Mr Steve Conner
Mrs Julie Muller
16 March, 2017
Principal’s Message:
This Newsletter finds us in Week 8 with only two weeks to go
until the end of Term 1!!!
Cross Country
Due to the recent wet weather and the fact that our ovals are
waterlogged, our Cross Country Carnival which was scheduled
to be held this week has been moved to next Friday, 24 March
2017, commencing at 9:00am.
We will monitor the weather next week and if the ovals
remain waterlogged, we will need to look at other avenues for
selecting students to attend the next level of competition.
Swimming Carnival
Our Year 3 – 6 Swimming Carnival will be held (weather
permitting) on Friday 31 March 2017.
National Ride2School Day
National Ride2School day is tomorrow (again weather
permitting).
National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
It is also National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
tomorrow. Students and staff are invited to wear ORANGE to
show support for this initiative. Please ensure all clothing is
sunsafe.
Uniform
We are seeking the assistance from our families in ensuring
that students arrive at school in the appropriate School
Uniform.
Some students are wearing accessories which are not suitable
for School and create a safety hazard (extension nails,
jewellery, unsuitable shoes, wrist bands, etc.). It would be
appreciated if parents and carers can ensure that their
children refrain from wearing these accessories to school.
School Vandalism
Over the last couple of weekends, the school has been
targeted by vandals who have damaged a number of drinking
taps and accessed our Landcare garden area pulling our
seedlings out. This is extremely upsetting for our students and
involves redirecting our School funds into repairing this
damage instead of purchasing resources to support student
learning.
If you notice anyone acting suspiciously in our School grounds
out of school hours or on weekends, please contact the Police.
17 March – Friday
National Ride2School Day
17 March – Friday
Bullying. No Way! Day
17 March – Friday
RDS Boys Rugby Union &
Girls Football Trials
20 March – Monday
RDS Hockey 10-12 Years
21 March – Tuesday
RDS Tennis 10-12 Years
23 March – Friday
RDS Boys Football 10-12s
24 March – Friday
Cross Country, 9:00am –
11:00am, Nerida O’Hare
Oval
31 March – Friday
Yr 3-6 Swimming Carnival,
9:00am – 3:00pm
31 March – Friday
Last Day of Term 1
18 April – Tuesday
First day of Term 2
18 April – Monday
School Photo Day
25 April – Tuesday
ANZAC Day Public Holiday
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SCHOOL NEWS
WEEKLY CLASS AWARDS
Congratulations to our Weekly Class Award Recipients for
previous weeks.
PNO:
Vanya K
P/1KP:
Kelvin F
Grace S
Kimberley R
1HT:
Archer M
1/2LR:
Amelia Z
Leo T
2/3RM:
Chevy R
3MH:
Jeffrey J
Katya M
3/4CS:
Jackson B
4HH:
Riley P
Ella S
Dyllan L
4/5HH:
Tyler C
5BM:
Isaac A
Kya G
Shirin K
5/6PB:
Jayden R
6LJ:
Jake S
Brody G
6VV:
Cheyanne B
Attendance:
5BM
LOTE:
Sunnie B
MUSIC:
4HH
PE:
5/6PB
Robbie B
Sam W
Tanner B
Eli R
Misaki N
Bullying No Way
National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence is on
Friday 17 March, 2017.
Wear something orange on Friday 17 March to show your
support – Bullying No Way! It
doesn't matter whether it's
physical, psychological or even
cyber. Bullying is a concern that
our school takes very seriously
and is working to address.
If you suspect your child is being
bullied, you should make an appointment with the teacher
or school principal to discuss your concerns.
Some signs of bullying include:

Loss of confidence

Changes in eating or sleeping habits, possibly
bedwetting

Health problems such as headaches or stomach aches

Unhappiness or mood swings with sudden temper
tantrums

Reluctance to go to school and changes in academic
performance.
What you can do:

Talk with your child about school and keep the lines of
communication open so children are more likely to
confide in you.

Encourage your child to feel okay to ask others for
help and to keep their own safety in mind.

Ensure your child knows how to report bullying and to
ask you for help when needed.

Report the incident to a teacher. Don’t try to sort out
the situation yourself.

