Tuesday Telegraph Week FOUR Term Four 2019 Texas P-10 State School Principal’s Report Last week I made mention of the fantastic parent and community body that we have supporting us here at Texas each day in a variety of ways. Today I would like to make mention of our staff and the great things that they do. Texas is a lucky town to have such dedicated and experienced staff who go above and beyond for each of the students. We have teachers and teacher aides with a vast amount of different experiences that collectively create a unique and A-grade team. Our cleaning and grounds staff do a fantastic job at keeping our school looking great in very trying times. And finally our administration staff work very hard to support the whole team in a very efficient way. We are all so lucky to be a part of this great school. As mentioned in our Week 1 Newsletter, swimming lessons are slightly different this year due to staffing changes and qualifications required to instruct swimming. There will be a small cost to parents for the instruction and transport but not for pool entry. Lessons are not based on the HPE curriculum but more about swim and survival skills. If you have any questions, please contact the office. Thank you for your continued support, Toni Day 29th Oct 2019 Cognitive Verb—Realise – Take an abstract idea and create something concrete. The action of realising allows us to take a complex or ambiguous collection of information and produce something, which has a clearer and more definite meaning. We realise when we turn coordinates into locations plotted on a grid. Texas P-10 State School Art Exhibion On Friday, 11 th October The Texas Regional Art Gallery held the opening of the Texas State School annual art exhibition. The gallery is currently exploding with a variety of artwork from year levels across the school exhibiting a range of sculpture, painting, collage, drawings and lino prints. This exhibition would not be possible without the continual support of the Texas Regional Art Gallery, dedicated staff and fantastic students. Thank you to all involved. The exhibition is currently showing until 8 th November. Please do yourself a favour and visit the gallery to see the artwork created by our talented students.
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Tuesday Telegraph Week FOUR Term Four 2019
Texas P-10 State School
Principal’s Report
Last week I made mention of the fantastic parent and community body that we have supporting us here at Texas each day in a variety of ways. Today I would like to make mention of our staff and the great things that they do. Texas is a lucky town to have such dedicated and experienced staff who go above and beyond for each of the students. We have teachers and teacher aides with a vast amount of different experiences that collectively create a unique and A-grade team. Our cleaning and grounds staff do a fantastic job at keeping our school looking great in very trying times. And finally our administration staff work very hard to support the whole team in a very efficient way. We are all so lucky to be a part of this great school.
As mentioned in our Week 1 Newsletter, swimming lessons are slightly different this year due to staffing changes and qualifications required to instruct swimming. There will be a small cost to parents for the instruction and transport but not for pool entry. Lessons are not based on the HPE curriculum but more about swim and survival skills. If you have any questions, please contact the office.
Thank you for your continued support, Toni Day
29th Oct 2019
Cognitive Verb—Realise – Take an abstract idea and create something concrete. The action of realising allows us to take a complex or ambiguous collection of information and produce something, which has a clearer and more definite meaning. We realise when we turn coordinates into locations plotted on a grid.
Texas P-10 State School Art Exhibition
On Friday, 11th October The Texas Regional Art Gallery held the opening
of the Texas State School annual art exhibition. The gallery is currently
exploding with a variety of artwork from year levels across the school
exhibiting a range of sculpture, painting, collage, drawings and lino prints.
This exhibition would not be possible without the continual support of the
Texas Regional Art Gallery, dedicated staff and fantastic students.
Thank you to all involved. The exhibition is currently showing until 8th
November. Please do yourself a favour and visit the gallery to see the
artwork created by our talented students.
November
4th School Swimming lessons start
8th Texas Has Talent
19th School Social 5pm—6.30pm
22nd Dress Down Day—Red for Daniel Mor-combe Foundation
25th Awards Night
27th Year 10 Parade 2-3pm
29th Last Day for Yr 10
29th Swimming Carnival
30th Yr 10 Dinner
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Dates to Remember
Be RespectfulBe Respectful
RESPECT OTHERS’ RIGHTS WHEN PLAYING
Always respect others’ rights when playing.
Attendance Award
Whole school = 93.5% Highest Class = 97% YEARs 1 and 5
Legacy Colour In Poster Competition Winners
Congratulations to Sam H in Prep and to Sophie C in Year 6 both have won the
colour in competition for their age groups for this region. Shirley from Legacy came and presented the students with their prizes.
