Charleville State High School
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Corner of Partridge and Hunter Streets
Charleville QLD 4470
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7 August 2019

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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

LITERACY CONTINUUM AND READING

Reading continues to be the major focus at Charleville State High School. Each student’s ability to read and comprehend what they are reading is one of the most important factors for educational success and so it remains the main focus area of the school to assist every student to improve in this area. Within every classroom and every subject area, teachers continue to focus not only on the required subject specific curriculum, but also on the specific literacy demands required for the subject and the assessment items within that unit of work.

The P-10 Literacy Continuum provides a set of benchmarks to support teachers in monitoring students’ literacy development in the curriculum. The literacy continuum is a document that helps teachers to track and determine the literacy demands required within their areas and to then help them develop the appropriate lessons to teach students the skills required.

Below is attached the Literacy Continuum information for Years 7-10. The continuum has a series of aspects that relates to each year level of schooling and are grouped as clusters, with the complexity of the aspects increasing as the year levels increase. I have attached a copy of the Literacy Continuum to the newsletter for your perusal. If you have any further questions regarding the Literacy Continuum, please contact either the Head of Department, Mrs Cassandra Kohli or our reading co-ordinator, Mrs Sue McDermott.

The school also continues to provide supportive programs for students who currently sit below year level reading ages to assist them to fill any gaps in their reading skills and move them towards their age appropriate reading levels. Students identified through testing are offered support through either our MultiLit programs or the LLI (Levelled Literacy Intervention) program. If you have any questions regarding these please do not hesitate to contact our reading co-ordinator, Mrs Sue McDermott.

NAIDOC MARCH

On Friday 26 July, the students of Charleville State High School students were involved in the community NAIDOC march. Students marched with a number of other areas of our community from Alfred Street to St Mary’s, where a closing ceremony for NAIDOC week took place.

The highlights of the ceremony were the amazing new dance presented by the Charleville State High School students BANGARRA Dance Group, as well as the CSHS senior students walking out with both the State Primary School and St Mary prep students to take them to the community BBQ. The students all did an amazing job and showed great maturity and responsibility with the younger students.

Thank you to all of the students and staff who marched on the day. Your participation certainly embodied the NAIDOC theme of this year: Voice. Treaty. Truth. Let’s work together for a shared future.

BEANIES FOR BRAIN CANCER DAY

On Wednesday 31 July, the Student Council organised a Beanie for Brain Cancer Day to support the Mark Hughes Foundation that raises money to assist Brain cancer research. The students did an excellent job, gathering orders for beanies before the holidays, handing out the beanies to those who purchased them, promoted the day, and then collected money on the day from students.

Thank you to all who helped out organising on the day, and special thanks to Mrs Katie McLeod, our Youth Support Co-ordinator, for all of your great work in co-ordinating the students and organising this special day.

SCHOOL OPINION SURVEY

Every year, the school surveys the staff, students and parents of the school to gather feedback regarding a variety of aspects of what we do each day. This week, information regarding the survey has been sent out to a number of parents. The parents have been selected randomly by the Education Department for the survey. If parents do receive a survey this week, please take the time to complete the survey so that we can use your feedback to continue what we are doing well and to strive to make improvements to any areas highlighted by the results of this survey.

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Thurs 8 Aug – Year 6 Transition Day 1
  • Thurs 8 Aug to Mon 12 Aug – Queensland Senior Schools Volleyball Cup
  • Mon 5 Aug to Fri 9 Aug – Humanities Week
  • Mon 12 Aug to Fri 16 Aug – Science Week

Take care everyone,

Matt Samson
Principal – Charleville State High School

Deputy Principal Senior Schooling Report

School Opinion Survey

The School Opinion Surveys are undertaken each year by the Department of Education and Training to obtain opinion information from parents/caregivers, students and school staff. The surveys are designed to help schools identify what they do well and how they can improve. The School Opinion Survey suite is comprised of five individual surveys:

  • Parent/Caregiver Survey
  • Student Survey
  • Student Survey for Special Schools
  • Staff Survey
  • Principal Survey.

Opinions on the school, student learning and student well-being are sought from a parent/caregiver in all families and a sample of students from each state school.

All of the information you provide will be treated confidentially. Randomly selected families will be posted an information and instruction sheet within the next week. The School Opinion Surveys will close 5pm Friday, 23rd August 2019.

