Jubilation Jubilee Primary School Weekly Newsletter, Tuesday 22nd October 2013 34 Manra Way, Pacific Pines 4211 PO Box 486, Helensvale 4212 Ph: 07 55028566 Fax: 07 55028522 Email: [email protected]Web: www.jubileeprimary.qld.edu.au Important Dates to Remember Prep 2014 Parent Information Night Tuesday 22nd October Early Years Centre 6pm -7pm P & F School Disco Friday 25th October Prep-Yr.3 5.30-7.00pm Yr.4-Yr.7 7.30-9.00pm Book Fair Week 4th- 8th November Grandparents & Special Friends Day Friday 8th November 9.00am Remembrance Day Jubilee Service in BCA 11th Nov. 10.45am-11.15am Catholic Schools Readers Cup Wednesday 13th November St Augustines @JubileePrimary Download to Smart Phone App. https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ jubileeprimary- Dear Parents and Caregivers, Jubilee Primary School now has an App for smartphones. Download for either an iPhone or Android. Just go to your App Store and search Jubilee Primary School, download the free app and you’re ready to receive the latest news, connect to our website, call or email the school, find out where sporting venues are, send the school photos, calendar dates and most importantly receive messages (instant weather updates for event cancellations e.g. Athletics Carnival). INCONCEIVABLE ‘The Princess Bride’ is a child’s fairytale about a beautiful princess who falls in love with a handsome young man, but before they can get married the beautiful princess is kidnapped by the scheming, Vizzini, and his two friends, - the slow but good-hearted giant and the expert swordsman. As these kidnappers are trying to get away, Vizzini keeps repeating his favorite word,`Inconceivable!’ Every time he says it viewers laugh, - because every time, he thinks some- thing is ‘absolutely, totally, and in every other way complete- ly inconceivable’ - it actually happens! A recurring theme in our narrative of faith is that the inconceivable actually happens. The Apostles Creed affirms that what is ‘absolutely, totally, and in every other way completely inconceivable,’ - a virgin giving birth, - actually happened. In Luke’s Gospel we discover how the inconceivable is conceived. Simply put, the Holy Spirit powers through and towers over (Luke ch1.v34-36). Our own experience confirms this truth. In a climate of financial stress and declining church attendance God’s vision of expanding facilities and creating new church campuses was conceived. On the 13 th of October 2013, Newlife Uniting Church, Pacific Pines, celebrated its second birthday, with a parent dedication and a Kidzlife Service. On the 3 rd of November 2013 both campuses will worship togeth- er in our new facility at Robina. Therefore there will not be a worship service here in the MPH at Jubilee on that day.This weekend, the 27 th October, we will be holding a ‘Thanksgiving Service,’ thanking God for the gift of two beautiful girls. If you have never seen a Thanksgiving Service we invite you to join us at 9:00am in the Jubilee Centre. Orrell Battersby: Minister of Newlife Uniting Church, Pacific Pines.
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Jubilation Jubilee Primary School Weekly Newsletter, Tuesday 22nd October 2013
Dear Parents and Caregivers, Jubilee Primary School now has an App for smartphones. Download for either an iPhone or Android. Just go to your App Store and search Jubilee Primary School, download the free app and you’re ready to receive the latest news, connect to our website, call or email the school, find out where sporting venues are, send the school photos, calendar dates and most importantly receive messages (instant weather updates for event cancellations e.g. Athletics Carnival).
INCONCEIVABLE
‘The Princess Bride’ is a child’s fairytale about a beautiful princess who falls in love with a handsome young man, but before they can get married the beautiful princess is kidnapped by the scheming, Vizzini, and his two friends, - the slow but good-hearted giant and the expert swordsman. As these kidnappers are trying to get away, Vizzini keeps repeating his favorite word,`Inconceivable!’ Every time he says it viewers laugh, - because every time, he thinks some-thing is ‘absolutely, totally, and in every other way complete-ly inconceivable’ - it actually happens! A recurring theme in
our narrative of faith is that the inconceivable actually happens. The Apostles Creed affirms that what is ‘absolutely, totally, and in every other way completely inconceivable,’ - a virgin giving birth, - actually happened. In Luke’s Gospel we discover how the inconceivable is conceived. Simply put, the Holy Spirit powers through and towers over (Luke ch1.v34-36). Our own experience confirms this truth. In a climate of financial stress and declining church attendance God’s vision of expanding facilities and creating new church campuses was conceived. On the 13th of October 2013, Newlife Uniting Church, Pacific Pines, celebrated its second birthday, with a parent dedication and a Kidzlife Service. On the 3rd of November 2013 both campuses will worship togeth-er in our new facility at Robina. Therefore there will not be a worship service here in the MPH at Jubilee on that day.This weekend, the 27th October, we will be holding a ‘Thanksgiving Service,’ thanking God for the gift of two beautiful girls. If you have never seen a Thanksgiving Service we invite you to join us at 9:00am in the Jubilee Centre.
