18 March 2022

Newsletter Articles

WHAT: Literacy- Greater than 75% of students will achieve a C standard in English.

HOW: Positive Relationships and High Expectations

WHY: Literacy is the key to a life of choice not chance

Principal’s News

Hi ELSS community,

There is a great energy in and around the school for learning. It is wonderful to have parents back onsite and engaging with staff. Our students are growing their strategies to be a learner. Families are sharing their child/ren learning journey and the great work by their teachers. Let’s continue our journey at Partners in Learning.

The ELSS Annual Improvement Plan and Investing for Success continues to focus on improving literacy for ALL students. At the beginning of 2022, we took the time to celebrate our work in high impact strategies that reflected growth in our students English Level of Achievement. Our target for Semester 1, 2022 is to sustain 75% of students achieving A-C English. Our recent NAPLAN results confirmed our academic growth by closing the gap by 50% for ELSS and the National average. Well done everyone.

Friday is Bullying NO WAY day across Australia. My message is clear that every day at ELSS is Bullying No Way day. It is a time to reflect on our daily focus to teach the correct behaviour we want to see at ELSS. Our school is very active to address student safety/Bullying. I am proud of our processes and systems in place for students at ELSS, some of these include-

• Teach safe and respect every day in classrooms under positive behaviour for learning (PBL).
• Learn Talk, Walk. Report for incidents.
• Police visits to discuss bullying, cyper bullying and sexual conduct.
• Year level discussion on behaviour.
• Daily code of conduct instruction and enforcement by 80 staff. See link https://edenslandingss.eq.edu.au/supportandresources/formsanddocuments/documents/elss-student-code-of-conduct-2020-2023.pdf
• Daily social skilling to students for correct behaviour
• Investigation, consequences and reteach for all reported incidents
• Daily Chappy small groups for personal safety
• Daily Guidance officer for reported incidents and support
• Supervision throughout the day for student support and reporting of incidents
• Daily Support teachers delivering social skilling
• Admin walk throughs to correct behaviour
• Delivery of the Australian Curriculum that includes Health unit directly addressing sexual behaviours and protective behaviours, along with social and emotional learning.
• Daily celebration and rewarding of safe behaviours
• Work with adopt a cop for positive behaviour and reported incidents.
• Visual reminders in all classrooms and throughout the school.

Our practices have just been celebrated across the state with ELSS a 2022 PBL demonstration school.

Schools will always have incidents as this is where students learn. Parents as their child’s first teacher is where these behaviours are first taught. When we work together as outlined in the community code of conduct, we absolutely make a difference.

Updates

At ELSS we have an attendance and punctuality policy that aligns with Education Queensland’s state-wide initiative ‘Every Day Counts’. We are committed to ensuring a 95% attendance rate for all students. Be reminded learning starts at 8.50am every day. Look out for more 95&0 pizza disco parties!!

School uniform policy- White socks and Black Shoes. Part of the reason for high expectation in student uniform is- Safety, cost, confidence, school spirit, saves time, reduce distraction, encourages discipline and high school ready.

We continue to be on high alert that coronavirus has been and is circulating within our broader community. We acknowledge and thank many families doing the right thing in getting tested and isolating if positive. The school has a supply of RATs to be sent home with students who are referred to sick bay with symptoms. Testing and isolating if positive is helping to reduce the spread of the virus at school.

Thank you for testing and isolating if positive or close contact. This is important at this time.

We value your input, I look forward to seeing you at Parent Teacher interviews and remember please reach out to the school as partners in learning.

Yours in Education

Clint Curran
Principal

Deputy Principal’s News

Student Council Fundraiser

A huge THANK YOU to the familes and staff members who have very generously donated chocolates and Easter Eggs towards the prizes for our annual Easter Raffle. We already have a large number of prizes generously donated!

