalised. If confirmers do not agree with the provisional marks, they will make adjustments to the marks and these marks will be finalised with QCAA. This process is to ensure the consistency of marks being awarded for assessment items across the state. SOBS Online Please take the time to look at the school calendar on SOBS https://sobs.com.au/ . The school calendar shows assessment dates for all year levels and subjects. Many assessment due dates are now nearly here.

P A G E 2 I N S I D E T H E G A T E

TARS TARS cards are part of the school Positive Behaviour for Learning Program. This program acknowledges the positive behaviour of students within their classes. The program has been running for approximately three weeks and we have had 36 students complete their first TARS card and one student has completed their second card. Once students complete a TARS card they are eligible to receive a reward for doing so. Congratulations and well done to all students and staff for such a positive start to this program. Student ID Cards All students who were present for school photos have now been issued with their Student ID Cards. From this point forward students should be using their ID cards when they are purchasing food from the tuckshop. Using ID cards makes the process of serving students at the tuckshop a lot easier for the volunteers who assist in the tuckshop. If students find that their ID card is not working correctly at the tuckshop, please see the ladies in the office. Students who were absent for school photos please see Ms Geddes to have your photo taken. These photos will then be used to make an ID card for the students. Cheers Mrs Coulson

你好中国 Ni Hao Zhongguo

(Hello China)

After months of careful planning and a lot of excitement being generated around the school, we have now been forced to make the decision to cancel the student trip to China in June/July this year.

Coronavirus has changed the travel plans for millions of people worldwide and we were just unfortunate that this has also affected our plans for an amazing trip.

Staff and students that had booked the tour are extremely disappointed and many have asked if we will consider a similar trip to another destination - all I can say at the moment is never say never. We will see what the weeks and months may bring.

Qinqie de wenhou (kind regards) ,

Tanya Oppermann

P A G E 3 I N S I D E T H E G A T E

20th March

2020

P A G E 4 I N S I D E T H E G A T E

Tuckshop Volunteers for 2020 are desperately needed!

If you can assist 1 day per week, 1 day per month or even 1 day per Term

please contact the school office. Your assistance will certainly be appreciated.

If we do not get more volunteers for 2020 our Tuckshop opening hours will be

forced to reduce to 3 days per week.

Year 7 and 10 Immunisation Day

Thursday 19th March

Our school is participating in Queensland Health’s Annual School Immunisation Program. All Year 7 and Year 10 students will be offered free vaccinations as recommended on the National Immunisation Program schedule, as shown in the table below.

Vaccines offered in the Queensland School Immunisation Program

School Year Vaccine Dose and administration

Year 7 Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine

Two doses of GARDASIL®9 will be offered, providing

protection against 9 types of HPV. The two doses should

Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis One booster dose will be offered.

Year 10 Meningococcal ACWY vaccine One dose will be offered.

Forms for completion where sent home with students at the beginning of last week. Please ensure that this form is returned to the school office as soon as possible so that they can be handed to Queensland Health to prepare for Immunisation Day.

Even if you choose not to have your student immunised we ask that the form be completed with the appropriate tick to indicate that they will not be participating and return this to the school.

Please don’t hesitate to check with the school or more importantly with Angela Slack from Community Health if you have any issues you need to discuss regarding immunisations.

P A G E 5 I N S I D E T H E G A T E

Welcome to BSC I.C.T. Department

This year, BSC have introduced I.C.T. from Years 7 to 12. According to

the Australian Bureau of Statistics 97% of households with children

aged under 15 years have access to the internet and the average

number of devices per household is now 7. 99% of people aged

between 15 and 17 are online and are spending an average of 18

hours per week online. With the introduction of more social media

platforms such as Tik Tok this number is increasing rapidly. New

figures suggest that there are currently over 500 million active users of

Tik Tok alone, who are spending over 50 minutes a day just on that

platform.

Below is a snapshot of what is happening in I.C.T. in Semester 1.