Make sure you are modelling healthy behaviours to
your child, especially in relation to conflict resolution
and anger management.
Help protect your child
from harassment and
cyber-bullying by closely
monitoring internet use
and installing free internet
filters.
For more information and ideas
to understand and deal with bullying, visit the Bullying. No
way! website http://www.bullyingnoway.gov.au/
ANTI-BULLYING MOBILE APP
An anti-bullying App 'Take a Stand Together' can be
downloaded from iTunes and Google Play – or go to
https://bullyingnoway.gov.au/Resources/BullyingNoWayAp
ps for more information. Students are able to learn how to
manage bullying situations through the free and interactive
app which supports the
www.bullyingnoway.gov.au/ website.
Download the ‘Take a Stand’ iPhone app to
keep tips and advice about bullying close to
hand. Use the avatar builder to take a
stand online or assign avatars to your
phone's contact list. Watch interactive animations on
bullying situations and choose different endings to see what
happens next.
Stopping bullying starts with you
If someone tries to bully you
• ignore them, turn and leave
• if you can, look them in the eye, tell them to ‘stop’ and
then walk away
• pretend you don’t care
• go to places where you feel safe.
If you have been bullied
• talk to an adult (parent, teacher) you trust who can help
stop the bullying
• seek support from your friends
• keep on asking for support until the bullying stops.
If you see someone being bullied
• if safe, do something to stop it
• report it to a teacher
• support the person being bullied.
For more information or support
Kids Help Line www.kidshelp.com.au, 1800 55 1800
Cyber bullying www.cybersmart.gov.au, 1800 880 176
NATIONAL RIDE2SCHOOL DAY 2017
This Friday 17 March 2017 marks the ninth National
Ride2School Day, which is expected to see students from
more the 350,000 Australian students ride, walk, scoot or
skate to school.
Ride2School Day is about encouraging the
school community to make active travel a
normal part of their everyday lives. There
are many benefits to making active travel
part of your school culture, here are just three to
highlight with parents and your colleagues:
 Riding to school will reduce traffic around the school,
making the school trip faster
 Students will arrive at school alert and are more
attentive in class
 Riding helps develop important life skills, in addition to
increasing confidence
It’s easy to participate and make a bold statement that your
school supports a healthy lifestyle.
MORNING BULLETIN PREP PHOTOS
‘My First Year’ Prep class photos will be a
feature of The Morning Bulletin
Wednesday 22 March 2017. Our Prep classes will be
included in this article. Parents can pre-order their copy
from their local newsagent to avoid missing out.
SWIMMING CARNIVAL
The Swimming Carnival for Year 3 – Year 6, will
be held on Friday 31 March, 9am – 2:30pm
Parents and visitors are welcome to attend and
support their children at the Swim Carnival.
Please note: In order to provide sufficient shade for the
children in their House area, parents and visitors are
requested to provide their own seating/shade if they prefer.
Please remember to be sunsafe and support your house.
Asthmatic students are requested to have their puffer with
them at all times and any students not participating in the
carnivals will require a note from home.
FOR ALL YEAR 3-6 TUCKSHOP ORDERS, PLEASE
STATE THE HOUSE ON THE ORDER BAG. Thank you.
SCHOOL PHOTOS – TUESDAY 18 APRIL
School Photos for all classes will be taken by MSP
Photography the first day back after the school holidays,
TUESDAY 18 April, 2017. Photo envelopes will be sent
home today with this Newsletter. Each student MUST have
their own envelope even if payment is in a
siblings envelope. Please mark on these
envelopes at the appropriate location if
payment is in another sibling/student envelope.
Sibling Envelopes are available at the office. Those
ordering Sibling photos will report to the designated
‘portrait’ photo-taking room either before school, between
or during lunch times or at the end of the day.
Other Group photos will include Choir, Instrumental,
Strings, Football, Netball, School and House Captains,
Student Parliament, Landcare/Waste Warriors and a whole
Year 6 Graduation Class.
Photo orders can be ordered online at www.msp.com.au
by entering your child’s shootkey and note payment
reference details on the child’s photo envelope for
presentation to the photographer on photo day.
Please note: Orders and money are to be returned to
school on photo day – NOT BEFORE – and handed to the
MSP photographer! Parents can assist by ensuring that
children are dressed in correct school uniform and arrive
early before school commences enabling photographers to
start on time. A Timetable will be published in our next
Newsletter.
QSCHOOLS APP
