Dalrymple Swimming Carnival

Dalrymple

Swimming Carnival

On Friday the 30th of October, Pentland State School attended the

annual Dalrymple Cluster Swimming Carnival at Greenvale. It was a

wonderful 34-degree day filled with school spirit, camaraderie, a few

nerves, chants and competition.

The carnival displayed many impressive individual performances, high

levels of encouragement from our students as well as a great

community spirit amongst the cluster schools. The level of participation

in the pool was outstanding. Our students embraced the day and all

who attended are to be commended for the way they represented

themselves and our school.

Well done to all swimmers and participants for your efforts on the day.

Congratulations to the age level champions for your excellent

performances; Mackenzie F, Ashtyn S, Elysse P, Kye M, Brooke J and

Althea H. Finally, a big congratulations to Ravenswood State School

who took out the 2020 cluster swimming championships by

accumulating the most points for all events on the day. Well done.

Thank you to all staff, students and parents for your support of the

swimming carnival that highlights the wonderful community we have

at Pentland State School. We look forward to announcing the

Dalrymple swimming team in the near future.

Issue 18

Tuesday 15th _{September 2020} http://pentlandss.eq.edu.au/

Editor: Andre’a Holzwart

[email protected]

Sub-editor: Laura Peagham

School Mission Statement

In a supportive partnership, provide for the development of each child the attitude, skills and knowledge needed to cope

with the demands of living in our society.

Swimming Carnival

I would like to congratulate the students on their tremendous effort at the swimming carnival last week at Greenvale State School. I was super proud to be part of the Pentland team! Not only did we blitz them in the pool, our students displayed excellent behaviour and sportsmanship on the day. Thank you to Miss Jessie, Mr Nicholson and Miss Maddie for travelling to Greenvale and sleeping over at the school. The students appreciate all your hard work!

Attendance

Congratulations on our term 4 attendance so far. We are sitting at 91%!! Awesome job! Our overall attendance for 2020 is currently 88%. It is great to see an improvement this term.

End of Year Activities

This year is quickly coming to a close. Here is a brief outline of the last two weeks of school.

Week 9

Thursday 3rd _{Dec – School presentation evening at the hall}

following by a barbeque dinner and Santa at the school. Friday 4th _{Dec – Pool Party 12pm – 2.30pm}

Week 10

Wednesday 9th _{Dec – Last day of school.}

World Teacher’s Day

I would like to wish Mr Nicholson and Miss Jessie a Happy World Teachers Day. We are so lucky to have such wonderful teachers at our school. We celebrated the day at the

Greenvale Swimming Carnival with a massive cake, certificates and gifts. Laura Peagham

Kindy

Wow, where is this term going? Week 5 already! We had a great

visit from Miss Carah in the last few weeks, the Kindy students

always enjoy Miss Carah’s visits. We have had Miss Maddie join us

in our room for the last four weeks as a prac teaching. We have

been exploring Fairytales this term with Goldilocks and the Three

Bears and The Three Little Pigs just to name a few. There has been

lots of cooking happening also, green gingerbread men!!. Please

come in and have a look at our little cottage that we have made in

our classroom. They have also been making potions and role playing

being evil witches.

Prac Student – Miss Madi

Hi everyone!

For those of you who haven’t met me, my name is Madison McColl and

I am a second year student at Central Queensland University. I am

currently completing my Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood). I

live in Charters Towers and am one of the Early Childhood Teachers

at Kids Early Learning Centre. In my spare time I enjoy spending

time with my family and my three dogs.

With my placement coming to an end this week, I am forever thankful

that Pentland State School enabled me with the opportunity to

observe how they run on a daily basis. I have built and

established positive relationships with the children in the K-2

class, staff members and parents. I will definitely miss everyone!

As I previously told you, I am a Kindergarten Teacher at one of the

centres in Charters Towers. Therefore, it has been ever so

valuable for my personal development and professional teaching

practices, to have had the opportunity to observe how a

Kindergarten is run and taught in an Ed Queensland environment.

