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22 February 201922 February 2019

PRINCIPAL’S REPORTAs we near the end of Week 4, there arelots of exciting events on the horizon. Thisnewsletter contains information about LifeEducation, Sports Day, our new P&CExecutive, Student Leadership and aStaffing Update.

Routines and Attendance

As we approach the half-way point of Term 1, it remainsextremely important that students are maintaining goodroutines – especially when it comes to sleep to allow them tocontinue to maximise their learning when they are at school.

Why is regular attendance at school important?

Regular school attendance will mean that your child gets abetter chance at life. Your child will achieve better when they goto school all day, every school day:

Why must I send my child to school?

Under Queensland law, you must make sure your child ofschool age is enrolled and attends school all day, every schoolday unless they have a reasonable excuse. Illness, doing workexperience, competing in a school sporting event or going on aschool excursion are reasonable excuses for being absent fromschool.

Life Education

During Week 5 all students will get an opportunity to participatein Life Education sessions with Healthy Harold the giraffe. Thesesessions form a part of our Health curriculum and for the firsttime are being offered to all students free of charge. If youhaven’t already, please ensure your child returns theirpermission form to their classroom teacher. If you have anyquestions please don't hesitate to ask our friendly office staff.

Sports Day and Sports Practice

Sports Practice has begun on a Wednesday afternoon. Pleasebe reminded that on Sports practice days, students may weara shirt in their house colour (red, blue or yellow).

Furthermore, with Sports Practices and Sports Day movingforward to accommodate district sport this year, our practicesare being conducted in a hotter climate. Staff take everyprecaution to ensure students’ safety and wellbeing duringSports Practice including ensuring that they are drinking lots ofwater and have multiple opportunities to rest and recuperatebetween activities. Please ensure that you are reinforcing thismessage at home and checking that your child has packedtheir water bottle to bring to school on Wednesdays especially.

Reminder: Our Sports Practice is onWednesday at 2pm (don’t forget hats and

house colours)• they learn better

• they make friends

• they are happier

• they have a brighter future.

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Save the Date: Central Sports Day –Wednesday March 27th

P&C AGM

Thank you to everyone who attended our AGM on Tuesdayat which our new Executive for 2019 was voted in. Beforeintroducing them in our P&C News, I would like to take thisopportunity to thank our outgoing committee, Armie Astridge,Amy Bradford, Florina Whitehouse, Cassie Stone and CarmelRankin, for their incredible service to our school over whathas been a number of years for quite a few members of ourcommittee. We greatly appreciate everything you have done forour school.

Student Leadership

We are currently in the process of finalising our studentleadership team for 2019 with elections for student councilrepresentatives occurring this week. Our formal LeadershipInduction Parade will be held on Monday March 4th at 9am.Formal invitations will be issued to families next week. We inviteall interested community members and extended families toattend.

Staffing Changes

After a lengthy selection process, Scripture Union this weekappointed Gerry Doyle as Mackay Central State School’s newChaplain. You might recognise Gerry from his volunteer workas the ‘coach’ of our Boys Club or his time spent volunteerteacher-aiding in classrooms last year. Gerry comes to us witha wealth of experience, notably as the long-servingAdopt-a-Cop of Mackay West State School prior to hisretirement from QPS. We are very excited to have Gerry join ourteam on a Thursday and Friday.

Next week Mrs Mutton and Mrs Lando as the Acting Principalof Oakenden State School will attend the 2019 Principal’sconference in Brisbane from Monday to Wednesday. MrMalone, Mrs Baynton and Mr Sturgeon will hold the fort, sharingofficer-in-charge duties in Mrs Mutton’s absence. Meanwhile,Mrs Betty Doyle will be working with 6L. As always, our friendlyoffice staff will be more than happy to direct any requests orenquiries.

Have a great week!

Sarah MuttonPrincipal

WELLBEING GOAL OF THE WEEKWe’ve been working through two new wellbeing goals thisfortnight;

Parent articles

Don’t forget to check out our parent newsletter articles to assistwith understanding our weekly wellbeing goals and work onthem at home with your children.

• Week 3: Gratitude

• Week 4: Mindset

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LEARNING LOG

What is your Child Learning About thisTerm?

In response to parent feedback from last year’s schoolreview, by next week parents will receive an email fromtheir child’s classroom teacher outlining what studentsare working on this term. Classrooms are busy placesand Central teachers capitalise on the time we spend withour students by planning action-packed and engaginglearning experiences for our students.

These emails will follow roughly the same format, listing‘the big idea’ for each subject as well as outlining theconcepts students should ‘know’ by the end of the termand skills that students should be able to ‘do’. Theattached example is for this term’s Year 6 Science Uniton Natural Disasters.

