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P A R E N T N E W S TERM 4 WEEK 1

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The students and staff of Malanda

SHS invite you to:

Music Muse Mayhem – Laneway Festival A new and dynamic cultural event celebrating the creative brilliance of Malanda High School students. This one-night exhibition of student work will be held at the Cultural Quadrangle (behind the Visual Art and Drama Department) at Malanda High School, Friday October 13, 2017, from 6:30 until 8pm. An official opening will be hosted, from 7:00 pm, with a number of prizes awarded for outstanding work, including Peoples’ Choice Award voted by the public. Delicious street food and drinks will be available for purchase from the P&C. The festival will showcase a diverse array of student work highlighting contemporary performance & expressive forms, music, visual artmaking approaches, including painting, mixed media, drawing, textiles, as well as 3D wood and metal works. Come along, grab a bite to eat and a glass of wine, catch up with friends and support the Malanda High School Students in celebrating a continuing culture of creativity.

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL

The countdown to the end of year is ramping up for the students particularly in the senior years. Term 4 is critical for these students and all efforts are needed to keep them focussed on completion of all school work and planning for their next step. It is important for parents and carers to continue working closely with the school to ensure success for each young adult. Please be in touch with Stacey Stremouchiw if needed and keep our students eye on the main game and not the distraction of graduation and post school celebrations. Those things will take care of themselves.

We welcome Nicole Hyland back from her travels around Australia and she will resume her role as Deputy Principal in the school. This shuffles through the school with a couple of classes changing teachers for term 4. I endeavour to minimise teacher changes above all else unless it is unavoidable. Please welcome Nicole back and access her knowledge and skills as needed.

Also we have some personnel changes in our front office. Our most treasured ladies, Heather and Jan are out of the school for this term and will be replaced by Bronwyn doing attendance officer duties amongst other roles plus we have Jess Gould doing the receivables role. Please contact these ladies as needed understanding they are finding their feet for the initial part of the term.

Our school is celebrating our new status as an accredited International school. This year we have been assessed and approved to accept international students by the Department of Education – International Executive Director. This is a great recognition of the quality of schooling we enjoy and the staff and students working within our school. It entitles our school to accept students from abroad to join our school for part of their education journey thus adding new layers of cultural experience into the school.

The Malanda Chamber of Commerce has informed the school of the pending transportation through the town of the wind turbines headed for Mount Emerald. They will be passing through Malanda on the 9th October between 1 -3.00pm. Our school will be viewing their journey past the school for the students to see the incredible size and engineering of these machines. Parents are welcome to join us if you wish. Students will be given more information on parade this week.

I trust all parents received their child’s term 3 report cards prior to the holidays. Please take the time to discuss with your students and congratulate where necessary. I personally will be acknowledging the excellent results of many of the students on all aspects of the reports including results, attendance, behaviour and effort improvements. For those reports not collected they are available at the front counter of the office.

Good luck with term 4 and the lead up to Christmas.

Kind Regards

Gary Toshach Principal

YEAR 7 TRANSITION TO MALANDA HIGH FOR 2018 ENROLMENT INTERVIEWS ARE UNDERWAY Bookings have now been opened for enrolment interviews for year 7 students in 2018. We encourage parents to make their booking online by clicking on this link: schoolinterviews.com and enter the access code below. You will be able to book your interview from a variety of available times with more to be added or term 4. If you are unable to find a time to suit or would like us to make the booking for you, please phone the School Secretary on 40967111. Please bring the completed enrolment forms and a copy of your child’s birth certificate with

you to the interview. Year 7 in 2018 Access Code mzk4k

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FROM THE P&C

Tuckshop: Next term the specials menu will be different each week with each day having a theme. Check Parent News, the MSHS Facebook page or the whiteboard at the tuckshop for menu items and prices each week. The normal menu is also available – see attachment or it can be found at MSHS P&C Tuckshop info

P&C Monster Raffle This term, the P&C will hold its annual Monster Raffle. This week we are planning to send home a book of ten tickets (one book per family, total value $10) to be sold. This will be given to the youngest student of the family. Tickets sold or unsold need to be returned to a box at the tuckshop. Prizes to be won for students who sell three books or more!