Thank you for making my time at Pentland State School enjoyable!

Miss Madi 

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Mr Nicholson & Mrs P’s

Littlies

The Little class has been working extremely hard to start term 4 off with Mr. Nicholson and Mrs Peagham. It has been great to see all the Students back keen and eager to get into their work.

During English the year 1’s and 2’s have been exploring plot and characterisation within stories, we have been learning this concept by reading a variety of picture books and breaking them down into the parts of a Narrative being; Orientation, Complication and Resolution. The students have to create a new complication and resolution to the story.

In English this term, the prep students are responding to different texts in which they have been reading a assortment of books and planning a new event and ending in their own words with Images drawn to match. During Math lesson’s the Year 2 students have been learning all about fractions, they have done really well to grasp a difficult Mathematics concept. Year 1 have been learning their numbers from zero – 100 and fractions also. The Preps have been learning their numbers 0 – 20. With these Mathematics concepts, all learnt over the first half of term 4, it is now time to move onto learning all about money and their first job is to organise a budget for Mr. Nicholson’s coffees every day!

In HASS, the Prep children have been learning about places that are special to them and in their community. We have been having lots of fun with these lessons with the children building their own special places and going around the school thinking and drawing where their special place is when they are at School. The year 1’s and 2’s have been drawing representations of the world as geographical divisions and the location of Australia. They have also been representing connections between places by constructing maps and using symbols.

Mr Nicholson Teacher

Prep/Kindy Science

This term in Science the kindy and prep students have been exploring the ways different objects move. We have described the properties of different objects, how this affects their movement and shared and reflected on our observations. We have used the Age Appropriate Pedagogy of inquiry to create the lessons and the students have thoroughly enjoyed every moment! Each lesson the

students dressed up as a Scientist and create their own name. I was Professor HamPeag. The

students favourite investigation was bouncing eggs. It was great to see the students so engaged and excited about learning.

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The upper school classroom have been working

extremely hard for their new teacher, Mrs Jessie

Peagham. They have been very welcoming and shown

her their strong commitment to their learning and their

great school.

In English, the Year 3/4 team have been reading and

learning about traditional stories from all over the world.

The students have discovered that all traditional stories

have a moral and that most of the characters are

animals that possess human-like qualities. They are looking forward to publishing and reading their

very own traditional tale, created especially for a younger audience. The Year 5/6 team have been

practising writing persuasive arguments about books that convey messages. They have been

focusing on analysing the structural, visual and language features used in the books to strengthen

their argument.

In Maths, the entire class have been learning about fractions. All

students have participated in hands-on learning experiences during

maths lessons to capture their engagement, such as, games,

counting on number lines and cutting up fruit/sandwiches. Students

have shown great persistence to grasp such a difficult topic. Well

done.

In Science, the Year 3/4 team have been experimenting with contact

and non-contact forces. Contact forces, such as, friction, applied

force and air resistance are forces that can cause change or motion

to an object my touching it. Whereas, non-contact forces, such as,

gravity and magnetism, are forces that can cause change or motion

without touching an object. The students even been lucky enough to play many games during their

science lessons and then of course, examine the forces involved in

each game. The Year 5/6 team have been learning about electricity

and different kinds of electrical energy. They have been

experimenting with electrical circuits and solving problems that arise

with the flow of energy within the circuits. The students have also

been learning about renewable and non-renewable energy and the

advantages/disadvantages of the different kinds of energy.

Bootcamp with Riley

Our Bootcamp session with Riley are coming to an end in two weeks. I would like to thank him for

travelling to Pentland each week to deliver sessions to both students and adults. The team this week was extra dedicated, training in 40 degree heat! Well done team!

P&C Report

Hi Everyone,

Been a little bit quite this month as we are gearing up for our end of year celebrations. School

presentation night will be held on the 3

_{December with a Pool party on Friday 4}

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catering for these celebrations. Please come along and join in on a great afternoon. Presentations

will be at the hall and dinner will be at school. Hope to see you there!!

