Issue Term 3 Week 1 14/07/16

1032 Lowood-Minden Phone: 5425 7222 Road,MINDEN,QLD,4311,Australia Website: https://mindenss.eq.edu.au

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Issue Term 3 Week 1 – 14/07/16 with families and friends. I have enjoyed hearing the children talk about some of their Dates To Remember exciting adventures. Term 3 is shaping up to be another busy term * P&C Meeting 3:30pm 18/07/16 and is 10 weeks long. About Minden School * Term 3 11/07/16 – 16/09/16

Do you know our three * Senior Assembly 15/07/16 School Rules and six School Values? All classes participate in explicit lessons on both these topics every week. Ask your child to * Book Fair 21 - 26/07/16 explain them to you. Their understanding and insight might surprise you.

* Junior Assembly 22/07/16

* Breakfast Club 04/08/16

* Minden Markets 14/08/16

School Improvement Agenda From The Principal This year’s whole-school priorities focus on improving Numeracy, increasing the number Welcome to Term 3 of students with high achievement in NAPLAN, and providing meaningful feedback to students to enhance their learning. I trust everyone had an Teachers have undertaken considerable enjoyable winter break and had professional development in each of these the opportunity to spend time areas and our data highlights that we are staff. The quality of material and confidence of making progress with each area. the students is outstanding. Successful nominees will be announced next week with BVSSSA Track and Field Carnival an Induction Ceremony to take place in a few weeks’ time. Thank you to those parents / carers who have encouraged and supported Nominated students will their children through this process. participate in this event over two days – next Tuesday 19 July for the 200m and 800m Are you getting enough sleep? finals and Thursday 21 July for all other events. If your child has been nominated they will have received a permission slip as well as event information sheet. If your child is unable We know that sleep is the one to represent our school at the nominated of the building blocks of events, please let the office know as soon as mental health and wellbeing. possible so substitutes can be notified. Many children and just about all teenagers are sleep-deprived at the moment. Many parents C Block upgrade are sleep-deprived as well! Children need between 10 and 12 hours’ Over the holidays, the sleep to enable proper growth and flooring in C Block was development, while teenagers need a repaired and new carpet minimum of nine hours. One of the single laid. This has eliminated the problem of the most powerful strategies to improve kids’ squeaky floors and greatly improved the abilities to cope with stressful or changing acoustics in the classrooms. situations is to ensure they get enough sleep. Here’s 10 tips for helping children sleep from ShereneAlfreds, developer of Dinosnores Lead Principal visit Sleepy Stories: On Wednesday afternoon, John Cattoni, the 1. Have a regular bedtime. small schools Lead Principal visited Minden. John was happy with the school’s overall 2. Make the bedroom comfortable dark place progress this year and our plans for future to sleep, with no television or other electronic improvement. devices School Opinion Survey 3. Have a regular calming bedtime routine - bath, teeth, and books.

4. Avoid the "I can't sleep" argument. Ask It’s that time of year children to "lie down and rest their bodies" again. Staff, students in instead of telling them to "go to sleep". years 4, 5 and 6 and a 5. Avoid TV, computer or electronic games random sample of after dinner, they have all been found to make parents / carers will participate in the 2016 sleep more difficult. suite of surveys. Parents / carers identified through the OneSchool selection tool will 6. Get the kids out exercising in the day to receive a pale blue coloured slip of paper with help them sleep at night. the website and codes for accessing this year’s survey. The codes can only be used 7. Avoid caffeine and sugar saturated foods. once. Parents / carers who do not have 8. Consider dropping daytime naps as your access to the internet are welcome to child gets older. complete the survey using school computer resources. Please call the office if this applies 9. Talk to your doctor to rule out medical to you. causes of sleep difficulties. Student Leader Process 10. During the holidays, anticipate some disruption at bedtime if you are changing your Our next intake of Student Leaders have family routine. And give yourselves and your commenced presenting their speeches to children permission to find bedtime challenging. An enormous 30-40% of young and school-aged children have sleeping difficulties. It takes time to develop a bedtime routine - so be kind to yourself and your kids.

Parents And Citizens Association News

Parents and Citizens Association Meeting: 3:30pm 18 July 2016. Another amazing event was held on Sunday with the Minden Markets. We were so glad the weather turned out to be beautiful and warm (a little cold in the morning).

This is a community event raising money for Minden State School. We want to thank all our stall holders, parents and visitors for supporting the monthly markets and making it possible to raise the money needed for the air-conditioning at the school. Having air-conditioning at the school will benefit all our children and the future children of Minden State School.

We had a bigger turnout during our July event with more stalls and visitors. It was fantastic and it was great to see so many families come along and visit the market. Last month we raised 19% of the money needed, we are just waiting to find out how we went this month and will keep you all updated through our facebook page.

