Wellbeing & Engagement

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

PBL Lessons

Week 7 - Inner Coach

Week 8 - Hands and feet to yourself

Week 9 - Looking after the school grounds

Week 10 - Holiday Safety

Wellbeing Week

As part of Wellbeing Week, our PBL lesson was on using our inner coach. This lesson came at the perfect time, with many classes currently completing assessments. Students explored how to recognise theirinner criticand learnt strategies to turn those negative thoughts into a positive inner coach. Here are some of the students' ideas and reflections on how they can be their own inner coach

Last term we gave out 67500 Dots! On average this is 162 dots per student. Students are able to spend their dots at the Dot Café or on our end of term Dot Day celebration.

This term Dot Day is on Wednesday the 25th of June. We have a variety of activities that students can pick from. Check out the Dot Day poster to see what’s on offer. Photos from the afternoon will be in the next newsletter!

Attendance

It is important that all students attend school every day of the school year, and remain in routine attendance. If your child is unable to attend school for any reason including illness, transferring to another school, family holiday, etc. it is essential parents, guardians or caregivers notify the school. You can notify the school by calling 46777333 or QParents.

Respectful Relationships Education

This week in RRE, year 4 students were learning about challenging gender stereotypes. Students were given a story where a gender stereotype is confirmed and had to rewrite the story to challenge it!

Here are some examples:

The Soccer Team

At school, a new soccer team was being formed. When Mrs Jones asked who wanted to join, almost every boy put up his hand. Emma raised her hand too, but some boys laughed.

"You can't play soccer," said Liam. "That's a boys' sport!"

Emma felt embarrassed and slowly put her hand down. Mrs Jones didn't say anything and only took the names of the boys who volunteered.

But we like this version better!

The Soccer Team

At school, a new soccer team was being formed. When Mrs Jones asked who wanted to join, almost every boy put up his hand. Emma raised her hand too, but some boys laughed.

Liam excitedly said, "That's awesome Emma! I can't wait to play soccer with you." The boys who laughed went very quiet and apologised to Emma for laughing.

Mrs Jones said "Thank you, Liam! What amazing words of encouragement. Anyone can play soccer, not just boys."

More girls wanted to join in and they raised their hands. Mrs Jones thought it was a wonderful idea and wrote down the names of all the boys and girls who volunteered.

The Dot Day Activity

Students were choosing activities to participate in for Dot Day. One activity was making and decorating cupcakes. Ethan loved baking and wanted to participate and make some cupcakes for his family. When he told his friends, they laughed.

"Baking? That's for girls," said Jake. "You should do something cool like bike-riding or cricket."

Ethan felt silly and changed his activity to something he didn't really care about.

But we like this version better!

The Dot Day Activity

"Baking is for everyone," said Jake. "You should do something cool like decorate them with bright icing and sprinkles."

Ethan felt amazing and excited about his Dot Day activity.

Book Week Dress Up

It was the day of the Book Week Dress up parade. Zoe was excited because she had dressed up as a firefighter from her favourite book. But when she arrived at school, some other girls looked at her costume and whispered.

"Why are you dressed as a boy?" one girl asked. "Firefighters are men."

Zoe looked down at her boots and suddenly wasn't so sure about her costume anymore.

But we like this version better!

Book Week Dress Up

It was the day of the Book Week Dress up parade. Zoe was excited because she had dressed up as a firefighter from her favourite book. When she arrived at school, some other girls in her class said, "Oh that's so cool! How did you make that costume? You look really good!" and they smiled at her.

"What inspired you to dress up like that?" One girl asked.

"My aunty and my uncle are both firefighters," said another girl.

Zoe looked down at her boots and felt proud.

Student Council

The Student Council has been hard at it raising funds for a variety of causes including The Smith Family and Men's Mental Health. This year we have raised a total of $577.25. Look out for and support the student council's future fundraising events.

Freddo Friday is Back!

Each Friday, Freddos will be on sale for $1.00 each from the back-office window. Don’t miss out on a sweet treat to end the week and raise money for the Student Council.

Dress Up for State of Origin

House Events

Premier's Reading Challenge

The Premier's Reading Challenge is also a house event. Watson house is currently in the lead. The PRC aims to improve literacy and encourage children to read for pleasure and learning.

Get ready to support your house!

Bin it to Win it

Next week we have our termly Bin it to Win it house competition. Each house is encouraged to pick up papers to show respect for our school by keeping it clean and tidy. The house with the fullest bin wins!

News from Chappy Sonia

In week 5 of this term, we celebrated "Chappy Week" and to show our appreciation for our Chappy Sonia we held a free dress day on the Friday with the theme being "C" or "S" for Chappy Sonia. We had a lot of students who came to school dressed up in fabulous outfits- See the photos below.

Chappy Sonia has also been organising activities to promote Kindness. One activity is the Kindness Tree. The tree started with no leaves, the students were then encouraged to pick a leaf and write the name of a person who has performed an act of kindness or been kind to them. The leaves were stuck onto the tree for all the students and staff to admire.

C or S Dress Up for Chappy Week

SPORT

Over the past few weeks, we have had students attend various Darling Downs sports trials. In week 5 we had students attend trials for DD Cross Country and DD Tennis, in week 6 students attended trials for DD Rugby Union and DD Soccer and this week students will travel to the DD Touch Trials in Toowoomba.

All the students that have trialled for DD Teams should be very proud of their efforts, special congratulations to Artie who has been selected in the DDSS 12 Years Rugby Union and George who has been called into the DDSS 12 Years Rugby League team.

Playgroup

Miss Casey Simpson and Mrs Donna Norman will be teaching Playgroup this term.

Wednesdays 9am to 10:30am. Follow the Red Flags at the Prep Precinct. Bring your GREAT Mates hat, morning tea and a water bottle (and a parent)!!

Playgroup supports children and families to build relationships, skills and confidence through play. All welcome.

LATELY AT GREAT MATES....

May was Messy Play Month! We had so much fun getting as messy as we could at Great Mates. We had sticky cloud dough, we washed dirty animals and trucks. We searched for fossils and dinosaur bones as well as played in edible dino lands and watched volcanoes. We painted and glued and stamped. Not forgetting the silly spaghetti play and floating

'Tea-riffic" water play. Great Mates also took part in the National Simultaneous Storytime and read "The Truck Cat" together.