Dear Parents / Carers,

Congratulations to students who participated in the Apple and Grape Busking Competition. They were wonderful, even in the rainy conditions of Saturday morning. The reward they expected was the opportunity to perform in public but another reward of Third Prize in the People’s Choice section has come their way. Well done to those students who were recognised at our Assembly on Monday! Parents, Mrs Kelley is now going to work on Monday’s, Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s starting from this week.

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AMIENS STATE SCHOOL “Mens Sana in Copore Sano”

Term 1 – Week 6 Tuesday 27th February, 2018

Congratulations to our school division Softball team. While our Pennant team’s game at home with Thulimbah was cancelled due to rain, our school team was able to play

away at Greenlands. At the end of a damp and spirited game, Amiens were winners by 14 runs to 12. This week our Pennant Team plays away at Glen Aplin and our School Team plays at home against Glen Aplin. Please contact the school as soon as possible if you are able to provide transport to Glen Aplin.

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School Calendar - Term 1

Week 6 Monday 26th Feb Assembly PE & Music

Tuesday 27th Feb Student Banking Wednesday 28th Feb Instrumental Music

Project Club Lunch and Home Bake

Thursday 1st March P&C AGM and General Meeting

Friday 2nd March Library Softball Saturday 3rd March Apple & Grape

Parade Rodeo Fundraiser Week 7 Monday 5th March Assembly PE & Music

Tuesday 6th March Student Banking Wednesday 7th Mar Instrumental Music

Project Club Lunch and Home Bake

Bus Meeting Friday 9th March Softball, Library and

Miss Lauren on Prac

Another acknowledgement – this time to our student Project Leaders who are working hard to coordinate the weekly student Tuckshop. Thanks to members of the P&C who are doing homebake to add another interesting dimension to Tuckshop Day with 50cents buying a piece of delicious slice or cake. We have completed our annual Investing For Success (I4S) agreement for the additional $22 665 funding from the Queensland Government for our school. This year the funding will be used expanding our Learning Areas to include Humanities and Social Sciences to include Civics and Citizenship as well as implementing French as our Language other than English (LOTE). The Bus Committee is meeting will be held on Wednesday 7th March at 7pm. Please note

this date on your calendar and come along to support our school bus service.

P & C News

Hi Folks, Just a few P &C Reminders we would like to draw your attention to:

Home bake - Thank you to the parents who have offered to supply home bake. There is a roster attached to the newsletter. The school in conjunction with Lynette thought it would be better to have the home bake on Wednesday’s with the Project Club lunch. Your child / children can purchase a piece of home bake for 0.50c. Home bake is available tomorrow.

P & C AGM & General Meeting is this Thursday 1st March at 4pm in the old music room near Anita’s Office. All parents/carers are invited to attend. We encourage as many parents and community members as possible to attend. All executive positions become available at the AGM, so if you would like to have a greater input into how funds are raised and spent for your children, please consider a position on the executive committee.

Rodeo – It’s not too late to still offer a little bit of your time to assist in serving or cooking. Any time you could spare would be greatly appreciated. $250 will be donated to the P & C to help subsidise some of the upcoming camp fees.

Pie Drive – Please have your orders and correct money back to school by 12th March. Could you please put these in the PURPLE Box. Thank you for your support.

Monster Market – Please save this date 24th March. We are still looking for donations and assistance on the day (7am - 12.00/1.00pm).

Have a fantastic week.

Dale

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Term 1 – Week 6 Tuesday 27th February, 2018

PBL (Positive Behaviour for Learning)

Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe

Last week’s PBL focus was Being Honest.

Congratulations to these students who consistently followed last week’s PBL focus.

Kodi (Wk3)

Trey (Wk 4)

Dustin (Wk 4)

Korbyn (Wk 5)

Riley B (Wk 5)

Isaac (Wk 5)

Congratulations also to Lachy, Dustin ,Tyson, Esther ,Rosie, Bonnie, Indiana, Jaxon, Kayden, Jade, Oscar, Stephie, Ben, Riley F and Trey for achieving 100% in both Spelling and Number Facts for Week 5.

Well done to you all and keep up the fantastic work.

Well done also to Bonnie and Dustin for achieving 50 PBL acknowledgements.