Orrell Battersby: Minister of Newlife Uniting Church, Pacific Pines.
Since 2002, the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Community Child Health has run a Let’s Read program in partnership with The Smith Family. Its aim? To make reading to young children “an integral part of early childhood development,” the Centre’s director, Professor Frank Oberklaid, told
me in an interview 11 years ago.
“In the same way that we immunise children against the possibility of getting infectious diseases, we are arguing that reading to young children in the first few years of life is the best way of immunising them against poor literacy later on,” he said. More than a decade down the track, the report card for the children the Let’s Read program is trying to reach isn’t exactly g lowing – and that isn’t my appraisal, it’s that of Peter Garrett. Before he resigned as the federal Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, Garrett penned
a newspaper article headlined ‘We cannot be proud of our literacy levels’.
“Australia's overall literacy results have not been improving, and we are well behind many other countries in literacy tests,” Garrett wrote in The Daily Telegraph in April 2013. “Reading is the core skill that every student needs to succeed in school and in life. But too many Australian kids are
not getting the basics they need to progress through their schooling confidently, and to get a job when they leave school.”
Garrett offered as examples the fact that around 75,000 students who sat NAPLAN tests in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 in 2012 didn’t meet national minimum standards. In Year 4 reading, one in four students are not meeting international benchmarks. In the most recent tests conducted in 2010, Australia performed worst out of all English-speaking countries; our score was lower than that of21 other nations. This result is made worse when you consider that literacy is defined by the United Nations as a basic human right. In response, Garrett unveiled a series of reforms, one of which was that hundreds of thousands of children would be assessed in their first year of school to find out whether they are at risk of falling behind and require extra help. In addition there would be a three-year ‘reading blitz’ for 1.1 million students from kindergarten to Year 3.
But the $64 million question is this: will these reforms actually improve Australian children’s literacy levels?
One expert, Annemarie Laurence, a clinical educator in speech pathology with the Speech Pathology in Schools (SPinS) program run by the University of Newcastle, fears not. Identifying ‘at-risk’ children at the age of five is “two years too late”, warns Ms Laurence, who works every day with children struggling with literacy. In The Sydney Morning Herald, Ms Laurence painted a wretched picture of the plight of the children with whom she works. “In the years before they started school, an outing for these children was being pushed around in a stroller at the local Westfield [shopping centre]. They have an iPad. They rarely have a book read to them. Their language is not stimulated regularly by conversation and questioning. They may have a speech delay so perhaps both familiar and unfamiliar people might have difficulties understanding what they are saying. They arrive on the mat on the first day of kindergarten with a mild receptive language delay (comprehension) and a severe expressive language delay (expression). If you think I sound a bit
doom and gloom, my own research shows that in the schools I work in, about 40 per cent of the kindergarten children will present this way.”
Although disadvantaged children are certainly at a higher risk of lower levels of literacy, even in higher socio-economic circles there exists a misapprehension that a child will succeed at school whether he is read to or not – just because both of his parents can string sentences together. In a joint article in Scientific American magazine in 2002,a group of five US researchers – professors of psychology, linguistics and paediatrics – noted that “although many parents might think that innate intelligence will govern how well their kids learn to read no matter what type of instruction
is given, the evidence suggests otherwise”.
Indeed, as Professor Oberklaid points out, the foundations for literacy are established long before children start school. “Young children who are exposed to words and language develop language but literacy is a learned skill ... and so by the time children get to school, when the brain is well
on its way to being developed, children who are vulnerable find it very hard to catch up,” he told ABC TV’s News Breakfast program.
Professor Oberklaid went on to say that while reading booksto children is important, creating a “language-rich environment” to establish strong literacy building blocks is also crucial. “The theme is ‘anytime, anywhere’,” he said. “It can be a walk in the park; it can be looking at street signs
(and) introducing children to the idea that words have meaning.”
The underlying message could not be clearer: make reading to kids a habit as non-negotiable as the ritual of brushing teeth.