Tickets can be pruchased from Mrs. Blair and Mrs. Bright and Student Council Members, every Wednesday 2nd break starting on 15 March in the Middle Hall and outside the tuck-shop at 8:30am on Friday mornings. Raffle tickets will cost $1 per ticket, 6 tickets for $5 and 12 tickets for $10.

The raffle will be drawn on Wednesday the 30th March so winners can collect their prizes before the holiday break.

A huge thank you to the many families who showed their support for our “Say no to Bullying” day by wearing orange. This is a very important message which our school delivers throughout the year.

Pinworm cases at school

Please note that there have been several cases of Pinworm reported by families at our school. If you suspect your child has contracted pin worm, please seek medical advice. You can get rid of pinworms with the help of medications and household cleaning strategies. Since pinworms pass so easily from one person to another, everyone living in the household of an infected person usually needs treatment at the same time to prevent reinfection. Caregivers and others who have close, personal contact with the individual should also receive treatment.

TERM 1 ASSESSMENTS

At the end of each term, teachers assess how students are going so they can plan ahead for the following term. Please find a brief overview of the assessments Year 3-6 students will be undertaking in the following weeks of Term 1 and the assessments across the school for our specialist team.

YEAR 3 Term 1 assessment overview

English: Students are writing their own narrative event based on a picture they view in class. Students are assessed on their language choices and structure of their sentences as well as the composition of their story. Their writing needs to contain:

1. A narrative structure (orientation, complication, series of events and resolution)
2. Needs to include interesting choices of noun groups and verb groups to captivate the reading audience
3. Some characters who work together to solve the problem.

How you can help at home:

Ask your child to write a sentence and then see if they can add any more describing words to it:

1. What colour was the …?
2. How was it moving?
3. Can you tell me more about this.
4. How do you write a sentence? What do you need at the beginning of this sentence?
5. What happened after that?

MATHEMATICS: Teachers have been observing how students understand numbers from 1 to 1,000 and how length is measured. Students will also show their understanding on a written test at the end of term.

If you want to help at home, you can as your child to show numbers in a variety of ways:

• Writing them in word form
• Showing the number using concrete material and drawing representations of numbers
• Saying if the number is odd or if it is even
• Writing out the number in terms of hundreds, tens, and ones.

SCIENCE: Students have been learning about living and non-living things along with how animals are classified. Students will have a written assessment task at the end of term to demonstrate their understanding of these concepts.

HASS: After investigating the democratic process, students have a short-written test to discuss why we have rules and how they are important in many situations.

YEAR 4 Term 1 assessment overview

English: After spending the term reading ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl and investigating how to use story maps to sequence events in a narrative story, students will create their own chapter to add to the book. Students will use our class Bump It Up Wall and English learning wall to help guide them during their assessment writing.

Ways to help from home:

1. Ask your child to write sentences to describe something they have seen, heard, tasted or felt.
2. Encourage and model for your child how to use descriptive words to help build a picture in your mind.

Mathematics: Student will be assessed during Mathematics rotations and via written test to see how they are going in their understanding of place value, odd and even numbers, multiplication and division facts, fractions, measurement (mass) and symmetry. Students have been engaging in daily mathematical warm ups to help solidify their learning and put their skills into context.

Students who apply their knowledge in real world situations are more likely to retain and extend their understanding. Some suggestions to help from home are:

1. Counting items at home and discussing numbers (e.g. is this an odd or an even number? If I add another 100 to this number what will the new number be? If I take 10 away what will the new number be?)
2. Practising times tables in the car on the way to or home from school
3. Using fractions in the kitchen: measuring cups to follow a recipe or cutting fruit into fractions

YEAR 5 Term 1 assessment overview

English: This term assessment consists of a written narrative that demonstrates the 5-paragraph structure studied this term as well as the appropriate language features, grammar, spelling and punctuation for year 5. In addition, we will be assessing students' decoding and comprehension skills.

Mathematics: With our major focus on number this term, students are being assessed on their knowledge and understanding of place value, addition and subtraction strategies and fractions. We are also assessing progress on their knowledge of 2D shape and symmetry.

