Killarney eNewsletter Term 2 - Week 9 | 2024

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Githabul people as the  Traditional Owners of the sky,  waterways and land on which we learn and play. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present. We acknowledge the knowledge, memories, traditions and cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to fostering a culture of learning in the spirit of togetherness.

Date Claimers

From the Principal

Kind Regards,

Ros Hibberd

From the Head of Department

Kind regards,

Traecy Bartz

From the Support Teacher

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD)

This term our teachers will be making preparations for the National Consistent Collection of Data for Students with Disability.

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) gives Australian schools, parents, guardians and carers, education authorities and the community information about the number of students with disability in schools and the adjustments they receive. The Australian Education Regulation 2013 requires all schools to report the data collected for the NCCD to the Australian Government on an annual basis.

What is the purpose of the NCCD?

The NCCD collects data about school students with disability who are receiving adjustments across Australia in a consistent, reliable and systematic way. It enables schools, education authorities and governments to better understand the needs of students with disability and how they can be best supported at school.

From 2018, the student with disability loading provided by the Australian Government is based on the NCCD; schools will continue to manage their total resources to meet the learning needs of their students.

How is the data used?

Data from the NCCD is used:

• as an evidence base, to give teachers, schools and sectors information about students with disability and the level of educational adjustment being provided
• to inform policy development and future planning to better equip schools and education authorities to support students with disability
• to improve understanding of the requirements and responsibilities of school teams and the broader community under the DDA and the Standards
• to capture the work of schools under the obligations of the DDA and the Standards, allowing students with disability to access and participate in education on the same basis as other students
• to highlight the individual needs of each student with disability by focusing on the level of educational support provided to them at school.

High level, de-identified information from the NCCD is used in national reporting to inform policy and program planning to support students with disability.

Student information provided to the Australian Government Department of Education and Training for the NCCD does not explicitly identify individual students. For example, student names or student identifiers are not provided.

How does the NCCD assist schools?

The NCCD prompts schools to identify students with disability and to review their processes and practices. It records the adjustments already undertaken in schools to support students with disability to access and participate in education on the same basis as their peers.

• Reviewing learning and support systems: The NCCD allows schools to better understand the functional needs of their students with disability. It captures the work of schools in providing personalised learning and support for students with disability who require adjustments due to the functional impact of their disability.
• Providing greater understanding: The NCCD helps schools gain a greater understanding of their students with disability and identify areas of need for both students and staff.
• Developing professional judgement: The professional learning available to support the NCCD process helps build the professional judgement of school teams who are required to provide educational adjustments for students with disability without relying on a medical or clinical diagnosis alone.
• Recognising support and adjustments provided: The NCCD helps to formally and consistently recognise the support and adjustments provided to students with disability as defined in the DDA.

If you would like further information, please contact Melinda Barling through the school office.

Kind regards,

Melinda Barling

Our Wildly Important Goal – Developing Literate Learners

Year 1/2 Literacy

Holding a sentence

This activity helps to improve a child’s working memory and gets them to apply their SSP code strategies. Students are told a sentence twice, they visualise what the sentence is saying and then they write the sentence down. We are focussing on writing a King’s sentence which is a sentence that makes sentence, has a capital letter, a full stop and finger spaces. If students can write a King’s sentence they get to wear their crown.

Year 3/4

This semester, the Year 3/4 team have been working hard to apply their expanding literacy skills across each of the learning areas.

While reading the novel ‘Fighting Bones’, we used the plough back routine of ‘because, but, so’ to monitor our comprehension of the story. The student responses to ‘because, but, so’ informed the next step for our engagement with the novel.

We have engaged with a variety of Fluency Passages across the semester. Examples include: The life of children in the 1800s; Explaining the structure of narrative texts; Finding unknown values in number sequences; The properties of soil.

When writing sentences, we have attempted to expand our kernel sentences by adding ‘when, where and how’. We have used sentence fragments to write informative sentences which communication facts to audiences

Year 5/6

The Years 5 and 6 class has been working on sentences. They have been starting with  fragments [a group of words that is not a grammatically complete sentence] to build interesting, informative sentences. Students and Mr Henderson collaboratively developed fragments (in bold) about the novel they read, then individually built sentences to show their comprehension of what they read. Spending plenty of instructional time working with sentences is very important. Sentence level work is the engine that propels student writing from the way they speak to using the structuress of written formal language.  

Tensions flared at the Eureka Stockade when the redcoats attacked at dawn; while the rebels fought for their lives. Billie

Mrs Puddleham and Sam watched as the Redcoats charged people money because of mining licenses. Darcy

Themes of injustice and rebellion were evident when miners had to get licenses to continue working. Will

Tensions flared at the Eureka Stockade as a raging inferno left onlookers and miners in its wake. Kaidon 

Year 7 and 8 Literacy

This week students connected with our granfriends at Killarney Memorial. A wonderful afternoon was spent sharing stories and listening to our granfriends' memories of school.  Next week students will capture these memories in writing for the 150th Year Anniversary Book. 

Year 8

Year 8 students are supercharged! Well at least, their sentences are.  Miss Kelly has been teaching how to develop and extend a basic sentence to a super charged sentence by  incorporating language features.

Year 9 English

In Year 9 English students have been analysing speculative fiction texts.  Part of that analysis includes identifying the aesthetic qualities of texts. Students practised identifying aesthetic qualities of texts by sorting language samples under the correct literary device.