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As Paul Jennings, author of The Reading Bug ... and how you can help your child to catch it, puts it: “Our happy ending is to know that no matter where they go, children lost in books will always find their way home”. The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud – it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.” Mem Fox, author of Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever. Fox, a literacy consultant and the bestselling author of such classic children’s books as Possum Magic and Time For Bed, has spent much of the past 20 years urging parents to read aloud to their chil-dren – particularly in their first few years of life. Her book for adults, Reading Magic, espouses the many benefits of doing so – such as developing children’s ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly. These are Mem Fox’s 10 ‘Read Aloud Commandments’ for parents and caregivers: 1. Spend at least ten wildly happy minutes every single day reading aloud. 2. Read at least three stories a day: it may be the same story three times. Children need to hear a thousand stories before they can begin to learn to read. 3. Read aloud with animation. Listen to your own voice and don’t be dull, or flat, or boring. Hang loose and be loud, have fun and laugh a lot. 4. Read with joy and enjoyment: real enjoyment for yourself and great joy for the listeners. 5. Read the stories that the kids love, over and over and over again, and always read in the same ‘tune’ for each book: i.e. with the same intonations on each page, each time. 6. Let children hear lots of language by talking to them constantly about the pictures, or anything else connected to the book; or sing any old song that you can remember; or say nursery rhymes in a bouncy way; or be noisy together doing clapping games. 7. Look for rhyme, rhythm or repetition in books for young children, and make sure the books are really short. 8. Play games with the things that you and the child can see on the page, such as letting kids finish rhymes, and finding the letters that start the child’s name and yours, remembering that it’s never work, it’s always a fabulous game. 9. Never ever teach reading, or get tense around books. 10. Please read aloud every day, mums and dads, because you just love being with your child, not because it’s the right thing to do. YR 2F VERSE SPEAKING 2F performed at the Gold Coast Eisteddfod showcase a few Sundays ago. Ms Alex Martin received this email from the General Manager of the Eisteddfod saying how great the children were. They did Jubilee proud. So, I thought I would include it here: To all those who participated in Jubilee Primary's Speech Choir, our sincere thanks for your performance at yesterday's "Musicale" at the Arts Centre. We have had fabulous feedback from those who attended commenting on the fabulous items - the two pieces presented by the Choir were simply outstanding. We really appreciate your efforts - also many thanks to your wonderful conductor. We did have a photographer there so if anyone wants to purchase a photo, do let us know. See you for the 2014 Eisteddfod. All the very best, Judith Ferber General Manager GOLD COAST EISTEDDFOD YEAR 6 CAMP I would like to congratulate all of our Year 6 Students for the way in which they conducted themselves during our recent Sydney/Canberra Trip. I would particularly like to thank the staff that attended Troy Parsons (Organiser), Leanne Collins, David Higgins, Amber Vague & Joanne Riddell. It was a great trip and they all did Jubilee proud! A MOMENT’S THOUGHT …
“Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work."
Orison Sweet Marden
God bless you and best wishes for the week ahead.
David Sewell
PRINCIPAL
G’day everyone
Welcome to Week 3 of Term 4. This is my first opportunity to communicate with you since my return from long service leave and, as much as we‘d all like our holidays to be endless, it is great to be back at Jubilee. Janice and I had an amazing 3 - 4 week caravanning holiday through central Australia, which included visits to places such as Roma, Lon-greach, Mt Isa, Tennant Creek, The Devil’s Marbles, Alice Springs, King’s Canyon, Uluru, The Olgas, Coober Pedy, Broken Hill and Bourke. During our travels we certainly had a true taste of outback and central Australia and, despite the heat, red dust and flies; I’d thoroughly recommend the experience to all Australians and visitors.
