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Clare State School
The Messenger
Our Focus – ‘The Big Three for 2020’:
1. WRITING - Develop a way of teaching writing across all curriculum
areas so that all staff are teaching writing the same way.
2. DATA - Collect student data for Mathematics, Writing and Reading to
correlate with our Level of Achievement data and NAPLAN and to
form student learning goals.
3. Enrolments - Increase Enrolments to 21 students
Achieved Partially or Nearly Achieved Yet to be Commenced/Not achieved
We will know that we have achieved this when:
Writing, Spelling and Handwriting Scope and Sequences developed and in use.
Writing Revolution ideas shared with staff and these ideas are included in unit and daily
planning.
All student data is recorded in OneSchool and is used in fortnightly Case Management Meetings
which involve goal setting, monitoring and reviewing phases.
All teaching staff and students can articulate their learning goals.
Learning goals are aligned to student data and are shared with families.
90% of students achieving C or better in English, Maths, Science and HASS. 45% of students
achieving A-B in English, Maths, Science and HASS.
100% students to achieve above National Minimum Standard and 45% to achieve upper 2 bands
for NAPLAN.
School Opinion Survey – Staff, parents and students 100% agree with curriculum demands and
curriculum being taught.
All unit, daily and lesson plans to include evidence of the Maker Model being used for
differentiation.
Practices for mentoring, observation, feedback and moderation are formalised and occur at least
twice per term.
All staff undertake professional development in accordance with their Professional Development
Plan, which is centred around the School’s Explicit Improvement Agenda.
21 students enrolled.
Childcare service set up in Clare.
All families with prep children in 2021 enrolled at Clare SS.
8 or more families accessing playgroup.
Important Dates
13-14/2 – GRIP Leadership 19/2 – Leadership Speeches, P&C AGM 19/2 – Playgroup
25/2 – Playgroup 27/2 – Induction Parade 4/3 – Playgroup
10/3 – Playgroup 18/3 – Playgroup 20/3 – National Day of Action
Against Bullying and Violence
24/3 – Playgroup 26/3 – Epilepsy Awareness Day 27/3 – Small Schools’ Cross
Country
1/4 – Playgroup 2/4 – Parent Teacher Interviews 3/4 – Last Day of Term
Tuesday 19 November
From the Principal
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Welcome back to the 2020 school year. We are now almost 3 weeks down and all students are well into
their learning for this term. Most students have settled well back into school routines and many are
relishing the opportunities that being one year level older gives them.
Last weekend our P&C hosted their major fundraiser, The Burdekin Boars and Barras competition. This
was a hugely successfully community event and the P&C are to be congratulated for their outstanding
efforts. Congratulations to all of the winners!
Sincerely,
Troy Patti
Principal
In the Classroom
Those who have come into our classrooms recently
would have noticed that we have a theme for this
term. This term our classrooms will come to life in the
theme of dragons and princesses. This is linked to our
current English unit, which is focused on the elements
of narratives that are about dragons and princesses.
Our renewed focus on the teaching of writing has seen our students have many opportunities to write
short texts to demonstrate their understanding of various grammatical and textual elements (such as
adverbs, adjectives, capital letters, end punctuation and letter sound combinations). The students are
really enjoying this writing and we have already seen an improvement in the level of writing displayed
by a number of students.
In mathematics, the students have been learning about the following:
Prep – Numbers to 10
Year 1 – Place value to 100 and units of time.
Year 2 – Calendars and units of measurement
(hours, minutes, days, years)
Year 3 – Telling and making the time to five
minute intervals on both analogue and digital
clocks and odd and even numbers.
Year 5 – Factors and Multiples, prime and
composite numbers and multiplication
relationships and strategies.
Year 6 – Problem solving strategies such as
rounding, front-ending, split strategy, compensate strategy, jump strategy and written algorithms. They
have also been learning about square, triangular, prime and composite numbers.
Parents and Citizens Association Meeting
The next P&C Meeting for this year will be the Annual General Meeting and
will be held on Wednesday 19 February at 3:00pm – 4:30pm in the library.
At this meeting, all of the executive positions will be vacated and a
new executive will be elected. This is an excellent opportunity for
all parents and community members to have an input into our
school and their child’s education.
Playgroup
The Clare State School Playgroup are about to start meeting again.
Playgroup will be held on alternating Tuesdays and Wednesdays
throughout this term from 8:30am – 10:30am. Please contact
Emily Fiamingo on 0408398272 if you have a child under school age
who you would like to bring to our playgroup. Our Playgroup is
free and all children must be accompanied by a parent or
guardian. Our Playgroup is open for all families, no matter where
they live or which school they send their children to.
Leadership Camp
On Thursday and Friday this week, our year 6 students will be in
Townsville for their leadership camp. The students will participate in
many leadership activities through the GRIP Leadership Conference.
They will also enjoy other activities such as sculpture and going to an
indoor playground. Please see the attached note for more
information.
Webber Shield
Congratulations to Ronin
Kovacich who competed as part of the Small Schools Team
at the Webber Shield. Ronin placed 5th for breaststroke in
the 11 years boys division and also placed fifth in his heat
for the 50m freestyle. Great job Ronin!
Leadership Speeches
On the following Wednesday (19 February), our year 5 and
6 students will be presenting their leadership speeches and
our school will vote for our new student leaders for 2020.
This will take place in the classroom from 8:30am –
9:30am. The students in year 5 and 6 are all vying for the
elected positions of School Captain, Sports Captain, President of the Student Council, Secretary of the
Student Council and Treasurer of the Student Council and Student Leader. All are welcome to attend.
It should be noted that leadership positions will be filled with year 6 students first but, as stated above,
the positions are also available to year 5 students. All positions will reveive badges at our Induction
Parade, which will be held on 27 February at 9:45am in the Library. Parents and carers who attend this
Induction Parade are asked to bring a plate of food to share.
Show your Hearts Day (Sweethearts Day) Yesterday, our school turned red to support HeartKids. This is an organisation that is very important to all involved in our school. The students were treated to red heart cupcakes for lunch and also got to view a PowerPoint Presentation about our very own HeartKid, Jaiden Booth.
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