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Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues
The activities at school have been gaining momentum across the past three weeks and I hope that we can sustain this and avoid another coronavirus outbreak. Given trecent events, we need to remain extremely vigilant. If your children are sick, you must not allow them to attend school. This is really important as we look after everyone's health and well-being.
Report Cards
Semester 1 academic reports were sent out to families this week. And what an incredible semester it was. Congratulations to all of our young learners on their efforts across the semester and thank you to our families and teachers who supported them.
Assessment this semester has been very difficult. Our teachers have done a fantastic job to gather evidence to assign a progress level. These grades will provide an opportunity to reflect on work habits, achievements and challenges across the past semester. More importantly though, you can use the report to set goals with your child and determine a path for future academic, social and emotional growth.
EFFORT is important! As parents we want success for our children but it’s important that we don’t just measure this by a progress grade alone. Please emphasise to your child the importance of their effort grade. This grade shows their work ethic and this can be one of the biggest indicators to future success with their studies.
For the Semester 1 report cards:
- Prep reports will not show academic progress this time. Teachers will report on effort only.
- Year 1-6 teachers are evaluating student work based on the standards set out by the Australian Curriculum in English, Maths, Science and HASS. Other specialist areas will report effort grades only. Teachers use a 5-point scale to show progress. These scales are different for different year levels so please peruse the front page of the report so that you understand the scale used.
C is good! A grade of C means that your child has met the criteria in the Australian curriculum, for a learner at that year level . This means that they are doing everything that is required - their academic development is exactly where it needs to be.
Will the teacher provide written comments? Comments from teachers will be provided for English, Mathematics, Science and Behaviour sections only. An overall comment will also be provided. Teachers are identifying a highlight or academic strength in each of these areas as well as learning goals for the next period of study. These will provide you with both an understanding of their progress as well as ‘where to next’.
Parent-teacher interviews
You may wish to request an interview with your child's class teacher to discuss your child's progress. Please email your teacher and they will arrange a suitable time across the next fortnight with you. There is no interview day like we would normally do. Interviews may be face-to-face or via video conferencing, but this will be the teacher's choice.
Interviews will be 10 minutes in duration so please arrive early and leave on time so the next interview can be started. The focus will be on English, Maths, behaviour and work ethic but other areas can be included if time permits.
In most circumstances, the interviews will be held in classrooms. Parents need to:
- Collect an interview gate pass from the office. No gate pass = no access.
- Wait outside classrooms until the teacher invites you in
- Use hand sanitiser as you enter
- Practice social distancing inside the classroom
- Give the teacher the gate access pass
State Schools are first class
State primary schools across Queensland whose leaders are members of the Queensland Association of State School Principals, are this week displaying on their school noticeboards the message: "State Education – First Class".
State schools reflect communities and they commit to including every child. State schools provide rigorous and relevant learning opportunities for all students. Drawing on evidence-based practices, our skilled and capable workforce positively impact student learning.
Queensland is leading the nation and is one of three jurisdictions in the world showing improvement in student learning outcomes. Research highlights that students who are educated in the diverse environments that state schools offer, achieve higher outcomes academically and socially.
The innovative and differentiated approaches to learning that our state primary schools provide, support the development and creativity of young learners. This work is the foundation of all their future learning and it also positions them to become positive contributors to our society.
Hopefully our school sign this week will cause you to reflect on the first class education that our state primary schools provide across the width and breadth of Queensland!
Congratulations Mrs Morris
Mrs Morris held a gender reveal for her baby this week. Her class was part of this too and the reveal came in the form of cupcakes - which were blue inside.
Congratulations Ms Wager
A massive congratulations to Ms Wager this week. Back in May, we entered her amazing home learning, modelled writing lesson in the Seven Steps Online Members competition. This week, Ms Wager learned that she had been voted the winner! She won $330 worth of Seven Steps product to use with her class. Sensational!
Have a lovely week
Kind reagards
Vic
Congratulatiuons to this week's recipients!
Prep and Year 1
Year 2 and Year 3
Year 4
Year 5 and Year 6
School Tree Day
And in the garden
An awesome example of our Deep Learning Pedagogical Framework has been unfolding around our school. Our old vegetable garden is being relocated into the senior school so the space is more accessible and larger for students. This project has many learning partnership working to bring this learning experience to life.
Mrs Young and Miss Jones have been working with Mr Church from Ventia and our groundsmen, Tony and Alex. Last week, Mrs Young posed a mathematical challenge to the Year 5 students to see if they could design the space for the new vegetable garden. The winning design will be digitally created by Mrs Hardwick';s husband.
Next week, the Year 6 students, as part of their Day 10 program, will take the winning design and bring it to life with assistance from staff.
A Snapshot in Time - A Global Citizenship Project
19 different countries answered the call. Through this project, you will read about the impact of the pandemic, seeing it through the eyes of students and teachers from all over the world. As a global community, this is the one time in our lifetime, where we have lived a shared experience.
We hope this project becomes a historical artefact, recording an unprecedented, important moment in our time.
Well done to students and teachers on some amazing work this week.
Jake earns coveted belt
Jake represents Fight World in Helensvale. He has been recognised and congratulated for his consistency in attendance, his following of instructions and his behaviour. He was rewarded with the Fight World champion belt which he was over the moon about.
AFL team starts training
Mr Cope is preparing our team for the All Schools AFL Cup later this term. Training has been great so far, and the boys are very keen to take on Livingstone and Ormeau next week!
The AFL subway awards for this week were awarded to Mason, Oscar and Brigham. Great work boys.
Our musical this year is
Rehearsals have begun. The program is:
- Monday 10:30am-11:15am in the Senior Music Room - Scenes 1, 2 and 3
- Wednesday 10:30am-11:15am in Senior Music Room - Scenes 4, 5 and 6
- Wednesday 12:45pm-1:30pm in the Music Centre - Scenes 7, 8 and 9
- Thursday 12:45pm-1:30pm in Senior Music Room - Scenes 10, 11 and 12
Welcome to our newest members for Term 3 and a warm welcome back to our educators, Robati and Charyse (CK).
This term, our Good Start program ‘Make your Move’ is based on making sure we move our bodies and engage in physical activity. We are learning that screen time does not offer the same benefits as physical activity time.
It is important to get your body moving whether it be exercise, sports, walking the dog or anything that gets our heart rate up. Our gallery below shows what we have been doing.
We are very excited to tell you all that we now have our very own cook here at OSHC and it is our amazing Miss Raelene.
Miss Rae loves to cook in the kitchen and all the children rave about how amazing the food is at breakfast and afternoon tea when they are told Miss Rae made the food. We thought we would take the opportunity to use Miss Rae’s strengths in the kitchen and let her take care of the kitchen duties, preparing our menu and specialising in preparing all of our delicious menu items.
Miss Rae has completed a certificate in business catering, managed an extended restaurant and has always loved cooking for her family. The knowledge Miss Rae has around food safety, food preparation and delivery is second to none.
We are so excited to see all the yummy food on the menu! If you have any menu suggestions for Miss Rae, she would LOVE to hear them!
The BreastScreen Queensland mobile unit will be at Pimpama City Shopping Centre, 31 August until mid September offering free breast cancer screening to women, without current breast cancer symptoms. Women aged 50 – 74 are strongly encouraged to attend. Women aged 40 and older can book a free breast screen by calling 132 050 or visiting www.breastscreen.qld.gov.au.