NEWSLETTER - Dalby South State School

NEWSLETTER
www.dalbsoutss.eq.edu.au
Term 4 Week 6 2015
Dear Parents and Friends
I was pleased to see our Year Six students taking part in the local
Remembrance Day service held yesterday. The service was once again
hosted by our local RSL and we are certainly fortunate that Mr Coles and
his small band of helpers took the time to mark this special day with very
moving service. It is certainly very important that our students are involved
in these special days as they are the future of such occasions. Those
students that attended were excellent ambassadors of our school which
was very pleasing indeed. Back at school all classes paused for a minutes
silence collectively to acknowledge the ultimate sacrifices that have been
made by so many in conflicts across the world.
We also had a visit from Arthur Martin this morning to discuss further the
extension of our tuckshop which we hope to progress in 2016. We have
applied for funding support from the State Government along with many
other schools across Qld. We think of course that Dalby South’s needs far
out way any other project being proposed by other schools! We are
certainly keeping our fingers crossed that we might be successful with our
application.
Tonight is our annual Performing Arts evening that will take place in Dalby
State High’s Performing Arts Complex. We certainly appreciate their
allowing us the use of their venue for this event. Students from both our
choir program and our instrumental program will be performing and we
welcome one and all to this event. Things begin at 6:30 pm and we look
forward to seeing you there!
Til next week
This week our Positive Behaviour for
Learning topic is: Be Safe- Use
Equipment the Right Way. Our PB4L
lessons have focussed on teaching
students to use equipment the right way
in all areas of the school. Students are
expected to use equipment as intended, in
the right way as they have been taught, in
all areas of the school.
Teachers regularly prompt students with
statement such as: “We are going to be
safe today by using all equipment
properly.”
They have also
discussed with
students some
examples of using
equipment at
school the right
way.
Examples
1.
Using a ruler to draw a line.
2.
3.
Placing headphones on head
Using a microscope, camera
etc.
Dave for the Admin Team
DATES TO REMEMBER
 12 November
 16 November
 18 November
 19 November
 24 November
 25 November
 26 November
 1 December
Performing Arts Night 6.30pm
(Dalby State High School Hall)
P & C Meeting 7.30pm
Golden Letters : 3C, 3D, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4/5D
Junior Swimming Carnival (P-2)
2016 Prep Orientation (9:15-10:45)
Student Leadership Speeches—2016
Christmas Service—Baptist Church
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2 December
Golden Letters: 5A, 5B, 5C, 5/6E, 6A, 6B
3 December
Christmas Bash
7 December
Year 6 Graduation
11 December Last Day of School
18 January
School Office Opens
25 January
Student Free Day
26 January
Australia Day
27 January
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR 2016
Year 6 whole day visit to DSHS
Owen St Dalby Q 4405. PH: 4672388
RESPECTFUL. RESPONSIBLE. SAFE.
ACHIEVER OF THE WEEK
Prep A
La’Kiah Tarrant
3C
Prep B
Macey Gough
3D
Prep C
Anthony Parkes
Prep/1E
Ryan Bourke
3/4E
Erin Law
Olivia Grub & Zayne
Hunt
4A
Ben Ford
1A
Montanna Dickens
4B
Jared Shaw
1B
Taylor Hold
4C
Stacey Weier
1C
Olivia Bannerman
4/5D
1D
Lakeyha Sleaman
5A
Adelaide Smith
Milly Austin
5B
Clayton Mc Gee
2A
Nicholas Flesser
5C
Jack Butler
2B
Byronn Mc Millan
5/6E
1/2F
Leeanne Cuzner
Ava Riethmuller
6A
Oliver Mc Callum
2D
Ava-May Hurley
6B
Charlie Hicks
3A
Jemma Wirth
3B
Xavier Harrison
Lillian Frid
‘GO GREEN’
TROPHY
The Cleaners Award
was presented
The ‘Go Green’ Award
was presented to:
1A
Prep C
HOUSE POINTS THIS TERM
W
R
Waratah
4248
10098
I
S
Kurrajong
4297
Wattle
4348
Kalbarri
4298
Justin Heinrich
2C
SEP
CLEANERS
TROPHY
T
B
A
N
D
Congratulations Wattle! This week’s winner!
Year 7 in 2016
Parents and guardians of students attending
Dalby State High School in 2016 now have the
ability to start paying Student Resource Scheme fees by
instalment. A discount applies for fees paid in full by 1st
December 2015. Layby of uniforms is also available. Ring
Jody or Karen on 4669 0953 at the Resource Outlet between
8:30am and 2:30pm Monday to Friday for further information
or visit www.dalbyshs.eq.edu.au and search Resource
Scheme.
Friday 13 November
Jen Tunley & Scott Hudson
Monday 16 November
Stacey Williams & Tabitha Elliott
Wednesday 18 November
Stacey Williams & Tracey Mitchell
Please check school bag app for price change
on tuckshop menu.