Year  9 Business

Using Tier 2 and 3 words to improve written case study assessment

At present Kyle’s financial situation is difficult. Due to some poor financial choices, relying too much on credit and loans, not working a high enough paying job, Kyle fell into a plethora of financial trouble. This financial trouble caused a lot of stress, forcing his wife to find work and their marriage to break up. Kyle had to pay his ex-wife her half share in their family home but did not have the funds or credit rating to taka a loan from the bank. This forced Kyle to loan money from a loan broker with much higher interest rates. Due to the divorce Kyle’s wage as garnished to pay child support. Now Kyle has a full-time fob and manages to pay most of his expenses and debts but has to loan money from family occasionally for large bills. Overall, because of Kyle’s poor financial choices he fell deeply in debt, causing stress and family dystrophy, now resulting in very little reward, instead with continuous financial and social stress.

By: Josie

Our Wildly Important Goal - Every Student Engaged and Supported

Under Eights Morning and National Simultaneous Storytime 2024

The students from Killarney P-2 joined with Little Rascals to celebrate Under 8s and National simultaneous Storytime. Thank you to all the adults that assisted on the day.

Sports News

Some things to remember:

• HIGH JUMP – only the top 3 competitors will compete on the day/at the carnival. Heats will be conducted prior to the carnival to determine the top 3 (PTO for details of this).
• Due to privacy laws the photographing/recording of students/competitors without prior parental permission is not allowed.
• Students accompanying parent/s home before the end of the day must inform their class teacher or officials at the event before.
• A non-smoking policy applies on Education Queensland grounds.
• Students will compete according to their year of birth (with the exception of the Prep 50m race – this will involve all current Prep students).
• Program times are a guide only.
• It is essential that general Workplace Health and Safety procedures are followed to ensure the safety of all. WHS procedures will be enforced.

Athletics Carnival News:

Students must be present to be in the competition for these events.

House points will be awarded for the overall results only ie.  after the ‘final’ at the carnival.

The following events will be run at lunchtimes in week 9 from 1pm:

Wednesday 12/06: 2015 – 2012 High jump heats for boys and girls

The top 3 competitors will compete for points at the carnival on Thursday 21/06

Thursday 13/06: 2013 and older - 1500m final race for boys and girls

Friday 14/06: 2013 – 2008 High jump heats for boys and girls

The top 3 competitors will compete for points at the carnival on Thursday 21/06

Discus events will be held in HPE lessons for participants, as per risk assessment adjustments.

Bronco’s cup

On the 23^rd and 29^th of May our team of 10 girls travelled to Stanthorpe and Goondiwindi to compete in 9 games of netball. On the first day we won 5 out of 5 games our girls played excellent having a fairly unexperienced team we did outstanding. At Goondiwindi we lost our first games but the girls did not drop their heads and continued to win the next three games. Afterwards we made it into the finals against assumption college. Whilst we did lose our girls played a wonderful game and overall had a great time, we are all looking forwards to next year and congratulations to Allora, Killarney and Clifton footy team for a great win.

Congratulations to our netball team, Ebony, Josie, Dacia, Sophia, Emalee, Zyrha, Scarlett, Isla, Charley and Emma. Special mention to our only  football player Jason.

School News

Attendance Recognition

Our attendance target is 95%. This means that on  average each child has less than 1 day away per month.  
Students, if you aren’t at school, chances are you are not keeping up with your class work. Be at school and Ready to Learn. 
Effective school attendance has been linked to effective workplace attendance – set your child up for success.                                                              

Remember: Ready to Learn Every Day  

What you can do to help:

1. You can assist your child to be at school on time and ready 
to learn every day.  The first bell is at 8:50am.

2. If your child arrives after 9:00am roll marking, they are to enter 
the school via the office to record their late arrival and reason. 

3. Before 9:00am, provide notification and a reason for                      
your child’s absence;  
 • via the office phone on 4664 6333,  
• text the absence phone via 0428 196 801, 
• via email absences@killarness.eq.edu.au,  
• via a note to your child’s class teacher or  
• in person to the class teacher 

4. Respond to the text message you receive for a student who is away by confirming the absence and providing a reason. 

Keep your contact details up-to-date with our office.  
Being Ready to Learn Every Day really does make a difference! Is your child at school every day ready to learn?  

“Be on time; be at school; that’s the rule.” 

Parenting tips

P&C News

Parent Talk

Parent Talk is the official magazine of P&Cs Qld.

For more information visit: Parent Talk

Tuckshop Convenor

The P&C is looking for a parent or member of our community who would be interested in volunteering to be our Tuckshop Convenor. The opening times/day would be the choice of the new Convenor. The menu would also be the Tuckshop Convenor's choice, in negotiation with the school to comply with  Healthy Choices guidelines. Please contact the P&C for further information or to express your interest by emailing: pandc@killarness.eq.edu.au.

How to order School Uniforms

New stocks of polo shirts have arrived so we now have all sizes available. Parents may now place a uniform order via email and pay by direct deposit!  We hope this will make purchasing uniforms easier. Students can come and see Mrs Diete during break times to try on uniforms if they are unsure of sizes. 

Community News

JMC Monologue Competition 2024

The 2024 Monologue Competition is open to all New South Wales, Victorian, and Queensland high school students in years 9-12.

You have total creative freedom to deliver this monologue in whatever way you see fit – comedy, drama, musical - go all out! You can sing it, perform it as a comedy, relate it to current societal issues, or deliver it in the context of how/when it was written.

Think about costumes, sets, props, and locations to add a bit of flair to your performance.

Submissions close on 31st July 2024.

For more information visit: https://www.jmcacademy.edu.au/monologue-competition