Dates To Remember * Term 2 18/04/17 - 23/06/17 * Senior Assembly 02/06/17 * Junior Assembly 09/06/17 * Senior Athletics Day 06/06/17 * Junior Athletics Day 13/06/17 * Report Cards 20/06/17 * Whole School Assembly 23/06/17 From The Principle Welcome We have two new families joining our school community this week. We your time with us at Minden is both enjoyable and rewarding. Staff attending professional development Over the next few weeks, a number of staff members will be attending various professional development events. We have attempted to develop a pool of regular supply teachers to ensure consistency with program delivery but acknowledge that this sometimes isn’t possible. Your patience and understanding is appreciated. Developing writing skills Next Tuesday afternoon, all teaching staff will engage in a moderation process during which we will be examining students’ writing samples. This process helps teachers to use assessment tasks and criteria to determine how
well students’ writing development is progressing. Parents can encourage children to develop their writing through simple tasks, for example, helping write the shopping list, making a chores chart for the family to follow, keeping a diary / journal, labelling their belongings. Oral language On Thursday 1 June, 20 Teacher Aides from local schools came to Minden to participate in a workshop about supporting children’s oral language development. This is the second year that regional Speech Language Pathologists have run this course. All Minden Aides were able to attend the session and will be able to provided targeted support for a range of children experiencing difficulty with oral language concepts. Athletics Carnivals The seniors’ carnival will take place on Tuesday 6 June and the junior carnival will run on Tuesday 13 June. Both events 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. Incursion Footsteps Dance Company specialises in curriculum/age based movement programs for Foundation to Year 12 students. Focussing on physical
our rosella fruit, harvested from our rosella trees and made not only rosella jam, but also rosella cordial. If we have some available it will cost $5 per jar and as all ways the proceeds go back to our garden needs. you for supporting our garden! “If you can't fly, then run, if you can't run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” - Martin Luther King Jr. Chappy (aka Mrs Hewett) Rebecca Hewett School Chaplain Minden State School 5425 7222 General School News Assembly Gotcha Awards Gotcha Awards Zahlee, Kieran and Joshua Congratulations! Classroom News Prep News Prep News: * Under 8’s day: All students had a great time last Thursday. I hope all parents that attended enjoyed their morning. Each year our ‘Under 8’s Day’ gets bigger and better. * School excursion: Prep students will be going on their first excursion next week on Wednesday 7th June. The bus will be leaving at 9am, please make sure all students are in the classroom by 8.45am. Students need a small backpack, please pack enough healthy food for a morning tea break and a lunch break. A water bottle is also needed and their school
hat. Students need to wear their uniform (blue shirt/dress) and school jumper if needed. * Junior Sports Day: You are welcome to attend ‘Junior Sports Day’ on Tuesday 13th June. * Presentation: Keep free Thursday 15th June 2pm. * 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 great work Preppies. Every day is important, at the moment we are very busy with testing most days. If you have any questions then please come and see me. Thank you Mrs Williams and The Prep Students Science During Science this week most grades are starting to work on their assessment. Year sixes will be making and learning about tools used in the measurement of weather. Year ones and preps are looking at how weather affect animals and plants. Year threes are going to look at travel and year four are going to look at how natural disaster affect land changes Makers Space and Coding have been affected by my absence. I will be back
again next week so should be all back to normal. The students have been enjoying using the robots on loan from Adelaide University. Some students have also been using these robots in their classes. I have also been fortunate enough to receive a grant to purchase more resources for the Makerspace. When this is done I am hoping to run the makerspace for the younger students and will also be looking to run an afterschool session one day a week. More news to come on this next Term. Jenni Einam Cirriculum Awards Prep Special Awards: Faith - Faith is enjoying sentence writing. She is stretching her words out. Great work Faith! Jayda - Jayda is working hard learning her letter names and sounds. Keep up the great work Jayda! Jaxon - Jaxon is working on being organized and ready to learn. Keep up the hard work Jaxon! Nataliha - Nataliha is enjoying reading, she is using her reading strategies with confidence. J-Lea - J-Lea is working hard on her sentence writing, she is practising stretching her words out. Chayse - Chayse is trying hard in class, he is showing interest in his learning. Year 1C
behaviour. Keep it up! Shamiah - Consistent display of respectful behaviour. Keep it up! Amber - Consistent display of respectful behaviour. Keep it up! Connor - Excellent behaviour at under 8's day! Tannayah - Being the year 2 WOW worker of the week! Year 3 Special Awards: Mikaylah - For using feedback to improve History assessment Annaliese - For respectful in the classroom Year 4 Special Awards: Benjamin - For always working hard and giving everything a go. Keep it up Ben! Nicolas - For having fantastic contribution to class discussions. Keep it up! Jacob - For always taking pride in having beautiful handwriting and neat bookwork! Year 5 Speacial Awards: Cooper - Being Loud and Proud in 2 Digit Multiplication! Brooklyn - Being Loud and Proud in 2 Digit Multiplication! Ebony - Being Loud and Proud in 2 Digit Multiplication! Shaylee - Being Loud and Proud in 2 Digit Multiplication! Cheyanne - Being Loud and Proud in 2 Digit Multiplication!