EULO STATE SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER
From the Principal
Hello Everyone,
I can’t believe four weeks has already come and gone - we have been very
busy and productive this term! We have several upcoming events to look
forward to including The Cunnamulla Show, our Pedagogy Coach and
ARD visits, our midterm assessment including creating a comic in
English and building cars and boats in Technology and then there’s
school playgroup and visiting Paroo playgroup as well.
This Year the Cunnamulla Show display theme is “100 Years of ANZAC”.
We will be creating a whole school display showing what classrooms
where like and how students and teachers supported the
ANZAC’s. If anyone has any interest in helping students please contact
the school. We have started to create our school display but would love
some input from anyone with knowledge of the spirit of the ANZAC.
This week students in Years 3 and 5 across Australia partook in
NAPLAN. Our students participated in four tests – Language
Conventions, Writing, Reading and Numeracy. A big congratulations to
those students who completed NAPLAN this week. Next week Playgroup
will run on Tuesday morning at 9:30am. I will be away on Wednesday
and Thursday attending Finance PD in Charleville. Sharon O’Hare a
district teacher from Yowah will be teaching at Eulo on those days.
We will be holding out AGM for our P&C later this month once our financial reports are back. Watch out for the date!
In each fortnight’s newsletter, I’d like to share with you something we
think is worth celebrating at Eulo State School. This week we start with
our Year 4 student Samantha Wearing. Samantha is an avid reader and
loves books. At the moment Sam is reading ‘The Red Wind’, a 221 page
chapter book written by Isobelle Carmody. It is a past book of the year
winner from the Children’s Book Council of Australia.
Bianca Lawson
Cunnamulla Show
Saturday
23rd May
Theme is
100 years of
ANZAC
WE’RE ON THE WEB!!!
www.euloss.eq.edu.au
Inside this issue:
Eulo SS Notices
We’re celebrating!
Sam’s love for
reading!!
Parent
Information
2
&
3
4&
5
Out & About in
Images
6-8
Preppies Page
9
Events Calendar
P&C
Community News
10
&
11
General Info
12
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Notices for Eulo State School
NOTICES
Great Results Guarantee
This year Eulo SS will receive $5000 of GRG funding. This funding will be used to Ensure all Year 3 and
5 students meet NMS in Reading and Writing in 2015, develop an evidence based plan for all students
at risk of not meeting NMS in literacy and numeracy, increase the level of school readiness for children
yet to begin Prep and engage with Pre-Prep providers to establish transition programs from Pre-Prep to
Prep and strengthen links to school and improve teacher capabilities, through professional development
and focused feedback to achieve improved student outcomes. A copy of our 2015 GRG can be found
on our website.
Playgroup Dates: 9:30am start – All Welcome
Week 5 Tuesday 19th May
Week 7 Thursday 4th June
Week 8 Paroo Contact Playgroup Thursday 11th June
Week 9 Thursday 18th June
GO Visit
Nick Hutchison our cluster GO will be visiting our school each week to work with our students around
personal development and positive behaviour.
Fixing Our Schools Grant
This year Eulo SS received funds as part of the fixing our schools grant. These funds are being used to
repaint the exterior of our school. Our facelift has almost finished! The school is looking great.
Prep Enrolments 2016
We are currently taking enrolments for Prep 2016. Please contact the school office if you have a child
whose birthday falls between 1st July 2010 and 30 June 2011. If you know any families in the community with eligible children, please encourage them to contact the school also.
Here is a photo from the
Mother’s Day afternoon
tea last Friday afternoon.
The mums are all holding
their Mother’s Day gifts
the children made for
them. Look at those
yummy patty cakes the
students made
L to R Miss Amy McKenzie, Marcelle Campbell,
Natasha, Wendy Luetchford Carmel Beresford,
Clayton, Nan Pike, then
Samantha in front with
Miss Lawson behind,
Vicky in front with Carmel Smith behind and
Holly in front with her
mum
Kelly
behind.
Thanks for a lovely
spread
students and
teachers.
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BEHAVIOUR
Our school motto is “Learning Together”. We foster and develop children’s pride in
their school, classroom, community and self through our daily operations and policies. Our school community has the following school rules to teach and promote our
high standards of responsible behaviour:
BE SAFE, BE RESPONSIBLE, BE RESPECTFUL.
Within these standards are groups of sub-standards and each week one of these becomes the ‘focus of the week.’
On Monday mornings this focus is highlighted and the expectations for it are explicitly taught with input from all
the students. If at any time you wish to view all these they are dis-played on the board just inside the end of the
room where the stairs are.
Weekly Focus
2 – Learning Together
Weekly Awards
Samantha
Weekly Focus
Weekly Awards
6 – Being Respectful
3 – Being Safe
7 – Being a team leader
Holly
4 – Being Responsible
8 – Being an active learner
Victoria
5 – Being Responsible
9 – Learning Together
ATTENDANCE – 95.5% Attendance Term 2 - Great Job!
If your child
misses….
1 day per fortnight
1 hour per day
and over 13 years of
Which means the best your child
schooling that’s...
might perform is ...