Science: The students have studied plant and animal adaptations this term. They will be showing their understanding of this concept by creating an environment and inventing a new creature with adaptations that will help it survive there. They will be required to explain the structural and behavioural adaptations that their creature has, and how these will suit the environment. Higher-level responses will include scientific language and detailed explanations.

HASS: Our unit on the Australian Gold Rush will be assessed by a folio of activities showing understanding of each aspect of the Gold Rush. At the end of the unit, students will choose one aspect and work with a group to present their findings of how this aspect contributed to a changing Australia.

YEAR 6 Term 1 assessment overview

English: Reading- Students will read a text and then answer a range of QAR comprehension questions about the text. Writing- Students will use a stimulus prompt to write an imaginative and entertaining short story about an emergency. They will also create a multimodal picture book of the story they have written.

Mathematics: Students are being assessed across the term on prime and composite numbers, fractions and decimals, conversions between metric units, cartesian planes, angles on a straight line and on a point and completing calculations involving the four operations and time.

Science: Students have created an experiment and made observations to decide which is the best environment to store bread to avoid mould growth. Students will be assessed on the data they collect and the conclusions they reach using the data.

There is no summative assessment in HASS this term, as students being assessed on the creation of an Australian Federation Pop-Up Museum in Term 2. Students are busily researching and making artefacts for their display and students are really enjoying this “High School” style of learning.

HPE Term 1 assessment overview

Prep: Students will be assessed on their gross motor skills and how they apply them to solve movement challenges.

Year 1 and 2: Students will perform a range of fundamental athletic movement sequences such as long jump, high jump, shot put and running.

Years 3 and 4: Students will perform athletic sequences using fundamental movement skills and elements of movement, to perform high jump, long jump, shot put and running.

Years 5 and 6: Students will perform specialized movement skills and combine movement concepts and strategies to perform in long jump, high jump, shot put and running.

Arts Term 1 assessment overview

Year 1: Students will create a painting using primary and secondary colours. They will then describe their artwork to the class using the language of visual art (primary colours, secondary colours, warm and cool colours, painting subject)

Year 2: Students devise, rehearse, perform and respond to drama using a picture book as a stimulus. They use expression in their voice and facial expression to communicate how their character is feeling. Students must stay in their role throughout the performance.

Year 3: Students design and create an imaginary creature with clay using the clay techniques learnt during the term (pinch, coil, slab and how to join pieces of clay together successfully). Students decide how they would display their artwork and compare the similarities and differences between 2 pieces of artwork using the language of art (line, shape, texture)

Year 4: Students explore media artworks to inform the making of a television style advertisement. They then plan and create an advertisement in groups to persuade a targeted audience to attend a school event. Students compare commercials and identify persuasive techniques used in advertisements and why they are persuasive referring to images, sound, text and music.

JAPANESE Term 1 assessment overview

Year 5 and 6 are working towards their end of semester assessment tasks. Mrs. Sanderson is making observations and giving feedback to ensure she knows the next steps for each student being successful.

Music Term 1 assessment overview:

Prep: This term’s Prep Music assessment task will require students to demonstrate their developing aural and performance skills by keeping in time for short intervals, with teacher support when they sing and play a familiar song.

Prep

Technology Term 1 assessment overview:

Pre: Students will design and make a house for a teddy bear. They will identify materials and their properties to make sure they are acceptable for a roof of a house. Students will make a variety of houses with different properties for the roof. They will orally tell how well their design was for their house. Students will draw and label their house on Book Creator using photo as a prompt.

Year 1: Students will design and label a garden to suit the needs of plants. They will evaluate their ideas, information and solutions on the basis of personal preferences and illustrate their understanding of the needs and uses of the plants they choose in their garden. The children will draw a 2D version of their garden in Explain Basics with labels.

Year 2: Students will design a simple coding game and code their avatar. So, their avatar is able to deliver food to a variety of houses.