We did have Bookfair this month. Thank you to those students, staff, parents and community

members that supported this event. The more books we sell, the more credit the school receives

to purchase books.

We have still been doing fortnightly tuckshops. Thanks to everyone who volunteers to run these.

Kylee Jenkins

President

School Rules

Be Safe

Be Respectful

Be an Active Learner

Calendar of Events

 5

_{Oct – Public holiday}

 6

_{Oct – Term 4 starts}

 31

_{Oct – Cluster}

swimming carnival at

Greenvale

Chappies Corner

Hello to the Pentland School Community.

There is a new normal and life moves forward. On the last week of the last term, I got the man flu. I didn't want to share it before the school holidays so I went to the doctors got swabbed just to be safe. I was clear and just had man flu.

During school term, we had crazy hair day and Ms List had so many things in her hair it was fantastic. Kye took out first prize with a blue and red gelled creation. Mr N took several photo's of the creations there was time and effort put into many hair-styles. There was gold coin donation and the $46 raised went to Canteen who sent us a certificate of appreciation.

I'm impressed with the behaviour of the students in this term with many acts of kindness and great leadership examples being demonstrated. Well done.

Chappy

Playgroup this term got off to a great start with and the themes of “Horses”,

“Helicopters”, and “Rainforests”. Children have made horses, leaf paintings, planted a

rainforest, explored a rainforest through play and did some stamp art, just to name a

few.

Other themes this term might be “Rainbows”, “Day & Night” and “Minibeasts”. We will

be painting rainbows, counting, exploring day and night through collage, shadow

matching making bug fossils in playdough, creating a butterfly collage, exploring a

small minibeast habitat and much more.

Come along and join in on the fun.

What’s Happening in

Term 4……

Swimming

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Bootcamp

Adults and Student

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Pool Party

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Easy cottage pie

Ingredients

 2 cups (240g) frozen mixed vegetables  1/4 cup (35g) gravy powder

 1 cup (250ml) Coles Real Beef Stock

 2 x 350g pkts Coles Crème Royale Mashed Potato

Method

Preheat oven to 200°C. Heat a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Cook mince, stirring with a wooden spoon to break up any lumps, for 5 mins or until mince changes colour.

Add the vegetables and cook, stirring, for 5 mins or until heated through. Sprinkle over the gravy powder. Add the stock and stir until well combined. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 mins or until the mince mixture thickens slightly. Spoon into a 6-cup (1.5L) round ovenproof dish.

Place the mashed potato in a bowl and break up with a fork until smooth. Spoon evenly over the mince mixture. Bake for 15-20 mins or until golden.

Condensed Milk Soft Serve

Ingredients

600ml thickened cream

395g can sweetened condensed milk 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 tablespoons golden syrup, plus extra, to serve

Method

Step 1

Use electric beaters to beat the cream, condensed milk and vanilla in a bowl until soft peaks form. Fold in the golden syrup. Transfer mixture to a 1.5L (6 cup) airtight plastic container and place in the freezer for 4 hours.

Step 2

Meanwhile, place the bowl of a stand mixer in the fridge to chill.

Step 3

Transfer the mixture to the chilled mixer bowl. Beat until creamy. Spoon into a piping bag fitted with a wide fluted nozzle. Pipe into small cups or cones, if using. If the ice-cream is too soft, return the filled cups or cones to the freezer for up to 30 minutes to firm up slightly. Step 4

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Q: What do you call a sleeping dinosaur? A: A dino-snore!

Q: What is 'out of bounds'? A: An exhausted kangaroo! Q: What fish only swims at night? A: A starfish!

Q: What is a bunny's motto? A: Don't be mad, be hoppy!

Q: Why do gorillas have big nostrils? A: Because they have big fingers!

Q: What animal has more lives than a cat? A: Frogs, they croak every night!

Q: What did the judge say when the skunk walked in the court room?