Fancy Dress Dance Performance Success

Can I thank our amazing teachers Mrs Conway and Mr Dunn for their significant hard work and long hours to prepare such an amazing evening of entertainment on Thursday night. The Fancy Dress/Dance Performance is a tradition at our school that has been occurring for generations. This year, we split the evening to accommodate for the significant growth in our school. A credit to Leigh for his setting out and amazing light show for our families. Our hard-working P&C keep the food coming to our families and were flat out during the evening. We received lots of positive feedback from families around the changes which enabled us to just fit and enjoy seeing our students perform. I appreciate the financial support from families and look forward to the next major fundraising event of the year being the Colour Run next term. Thank you again for all families, staff and students for supporting this great event this year.

Don River Dash Buggies

Last week celebrated the local talent of families and students who are revving up for this years Don River Dash. We hosted Tom & Sally Jack who are BSS Family who are racing this year, students got to check out their cool buggy and meet some sponsors from the community. The excitement continues with a group of buggies coming next Thursday for viewing at 8am in the upper school parade area. Please see our Facebook page for more details.

Last Few Weeks of the Term

As we approach the last few weeks of term, can I remind parents of the importance to monitor and support the wellbeing of your children. Research says we can counteract fatigue with lots of sleep, healthy breakfast, a good lunch and drinking water are important for a good start to a school day. Check ins are important and we are here ready to help when challenges arise. Teachers are keeping the high expectations around the teaching and learning right up to the last day of this term which also supports the regular routines and work output. We ask our families to keep up to date with the class and whole school activities occurring during Week 9 & 10 so changes are discussed as a family and everyone is aware. Check out our Facebook posts and check in with classroom teachers for the weekly events occurring.

Christien Payne
Principal

We have recently completed our measurement assessments. We measured the length of some straws and the capacity of some containers. We had to remember not to have any gaps or overlaps when measuring our straws with unifix blocks. We also had to remember no spills or overfills when we were measuring the capacity of our containers with rice. We were pretty accurate. Here are some of photos of  our accurate measuring.

This term 2I have been busy in math with exploring multiplication and division. 

We have been making groups of and drawing arrays.  We are also learning to write the number sentence.  Our number sentence needs to match our array – the first number tells us how many rows and the second number tells us how many in each row.

We are also learning to share.  We are learning to share so we can find half, quarter and an eighth of collections.  Some of us have even learned the number sentence we use when we share! 

6S students have been focusing on being more independent in recognizing and regulating their own ‘Zones of Regulation’; they are developing their own ‘go-to’ strategies to move their emotions into the ideal ‘green zone’ for optimum learning. To assist this focus, each day students are setting their own personal learning goal/s and are tracking their progress each session.

On Tuesday afternoon, all year 6 students enjoyed a transition information session run by Bowen State High School teachers, which gave them some insight into what to expect next year.

Don’t throw out anything- recycle by donating any unwanted clothing, shoes and other accessories to our drama department. The students are always keen to dress up for their drama performances, so I would really love to build up our resources.

Shirts, trousers, hats, jackets, shawls, shoes, jewellery, wigs, belts, ties and unwanted costumes from Book Week or Fancy Dress. All donations will be gratefully received.

We appreciate your support.

Thank you.

Allison Conway
Performing Arts Teacher

We are celebrating Child Protection week this week.  Child Protection is everyone’s business.  This week our Student Support Team [SST] made up by Wellbeing Psychologist Phoebe Rattray, Chappy Sandy Burman, Guidance Officer Danielle Upkett, Community Education Counsellor – Karenne Williams and Whitsunday Counselling Counsellor Ayla Wright are working on hands …. Students identify 5 safe people.  We will check in a talk over a whole school pancake breakfast. 

Guidance Officer News

At Bowen State School we partner with PCYC and community members to provide a program where students are pushed to personally learn new skills in alternate environments.  We also set group goals to achieve collaboratively.  This group of girls are becoming more mindful, having strong acceptance and forging forward as young leaders. 

Megan Mattingley, Sergeant Michelle O’Reagan, GO professional experience Sue Thompson and GO Danielle Upkett have been participating in a range of mindfulness activities, STOP, THINK … then DO.  This week we have continued our journaling and participated in acro yoga. 

The Department of Education provides early childhood development programs (ECDPs) and services to support children aged 0-5 years with significant educational support needs arising from a diagnosed or suspected disability in the categories of:

•  intellectual disability
• autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
• physical impairment  vision impairment
• hearing impairment
• speech-language impairment.