Dates To Remember * Term 2 18/04/17 - 23/06/17 * Senior Assembly 16/06/17 * Report Cards 20/06/17 * Whole School Assembly 23/06/17 * Term 3 Starts 10/07/17 From The Principal Report Cards This year, report cards will be distributed on Tuesday 20 June via email. Please ensure the office has an updated email address to ensure reports are delivered on time and to the correct person. Parents / carers should add to their list of safe senders to ensure report card emails aren’t sent to the Junk folder. Incorrect emails may delay the release of your child’s report card. Parents / carers without email are able to request a hard copy. Should you not receive your child’s report card via email next Tuesday, please inform the office. Report cards are legal documents and quite often, high schools require them for enrolment. Parents of students in years 5 and 6 should consider making copies of their children’s report cards for this reason. Athletics Carnivals The juniors’ carnival will now take place on Tuesday 20 June, weather permitting and will commence at approximately 9:00am. Under the department’s Risk Management policy some events require more than one adult to be run safely. If you are able to help with the running of some events please let the office know. Ball Games Carnival This event will run after the junior athletics carnival next Tuesday, weather permitting. Commencing at approximately 1:30pm, all classes will be involved in the games.
BVSSSA Athletics For students aged 9-12, this event will take place in week 1 of next term. Wednesday 12 July will see the 200m and 800m events conducted while Thursday 13 July is the major track and field day. Students who are eligible for nomination in the Minden team will be provided with notices prior to the end of the term. Students will require parent transport to and from the event. Library Books Our wonderful library aides would like all library books returned next week. Please remind your child to find lost books and return them to the school. In the event that a book cannot be found, parents may be invoiced for a replacement. Incursion The juniors had a great time participating in the Footsteps Dance Company session last Monday morning. The seniors will attend their session next Monday 19 June. Whole school assembly Come to the Sports Centre next Friday 23 June at 2:00pm and help us celebrate the end of another successful term at Minden. There will be the usual awards and certificates along with the major GOTCHA draw, Attendance draw and athletics carnival results. Attendance It is hard to believe that there is only one week left until the winter break. Our current daily attendance rate is 92.7% which is a little under Education Queensland’s target of 95%. Fridays have the highest rate of absenteeism. Student Council will be a Free Dress Day fundraiser next Thursday 22 June. Sun-safe clothing and footwear is required. Caps are not acceptable. Please note this is not a
"dress-up" day for costumes etc. Gold coin donation to classroom teacher. Term 3 Term 3 commences on Monday 10 July. Keep a watch on our school these holidays Parents and students can help take care of our school by reporting any suspicious after-hours activity to School Watch on 13 17 88 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. By keeping an eye out we can work together to create a safer school community and help to reduce vandalism, theft and arson in our school. If you see something suspicious, please don’t intervene. Call the School Watch number and let the local police or State Government Protective Security Service deal with the matter. Enjoy the break I wish all our families a safe and enjoyable break. I look forward to working with everyone in term 3. Teacher Profile Teilia Cornwall - Year One Teacher I have been a teacher for over 10 years and in my studies I graduated with a Bachelor of Education with a major in Health and Physical Education. I started teaching out west in my small home town of Theodore and Banana then moved to the big smoke and taught in an Independent Aboriginal and Islander community school. I am passionate about education and health which is why I love my job! Outside of my career - I participate in different sporting events and like to support
Food for Thought Friends – The people you spend most of your time with will have quite a marked effect on the way you live and act as you will find yourself adopting a lot of their habits and hobbies. Peer pressure is often referred to as being a bad thing, but that’s not always the case. If you choose peers whose ways are good, then they will probably influence you to behave in the right way. On the other hand if you choose friends who are constantly getting themselves in some sort of strife, then it won’t be long before you find yourself being led into doing things you don’t really want to do. Remember, it’s your choice. Think of the characteristics that you like most in people and then look for friends who display those characteristics. The Blooming Treasures Gardening Club This week, we have lettuce and rosella jam available at the bus shelter on Friday afternoon. The lettuce will be a gold coin donation each and the rosella jam is $5. If you have enjoyed some of our rosella jam, please wash your jar and return it to school. We are keen to recycle the jars, so that we can model, reduce, reuse & recycle for our Minden students. Next term in the garden; *we aim to have 3 more raised garden beds *we also plan to have a pump installed so that we can utilise the tank water behind
the Year 1 building. *we are also making plans to begin teaching our students, how to compost at school and the benefits of doing that for our environment and school community. If you are interested in helping with one or any of these projects, please make contact with me, my details are below. Thank you for supporting our garden! Don't wait until you reach your goal to be proud of yourself. Be of each step you take toward reaching that goal. Chappy (aka Mrs Hewett) Rebecca Hewett General School News Assembly Gotcha Awards Gotcha Awards Sam, Sheridan, Dakoda, Zahlee and Markhai Congratulations! Classroom News Prep News Prep News: *School excursion: Prep student’s had a great day on their recent excursion – ‘Pioneer Village.’ A big thank you to all our helpers on the day. I hope you also enjoyed your day, I know the children are looking forward to being able to go on another excursion in the near future. Junior Sports Day: Due to rainy weather on the 13th of June the ‘Junior Sports Day’ was postponed. We hope the event will go ahead next Tuesday 20th June. *Presentation: It was great to see so many supportive parents and grandparents on Thursday.
Prep students enjoy being able to share their developing skills with others. *Weather: Remember to pack a jumper/school colours. Great to see most students wearing jumpers that are school colours. Students can also wear tracksuit pants/tights in school colours. *Attendance: Yeh! Preppies. Prep students received the attendance trophy at the last Junior Assembly. Keep up the work Preppies. Every day is important! Prep’s have received the trophy twice now…. *Prep progress: It is so exciting to see most Prep students showing progress in the classroom. Your valuable help and support at home is assisting students to develop confidence and skills. Keep up the work! If you have any questions then please come and see me. Thank you Mrs Williams and The Prep Students Curriculum Awards Prep Special Awards: Cooper - Cooper is beginning to attempt tasks independently. He listening and following instructions. Linkan - Linkan is beginning to attempt tasks without support. Keep Trying Linkan! Markhai - Markhai is working hard using his writing strategies. Keep up the hard work Markhai! Jasper - Jasper is trying to think and slow down, putting more effort into tasks completion. Eli - Eli is trying hard to improve his work