Indigenous Education Community Meetings

Charleville State High School holds an Indigenous Education Community Meeting once a month. This Committee provides a link for our indigenous community/family to share knowledge, celebrate and be involved in the education of the children enrolled at Charleville State High School. If you have a child/grandchild attending Charleville State High School who identifies as ATSI or you are interested in the education of ATSI children in our community then we welcome and encourage you to attend our meetings.

In 2019, these meetings will be held in the school Professional Library, situated in the school office, and will occur on the second Thursday of each month. If you wish to discuss a particular topic please forward your agenda item to jruss336@eq.edu.au prior to meeting day.

Queensland Core Skills (QCS) Test

Each year, the QCAA conducts a common statewide test designed for Year 12 students. The test is also available to other eligible candidates.

The QCS Test contributes information for the calculation of Overall Positions (OPs) and Field Positions (FPs), which are used to select students for tertiary entrance.

A student's individual QCS Test result is not used on its own in the calculation of their OP — instead, group results are used as part of the statistical scaling processes. A student's individual result on the QCS Test (from A to E) is reported on the student's Senior Statement or Statement of Results.

The QCS Test does not test particular knowledge of specific Year 12 subjects. It tests the Common Curriculum Elements (CCEs), a set of generic skills identified in the Queensland senior curriculum.

The test assumes that candidates have basic levels of general knowledge and vocabulary and a Year 10 knowledge of mathematical operations.

The QCS Test consists of 4 papers — a Writing Task (of 600 words), a Short Response paper and two Multiple Choice papers. The results achieved for each of the 4 test papers are combined into one grade, ranging from A (the highest grade) to E (the lowest).

Those sitting the test are asked to respond to a variety of stimulus materials, such as prose passages, poetry, graphs, tables, maps, mathematical and scientific data, cartoons and artistic works.

QTAC

The Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) operates a centralised tertiary application service for:

  • publicly-funded Queensland universities
  • Bond University Medicine
  • TAFE Queensland
  • Australian Maritime College
  • some courses at publicly-funded universities in Northern New South Wales
  • some private tertiary education providers.

These institutions have complete control in determining their own entry requirements.

QTAC assess applications using these entry requirements and then make offers to successful applicants during the offer rounds.

As well as managing applications for the above institutions, QTAC publish course information for some institutions that accept their own applications directly.

QCE Tracking

Mr Wastie and I are busy closely monitoring our senior students, to ensure they are on a pathway to successfully gain their Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE). If any students need to change subjects to help them toward getting their QCE, they need to see me. We will also be organising parent/student interviews with those students who are ‘at risk’ of not gaining their QCE, so we can form an action plan.

VET News

We have a number of traineeships and apprenticeship opportunities coming up.

If your student is looking for the opportunity to be involved, please contact Vanessa Moller at the school on 4656 8888.

Thank you to all the businesses that support our students and our school. If you have an opportunity within your business to employ a school based trainee or apprentice, please contact Vanessa Moller on 4656 8888.

Cheers
Vanessa Moller

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL JUNIOR SCHOOLING
AND STUDENT SERVICES NEWS

Junior School

Welcome to week 4. Once again the weeks seem to be moving very quickly. You should now have been able to access the Assessment calendar for junior students. This will help you in supporting your student to plan carefully for the assessment they will have in term 3.

Contact Details

Are your contact details up to date at the school? Please call Sue at the office or send a note if you have had a change in address or phone number. It is important that we are able to contact you at any time.

Uniforms

It is wonderful to see the majority of students are in correct uniform almost every day. Please refer to the back page of the student diary for details on the correct school uniform. As we are now in the month of August students have had plenty of time to access a school coat or a Black jumper/hoodie. Please support us and the P&C by ensuring your student has correct uniform every day. If there is an occasional day that your student is not in uniform, the student merely needs to present at the office before the first bell for a uniform pass. There are no further consequences. However, if there is a specific reason for consistently, not having the correct uniform for your student, please contact me at the school to discuss options.

Who can support your student at CSHS?

There are many people who can help your student if they need it. Below is a list of some options should students not know who to see for help.

Class Teachers

Have a list of emails to be able to contact staff or ring the school to have a chat or organise a meeting.

