MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

5C TIP OF THE WEEK

Holland Park State School

59 Abbotsleigh St, Holland Park,

Qld, 4121

Ph: (07) 3421 6222

Fax: (07) 3421 6200

Student Absences: (07) 3421 6260

Email: admin@hollparkss.eq.edu.au

SCHOOL CALENDAR

6 Nov Book Fair Buying Week

Commences

8 Nov Interschool Chess

Competition

8-9 Nov Prep Classroom Visits

13 Nov Year 5 Cavendish Rd Drama

Performance

13 Nov P&C Cyber Safety Session

16 Nov School Music Concert

SCHOOL WATCH - 13 17 88

SCHOOL RULES

Our School Rules are:

Be safe

Be responsible

Be respectful Staying Safe Before School

Prep with parent, Yrs 1,2 under B block & sails near D. Yrs3,4 under C block & sails, Yrs5,6 under F&G blocks and between G&H · Stay out of classrooms unless a teacher is present

Stay off stairs and verandas

Walk, not run, on hard surfaces

Keep away from out of bounds areas such as outside library

Courtesy Remember your manners: Use please & thank-you

manners Use ‘good morning’ & ‘good

afternoon’ greetings Make eye contact & smile at

others

1. It was good last week to welcome Edward Danielewski back to school after four weeks of leave. My thanks go to Julia Whittaker who acted as deputy principal in Edward’s absence. I would also like to thank Gail Young who filled the position of master teacher.

2. The school has recently gone through the process of recruiting a permanent head of curriculum. I am pleased to announce that following an open merit selection process, Julia Whittaker will be our new permanent head of curriculum. On behalf of the school community I would like to thank Michelle Smith who has held this position in an acting capacity. Michelle has been instrumental in the implementation of a number of significant curriculum reforms.

3. You may remember that earlier in the year I notified you about your opportunity to take part in a School Opinion Survey. The survey covered various aspects of the school’s operations and targeted the opinions of parents, students and staff. I thought it would be good to share some of the highlights with you.

Parent Opinions (Based on 84 responses)

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEPUTY PRINCIPAL

Active School Travel Awards

Last night I had the privilege of attending the Active School Travel Awards at the Brisbane City Hall. Whilst we did not win any major awards, Holland Park was commended, in particular, for the scooter and bike training that our students participated in this year. Over the year we have maintained a solid commitment to Active School Travel. Next year we intend to grow our participation through a range of targeted events and incentives. I would like to sincerely thank the parents-Mel, Trish and Juanita and our fabulous administration assistant Ashlee for our success with Active School Travel over the past two years. Next year we will be bigger and even better!

Leigh Harrod Deputy Principal

Student Opinions (based on 113 responses)

Teacher Opinions (based on 38 responses)

While we want to maximise the attendance of each student at our school, it is not appropriate to send them along to school when they are sick. I possess no medical qualifications but it is fairly easy to determine when a child cannot learn because they are obviously not feeling well. In these cases, for the child and for his or her classmates, the best place to be is at home. From time to time when students become unwell at school, we do need you to be able to have someone who can pick your child up in a timely way and take them home.

Anthony Gribbin Principal

FROM Our students

Staff and Students are invited to participate

Remembrance Day Service

To be conducted on 99th anniversary of the first

Remembrance Day

Saturday 11th November 2017 10:15 for 10:30 start

at

Memorial adjacent - 58 Arnold Street, Holland Park

Refreshments will be served on conclusion of service

approx. 11:05am

Poppies and Badges are now available at the

office for Remembrance Day on 11th

November. This year we are selling the

following products in the Admin Office and

Finance Office from Monday November 6 to

Friday November 10 .

Poppies $0.50

Badges $5.00

Hello my name is Corina and I’m one of the chaplaincy representatives here at Holland Park State

School. I really like having this responsibility; being able to decide special days that the whole school

contributes to is really special. I love my job and I’m so thankful Holland Park State School lets the

grade six students contribute so much in our last year. sSadly it’s all coming to the end. I think the

leaders and grade six students did a great job this year we should all remember that!

Corina C 6KD

Why I like being a captain

Hi, my name is Jamie B and I am the Bowen Vice–Captain.

Let me tell you what I like about being a leader.

Firstly, I love working together with the other captains to give all the students an enjoyable time at

Holland Park State School.

I love helping others in need to make them happy. Last, but not least, I love making friends along

the way and sharing my memories.

