School Newsletter - Term 3 Week 5 - 2022

Principal's News

Eisteddfod News
Once again we have had an extremely successful Eisteddfod. In our Strings Department, we received first place for:

• Symphony Orchestra
• Chamber Strings
• String Quartet and
• 1st and 3rd for String Orchestra

This meant that Rangeville State School was awarded the Primary String Aggregate. Our Junior Concert Band also won their division. Congratulations to all of our musicans.

What was most impressive was the many comments from people both from our Rangeville State School community and strangers commenting on how joyful and happy our students looked when they were performing, and that was what stood out the most from the other schools.

Thank you to our parents and families for their constant support, encouragement of their child and promotion of a love of music, to ensure that our students are always ready and have undertaken the required practice to succeed. 

Thank you to our P&C for their constant and generous support of our Music Program.

We took 107 students to the Empire last Friday night and a smaller group on Saturday and it wouldn't have been possible without a fabulous team of teachers willing to give up time to help. Thank you to Mrs Jess Johansen, Mr Matthew Henry, Mr Cameron Smith, Mrs Sue Hagley, Mrs Rosie Tardent, Mrs Nicole Clarke, Mr Cody Corum, Mrs Ruth Brouwer and Mrs Jodie Rigby. Other Feedback received, “The Rangeville Kids were amazing and Jess has them eating out of the palm of her hands. She is a class above. Well done everyone involved.”

Solid Pathways Term 2
Congratulations to the ten students involved who have successfully completed the Term 2 Solid Pathways program. The program focused on advanced inquiry skills.

Sports News
Fifty students attended the Range Zone carnival on Monday with great results. Mr Morris noted how proud he was of all the Rangeville students on their achievements and behaviour shown throughout the day. The highlight of the day was the last event, the relays. Out of the four races we secured two first places, a second and a fourth place. That Rangeville chant could be heard across the oval was the secret to their successes.
Results indicate that 14 students will go on to represent Rangeville State School at the Darling Downs Athletics Championships on August 23.  Congratulations to everyone involved!

2022 School Opinion Survey

Thank you to all the parents/caregivers, students and school staff who completed this year's School Opinion Survey. We look forward to sharing our survey results with you when we receive our school report later this year.

Calendar of Events

Music News

The Rangeville State School ensembles recently competed at the Toowoomba Eisteddfod held at the Empire Theatre. After the workshops held at Rangeville with the guest conductors from the Open Conservatorium, Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University all of our groups were playing to their very best. The music department would like to thank the Rangeville P&C for their generous support of these very valuable workshops – this support can clearly be seen in the enthusiasm and pure enjoyment of our students performing and really showcased Rangeville as a School of Musical Excellence.  Rangeville ensembles received the following results:

1^st place Primary School Orchestra and the Peter Jackson Trophy

1^st place Primary School String Beginner Ensemble and the Fairholme College Trophy

1^st place Primary School String Ensemble and the Heather Schnitzerling Trophy plus the M & M Joinery Shield – Senior Strings

3^rd place Primary School String Ensemble – Junior Strings

1^st place Primary Small String Ensemble and the M & M Joinery Shield

1^st place Primary String Trio/Quartet and the Teresa Brix Trophy – Senior Quartet

Winner of the Primary School Strings Aggregate Trophy

Highly Commended Primary School Stage Band

1^st place Primary School Beginner Band

A huge congratulations to all of our performers and their teachers Mrs Johansen, Mr Smith, and Mr Henry.  Many thanks also to our parents for transporting students to rehearsals and performances and supporting the music department at Rangeville.

School Musical News

An email was sent home today regarding the upcoming school musical with two attachments.  Please return the permission slip to your class teacher as soon as possible. The date for the commencement of ticket sales will be announced shortly.

Toowoomba Teams Chess Championship

On Tuesday 6^th September the Toowoomba Teams Chess Championship will be held. If there is enough interest we will organise teams from Rangeville State School. This competition is a great opportunity for children who haven’t competed before, to have fun and play in teams. There is also a novice division for years 1-3 to compete.  

Activity Details:

Venue: Toowoomba Christian College (TCC), 10852 New England Highway, Highfields 

• Students will need to make their own way to and from the event. 
• Mrs Prue Cunningham from Rangeville State School will be at the championship to supervise students.
• Parents, family members and friends are all welcome at the tournament.
• Cost $21.25 per student.