APA Weekly News
with Brian
I’d like to take the opportunity to acknowledge and thank Shane Parry and Meg King, who stood in as Acting APA at various stages in my absence and I hear that they did a great job during that time. Year 6 Sydney Canberra Trip This week we welcome back our Yr. 6 students and staff from their Sydney-Canberra trip last week. I’ve heard nothing but positive reports back about the trip and the behaviour of our Yr. 6 students. I’ve been on that trip a number of times and it is a massive, but very worthwhile undertaking, so I’d like to congratulate all involved. Prep 2014 Parent Information Evening Tonight we hold our Information Evening for parents of students enrolled for Prep next year. The evening will take place in the Early Years Centre between 6:00 – 7:00pm. Jubilee Student Discos this Friday Night There is a buzz of excitement around once again with our student discos taking place in the Jubilee Centre this Friday night. Our P-Yr.3 Disco will operate from 5.30pm – 7.00pm and our Yr’s 4-7 Disco will operate from 7.30pm-9.00 pm. I’m sure everyone will have a blast ! Have a great Week 3 everyone ! Cheers,
Brian Mason, APA
Jo’s APRE Weekly News
Have a great week everyone,
Yours in faith
Jo Riddell
Wow what a start to Term 4… It is good to be back in the Sunshine State after a chilly week in Canberra and Sydney. What a great week it was. The children were beautifully behaved and were a pleasure to take away. It was a good opportunity to see the true spirit of Jubilee. The trip away made me appreciate just how good we have it up here in this beautiful state. This will be a very big term with lots of major school events coming up. The first of those being World Teachers Day this Friday, Please join us at 9 am on Friday morning to Celebrate the great work that the wonderful teachers do here at Jubilee.
Weekly Update with Alistair Davies
Grade 5,6 and 7 Intra- School Sport This starts next Monday. Sports include; Basketball, Tee Ball and Super 8 Cricket. All grades have been divided into mixed teams of 9, 10 or 11 depending on Grade numbers. The program will go from week 4 to week 9 (6 weeks) and selected teams will be advertised in classrooms by the end of this week. A Competition Draw will also be available later this week. Each Monday Grade 5’s will play their rostered games from 9.40 am – 10.40 am Grade 6’s from 11.20 am – 12.20 pm Grade 7’s from 12.20 pm – 1.20 pm Catholic Aquathon Notices/invitations to attend will come out later this week. Competition is on Wednesday 13th November at Currumbin. Athletics Tops Still waiting on 12 tops. Please return by the end of this week or invoices to replace will be sent home. Running Club Every Wednesday from week 2 – week 8. See you at 7.35 am for our 30 minutes of cardio vascular fitness.
Yours in Sport / HPE Alistair Davies
AB PATERSON SPEECH COMPETITION 2013 Last Tuesday afternoon, and evening, ten Year 5 students and two Year 7 students participated in the 2013 speech competition heats at A. B. Paterson College. The competition is known for the high standards it reaches. Our students represented our school proudly and did an amazing job of presenting their prepared speech. I was lucky enough to see all of them and was impressed with their professionalism and great attitude. They made me proud to be a Jubilee teacher. The Year 5 students who prepared a speech were: Jessica Boundy, Ella Taylor, Mark Meredith, Lilly Hagan, Ethan Cook, Abby Sellars, Natsha Nair, Isabelle Jones, Emily Chase, Bridget Vayro and Laura McCabe. Congratulations to all of them for their great efforts. The Year 7 students were: Kimberley Martin-Blakey and Lily Tobin. I would like to congratulate them all on their efforts. They are all talented and capable students. Two of our students, Abby Sellars and Bridget Vayro have made it through to the Preliminary Finals, which are being held to-night, Tuesday 22nd. We wish them every success as they once again present their speeches. Bridget’s topic is “Life is Beauti-ful” while Abby is speaking to “In Someone Else’s Shoes”. Girls, you will be in our thoughts as you compete tonight. Thank you to all the parents who supported their children in the competition. We know you are as proud of your child as we are.
Karen Hallett and the Year 5 and 7 Teachers
Guitar Lessons for students in Year’s 1 - 7
Group sessions (30min)
Guitars and music books are supplied free of charge for use during Term 4. Lessons are held on Mondays (during school time) payment is weekly for Term 4
For more information Contact: 0403 645 045 or [email protected] Queensland Conservatorium qualified teacher
(Bach of Mus Hons Guitar)
or
Complete the below form and return to the school office and the guitar teacher will contact you
Parent Name: _______________________ Child’s Name: ___________________________Class:_____ Mobile Number:___________________ Kind Regards,
Stuart Humphries
Sunshine Village Orphanage in Phuket
Would like to thank the Jubilee Community for the $469.00
donation presented to them by staff member Sue Bayliss
Jack Duggan, 2F, has a little sister who needs our help. Maddy is Autistic and the family are trying to get her a re-homed guide dog, however the cost is $2000. So please come along and share in an exciting night of mingling, eating and
raising money for this amazing family.
