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Last day Term 3 Oct 05 Public Holiday— Queen’s birthday Oct 06 Day 1, Term 4
Principal: Mr Jamie Feeney D/Principal: Mrs Wendy Ross BSM: Mrs Michelle Sweeney School Captains: Brayden Manttan Takiyah Sweet Vice Captains: Lachlan Thompson Lily Law Cultural Officers Jandee Ebreo Cheyenne Hope House Captains
Banksia: Tristan Calicetto
Brayden Skinner Blue Gum: Caylen Bann
Jarek Taylor Wattle: Jazmyn Camilleri
Blake Wayman
No. 11 27th August, 2020
From the Principal—Mr Jamie Feeney
As crazy as it seems to be saying this at the end of August, COVID is still impacting on what we’re doing at Northview!
Over the next few weeks, the teaching staff will be exploring a variety of online learning
platforms by running our staff meetings
through a different one each week. We’ll then choose one which best meets our community’s needs. We’ll then have time to teach our children (and ourselves!) how to use the platform. I’ll also invite parents one year group at a time to take them through how the platform works, so you’ll know what’s coming in the event of a sudden lockdown. There will of course be an offline option, but my recommendation would be that everyone engage in the online version if at all possible. It will be much more effective, and will provide additional support to
the children which just isn’t available through paper. I’ll be sending out a text survey shortly (accompanied by an email explanation) to determine what kind of devices and networks our families would have access to in the event of school closure.
We’re still asking adults to stay away from the school to help with social distancing. With tennis happening on Tuesday and Wednesday morning before school, I know some parents are
reluctant to let their young children walk to the courts unaccompanied, and so are driving down the driveway on the
northern side of the school. The driveway is quite narrow, and I have some concerns about congestion with multiple cars coming and going at the same time each morning. To give parents another option, I’ll be waiting to walk the children to the tennis courts at the front of the school from 7:30am on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so feel free to drop them off to me at the stop, drop and go.
And on that note, there seems to have been some confusion with our parent teacher interviews. We are trying to limit on-site interviews. Teachers have indicated on your child’s report card if they would like to meet with you, which indicates that there’s something specific they would like to discuss with you. Where possible, we’re asking that these interviews happen over the phone. If you have any queries about your interviews, please contact your child’s teacher.
Regards, Jamie Feeney SCHOOL OFFICE HOURS 08:00AM to 03:30PM
NEWSLETTER
Growing Together. 54 Pioneer Street Mount Pleasant Qld 4740 p: 4965 6888 f: 4965 6800 e: [email protected]A NOTE FROM YOUR
SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHER
School photos are almost upon us again! The school has engaged MSP Photography to create our school records this year and you are invited to purchase prints of your child.
On photo day, every student will be photographed regardless of whether you are purchasing or not. Your child will bring home a personalised order envelope from the photographers. Please take care to
read and follow all the instructions carefully. This will ensure your order is processed smoothly and efficiently and will help you to avoid any late fees.
You will have the option to order online or with cash in your student’s envelope. Please take care to follow the instructions carefully.
Additional order envelopes are available from the school office for separated parents, blended families
and grandparents. You will need to collect these on or before photo day and give it to the
photographer on photo day. Be sure to write “Mum’s order” or “Dad’s order” on top of your envelope.
COVID 19 NOTICE
Due to the current social distancing health directive proscribed by law, school photographers are obligated to social distance from all students, school staff and parents whilst visiting your school. This is a hard and fast rule that we cannot break or bend. As a result of this requirement, it means
that we have had to remove any traditional group photos (including sibling photos) from our offerings until such time as social distancing requirements are lifted.
We are truly sorry for any disappointment that this causes and appreciate your understanding that these circumstances are outside of our control.
As school staff are unable to help with photography enquiries or payments, please direct your questions and comments directly to MSP Photography by phoning
4921 3355 or to [email protected]
Thank you for working with us through these unusual times and we look forward to a great photo day.
STUDENTS
OF THE WEEK — 17/08/2020 & 24/08/2020
PD Ella Wilson & Grayce Hall
Lennon Mack & Sam Cook Trying very hard to improve writing rhymes. Fabulous work hearing and writing rhymes. PJ Harley Koschel
Ava Austin Clever rhyming sentences. Well done Harley! Trying really hard and fantastic improvement in the classroom. Well done Ava!
1C William Swann & Lucas Hall Grace Larcombe & Tegan Muscat
Trying very hard to respect our class rules—Hands up and wait your turn to talk.
For doing the morning routine without reminders. 1J Link McKinnon
Amity Stannard For trying super hard to improve his writing! Well done Link. Always being a great helper to her classmates. Well done! 2B Isabelle Vassie
Johnny Alcock & Jaydyn Smyth Using extended noun groups in her sentences. Great effort with spelling this week! 2S Flynn Bruning
Jayden Ebreo Trying hard to improve his handwriting. Great work with 3 digit numbers in Maths. 2/3G Aeralynn Lewis
Blaze Burns Sofia Mocellin Rocco Barnett
Trying very hard to listen and concentrate. Working well in Maths.
Trying very hard to use her strategies in Maths. Writing great sentences using noun groups. 3H Ziheng Chen
Neyeahra Togo-Cassidy For always putting in 100% effort to all tasks. For writing a great retell from a different perspective. 3MW Isaac Cole & Thomas Cook
Lucy Holz A wonderful effort with their writing assessment task. Working hard to complete her writing assessment. 4G Makadde Hope &
Justice Simpson
Lilly Reddacliff Writing an amazing comparison. Working hard to acknowledge fellow friends. 4N Winter Huntley
Tennille Koschel Wonderful work segmenting your spelling words. What an amazing traditional story you have written. Lovely work. 4PA Zachary Harrison
Warner Doyle Fantastic effort in Maths & English learning groups. Keep it up! For accepting difficult challengers and looking forward to extending his learning.
5F Lily Anderson Zali Buckton
Llyddel Johnson-Daniels Isabelle O’Hara
Finding her voice! Well done. Great classroom attitude. Great English Writing. Excellent accuracy in Maths! 5H Lachlan Frost
Claire Giumelli Working consistently and productively. Consistent effort with homework tasks. 6B Brayden Manttan
Ben Wilesmith Diligent worker and participating consistently & enthusiastically. Working hard in class and having a positive attitude and growth mindset.
6C Seth Graham
Reuben Cunington For making valuable contributions to our class discussions. Working well all week. HPE P-2 –Isabelle Vassie, Link McKinnon
3-6 –Justice Simpson, Brayden Manttan
LIBRARY Ruby Geiger—Always willing to help others in the library. Thanks Ruby. Japanese 5F-Phoenix Pilcher 6C– Jandee Ebreo
5H-Braith Stannard 6B-Takiyah Sweet Instrumental
Music
Mia—Elena Doudney –For consistent improvement on saxophone. Well done!
Lachlan Thompson - For excellent playing in both lessons and band rehearsals every week.
