CSDE Weekly eNewsletter, Week 9, 24th March 2023
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CSDE School Values
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Principal's Pen
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Goal Setting with Sharon
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Would you like your student to attend district sports trials?
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Home Tutor Intensive Days recordings
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P & C Annual General Meeting
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Japanese
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Staffing Update- Year 6
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What's been happening in Primary?...
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Year 5 - A great start to 2023! Rockhampton and Emerald
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Primary Emerald
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Time Capsule Opening - Thursday next week!
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Emerald Mini-school
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Secondary Scoop
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Digital Excursion - Museum of Australian Democracy
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Harmony Day
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Year 12 QCIA -exploring the fun of creating sculptures in the sand.
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Human Chess at Secondary Mini-school!
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Mrs Schofield - aka Boot Camp Trainer!
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Year 9-10 CQ Military and Artefacts Museum and Archer Park Rail Museum excursion
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Literary Competition
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ANZAC Day - Rockhampton & Emerald
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Guidance 'Go-2'
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Cultural Snapshot
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Sports Person of the year award 2023
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Community Announcements and Opportunities...
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Cloncurry Prize Poetry Competition
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Free Driving Workshop
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School to Adult Life Transition
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We welcome your feedback
CSDE School Values
Mission: Supporting every student to reach their highest potential
Principal's Pen
Dear Parents,
As we approach the end of Term 1, I would like to update you on our school's Annual Implementation Plan priorities for the year.
This year we have three priorities:
- Engagement of Students, Home Tutors and Staff
- Teaching practices that improve outcomes
- Curriculum delivery consistency
A simple acronym to remember these priorities is by using the first letter of our key words:
E. T. C. - et cetera - (engagement, teaching, curriculum)
- Engagement of Students, Home Tutor and Staff
Our top priority is to improve engagement of students, home tutors and staff. We believe that when students are fully engaged in their lessons, they are more likely to return work, participate in class, and achieve better academic outcomes. We will continue to work closely with our students, home tutors, families and staff to provide the necessary supports to engage all stakeholders successfully.
In addition to this priority we are working to streamline communication processes throughout the school, with a particular focus on taking parents, staff, and students' opinions seriously. We believe that consistent and transparent communication is essential for creating a supportive and positive learning environment.
To achieve this, we are working towards a 5% positive increase in School Opinion Survey responses for the question of whether the school takes parents', students', and staff's opinions seriously. We also aim to ensure that all staff members are aware of our policies and procedures in relation to attendance, work returns, behaviour, and communication. We aim to decrease N ratings (non-submission of work) from students by 2% and reduce behaviour incidents recorded for students failure to submit work or participate in a program of instruction by 2%.
- Teaching practices that improve outcomes
To support this priority, members of the leadership team will work to develop their capacity as instructional leaders. Teaching staff will also participate in a program of collegial engagement including lesson observations across the school, with feedback from these observations being used to improve teaching and learning activities and improve outcomes for students.
Long-term targets include 100% of students achieving above the national minimum standard in NAPLAN, with 90% of students achieving A-C results and 50% of students achieving A-B results. We also aim to ensure that 90% of students complete and return assigned work and assessment and that 90% of students attain QCE.
- Curriculum delivery consistency
Finally, we are continuing to work on our whole-school plan for curriculum delivery, which is aligned with the Australian Curriculum (Prep – Year 10) and the Qld Curriculum and Assessment Authority (Year 11/12) Guidelines. All students are entitled to access all areas of the curriculum without exception and it is our role to ensure students are provided with this access. We are aligning our assessment processes with the curriculum, with a focus on clarifying learning intentions, establishing where individual students are in their learning, diagnosing details of student learning, and monitoring learning progress. We are working towards assessment tasks being moderated pre and post assessment with opportunities for internal and external moderation.
We believe that by focusing on these priorities and goals, we can create a supportive and positive learning environment that will enable our students to reach their highest potential and look forward to working with you to achieve these goals.
Kind regards
Amanda Rynne
Goal Setting with Sharon
Year 6 Students - log in at 2:00pm on Monday!
Would you like your student to attend district sports trials?