Orders to be in by 9am.
Orders to be written on separate bags for each
break.
Dalby South Weekly Attendance Data for
Week 5 Term 4
Our overall attendance rate for the whole school
was 91.27%. Classes with over 95% attendance for
the week were 1C, 2B, 3A, 4/5D & 4B.
Congratulations to 1C,
the “Top Attenders” with
96.52%
Year Level:
Attendance:
Rating:
Prep
88.16%
Getting there
Year 1
91.33%
Good
Year 2
92.42%
Good
Year 3
92.64%
Good
Year 4
92.69%
Good
Year 5
91.16%
Good
Year 6
89.87%
Getting there
Leila Austin
Hayley Casey
Brock Chard
Hayden Crookey
Amelia Fels
Clemente Gonzalez Monardes
Jayden Hammond-Sires
Abbey Johansen
Joshua Knight
Piper Law
Jessica Lloyd-Jones
Elaina Muller
Isabella Pharaoh
Pietta Pullen
Sophie Wise
Tannin Abbott
Laura Berlin
Lukas Bliesner
Lillian Frid
Phoebe Geisel
Abbey Healy
Avaiki Hirovanaa
Tia Judge
Indiana Kajewski
Anika Lawrence
Rhianna Mitchell
Aaliyah Murray
Laila Robertson
Izayah Brown
Mia Deem
Lucy Hart
Toby Herron
Amelia Mc Connell
Grace Newton
Xavier Patterson
Keira Pomroy
Jaikob Ramsey
Elisha Rickaby
Ava Riethmuller
Sophia Rooney
Megan Russell
Jarvis Steinohrt
Gemma Tate
Benjamin Tunley
Willow Weinbrecht
Paige Crowther
Alex Davison
Lilliana Fletcher
Georgia Gillett
Tiffany Ham
Douglas Hunter
Ava-May Hurley
Ben Maddick
Angus Mc Callum
Angus Mc Callum
Sonny Redding
Cooper Robinson
Nataleah Russell
Willow Sargeant
Madison Waye
Marcee Weier
Ebony Westaway
Courtney Zahl
Jessica Abbott
Lyric Abbott
Gaby Anderton
Shae-Lee Benstead
Indy Blissner
Breanna Burrowes
Jayden Cloete
Cameron Davis
Jessica Harber
Logan Hartwig
Maddison Hillier
Ignatia Hurford
Sasha Lloyd-Jones
Grayce Morgan
Tai Phipps
Benjamin Reichelt
Noah Rigney
Samson Roberts
Ethan Stam
Orlando Weier
Jemma Wirth
Toby Wolfe
Toby Wolfe
Darel Appo
Isabella Baker
Katie Cook Navarro
Mika Ellis
Abby Franklin
Xavier Harrison
Nathan Hold
Tristan Iselin
Lune Louw
Andre Murray
Azarya Palmer
Natalie Pethybridge
Joseph Routley
Kastal Speziali
William Tattam
Dylan Thomas
Jipsi Todd
Janae Zahl
2016 - PREP ENROLMENT INTERVIEWS
Prep Enrolment Interviews for students starting Prep at Dalby South in 2016 will be held on
the following dates in the Dalby South Library:
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Wednesday 18 November 2015
Friday 20 November 2015
To book a Prep Enrolment Interview go to www.schoolinterviews.com.au and use the
event code: YNKUD
For parents who don’t have access to the internet please call our Office on 46723888 and
our staff will help you to book in.
This Prep Enrolment Interview is a time for parents to complete all of the required permission forms and
questionnaire (as well as enrolment forms if necessary). If you have not already provided a copy of your child's
birth certificate, it would be appreciated if you could bring along a copy to the interview.
It is also a time for parents to receive all of the necessary information to help their child get started in Prep for
2016 (e.g. uniform requirements, book lists, countdown calendar). We encourage you to ask us any questions
that you have about enrolment at Dalby South. You are welcome to bring along your child to the interview, but
this is not essential.
Lyn Fletcher and Kate Paynter
Deputy Principals
Poetry in 3B
During Term 4, Mrs Hazzard’s Year 3’s have unleashed their creative side while
studying poetry. We have learnt a variety of poems and techniques including:
Alliteration
Diamante
Cinquain
Haiku
Limerick
Check out some poems from our talented students below!
Cinquain
By Katie Cook Navarro
Brother
Helpful, active
Playing, running, jumping
He is really friendly
Aaron
Limerick
Haiku
By Jipsi, Lune + Azarya
By Lincoln Grubb
There once was a young boy named Tom
Who had a really big, bad bomb
It went KABOOM
Bill went ZOOM ZOOM
And then Tom sang Bill a bad song
Cockatoos are cool
They can fly high in the air
They are native birds
Diamante
By Isabella Baker
Horses
Fast, beautiful
Trotting, cantering, galloping
Miniature, appaloosa, mustang, quarter
Neighing, eating, sleeping
Small, pretty
Pony
Alliteration
By Jack Yewsang
Sydney the slippery snake
slithered down the slide.