Year 3: Students will code an Edison robot to navigate a maze they have designed using blocks, to deliver important RAT tests to people suspected of having the corona virus and return to start.

Year 4: Students will collect and manipulate data to create information. They will describe how a familiar information system is used. Then draw, identify and explain data types and representations.

Year 5: Students will create a maze game using the skills of defining, designing, implementing using visual programming, managing and evaluating.

Year 6: Students will explain how information systems meet local and community needs. They will represent a variety of data types in digital systems. Then design and create an interactive spreadsheet and share information ethically.

Yours in education
Cheryl Gibson
Deputy Principal

cgibs2@eq.edu.au

Deputy Principal’s News

It’s wonderful to see parents on campus again, finally getting to see their teachers and classrooms. The children are finally getting into the swing of school and soaring high in their learning.

This week the Prep, year 1 and year 2 teachers continued their own learning in the explicit teaching of reading through the modelling of lessons from a consultant. The students and teachers have expressed how much they enjoyed the opportunity of someone demonstrating a range of skills and ideas to engage our young ones in learning.

Over the next few weeks the children will be completing their assessment tasks in English and Mathematics. The teachers are guiding them to do their very best through these activities. I cannot stress enough how important it is for children to be at school ON TIME every day – unless they are unwell. Having a day off to celebrate a birthday is not a reasonable explanation for missing a day of school.

Playgrounds before and after school.

The playgrounds are not to be used by students or siblings without direct staff supervision. This is for the safety of all children. Please do not let your little ones on the equipment while waiting for the school day to start or finish.

Fine motor skills

In order to do handwriting children need to develop their fine motor skills.

“Fine motor skills are made up of various motor components. These sub-areas impact mobility, tool use, manipulation of objects, strength, and endurance. These examples of fine motor skills are needed for everyday tasks like cutting with scissors, tying shoes, fastening buttons and zippers, colouring, and holding a pencil.”

For ideas to assist your child at home The Toolbox website has some simple fun activities.

From the classrooms – This term’s assessment tasks

Prep

English – Students are using their letter sound knowledge and comprehension skills to retell a story.
Maths – Students are using their skills to sort objects into different groups and learning to link numbers with quantities and number names.
Science – Students are experimenting with materials to test their properties.

Year 1

In English this term, students will be writing a recount about a familiar event. Students will need to include an orientation outlining when the event occurred, who was involved and what happened. They will also need to make a personal connection to the event. To further extend their understanding of recounts the students can use time connectives (first, then, last) to sequence the events. Specific skills that the students will be demonstrating is their use of boundary punctuation (capital letters and full stops), spelling tricky words and words with familiar spelling patterns. Students will have the opportunity to display their understanding of simple and compound sentences and using adjectives and adverbs to provide more information.

In Maths this term, students will have the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding and recognition of teen numbers through modelling using concrete materials, writing, ordering numbers to 20, locating numbers on a number line and partitioning numbers using place value. Students will describe number sequences resulting from skip counting by twos, fives and tens to and from 20. They will demonstrate their understanding of addition by carrying out simple addition operations using counting strategies. Students will be involved in recognising, continuing and creating simple growing patterns using numbers and objects. They will show their understanding of chance concepts by classifying the outcomes of simple familiar events using the terms “will happen”, “won’t happen” and “might happen”.

In Science this term, students will have the opportunity to make a boat that floats. They will be involved in describing the effects of physically changing a material to make a boat that floats. Students will make predictions, participate in guided investigation and share observations with others.

In HaSS this term, students will be involved in comparing family life now and in the past and explain how life has changed over time. They will identify and describe important dates and changes in their own lives as well as sequence personal and family events Students will explain how some aspects of daily life have changed over time while others have remained the same. They will have the opportunity to respond to questions about family life in the past by interpreting information from sources provided and share stories about the past.

Assessment Blurb – Term 1 – Year 2

English –

Children will read two texts that both have a frog as its central character. The children will then go through a series of steps to work towards comparing the two stories and then expressing a preference for their favourite frog character, and their reasons why, both in written and spoken format.

