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Issue No: 10/2020 • 22 October 2020 • Term 4, Week 3
Guyala Gazette
Principal s Message
’
Diary Dates
Week 3
Book Week Dear Parents and Caregivers,
Tuesday 20 - Thursday 22 October
Book Fair A Safe, Respectful and Engaging Environment for Students to Thrive
Tuesday 20 October We have such a beautiful school. I am so proud of our students. I spend every day on duty during
Swimming - Prep, Year 1, 2 & 6
Wednesday 21 October breaks to get a feel for the play environment and reflect on how we can continue to provide and
Staff Appreciation Day promote more clubs and activities for the children to be actively engaged. We have recently
Student Leader applications due
placed school-wide emphasis on encouraging our students to greet each other and staff. This has
Friday 23 October
Book Week Parade resulted in many students greeting the adults and one another every day. This is contributing to
Krispy Kreme orders arrive the positive environment during recess. Well done to all our students for being so respectful - a
Week 4 value we will continue to promote for our school and for our wider community.
Tuesday 27 October
Swimming - Prep, Year 1, 2 & 6
Upcoming School Events
Wednesday 28 October
Engineering Day At this stage due to continuing COVID-19 restrictions, events this term that occur in the hall
Friday 30 October such as Book Week Parade, Student Leader speeches, Performing Arts Showcase and Year 6
Day for Daniel - Wear red (gold coin)
Graduation will be staff and student only events. Our Performing Arts Showcase and Year 6
Week 5 Graduation will videoed, posted online and sent to parents for viewing. We apologise for this
Tuesday 3 November
Year 1 & 1/2EP Firefighter visit however we need to ensure we remain COVID compliant. Please ensure you follow our Facebook
Tuesday 3 November page as photos from each event will be uploaded for everyone to see.
Swimming - Prep, Year 1, 2 & 6
Wednesday 4 November See Diary Dates (left) for upcoming events.
Performing Arts Showcase -
Prep, Year 1 & 1/2EP Student Free Days
Friday 6 November Please note that there are 2 additional Student Free Days scheduled for Thursday 10 and Friday
2021 Student Leader speeches
11 December. The last day of school for 2020 will be Wednesday 9 December.
Week 6
Monday 9 November
P&C Meeting
Mr Hollis
Tuesday 10 November Mr Hollis will be back on Monday 26 October. He has spent the last 7 weeks working extremely
Year 1 & 1/2EP Firefighter visit hard to renovate his house. We look forward to seeing photos of the finished product.
Swimming - Prep, Year 1, 2 & 6
Wednesday 11 November
Performing Arts Showcase - Yours in education,
Prep, Year 2 & 3 Joel Prior
Advance Notice - End of Term: White Rock State School Acting Principal
Wednesday 9 December
Last day of school
Thursday 10 & Friday 11 December
Student Free Days
Student Absence Line: Phone 07 4036 8866 or Text 0427 066 107 (no emojis)
Office hours: Monday – Thursday 8am – 4pm and Friday 8am – 3.30pm
Student Services: Monday – Friday 8.30am – 3.15pm
114 Progress Rd, White Rock Qld 4868 PO Box 14009, Mt Sheridan Qld 4868 Ph: (07) 4036 8888 Fax: (07) 4036 8800
E: principal@whiterockss.eq.edu.au White Rock State School www.whiterockss.eq.edu.au
White Rock State School Guyala Gazette 22 October 2020 • Page 2
Reporting a Swimming Program Prep, Years 1, 2 and 6
Swimming continues until 10 November in Week 5.
Student Absence
Remember Tuesday morning to pack a sun smart swim shirt
Please text (or call) (or T-shirt, but no singlets), hat, footwear (thongs are OK),
before 9.30am. towel and sunscreen.
Be ready to provide us with:
Thank you Uniform Shop
✓ Child’s name (please spell out clearly)
Many thanks to the Sullivan family for the generous
✓ Class, reason for absence instrument donation and the David Dods Finau and Knight
Uniform Shop is open
and your phone number family who donated uniform items to the school.
on Tuesday and
Thursday 8:30-9:30am
Text (SMS)*: There was one additional bag of donated uniforms with no
name, so if it was you we thank you.
0427 066 107 Thanks to the Edmonton Lions Club for
their generous $200 donation towards this
or call the Absence year’s Graduation celebrations.
Line: 4036 8866
(*SMS line does not take calls & no emoji’s please)
Book Week
Please refrain from
calling the main line, Costume Ideas
unless you require
Book Week Dress-Up Parade is on Friday
extra assistance.
