Term 1 - 2023 Week 7 Newsletter

Principal's Message with Mr Ionn

In 2023, we will continue to build our professional expertise on gaining educational achievement, wellbeing and engagement, and culture and inclusion as pillars of our commitment to equity and excellence.

Equity isn't just a nice-to-have, it's a must-have. It is critical to understand the difference between equity and equality.

With equity in mind, staff celebrated International Women’s Day. While International Women's Day occurs on one day, we are committed to maintain a deep and continuous focus on equity, diversity and inclusion all year round. Through the process of equity, we can reach equality.

NAPLAN

This week, Year 3 and 5 students had a practice on the NAPLAN test online. It was a pleasure to be involved in both practice days. The practice test, known as the Omnibus Training Test, allowed students to experience what the NAPLAN test looks and sounds like in preparation for next week’s real testing. The students and staff did a fantastic job familiarising themselves with the test, the format and how to manipulate the online tools used in the numeracy section – the magic ruler!

I had to include a photo of Darcy, one of our beloved therapy dogs illustrating how relaxed students need to be doing NAPLAN. We’ve delivered a very calm message of just doing your very best by showing what you know and can do. I am confident that our Year 3 and 5 Warriors will do their very best starting next week when they complete the Conventions of Language, Writing, Reading and Numeracy tests. Just relax like Darcy!

Parent Teacher Interviews

Parent Teacher Interviews will be taking place on Wednesday 15 March in the Auditorium. Please take this wonderful opportunity to talk with your child’s teacher about their learning and progress over the course of this term.

At this interview, teachers will focus on your child’s progress so far and the next steps for improvement. They will reference essential elements about your child’s learning behaviours as well as inform you about their achievement this term. The ultimate aim is to galvanise a strong three-way partnership for the remainder of the year. Please see the item in this newsletter with how to lock in your time via the online booking procedure.

Parent Teacher Interviews

Term 1 Parent Teacher Interviews will be held on Wednesday 15 March in the Auditorium. Please use this SOBS link to book your spot/s! https://eq.sobs.com.au/pt3/parent.php?schoolid=70389

Wondall Road Challenge

Congratulations to our nominated students who represtened Wynnum SS at the Wondall Rd Challenge on Friday 10 March. Overall we placed 3rd against other local schools. Thank you to Mr Haydn Blair and Mrs Shannon Cousins for their organisation and supervision on the day.  A very special thanks to Iona College for the use of there College bus. Here is some snapshots of our Wynnum Warriors, well done!

Teaching and Learning with Ms O'Donoghue (Head of Curriculum)

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

BOOK SWAP is still here!!  We have placed a bookshelf near the office as you enter the school.  These books are available for all students to choose from.  Please feel free to take a book or two for home and return it to the book swap when you have read it. If it becomes a family favourite you can keep the book.

If you have any books at home that you would like to donate, there will be a container available for you to do so.

Please place your returned books in this container as well.

How to choose a book?  Let your child find a book they are interested in.  It may be a book they can read themselves or one that you can read to them.  Sometimes it will be a book they are interested in just to look at the pictures.

Happy reading to you all.

What are Sight Words?

Sight word is a term used to describe words we know automatically when we look at them. Although some words may follow phonetic patterns, some are known as “tricky words” since parts of the word are irregular.

When our students are reading and we come across a sight word, we use the sounds we know and tell them the tricky part.  For example, in ‘the’, the sound we know is ‘th’ and the tricky part is the ‘e’ which has an irregular sound.

NAPLAN 2023

P-2 Science & Technology with Mrs Crowe

Prep scientists were actively engaged in real life investigations about the needs of plants. Persistence and Problem Solving was needed to remove the weeds in the garden plot to create space, dig in hard soil to loosen it ready for planting, and place mulch for feeding their new plants. This process, and the final watering, was taken very seriously! All were very proud of their plantings of strawberry, tomato, basil and lettuce. Look at the dedication displayed in the facial expressions of our young botanists in these photos!