The purpose of these emails is simply to let parents inon what we’re doing in classrooms as well as provideinformation that can be used to help your child with theirlearning at home if you so choose. If you don’t receive anemail by the end of next week, please contact the officeso that we may update your details.

SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT

New Strategic Plan 2019-2022

In this week’s newsletter we’ve shared our vision statement forour new strategic plan with an intent to unpack parts of our planin further detail each newsletter;

Put a different way, our new plan lists strategies thatwill allow us to;

We’ll begin unpacking our plan in our next newsletter. In themeantime, if you have any questions about the strategicdirection of our school, please don’t hesitate to ask.

ATTENDANCE

Term attendance

It was with great relief that we noted a bigimprovement in our whole schoolattendance this week, almost achieving ourwhole school target with a combinedattendance rate of 92.9%! Special mentiongoes to 3S who achieved an outstandingclass attendance rate of 99% this week – an amazing efforteveryone!

• Embed the Australian Curriculum with a strongemphasis on the literacy and numeracy within eachsubject area

• Refine the Art of Teaching to ensure that every lessonis of a high pedagogical quality and we are planninglearning experiences that are as engaging as possiblefor our students

• Promote an inclusive education that truly celebratesthe diverse needs of the learners at Mackay CentralState School and allows every child to achieve totheir potential.

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Class of the Week – Week 3

1st 3S 95.2%

2nd 1B 94.2%

3rd 4H 92.7%

Class of the Week – Week 4

1st 3S 99.2%

2nd 1B & 1/2C 97.4%

3rd 6L 95.6%

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Week 1

Xavier Kulka-Brown For being a good listenerand always being readyto learn

Prep

Katie Butcher For settling into prep welland always listening andfollowing the rules.

Kaylee Astridge You’ve had a great startto the year. Organisedand ready to work. WellDone!!!

Year 1

Rejanne Melocotones For her great innovationto the start of her FuManchu story.

Bryce Brown For always giving his besteffort in class. Well done,Bryce!

Kaitlyn Whitby For her outstandingbookwork and attentionto detail. Keep it up,Kaitlyn!

Ahmarley Heath For her deep thinking andvaluable contributions toclass discussions!Awesome, Ahmarley!

Year 1/2

Sean Roldan For working quickly andquietly to complete settasks. Well done, Sean!

Rickeal Benfield For getting back on theright track.

Year 2

Odin Forster For your positive attitudeand always trying yourbest.

Year 3 Asher Grigg For being an outstandingclass helper and alwaysworking on task! Greatwork!

Kenji Pangilinan /Euan Roxas / GeorgeSamson

Congratulations on youroutstanding work effortand model behaviour!Well done!

Olivia Luxton / AmeliaTetley

For your wonderfulassistance and help youprovide your teacher andpeers. Thank you!

Year 4

Essyvera Andal /Emily Butcher / EllieHoile / Olivia Luxton /Teisha Pope

For a terrific job in writingand presenting a speechfor Student Council. I'mextremely proud. Welldone!

Kaiden Astridge /Zarlia Beer / SarahBradford / HannahBurrage / BreathCanete / Amos Grigg/ Dustin Santiago /Pan Tharat

For recognising andcommunicating yourleadership strengths toyour peers.Congratulations on your5B student councilrepresentative campaign!

Year 5

X’Zailiah Tomarra For sharing your smileand enthusiasm in 5Band beyond! Weappreciate your positivecontributions, X'Zailiah!

Elijah Graffini Elijah, thank you for beingyou. Your continueddetermination, to alwaysdo your best, has notgone unnoticed :)

Year 6

Jean Lindsay For your outstandingeffort in applying yournotetaking skills –especially in Science –well done!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

February Birthdays

Ashleigh BethelTehina KairaeMoses Grigg

Gwen BelarminoKaitlyn WhitbyDean BethelPaul Lunaria

Amelia GanalonSunny Chamala

Eddie WhitehouseDominic Bath

Dwayne BayaoReyshan Dela CruzGina Whitehouse

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FROM THE P&C

Tuckshop

A new copy of the tuckshop menu was released last week. Youcan find a copy here;

AGM

Our new P&C Executive were voted in at our AGM on Tuesday.A huge thank you to our new committee for putting up theirhand to lead our P&C in 2019;

It’s not too late to join or renew your membership for ourP&C. Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday March 5th at9:00am. We hope to see you there!

MACKAY CENTRAL COMMUNITYNOTICEBOARD

• President: Carmel Rankin

• Vice President: Glenda Whitehouse

• Secretary: Shiralee Carter

• Treasurer: Cassie Stone

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