1032 Lowood-Minden
Road,MINDEN,QLD,4311,Australia
Website: https://mindenss.eq.edu.au
Phone: 5425 7222
Fax:
Email: the.principal@mindenss.eq.edu.au
Term 3 Week 9 - Thursday 10 September
2015
to help with transport and supervision on the
day.
Dates To Remember
Prep Open Day
* P&C Meeting 14/09/15
3.30pm
13/07/15 –
* Term 3 18/09/15
* Senior Assembly 11/09/15
* Story Arts Festival Prep - Yr 3 14/09/15
* Camp Payment Due 14/09/15
* Whole School Assembly 18/09/15
We had a classroom full of excited pre-Prep
children join us on Wednesday for our annual
Prep Open Day. The morning session
provided children with an opportunity to meet
their 2016 peers and experience what Prep is
like. Thank you to all the interested parents
who attended the session and to the P&C for
their support with setting up.
Library Books
* School Resumes 06/10/15
* Student Free Day 19/10/15
From The Principal
These need to be returned as soon as
possible and before the end of next week
when school breaks for the Spring Vacation.
Families will be invoiced for books that are lost.
Story Arts Festival
What an exciting and educational day the year
4-6 classes enjoyed last Monday in Ipswich
when they attended this year’s Story Arts
Festival. Read about their favourite author and
illustrator sessions later in the newsletter. A
huge thank you to the parents who were able
Staff Professional Development
Next Tuesday and Wednesday four teaching
staff will be attending a two-day workshop.
Replacement staff have been secured.
Swimming Program
encouraged to secure an interview time by
calling the Rosewood SHS office on 5461
9400, once you have received your application
package.
Whole-School Assembly
All classes participate in the swimming
program which commences in week 2 on
Tuesday 13 October and runs for 8 weeks.
We will be using Woodlands again and
transporting classes via Minden Bus Service.
A note with all relevant information will be sent
home at the end of this week.
Woolworths Earn and Learn
As you know, our school has been
participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn
program. The program has now finished for
this year, so a big thanks to everyone who
supported our school. We're now at the
important stage of the program where the
Sticker Sheets are collected and lodged as
our Earn & Learn claim. We will then be able
to get new educational equipment for our
school. The more we collect, the more we can
redeem. So this week, please send in your
Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheets and
any loose Earn & Learn stickers you may have.
Remember to check your handbag, the car
glove box or they may be stuck on the fridge.
Every little bit helps. Thanks again for all your
support!
This event will take place next Friday
commencing at approximately 2:20 in the
Sports Centre. There will be many
presentations for our students along with our
major GOTCHA draws and Attendance
Trophy. We welcome parents attending and
celebrating the conclusion of a busy and
successful term with us.
Attendance
Our average daily attendance rate for term 3
has been 92.2 %. Congratulations year 3’s
who have an average attendance rate of 95.5%
for term three. Due to a significant number of
illnesses this term, all classes’ attendance
rates have been lower than for term 2. Thank
you for supporting your child’s education by
ensuring unnecessary absences are kept to a
minimum.
Lost Property
Enrolling Year 7 Students at Rosewood
State High School for 2016
All 2016 Year 7 students enrolling at
Rosewood State High School will participate in
a one on one enrolment interview with either
Darren Lovey (Junior Secondary Deputy
Principal) or Peta Jackson (the Junior
Secondary HOD). The enrolment interviews
will be held over a 4 week period, 2 weeks
before the September holidays (Weeks
beginning the 7th and 14th September) and 2
weeks after the September holidays (Weeks
beginning the 6th and 13th October).
We have accumulated a significant amount of
unclaimed gear this term – mostly jumpers
and long pants. Parents are welcome to sort
through the containers in the office at any time
to reclaim items.
Term 4
Term 4 commences on Tuesday 6 October
due to the Monday being a Public Holiday.
The enrolment interviews will be held
during the following times:
> Monday 12 – 3pm
> Tuesday 9 – 12 noon
Keep a watch on our school these holidays.