Did you know that the unique features of a living thing are adapted to its habitat for survival? This has been happening for millions of years. Dinosaurs fossils are evidence of this. Many plants in our modern-day environments, such as ferns and cycads, have been part of these habitats on our earth from the times of the dinosaur too!

Our Year One Palaeontologists have been investigating the habitats of herbivores by using magnifying glasses to investigate actual fossil ferns, and recording their own diagrams of ferns from our school gardens. They also created models of their chosen dinosaur displaying adaptive features (carnivore or herbivore teeth, claws, spikes, body size). Look at the amazing representations and the expressions of Wonderment and Awe in these photos!

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World Science Festival Brisbane will be here from 22^nd March- 2^nd April. So many fantastic science events (free and ticketed) to be explored in our own city. Click the link below to see this year’s events and plan your family science adventure!

https://www.worldsciencefestival.com.au/

World Frog Day, Monday 20^th March, happens during the same week. Remind your child to ‘jump’ in to explore the special display outside the P-2 Science Lab to ‘focus on frogs’!

Does your child need medication during school hours?

If your child needs to take medication at school, please provide the office staff with: 

• a completed and signed Consent to administer medication form;  
• the medication in its original container; and  
• medical authorisation (e.g. the pharmacy label, or a letter from the doctor, or a completed and signed health action plan).  

For further information, please refer to the Information for parents/carers and health practitioners. 

Sports Report with Mr Blair (PE Teacher)

Sports Report with Mr. Blair

Last Friday the 3^rd of March Wynnum had our cross country races for years 3 through 6. All students did very well under a sunny, blue sky and earned points for their houses with gusto. We will now congratulate the following students by including their name in the school newsletter and by the time this is published, they will have been presented with their medal if they came first, and ribbon if they came second or third in their year level. 

Congratulations to all of our speedsters. From the times of students races I will construct a district cross country team and training sessions will be announced in the coming weeks in preparation for the bayside district event.

In swimming news, the following students were selected to represent the school at the annual schools with pools challenge at Moreton Bay Girls College this Friday.

We have had some students achieve some success at the district sports level. Rory M was recently selected for bayside district Golf. Angelo L was selected for 12-year-old rugby league.  Qwaden T was selected in 10-12 years touch football. Congratulations to these students.

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QParents

Electronic Permission’s is coming to Wynnum SS through QParents!

Wynnum SS is rolling out Incursion (on site activity), Excursions (offsite activity) and Online services (digital/apps) consent forms to be completed via QParents App. This means no more paper copies and no more lost forms in the bottom of the school bag! Please make sure you have registered for QParents and downloaded the app as soon as possible.  Please email the office at admin@wynnumss.eq.edu.au if you need assistance or the QParents link resent.

School Facebook Page

Wynnum SS has launched our own Facebook page! 

It would be benefical if we could get as many of our Wynnum Warrior families as possible onto this online social media and social networking service. We are excited to be able to deliver instant updates and important information about upcoming school events. 

  Please visit the page via this link https://www.facebook.com/WynnumStateSchool  and click Like!

Absentee Line

To notify the school of your child's absence please text your childs name and reason for absence to 0429 467 361.

School Bus Services

Just a reminder that we have a bus service that runs from Wynnum State School. Below is a link to both services.

https://jp.translink.com.au/plan-your-journey/timetables/bus/T/815

https://jp.translink.com.au/plan-your-journey/timetables/bus/t/819/outbound/2022-05-31

A Go Card will need to be purchased to be able to utilise this Translink bus service. The following link lists retail outlets of where to purchase a Go card https://translink.com.au/tickets-and-fares/go-card/locations 

2023 School Term Dates

QSchools App

Don't forget to download the QSchools App to your Iphone or Android device.  The QSchools App is another great way for Wynnum State School families to receive and read our fortnightly school newsletter and also receive important notifications regarding school events.  Simply download to your phone and 'star' Wynnum State School as your 'favourite' school.  

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