12 May 2022

Newsletter Articles

Dates to Remember

2022

From the Principal

Welcome back to term 2! I trust everyone had a chance to have a break over Easter and the school

holiday period. I appreciated having some time off prior to the end of term 1. Thanks go to Jeff Triffitt and the team for filling in, in my absence.

Our School Association AGM was held on the last week of term. Thanks go to our members leaving the committee, your support and contribution is greatly appreciated.

Congratulations to the following members of our new committee:

We have a very busy few weeks ahead of us.

Grade 3 and 5 NAPLAN Online testing commenced this week. Information had been sent home previously for families with students in these grades. Further details have been provided in today’s newsletter.

Keep an eye out for information regarding our upcoming Cross Country event. Spectators will be allowed to attend, but we are running the event in three groups, to ensure it is a covid safe event. More information will be sent home to families next week.

Mid-Year Reporting

Reporting will look a little different this year. In response to the Reporting to Families Review, reporting has changed, with a new phased in approach to communicating with families. This term, families will be provided the opportunity for a three way conversation focussing on learning progress, application to learning, wellbeing, and/or learning plan goals. All teachers will be available to meet with families during Weeks 9 and 10. A 9-point scale for Years 1–6 in English, Maths and Science will be used to assess against the Australian Curriculum (AC). For students not assessed against AC, learning goal progress will be reported. More information will be provided as we get closer to the end of term.

NAPLAN Online 2022

The National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) was first undertaken as an online test in Tasmania during 2019. Tasmanian schools will again participate in NAPLAN Online this year.

NAPLAN Online provides better assessment and more precise results.

The assessments feature a tailored test design where the questions a student receives will depend on their answers to previous questions.

NAPLAN testing will be held from the 10 to 20 May 2022.

NAPLAN assessments include four components, Writing, Numeracy, Conventions of Language and Reading. Please note that all Year Three students will be completing a paper-based Writing Test.

Schools will receive reports and results for participants following the completion of the NAPLAN Online assessment window. These Individual Student Reports will have the same format as in previous years. This format is used for every student in Australia.

Jerome Pape - Principal

Fundraising Thankyou

A big thankyou to everyone who supported our fundraising by generously donating to our Mothers’ Day stall. This year our stall raised over $670! What an amazing effort!

Thank you also to Shaun Bolton, Janelle Hays, Gabe Clarke for their help on sale day.

Congratulations to Mackenzie in 5/6K who was our Mother’s Day Stall lucky draw winner!

Lyn Aherne – Fundraising

5/6K

Did you know that there are quite a few things that we use every day that were invented as a by-product of people intending to solve another problem or just unintentionally discovering another use for an existing product?

The students in 5/6 K have researched some of these inventions… we invite you to have a read and be surprised.

Hands on Learning

The Hands on Learning team have been busy working towards one of our school values of respecting the environment. We have been weeding and mulching the gardens around the library and have planted seeds to start our winter vegetable garden.

We have also been planning a herb garden near the school canteen and we have asked Bunnings Warehouse to provide us with some herb plants.

2022 Book Fair

It’s Book Fair Time

We are excited to be holding our Book Fair in the library between 2:45pm and 3:15pm on Monday 16th to Friday 20th May. Families are welcome to come and look at the books with their children, or children may choose to write a wish list during their library time to share with their families.

To ensure that we are following Covid safe practices we would appreciate it if families could visit on the following afternoons. Families who have children in more than one grade may choose from one of the options.

Hilly Kids Are Friendly Kids

Our current Hilly Kids focus topic is Goal Setting. Our next focus topic will be Negotiating.

Negotiating

Why learn this skill?

If you want someone to do something for you or to give you permission to do something, the best way to get what you want is to negotiate. Negotiation involves trying to get what you want by first working out what the other person wants and trying to give it to them. This way is called a “win-win” way of negotiation because both people get something they want. It is different from a “win-lose” approach where someone gets what they want, and the other person does not get anything.

Negotiating needs to be planned and each side must complete their side of the bargain. For example: you may want a ride to footy training so you negotiate with mum to give you a ride and in return you will put the rubbish out. If you do not keep your part of the bargain, you will not be trusted the next time and the relationship suffers.

Remember: You are more likely to get what you want and keep friends if the other person gets something too

Do:

• Decide what you want
• Think about what the other person might want in return (e.g. they might want to be sure that something they lend you will be looked after)
• Pick a good time to ask
• Use a friendly voice
• If you cannot work out what they want in return, ask them directly
• If the other person will not agree with what you want, accept that. You will not always get what you want.
• Keep your side of the bargain.

Don’t:

• Don’t ask at an inconvenient time (e.g., when the other person is busy or talking to someone else)
• Don’t use a grizzly, whingeing voice
• Don’t threaten, sulk, insult or get angry if you don’t get what you want.

Launching into Learning

Celebrating our mothers and special others in LIL:

On Monday, our LIL children pampered their mums with some special Mother’s Day treats. There was soap making, bath salt making, hand cream making and cup cake decorating. We also had a nail salon – Mums all left with some amazing looking nail art!

On Friday, 13th May we will be at the Arboretum (weather dependant) to enjoy the beautiful Autumn leaves. *Please check the school Facebook page and the LIL Seesaw page for updates on locations.

Next Monday, 16th May we will be having Storytime in the school library from 9:00-9:30am and then we will have an Autumn theme for our ‘Stay, Play, Explore’ from 1:30-2:45pm.

Check out what else we have happening in the month of May!

Coin Challenge

Have you been collecting your 5¢ coins? We will run the 5¢ coin challenge in Term 2, so keep bringing your coins in, piling them up and we’ll see which class can collect the most! Our grand total of 5¢ coins for last year was 14,570 5c coins! Let’s top that this year and set a new record!

Fundraising Committee

Hillcrest Tuckerbox Tips

Aim for two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables daily. What’s in a serve?

One serve of fruit:

• 1 piece of medium sized fruit - apple, banana, orange, or pear
• 2 pieces of smaller sized fruit - apricots, kiwis, or plums
• 1 cup of tinned fruit in fruit juice, no added sugar

One serve of vegetables:

• ½ cup cooked green or orange vegetables - broccoli, carrots, pumpkin, or spinach
• ½ cup cooked, dried or canned beans, peas, or lentils
• 1 cup leafy or raw salad vegetables
• ½ cup sweet corn
• 1 medium potato or sweet potato
• 1 medium tomato

Lyn Aherne – Canteen Supervisor

Move Well Eat Well

Fun Food Facts

Did you know:

1. Tomatoes are a fruit… and they are the most popular fruit in the world!
2. Strawberries are technically not berries – weird but true! Berries, by definition, have their seeds on the inside, whilst strawberries hold their seeds on the outside.
3. Potatoes were the first vegetable to be grown in space. In fact, the year was 1995.
4. Not all oranges are orange. In some regions the temperature doesn’t get cold enough for the skin to turn orange, so the orange could stay green or yellow, even if the fruit is ripe.
5. Cranberries can bounce. When they are ripe, they bounce!
6. Pumpkins and cucumber are also classed as a fruit, not a vegetable, not to mention olives, avocado, aubergine, and capsicum, which are also fruits.

MWEW Team