Westwood State School

The Westwood Word 108 Herbert Street, Westwood Ph: 49347682 P.O. Box 5 Westwood 4702 Fax: 49347605

Acting Principal – Lachlan Moore WEEK SIX Term 3 – Friday August 22nd

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL Westwood State School winning values consistently. Chloe has done an Since I first arrived at Westwood State excellent job so far this year as school School all students have shown captain and will continue to do a good excellent behaviour both in school and job for the rest of the year. outside the school at different events. Students have exhibited Westwood Thank you to Steven Proefke for his State School winning values. Over the work in the greenhouse. Steven has set next couple of weeks we will be up an irrigation system supplying the focusing on these values in class and resources and their time. Our talking about them and how we exhibit vegetable patch is going very well and these values every day. This is being we will be planting potatoes very soon done to make students aware of what is in potato bags. If anyone has any required if they would like to be a stakes to help grow tomatoes that they school leader in the future years to can spare that would be a great come. I encourage you to talk about addition to our vegetable patch. the winning values with your children and how important they are not only in NAPLAN results have been released school but outside school as well. and I am pleased to say that we had Below are the winning values: some excellent results. All students at the school that are not on individual learning goals are well above national minimal standard. We have also had students achieve results in the upper two bands which is above the national average. Student results will be available in the next couple of weeks. In the next newsletter I will provide a more detailed report on what we are doing well as a school and where we can improve.

Regards I have also attached a copy of the winning values that go in detail of Lachlan Moore what is expected. These values can be used at home. Upper school students should be thinking about their actions and values so that they can become Westwood State School Playgroup leaders of the school. Playgroup is up and running again for term 3! Congratulations to Chloe Keller for Where: Westwood State School (108 being announced as Westwood State Herbert St) School captain for 2014. Chloe has When: 8.30am-10.00am shown that she demonstrates Cost: Free! Playgroup participants are involved in 9 + 1 = 10 fun filled activities such as painting, 10 + 0 = 10 singing, dancing and obstacles courses. New participants are welcome to attend. Any queries do not hesitate to contact the school using the contacts listed above! PLAYGROUP DATES 26/8/2014 1/9/2014 8/9/2014 Premier’s Anzac Prize closes 19 September The 2015 Prize will give 70 students the extraordinary opportunity to attend the Anzac Day centenary commemoration in Gallipoli next year and travel to the Western Front battlefields in Belgium and France. Football For Kids! Students in Years 8 to 11 are eligible A big thank you to football for kids and can enter by developing a two to and their efforts in visiting the school five minute multimedia submission. and providing excellent coaching. The Submissions close on 19 September students have learnt all about the game 2014. View the video of previous of soccer and the rules as well as skills winners’ entries and experiences and such as drag backs, tackling, passing find information on how to enter at and fast footwork. Students soccer www.education.qld.gov.au/anzac-prize skills have improved immensely in the past six weeks. Thank you to teachers Westwood Preps! and teacher aides for getting involved For the past two weeks Westwood in the program as well as the parents. Preps have been working on addition It was a great Wednesday afternoon of in maths. They have been learning to soccer followed up by a fun BBQ. count on in ones and twos and have also been learning about Rainbow facts! Rainbow facts are numbers that add up together to make 10, for 2014 School Holidays example 0 + 10 = 10, 1 + 9 = 10. The Preps are doing a great job learning all Term Dates Length of these facts and have been using Monday 14 July - Term 10 counters and drawing rainbows to help Friday 19 3 weeks them memorise these facts. Below is September the sums that are rainbow facts and a diagram explaining rainbow facts. Term Tuesday 7 October - 10 Feel free to practice these facts at 4 Friday 12 December weeks home! 0 + 10 = 10 Important School Dates and 1 + 9 = 10 Community Events 2 + 8 = 10 3 + 7 = 10 School: 4 + 6 = 10 P&C Meeting 5 + 5 = 10 - 3/9/2014 Wednesday 2.30pm @ 6 + 4 = 10 Westwood SS 7 + 3 = 10 8 + 2 = 10 Parades - 22/8/2014 Friday 8.30am @ Westwood SS Science Day Gogango - 5/9/2014 Friday 8.30am @ Westwood - 27/8/2014 Wednesday @ Gogango SS SS Community: - 19/9/2014 Friday 8.30am @ - 30th August (2014) – Ambrose, Westwood SS Bracewell and Raglan State School 100yrs Celebration at Ambrose Football for Kids! State School - 20/8/2014 Wednesday 12pm-1pm @ Westwood SS (Parent game and BBQ afterwards)