AMIENS UPDATE – Term 1
(Week 9 - 22nd March, 2016)
Hello everyone,
From the Principal
This week’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) news
Amiens State School is an excited announcement that all our staff have nominated
for Digital Technologies workshops in Term 2. The topics cover Programming with
Lego Mindstorm and show that anyone can learn the basics. Another topic is
programming using Scratch. Many thanks to Stanthorpe State High School for
hosting these events.
School Watch over the holidays
With the holidays fast approaching, we need you support the
continued security of our school. If you see anything suspicious,
please remember to call the School Watch number – 13 17 88.
The School Watch Program is a partnership between Education
Queensland, the Queensland Police Service and the State
Government Protective Security Service. It aims to reduce
vandalism, theft and arson in Queensland schools.
If you do see something suspicious, please don’t attempt to intervene. Call the
School Watch number and let the local police or State Government Protective
Security Service deal with the matter.
Keep the number handy – 13 17 88 – and let’s work together to help create a safer
school community.
If you would like to know more about the School Watch Program, please call
Education Queensland's School Security Section on (07) 3237 0874.
Term 1 ends with a bang for our students with Thursday being a busy farewell to
the Term. Our wonderful P&C are hosting a special Easter morning tea, for a gold
coin donation, at 11am. I know the staff are excited! Following this there will be the
traditional Easter Hat Parade, with students already designing their creations. The
ever-popular Easter Egg Hunt will follow the Parade. Parents are welcomed to all
activities! Parents if you are seeking any early get away for the Easter break,
children will be available as there will be no classroom activities in the afternoon
session.
Many thanks to all parents and carers who have attended Parent/Teacher
interviews over the past 2 weeks. It is a remarkable indicator of our community’s
commitment to the education of our children.
On a sad note, we wish Mr John Tapscott goodbye from his active role as
Chaplain at our school. He is spending more time at home, but we expect to see
him around our school in his capacity as a Grand Dad. Thank you very much for
your long and worthy contribution to our school
At the end of the Term, I’d like to thank our magnificent and dedicated staff for a
great term. Their commitment to teaching and this school is shown in our
classrooms and playgrounds every day of the term.
Have a Happy and Safe Easter Break.
Dale
Dad looking for work
We have a family new to the Amiens Community and Dad is looking for work. If
anyone has a position available or knows of someone who is considering hiring staff,
could you please advise the school office and we will pass the information on.
Student Banking
Student banking is every TUESDAY. Parents, could you please remind your child/
children to bring their banking books up to the office when they arrive at school.
Flu Vaccinations at Amiens State School
The flu vaccination program is being made available to Amiens State School staff
again this year. The travelling vaccinator will be in our area between 18 th April and
25th May. Our date will be confirmed by 24th March.
For our staff, we will be requesting the Quadrivalent Vaccine (QIV) which contains
protection against 4 strains.
If members of the community, including P&C and partners of staff, wish to be
included, please let the school know as soon as possible so that we can provide final
numbers to Medimobile. The cost to non-staff is $27.50 per person for the QIV
Further details of the Flu Vaccination Program, including a Fact Sheet are available
at school if interested.
Granite Belt Cricket Competition- Fixtures
A very close Cricket competition has been decided. Three teams finished with 12
points each and so the final placements were based on the runs for and against.
Thank you to all teams for the spirit in which all games were played.
Well done to all teams and good luck to those teams playing in the final series.
Regards
Martin Hodgson
Principal
Applethorpe State School
Team
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st
Draw
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Forfe
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Fo
r
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Points
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Point
s
Wallangar
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5
0
5
0
0
67
197
0+0+0+0
+0
130
0
Greenland 5
s
2
3
0
0
14
6
257
0+3+3+0
+0
111
6
Glen Aplin 5
4
1
0
0
32
2
118
3+3+0+3
+3
+20
4
12
Ballandea
n
5
4
1
0
0
28
9
182
3+3+3+0
+3
+10
7
12
Applethor
pe
5
4
1
0
0
28
6
177
3+0+3+3
+3
+10
9
12
Amiens
5
1
4
0
0
15
0
285
0+0+0+3
+0
135
3
From the Prep/Year 1 and Year 2 Room
Congratulations to our Students of the Week
Week 8– Be Respectful – be an Active Learner – Sarah, Lilou and Sienna
Well done Super Spellers
Week 8- Ethan, Lilou, Zander, Felicity, Lachlan, Ben, Brayden, Sienna, Carter, Trey,
Samuel and Riley.
A big thank you to Mrs Rudd who has assisted in many ways to help the children of
Amiens School with their daily lessons. We wish Mrs Rudd all the best with her
further studies.
Most children have worked hard to achieve their targets throughout the term. Please
continue with your assistance at home as this makes a big difference. Over the
holidays, please continue with some reading and looking at words in our
environment. Next term, the Prep children will be joining the Home work queue in
the mornings.
Thank you to all the parents/carers who have attended our Parent/Teacher
interviews. It is rewarding to be able to showcase your child’s successes.