Head of Departments

Science/ Maths/Ag/– Mr Mitch Mullen – mmull156@eq.edu.au
HPE/Junior Secondary/Art – Mrs Sabrina Goodingham – sgood192@eq.edu.au
Technology/ VET/Senior Schooling – Mr Barry Wastie – bwast1@eq.edu.au
English/ Humanities/LOTE/Reading - Mrs Cassandra Kohli - ckohl4@eq.edu.au
Diverse Learning – Mrs Katherine Neucom – kxgou0@eq.edu.au
Reading Coach – Ms Sue McDermott – smcde11@eq.edu.au

Year Level Coordinators

Yr 10- Miss Sarah O’Brien – srobr0@eq.edu.au
Yr 11 & 12 - Miss Lauren Butler – lbutl72@eq.edu.au
Yr 7-9 – Miss Jenna Andreatta – jmand41@eq.edu.au and Mrs Kate Jackson – kmcne49@eq.edu.au
Guidance Officer – Mrs Frances Mutch – fmutc1@eq.edu.au
Youth Support Coordinator - Mrs Katie McLeod – kmcle234@eq.edu.au
CEC – Jolene Russell – jruss336@eq.edu.au
School Based Youth Health Nurse – Jen Frazer – jennifer.sellin@health.qld.gov.au
Chaplain - Mr Les Penrose (Chappy)

Deputy Principals

Senior Schooling – Ms Vanessa Moller – vmoll1@eq.edu.au
Junior Schooling and Students Services – Mrs Narelle Webb – nwebb10@eq.edu.au
Principal -Mr Matt Samson

Student Services

IMPORTANT – Please Read

Mobile Phones at Charleville SHS

There is a disturbing increase in the amount of inappropriate use of mobile phones among teenagers. I would like to emphasise to parents/carers of students under the age of eighteen that you are responsible for what is stored on their phone and how the teenager uses their phone. As a responsible parent/carer you should be checking phones for what is being received and what is being sent via their phone. Should your child receive inappropriate material via their phone, it should be reported to the police immediately.

I have spoken to the students of years 7, 8 and 9 about this topic and have made it very clear that every parent/carer has the right and obligation to check their teenagers’ phone on a regular basis. I have spoken to the students that once a picture and/or comment is posted on any social media site is never disappears. Many students appear to think that Apps such as SNAPCHAT are safe to use as it disappears after a certain amount of time. Sadly, this is not always the case. Please have responsible conversations with your teenagers on the correct use of mobile phones and social media.

On occasion inappropriate use of a mobile phone is reported to the school, however the majority of times the mobile phone is used outside of school hours. If there is evidence that a student has used their phone inappropriately at school, then the student will be prevented from bringing their phone to school.

Stymie

Please be aware that any STYMIE notification referred to our school is acted upon swiftly and confidentially. Adults as well as students are able to make a STYMIE report.

Outside of School Hours on School Grounds

Unless supervised, children including students of Charleville State High School are not allowed on the school grounds outside of school hours. Dedicated staff are often at school outside of school hours and are concerned that these children are not adequately supervised. Please note that students are not to arrive to school before 8:00 am.

Year Nine Camp

Some students and parents are working hard towards the organising of the Year Nine Camp that takes place in Term 4. Sadly, the fund raising efforts are not high as in previous years. Every little bit of help is very appreciated as this is a very worthwhile trip for our students. There will be updates in the near future as to the amount of fund raising that has been conducted for the year nine camp. This could impact on the cost of the camp.

Another concern is the attendance of year nine students in semester one. It is a condition of any extra curricula excursion that the students’ attendance must be above 85% and ideally meet our target of 92%. I urge all parents to ensure that the send their student to school every day. Every Day Counts.

Until next time,

Narelle Webb
Deputy Principal
Junior Schooling/Student Services

What’s Happening in Home Ec?

All Home Economics classes this term are focussing on food units. After its successful start in term 2, year 7 Home Ec is up and running again, with a new group of budding chefs learning about healthy snacks, and creating some tasty treats. Year 8’s are investigating delicious and nutritious breakfast options, and discovering why eating healthy dishes before coming to school is really important. In year 10 Hospitality, we are endeavouring to not only prepare dishes safely, hygienically and efficiently, but to also demonstrate skills in presenting them attractively. International cuisines are the focus for the senior Hospitality class, with dishes from Germany, Vietnam, France, Italy, India and Greece being prepared and presented each week. Next term, the final group of year 7 students will rotate through the school kitchen; the year 8’s will complete their second textiles unit; year 10 students will finalise their competencies for their Certificate I in Hospitality qualification; and year 11 and 12 Hospitality will continue their international adventure, focussing especially on breakfasts in their country of choice. As always, if there are any concerns or questions about any of the Home Economics subjects, please contact the school.

Sue McDermott

Industrial Design and Technology

Over the previous few weeks I have been privileged enough to take a small group of boys on various excursions, to some local industry to get an idea of what happens behind the scenes.

Our first stop was to Young’s Welding Works. Michael showed the lads the ins and outs of the metal fabrication and the engineering game. The boys were able to understand how metal is formed, welded and cut to produce many projects that are out in the community already.