Year 7 and 8 ICT

Introduction to Computers:

During our one lesson a week students have been looking at the basics of how computers work

as well as popular software programs such as Word, Outlook and PowerPoint. We have also been

practicing our touch typing as well as looking at how to set up folders, how to effectively

communicate when sending emails as well as naming of files so that they can be retrieved easily

later on.

At the end of the semester, students will submit a Portfolio of work that demonstrates the ICT

skills and knowledge learnt over the 20 weeks.

Year 9 and 10 ICT

Document Production:

This Semester has seen students learning about different software capabilities. From typing

letters, to mail merges, students have also learnt how to import and export across different

software programs as well as how to use data to produce graphs and tables. In Portfolio 1,

students had to research skills and techniques on how to perform different functions and then in

Portfolio 2 they put that knowledge to practice by producing specific documentation.

P A G E 6 I N S I D E T H E G A T E

Current statistics tell us that there are just over 7.6 billion people in the world and from that

almost 4.4 billion are on the internet and just under 3.5 billion are active social media users.

In a world that is rapidly growing with technology, it is wonderful to see how many students at

BSC have embraced I.C.T.

Robyn Geddes

I.C.T Teacher

Year 11 ICT

Throughout this Semester, we have focussed on online issues in the 21st Century. We have

studied how our online identity is essential in our daily lives and how to use strategies for

safety and security measures to prevent hacking, identity theft and so forth. Students have

used the case study of Mariott Hotel’s 2014 data breach to look at how businesses can

protect themselves online. After they have submitted their Extended Response, students will

begin working on their project where they will design the theme and documents required for

the 2020 BSC Formal.

Year 12 ICT

Students have been very busy from the start of Week 1 working on both their Extended

Response as well as their project at the same time. This Semester sees students writing a

magazine article for parents and teens on cyber safety. With a 2016 report from the

Cyberbullying Research Centre indicating that 33.8% of students between the ages of 12 and

17 were victims of cyberbullying, this topic is not only relevant but imperative in making sure

that students understand how to keep themselves safe when online. Students are also

working on their magazine project with each student not only designing theme pages for the

2020 school magazine but also creating the junior home group pages.

From the Ag Science Farm

FOR SALE

12 X Point of Lay Langshan Bantums

$11.00 each (inc GST)

Please contact the school office for further details or to purchase

P A G E 7 I N S I D E T H E G A T E

Special Education Welcome back to the 2020 school year, and welcome to Mr Michael Cook as our new Special Education Teacher.

LIFE ROOM

The past weeks in the LIFE (Learning Is For Everyone) Room our junior secondary students have been working on Maths, Science, History and Literacy with Mr Cook.

Literacy - Persuasive Texts

In the Life Room students are currently learning about ‘Persuasive texts’ i.e. points of view, differing points of view, arguments and the use of certain ‘modal verbs’ to add validity to ones point of view or persuasion. Our latest lesson involved pairing up students with an argument of interests. One argument was ‘Motorbikes are better than horses’ while the other ‘Horses are better than motorbikes’. After further exploring useful ‘modal verbs’, and using information from the above mentioned arguments, we will have students in future lessons write persuasive paragraphs to further build on their points of view whilst also learning about sentence structure.

Mathematics - 3D Shapes

After finishing a unit on ‘Australian Money’, students are now focusing on 3D shapes. To assist in introducing this unit, we had students make coloured ‘playdough’ using directions in measurement (i.e. 2 cups of flour, 2 cups of water…etc). Students will be exploring and becoming familiar with 3D shapes via their names and features. We intend to have students make a 3D shape out of playdough as it is called out i.e. a pyramid (maybe not a polyhedron though, but we’ll see). Students will later be assessed on identifying prisms, identifying similarities and differences among 3D shapes and either correct labelling or/and memorisation of correct names of 3D shapes.

Our senior QCIA students have been continuing work on their QCIA (Queensland Certificate on Individual Achievement) in areas of personal skills including confidence, persistence and resilience, along with exploring financial literacy, personal care and cooking skills. Students have been setting a personal goal each week and recording how they progress. Communication and social thinking skills have also been a focus this Term. Some of our senior students have enjoyed attending engineering with Mr Kemp and are working well on their projects.