The QSchools app is a convenient way to receive upto-the-minute information from and about schools. The app
is designed to integrate with school websites, and allows
users to see when news, events and newsletters are posted
to their selected school website.
The school community can also receive emergency
announcements such as natural disasters and school
closures through the app.
The QSchools app will be particularly useful to parents who
have students in different schools, as the app manages
updates from multiple schools in a single view.
All Queensland state schools are searchable via the app.
Find out more about QSchools at
http://deta.qld.gov.au/about/app/qschools-app.html and
download the app today.
P&C NEWS
P&C AGM & GENERAL MEETING
The Yeppoon State School P&C Association AGM will be
held Wednesday 29 March, 2017 at 5:30pm in E Block
Annexe. Up for discussion will be:
Financial Audit
Student Risk Management
Meeting Days/Times
P&C Executive Positions
All Executive Positions will be declared open and
nominations received for these roles. Everyone, new and
previous members, are most welcome to attend.
Membership lapses for the 2015 year on this date. If you
would like to be a P&C member,
please complete a new Application.
Hope to see you at the AGM!
QUICK GUIDE FOR P&C EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
If you are a Parents and Citizens' Association member or are
thinking about becoming one, you will find the new quick
guide a great asset.
A Quick Guide for P&C Executive Officers has been produced
by P&Cs' Qld.
It contains information for newcomers considering
becoming involved with their school's P&C, and provides
clear guidelines for those already engaged.
Go to
http://www.pandcsqld.com.au/documents/2013/11/quickguide-for-pc-executive-officers.pdf to view a copy of the
Quick Guide for P&C Executive Officers.
CONTACTS
SCHOOL CONTACTS
Please refer to Contacts on front page. For Student Absences, please
email [email protected]
Alternatively for basic admin matters or queries, please email
[email protected] and for Newsletter items or to be
placed on eNewsletter recipient list, please email [email protected]
Dental Clinic: 4939 2479 Please call to arrange an appointment.
P&C CONTACTS
President: Linda Schmidt Ph. 4939 3473
Vice President: Kerrie Scoffin Phone: 0423 923 060
Secretary: Leslie Ryan Phone: 0448 766 526
Treasurer: Angela Harbas Phone: 0432 127 112
Alternatively, for P&C matters email [email protected]
COMMUNITY & SPORT NOTICES
Please note that although the following notices may be included in the school’s Newsletter,
they are published in good faith and do not necessarily have the school’s endorsement
Kids Help Line Kids can call 1800 55 1800 or visit www.kidshelp. com.au
Little Athletics We welcome athletes from 5 – 16 years old to our
training and competition days held on Saturday afternoons
April-September. Register online at
www.laq.org.au For more information please visit our
Facebook page:
Yeppoon Little A’s or contact Centre Manager Dan O’Brien 0407 505
856 AH
GROWING LITERACY
So this fortnight’s column is all about celebrating writing.
Since our last newsletter, a number of teachers have been growing their literacy understanding
around writing. Eight teachers: Peta Bosomworth, Christine Halberstater, Helen Hanson, Judy
Herold, Collette Louttit, Paula McNamara, Kathie Paskin and Ursula White, dedicated a Saturday
attend a Seven Steps to Success Workshop in Rockhampton.
to
Seven Steps can be considered as one of the building blocks (steps)
to allow students to gain confidence in their writing by stepping
through the skills of writing, then putting it all together to become
creative and confident writers.
Celebrations from the classrooms
Sizzling Starts Year 5/6
What if Life was a Story? by Darcy
What if life was a story? From the smallest mouse to the largest castle? What if everything we’ve wished for would come to life?
Three very special kids were about to find out.
“So,” remarked Andrew to his two friends while walking home from school. “We should have a sleepover at my place.”
“Yeah,” yelled Tom and Lilly excitedly.
2 hours later they all met outside Andrew’s house. They all stayed up late munching on Doritos and watching Pitch Perfect.
“Man,” said Tom. “This is great.”
Lilly then heard a creaking in the stairs, saw 2 legs, a torso and…..
The Double by Hannah
Fling! Splash! Plop! Little Red Riding Hood had picked off a piece of her finger nail and it fell into a crate of the witch’s magical
citric acid.
Then something weird happened, she had seen something like a mirror of herself.
Suddenly she was dashing through the forest. “I think I’ve lost her,” she puffed. It was like there was a double, another one of
her. “I don’t know how Gran is going to deal with another one of me,” she whispered to herself.
Then a voice from the shadows muttered, “I don’t know either.”