Math –

Written and oral assessments of –

• Number Patterns
  eg. 85, 80, 75, ___, ___, ___ Rule – (Decreasing by 5’s)

• Representing Numbers
  eg.

• Write number sentences about a given tens frame.
  eg. Four red counters and six yellow counters makes ten counters all together.
• Location – Interpreting Maps – Children will use a map to answer questions.eg. Describe the location of the cinema referring to at least two other buildings.

• Length using informal units – Children will choose a suitable informal unit to accurately measure the length of some objects

Science –

The children will investigate the combination of materials used to make playdough. They will record and represent their observations and communicate their ideas clearly. We will be looking for use of scientific language. In particular words that describe the properties of materials. eg. hard, flexible, transparent, rigid, powdery etc.

HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Children will complete a collection of work to show their understanding of people and their reasons for connection to places.

Anthea Grant
Deputy Principal

PBL News

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING (PBL) AT ELSS

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) is a whole-school framework used in our school to promote positive behaviour. PBL helps us to develop a safe and supportive learning environment, build positive relationships and improve student learning outcomes.

Our school community has worked together to establish simple, clear and explicit expectations for behaviour. Student behaviour improves when students know what is expected of them and when good behaviour is recognised.

Our school takes a proactive, preventative approach, ensuring that all students receive the appropriate level of support to help them to succeed. Our PBL team constantly works to ensure that all students benefit and identified students receive additional support when needed.

Find out more about PBL in this video.

Go for Gold Day

Students are working hard to achieve enough tokens to attend ‘Go for Gold Day’ which is our rewards day at the end of each term. With so much on offer it is sure to be an amazing day.

Edens Landing State School has CC (Captain Courageous) as our mascot. He helps to remind students of our expectations.

Week 9 & 10 Term 1:

Edens Landing is a PBL School. This means that we explicitly teach students about the behaviour we want to see repeated. The rules are explained on assembly each Friday and teachers follow up with lessons and activities in class.

Week 9: Staff will be explicitly teaching eating time expectations.

Week 10: I am safe when I use Talk, Walk, report to resolve problems. This week we will be revisiting the messages deliverd during our say no to bullying day, teaching students strategies to deal with conflict.

Office News

Parent Debtor Statements will be emailed to parents on 1st April 2022 for outstanding student invoices not paid. Please email the office for any queries office@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

School Photos- 23rd & 24th March

Payment Window open Eftpos only 8.30am-10.30am Wednesdays and Fridays

Report Student Absences

Text message your childs absence to 0429 904 926

Text first and last name of your child, date, duration and reason of absence.

to leave a message. Alternatively you may also use the absence email - absences@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au. Please record your child's name, class, date of absence/s and reason for absence.

Late Arrivals

Students who arrive to school after 8.50am must report to the office windows for a late slip prior to going to class.

Change of Details

Please email the school on office@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au stating your child’s name and class to confirm your email address and if applicable advise of any contact details that may have changed, to ensure we are able to contact you in an emergency.

Thank you for your continued support

Tuckshop News

NEW PHONE NUMBER FOR TUCKSHOP

The tuckshop has a new phone number - 0482 175 646. Please update your contact details for the tuckshop to include the new number. The old number has been disconnected and no longer in use.

We are excited to again be offering Hot Cross buns for Second break up until the Easter Holidays. They will be available on Flexischools, so hop to it and get your order in.

We will also be adding Gingerbread Students to our snack menu.

Children absent from school

If you have ordered tuckshop for your child and they are not attending school on that day, PLEASE call the tuckshop DIRECTLY on 0482 175 646 by 8.30 am to have their order cancelled. PLEASE DO NOT contact the office staff to ask them to pass on a message to the tuckshop. PLEASE DO NOT leave a message on the absentee line/email that you want tuckshop cancelled. If you do not contact the TUCKSHOP by 8.30 am your order will stand and will not be cancelled.

