Welcome to the 2020 school year and already we are nearing the end of week two. All students have settled into their new classes and engaged in learning.

Our school and community are very lucky to have access to our school swimming pool. Our students are taught swimming terms one and four. Many schools are only able to provide swimming lessons for one week per year whereas our students receive swimming lessons weekly for two terms per year.

What sets our school above other schools:

Small class sizes, expert teaching teams Curriculum rigor across all learning areas Individual student support Dedicated Arts program LOTE program Instrumental music Choir Sport including Interschool sport Well resourced Beautiful grounds Access to a bus to transport students to events

Our school is a great school.

Welcome to new staff This year we welcome new teachers to our staff. We welcome Mr Joshua Duff as Head of Department, Mr Geordie McGill Health and Physical Education and IT Support, Miss Emily McCullagh (year 5), Specialist Teachers We welcome Mr John Evenhuis to our staff he will be the Instrumental Music Teacher for 2020. Mr Evenhuis has had many years of experience in this role and we are very lucky to have him join our staff. Mrs Debbie Weatherly is our LOTE teacher again for 2020. Debbie is based at Eimeo Road State School, Mackay. LOTE is delivered by virtual classroom and at times via the internet students are able to work with students from other school. Parents and Citizens

The AGM for the P&C will be held shortly. Please consider coming along and being part of this group. Your support is needed and will help shape the direction of the school into the future. Dates of the meeting will be advertised in the near future.

Tuckshop

Tuckshop will be operating this Friday. Thank you to all of our volunteers for making this possible for our students. I know each and every student loves Friday tuckshop. If you are able to assist and would like to become a tuckshop helper please contact the school.

No: 01 -Week 2 Term 1

Wednesday 5th February 2020

Congratulations to our school leaders for 2020 and they are: Senior Leaders

Isabel Anderson and Isabelle Dale

Junior Leaders Kathleen Jones and Casey Hotz

Castle House Captains Harry Anderson and Riley Monaghan

Dawson House Captains Brooke McClelland and Quinn Shoecraft

Student Council Bryce Armstrong Noah Cluff Felicity Dale Chase Powell Bridie Christensen Taylor Cluff

I am sure they will represent our school with pride. These student will be participating in a Leadership Camp at North Keppel Island in week four. Paperwork for this camp has been sent home with the students.

School Priorities

Our priorities for 2020 are, writing, reading, Positive Behaviour for Learning and collegial development for teaching staff. Writing has been a focus for the school and the school has adopted the John Collins approach to writing. Across the school there has been improvement evidenced in the writing development of our students. This year our focus includes reading. Our classes have timetabled reading and literacy block and additional staff are allocated classes during this time to provide students with individual or small group learning opportunities. Theodore State School follows the Positive Behaviour for Learning Framework which identifies our school expectations of ‘Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be a Learner. From this the schools Responsible Behaviour Plan and Behaviour Matrix is established and endorsed by the P&C.

School Uniform It has been wonderful to see students in the correct school uniform. Thank you parents. Just a reminder that football shorts with logos are not part of our school uniform and not to be worn to school. Secondary students are wearing their new uniform with pride. Thank you to Evolution Mining for purchasing every Secondary Student a new Secondary Shirt in the new design.

Positive Behaviour for Learning(PBL) is taught at Theodore State School

Every member of the school community (school staff, parents and students) have a role to play in creating a safe, supportive and disciplined school environment, where students can learn and achieve, feel safe and supported. Each week our students are explicitly taught strategies and techniques that promote a positive school climate.

This is Theo the PBL Mascot. Students at TSS submitted designs and Theo was voted the winning design.

Thank you Ms Kristina Hall, Arts Teacher at TSS who created the digital image .

SWIMMING TIMETABLE

TUESDAY: Year 6 - 10.05am-11.05am

Year 3/4 - 2pm-3pm

THURSDAY: Prep - 12.30pm-1.30pm

Year 1 - 2pm-3pm

FRIDAY: Year 5 - 9.05am-10.05am

Year 2 - 10.05am-11.05am

Year 7-10 - 2pm-3pm

MEET AND GREET SESSIONS

Classroom Meet and Greet sessions will be held in week 3. The Meet and Greet will be held in year level

classrooms with each session running for approximately 20 minutes.

During these sessions times teachers will outline classroom expectations, values, routines, homework,

content across learning areas as well as answering any questions you may have.

FEBRUARY

12 Meet and Greet Sessions - Prep, Year 2, Year 3/4

13 Meet and Greet Sessions - Year 1, Year 5, Year 6, Highschool

17-20 Leadership Camp

MARCH

20 Cross Country - Theodore

27 Swimming Carnival - Theodore

WEEK 3

WEDNESDAY 12th FEBRUARY THURSDAY 13th FEBRUARY

3:10pm Prep 3:10pm Year 1 & Year 6

3:55pm Year 2 3:35pm Year 5

4:00 pm Year3/4 4:00pm High School

STUDENTS, PARENTS AND VISITORS PLEASE NOTE:

BUS ROLL CHANGES: Parents/Guardians MUST contact the school and also their

bus driver if there are any changes to their child/children’s schedule. Eg. Not on

bus, extra children going home on your bus run (sometimes buses cannot accom-

modate for the extra children).

LATE ARRIVALS & EARLY DEPARTURES: You are required to sign in or out at the

Administration building.

LEAVE THROUGH THE SCHOOL DAY: eg. doctors appointments. You are required to

sign out on departure and sign in on arrival back to school.

FULL DAY ABSENSES: Please advise office at your earliest convenience

VISITORS TO THE SCHOOL: All parents, family, contractors, volunteers must sign in/

out at the administration building. Visitor identification lanyards are to be worn at

all times.

PLEASE LET THE SCHOOL KNOW VIA

THE CONTACT OPTIONS BELOW IF YOU

HAVE ANY OF THE CHANGES ABOVE.

Text message: 0438 169 248

Email: admin@theodoress.eq.edu.au

Phone: 4990 3333

TUCKSHOP NEWS

Starting next week (Thursday 13th February) there will be a new cut off time for

Flexischools Ordering. All orders will need to be in by 3pm on Thursday afternoon. If you

miss the cut off time, orders can still be done through the school office. If you do not have

a Flexischools account, orders can be processed through the school offices as well.

Please note that there has been an increase in the price of the chocolate muffins due to a

different brand and a larger muffin.

Friday 7th February: Hot Dog Meal Deal

Friday 14th February: Pizza Meal Deal

Friday 21st February: Nacho Meal Deal

Day one of high school!

Last Tuesday the secondary school welcomed 8 students into

Year 7 for 2020 along with Mr McGill. Here is a small snippet

of what the students are looking forward to in the high school.

Being in bigger

classes, new

teachers and

subjects—Eddie

Learning new things and having

a bigger group of friends.

- Bella

New teachers, greater number of

subjects and new class members.

- Felicity

New teachers and students,

Maths and English

- Erin

Design & Technologies,

English, Maths, Geography

and Science

- Emily

Health

, English

, Co

okin

g, P.E.

- Leo

I am looking forward to

learning new things from

different teachers.

- Damon

Fitting in with all of

the high schoolers

- Westyn

PRINCIPAL’S COMMENDATIONS

T3 TUESDAY

SPORTING INFORMATION

If your require and information or would like to register your child for any of these events

please contact Mr McGill on gmcgi4@eq.edu.au