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AugustAugustAugustAugust Mon 7th P&C Meeting 7pm Tue 8th School Photo & Money due Fri 11th Tuckshop Mon 14th Show Holiday Sat 19th Bushdance Fri 25th Tuckshop Thu 31st Jump Rope for Heart

SeptemberSeptemberSeptemberSeptember Sun 3rd Fathers’ Day Tue 5th Technology Challenge— Benarkin State School Wed 6th—Thur 7th Readers Cup—State Thur 7th Boys’ Night In Fri 8th Special Tuckshop and International Day Mon 11th—Fri 15th Swimming

October October October October Mon 2nd Queens’ Birthday Fri 13th Grandparents’ Day Mon 16th Student Free Day Fri 20th Empire Theatre

NovemberNovemberNovemberNovember Wed 8th—Fri 10th Camp

DecemberDecemberDecemberDecember Fri 1st Swimming Carnival Tue 5th Year 6 Graduation lunch Fri 8th Picnic Day

Tanduringie State School 32 Tanduringie School Road

Maidenwell Qld 4615 Ph: 4164 6146 Fax: 4164 6249

Principal: Mr Paul Thorpe

TANDURINGIE

TIMES

Week 4, Term 3,

Thursday, 3rd August, 2017Name:

Our School Vision is

To foster an

environment where every

decision we make and

every

action we take

contributes to the

development of the child

as a whole. For us, as

educators, to

instill a passion for

learning within all chil-

dren and to nurture

their social, emotional,

physical and

academic

development.

Our current student attendance rate: 95.3% (exceeds our target!)

Principal’s Message

Dear Parents, Carers and Community,

Welcome to this edition of Tanduringie State School’s newsletter. You will discover

a range of highlights and learning achievements from across our classrooms in

the newsletter items that follow.

School Opinion Survey — now open

You are warmly invited to participate in this year’s online Parent/Caregiver School

Opinion Survey and have your say about what your child’s school does well, and

how it can improve. Participation in the online survey is anonymous and all infor-

mation that you provide will be treated confidentially. Your feedback will be pro-

vided back to your child’s school in such a way that you cannot be identified.

The access codes for the online survey are not linked to individuals, and you can-

not be identified in the survey results that will be reported back to the school, or

by the department. The online survey will be available until Friday, 25 August

2017 and should take less than ten minutes to complete. To access the survey,

please refer to the Parent/Caregiver instruction sheet that is attached to this

newsletter.

We would truly appreciate your feedback about what our school is doing well,

and how we can improve. Thank you in advance for your participation.

Congratulations to our South Burnett Athletics representatives!

Well done to Eliza Lawless, Charlotte Bourke, Charlotte Winks, George Wilson,

Bryce Spencer, Lachlan Cullen, Elsie McKenzie, Isabelle Winks, Mackenzie

Bourke, and Alexander Fitzsimons for representing Tanduringie at the South Bur-

nett Athletics trials this week. We are super-proud of your achievements!

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The Premier’s’ Reading Challenge runs through until Friday,

25th August. For a student to successfully complete the chal-

lenge they must read or experience a number of books. Ex-

periencing a book can include classroom or at home activi-

ties such as shared reading, listening and reading along with

a book, or being read to. Students are encouraged to select

a range of fiction and non-fiction books suited to their reading ability. Please ask

your child to record their reading with their classroom teacher.

Children’s Book Week

Children’s Book Week is coming up this term in Week 7! This year’s Book Week

theme is Escape to Everywhere! At assembly on Monday 21st August we will hold

a ‘Favourite Book Character’ Parade and celebrate the joy of reading all

throughout the week!

2017 Explicit Improvement Agenda

Reading

Writing

Positive Behaviour for Learning

(PBL)

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

Be a Learner Be Respectful Be Safe

As I mentioned in our last newsletter, a school priority for 2017 is Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) – a whole-

school approach to building and supporting academic and social success for all students.

Each morning, as students walk through our school gate, they are greeted by these three positive and clearly-

stated school rules. At Tanduringie our three school rules form the basis for our healthy and positive academic

and social culture.

Each fortnight, through our newsletter, I will communicate the PBL Focus Skills that we will explicitly teach and

reinforce at school. Please take the time to discuss and reinforce these same focus messages with your child at

home.

School photos

School photos are now available to order through the school office or online until Tuesday, 8th August.

P&C Meeting — next week

You are warmly invited to attend the next P&C Meeting to be held here at school on Monday, 7th August

at 7:00pm.

Thank you for your continued support of our school and community.

Mr. Paul Thorpe

Acting Principal

Tanduringie State School

“Good. Better. Best.”

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Focus Skills – Weeks 5 & 6

Term 3

Week 5 Be a Learner Have a growth mindset.

Be Respectful Use great manners. Be Safe Wear my hat outdoors.

Week 6 Be a Learner Think outside the square.

Be Respectful Show courtesy towards others. Be Safe Play safely.