23 October at 9.00am. This year’s theme is
Curious Creatures, Wild Minds so come dressed
as an animal character from your favourite
Day for Daniel
book. Visit schoolstream online for useful
Friday, October 30 is the Daniel costume ideas.
Morcombe Foundation Day. All students
are encouraged wear red to school and
bring in a gold coin donation. The goal Spotlight on a Staff Member
of raising money is to empower the
Hello WRSS community,
Foundation to increase awareness of child
My name is Pete Blake or “Chappy Pete.”
safety within Australian schools. Please do
For the next 10 weeks, I have the awesome privilege of providing some programs and special
not colour your child’s hair for this event.
activities at WRSS as a school-based chaplain. The days I am here each week are Tuesdays
and Fridays. A chaplain provides social, emotional and spiritual support for students and staff.
This is a federally funded initiative.
It is an absolute honour to serve this school community.
Some students will get to learn the art of making animal balloons and everyone will be given
the opportunity to solve my riddles (there will be prizes for the winners).
Parents, if you would enjoy catching up for a cuppa and a chat, it’s a standing invitation - and
it’s my shout! It’s my pleasure to serve the students, staff and the school community at WRSS.
Our family of six moved up from Ingham to Cairns at the start of this year. We love this
beautiful region and everyone has been so welcoming.
Here’s a pic of our family… and our two guinea pigs (Snowy and Goldie).
For more information about the Daniel
Morcombe Foundation visit
https://danielmorcombe.com.au/
White Rock State School Guyala Gazette 22 October 2020 • Page 3 Garden Club Bounty The Garden Club meet every Tuesday and Wednesday at first lunch to tend to their garden located on school grounds. In Week 10 of Term 3 the students harvested their bean crop and shared their bounty with friends and faculty. Everyone who was lucky enough to taste the beans all agreed they were super sweet and delicious. Congratulations Garden Club, your hard work has paid off and we can’t wait to see your next yield. Performing Arts Showcase 2O2O Known in the past as our Spring Concert, this year it has become our ‘Performing Arts Showcase’. Students have been busy in Performing Arts singing songs, learning instruments and creating dances for their class Showcase performance. Preps and Year 1 have been creating a class dance about a season. Year 2 have been learning voice and instruments parts to a song from a different country. Year 3 are working in pairs to create a dance about an animal from their class theme. Year 4 have been learning songs on the recorder. Year 5 are working in groups to create a dance using symmetry and Year 6 are learning a pop song on ukulele. Unfortunately this year due to COVID restrictions parents won’t be able to attend our Showcase. However, students will still get to perform for their peers and teachers and the Showcase will be recorded for parents to view at a later date. Our Performing Arts program is very valuable for learning confidence and creativity and we are very excited the students will still be able to perform this year. We are also excited to be introducing some new awards this year for students who ‘shine’ and ‘strive for improvement’ in our program. We will keep you posted on how you can view your child’s class performance in the coming weeks. Julie Williams & Hannah Trotter, Performing Arts Obstathon Prizes Congratulations to all participants of this year’s major fundraiser – OBSTATHON 2020. Well done to all students who were able to raise some money and donate it to the school. Good news, the Obstathon prizes have been ordered this week and should arrive in a couple of weeks. In the coming weeks I will announce at which School Parade our highest fundraisers will be acknowledged. The highest fundraiser will receive their own trophy. 2nd and 3rd highest will receive a silver and bronze medal respectively. Any child who raised $100 or more will receive a medal in recognition of their efforts. And, of course, I will announce the ever important news of which class, for lower and upper school, won the PIZZA PARTY for raising the most money this year. A big thank you to Miss Falchetti who had a massive task of spending many long afternoons counting the money and recording individual totals, Mr Avery for helping set up the obstacle course and the Year 6 house captains for helping throughout the day. Once again, well done to White Rock State School and thank you.
White Rock State School Guyala Gazette 22 October 2020 • Page 4
Term 3 Week 10 - NAIDOC Week
What a fantastic NAIDOC Parade! Guyala and Abal Kerem Kebi Werem dancers blowing the roof off the
WRSS hall with an amazing performance celebrating NAIDOC 2020. Our beautiful songbird teachers taking
our breath away and Buri Guman-Naamu Karrkay Duo of our own mother and daughter team, Merindi and
Felicity, delighting our senses with their soulful tunes. WRSS students had the pleasure of listening and learning
stories from Mr Reys (Traditional Owner), about White Rock and the purpose of a Yarning Circle.
