Message from the Principal Term 3 Week 2 2020

NEWSLETTER www.dalbsoutss.eq.edu.au

Dates to Remember

29 July Aussie of the Month (Year 4) 30 July Australian Maths Comp 8 Aug Bunnings BBQ - fundraising

Canberra 2021 12 Aug Aussie of the Month (Year 3) 17 Aug P&C Meeting (7pm) 27 Aug School Photo Day 4 Sept Student Free Day 9 Sept Aussie of the Month (Year 2) 18 Sept Last Day of Term 3 5 Oct Public Holiday 6 Oct First Day of Term 4

Friday 24 July Jen Tunley & Michael Roberts

Monday 27 July Teagan Barnes

Wednesday 29 July Francis Gilbert & Tracey Mitchell

Dear Parents and Friends

Welcome to another issue of the South Newsletter. On Monday evening we had our monthly P&C meeting and it was hosted on Zoom. This is certainly a convenient way to host a meeting particularly in the cooler months. A number of fundraising items were discussed particularly around the recent Dalby Chiropractic Centre Golf Day last weekend which was hugely successful. We are certainly very appreciative of the support Brett and his team offered our school on this occasion.

We are ramping up our Containers for Change program here at school, through the Student Council. The council members are providing advice and training to classes on how to best engage in our recycling program. It will no doubt take a few weeks to get into full swing though this should be a small income stream for the P&C as we move forward.

Mr Will is back on deck this week, ramping up the practices for the instrumental students with both Senior and Junior Band before school rehearsal beginning next week. I was speaking with a representative of the Western Downs Council this week and he put forward to us information about a video project that they are planning to do for Seniors Week this year. As you would understand visiting the seniors in person is not possible this year so the next best thing is a video presentation. We plan to provide video footage of our Instrumental bands, Choir, highlight the work of our Arts and Enrichment students and possibly share some opportunities for older students to buddy read with their younger counterparts. We are hoping that it is possible to complete this task next Thursday afternoon. When complete our school will be provided with a copy of the finished seniors presentation prepared by the Western Downs Council. I am sure that the students will look forward to seeing the finished product.

Included in this week’s newsletter is a report about this weeks 100 Days of Prep celebration. Like you we would say that this has been the most unusual first 100 days of prep, though none the less the team wanted to celebrate this milestone with our students. Tuesday’s free dress day, activities and magnificent cupcakes were a huge success. My congratulations to the Prep team for their continued hard work. You will notice across this term we have tried to minimise the disruptions for our teachers and students to allow them to focus as much as they can on the core aspects of the curriculum. We hope to return to a more rounded offering as we enter the final term for 2020.

Next week will continue to see things ramping up even further across the school and we look forward to making the most of each and every school day that we have available.

Enjoy your week

Dave

School Banking is back and is on

Thursdays.

Congratulations Wattle! This week’s winner!

HOUSE POINTS THIS TERM

Kurrajong 1095

Waratah 1165

Wattle 1255

Kalbarri 887

Dalby South Weekly Attendance Data for Term 3 Week 1

Year Level: Attendance: Rating:

Prep 91.35% Good

Year 1 88.76% Getting There

Year 2 90.07% Good

Year 3 90.79% Good

Year 4 86.20% Getting There

Year 5 90.20% Good

Year 6 89.06% Getting There

ACHIEVER OF THE WEEK Prep A Dakoda Donnelly 4B Lucas Dickson

Prep B Makayla Rickaby 4C Daquon Mitchell

Prep C Dallas Gibson 4D Caileu Grubb

1A Lucy Stower 5A Denzel Amancio

1B Flynn Williams 5B Jai Jenkins

1C Alyssa Mitchell 5C Talia Talbot

1D Isabelle Jordan 5/6E Nina Grant

2A Rohan Bryson 6A Cooper Pott

2B Henry Bellert 6B Rachael Davis & Blake Polzin

2C Christian Saxby 6C Danny McCready

3A Johnny-Jay McCreath 6D Mitchell Brown

3B Zayden Gibson SEP Imogen Finch

3C Charlee Hodges-Rush IM

3D Scarlett Blissner LLI Hunter Fing

4A Skylah-Rose Checkley Art

25298 The Cleaner Award was presented to: 3B

The ‘Go Green’ Award was presented to: 6C

Tuckshop voucher winner was: Lewis Pott

Our overall attendance rate for the whole school was 89.43%.

Top Attenders this week were 2B.

WRISTBANDS TOTAL

Oliver over is eating Pavlova,

Piled up high with jam and cream, While Annie and Anna are eating a banana, And Chase likes the stinky cheese. Where’s the Jam Jarod, Jam Jarod, Jam Jarod, Jam. Emily’s eaten all the eggs, And Mrs Stokes then says, Where’s the Jam Jarod, Oh! You’ve not Jarod. Jarod! You’ve eaten all the Jam. OH!!!!!

Based on the book “Pass the Jam Jim.” Written by Mrs Tomlinson with help from 1A 2020.

We have been looking at poetry and Looking at elements of poetry. Poetry always has Rhythm and imagery, and often rhyme, sometimes repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. Here is a poem that we made about our class based on a cool rhyming story called “Pass the Jam Jim.”

What’s Happening in Class 5A What's the matter? That's what 5A have been looking at so far this Term, 3 states of matter. We have been investigating our solids, liquids and gases. We have completed an investigation looking at whether gas has mass and takes up space and we have looked at the properties of solids. 5A is conducting an investigation looking at the different viscosity of liquids in a 'Runny Race' seeing which liquid is more or less viscose and why. It has been so much fun learning about the properties of matter and being able to be a molecule ourselves.

