Hilliard State School eNewsletter

From the Principal

Yura families,

Please find our Weekly videoing highlighting what is coming up next week. Please remind your students about using the safe gates to leave our school as I am still seeing students jumping the back fence.

Leanne Witham - Principal

From the Leadership Team

Prep 2025 Enrolments

Please ensure that all Prep 2025 Enrolments and applications for Early Entry to Prep are submitted via the office by Friday 16^th August. Families will then be offered enrolment interviews and details about transition opportunities. Current families who have younger siblings due to start Prep next year are asked to also please complete enrolment forms as soon as possible.

Every year at Hilliard, we look forward to celebrating Book Week. This year, as well as our Book Week parade and library / class activities, we are also offering a colouring in competition, and have organised a Book Week musical show for all students to attend:

Celebrating Children's Book Week® 2024, the educational and interactive musical adventure Maybe A Miracle! is coming to our school! Students will be immersed into a highly interactive, educational musical adventure celebrating the Children’s Book Week® 2024 theme (Reading is Magic!) and incorporating a selection of the CBCA 2024 Shortlisted Books.

Permission and payment due by Thursday 15th August 2024

Don’t miss out on this fun and educational opportunity!

Dear parents, guardians and carers

Re: Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:

year of schooling
category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.

This information assists schools to:

formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).

Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please contact the school.

Kind regards

Jo Small

Head of Inclusion

Expectation of the Week

T3_Wks_5_6_Speaking_respectfully.pdf

Term 3 Event Calendar

Term_3_Event_Calendar.pdf

From the Office

Dear parents, cold and flu season is well and truly upon us! We have many illnesses circulating at the moment including COVID, Influenza A, mycoplasma pneumonia (walking pneumonia), whooping cough to name a few. When children present to the office due to illness, we must phone parents/caregivers and request that the child go home. Please ensure that your contact details are up to date at the office, including emergency contact details. Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Safety

To ensure the safety of all of our students, we use the two main gates (Hanover Drive and Alexandra Circuit) which are staffed during the end of the school day. Please DO NOT ask your students to use the back fence as an exit. We will be sharing this message via teachers, newsletter and on assembly. We ask for your support with this

Reboot

Reboot – Positive Change Highway

This term students are learning about the Positive Change Highway and how it can help them in school and everyday life.

Effective problem-solving skills are the foundation of self-trust, healthy risk-taking, resilience, effective goal setting and an essential life skill. It is very difficult to take the risk to move forward and grow if you don’t trust that you can deal with the problems and accompanying emotions that might arise.

Reboot’s Positive Change Highway helps design and create change by depicting the change process clearly. It supports recognition of incremental or daily achievements and the inevitable challenges that arise when seeking to achieve any goal.

Through the Positive Change Highway, classes and individuals can reflect easily on the learning journey and predict both impediments and strategies to overcome any learning difficulties. This helps foster greater student agency and self-efficacy (an individual’s belief in their ability to successfully undertake a task). Pre-empting the inevitable challenges that arise encourages a pro-active preparation and also a Growth Mindset toward challenges, which is key to student outcomes. Multiple repetitions of this simple problem-solving process help provide clarity and linearity in a student’s understanding of what is required to move forward, or what the Speedbumps and Roadblocks are holding them back.

HSS Olympics

Thanks to all members of the Hilliard State School Olympic Committee - Mrs Johnston-Anderson, Mrs Lowry, Ms Carbone, Mrs Beath and Mrs Mills - for your enthusiasm in bringing the Olympic Spirit to Hilliard on parade on Monday! Everyone's ideas, effort and creativity came together well to make the HSS Olympic Opening Ceremony fun and memorable. The Olympic speech by the school captains, torch relay, Olympic rings, flags of all of the countries, lighting of the cauldron and 'Be an Olympian' pic collages will live on in the minds of our future athletes and hopefully help to inspire them to be the best that they can be.

Opening Ceremony

EcoMarines

From the P&C

Yura families

I cannot believe we are in Week 4 already! Time is certainly flying this term. I hope everyone had a fun time at the Disco last Friday night. It was awesome seeing all the kids dressed up in their fluro gear and having fun on the dance floor. We raised a profit of $4,375!!! Huge thanks goes to DJ Dr Rock (aka Cookie) for being an awesome DJ and keeping the kids entertained. Thanks also to the staff and parents who helped on the night. We certainly can’t hold these types of fundraising events without the support and help from our school community.

Our next major fundraising event for the year is our Movie Night in November and is looking to be bigger and better than last years. We will have more food trucks and lots more activities for the kids to do before the movie starts. If anyone would like to be a part of the team organising the event, please let me know.

We are still looking for help with the face painting and hair braiding, so if you know of any high school siblings who can help, please email me. No experience is required as we will teach them how to do it beforehand. We are also still looking for some portable flood lights or light towers and a portable stage, if anyone has any or knows of someone who does could you please contact me. We would really appreciate any help we can get with these.

Term 3 fundraising events coming up are:

IGA BBQ raffle. The amazing Dan from our local IGA is running his annual BBQ raffle for the month of August with all proceeds coming to the school. We can’t thank Dan enough for all the amazing ways he supports our school. This year the prizes are:

1^st prize – Weber Family BBQ plus a $150 IGA voucher

2^nd prize – $300 IGA voucher

3^rd prize – 1-month free coffee!

Wow, they are some awesome prizes!! I encourage everyone to visit the IGA this month to buy some raffle tickets. We will also be holding a BBQ at the IGA later in the month to help sell tickets and raise further funds for the school.

Father’s Day stalls are on Wednesday 28^th and Thursday 29^th August (Friday 30^th is a pupil free day) and we are still looking for donations of baked goods and stock to sell.

Gold4Good is a new fundraising activity we are hoping to run this term. This fundraiser allows families to turn their old, broken or unwanted gold or silver jewellery into much needed funds for the school. Keep an eye out for more information coming soon.

Subway Day is on Tuesday 3 September and order forms will be sent out shortly.

Finally, good luck to all the students competing at the Schoolaerobics National Competition in Adelaide next weekend. We can’t wait to see you all on stage dancing and having fun.

If you have any questions about the upcoming events or anything P&C related, please do not hesitate to email me at hilliardpandcpresident@gmail.com

Thanks so much

Sam Eady

President

From the Tuckerbox

Yura Hilliard!
First of all, we would like to say a big thank you for everyone’s support of The Tuckerbox last week while Ms Courtney was unwell with the Flu. Students, Staff and Volunteers all helped support us during multiple closures and while Ms Kat was running the show on her own and we are so very grateful. Thank you for your teamwork.
We are still on our Around the World trip! Week 4 sees us in The United Kingdom with special dishes of Shepards Pie and Sausages and Mash with Gravy. Each week we are interviewing members of our school community who come from each of our destinations, you can find these interviews on The Tuckerbox’s Facebook page along with facts about our countries written on our blackboard for students to read.
Over the next few weeks, we will be heading to India, The USA, Central America and Greece. If you would like to be involved or interviewed for these countries, please stop in and see us in the Tuckshop!
Wishing you all a great Week 4 and 5!

Courtney Johnson & Kathryn Christensen

Hilliard Tuckshop Conveners

E: hilliardtuckshop@gmail.com

Ph: (07) 3820 1638