NAIDOC Week
Artwork: Shape of Land by Tyrown Waigana
The Rainbow Serpent came out of the Dreamtime to create this land. It is represented by
the snake and it forms the shape of Australia, which symbolises how it created our lands.
The colour from the Rainbow Serpent is reflected on to the figure to display our connection
to the Rainbow Serpent, thus our connection to country. The overlapping colours on the
outside is the Dreamtime. The figure inside the shape of Australia is a representation of
Indigenous Australians showing that this country - since the dawn of time - always was, and
8-15 nov 2020
always will be Aboriginal land.
naidoc.org.au #NAIDOC2020
#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe facebook.com/NAIDOC @naidocweek @naidocweek
NAIDOC Competition Winners
Year 1 1st Runner Up 1SS Tekoah Murgha
1SS Ariana Meremer
1/2EP Daya Menon
Year 2 1st Runner Up 1/2EP Emily Harrigan
Year 3 1st Runner Up 3CK Leon Noden-Asi
3CK Jayana Herewini
Year 4 1st Runner Up 4NP Rebekah Keen
4NP Repoam Sunol
4NC Buriya Waia
Year 5 1st Runner Up 5SR Matthew Hill
5SR Michael Meadway
5LG David Illin-Nicholas
Year 6 1st Runner Up 6DM Bernard Sabadi
6KN Donatello Cheng
Prep – 2 Design A Door Pizza Party PNR
Year 3 – 6 Design A Door Pizza Party 6DM
A huge congratulations goes to these ladies for their tireless efforts in ensuring that our
NAIDOC Week was a huge success. The out of hours time required to coordinate
this event is phenomenal. Thank you Lisa, Michelle and Wilhemina on another fantastic
NAIDOC Week.
White Rock State School Guyala Gazette 22 October 2020 • Page 5
P&C News
Welcome to Term 4!
An exciting start to the term as we anticipate the arrival of our Krispy Kreme order on Friday 23 October.
It has worked well using Flexischools - thanks to families who have supported this yummy fundraiser!
Orders
Breakfast Club is back up and running, thanks to a lot of our older students who are always offering to help arrive
serve. These student have wonderful hearts and show admirable leadership. Friday!
Tuckshop has welcomed our new Slushy Machine. The ingredients include fruit juice with no added sugar, so the children can enjoy
a frozie as the weather heats up without the concern of loading up on sugar.
Volunteers are still needed, especially for our Breakfast Club. We would love some help, especially on Tuesdays if you can
donate some time early before school starts. A wonderful way of connecting with kids and the school, while filling tummies
and charging up the brain for a good start to the day.
Cheers!
Cathy Zeiger, WRSS P&C President
Easy Recipe
Zucchini Slice Method
This is an easy recipe to cook with children 1. Preheat oven to 180C.
and is a great snack for lunch boxes and 2. Line an 18 x 28cm baking dish with baking paper.
birthday parties.
3. F ry onion and bacon in a little olive oil, until the onion is soft
Ingredients and the bacon is beginning to brown. Set aside to cool.
500g (approx 2 medium) zucchini
4. G rate zucchini with a coarse grater. Squeeze the zucchini
1 medium onion, peeled and finely sliced
over the sink being careful to remove all excess liquid (this is
3 rashers of bacon, finely chopped
important, as it stops the slice being too wet).
1 cup (lightly packed) grated cheddar cheese
5. C
ombine the zucchini, onion and bacon mixture, cheese, flour and salt and pepper in a large
¾ cup self-raising flour
bowl. Lightly whisk the eggs and add to the zucchini and stir to combine.
Salt and pepper to taste
4 large eggs 6. Pour into the baking dish and bake for 45 minutes, or until the slice is set and golden brown.
1/3 cup vegetable oil https://www.lifestylefood.com.au/recipes/12230/easy-zucchini-slice
White Rock State School Guyala Gazette 22 October 2020 • Page 6
Attendance Matters
How important is attendance?
Attendance is important because students are more likely to succeed in academics when they attend school
consistently. It’s difficult for the teacher and the class to build their skills and progress if a large number of students
are frequently absent.
Help your child succeed in school:
Build the habit of good attendance early - school success goes hand in hand with good attendance!
• Starting in Prep, too many absences can cause children to fall behind in school.
• Missing 10 percent (or about 18 days) can make it harder to learn to read.