“Get away from me! Who are you and what do you want from me?” Little Red Riding Hood yelled.
The next chapter for The Twits Year 4HH
Mr Twits Revenge by Layla
Mr Twit was in the old, wretched garden. He was soooo bored as there was nothing to do.
“What am I going to do?” he yelled
“What you always do. Be mean.” Said Mrs Twit, walking inside.
“That’s it! I need to play the most horrible, the most terrible trick ever.” He cried with happiness.
He went to the stinkiest, most grubby plant shop ever.
“Okay, were is your old woman eating plant?” he yelled.
The shopkeeper ran over to see what was going on.
“What do you need, sir?” asked the shopkeeper.
“I NEED AN OLD WOMAN EATING PLANT!” Mr Twit screamed.
“You mean that plant over there?” asked the shopkeeper.
“Yes, thank you,” replied Mr Twit.
When Mr Twit got back to his old, stinky house he put the blue and red dotted woman eating plant at the end of the staircase
that lead up to Mrs Twit’s bedroom.
“I got something for you,” yelled Mr Twit, sweetly.
“This better be good!” cried Mrs Twit.
“Oh, it is!” replied Mr Twit.
Mrs Twit came down the stairs and cried, “My golly gord, what is that thing?”
“It’s for you,” smiled Mr Twit and threw her into the old woman eating plant.
The house has gone, ballooning up! by Blake
Early in the morning the Mugglle-Wump family woke up to two monkey children excitedly saying, “We’ve had an idea but we
need to go to the shops first.” The Family snuck down the road to the shops. When they were at the shops they took one
thousand hot air balloons. Once they were got home they prepared for the trick.
The monkeys ran like a rocket up to the big, scary, decrepit old house. They climbed up the old worn- down bricks and attached
ropes to the house.
The next day, the foul Twits woke up flying in the clouds! Once they noticed where they were, those foul people screamed, “The
house has gone ballooning up!”
A little later, Mr Twit ran inside and began rummaging round and round for a knife. After some time, Mr Twit found one.
Later, the foul Mr Twit climbed up the rickety bricks that the monkeys had also climbed, with a knife in his hand to cut the ropes.
Once Mr Twit cut the final rope, the house came rapidly down! The roof flew off, with Mr Twit on it and landed in the wretched
garden. The house fell upside down.
The two Twits screamed, “YEAH!”
Mrs Twit Gets Worse by Jack
One day Mr and Mrs Twit, were outside sipping an ice cold drink of water from the freezer, when Mrs Twit yelled, “I’m going to
go to Yeppoon State School!”
“It’s the best school ever! Even in the whole entire disgusting world. That’s why people should go there. I got smart there!”
snapped Mr Twit.
Mrs Twit left in her big, ferocious car.
She had leftover spaghetti in her pocket from yesterday afternoon. It smelt that bad that it shut down the big, hot metal car in
the middle of nowhere. Mrs Twit had to begin walking. She had to walk for that long she grew a beard. Mrs Twit cried, “I’ve
grown a decomposing, disgusting beard!” Finally, she found Yeppoon State School. (All that happened from Gladstone to
Yeppoon).
“Oh, no!” she cried, “For my first year I got Ns for everything, even the test for, what does twit mean?”
After twenty one years at school, Mrs Twit got Ds for everything, followed by Es, then Cs and finally Ds for everything. Finally,
Mrs Twit got As for everything. Mrs Twit graduated on her fifty-first year of school. Now she could return home.
On getting home, Mrs Twit said, “I finished my school!”
“Okay, what’s four times four?” asked Mr Twit.
“Um.Um.Um. Twenty-one?”
“No! Go back to school!” said Mr Twit.
The Special Pie by Freyja
Bang! Crash! Smash! Gun shots filled the air. Smoke flew up your nostrils. Mr Twit cackled, “I’m back and ready for war!”
The crazy, horrid Mr Twit was outside trying to shoot some poor birds for a delicious, juicy bird pie!
We all know Mr Twit very well - he was shooting the birds who flew into his garden. No! Mr Twit was then going to put toxin
into some of the birds and give them to Mrs Twit for bird pie.
Mr Twit went into deep thought, “What if there are some side effects? Maybe I’ll just put in my special ingredient, HOT
SAUCE!!!!”
Mr devilish Twit, had given the birds to the evil Mrs Twit to cook. She served them up on the cracked old plates. Mrs Twit took a
bite. “Ahhhh, my mouth burns. It tastes horrible. Call an ambulance. You fool!!!”
As Mrs Twit said to call an ambulance, Mr Twit did. He was very happy as the ambulance took her away because now he would
have some peace and quiet.
He was listening to the television, when on came a program called The Special Pie. Mr Twit laughed as he said to himself, “And
that was a special pie.”
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Yours in Literacy,
Yeppoon Literacy Team; Julie Muller, Chris Halberstater and Collette Louttit