Term 3 Calendar

20 July:

NRL Player Visit

23 July:

P & C Meeting in the library at 6pm

24 - 25 July:

Parent Teacher Interviews in the hall

27 July:

MacIntyre Zone Athletics

28 July:

Chaplaincy Dinner

31 July:

ICAS—English

3 August

Final Payment Due for Year 6 Camp

6 - 10 August

Eisteddfod

13 - 17 August

Bookfair in the Library

17 - August

Dress up Day for Book Week

18 - 24 August

Year 6 Canberra Camp

28 August

Regional Athletics

7 September

Horse Sports

9 September

Gourmet in Gundy

14 September

Yr 3 Excursion to Cobb & Co

School Disco

21 September

Last Day of Term

Stars of the Week

Prep M - Jace Campbell and Tyrese Kross

Prep O - Rubie Richardson and Bayley Yench

Prep S - Blake Darlington and Beau Wise

1B - The Whole Class

1C - The Whole Class

1H - Hope Parkes and Tinkarose Phineasa

2DP - Gus Bolton and Brayden Ogle

2MW - Jacqualyn Walters and Bella Kable

2R - Toby Bulmer and Tayla McGowan

2/3 H - Saxon McFarlane and Parker Quinnell

3E - Grace Vaughan, Dennii Bull & Ayden Kross

3M - Jack Watson and Millie Stratton

3SY - Regan Moloney, Imahni McGrady and Liam Beadle

Tuckshop Special

Monday to Friday next week: Hotdog and a Toy Drink $5.

Don’t forget that Kerrie is doing Class Birthday cakes and cupcakes for classroom celebrations and they are extremely popular with the kids

Warm Milo’s are available from the tuckshop before school .

Library News Overdue books and home readers Notice for overdue library books were included with student report cards at the end of last term. We still have a large number of students with books to return before they can commence borrowing again. We ask for your assistance in helping locate these overdue items and returning them to the library. Please contact the library if you have any concerns. CBCA Book Week Dress Up This years theme is "find your treasure". We will be celebrating Book Week this year with our dress up day on Friday the 17th August. Students can come dressed as their favourite book character or they may like to come as a pirate!! Hopefully

everyone can get their thinking caps on Book Fair will be back this term The library will host another Book Fair from the 13th~17th August. More details will be advised in a few weeks.

Goondiwindi State Primary School

Principal: Mrs Carmel Schaumburg

Deputy Principal: Mr Lew Verney

34 George Street, LMB 5,

Goondiwindi Qld 4390

Phone: 46777333 Fax: 46777300

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Our monthly P & C Meeting is NEXT MONDAY THE 23 JULY 2018 in the Library at 6pm.

All parents are invited and encouraged to attend these meetings as they are an important information session for input into our School. Meetings are

generally about an hour long. We would LOVE to see some new faces and have some fresh input.

News From Miss Colleen Page

Over the holidays, I attended the state Indigenous Education Conference in Brisbane with GSPS Principal Project Officer Karen Buckley. Together we presented our schools Culturally Inclusive Pedagogy Project to colleagues from around the state. The feedback we received from our presentation was overwhelmingly positive with many questions about how other schools could implement a project such as ours into their schools to better support their students and improve engagement. We are very proud of what we have achieved and are extremely grateful to be working alongside such an amazing group of people who are a part of our parent group, whose support is instrumental to our progress. As part of the conference, we also attended presentations from other schools and listened to keynote speakers. There are a lot of wonderful projects happening around our state to support indigenous students and it was a very worthwhile to be a part of a conference where we could share our knowledge and experience.

MacIntyre Zone Track And Field Carnival

Hosted by MacIntyre Small Schools

(Bungunya, Kioma, Kindon, Lundavra, Talwood and Yelarbon)

Friday 27th July 2018

**To ensure the carnival starts on time teams and competitors will need to be at Yelarbon State School by 8.30am.

Christmas in July Chaplaincy Dinner

28th July 2018, 6pm at the Riverview Function Centre

Tickets: Adults $30 Primary School Students $15

Tickets are available from the Goondiwindi State Primary School

office. For further enquiries please call (07) 46 777 333

YEAR 6 FINAL CAMP PAYMENT IS DUE

3 AUGUST 2018, $515.00

From The Deputy - Lew Verney

Welcome Back to Semester Two !

We are set for another busy term of learning, with many other special events along the way for everyone to participate in. This term we welcome back Ms Naomi Bailye as our District Relieving Teacher, after her time at Talwood State School. Remember our attendance target of 93% - Every Day Counts.

Indigenous Education Project –

Regional Showcase Winner !

Late in Term Two we received news that our school received a Regional Showcase Award for our Indigenous Education initiatives. This is a great achievement for our school, and is a tribute to the hard work and dedication of our staff, led by Mrs Robyn Pearcey and assisted by Regional Adviser Mrs Karen Buckley. This means we have won a Regional Showcase Award TWO YEARS IN A ROW ! Our school was further recognised by being invited to share our initiative at the State Indigenous Education Conference over the vacation, where Miss Colleen Page represented us – please read her comments in Newslink this week.

Parent-Teacher Interviews

I look forward to seeing as many parents as possible at our interviews being held next Tuesday and Wednesday. Our teachers need to speak to every parent, and will be making follow-up calls to all those parents who do not book in for an interview. Our interviews are designed to provide more information about our Semester One Report Cards, and set the scene for a productive Semester Two. If you have not yet made a booking, please return the form included with the report cards, or ring our office.

2018 School Opinion Surveys

Parents/Caregivers, school staff and Year 5/6 students are encouraged to have their say in this year’s suite of School Opinion Surveys by providing their opinions about what this school does well and how this school can improve. Each of the online surveys will open until Friday, 24 August 2018. Access details for the Parent/Caregiver Survey have been sent home with students. The survey can be completed via computers, tablets or smart phones with internet connection. Parents/caregivers are welcome to complete their survey online at the school, and school computers/tablets will be available on request at the office, and at our Parent-Teacher interviews next week. If you haven’t received any survey access details by the end of this week, please contact our office staff on telephone 46777333 or admin@goondiwindi.eq.edu.au

Lockdown Drill

This week our staff and students practised a lockdown drill. We staged the drill during break time, to measure our reaction time and identify any problem areas for improvement. This drill, along with fire drills, helps students to be aware of what to do in case of an emergency, and is designed to increase our safety measures. Some children worry when these drills occur, so I ask parents to discuss the need for them with children to ease any of their concerns. Kind regards

Lew Verney