If your child’s order has been cancelled you will have to reorder when you want them to have tuckshop, there is no ability to hold over orders.

Birthday Buckets

The Tuckshop offers Birthday Buckets for $16. Your child will receive a Quelch Fruit Ice Stick for every child in their class (plus one for the Teacher/Aide) and they will also receive a balloon to take home. When ordering please allow one weeks’ notice to be assured that the ice blocks are available and frozen. If you order the morning or day before, the ice blocks may not be in stock or frozen, that is why a weeks’ notice is needed. Click on ‘LOAD MORE DATES’ to find the date and day the following week that you want the Bucket. Please contact the Tuckshop (0482 175 646) on the day you have ordered the Birthday Bucket to confirm the child is at school. The Birthday Buckets can be found in the First Break option in Flexischools. Any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

If you have not signed up for Flexischools or need help registering please pop up to the tuckshop on either a Tuesday or Thursday morning between 8:30 am – 9:00 am for us to help you set Flexischools up or email the tuckshop at tuckshop@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au or message the P&C Facebook page:

Any information about tuckshop will be posted on our Facebook page and or sent via the Flexischools App.

Annette Honnery
Tuckshop Convenor
0482 175 646

Uniform News

Uniform Shop is open Tuesday and Thursday 8:30 am - 9:30 am.Eftpos only.

Delivery of orders to classrooms has ceased, orders must be collected from the uniform shop or parents can arrange to have the order collected from the office.

When coming into the Uniform Shop please follow all the schools Covid Safe plan as stated in the newsletter also on their official Facebook page.

Make sure you like our P&C Association Facebook Page for any updates as we post on there a lot about what is going on and it is also a platform for communication with the P&C.

Any questions please message our Facebook Page or Email the Uniform Shop, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Email: uniform_shop@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

Flexischools:

Getting online is easy and only takes a few minutes to register. Simply go to the link below and click “Register”. You will be sent an email with further instructions on how to complete the registration. Once registered, you can start placing orders immediately.

If you have any questions, Flexischools provide a great help desk on 1300 361 769 (unavailable at the moment so please email them), or you can contact them via their website. There is a variety of payment options supported, including Visa, MasterCard (credit and debit) and Bank Transfer. The system operates via a pre-paid account.

Flexischools has a cut off time of:

Monday 4:00 pm for Tuesday orders each week,
and
Wednesday 4:00 pm for Thursday orders each week.

Any other questions can be emailed to the Uniform Shop and will be answered as soon as possible. uniform_shop@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au

*If you have any uniforms your children have outgrown but that are still in good condition.

You can donate them to the Uniform Shop, we need items so families can still feel like they are purchasing a uniform and not missing out.

Outside School HOURS CARE- OSHC

If your child is attending an extra curricular activity you will need to sign a YMCA permission form.

VACATION CARE PROGRAM IS OUT!

Please book via the app or alternatively email the service.

Absences

Please ensure you email, text or call the service if your child will be absent for after school care.

My Family Lounge app

NEW ENROLMENTS

To enrol your child please email the service ael@ymcabrisbane.org

Or follow the OSHC links to register on the YMCA Website:

Information for Families

Family and Child Connect – 13 32 64 or visit the link below:

If you feel that you’ve lost your way or been side-tracked, Family and Child Connect can give you a hand to get back on track.

Important Messages

Reminder to parents and families regarding parking.

Parking is not permitted in the top administration staff car park or in the School Staff car park at any time.

Outside School HOURS CARE- OSHC

Opening times:

Monday to Friday
Before school: 6am – 9am
After school: 2.30pm -6pm

Pay as little as $3.50 per session after ccs

YMCA Edens Landing OSHC

P: 07 3805 1233
M: 0459 899 887

ael@ymcabrisbane.org

Important Dates to Remember

Contact Details

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Phone 3826 0333 or Email office@edenslandingss.eq.edu.au