Where’s the Jam Jarod? A party is happening, in 1A today, Taela and Layla are there. Where’s the apples Aliyah, Abbey loves, apples, Aliyah. Where’s the Jam Jarod, Jam Jarod, Jam Jarod, Jam. Lily loves her lollies, And so does Alex. Kynan in dinean in 1A today. Charlotte is chomping, on chocolate and cherries. Where’s the Jam Jarod, Jam Jarod, Jam Jarod, Jam. It’s fun for Mrs Tomlinson, And all the girls want games. Here comes Dom with a water bomb, Will Jonah, get wet on the way. Where’s the Jam Jarod, Jam Jarod, Jam Jarod, Jam. The cleaners, Salvina, Pie that’s Pecan is for Decan, Ella-Rose has bows in her hair. While Logan and Lucy just love their sushi. Where’s the Jam Jarod, Jam Jarod, Jam Jarod, Jam.

Congratulations to our Preps; they are now 100 days smarter! It was celebration time at Prep on Tuesday with a free dress day and lots activities around the number 100.

P&C News

A HUGE thank you to Dalby Chiropractic Clinic for the opportunity to hold the BBQ at their charity golf day last weekend. All up we made over $1800 which is a great start for the 2021 Canberra Camp fundraising pool. Thank you also to the Lamari, Owen, Fletcher, Flynn and Tunley families for their help on the day.

Krispy Kreme orders have started to come into the office. The cut off for these are next Friday July 31 for manual forms and money, or online will close on Monday August 3. The office does have more forms if you need another or more, otherwise they can be found on SkoolBag. They will be delivered to school August 18. Anyone who is able to help collect them on the morning of the 18 (4:30am) or collate the orders (from 11am) your help would be greatly appreciated. Please let the school now if you are available.

The P&C has a Containers for Change account and now have designated bins at school for the students to put their poppers and water bottles in. Currently we are using the money to go towards the 2021 Canberra Camp. This will change term to term depending on what projects/ events we are fundraising for. Families or friends who would like to contribute to this and are collecting bottles/ cans etc at home can take them to the Containers for Change store on Nicholson Street in Dalby (or any Containers for Change store in Queensland) and give them our code and the money will be forwarded to our P&C account automatically. The code is C102 628 19. Every 10 cent counts! We will be looking for parent help to take the containers we have collected at school down to the store each week. If anyone is willing to help with this please let the office now.

Thank you to those parents who linked up to Zoom on Monday night for our P&C meeting, we were done in just over half an hour. Great way to attend a meeting without leave your home, especially great during these winter months. Jen

Prep A Celebrating 100 Days of Learning! On Tuesday we got to celebrate 100 days of learning! We have been counting down 100 days since starting Prep and had been looking forward to our celebration. We had such a fun day and had lots of activities based around the number 100. We got to create a 100 year old version of ourselves using craft materials, a number puzzle that counts in 10s to 100, our 100 days brighter crowns as well as 3 STEAM activities. The STEAM activities consisted of a playdough cake with 100 candles, making a tower that would stand using 100 cups, using 100 playing cards to build a tower, use 100 pieces of lego to build something as well as building a Dominoe line with 100 pieces. To end the day we all had a cupcake each!

Bunnings BBQ fundraiser - Saturday 8th August 2020

Helpers needed from

8:30am -11:00am, 11:00am – 1:30pm, 1:30pm – 4pm.

If you have any free time during Saturday the 8th of August and are keen to help raise some much needed funds for next year’s Canberra camp please email admin@dalbsoutss.eq.edu.au or phone the school office on 46 723888.

Canberra Camp 2021 C4J (Children

For Jesus)

Again this year we will be having our lunch time club C4J where we have lots of fun learning about Gods love and plan for us, listening to stories, answering the children’s questions sharing our lives together, and singing songs. It will be a part of our lunchtime activities for the lower school on a Wednesday.

It will be held in the Parent Room. All children who are religiously affiliated, or who go to RE or will next year are welcome to come. If they do not go to RE but would like to come we just need a signed and dated letter, by mum or dad.

Looking forward to catching up with lots of the children again.

Mrs Tomlinson

School Photos Thursday 27 August 2020

Dear Parents,

School photographs are scheduled to be taken by advancedlife . Whilst an envelope and flyer will be distributed shortly, if possible it is our preference that ordering be completed online to reduce administration and potential security issues related to the return of cash and envelopes on photo day.

Orders for packages and sibling photographs can be placed securely online at www.advancedlife.com.au using our school’s unique 9 digit advancedorder code. Portrait and group package orders are due by photography day.

Should you wish to purchase a sibling photograph online, the order must be placed no later than the day before photography day. Sibling photographs will only be taken if an order has been placed.

Should you have any queries concerning school photographs or online ordering, please contact us at www.advancedlife.com.au/contact

ORDER NOW go to www.advancedlife.com.au and enter the code

TBQ NEZ G9H

Reading in 3A

This week 3A have been focussing on making predictions during reading. On the first page, we have to write a prediction on what we think will happen in the book based on the title, illustrations and the blurb. We then have to justify why we made that prediction with the evidence we used. Every six pages we say if our predictions were accurate or inaccurate and then we write another prediction of what we think will happen in the next six pages. Predicting helps us to use information from titles and picture clues to form ideas in our head and our justifications help us find evidence and information in the book. By Katie Kajewski and Morgan Sargeant