This week we are focusing on “Being Responsible” - Making good choices “Helping Each Other Grow”

Term 1 – Week 6 Tuesday 27th February, 2018

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From the Prep, Year 1 and Year 2 Classroom

Congratulations to our Student of the Week 5–– Dustin who used learned strategies of the High 5 which is part of being Respectful. Keep up the great work. Last week, Week 6 - congratulations to Riley B. who displayed traits of being Honest which is part of Being Respectful. Well done boys. Well done to the Year 1 and 2 children who achieved 100% in their weekly spelling test. –, Lachy Dustin, Tyson, Esther, Rosie, Bonnie and Indiana. Last week, “Length” –the children investigated, discussed, ordered and responded to questions about measuring with informal units. Consolidation of counting, matching number and names, and sequencing skills will also continue for all. This week, we are investigating the concept of Number – place value, what comes next, before, use of MAB. Preppies will be looking at the number 6. The Prep children are continuing to count, match, sort, and sequence numbers to 10. Rapid recall of number facts enables the children to complete their activities in the required time. Well done to Lachy and Dustin for achieving 100% in their Friday tests last week. “Our Rooster Jack” is the text for the Year 1 and 2 children. Children will listen, discuss, sequence, look for nouns, and adjectives in the text and use the Time Line format fill in the parts of the story in their own words. Prep story for the week is “Possum in the House”. Fine and Gross motor exercises continue to enhance writing skills. Letter of the week is f– “flies are flying f.f.f .F says f What is the letter?, what sound does it? make and relevant activities will form part of the Prep Language programme. In C2C spelling sessions - Yr1 - will be concentrating on dipthongs–“oi and oy and Yr 2 - oi, oy, oo ,ou “Thank you for your support with spelling activities at home. Reading books are “At the Park, The Bell Garden and Fruits and Veggies” As we read our text at school we discuss setting, characters, sequence - beginning, problem in the story and the conclusion. Each week, we will continue to enhance our understanding of Australia/The World. Our booklet “All about Me” is ongoing throughout this month. During the lesson, the children will recall and share family stories/events that they can remember. Please continue to practice Birthday dates and addresses at home. Friday is our Library day. Library book bags are required. In our room, we have a Library box where children can place their Library Book in its bag once they’ve finished. Swimming is now over for the term. Another five sessions are planned at the end of the year. Thank you Cara who assisted with children at the pool. Enjoy your week. Looking forward to seeing all for the Apple and Grape March.

Anne, Kayleen and Candy Playgroup

Purple was the colour for the day. Lots of fine motor activities – finger rhymes, songs, pasting yellow pictures, Stamping of a bunch of grapes, making shapes using the our playdough and apple printing. Block construction, puzzles and lots of talking took place. Each week, the children continue to build on their gross motor skills. Next week, we will be looking at looking at the colour “orange”. Come along and enjoy a great morning with your children. All are welcome. Remember to bring a hat and a bite to eat.

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Term 1 – Week 6 Tuesday 27th February, 2018

From the Year 3, Year 4 and Year Classroom

From STEM to STEAM – by now everyone will be used to the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) acronym. Now it’s time to introduce STEAM, with an A for Arts. Technology for STEAM helps students use their knowledge of digital technology to produce art. We are looking to further engage our students with Visual Arts by adding this technology edge. As we currently enter competitions such as Crisps Art, we will be using STEAM tools to help us with our efforts. Because of our experience with origami, we wanted initially to add more to the traditional art of paper folding. By adding simple circuits to paper sculptures, they can be instantly animated to create unique sculptures. Thus our traditional “Transportation of the Granite Belt” can become something much more interesting by simply adding a light or two then more complex additions such as motors for movement. The product we will be using to enable this is Teknikio Activating Origami.

In previous years, there has been a Multi-media competition between Granite Belt schools. This year, the focus has been changed to STEAM. For the purpose of this competition a typical STEAM project would

be characterised by the following features:

the different media it possesses and makes use of

the use of digital technologies

the interaction it demands of the user

and the integration of sound, images, text and data into seamless applications Aim: The aim of this competition is to promote/recognise/increase the use of STEAM education

in schools by the recognition of excellent quality, student produced STEAM projects. Amiens State School should be well-placed to enter this competition too. In maths, Years 3 – 6 are reviewing and extending knowledge of geometry in the area of flips, slides and turns.

Thank you

Dale, Leanne and Nathan

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Congratulations to our Students of the Week and Super Spellers and Maths Champs. Well done to you all.

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Well done Braxton for coming 3rd in the Creature Fruit and Veg Section in this year’s Stanthorpe Show.

3rd Place in the Busking Championships. What a fantastic achievement? Congratulations to Kayden, Jaxon, Bau, Trey, Isaac, Esther, Sophia, Lilou and Mr Taylor for all of your hard work in the lead up to the Championships.