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ARD visit
Next week our school will host Helen McColloch the acting ARD for our school. We are looking forward to sharing our key work and evidence of the writing output from students. Helen will be visiting classrooms and talking to teachers about their marker students. Helen has worked in various schools across north and central Queensland and brings a wealth of experiences to her new role. I am proud of the great work happening here at Bowen State and excited to promote all the great output of student learning.
School Fete
Next Saturday is the Bowen State School fete. We are all very excited about the opportunity to showcase our school and all it has to offer. A reminder to families that teachers are still looking for helpers/volunteers to partake in a small shift on the day. Even help for 1 hour would be amazing. Please contact your child’s teacher directly to organise assistance.
We will be practicing COVID safe requirements and each entrance we will require a scan in on smart phones/devices or collecting written details. Thank you to Olivia Gordon and the “fete team” for their hard work and dedication leading up to next Saturday. Staff have been very creative and working collaboratively to support this event. Thank you! See you at the Bowen State Fete!
New faces to the team
This term we welcome some new faces to Bowen State School. Rachel Weekes will be working three days per week as a district Relief Teacher DRT. Emily Wilder will be working every Friday on a contract for the remainder of the year. Welcome to the Bowen State team and please make these staff feel welcome as you see them around our school.
Before school concerns
A gentle reminder to families that supervision for students starts at 8am. Of late we have noted students arriving to school as early as 7:15am. Our school offers a before school care service and a wonderful safe and supportive space for families who need the extra care early each day. Please contact the office for more information and details around this service. Thank you, families, for supporting us on this concerning matter.
Looking forward to sharing more great stories around the teaching and learning this term. Until next fortnight have a great couple of weeks.
Student Code of Conduct
Last newsletter I discussed how well behaved our students are at BSS. A big contributing factor towards this success is the consistency of practice from our staff and clarity of expectations compiled in our Student Code of Conduct. Be sure to visit our Bowen State School website to find a copy of our Student Code of Conduct at the bottom of our home page. In this document you will find a comprehensive guide to our whole school approach to teaching behavioural expectations and policies ensuring our school’s commitment to providing a disciplined learning environment for our students.
Jeremy Callaghan
Deputy PrincipalPM
In Prep M we recently celebrated our 100th day of School. We spent the day exploring different ways to count 100 objects and comparing different collections of 100.
2M/G
The students in 2MG have just started to learn about arrays, making equal groups and writing a matching number sentence. In these photos the students were making an array to match the number sentence 5 x 4.
3C
This week 3C has been working hard in Maths to create a multiplication game for their assessment task. Students had to use different representations of multiplication to create their game.
4a/m
A class blog has been set up on the Education Queensland platform, Learning Place for the Year 4’s who are currently read the quest novel, Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda. Year 4 A/M students are loving the opportunity to share their opinions about Rowan the central character and his behaviour, thoughts, actions and feelings. Blog comments also aim to explain how the author builds plot tension It is very exciting to see how engaged the students in writing and discussing their opinions of the book. They will do this four times throughout the term.
5H
The Olympics are on everyone’s minds and television, it’s a great time to host a mini-Olympic Games at our school. Students had chosen a country to represent and has taken part in learning about their country, making flags and signs. In the afternoons year 5H has taken part in different variety of games and has been competing against the other year 5 classes as well as the year 6 students. These games allow all students to have fun and feel successful. The students have learned the most important thing in the Olympic Games is not always about winning but to take part.