If you wish for your child to participate in the activity, please email Mrs Prue Cunningham at pcunn1@eq.edu.au so that forms, payment details and teams can be arranged. For further information about the activity please visit https://toowoombachessclub.com.au/school-tournaments/toowoomba-district-primary-school-teams-chess-championship/. 

School Disco

Date Claimer!

The Student Council has scheduled a School Disco for Thursday 8 September. Times are as follows:

• Prep - 2 will be from 4pm - 5pm
• Year 3 - 6 will be from 6.00pm - 7.30pm

Guidance Officer News

Please see the attached article regarding Mindfulness for Children, courtesy of our Guidance Officer, Melissa Pappin.

Sport News

Rangeville students ROAR at Zone Athletics Trials
On Monday 8 August a strong team of 50 students represented our school at the Range Zone Athletics trials. Many students exceeded their personal best achievements and all competed with passion and pride!

It is with my great honour to acknowledge the following 14 students whom have been selected to attend the Regional Athletics trials which are to be held on Wednesday 24 August. This is a huge result as our school has had the most students selected out of all the Toowoomba schools.

Mr Morris

Champions of Champions Futsal Titles

Congratulations to all of our students who attended the Champions of Champions futsal titles held in Brisbane. This competition had some of the best players from around South East Queensland.
I am very proud of our boys' efforts for the entire day. Students displayed excellent behaviour along with learning from each game as the day went in.

A huge thank you goes out to all the parents/guardians who attended this competition to cheer our boys on. Your efforts went a long way in enabling me the opportunity to coach and train these boys.
I had a great day and I look forward to coaching our Rangeville students in more competitions and continue to assist them in developing their overall skills and knowledge of the game.

Mr Cobb

Book Week Costume Parade

There are many fabulous events happening during Book Week.

Daily Book Swap - Students can bring in a book from home and swap this for another book. Tables will be set up between Administration and A block. Children and families can come along from 8:30am before school or students can attend at 1^st break.

Dare to Dream Twilight Event 23rd August - Bring your family and read books together in the library.

• 5:00 – 6:00pm          Arunta and Bacandi families
• 6:00pm – 7:00pm     Cheepara and Dangatti families

Book Hunt - Each day we are hiding a mini book around the school. Find it and you will win a prize!

Whole Class Challenge - Write a Book in a Week with your class, this will be published and available for borrowing from the library. 

Chalk and Cheese - Students can let their imagination run wild by drawing their dreams in "CHALK" during the lunch breaks AND say "CHEESE" to the camera. 

Book Week Parade Fri 26th August - Come dressed as your favourite character from any book. Disney Princesses are book characters, superheroes are book characters.

If you have any questions please email Mrs Mohr jmohr18@eq.qld.edu.au or Mrs Smiddy esmid0@eq.edu.au

Year 4 Living Histories Australia Incursion

On Tuesday the 30 August Year 4 students are invited to attend a full day Living Histories Incursion as part of their English and HASS curriculum this term. The aims of the activity are for students to experience and explore what is was like for the first contacts (early explorers, the first fleet and convicts). Students will participate in a presentation portraying historical characters and information on relevant historical topics. They will participate in an artefact interaction where they will be able to have a close look and even handle some of the equipment. Students will then participate in some historical games and adapted activities.

Further information and Activity Consent Forms will be communicated with parents next week.

QParents

QParents  is a secure, online portal that has been created by the Department of Education to provide parents of Queensland state school students with 24-hour access to their child's information. The portal allows you to securely access information about your child and communicate directly with your child's school.

QParents provides secure, online access to student information such as:

• attendance details
• payment of invoices
• payment history
• behaviour
• report cards and assessment dates
• upcoming events
• timetables
• student photo

We encourage you to register for QParents. To do this, simply express your interest by emailing mllew16@eq.edu.au or by phoning 4617 733 and Mrs Llewellyn will email you an invitation to register (which includes your log-in code) and your childs unique EQID. Please see the attached factsheet for more information.

Rangeville State School P&C Association

Next Meeting

Our next meeting is on Tuesday September 13 at 6:30pm in the Resource Room. We hope you can join us. 