> Wednesday 12 – 5pm
Parents and students can help take care of
our school by reporting any suspicious afterhours activity to School Watch on 13 17 88.
By keeping an eye out we can work together
to create a safer school community and help
> Thursday 9 – 12 noon
These interviews are an important part of the
transition into secondary school and you are
to reduce vandalism, theft and arson in our
school.
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SUSPICIOUS,
PLEASE DON’T INTERVENE. CALL THE
SCHOOL WATCH NUMBER AND LET THE
LOCAL POLICE OR STATE GOVERNMENT
PROTECTIVE SECURITY SERVICE DEAL
WITH THE MATTER.
Have Fun, Stay Safe
On behalf of the Minden school community I
wish all our families a restful and enjoyable
break. I look forward to seeing you all in term
4.
Parents And Citizens Association News
P&C Meeting
Next P&C Meeting Monday 14 September
commencing 3:30pm in the library.
Tuckshop
Tuckshop is going well! Thank you for getting
your orders in by Monday afternoon. A big thank
you to Jennifer Barnes & Jessie Szarkun for
being our tuckshop ladies every week. If you
would like to help next term, please contact the
office.
We will be reviewing the menu for term 4 suggestions welcome!
Book Fair and Book Club:
Thank you KyleeBeauclerc and Anna Bethell for
your continued commitment in helping out at the
Book Fair and processing the Book Club orders.
Scholastic Australia donates 25-30% of all sales
back to the school, in the form of books and
resources. Thank you to all those families
purchasing from these events, you are
contributing to the new and exciting resources
filling our library.
Father’s Day Stall:
Thank you for supporting our fundraiser, we are
currently raising funds to assist the school with
the purchase of air-conditioning for the library.
Commonwealth Bank School Banking Update:
Students continue to enjoy saving through our
CBA banking program, your school also benefits
by receiving $5 for each new member and then 5%
of all deposits each school term.
URGENT!! PLEASE READ: Recall on ‘Cosmic
Light Beam Torch’ reward:
Concerns have been raised regarding the
‘Cosmic Light Beam Torch’ reward item due to
the inclusion of four button batteries that can be
accessed by unscrewing the back of the torch.
Whilst this reward has been independently tested
and deemed to meet relevant product standards
the Commonwealth Bank have made the
decision to proactively withdraw this item from
the School Banking Rewards Program.
Parents/Guardians are requested to dispose of
any ‘Cosmic Light Beam Torches’ their child may
have already received as part of the Rewards
Program. Students who have previously received
a ‘Cosmic Light Beam Torch’ are welcome to
redeem an alternative reward item.
Outside School Hours Care (OSHC)
Operating Hours
Monday - Friday before school opening at
6:15am and after school closing at 6:00pm.
If you would like further details please
contact OSHC on 0408409572.
PCYC Minden are Vacation Care ready! Are
you?
We have a heap of fun activities on during
these spring school holidays. Our excursions
include going swimming at the Gatton Sports
and Aquatic Centre with all of their fun
inflatables and pool toys and also going to
Limelight Cinemas Ipswich and watching the
new movie Pixels!! Some incursions we have
on these holidays include Laser Tag! We have
hired 10 blue and 10 red guns with all of the
accessories! Even staff love this incursion!
And Creative Dance Industries will be visiting,
teaching us some super cool dance moves
and learning their hilarious Minecraft Parody.
We are also trying out a new program and
experimenting with our daily routine. We are
trialling friendly Fridays, Whatever
Wednesdays and 10 Tuesdays. During
Fridays we will be doing group bonding games
and activities, this is where staff and children
join in one activity together, last week it was
OZ tag. Whatever Wednesdays are where
children, before beginning afternoon tea, tell
the staff something they would like to do today
and staff will prepare the activities, or the
activity may simply be soccer outside, home
corner or even making some healthy
homemade pizzas. 10 Tuesdays are a day
that our 10 year olds and senior students get
to have some alone time. We understand that
seniors need their quiet time and privacy.
Thus taking the seniors away from the
younger age groups doing activities they are
interested in; this could be sitting out on the
grass with pillows gossiping about the school
day or playing our PCYC SAC children's Ipads.