Home Tutor Intensive Days recordings
Spelling Mastery - Rockhampton CSDE Library Monday 13th March
Recording Link 1:
Spelling Mastery HT Session - Rockhampton - CSDE Library.-20230313_121734-Meeting Recording.mp4
No recording allowed for Room One - Frenchville Sports Club - Tuesday 14th March
Recording Link 1: Tuesday 14.03.23 Frenchville Sports Club HT Sessions Room Two - 4-12.-20230314_121810-Meeting Recording.mp4
Math Session Recording: Wednesday 15.03.23 Frenchville Sports Club HT Sessions Room One - P-6-20230315_121337-Meeting Recording.mp4
Y3 Home Tutor Session (both campuses):
https://au-lti.bbcollab.com/recording/337e198c2c384071b09c36bf2681628d
Y4 Home Tutor Session (both campuses):
https://au-lti.bbcollab.com/recording/edeb596cb6fa409c933f54b1b43f7bfc
Y5 Home Tutor Session (both campuses):
https://au-lti.bbcollab.com/recording/80192f53d840429d8717d1c56ce7723b
Y6 Home Tutor Session (both campuses):
https://au-lti.bbcollab.com/recording/a65b9391d3104835bc9b6947fca0cd3f
P & C Annual General Meeting
Please see Microsoft Teams meeting link for the P&C AGM on Tuesday 28th March.
Join on your computer, mobile app or room device
Click here to join the meeting
Meeting ID: 427 936 330 073
Passcode: nAGZTg
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A reminder that every member needs to fill out the membership form each year. The P&C is unable to carry forms over each year.
Japanese
What an exciting mini school it was! This was my first time to head out to our Emerald Campus, and it was a whirlwind experience. I had the pleasure of being able to also work with our lovely Year 5 Students in Rocky as well.
This term we have been talking about Art in our Japanese class. So far we have looked at different kinds of art as well as how to describe it, using a number of different adjectives including colours and feelings. In the lead up to Mini school we had a look at the Okinawan art style of print known as Bingata.
Okinawa is a small tropical island to the south of Kyuushu. It is known for it’s relaxed pace of life, friendly people, tropical climate and awesome flora and fauna. This has heavily influenced the art of Okinawa and Bingata incorporates these tropical elements into print and stencilling.
You can even go and do a Bingata experience in Okinawa, but seeing as how far away it is, I figured let’s bring the Bingata to us!
Below you’ll see some of the beautiful artwork created by our talented Year 5 students across both campuses - using Bingata stencils and fabric dye to create a personalised carry bag.
Staffing Update- Year 6
Dear Year Six students and Home Tutors,
From Term Two there will be some changes to staffing for Year 6 classes.
We are pleased to announce that Ms Megan Pedler will be joining the Year Six teaching team. Ms Pedler is a trained Maths/Science teacher and worked in the CSDE Secondary department last year.
Ms Pedler will be taking 6D Maths and all Year Six Science classes. We hope you enjoy working with Ms Pedler. Mrs Pedler will be at school during Week 10 to take part in class handovers and get a chance to meet you all in classes.
Mrs Sheridan McIntyre will be taking 6A and 6C English classes. Mrs Nikki Pickering will be taking Year 6B and 6D English as well as all Year Six HASS classes.
Ms Yvonne Hodgson will continue with her 6A, 6B, 6C Math classes.
Student timetables will be updated over the holidays and available for students from Monday of Term Two.
What's been happening in Primary?...
Mini-school News
Congratulations to our Rockhampton Campus 'Student of the Week' Awardees for Mini-school.
- Jessica Wall – Prep
- Jacob Schuh – Year 1
- Lexie Murdoch – Year 2
- Keeva Briggs – Year 3
- Lachlan Ward – Year 4
- Harriet Ellrott – Year 5
- Brooklyn Walker – Year 6
Well done to you all!
Year 5 - A great start to 2023! Rockhampton and Emerald
What a term of learning and adventure we have had! We (the teachers) have loved getting to know the 2023 Year 5 students so far. They are a great group of kids with a sense of fun and adventure and plenty of humour too!
Last week during Mini-school, we enjoyed having some Year 5 students join us for plenty of activities. These activities included rock painting, cooking, measuring and so much more. We enjoyed the opportunity to get to know the students in 'real life' during the Mini-school week. Here are some snaps of what we got up to.
This term in English the students have blown Mrs Clough and Mrs Moss away as they applied their knowledge of Fantasy Narratives to write their very own first chapter. They used figurative language, expanded noun groups, specific vocabulary and a variety of sentence beginnings to create many exciting, suspenseful and dramatic fantasy stories! We have had such a fun term with our fantastic cohort of Year 5 students.
Extract from - The life of chicken By Angus G.