P&C NEWS
CHRISTMAS BASH
Christmas Bash and end of
the school year is fast
approaching. This year we
will be running a multi-draw
raffle and ask parents if
they would donate items for
this. Anything nonperishable would be
suitable from books,
stationary, gift vouchers,
hats, anything you would
be excited to win.
We will be asking for
helpers on the night, 3
December, so please put it
in your diary and notices for
this will
come
out
closer
to the
time.
We have been working very hard to develop our reading skills and strategies
every day. We have been building our ‘reading stamina’ and can now read
independently from our individual book box for 20 minutes! We have also been
completing purposeful reading activities to ensure that we are putting our
comprehension skills and ‘fix-it’ strategies into practise.
1B have been using the Seven Steps to Writing to ‘think, talk, sketch and write’
about interesting personal experiences in our Good Writing
Books. Our focus has been on our use of adjectives and
the ‘Show Not Tell’ method to make our writing much more
exciting for the reader.
In Science, we are currently exploring light and sound. We
have been busy presenting persuasive orals in English
and 1B have been learning about digital and analogue
time in Maths. There is lots of fun and learning to be had
in our classroom!
ALL SCHOOLS TOUCH
Dalby South State School put together two magnificent touch teams whom
were ready and raring to represent our school at All School Touch held in
Redlands last weekend. 24 students along with coaches Kasey White, Sarah
Dodd and managers Miss Moore and Mrs Ackery attended the carnival and
played valiantly. After a few wins on Saturday, both teams secured a place in
the quarter finals, but alas were knocked out. Coaches and Managers are
immensely proud of the students, who showed respectful behaviour and
great sportsmanship across the weekend. A great weekend had by all. Great
Work Dalby South.
Our Year 6 students
participated in a
Remembrance Service
at Anzac Park yesterday
morning. The students
represented our School
tremendously by laying
a wreath and listening
intently to the amazing
stories.
AUSSIE OF THE MONTH
PREP A, PREP B & PREP C
RECIPIENTS
Prep A
Patrick Pharaoh & Hayley Ryan
Prep B
Nikolai Patterson & Matia Harrison
Prep C
Patrick Stenzel & Gemma Ruddy
The term is zooming past in 2c.
Swimming lessons finished last Friday,
so now we are busy practising for the
Christmas Bash.
This Thursday night we will be
performing our year two song at the
Great Hall in
the annual
performing
arts night. Last
Friday we had
our dress
rehearsal, and
we are looking
forward to
showing the
parents and
the rest of the
school what a
talented bunch
we are.
Week 7
Time
9.00
9.40
9.40 10.20
10.20 11.00
11.00 11.40
11.40 12.20
12.20 1.00
1.00
1.40
1.40
2.20
Monday
16/11/2015
4/5D
5A
5B
5C
5/6E
6B
Dalby Netball Association Inc. 2016
Inter-District Representative Trials
When: - Saturday 14th November
2015
Where: - Dalby PCYC Indoor Court
Under 11/12 Division 9:00am (Those born 2005 & 2004)
Please arrive at least 15 minutes
early for registration
Under 18's - need to be
accompanied by a parent/guardian
at all times during their trial.
It is the intention of the Dalby Netball
Association to select 2 teams in each
age division if numbers permit.
The Rep Season usually starts in
March and consists of 5 carnivals
which are held on a Sunday once a
month. These carnivals are held in
Warwick, Dalby, Gatton, Laidley and
Toowoomba.
For more information contact Dalby
Netball Assn email: dalbynetball@gmail.com
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Friday
17/11/2015 18/11/2015 19/11/2015 20/11/2015
3D
6B
4A
3C
6A
4C
Prep – Year
2 Swimming
3A
4B
5B
Carnival
3B
4A
5C
3/4E
4C
5A
6A
4/5D
5/6E
YEAR 5 LEADERSHIP CAMP 2015
AT BUNYA MTS
On the 9 and 10 November, most of the year 5 students
went on a Leadership Camp at the Bunya Mountains.
We all learnt how to work as a team and communicate with
others, some games. We played swamp grid, spider web
and toxic waste. All of these games involved trust,
courage and teamwork. We all participated in fun and
exciting activities like feeding birds, looking for fireflies and
we saw a red belly black snake during the nature walk.
The kitchen provided us with yummy food to eat like
pancakes, brownies and watermelon for morning tea,
salad and lasagne for dinner. For breakfast we had a
choice of egg, bacon, toast or cereal. The students and
staff enjoyed their stay. We are now ready to be leaders
for 2016!
Written by Mc Kenzee Hale and Shayneka Steinohrt