All students have been participating in Zones of Regulation as part of our weekly program and we

have been working on exploring and producing some works of art as a group.

NDIS

Just a reminder for parents of students verified under the Educational Adjustment Program (EAP) at school with a disability that your child may be eligible for support via the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). We highly recommend you contact the NDIS to check your child’s eligibility via the NDIS website: https://www.ndis.gov.au/ The NDIS can provide access to support services for your child including Occupational Therapy, Speech-Language Therapy, School Leavers Transition support and Employment support.

P A G E 8 I N S I D E T H E G A T E

With the implementation of NDIS, school based special staff such as Speech-Language Therapist, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Advisory Visiting Teachers for Impairments roles are changing to working with teachers planning and strategies to support a student’s access to the cur-riculum as opposed to assessment leading specified support programs as in the past.

NDIS - What does it mean?

National: The NDIS is available in the North Burnett and nationwide

Disability: The NDIS provides support to eligible people with intellectual, physical, sensory, cognitive and psychosocial disability. Early intervention supports can also be provided for eligible people with disability or children with developmental delay.

Insurance: The NDIS gives all Australians peace of mind if they, their child or loved one is born with or acquires a permanent and significant disability, they will get the support they need.

Scheme: The NDIS is not a welfare system. The NDIS is designed to help people get the support they need so their skills and independence improve over time.

Find out more via the NDIS website: https://www.ndis.gov.au/ the first step is making an Access Request: you can call 1800 800 110 or you can ask for a form. If you need help filling in the form or making the call, you can contact your Local Area Coordinator, Early Childhood Early Intervention partner or contact your local NDIA office.

LAC: Local Area Coordinator (LAC) partner is APM

Office Address: 105 Youngman Street, Kingaroy 4610 QLD

Open: Monday - Friday Opening Hours9am - 5pm

Phone: 1300 276 522

Email: LAC@apm.net.au

YEAR 11 AND 12 STUDENTS WITH A DISABILITY COMPLETING THEIR QCE

The QCAA recognises that some students may have disability impairment and/or medical conditions, or experience other circumstances that may be a barrier to their performance in assessment. Access arrangements and reasonable adjustments (AARA) are designed to assist these students.

Eligibility for AARA

AARA are provided to minimise, as much as possible, barriers for a student whose disability, impairment, medical condition or other circumstances may affect their ability to read, respond to or participate in assessment

P A G E 9 I N S I D E T H E G A T E

These barriers fall into three broad categories:

permanent temporary intermittent

The QCAA uses broad application categories for AARA eligibility:

cognitive physical sensory social/emotional

The application of AARA to student assessment is based on the functional impact of the condition for which AARA are sought. Students with the same condition may experience highly varied impacts on their education, and their ability to demonstrate their learning, knowledge and skill in assessments.

Students are encouraged to please contact their teacher or Mrs Tanya Coulson Head of Department Senior to discuss the requirement of an AARA and the process to be followed, if applicable.

Further information is available via the QCAA web site https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/senior/assessment/aara

P A G E 1 0 I N S I D E T H E G A T E

Year 9/10 Drama Class activities this week

included warm-up stretching exercises - The

Cobra and Downward Dog.

Warm up was followed by an activity where one

student played the part of the Parent and one

played the part of a 3 year child. With only two

words permitted to be used - Hamburger and

Beetroot - the parent was to convince the child to

eat their vegetables.

A very interesting lesson for everyone involved.

P A G E 1 1 I N S I D E T H E G A T E

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QKR App - What an Easy Way to Pay and Purchase

Put money onto your Tuckshop account or order the food specifically, purchase and order uniforms, pay your school fees, pay for excursions, pay for your Year 12 Graduation ticket and much more! Tuckshop transactions are to be completed by 8.00 am if they are to be available to your students on that day.

Download the app onto your phone and follow the prompts or alternatively pop into the office for a quick lesson. It really is very easy.