‘I heard heavy footsteps right behind me, before I knew what happened I felt five orange tail feather’s part from my skin and felt warm blood trickle down my backside’.
Extract from – The snake in the spooky cave By Harriet E.
‘Macey wanted to go inside but Ella didn’t want to. “I wonder what’s in it?” said Macey. Macey courageously entered the cave first.
Extract from – The Enchanted Dingoes By Matthew L.
‘We now figured out what it was, and it was very disturbing. “I have a bad feeling about this,” Togo whimpered anxiously.
Extract from – Billy the kid By Wylie R.
‘They heard the snort of a raging black bull and could see the reflection of a silver helmet. As a feeling of confusion ran through their bodies, everyone around them disappeared.’
Extract from – The Opal Necklace By Haley M.
‘As the Queen opened the door in suspense, the corners of her mouth tweaked with excitement. The view of the village below in the valley met her eyes. The trees were swaying like elegant ballerinas and their green leaves were starting to turn yellow and brown.’
Primary Emerald
Time Capsule Opening - Thursday next week!
Emerald Mini-school
Congratulations to our Emerald Campus Student of the Week Awardees for Mini-school.
Left to right: Jenna McKeering, Georgia Meikle, Nalani Walker, Archie Bradford, Sarah Sypher, Imogen Stockdale, Billy Purcell.
Well done to you all!
It was great to see our Year 5 students on campus last week. Mini-school is such a valuable opportunity for students to work in person with their teachers and to spend time with their peers.
It was great for the students to meet some of the Teacher Aides from Rockhampton Campus who travelled over to Emerald during Mini-school.
Secondary Scoop
Mr Tregilles 'Haterday'!
Have you thought about a career in the Butchery/Meat processing industry?
Thinking about Year 10 Electives?
Consider Geography! It’s a great course, designed to promote discussion and practice skills but don’t just take our word for it, check out these student testimonials!
Student Testimonial 1:
Geography is a great class for if you’re wanting to learn more about the world outside of Australia. It goes more in depth about how different people’s lives are in other nations while also showing the similarities those nations can have with ours. Geography can also really help to improve your way of writing. It pushes you too expand on your sentences or paragraphs and use a wider variety of words.
This subject also teaches the different types of graphs and how to create and use them, which is a skill that can be useful in the future.
Overall, geography is a good subject and I’d recommend it to anyone.
Student Testimonial 2:
I personally have never been a fan of Geography, when I chose Geography for year 10, I didn’t know what to expect. It has to be one of the best choices I have made when it comes to my schooling, as I thought it was going to be mostly about plants, but it has been more than that. In geography so far, we have learnt way more than I originally expected for the fact I have been taught how to recognize and justify the different patterns in tables and graphs, as well as to take in a large amount of data at once and to be able to understand all of it. I personally struggle to concentrate when it comes to certain subjects in school but having Mrs Russel as my teacher, she has helped me to stay focused and to be able to comprehend the work she has provided us with, to which this has sparked an interest in Geography for me because of having a teacher like Mrs Russel. We learned more on the different factors of environments, human well being, and the different spatial variations of different countries. I have found it quite interesting learning these things as it relates back to the History of Australia, southeast countries as well as the affect they have had on our planet. Mrs Russel has made learning so much fun as she is always up for a chat or debate on topics surrounding Geography or anything really. And if you’re stuck on something she is happy to help you understand even if you have to ask multiple times about it. Which is another reason to why I believe you should consider picking Geography for one of your subjects! It is worth it!
To register your interest in this course or to ask for further information please contact Kate Thompson Head of Department for Humanities and Social Sciences at kthom339@eq.edu.au
Digital Excursion - Museum of Australian Democracy
The digital excursion at the Museum of Australian Democracy was very enjoyable. The guides were fun, incredibly kind, and interacted with us students. They discussed many things that I had scarcely learnt of before, aswell as bringing light to more common place stories. The museum is doing great things, keeping Australian history alive, allowing us remember our past, and our heritage. I hope that CSDE is able to host more guests like this in the future, it will be a great benefit, and great fun, for all of us.
Harmony Day
This week saw the country celebrating Harmony Day.
See the video below of some of our student work to acknowledge this special day.
Year 12 QCIA -exploring the fun of creating sculptures in the sand.
Human Chess at Secondary Mini-school!
Year 7, 8 and 9 students donned their 'chess pieces' and took the game of chess to a whole new level at Mini-school. Our fabulous teachers and teacher aides joined in the fun with the kids and we some creative teaching at it's best!