At the moment we only have a small amount of volunteers working around the clock to make sure it all runs smoothly prior to the event and on the day, but we need extra hands. A lot of what we do is home based so emailing potential stall holders, posting on facebook and ringing companies who may be interested in providing a donation. If you can spare just an hour or two a week please contact the team at Hope to see you at our next Minden Markets on [email protected]. We would really Sunday 14 August. love some extra help to make the Minden Markets more successful and the place to be Homebake Fundraiser every second Sunday of the month. Even if you A huge thank you to the following families who can spare a couple of hours to help on the raised a significant amount for the Saturday or the Sunday of the markets, it does Homebake Fundraiser - Shaw Family, not have to be the whole day just a couple of Barbeller Family and the Proos Family. hours will really help.

Upcoming Events > Bookfair – 21 - 26 July Our next Bookfair will be held on 21 to 26 July. > Father's Day Stall – 1 and 2 September Welcome back to Term 3. Father’s Day is fast approaching. If you are Breakfast Club – Thursday 4 August. able to help with donations or have some Rebecca Hewett ideas in regards to items you would like to see sold on the day, please contact the P&C or School Chaplain come along to our next meeting and share your ideas. [email protected] > Ice Block Day – Chaplaincy – 9 Minden State School September 5425 7222 Money raised goes towards funding the chaplaincy service. General School News > School Disco – 28 October Teacher Aide Position Start getting your dancing shoes ready, the school disco will be fun for all the family. Teacher Aide > Christmas Carnival – 25 November Permanent Part-Time We are starting to plan this year’s Christmas Minden State School Carnival and looking for businesses that are able to come along on the day and provide fun 16 hours per week + ADO entertainment for the kids and adults. If you We are seeking a Teacher Aide to join our would like to take part, please contact the dynamic team of educators. P&C through the school. Experience with the Bookmark Library system > TuckshopSellout Sale – 30 November to preferred. 2 December Immediate start. These days we will sell out any stock left over in the tuckshop. Please contact the school’s Administration Officer, Narelle Mahoney > Ice Block Day – Chaplaincy – 6 [email protected], or December phone 54 257 222, for an application Money raised goes towards funding the package. chaplaincy service. Assembly Gotcha Awards Like our facebook page to receive our updates and the fortnightly newsletter. Outside School Hours Care (OSHC)

Operating Hours Luka, Jessica, Kathleena, Amber and Jackie. Congratulations!

Student Council Lamington Drive Fundraising Winners

Monday - Friday before school opening at First Prize: Shaylee 6:15am and after school closing at Second Prize: Cody 6:00pm. Third Prize: Kiara

Congratulations! For bookings or details please see the OSHC educators, call our main office (07) 4638 7965 or email [email protected] School Banking

School Chaplain Dollarmites Achievement Certificates Bronze: Lauchlan, Sofie and Charlotte. Jacob - Jacob is beginning to make good choices. Keep up the good work Jacob.

Sofie - Sofie is enjoying group activities. Classroom News Heidi - Heidi is participating well in group Prep News activities.

Welcome back: Eden - Eden has completed (Dolch) Pre Primer - High Frequency Words. Keep up the *What’s happening in Prep Term 3 2016: great work Eden. Welcome back please make sure you read Term 3 information so you will be aware of Alexander - Alexander is making responsible how you can assist. choices in the classroom. *Items needed: Please start collecting small boxes, lids, tubes (not toilet rolls), containers Neat Handwriting: etc. We also require a sock (odd sock that does not have a partner), used as rubber for Alayne, Darcy, Aiden, Abbey. small whiteboards. Improvements in Handwriting: *Jumpers- Please make sure your child Charlotte, Alyssa, Heidi, Evie, Lilyana. always has a jumper in their bag. The weather at the moment is very unpredictable. Great Listening and Speaking in Speech: *Presentation – Term 3’s presentation will be Fletcher, Max, Eden. in week 9 (Tuesday 8 September 2pm). *Lunchboxes– Healthy foods help your child Year 1 to focus and concentrate in class!! Don’t forget a named water bottle. *Homework – homework this Term will be extended to include sentence writing, encourage your child to complete homework by themselves. Special Awards: *Please ask if you are unsure about Arden - For fabulous diary entries this term! anything… Cailin - For excellent diary entries this term! Thank you Well done! Mrs Williams, Mrs Ploetz and The Prep Penelope - For being a kind and caring class Students mate! Curriculum Awards Shamiah - For excellent recount writing! Prep Tannayah - For a great improvement in your writing! Keep it up! Year 2

Special Awards: Hailey - Hailey is trying to make responsible choices in the classroom. Special Awards: Liam - Liam is working hard trying to manage Max - For being a great classroom his behaviour, making appropriate choices. helper and having a positive Saxon - Saxon is enjoying group activities. attitude towards his work. Keep working hard. Alicia - For having a positive attitude towards Aiden - Aiden is working on making Maths and trying her best! responsible choices. Keep up the great work Matthew - For being an enthusiastic story Aiden. writer! Well done. Brendon - Big improvement in Reading Level. Year 5/6 Russell - Good improvement in Reading Level. Birthdays Special Awards: Jared - Wonderful effort and result in history. Jackie - Great effort in Maths. Skye - Great effort in Maths. Zac - Great effort in Maths assessment. Bella - Great effort all semester. Sam, Angus and Nicholas. Kiara - Great effort all semester. Happy Birthday from everyone at Minden Ryley - Great result in English. State School!