Have a fantastic week,
We also have 2 new staff who have started
here at MindenOSHC, Sarah Ashe and
Hannah Breischke. Hannah will speak a little
about herself in the next newsletter, but this
fortnight Miss Sarah will be saying hello:
rebecca.hewett@chappy.org.au
Hi my name is Miss Sarah, I am a mother of
one child, she is 7 years old. I have lived
within the area since 2011 after the floods. I
have worked with children in long based child
care for over 8 years working mainly with 3-5
year olds; I also have worked within the
younger age groups and worked with children
who have special needs. I thoroughly enjoy
my job and working with children. I love
working with the older children, this being
pointed out to me on several occasions, hence
my coming to Minden OSHC. I look forward to
working with you all and your children and
developing relationships.
Mrs Hewett
Rebecca Hewett
School Chaplain
Mt Tarampa, Fernvale & Minden
General School News
Assembly Gotcha Awards
Congratulations Cody and Savannah.
School Banking
Dollarmites Achievement Certificates
Gold: Jessica
Silver: Lauchlan
Thank You,
Bye For Now
Miss Sarah
School Chaplain
Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club has been a huge success
thanks to our wonderful volunteers and the
PCYC Outside School Hours and Harvest
Angels Inc. For the rest of this year, it has
been decided that Breakfast Club will be run
on the first Thursday of the month.
The dates for the remainder of 2015;

Thursday October 8

Thursday November 5

Thursday December 3
If you wish to help out simply pop into the
tuckshop on the day or call me at the school
office, send me an email or speak with me in
person.
I am available for a chat on Thursday and
Friday for students and parents, if the need
arises. Please call the office on 5425 7222 or
send me an email on the address below.
Bronze: Judd, Scarlett.
Health Issues
Head lice
It is extremely important for you to check your
child’s head for head lice TODAY.
If you do find head lice, commence treatment
immediately and be sure to complete the
process of treatment. This will help prevent
head lice from spreading.
Remember to keep checking your family
member’s heads every 2 days until there are
no head lice found for 10 consecutive days.
All students (girls and boys) with collar
length hair must have it tied up at school at
all times.
Classroom News
Prep News
*Drink bottles: Please make sure your child
brings a drink bottle (named) every day.
*Presentation: A big thank you to all those
parents that joined us and shared our dance
experience.
*Munch/Crunch: In Term 4 we will not be
taking a morning break, this helps Prep
students prepare for year 1.
*Homework: There will be no homework in
week 10, we will recommence again in Term
4/Week 1.
*High Frequency Words: A reminder that all
Prep students need to complete Pre Primer
and Primer list of words by the end of Prep
2015. If you would like lists to continue
working on during the holidays, please ask.
*Prep 2016: If you know of any students that
may be interested in coming to our school
next year (Prep) then please tell them all
about our school, next Term interviews will
begin and Prep open days.
*Swimming: Swimming will begin in Week
2/Term 4. Your child needs to be able to
change themselves and organize self.
Students require swimmers that are easy for
them to put on, swim shirt and thongs to travel
to and from pool – in a named bag.
*Reading group help needed: Beginning
Week 2 Term 4 Tuesdays 9.30am10.00am we need a parent volunteer to help
with reading groups please.
Have a great holiday…
report time again and, therefore, lots of
assessment will be carried out in preparation
for our move to Year 5. Swimming will
commence, which everyone loves of course.
So until my return have a great and safe
holiday break.
Mr Stephen Smith
Years 4/5/6
Senior Story Arts Festival
On Monday Years Four, Five and Six travelled
into Ipswich to participate in the Story Arts
Festival. They participated in a variety of
workshops and listened and learned about
how real life authors and illustrators wrote
books. We had a wonderful day and learnt lots.
Some of the comments from the students are
included below.
The day was young. I am getting shoved and
pushed on the bus but I can handle it.
Everybody is talking to the person next to
them, but me, I’m just trying to fit a nap in on
the ride. As we merge into one file, we get off
the bus. Then it’s off to the Civic Centre to see
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton.