Throughout the term, Ms M, Mrs Edwards, Mrs Yates, Mr Nathan and Mrs Kelley
have worked tirelessly to make Amiens School a great place. The children and I
would like to applaud you for all your great work. We look forward to the challenges
of Term 2 .
Sarah turns 5 on the 25th - Happy Birthday, Sarah.
Happy Birthday Mrs Yates on Wednesday – have a great day.
Have a happy and safe Easter.
Anne
Playgroup
Over the past couple of weeks, the Playgroup children have investigated shapes
using playdough, patterned coloured pasta, painted pictures about weekend events
and painted in an oval shape , dyed egg shells and then used these shells to
decorate an egg, constructed a chicken from an egg carton and rabbit ears
headband and discussed a variety of Easter activities. Last Monday, the
children decorated their egg shape (ready for Morning Tea) and had an
Easter Egg hunt. I hope Easter bunny finds all of you and leaves lots of
eggs. Thank you to Kahlia for her input each Monday morning.
Playgroup recommences, after Morning Assembly, on Monday April 11.
Some old and a couple of new skills are enhanced each week. Come
along with a hat and morning tea and enjoy this time with your child.
Feel free to invite a friend along to come and see what goes on at
Amiens Playgroup.
From the Years 3 – 6 Classroom
Preparations for Anzac Day Commemoration at Amiens
Preparations are under way for the whole school commemoration of
Anzac Day at Amiens State School on Friday 22nd April. Students are
practicing their tribute song, “Can you hear Australia’s heroes
marching?” and we have secured a serving member of the Royal
Australian Air Force to share our commemoration at Amiens. It is
planned that all students will participate in the service. Invitations will be
sent out by the end of Term 1.
Science
Next term’s unit’s title tells us all about it – “Science Rocks”. Our
students are already engaged with collecting and studying local rocks.
We will be trying to have a geologist visit our school and discuss our
local geology.
Dale
My 6 sentence story.
Once upon a time there was a very young and considerate dragon called Clums.
Clums lived above the clouds in a cloud kingdom in a little cloud house with his mum.
Clums was actually the fastest thing in the universe.
But he had one problem; he was extremely clumsy and he kept running into things at
high speed and knocking himself out.
He was clumsy because he fell on his head at birth.
And to try and fix his problem he went to hospital.
By Jeremy
From the Chaplain
By now you will have heard the news that I have submitted my resignation to
Scripture Union and will no longer be working in the capacity as Chaplain from the
beginning of next term. There have already been moves to find someone to take my
place, so I am confident you will not be long without the services of a Chaplain. It’s
time for me to retire from permanent regular work. I am not getting younger and
neither is Barbara.
You might recall in the last week or so I posed 3 questions: Where is the city of
Netanya? How did it get its name? What does it have to do with the sinking of the
Titanic? If you didn’t get time to do the research the following story will provide the
answers.
Just over a hundred years ago two brothers and their wives were on holiday in
Europe. They came from the US. They were businessmen. They owned Macy’s
Department store in New York along with a few other businesses. They were very
wealthy. Their names were Nathan and Isidore Strauss and while they were in
Europe they decided to go to Palestine where quite a number of Jewish people had
settled, having bought land from the Arabs. It was a time when Jews were subjected
to persecution and many decided to return to their ancient homeland to escape
persecution, particularly in Russia and other European countries.
They got involved in community development projects in Palestine because they saw
that people were living in poverty. They contributed a lot of money to build schools
and hospitals and other sorts of infrastructure.
Isidore and his wife Ida decided they had seen enough and they booked their
passage back to America on a ship leaving Southampton, in England on her maiden
voyage. They wanted Nathan and Lina to go with them but Nathan still had things to
do and Isidore couldn’t get him to leave right away. It was agreed that they were to
catch up with them later, in England and join them on their voyage back to America.
The trouble was that Nathan was so caught up in the work in Palestine that he and
Lina left it to the last minute to head off for England and the ship home. They arrived
at Southampton on the 10th April 1912 but the ship had already sailed they were
several hours too late.
On the 15th of April, 1912, the ship struck an iceberg. Isidore and Ida were last seen
standing on the deck next to lifeboat number 8. They had just put their lady servant
on to the lifeboat and Isidore told his wife, Ida to get into the lifeboat. She refused in
favour of other women and children and because she and Isidore had been always
together and she didn’t want to leave him now. They went down with the ship.
Nathan and Lina were heartbroken when they heard the news. Nathan saw the hand
of God in his having missed the ship and returned to Palestine and his charitable
work among the pioneers of the state of Israel. His work was so appreciated by the
Jewish settlers that they named a city after him. If you look on a map of Israel, it is
on the coast about 30km north of Tel Aviv. It is called Netanya. Netan is the Hebrew
version of Nathan.
God bless you all,
John
Congratulations to our Students of the Week and Super Spellers for
Week 7
ANZAC DAY CEREMONY
At
AMIENS STATE SCHOOL
Friday 22nd April 2016
at 2:00pm
You are invited to
Amiens State School’s
commemoration of Anzac Day
as we remember the Anzacs
and honour their memory.
Following the Commemoration Service
you are invited to view students’ work
and share a cup of tea and a
school-made Anzac biscuit.