That equals….
Which is…..
20 Days per year
4 weeks per year
Nearly 1.5 years
1 day per week
8 Weeks per year
Over 2 and a Half years
Equal to finishing in grade 11
Equal to finishing in grade 10
Every day counts is a state wide initiative that aims to assist in improving student attendance at school through a
shared commitment by students, parents, caregivers, schools and the community to improve students' attendance
at school.
To do this, every day counts promotes four key messages:
All children should be enrolled at school and attend on every school day
Schools should monitor, communicate and implement strategies to improve regular school attendance
Truanting can place a student in unsafe situations and impact on their future employability and life choices
Attendance at school is the responsibility of everyone in the community
For further information on the importance of regular school attendance, please visit:
http://www.education.qld.gov.au/everydaycounts/schools/research-schoolattendance.html
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Parent Information
EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT PARENTS
By Michael Grose
Emotionally intelligent parents don’t dismiss children’s behaviour and let them do as they please. There are times
when they should focus on a child’s behaviour. A child who is rude in public should be reminded in no uncertain
terms that poor manners are inappropriate.
However, there are times when smart parents need to look beyond the obvious behaviours to get a good understanding of what is happening to their child, and to help a child better understand and manage their emotions.
So what does an emotionally intelligent parent look like? And importantly what is the impact on kids, parents
and families of this approach?
Emotionally intelligent parents have the following attributes in common.
They will usually:
Listen more and judge less
There is nothing better than being understood. Parents who operate from an emotionally-smart mindset are more
likely to listen to their kids when emotions are high, trying to access what may be going on, rather than clamping
down their behaviour or closing them down with well-meaning advice. Impact: Better, more open relationships.
Accept strong emotions
Anyone who lives with teenagers will know that emotions can run very high. They can say the worst possible
things to each other and, at times, to you. Ten minutes after their tirade they can be cuddling up to the person
who was the butt of their anger, frustration or anxiety. Emotionally intelligent parents know that feelings need to
be expressed rather than bottled up, and allowed to fester. They also believe there is nothing so bad, as a child
can’t give a voice to in a family, however there are behaviours that are not acceptable. Impact: A healthy expression of emotions.
Focus on the present
Most parents are rightfully future-focused. We focus on the homework that needs to be handed in tomorrow; the
washing that needs to be done; the meal that needs to be cooked. That’s part of everyday life. Children generally
focus on the here and now. That of course can be frustration to a task-orientated future-focused mother or father.
However, when we lower our gaze we are more likely to pick up how kids are feeling, and importantly help them
understand and manage their moods and emotions. Impact: Happier families and less stress felt at home.
Use rules rather than their moods to determine discipline
Some parents discipline according to their moods. If they feel good then they give children plenty of lenience. If
they feel bad then they pick their kids up on every little thing. It’s better to stick to the family and house rules;
that makes you more predictable, which kids really crave. Impact: More consistent parenting.
Develop a language around feelings
A family develops a vocabulary around things that are important to them, such as a chosen sport for example. The
same holds for emotional intelligence. Families that truly value building emotional smarts will develop in kids a
rich palette of words that will help them describe how they feel which will inevitably stay with them for the rest of
their life.
Impact: Better relationships later in life at work and in their own families.
At a time when anger and anxiety has never been so high in families, there is a massive need for a parenting approach that includes emotional intelligence. Many parents struggle in the area of helping children understand
and manage their emotions because we’re never had any training in it. We didn’t learn it from our parents, and
more than likely haven’t learned it at work. Emotional intelligent parenting can be learned.
Parent Information
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Dear Parents/Carers/Community Members
This term, Eulo State School are joining the Eco-Schools and Litter Legends programs to become more environmentally friendly. Eco-Schools is a proven schoolsbased sustainability education program operating in 60+ countries globally and developed by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) based in Denmark. Eco-Schools is a curriculum linked, democratic and participatory program
that provides an excellent opportunity for students to experience active citizenship
in their schools. As part of the Eco-Schools program we have received a grant to
complete a Litter Legends project. This project is funded by the Wrigley Company
Foundation and contributes towards the International Litter Less Campaign.
We will be involved in:
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making compost with our food and paper scraps
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building an edible garden
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recycling and reusing our plastic bottles and other waste items in lots of creative ways
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holding a “Keep Eulo Beautiful Day” to clean up our town
We would like to invite you to be a part of our project by helping us with the following ideas:
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recycling your newspapers, plastic bottles, boxes, or anything else that may have a use for
our project and dropping them at our recycling bins at the front of the school.
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donating plants or seeds towards our edible garden
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coming and helping us build and look after our garden
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joining in our campaign to “Keep Eulo Beautiful” and be Litter Legends like us!
Please watch our newsletter for upcoming events and chances to be involved and
BE A LITTER LEGEND!!
With Thanks
The Students and Staff of Eulo State School
Year 4-6 Science
Here is a series of photos of
our years 4-6 girls carrying out
their science experiments for
the first unit of this term.