Rana
Thank you
Shouts, claps, echo through the room. Cheers
and more claps followed as they took the
stage, Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton.
Laughs break out as Terry draws a cartoon
and tells jokes.
Mrs Williams and The Prep Students
Skye
*Please ask if you are unsure about
anything…
Year 4 News
Well, here we are at the end of another Term.
This means, of course, that there is just one
more to go before a new year starts all over
again. Doesn’t time fly?
Speaking of a new Term… a quick note to let
you know that I shall be away until the end of
October/beginning of November. However,
year 4, in English, will be learning about
advertising. We will be continuing our maths
concepts but will be concentrating on Division.
We will be continuing our investigations into
Early Exploration of Australia in History. In
science we will be investigating ‘force’.
It has been a busy term especially,
considering all the extra curricula elements we
have included, for example, our Science Fair
and the Writer’s Festival. All great fun and we
did learn a lot. Fourth Term is another busy
one, as you can see from above. It will be
Hello everyone I’m here to tell you about the
amazing experience I had on Monday. We
went to the Story Arts Festival in Ipswich. My
favourite was seeing Mark Greenwood
because he told us stories about the books he
wrote and about all of the different and
amazing places he had explored.
Riley
Terry Denton (Illustrator) and Andy Griffiths
(Author) of Tree House Series.
Year 2
Curriculum Awards
Prep
Student of the Week:
Jacob
Special Awards:
Special Awards:
Kohen - Writing fantastic sizzling starts this
week. Well done!
Lincoln - Lincoln completes tasks neatly, he is
putting lots of effort into the presentation of his
work.
Scarlett - Writing fantastic sizzling starts this
week. Well done!
Arden - Arden is showing lots of confidence
and skill when reading and writing.
Tannayah - Tannayah is listening and trying
hard in class.
Seth - Seth is enjoying writing, he is using his
writing skills with confidence.
Manning - Manning is listening and trying hard
to complete his tasks independently.
Olivia - Olivia has completed Primer (Dolch)
High Frequency Words. Great work Olivia!
Piper - Piper has completed Primer (Dolch)
High Frequency Words. Great work Piper!
Sienna - Sienna has completed Primer (Dolch)
High Frequency Words. Great work Sienna!
Luka - Writing fantastic sizzling starts this
week. Well done!
Molly - Working extremely hard in the
classroom this week.
Good Reader Awards:
Successfully Completed Reading Links:
List and Module 1
Abby, Addison, Amy, Keely, Lauchlan, Tayla,
Stephanie, Molly, Nicolas, Scarlett, Jacob.
List and Module 2
Nicolas, Kobi, Luka, Sam.
Year 3
Year 1
Special Award:
Laila - For a great team project.
Special Awards:
Year 4
Successfully completing Reading Links:
List and Module 1:Lillie, Max, Kareem, Jayden, Jackson,
Matthew, Alastair, Kate, Keeley and Mikaylah.
Special Award:
Jackie - For a great team project.
List and Module 2:Matthew, Samuel, Jazmine, Rhianna,
Samantha, Matilda, Austin and Charlotte.
Year 5/6A
Birthdays
Special Award:
Cheyenne - For a great team project.
Year 5/6B
Rhianna, Finn, Zac, Amber, Ella, Beau, Judd,
Sam, Ameen, Elliott, Austin, Deegan, Seth,
Amy, Max, Ronin, Kohen and Kobi.
Happy Birthday from everyone at Minden
State School!
Student of the Week:
Aden - Excellent result in reading.
Digby - Fantastic progress with reading.
Special Awards:
Kathleena - Improvement in reading. Well
done!
Aden - For his consistent good choices and
showing of great leadership choices in
sometimes difficult situations.
Josh - For showing leadership skills and
choosing to do the right thing.
Samantha - Great results in maths
assessment.
Bailey - Great improvement through hard work
in reading and comprehension.
Thomas - Great work ethic in Science.
Isabella - Great results in her maths
assessment.
Corey - Displaying a good work ethic in Maths
resulting in great results in his assessment.
Kynan - For a great team project.