Year Prep/1 News with Ms SanfordYear Prep/1 News with Ms SanfordYear Prep/1 News with Ms SanfordYear Prep/1 News with Ms Sanford

Dear Parents, In Maths our Preps have been learning all about collecting data using ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ questions and interpreting simple data displays. They have all been doing a fantastic job. Our Year Ones are learning all about addition. We have been looking at using a variety of strategies to solve addition problems. In English we are still learning about the differences between imaginative and informative texts. The students had the opportunity to complete an activity on being an animal expert. They had to tell the class facts about their chosen ani-mal. In Science we have been learning about the weather and how the weather can affect our lives. We have had great fun being weather watchers, recording the weather and looking at the clouds. Alex has returned from his family China visit and was very excited to share with his class some souvenirs and pictures from his travels. We have now included a sight word book in the homework and reading folders as many of you are aware. This is just another resource to use to practise these sight words with your child to strengthen their knowledge.

Thank you for all your support.

Karli & Jenny

Year 2/3/4 News with Mrs LivingstoneYear 2/3/4 News with Mrs LivingstoneYear 2/3/4 News with Mrs LivingstoneYear 2/3/4 News with Mrs Livingstone

Welcome to Week Four! The 2/3/4 classroom has been its usual busy self. The students have continued to work hard across all our key learn-ing areas.

In our English lessons we have continued to explore the importance of scanning and rereading texts in order to help answer comprehension questions. We are working really hard on self-monitoring our reading to make sure it makes sense, sounds right and the words look right. During home reading you may have noticed an increase in your child/children’s rereading to self-correct errors or to make their reading sound more fluent. This is great!! In the coming week the students will be reading The Lorax and working on a retell of this story from a different per-spective. We have constructed success criteria to help us know what is expected for the task.

In our Mathematics work we continue to work hard on learning about numbers. This week the year fours learnt about numbers into the mil-lions, the year threes revisited counting patterns while the year twos spent some time on addition and subtraction concepts. In our HASS work this week we discussed the significance of the early explorers. Students are in the middle of completing a timeline about when the explorers went on their different journeys. In the next fort-night the students will explore either Christopher Columbus or Vasco da Gama. This will be a great way to practise those very important research skills and learn some interesting facts and information along the way.

Today the 3-6 students met with students from Cooyar SS and our visiting engineers from Stanwell to gain some feedback about their bridges.

Hopefully our bridges held up well and there won’t be too many modifi-cations to make.

Year 2/3/4 News with Mrs LivingstoneYear 2/3/4 News with Mrs LivingstoneYear 2/3/4 News with Mrs LivingstoneYear 2/3/4 News with Mrs Livingstone

It’s that time of year again for Jason and myself to venture down to Brisbane for the Royal Brisbane Show. This year we are only taking led steers and prime cattle so hopefully we might get a few sleep ins. This year we say goodbye to Red, Helix, Hank, McFly, Star, Aubrey Junior and Mighty Mouse. Good luck boys!!

If you have any questions or con-cerns please don’t hesitate to con-tact the school.

Kind regards,

Megan and Rhonda

School PhotosSchool PhotosSchool PhotosSchool Photos SwimmingSwimmingSwimmingSwimming

Money and orders due: Tuesday 8th August.

Money and forms due: Thursday 31st August

Year 5/6 News with Mr ThorpeYear 5/6 News with Mr ThorpeYear 5/6 News with Mr ThorpeYear 5/6 News with Mr Thorpe

The 5/6 classroom has been super-busy over the past fortnight. Here are a few highlights!

English — Examining and creating fantasy texts

Mathematics — Various concepts

Science - Making changes

Thanks for your support! Paul and BarbThanks for your support! Paul and BarbThanks for your support! Paul and BarbThanks for your support! Paul and Barb

We have enjoyed reading Emily Rodda’s fantasy novel, Rowan of

Rin, to develop our understanding of character development in rela-

tion to plot and setting. We have now begun to draft an opening

chapter for our very own fantasy quest! We have continued to focus

on our whole class and guided reading to develop our fluency and

increase our background knowledge about the fantasy genre.

Key topics for Year 5:

@ Money and financial mathematics

@ Number and place value

@ Fractions and decimals

@ Patterns and algebra

@ Location and transformation

@ Number and place value

@ Using units of measurement

Key topics for Year 6:

@ Money and financial mathematics

@ Number and place value

@ Patterns and algebra

@ Fractions and decimals

@ Using units of measurement

@ Location and transformation

We have been investigating changes that can be made to ma-

terials and how these changes are classified as reversible or irre-

versible. We have conducted a range of experiments including:

• Investigating solubility

• Investigating evaporation

• Investigating condensation

• Investigating melting

• Investigating rusting and corrosion of metal.

MAIDENWELL QCWA INTERNATIONAL DAY

COUNTRY OF STUDY 2017 - NEPAL

FRIDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2017

MAIDENWELL HALL DOORS OPEN 11.30 AM

ENTERTAINMENT 12.30 PM BY STUDENTS OF

TANDURINGIE STATE SCHOOL

FREE ADMISSION MULTI DRAW RAFFLE $1.00

A TICKET AFTERNOON TEA

Next P&C Meeting:

Monday 7th August at 7:00pm

All welcome!