you all. This week during my classroom visits I

Principal Report

Before 8:30am A reminder to all students and par-ents. Students who arrive before 8:30am are expected to sit and wait under the shed until a teacher re-leases them from the area. By fol-lowing this expectation, teachers know that the students are safe and in the right place at the right time. Thank you for your support.

School Payments School payments can be made via: Eftpos Cheque Cash-correct amount B-Point on invoice Hat Policy Every student is expected to be wearing a hat while outside playing and when participating in PE les-sons.

Meet and Greet Thank you for taking the time to at-tend the Parents Meet and Greet. Our school appreciates your in-volvement, support and effort in continuing to promote the excellent opportunities that Kalbar SS pro-vides.

P&C News Please contact the school if you are interested in becoming a P&C mem-ber in 2018. The first meeting is be-ing held on the 20 February in the Staff Room. Meeting starts at 7:30pm Acting Principal Mr Damien Butler

Important Dates Day 8 Student Numbers 1 Feb Parent Meet & Greet 1 Feb Swimming Lessons 7 Feb Fassifern Leaders Conference 8 Feb Leaders Induction Ceremony 20 Feb Swimming Carnival 7 Mar Golf Lesson Yr5/6 20 Mar Last Day of Term 1 29 Mar Easter Friday 30 Mar

Physical Education News

The sportsperson of the week is

awarded to Emily from Year 2/3P. Emily

was nominated for her wonderful

sportsmanship whilst participating in a

number of games throughout our PE

lesson. Emily demonstrated great hon-

esty whilst playing games and even af-

ter being eliminated she was able to

constantly show a positive attitude,

preparing to try even harder for the fol-

lowing rounds of games.

Hotshot Tennis Program

Kalbar State School welcomes the Hotshot Tennis Program and looks forward to many of our students participating in this wounderful opportunity. Have fun kids!!!

Kalbar State School Newsletter • Issue No.2• (1 February 2018)

LOTE

Guten Tag liebe Eltern und Kinder, Frohes, neues Jahr! Happy, new year! I look forward to a fantastic 2018 and another great year of teaching German at Kalbar State School! This year we will be continuing our lessons using C2C, bearing in mind that the Australian Curriculum for Languages puts great emphasis on communicating and understand-ing. It is paramount that our stu-dents study vocabulary every week. Our grade 4 and 5 students start their German journey with Unit 1 focusing on What’s in a name?, in-troducing yourself and discussing cultural differences between Ger-man speaking countries and Aus-tralia. Grade 6 will continue with Unit 5 focusing on What do my interests say about me?, discussing leisure activities and create bilingual pro-files about themselves. The assessment will only be done in class time and not at home. To ensure vocabulary retention, I will again hand out vocabulary books to the students and this vo-cab will be assessed during the term. The students will randomly be selected to verbally recall taught vocabulary. I would be

grateful for parents’ and caregiv-ers’ support to practise the taught vocabulary at home. The homework this year will be done in their vocabulary books. The students need to memorise vocabulary each week and write one German sentence every day in the back of their vocab books. I still utilize Language Perfect as a warm-up in class but no students will be set up individually as yet. In May we will compete again in the LP World Championships and af-terwards individual students will get the opportunity again to en-hance their vocab using LP in the 2nd semester. Educational, free apps to practise German in a fun way at home are DuoLingo or Bab-bel. The junior and middle school start a new journey this year. Frog Felix and Duck Franzi and help the P-2 students to learn German through videos, songs and games. Grade 3-4 will learn their new German phrases in a fun way with Esther and Socke, a German speaking sock. Lots of fun is ahead of us this year, the Language Perfect World Championships, Oktoberfest and the German Speech Contest. Please let me know if you do have any questions or concerns. Liebe Grüße, Maike Lablans German Teacher mlabl1@eq.edu.au

Tuckshop Tuckshop will resume tomor-row. The current menu was at-tached to last week’s newsletter and copies are available from the office and on the school website. We are always looking for volun-teers. If you are free for one Fri-day a term or perhaps a couple, please contact Sarah Lyngcoln (0459639946), our friendly tuckshop convenor. The atmos-phere is always fun, friendly and social. You’ll enjoy your day and your help will be much appreci-ated. A big thank you to our helpers for this week. We appreciate your ongoing support. Cristine Stephan Cara Maskelyne Alison Ilic Cindy Kitzelmann

Uniform Shop

All enquiries contact Sarah Ruth-ven 0403314044

Wednesday 8:45am - 9:15am

This Week’s Reading Tip

Try not to let television intrude on

reading time. Make a special time for reading with your child, away from interruptions.

P&C NEWS

We have some great fundraisers com-

ing up over the next few weeks, with

dates to be confirmed soon. The kids

are sure to get excited over an ice

cream day, first term disco, and back

again from last year will be our silver

frenzy. Which class will take out the

prize this year??!

Just another quick reminder that the

P&C AGM will be held on Tuesday 20th

February at 7.30pm. We would love to

see a big attendance at this meeting.

All committee positions need to be

filled, so if you are interested in taking

on a role please feel free to talk to one

of our current committee members -

Anton La Vin, Sara Bamford or Christine

Stephan. Nomination forms and mem-

bership applications will be attached to

next week's newsletter.

Music Lessons

Katie Scheiwe BA, B.Soc.Stud, A Mus A. I have vacancies for students wanting to learn: Piano and theory Guitar and theory Drums Brass and Woodwind Students may learn for leisure or sit A.M.E.B. exams. (M) 0439 460 558

Social Mixed Touch Foot-ball

Where: Hayes Oval Harrisville When: Mondays nights - Muster on the 5th February 2018 Times: 1st game at 7.00pm and 2nd game 7.45pm

Cost: $50 per player Hayes Oval Inc. run a Social mixed touch football competition twice a year on a Monday night starting a 7pm. Season will run for approx. 10 weeks. All the proceeds go to Hayes Oval Inc to help maintain and improve the Rugby league fields and amenities. Teams are to be mixed (male and female) and consist of 6 players on the field. 2 female players must be on the field at all times. High school age (grade 7 is classed as High school) and over. Great way to meet new people, improve your fitness and a great way to start pre-season training for other sports!! The first week consists of a round robin to get everybody back into the swing of things and then the competition will start the follow-ing week.

If you wish to register a team please contact: Jenny Miles – 0419 717 593 or Via Facebook Harrisville So-cial mixed touch football.

Fassifern Cobras

FASSIFERN COBRAS

SOCCER CLUB SIGN ON

“Be a part of a local community sports group, were it’s

all about the kids having fun”

Thursday, 1st February 2018 – 3pm till 4.30pm

Saturday, 3rd February 2018 – 9am till 11am

Fassifern Cobras Soccer Shed

Kalbar Showgrounds - Edward St Entrance

For more information please phone

0407 021 480

Everyone is WELCOME, new mem-bers will require birth certificate at

sign on.

COME ALONG AND

HAVE SOME FUN!!!