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Volunteers Please! Catering at Music, Muse & Mayhem The P&C is providing the catering at the upcoming Music, Muse & Mayhem on the evening of Friday 13th October (see elsewhere in Parent News for details of the event itself). All profits from the catering will be donated to the school for next year’s musical. We would love some help serving and selling food, drinks and raffle tickets. There are two ways to register your times (any time between 6pm – 8 pm) to volunteer:

1 Click on P&C Catering Music, Muse and Mayhem (or type www.schoolinterviews.com.au in your

browser) and use the code y8gbe to log in. Then follow the instructions on the screen.

2 Email pandcpresident@malandashs.eq.edu.au to advise when you can help.

Come along and enjoy the wonderful work the students have done this year, and enjoy dinner and a chance to catch up with friends as well!

Notice from your School Council

The school council will have a meeting Wednesday 11th October with one of the agenda items to discuss and vote to amend the school council constitution.

The proposed amendments are regarding:

o The procedure of electing parent, staff and student elected members, including the method of voting by parents via email and in person

o Removing text in the constitution relating to primary school students

o Revising the nomination forms for elected members to include a written response by applicants and role description

o Regarding teaching and non-teaching staff elected members: Adding “when no non-teaching staff nominates for an election, 2 or more teaching staff can be elected as staff members”.

o Adding parents to the groups to be notified, through Parent News, for amending the constitution and not only the members of the P&C association regarding the parent group.

If you would like to know more about these proposed amendments please contact the school council chair Mrs Selena Harding on shard124@eq.edu.au

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YEAR 10 SET PLAN INTERVIEWS PARENTS – please ensure you have booked a time to attend a short meeting at the school with your Year 10 student for their SET Plan. The SET Plan maps out a student’s plan of action for his or her education and training over the next two years in partnership with their parents and the school. This includes a signed agreement outlining roles and responsibilities of the partnership agreement. A SET Plan must be completed for every student. Parents are asked to book a meeting time for the SET plan process on the school interview website

The link to use for SET Plan Interviews is jxky5 All year 10 students and parents in Queensland are involved in the Senior Education and Training (SET) Plan process

with the school they are enrolled at.

Library Update This year as shown from the Infographic, our school library has been busy with lots of books being borrowed. However we still have a lot of books overdue, which means other students don’t have access to these. Please remind students to start returning books that are overdue or ask the students to renew the books. Overdue slips are going out to students for books that are overdue from Semester 1 and 2016. If these aren’t returned then invoices will be going home to try and be able to replace the books ready for next year’s borrowers. At the end of the term students are given a clearance form for the library to sign off on the form then all books need to be returned from the student. Please help support us in the library!

Fun & Fitness – resumes on Wednesday 18th

October in the school hall. Come along for fitness – circuits and minor games - with much fun to be had.

Only $5 each from 5.30pm to 6.30pm

Will be held every Wednesday of the school term

Malanda community are most welcome to join us.

NATIVE PLANTS FOR SALE We have plant seedlings for sale. These have been propagated and grown by our agriculture students and are of an endemic native species. These are available for sale each Friday from 9.00 to 3.00 up in the Ag Dept. If you would like more information please email Mr Kilpatrick at dkilp9@eq.edu.au

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YEAR 7 JAPANESE The winner of the Term 3 Hiragana Challenge was 7B. They were rewarded with a lesson in the Art Room where they had the opportunity to try Shodo, Japanese calligraphy. Students had a great time trying to write a number of Kanji characters they will be learning in class next term. The work they created will be on display at Music Muse and Mayhem on October 13, come along and have a look at their great work! Inge Arnold

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IMPORTANT DATES 6 Oct Junior “Respect Me” Progam 13 October Music, Muse & Mayhem – Community Invited 16 October Student Free Day – Staff Professional Development Day 17 October Walk & Talk – with the Principal 5.30pm – book at the office 18 October Walk & Talk – with the Principal 9.30am – book at the office 19 October Mossman 7’s 20 October Junior Respect Me Program 27 October Junior Respect Me program 3 November Junior Respect Me Program 8 November Student Leadership Handover – Full School Parade 8 November Presentation Evening 7 November SNAP Exhibition Opening– Atherton 11 November Remembrance Day 13-17 November Yr 12 Alternate Activities Week 16 November Yr 12 Final Parade 17 November Graduation Dinner 24 November Yr 10 / 11 Last Day 29 November Yr 6 into 7 Transition Day 30 November Transition Dance 8 December Last Day School 2017 – HOLIDAYS!!

IMPORTANT LINKS

School Website School Facebook Page Education Queensland

Year 13 Cairns – Facebook page

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