5 August 2022

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Breaking News

Keep your eye out for Sunrise or Weekend Sunrise on Chanel 7 in the next week! St George State High School students and Miss Crowe will feature in the Shearing Program. Further details once known will be put on Facebook.

Mia Anderson
Harding Miller Education
Foundation Scholarship

Mia Anderson in Year 9 is a recipient of the Harding Miller Education Foundation scholarship worth more than $20,000. The scholarships are awarded to girls with high potential giving them the opportunity to stay in, and excel, at school. Scholarships provide the girls with a new laptop, high speed internet connections, tutoring, career guidance and support to help cover the costs of uniforms, books and school expenses. Mia is one of 162 scholarship winners across Australia this year. Applications for scholarships for 2023 have opened and close on 14 September 2022. Girls from Year 8 who think they might qualify should consider applying. To find out more, get involved or support the Harding Miller Education Foundation visit the link below.

New Staff

Kelsey Hendy(Teacher Aide) – I am originally from Victoria and have been living in the South West Queensland area for the past two years. Before moving to St George, I previously worked at the Cunnamulla Kindergarten and as a Governess on a cattle station. I completed my university degree (Bachelor of Outdoor Education) and worked overseas for a few years before moving to the sunshine state. Outside of school I enjoy travel, gardening and helping out on the property.

Rikki-Lee Hazard (Teacher Aide) – I have lived in St George for over 5 years with my partner and children. I have previously worked at Balonne Kindergarten and I am currently studying a Certificate 3 in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander education. My hobbies include playing netball and football, cooking and watching a good series on TV.

YEAR 6 TRANSITION DATES

Please be aware of the Year 6 transition dates.

The parent walkthroughs are for parents to see the school and how we operate.

To book an Enrolment Interview

Nicole Hyland

School Opinion Survey 2022

The School Opinion Survey is open until Friday, 12 August 2022.

To have your say, check your email for an invitation from the Department of Education titled School Opinion Survey for parents and caregivers, 2022.

Can’t find your invitation? If your family has more than one parent/caregiver, check that they haven’t received the invitation and/or check your junk email folder.

Year 7 Student Of The Week

Students of the Week for Week 4 were Jake Bradley for being Responsible and exemplary behaviour and effort in ALL classes and Josie Beeson for being Responsible and always working hard displaying exemplary behaviour and effort in all classes.

Year 7 Humanities

The Year 7s are currently investigating the Water in the World Unit in Humanities, and have been exploring the burden of water access in developing countries experiencing water stress, scarcity and unimproved water sources. One fact that shocked students was that women in these developing countries on average carry 20L of water over 12 kilometres each day, to ensure that their families and villages have water to drink. As a class, we attempted to replicate how heavy this weight would truly feel to carry, and what a skill it is to be able to balance this substantial weight on your head over such enormous distances! While this was a fun activity, the reality of the global water crisis became far more real during this lesson. 7A was feeling extremely grateful for our improved water access and availability.

Jessica Embrey

Year 8B Geography

This term’s topic is Landscapes and Landforms.

The skills we are developing are the stages of the investigation process:

Due to a huge improvement in the class’ overall behaviour in the last eight weeks, we have been trialling some different approaches to our learning.

Our Tuesday lesson is content driven and usually a teacher created PowerPoint presentation during which time we note take and discuss the new terminology and information.

Our Thursday lesson is group work whereupon we are split into groups of four and revise the content learnt during previous lessons. We have access to laptops to assist us with the research tasks in our group folders. In the folder there is also a feedback option so we can provide the teacher with information that may determine future tasks. Mrs D-M likes to know if our work is too easy, engaging, not enough, and any suggestions we may have e.g. Can we do a presentation, a quiz, a project etc. We are in our second week of group activities and thus far our behaviour and team work efforts have been excellent.

Friday’s lesson is the last lesson of the school week so we spend the 70 minutes doing technology-based activities such as creating visual presentations, mapping, drawing, and researching on the desktop computers.

Our class is currently on track for a whole class reward for excellent behaviour. If we reach Friday, the 19th August without any buddy class referrals we are having a celebration, which may include some refreshments and a game of our own choice outside. We have two weeks to go!

Year 8B Geography class and Mrs Dowling-Manns (Mrs D-M) Classroom Teacher

From The Wellbeing Team

An important part of wellbeing is developing strategies for a healthy and productive thinking. Over the weeks the Health and Wellbeing committee will share information on elements of a healthy mind. The first element is PERSISITING.

Quite often it is easy to give up when our first attempt at something doesn’t work. Persisting is training our brain to see when something doesn’t work and think about why it doesn’t work.

When encountering problems it is worthwhile changing your mindset from “I can’t do this” to “I can’t do this YET”. If we use the mindset that anything is achievable with persistence and hard work then we are to work towards our goals in healthy ways. Remember we sometimes learn more from our mistakes then from getting it right the first time.

Angela Garner

Balonne District Sport

There is now a Facebook page dedicated to providing information about district sport. Please like and follow Balonne District School Sport Noticeboard for updates.

Calendar

P&C Uniform & Tuckshop

Tuckshop is available every Tuesday and Thursday. Try and get your orders in before school or the next break. Uniforms will also be sold only on a Tuesday and Thursday with EFTPOS, cash or direct deposit. Any questions please email pandc@stgeorgeshs.eq.edu.au.

P&C Proposed Meeting Dates In the School Library 6pm:-

15 August
19 September
17 October
21 November

All welcome to attend!

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