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Clare State School
The Messenger
Our Focus – ‘The Big Three for 2020’:
1. WRITING - Develop a way of teaching writing across all curriculum
areas so that all staff are teaching writing the same way.
2. DATA - Collect student data for Mathematics, Writing and Reading to
correlate with our Level of Achievement data and NAPLAN and to
form student learning goals.
3. Enrolments - Increase Enrolments to 21 students
Achieved Partially or Nearly Achieved Yet to be Commenced/Not achieved
We will know that we have achieved this when:
Writing, Spelling and Handwriting Scope and Sequences developed and in use.
Writing Revolution ideas shared with staff and these ideas are included in unit and daily
planning.
All student data is recorded in OneSchool and is used in fortnightly Case Management Meetings
which involve goal setting, monitoring and reviewing phases.
All teaching staff and students can articulate their learning goals.
Learning goals are aligned to student data and are shared with families.
90% of students achieving C or better in English, Maths, Science and HASS. 45% of students
achieving A-B in English, Maths, Science and HASS.
100% students to achieve above National Minimum Standard and 45% to achieve upper 2 bands
for NAPLAN.
School Opinion Survey – Staff, parents and students 100% agree with curriculum demands and
curriculum being taught.
All unit, daily and lesson plans to include evidence of the Maker Model being used for
differentiation.
Practices for mentoring, observation, feedback and moderation are formalised and occur at least
twice per term.
All staff undertake professional development in accordance with their Professional Development
Plan, which is centred around the School’s Explicit Improvement Agenda.
21 students enrolled.
Childcare service (after School Care) set up in Clare.
All families with prep children in 2021 enrolled at Clare SS.
8 or more families accessing playgroup.
Important Dates
4/3 – Playgroup 10/3 – Playgroup 18/3 – Playgroup
20/3 – National Day of 24/3 – Playgroup 26/3 – Epilepsy Awareness Day
Action Against Bullying and
Violence
27/3 – Small Schools’ Cross 28/3 – Local Election 1/4 – Playgroup
Country
2/4 – Parent Teacher 3/4 – Last Day of Term
Interviews
Thursday 27 February
From the Principal
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Today, our school community came together along with invited guests to induct our 2020 student
leaders. Congratulations to the following students; Laurence Tomasetig (School Captain), Jace Bethel
(Sports Captain), Ronin Kovacich (Student Council President), Lanie Booth (Student Council Secretary),
Myer Wyburg, (Student Council Treasurer) and Jaiden Booth (Student Leader). I look forward to working
with these student leaders to make our school and community a better place for all. They already have a
number of ideas that they want to do. The challenge is now for them to lead from the front and ensure
that they happen. Good luck to our student leaders.
Last week, our Parents and Citizens’ Association also held their Annual General Meeting. Thank you to
the following people who were sworn in as the executive for 2020; President – Stephanie Eckford, Vice
President – Pippa Tomasetig, Secretary – Sonya Elmazis and Treasurer – Rachael Booth. Our P&C do a
wonderful job ensuring that our students and school community are very well equipped and looked after.
Thank you to all members of our P&C for their continued efforts and support. I would love to see all
families represented at our next meeting.
Sincerely,
Troy Patti
Principal
In the Classroom
All students are now well and
truly into the swing of things in
the classroom with classroom
routines now well established.
It has been pleasing to see a
number of students starting to
take the initiative and getting
themselves ready for activities
that they know are about to
happen in the classroom. Well
done kids!
In English, students in P-2 have
been busy retelling narrative
stories that are based on
princesses and dragons. They
have really enjoyed the book “Hunting for Dragons”; a humorous book that details the ventures of a
young girl who tries to capture a dragon in her house. Students have also been identifying parts of
speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives and pronouns), stating their likes and dislikes of a text and making
personal connections to the text.
Our year 3-6 students have also been learning about all things narrative. They too have been learning
about different language features and they have been analyzing their effect on different texts. The
students have also been accessing the Queensland Government’s online e-reader library where they
have been reading the quest novel “Deltora Quest – The City of Rats”. They have really enjoyed reading
this book and have been analyzing the different textual and language features used by the author. They
have two assessment tasks that they are working towards for this unit; an analysis of a chapter or a
short story as well as writing their own narrative.
In mathematics, the students have been learning about the following:
Prep – Numbers to 10 and sorting objects
Year 1 – Addition and subtraction – identifying the parts and the whole amount.
Year 2 – Counting in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s.
Year 3 – Representing and writing numbers to 1000.
Year 5 – Representing unit fractions, comparing fractions and locating fractions on a number line.
Year 6 – Chance and data. Making dot plots and picture graphs and retrieving and analyzing data from
different types of graphs.
In other subject areas, the P-2 students are about to complete their first assessment task in Physical
Education. For this task, they will be
getting their ball skills assessed. The
year 3-4 students will also complete
their first assessment in this subject
next week. They have been
practicing circus tricks and will
perform a short circus routine. Our
year 5 and 6 students are also
commencing their first part of their
HASS assessment, which links in
with the work that they have been
doing with graphs in Mathematics.
Playgroup
The Clare State School Playgroup has started again for this year.
Playgroup is a fantastic way for young children to play and learn with
others and is also an excellent outing for parents. So far this year, our
playgroup has had a lot of interest from families in the Clare community,
which is pleasing to see.
Leadership Camp
Two weeks ago, our
year 6 students attended the Grip Leadership
Conference in Townsville as part of their
leadership camp. The students had a wonderful
time learning all of the important elments that
make a great leader. Their participation in the
interactive conference was second to none with
all students eagerly contributing infront of a large
audience of student leaders from other schools.
Following the Conference, the students
brainstormed ideas that they would like to
engage with throughout this year. These ideas
covered fundraising, school projects and
community projects. These will be tabled at
the first student council meeting.
After a spot of swimming, a delicious meal at
Longboard Bar and Grill, a play at the Strand
and some gelato to finish the night, the
students were ready for day 2. On this day,
they first of all went to the Drill Hall Art Studio
where they made model castles out of corflute. After that they went to Kingpin Bowling and Laser Tag.
Here, the students had heaps of fun but it should be noted that the teachers beat the students at both
bowling and laser tag! We then returned home, well and truly exhausted.
Burdekin Small Schools’ Cross Country
The Burdekin Small Schools’ Cross Country will be held at Gumlu State School again this year.
Permission forms are attached as well as a tuckshop order form. Please return these to school,
especially the tuckshop form, promptly. Thank you.
NAPLAN Online
In Term 2, students in year 3 and 5 will be completing NAPLAN Online. This is the second year that our
school has completed the NAPLAN testing online. We will be commencing practice tests in the next
couple of weeks to ensure that our students are familiar with the NAPLAN Online Testing Platform. We
will include weekly computer lessons and will commence NAPLAN practices through the NAPLAN Public
Demonstration Site (https://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/public-demonstration-site) where
students can practice answering NAPLAN-style questions and familiarize themselves with the testing
platform. This site is also accessible to students and parents at home and I strongly encourage all
families with students in year 2-6 to log in to this site to help your child with their preparations and
increase everyone’s understanding of NAPLAN Online. If you have any questions regarding NAPLAN
Online, please make a time to come and speak with us.
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