Burnett State College in association with Burnett State College P & C have chosen to adopt the QKR application.

Better for parents

Make faster, more convenient payments from a secure mobile app anywhere and at anytime.

Website payment alternative for parents and carers without a smartphone or tablet.

All purchases including tuckshop , fees, laptops, excursions etc. can be made using the app.

Pay direct from a credit or debit card without pre-loading funds to a third party account.

Track transactions easily with online receipts.

Let’s Concentrate on our Health

The change in the season has already seen a rise in the

amount of illness that is around our school community.

Washing hands regularly and the use of hand sanitizer

is recommended by Qld Health as one of the easiest

ways to stay on top of germs that may be spreading.

If we all make a conscientious effort to follow these

simple instructions and remember to not attend school

if you are unwell we can all play a small part in keeping

our school students and staff as healthy as possible.

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For Your Diary and Assessment Due Dates

Date Year Level

School Event or Assessment Item Details

9 March 11 + 12 Physics - Data Test

10 March 7 Gideons Bible presentations

13 March 12 Biology - IA1 Data test

11 + 12 Art - IA1

17 March ALL P and C Meeting

ALL Student Leader Induction Ceremony 12pm Town Hall

18 March 12 Rec - written exam

19 March 7 + 10 Immunisation Day

11 Essential English - Employment Package Submission

20 March ALL National Day Against Bullying

20 March 7 Under 12 years Rugby League, Netball, Soccer & Tennis

23 March 11 Maths Methods - assignment due

9 + 10 Ag Science - Portfolio due

7 Chinese - assessment due

24 March 7B HPE - Assignment due

8A HPE - Assignment due

25 March 9A HPE - Exam

9B Maths - Exam

9 + 10 Drama - Performance due

26 March 9B HPE - Respectful Relationships exam

11 Essential English - Persuasive Speech Submission

27 March 7 Under 12 years District Cross Country—period 1 only

9 History - assessment

30 March 10A English - Essay due

8A English - Assessment

31 March 10B English - Assignment due

1 April 12 Mathematical Methods - Exam part 1

2 April 12 Mathematical Methods - Exam part 2

3 April ALL Interhouse Cross Country - commences 1.30pm

BSC Tuckshop Menu

Wraps

Chicken/Ham $8.00

Chilli Tender $8.00

Toasted Wraps $8.50

Sandwiches

Egg and Lettuce $3.50

Chicken $3.50

Chicken and Cheese $3.50

Ham, Cheese and Tomato $3.50

Corn Meat and Pickles $3.50

Tuna $3.50

Toasted Sandwiches $4.00

Hot Box

Riblets $2.80

Pies $4.00

(Plain, Peas, Bacon + Cheese,

Potato, Curry, Mushroom, Pepper)

Sausage Rolls $2.50

(Beef, Chicken + Cheese)

Chilli Tender $2.00

Kent Tender $2.50

Garlic Bread $3.50

Pizza $2.00

Meals $5.00

Rotating menu advertised weekly

Honey Soy + Rice, Thai Chicken and Rice

Curried Prawns + Rice, Spag Bog,

Sausages + Mash, Beef Casserole,

Wombok + Chicken

Salad Rolls

Chicken, Ham, Corn Meat $5.00

Salad Bowls

Med $4.00 with meat $4.50

Large with egg $4.50

Large with egg & meat $4.75

Hot Rolls (when available)

Chicken or Savoury Mince $5.00

Gluten Free Meals

Sausages $3.00

Nuggets $2.00

Drinks

Water Sml $2.00

Med $3.50

Lrge $4.50

Flavoured Milk Sml $2.00

Lrge $3.20

Juice Sml $2.00

Lrge $3.20

Softdrink (Sports Day only) $2.00

Powerade (Sports Day only) $4.50

Desserts

Ice Creams from $1.00

Cheesecakes (Slice) $3.00

Chips $2.20

Lollies (Sports Day only) $2.50

Chocolates $2.50

Mini Chocolates $ .50