So if you one day want to be a leader like us, you have to do what’s best for your fellow students and

work hard.

Thank you

Jamie B 6KD

The World Change Agents workshop was a magnificent experience as it taught me about marketing procedures and social enterprises. During this workshop we created a fake business with a social focus. Through this business we aim to solve current social issues in our community today.

Emily S 5GO

THE WORLD CHANGE AGENTS WORKSHOP

REMEMBRANCE DAY

CURRICULUM NEWS

Ideas for Writing at Home

Writing is a part of every learning area at school and is vital for many aspects of everyday life. It's crucial to encourage your child's writing skills as much as possible right from the early years through to upper primary.

Tips and ideas for parents and caregivers

Spend quality time each day talking with your child. Ideas come from shared and personal stories.

Read to your child - not just stories but a wide range of fiction and non-fiction texts - and discuss the ways that authors use words to shape their ideas.

Be a writing model for your child and encourage her/him to write alongside you.

Create real opportunities for your child to write, such as letters, posters or invitations.

Have a variety of writing materials readily available.

Talk to your child about his/her writing and read it through together.

Praise your child for having a go.

Don’t dwell on mistakes, focus on the progress made.

If your child brings a spelling list home to learn, try to make the practice fun by playing games that encourage careful listening to the sounds in words and looking for letter patterns. Your child may enjoy singing or reciting spellings, or writing them out and colouring letter patterns.

Talk about the reason for learning spelling. It’s not about the test but for using in writing.

Remember that writing can be difficult, so be available, supply help if asked and encourage progress.

Becoming an Expert Writer

To write means to 'plan, compose, edit and publish texts in print or digital forms. Writing usually involves activities using pencils, pens, word processors; and/or using drawings, models, photos to represent text; and/or using a scribe to record responses or produce recorded responses.' (Australian Curriculum definition) http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/english/structure

Teaching students to write is one of the most important, most challenging and most rewarding aspects of every teacher's work. In every year level and every learning area/subject, teachers must:

• Teach the knowledge, processes and skills students need to write well.

• Engage and inspire students to write, and write well.

Today, the power of the written word is sometimes downplayed or even ignored. Students may not fully appreciate how often spoken texts — news broadcasts, political speeches or famous lines from a blockbuster movie — begin as written texts, often laboriously drafted and crafted. Nor may they fully appreciate that the authors of all texts first had to learn how to write, and then how to write well.

People write for many different reasons. The purpose for writing is significant because it can influence language choice and the degree to which the writing needs to be 'finished', for example:

•Writing can be of high importance, as in students demonstrating their learning to their teacher.

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Year 3 Authors at Work

William T Year 3

The coolest coffee, the sounds of laughter,

The big doughnuts, the sound of children after.

The cookies crumbling, toilet tissues, cracker biscuits, what to buy?

Canned pears and lime jelly, cakes and raisins vermicelli

Sugar and salt just to make time fly.

Sasha R Year 3

There’s the wringle and the wrangle of the trolleys when they tangle

Warm bread, sprinkled cupcakes, what to choose? Canned pineapple, fruit jelly, nuts, chocolate, vermicelli,

Strawberries and sour lollies as we move.

Mrs Michelle Smith A/Head of Curriculum

Talula F Year 3 Flipping, twisting, jumping, bouncing, Jugglers juggling, people pouncing.

A light touch could send birds flying.

With a click and a snap tyres start tying.

With a ring of the bell lights go out,

Little boys start to pout.

Lachlan F Year 3

Wrappers unwrapping, Crunchy chocolate capping

Orange lime and all the jelly, Canned tomatoes, toasted bread

I’ll keep eating ‘til I’m dead, All this food for my big belly.

•Writing can be less important, for example, students jotting down ideas to contribute to a group discussion.

Whatever the purpose, every student engaged in a writing task should be able to tell you why they are writing.

Expert writers also must keep their audience in mind. In order to appeal to and connect with the perceived values, interests and experiences of an intended audience, writers modify word choice, text content, structure and delivery method. Expert writers must be clear about their role in the writing. They know if they are: an expert, a storyteller, an investigator, the actual person writing, or a fictional 'I'.

Have a chat with your child this week and ask them about their daily writing. What was the purpose of your writing? Who was your audience? Who were you writing for? What was your role?