Saturday 26th October 2013 from 6pm QCWA Memorial Hall
161 Maudsland Road, Maudsland (across the road from Coomera Lodge/Liquorland)
Please bring a plate of food to share, something to drink and an item to donate to the silent auction.
Please RSVP to Karen on 0429987472 or Cassie on 0402 134362. Let’s help support this wonderful Jubilee Family.
DISCO ARMBANDS... PRE-PURCHASE $5… ALSO AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR Armbands are on sale from now – Wednesday, Thursday & Friday Mornings 8.15am Afternoons Wednesday & Thursday2.45pm – Office See the flyer attached to this newsletter for more information…
Family Fun Day We are excited to announce that this year we made approx. $14,000 (still awaiting a commission cheque) but another HUGE year so congratulations to all those who helped make it an amazing event.
It is with sadness that I share that I will be unable to run the Family Fun Day next year, due to work and study commitments, so the P&F is looking for someone who might like to coordinate this much loved and important school event. Please feel free to contact me directly if you’d like to have a chat about what’s involved with running the day. All other P&F coordinator roles with be advertised next week via an online survey that we are putting together to help form a plan for the P&F for 2014 so stay tuned…
Also keep an eye out for the P&F latest minutes which will have a detailed list of the different Jubilee Stalls and the amazing profits that they made. Once again congratulations and thank you to all involved.
Rhonda Verheijen – Family Fun Day Coordinator – 0419 728745 [email protected]
Volunteers Needed If you are able to assist contact Kim Seed on
0417 112 298
Resource Centre News
Reader of the Week:
Congratulations to:
PREP F: Lincoln James 3L: Lilli Secomb & Claudia Hanselmann
PREP L: Parker Battams 3U: Rebecca Clake
PREP U: Monique De Vere 3F: Briyana Rodger
PREP J: Mahli Keenan-Clements
1F: Emily Lees 4F: Nicholas Stoewer
1U: Cameron Dougherty 4U: Ethan Barton 6F:
1L: 4L: Sinead Murphy 6L:
4J: Mitchell Armstrong
2L: Quintyn Vella 5F: James Rejon 7F: Laura Alcott
2U: Blake Orsi 5L: 7L: Tanisha Ellems
2F: Cameron McGeachie
Deb Sketcher
Raffle winners Will, 5F, and Cooper, 4 F!
They both chose “Skateboard Slams” as their
prizes.
SCHOLASTIC BOOKCLUB ORDERS
Closing tomorrow
Orders must be received by 3.00pm on Wednesday
Scholastic Online payment system. Jubilee can no longer accept cash for Book Club purchases. Please follow the payment instruc-
tions on the back of the order form
www.scholastic.com.au/payment
What Am I?
I am about 5 interesting characters;
I am set in an ancient castle;
I have some classic villains;
I have a mystery that some very persistent and inquisitive children solve.
Answer: The first of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five Mystery stories- Five on a Treasure Island. We recently purchased the entire Famous Five and Secret Seven series and I was wondering how to promote them to the students. Last week, we decided to have a movie day as all of these stories are available on You Tube. We were very happily surprised at the amazing response from students from Year 1 to Year 7! Now, I am being asked many times a day, when the next one will be on and Enid Blyton is a name on many students’ lips!
your child’s enrolment is cancelled for next year.
Tuckshop & Uniform Shop
NEWS
Our canteen is online!
Jubilee Primary School has teamed up with Munch Monitor to offer a convenient and easy to use online service. You no longer need to give your child cash for Tuckshop lunches, no more writing out Tuckshop lunch orders or looking for lunch money in the morning allowing your child to purchase from your online account. You can order up to 4 weeks in advance (edit or delete the order right up until 9.00am on the day of the order) no more lost or forgotten lunch orders. Money is topped-up on the account using VISA/MasterCard online or cash at the canteen. Access account statements online.
Click on the link on the Jubilee App (online ordering) or go to www.munchmonitor.com
Enter Username: jubilee
Password: munch4211 then click “login”
Click “Sign Up” and follow the simple steps to get started.
There’s an account keeping fee of $2.50 per Parent Account per Term!
Second Hand Uniform Sale which was held last Friday has sold uniform items from the following families; Harris, Tighe,
The Uniform Shop is now online. Orders can be place through munch monitor. Orders will be processed
within 48 hours and delivered to the student to take home.
For parents of Prep 2014 students the uniform shop will be open on Thursday 31st October 8.00-9.00am & 11am –12.00 Noon. Any Enquiries? Contact Jane on [email protected]