Jett B
Amelia H Briar K Sal-
Lea
h R
Joseph M
Tika M
Asha D
HPE REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL STUDENTS
As the temperature starts to rise, parents are reminded to send
students to school with a school hat and a water bottle. Many of
our HPE lessons are conducted outdoors and although students
are applying sunscreen, they also need a hat and water to remain
hydrated.
Thank you in
advance. Mrs
Trim
Reminder of Swimming
Lessons starting next week.
Weeks
5, 6, 7
MON-DAY
TUES-DAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
PERIOD 1 Year 8 Prep Prep Prep Year 7
PERIOD 2 Year 7
Year 2/3
Year 2/3 Year 2/3
Year 8
PERIOD 3 Year 6
Year 4
Year 4
Year 4
Year 5
PERIOD 4 Year 5
Year 1
Year 1
Year 1
Year 6
Gracie S
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Chappy Chatter with Chappy Jason
In week 1 I was privileged to be invited on a school camp.
This particular camp took the students on a challenging
journey of individual, personal transformation and helped
them take steps towards realising their own FULL potential, as well as the potential
of those around them. This is something we could ALL use some help realising! We are
ALL created for great things, but many never achieve them, for several different
reasons. Firstly, if we don’t believe in ourselves, who else will? This is sometimes hard
if we haven’t been blessed with people around us to encourage the self-belief. Secondly,
we often think it is too hard before we have even tried. Have a go! Thirdly, because
we don’t have good self-belief, we don’t talk positively about ourselves or the challenge.
Our words have the ‘power of LIFE and DEATH’, so how will we use them? How are
we helping our students reach their FULL potential?
Friday Enrichment - Theatre Sports
This term we are offering Theatre Sports as one of the activities for Friday Enrichment.
Theatre Sports is a form of improvisational drama. Along with learning the techniques
and elements of Drama, the students in this group are creating a drama script to perform
as an overall group piece. So far, the ideas for this piece include genres such as comedy
and melodrama. The students are participating in all activities with great enthusiasm and
are eager to share their inner Jack Sparrow.
Science
This year students have learnt some fascinating
things and done fantastic work in science. As
the high school come to midterm and is getting
ready to start assessment, students should take
this time to look on their past work and
achievements. Below is a collection on
“highlight” photos from this year so far. Enjoy!
Year 6
This next month will be a busy one for Year 6, with swimming lessons taking place soon and students finishing off
their final subject assessments. Over the past 3 weeks, we were lucky enough to have Matthew Mullens, a
passionate, first-year university student, teach us a range of subjects. He thoroughly enjoyed his time here and the
Year 6 students should be congratulated for their determination and motivation to succeed even when their ‘usual’
classroom teacher wasn’t delivering the lessons.
In English, students are experimenting with persuasive language and text structures to write an eye catching
holiday advertisement. Students are working on daily writing tasks that lead to their final advertisement, which
they will present to the class at the end of term, Year 6 parents will see how the students’ writing is progressing
each fortnight, as they take their tasks home. This is a great opportunity for parents to gauge their child is
progressing in their writing ability. Mathematics is all
about chance, probability and data collection, while in
Science, students will be investigating the environmen-
tal conditions that impact the growth of mould, to
determine the best place to store bread in the home.
HASS will introduce us to our Migration History, and
the students are at present developing questions for
the purpose of interviewing Ms Nettie, a ‘ten-pound
pom’. Art will be creative and challenging this term as
the students learn about the aboriginal symbols used
to document ‘walkabouts’. They will use this
knowledge to carve their own ‘walkabout’ journey into
a coil pot they will make from clay.
Parents, please look out for the Curriculum snapshot
which students will be bringing home his week.
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Texas JRL AGM Tuesday 5/11/19 @
The Stockman Hotel 6pm
All positions declared vacant.
For any information contact Simone
Uniform
shop is open
on a
Wednesday
afternoon
from 3.15pm
Have any of your details
or your child details
changed? If so Please
contact the office so we
can update your records.
0746533333.
The Texas Torture on the Border Committee would like to extended it's
appreciation and thank all the incredible volunteers and community groups that
came together over the weekend to make our event successful.
Without the help of our amazing volunteers this event would not be possible
so thank you for taking time out of your weekend to make this event the success that it is each year. Until next year Alana,