• Students can still fall behind if they miss just a day or two days every few weeks.
• Being late to school may lead to poor attendance.
•A bsences can affect the whole classroom if the teacher has to slow down learning to help
children catch up.
Attending school regularly helps children feel better about school - and themselves. Start building this habit in Prep so they learn right away that
going to school on time, every day is important.
From the Guidance Officer
3. Enjoy friendships
Encourage your kids to be open and friendly at this time of the year, and
steer clear of cliques and fellow students who want to exclude others
from their groups. The end of primary school can be tricky to navigate,
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Goodbye primary school, hello secondary school classmates. This is the time for friendly behaviour and inclusiveness.
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it’s time to focus on the new experiences of secondary school. Some
kids take secondary school in their stride but it is natural to experience
some difficulty.
The end of primary school is a significant milestone in children’s lives. They’ve If your eldest is starting, then secondary school will be a relatively new
spent half their lives in primary school, in many cases in the same school, experience for you too. It will take some time for you to adjust to the
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White Rock State School Guyala Gazette 22 October 2020 • Page 7
What s On? Everyday is a school day
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Regular Events at
The collective noun for a
White Rock State School
group of tigers is an ambush.
Monday
• Reading Club 8 - 8.40am
• Scratch Club 8 - 8.40am
• Playgroup Qld 8:30 - 10:30am
Tuesday
• Breakfast Club 7.45 - 8.30am
• Reading Club 8 - 8.40am https://www.mentalfloss.
• Scratch Club 8 - 8.40am com/article/551081/
• Playgroup - collective-nouns-groups-
Benevolent Society 8:30 - 10:30am animals
• Choir Ist Lunch
• Hoola Hoop Club 1st Lunch
• Garden Club 1st Lunch
• Coffee Club 2 - 3pm
Wednesday
• Breakfast Club 7.45 - 8.30am
Coffee Club
• Reading Club 8 - 8.40am
Connecting with our families
• Scratch Club 8 - 8.40am
• Band 8 - 9am
• Garden Club 1st Lunch Coffee Club invites:
• Chess Club 1st Lunch
• Student Council 2nd Lunch Who: Kirsten Lesina
• Guyala Dance 3 - 4pm Associate of Bottoms English Lawyers
Thursday
When: Tuesday 27 October
• Breakfast Club 7.45 - 8.30am
Kristina will provide information about
• Reading Club 8 - 8.40am
• Scratch Club 8 - 8.40am legal issues - such as family law (child
• FaFT 9 - 11am custody, divorce etc.), wills and estates or
• Uke Group 1st Lunch consumer law rights.
Friday
• Reading Club 8 - 8.40am All welcome
• Scratch Club 8 - 8.40am
• TSI Dancing 1st Lunch
White Rock State School Guyala Gazette 22 October 2020 • Page 8 Families as First Teachers Thursday mornings 9-11am outside the school hall This PLAY based Literacy and Numeracy Families As First Teachers group is for children and their families from birth to Pre - Prep age. Families are welcome each Thursday morning from 9am to 11am at the front of White Rock State School hall. Week 3 - Wheels on the Bus Songs and rhymes help children learn about language. They learn new words and they learn about rhythm and rhyme. This then helps them learn to read when they go to school. Week 4 - Squash the alphabet bug This activity gives children practice at reorganising letters of the alphabet and naming some of them. Children find it fun to “squash” the bugs with their fly swat. Week 5 - Moving Poem Strong rhyming poem that can teach children new words in acting out different movements. Eg. sway, slide. All families welcome • Make, Take and Teach Playgroup Monday 8.30am – 10.30am hosted by Playgroup Queensland Tuesday 8.30am – 10.30am organised by Benevolent Society
White Rock State School Guyala Gazette 22 October 2020 • Page 9
Enrol now for Prep 2O21
We are able to consider
Preps that are out of
catchment. Please call the
office without delay if you are
interested in a place for 2021
- phone 4036 8888.
Do you know of a family looking to enrol their child into Prep 2021?
Prep is now compulsory for children born 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
Contact our school office today.
Phone: 4036 8888 Email: principal@whiterockss.eq.edu.au
Facebook message: @White Rock State School
or follow the links on our website
Please note that our school is Enrolment Managed. This means that priority is given to children residing in our catchment area.
Places may be available to other students depending on the number of children enrolled from within catchment.
www.whiterockss.eq.edu.au
Community Notices
White Rock State School Guyala Gazette 22 October 2020 • Page 10
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