Next stop was to meet Bill at B & W Body Works, again this was a real insight for the boys. Bill went through all aspects of smash repairing, from mixing the paint to baking the cars in the oven and even gave a demo on his chassis puller (a large contraption which straightens and reshapes chassis after a major accident).

The last excursion, a couple of weeks later was to Jaeger’s Cabinetry factory. Nev one of Fred Jaeger’s workers, was a real character! (who I would like to nominate as the next manual arts teacher). Nev, with his own spin, showed the boys through every machine in the cabinetry factory and explained how to produce a kitchen from start to finish. One of the highlights of the trip was when Nev fired up the $120,000 CNC machine to automatically cut out the white board.

Matt Jackson
IDT Teacher

A MARVELLOUS ESCAPE!

On Thursday and Friday of Week 1, the PBL Rewards Trip Group completed the 10 hours bus trip to Movie World. The group of 35 students who had been collecting StarBucks this year, and 3 teachers, began the long journey on the Thursday at 6 am, with students nervously excited about the shopping and adventures of the next two days. For most, the first 3 hours to Roma, was a time of catching up on sleep, however after our lunch stop at Chinchilla, students were starting to get impatient with the repeated chorus to mum (Mrs Bailey), dad (Mr Bailey) and Cappuccino Sensei (Mrs Capper) of “Are we there yet”, in anticipation of the 4 hours shopping that awaited them.

On arrival at Toowoomba we headed straight to the shopping centre, where students broke into groups for some retail therapy, while the majority of the boys ventured to the cinemas. After piling the shopping onto the bus, we then headed to Koojarewon Youth Camp, where students had an early night.

The next morning, the Senior students had marshalled the troops leading the cleaning of the rooms, ready for the next adventure, with students being ready and on the bus before Mrs Bailey and even the bus driver had had breakfast. The trip from Toowoomba to Movie World, was one of bubbling excitement for many of our juniors who had never been to Movie World, and were keen to do all of the rollercoasters until they saw the height of the DC Coaster upon entering the park. After a group photo in front of the fountain, students were free to roam the park. The three teachers were escorted straight up with the grade 7s and grade 8s to the Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster, which for many was their first coaster adventure. For some this first ride of the day, was the last coaster they went on, while for others it inspired a whole new adventurous side.

Before long, students had Mrs Capper and Mr Bailey, on Superman Escape, the Green Lantern, and the Batwing. The seniors found a whole new level of excitement by paying to go on the DC Rivals HyperCoaster backwards. With a maximum speed of 115km/h, this is no regular roller coaster; it is the tallest, longest and fastest roller coaster in the southern hemisphere, but by completing this backwards it added to the thrill. The less adventurous among the group were able to enjoy the props from Aquaman that was filmed on the Gold Coast, the Stunt Show and the general sightseeing of Movie World.

At 4pm we reconvened for the 11 hour journey home. For the first few hours of this, the students were on a sugar high, however, after tea, the majority of students slept the remaining trip back to Charleville. It’s safe to say all students enjoyed themselves, even those not too keen on going on the rides; many enjoyed the stage shows, shopping, movie characters and new experiences or just being able to spend this time with friends or making new ones.

Hello Friends of the Charleville Performing Arts

The countdown is on for the upcoming Performing Arts Festival. Our committee is working hard behind the scenes to bring you another showcase of the amazing talent our community has to offer.

Without the support of locals and local businesses, this volunteer run event wouldn't be possible. We humbly ask that you support us in our mission to keep the passion for the Arts alive in the Charleville region.

You can support us with a sponsorship, which will help us continue to bring this festival to life each year. Or you can volunteer your time as a ticket seller, door usher or section compere.

In return for your support, your name or business name will be proudly displayed at our festival for all to see and announced at our Gala Concert on Saturday 31st.

You can also support our event by coming out to attend the Gala Concert which will shine the spotlight on our brightest stars and encourage our young performers. This year, thanks to the Murweh Shire and the Regional Arts Development Fund, we are able to announce a special performance by classical pianist Ambre Hammond, who will also be offering performance workshops to locals on the Sunday.

Gala Concert will be Saturday 31st August at 7pm.

The Charleville Performing Arts Association thank you in advance for your continued support

Yours sincerely,

Charleville Performing Arts Association Committee

Charleville Scouts

Charleville Scout group are in need of more adults to join their group. Due to ratio’s of Adults to Youth members – this limits how many Children can join Scouting.

See attached flyer.