Top left: Vicky, Holly & Tash
write up their findings.
Top right: Some finished and
marked work
Middle left: Sam filling in her
work table
Above & left: The girls carrying out their various experiments.
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Cross Country 2015
It’s been a great day today as students from our district schools, Thargomindah,
Yowah, Cunnamulla State School & Sacred Heart came to Eulo for district cross
country. Clockwise from tope left: boys 10 year olds. Our Sam out on the track.
Vicky heading towards home. Tash just behind a Cunnamulla student. Holly
holds her 3rd place ribbon alongside Amity Warner 1st & Emma Mair 2nd. Amity,
Vicky
#schoolcountry singer Jared Porter
And to finish off a great day, #school
country singer Jared Porter held a concert
for all the children here at the school before heading to Carmel & David
Meurants for ‘Music In The Mulga’. Jared had them ‘jumping’ & he also got to
listen to Jacinta Byrne from Thargomindah sing her song. Well done Jacinta.
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Playgroup Term 2
Above: A bit of dancing and
jiving happening here!!
Above: Look at the beautiful necklace
Olivia has made
Above: Isla loves her mornings
at playgroup
Right: “I’m watching you all,” Vicky seems to be saying.
Middle: Looks like Vicky is about to lose her tag!!
Above: the littlies watch intently to see how the big kids do it.
Left: Sam trying to corner Greer for her tag.
Above: What’s this crazy game you’re all playing, the playgroupers seem to be asking.
Here are some great shots of last playgroup day. Our playgroupers joined students for a game of tag.
Everyone had a ball!!
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
May
June
15th
Regional Cross Country in Eulo
19th
Playgroup day with Miss McKenzie
20th/21st
Miss Lawson away. Sharon O’Hare here Thursday
22nd
Cunnamulla Show Holiday
23rd
Cunnamulla Show Day
28th
Pedagogy coach here working with teachers
4th
ARD Russell Simpson to visit
Finance Officer, Vicky Hempstead to visit
Playgroup morning
P & C News
The next meeting of the Eulo State School P & C Association is to be advised.
All parents and others interested in our school are warmly invited to attend.
Community Information
Flying Doctor Clinic Day Eulo
Program for May/June
Friday 22nd May - Dr Clare Schmidt
Friday 6th June - Dr John Ella
TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR A
CONSULTATION CALL THE
CHARLEVILLE BASE
ON 46541233
Miss Lawson had
some very exciting
news for us after the
Easter break. She
came back wearing a
very beautiful
diamond ring.
Yes Miss Lawson is
engaged!! We all
congratulate you
Bianca and Josh on
this wonderful news.
MONDAY - FRIDAY 9AM - 4.30PM
APPOINTMENTS CLOSE AT MIDDAY
ON THE DAY
BEFORE CLINICS
Or you can email them on
[email protected]
& someone will reply to your email with an
appointment time
Help watch over our school
Report suspicious acts
School watch no 131788
Church Reminder
Next Mass should be
Sunday 24th May at 9am
All Welcome
It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce
the safe arrival of a baby boy to Justine & Ross
Campbell. You will remember that Justine is our admin
officer (presently on maternity leave) & Ross a former
student of Eulo SS. They have named their little boy,
Thomas James. This means of course that Andrew and
Jayne Campbell are now grandparents for the first
time and they are both very excited and can’t wait for
his arrival home.
General Information
Volunteer Week: 11-17 May
Without volunteers there would be no P&Cs, so with Volunteer Week coming up this month we would like to
take the opportunity to thank the thousands of Queensland parents and citizens who help out in schools
every single day. Your contributions undoubtedly make a difference for all state school students. P&Cs Qld
also has many dedicated volunteers in local Areas throughout Queensland. We greatly appreciate their service to P&Cs in their local communities. The Volunteering Australia website has some great ideas on how you
can recognise your own vital volunteers.
P&C Day: Friday 29 May
P&C Day is an opportunity for schools to thank P&C volunteers for their important contribution. Many
schools recognise the P&C on assembly or hold a special morning tea. Please share your plans and photos
of how your school celebrates P&C Day by posting to our Facebook or Twitter page or emailing
[email protected]
Eulo State
School
We may be
OUTBACK
But we’re
INFRONT
In Education
In S W Qld
Statement of Purpose
Our aim is to provide opportunities for
each child to reach their potential socially,
emotionally, intellectually, physically and
spiritually. We aim to do this in a caring,
professional environment, in close
consultation with our local community
We strive to provide and maintain
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A safe and supportive environment in which all children are able to
develop their individualism, their independence and a sense of positive self esteem.
Effective teaching that reflects not only an emphasis on basic skills
but on individual and creative skills as well.
Initiatives which are challenging and rewarding to students
A strong relationship between home and school that continues to
support students individual development.
Phone:
555-555-5555
Eulo State
School
Fax: 555-555-5555
Leo St
E-mail: [email protected]
Eulo 4491
555-555-5555
Phone: 07
46554898
555-555-5555
Fax: 07
46554807
E-mail:[email protected]
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