New to Rangeville? A warm welcome is extended to our new families. We have a very active and involved P&C here at Rangeville State School. We would love to meet you and have a chat about the many different ways you can be involved.

P&C is Cashless

The P&C wishes to thank all families for supporting us in going cashless. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the P&C Executive directly at rssparentlink@gmail.com 

Contact details  

P&C Committee – rssparentlink@gmail.com 

Operations Manager – opsmanager@rangevilless.eq.edu.au  

Phone P&C office - 07 4617 7354 

P&C Facebook page - Rangeville State School P&C

Did you know that we have a Facebook page? We would love you to follow us so that you can hear all about what's happening around Rangeville State School.

https://www.facebook.com/rangevillepc

Fathers Day Stall

Thank you to all families that have donated chocolates or popcorn for the stall. The last day for donations is Monday 15th August. Please drop items into the box at ROSHC or the school administration office.  

Packing Date: Monday 15th August and Tuesday 16th during the school day 

Stall Date: Monday and Tuesday the 29th and 30th August (due to the pupil free day on Friday September 2nd) 

Pack and prepare volunteers: interested in helping to pack and prepare for the stall?   

Please click here to pick a time or two to come in and help volunteersignup.org/J3PLH 

Book Club

Book Club – Issue 5 is now Closed

All books have been delivered to classrooms for this issue. If your child hasn’t received the books yet, please firstly: 

1. Check with the class teacher – they may have it put somewhere safe to pass on if your child wasn’t in class when they were delivered, or it may still be in their pigeon hole awaiting delivery. 

And then: 

1. Once you have checked option 1, please send a snap shot of the online order that you placed, or the bank statement snippet that shows the payment amount (no account details), date and to Scholastic information, and email that to opsmanager@rangevilless.eq.edu.au
   As soon as we have those details we will be able to follow it up and get back to you. 

Please remember that Scholastic Book Club is run by P&C volunteers and for each issue, deliveries from Scholastic generally arrive over the course of a few days. If your order isn't sent home on the exact day as others, please leave it a few days before emailing or ringing the school.

Looking to volunteer to help with Book Club deliveries? We would love your help! Please email opsmanager@rangevilless.eq.ed.au and we will add you to our volunteer email list.  

Drakes Supermarket

Have you downloaded the myDrakes app? If not please do! Scan your myDrakes ID QR code at the checkout and every dollar you spend will help towards our Community Dollars for the P&C.

Upcoming Fundraisers

• Colour Run – are you interested in helping out Term 4 (1-3pm Thursday 17th November).  Please register your interest if you might be able to help with this fun event click here 
• Musical Raffle – Some parents are currently approaching businesses that may be interested in donating to our upcoming musical raffle, do you have a business, or work for someone that may be interested in supporting the raffle? then please email opsmanager@rangevilless.eq.edu.au  

We thank you for your ongoing support and look forward to meeting some new volunteers at some of the upcoming events. If you are new to the school, we also ask you to visit us, as we have so many ways that you can help, we just need to meet you.

Tuckshop News

Volunteers always needed!

We would like to thank all our volunteers that turn up to assist at the Tuck shop, but we really need a few more. Feel free to have a chat with Nicky or Juliette to find out what a difference an hour after drop off can make to Nicky in her day. We are really busy with orders at the moment and love that people are buying all Nickys homemade hot meals and fabulous weekly specials. Please see our Facebook page for what's on offer each week Rangeville P&C Facebook Page

No cash orders will be accepted over the counter before school. Please place all orders on Flexischools before 8:30am.

Not sure how to use Flexischools ? CLICK HERE  for further instructions.

Small cash purchases of drinks, ice blocks and snack items (no preprepared food) at both breaks will still be accepted.

Uniform Shop

Rangeville State School P&C Association Outside School Hours Care (ROSHC)

In the last few weeks at ROSHC, childrens' imagination has been running wild! Tents and camping grounds have been made in the room as children explore their interest of the outdoors in a warm environment while outside we have been taking care of the bush tucker garden, trying flavours of native Australian plants and even creating a camp fire from pick up sticks. Learning through play is an important part of children’s development.