SCIENCE CLUB AT CAVENDISH ROAD

On Wednesday the 25th of October, Kiri B, Isabella F, Eli M and I went to Science Club at Cavendish

Road State High School. We learnt all about reflection and refraction, here’s a fun fact; there is not

actually seven colours in a rainbow, there are in fact six. Sir Isaac Newton didn’t like the number six

so instead he invented indigo. That makes seven. We also had a lot of fun experimenting with light

boxes, mirrors and colours. We played with concave, convex, double convex, double concave,

rectangular, circular and triangular mirrors, all of which had different light patterns.

Eilidh K 5/6AW

HOLLAND PARK SS CHESS NEWS

2017 Brisbane Individual Age Championships

A group of HPSS students from Prep to year 6 will be attending the 2017 Brisbane Individual Age Championships Chess Tournament at Brisbane Boys College, Wednesday 8th November 2017. I wish them all the best.

Holland Park State School Chess Tournament

Dear Parents/ Caregivers

Holland Park State School will be hosting a chess tournament for HPSS students from years 1 to 6, Friday 1st December 2017.

As you know we are growing our chess program to amazing levels. Students are welcome to self-nominate for this tournament at the hall on Monday 6th November 2017, during first break.

Once students nominate a selection process will be conducted.

Yours sincerely Lea-Anne Schilg Year 1 Teacher HPSS Chess Coordinator

HPE WITH MR WALKER

Congratulations to Juliette D who competed at the Triathlon Queensland All Schools Triathlon/Aquathlon competition. This was a selection event for the 2018 Metropolitan East Regional Team. A very tough event and the first time that Holland Park State School has been represented at this competition. Fantastic effort Juliette! Mr Matt Walker HPE Specialist Teacher

MUSIC NEWS

Upcoming Events

End of year music groups concert

Our annual end of year concert will be held on Thursday 16th November.

Time: Concert starts at 7.00pm, finishing approximately 8.15pm

String players to arrive at 6.30 for tuning

Uniform: School uniform for all performers (not sports uniform).

The following groups will be performing in this order:

String orchestra

Junior choir (grade 3)

Junior band

Recorder band

Grade 4 choir

Senior band

Senior choir

P&C Christmas event Saturday 25th November

All choirs (Junior, Grade 4 and Senior) plus recorder band will perform in a short concert to start the afternoon’s festivities, at 4.00pm in the Outdoor Theatre .

Instrumental program for 2018

All year 2 and 3 students will receive an expression of interest letter this week containing important information about recruitment for our 2018 instrumental program.

Warryn James Music specialist

COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICER

1. QParents

Don’t forget to register for QParents, we would very much appreciate you registering absences via QParents, this saves admin so much time each morning. If you haven’t registered or are having problems, please contact me.

2. Prep Enrolments for 2018—closing Friday 10th November, 2017.

Please bring your 2018 Catchment and/or Sibling prep enrolment forms into the admin office as soon as possible. If you already have siblings at school, remember to bring an original birth certificate or passport with your application. For new catchment enrolments, please don’t forget to bring a birth certificate or passport and proof of residency documents with your application. If you have any queries regarding enrolments, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Karen Oliver

Email: koliv33@eq.edu.au

Book Fair Buying Days Monday 6 – Friday 10 November 8.00 am – 4.00 pm Payment methods: Cash, cheque (made payable to Holland Park State School), EFTPOS, credit card (MasterCard and Visa)

Please ensure your student checks the Library’s Lost property box before the end

of term.

LIBRARY MATTERS

LOST HATS

Would parents please check their child’s hat to make sure you have the correct hat. We have had a number of parents coming to the office reporting their children’s hats are missing and there are none in lost property.

YEAR 4 SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES

Sustainable Practices Spring into life at HPSS—Donations Welcome

You may have noticed the new vegetable gardens that have sprouted up around the school in past few weeks. The raised garden bed - pizza patch - beside M block is thanks to fundraising and approval from Chaplain Howard and his representative, Christine Dick. At the moment Year 4s, under my supervision, will be managing it. So far the students have really enjoyed this process. This would not have been possible either, without the incredible efforts and knowledge of Rob Miles, our groundsman, who helped with the setup.