Imaginative play can be described as an act of role-play where a child draws upon their imagination based on previous knowledge and experience to explore new ideas, materials and scenarios. During imaginative play, children may be a different character, transform materials into new objects or find themselves in a new world creating their own stories. Play and leisure activities provide opportunities for children to learn as they discover, create, improvise and imagine. When children play with other children they create social groups, test out ideas, challenge each other’s thinking and build new understandings. Play provides a supportive environment where children can ask questions, solve problems and engage in critical thinking. Play can expand children’s thinking and enhance their desire to know and to learn. In these ways play can promote positive dispositions towards learning. Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play enables them to simply enjoy being.

Play also allows children to work on a variety of physical skills such as hand-eye coordination, fine motor (small skills like moving fingers and toes) and gross motor (skills like kicking and catching).

The next few weeks will give the children a hands-on opportunity to explore science and literature as both science week and book week are here and always a favourite as children create, discover new things and develop confident identities.

!!!!!! IMPORANT INFORMATION !!!!!!

Notifying Absences

Families are required to notify ROSHC of all absences. The school does not notify ROSHC if your child is absent or goes home early.

If a child is booked in and does not attend, educators are required to search the school grounds, and at times contact the police. This means that educators are not able to perform their normal duties. Recently there have been several occasions where educators have searched the school for 20 minutes as they are unable to get in contact with parents.

Below is an exert from our policy and procedure manual. For the full policy please go to https://www.rsspandc.com.au/_files/ugd/80dcff_430f3d81c75b45e49b02ef85a2e38f3a.pdf

2.4 Arrivals and Departures of Children

Confirming Absences

1. At approx. 3:10pm the Responsible Person is responsible for confirming the whereabouts of children that have not arrived by contacting parents/guardians and the school.
2. Once confirmation of absence from parents and/or emergency contacts or school is given the student will be confirmed as non-attending.
3. Where a child’s location cannot be confirmed, the following actions will be taken to locate the child and expected attendance by
   1. checking of school grounds and immediate proximity,
   2. communicating with the school office, and
   3. phoning all parents/emergency contacts.
4. Where a child cannot be located after reasonable effort to identify their whereabouts and where parents/emergency contact cannot be contacted the Police will be notified. Continued effort will be made to contact the parents and/or emergency contacts.

Imaginitive Play at ROSHC

Lost Property

Are you struggling to solve the Mystery of the Missing Glasses? Parents, please call or drop by the office where valuable items (including books, purses and reading glasses) are held.

Your child can retrieve items from our general lost and found before school, at morning tea/lunch breaks and after school each day. The lost and found box is located on the verandah of the uniform shop and holds all the wayward belongings for the school. We have lunch boxes, water bottles, jumpers, hats and more!

South and High streets traffic signal installation project

Upcoming Works

• 3pm Sunday 14 August to 7am Monday 15 August - Full intersection closure to seal the road with new asphalt and start new linemarking.
• 2am to 7am Tuesday 16 August - Complete linemarking. Please note: Any outstanding linemarking will be completed by mid-morning (after peak traffic).
• Please note, the above timings will be dependant on weather and contractor timing. We will advise any changes as we become aware.
  
• From mid-morning Tuesday 16 August - Traffic lights will be operational.
• To ensure safe queuing at the intersection, three parking bays on the south-western side of the intersection and the loading bay on the south-eastern side of the intersection will be permanently removed. These areas are highlighted in red below.

News from the Community

Please note that although the following notices may be included in the school’s Newsletter, they are published in good faith and do not necessarily have the school’s endorsement.

August Coffee Connections

ADF Members and Families are invited to join the DMFS Family Liaison Officer for our July Coffee Connections. Come along and we will shout you your first Coffee! It is a great way to meet and connect with others living the Military lifestyle.

Tuesday 9 August 22
Kingfisher Cafe
Spring Street
Kearneys Spring

Book via https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/an-adf-members-and-families-darling-downs-coffee-connections-tickets-387849838307

Toowoomba State High School Enrolments for Year 7 2023 are now open! All students from all locations are welcome after the removal of our enrolment management plan. Enrolment forms are available on our website or at the school office.

To find out more, come to our enrolment information evening on Tuesday 2nd August 5:30PM-7PM:

• Hear from the Principal
• Learn about what our wonderful school has to offer and see what Year 7 looks like in 2023
• Learn about our Performing Arts and Mountain Biking Academy