Rob has also revitalised the older, previously disused, garden beds behind the hall and pool. I’m sure all will agree these contribute to making the school an even better place to be each day. No doubt, the Preps are going to enjoy helping and watching these grow. There is more space to fill, and I know there is a growing number of green thumbs in the community, so if anyone has any seedlings or worm tea they can donate that would be greatly appreciated. He has worked so hard on these, so next time you see him, why not let him know what a wonderful job he is doing. Any donations can be dropped off to M1 – 4CS classroom (close to Abbotsleigh St).

Ms

Clair Savage Year 4 Classroom Teacher

SWIMMING CLUB NEWS

Friday Night Club

The children certainly enjoyed the Halloween treats kindly provided and maybe the sugar fix helped produce some of the PB’s on the night.

The order of events this week are:- 13m/25m/50m Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly, Freestyle and the 100m IM being the special race for the night. The order of strokes for the IM is Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Freestyle. Nominations for club night need to be in prior to 5.00pm Thursday.

The results are on the website.

Vice Captains

Voting took place on Friday for the selection of our vice captains for the season and we congratulate Emily S and Jake I who were voted into the positions. Voting was very close and the club thanks all those members who put their names forward for the positions.

Jake I Reece H Maddie C Emily S

Most Improved at Club Night

The club wishes to acknowledge the great improvements in times achieved by swimmers throughout the season. Each week we shall list the swimmer who took the most time off their previous best swim for the season. The following children will be presented with a “Treat Voucher” for the canteen (only 1 voucher per child per week) Friday night’s most improved were:-

P&C NEWS

Active School Travel

This week our Active School Travel Committee representatives Melanie Cox and Trish Gibbons joined Leigh Harrod and Ashlee Cowan an evening at City Hall to celebrate the Active School Travel Awards for 2017. Holland Park State School was nominated as a finalist in the School of Excellence category and received a special mention for the provision of our new scooter and bike racks as well as the training provided to students for scooter and bike safety training. It was great to meet other parents, teachers and local councillors who were equally as enthusiastic about the program. Lots of great ideas were shared and celebrated throughout the evening.

Congratulations to this weeks’ Junior and Senior winners:

Oval Camp Out - Sat 28 & Sun 29 Oct

Another HPSS Camp Out done and once again a lot of tired but happy families heading home this morning, after a night of fun... and a breakfast feast of pancakes of course!

Roasting marshmallows over the campfires was a hit as always and the kids loved the idea of frolicking in school grounds in the dark of night.

Apparently very early morning is also a popular time to play a mass game of ‘tiggy’, which was well under way before most parents had even contemplated the idea of surfacing from their tents!

Thanks to all the parent volunteers, particularly Mat Slingsby, Ean Dungey, John Bromfield and Dylan Dawson and Trish Gibbons for behind the scenes magic and a big thank you to Kristian Leach for his tireless efforts to make this event the success it was!

HPSS CHRISTMAS PARTY!

Saturday 25 November from 4pm

You’re invited to a fabulous family event to mark the end of another school year and celebrate the start of the festive season. Come along and enjoy the performances, disco, a picnic with friends, and the fabulous FIREWORKS! (Santa plans to pay a visit too). You can pre-order BBQ and sushi and purchase your Family Ticket via School24.

Volunteers - can sign up at: http://signup.com/go/uYZsBTS

Bakers – we would welcome individual items to sell at the Christmas Party.

See the attached flyer for more details and email hpssxmas@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Jnr Snr

1LS 71% 5EB 76%

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Planning Ahead…

2018 P&C EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Are you thinking about putting your hand up for an Executive Member role next year? You have plenty of time to think about it, however if you let us know you're considering it, you can speak directly with the existing member and find out what is involved. If you would like to find out more about our P&C Executive roles for 2018, please email pandc@hollparkss.eq.edu.au.

Executive Positions:

· President

· Vice President (existing member retiring)

· Vice President, Communications (existing member retiring)

· Treasurer (existing member retiring)

· Secretary

2018 FETE CONVENOR

We are currently looking for a person to lead volunteers in putting together the Fete of 2018. Last year's convenor has kindly offered to be on hand for 'hand-over' and will act as 2IC to the new convenor. If you are interested or would like more information, please let us know by emailing hpssvolunteers@gmail.com

OTHER 2018 FUNDRAISING EVENTS

Thank you to those who have already put their hand up to convene fundraising events in 2018. We still have a few gaps to fill. If you are interested in being a convenor or would like to assist the convenor for any P&C event in 2018, please email hpssvolunteers@gmail.com for more information.

COMMUNITY NEWS