Mrs Schofield - aka Boot Camp Trainer!
Mrs Schofield put our secondary students through some 'boot camp' activities during Mini-school.
Year 9-10 CQ Military and Artefacts Museum and Archer Park Rail Museum excursion
On Monday 13th March , Year 9-10 students were invited to the HaSS excursion visiting the CQ Military and Artefacts Museum and the Archer Park Rail Museum as part of our Term 1 Mini-school program.
In conjunction with the Australian Curriculum study of WWI and WWII in Year 9 and Year 10 respectively, the Central Queensland Military Museum houses artefacts from the military history of Rockhampton and surrounding districts. It includes American Army uniforms from World War II and a room devoted entirely to Rockhampton history. The collection includes: Women at War display, Personal diaries, war photographs, Light horse memorabilia, Badges and Medals, Personal collections from Vietnam Veterans. All of the items are donated by the local community.
The Archer Park Rail Museum provides an authentic heritage experience looking at renovated classic trains, with its state-of-the-art digital soundscape and life-like mannequins taking students back to World War II. The museum covers the development and history of rail-based transportation in the major central Queensland town of Rockhampton and is set in the 100 year-old Archer Park rail station on Denison Street on the city's southside.
Literary Competition
ANZAC Day - Rockhampton & Emerald
Capricornia School of Distance Education would like to invite you to join with us as we remember those that paid the ultimate sacrifice this ANZAC Day, 25th April.
If you would like to show your appreciation and attend any of the events, please indicate your intention in the form.
We would love to see as many CSDE students attend as possible.
Specific details of each event will be shared with families as the school is notified by the relevant Council organisations.
If you are unable to travel to Rockhampton or Emerald to participate in activities, we would still love for you to represent CSDE at events in your local area and send through photos of your CSDE students in their school uniform.
Guidance 'Go-2'
During the Thursday of Mini-School, I was lucky enough, along with Mr Rowlands and Mrs Denning, to attend with a number of our year 11 and 12’s students, the P.A.R.T.Y program at the Rockhampton Hospital.
The P.A.R.T.Y. Program is a dynamic, interactive injury prevention and health promotion Program designed for senior high school students. P.A.R.T.Y. is an acronym for Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth and is an in-hospital injury awareness and prevention program originally established in Ontario, Canada in 1986. P.A.R.T.Y. is aimed at providing teenagers with information about trauma that will enable them to recognise potential injury producing situations, make prevention orientated choices, and adopt behaviour that minimises unnecessary risk.
Education programs aimed at effecting behaviour change and assisting teens in identifying risks, and making better and safer choices, is a primary strategy in preventing trauma in this age group.
The program is designed to engage young people by meeting emergency service professionals, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and people who have experienced trauma and survived – often with significant disabilities. Holding the program within a hospital environment enhances the experience by the participants and leaves a significant and lasting impression of the consequences of trauma and risk-taking behaviour.
The day was thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended and the subway cookies for morning tea were an added bonus.
Kate Miles – Guidance Officer
P.A.R.T.Y. Program
Cultural Snapshot
For our Elders
My piece represents NAIDOC 2023 – For Our Elders
I based my artwork on the knowledge and education our Elders have, and pass down to us and our wider community through the generations. The two meeting places represent both the male and female sides of our culture, similar in ways but also very different represented by the colours. The background shows the future generations coming up and emerging as we absorb the knowledge from our Elders and shows the elements of our traditions and culture. Our Elders are the teachers of our ways,our food, our behaviour and show us how we then become Elders for our younger generations.
- Aleerah Baker
If you are keen to check out some merchandise for this years Naidoc week, check out the below website.
Information sourced: https://www.dezigna.com.au/
Sports Person of the year award 2023
CSDE annually acknowledges the sporting achievements of a Primary and Secondary Student, who has excelled throughout the year at the end of year awards.
The presentation of the Sports Person of the Year Award goes to the student who has accumulated the most amount of points throughout the year in their various sporting achievements.
Parents are asked to advise the school throughout the year of the sporting achievements by completing this online form. Scores are based on events, the level of the event (district, regional, state, national etc) and the students placing within those events. You will need to complete the form for each individual acheivement. Do not place all acheivements on the one form.
At the end of the year, points are collated, and the winner announced.
Information to note:
* School sports are what counts for CSDE Sportsperson of the year. Students are recognised for their achievement in other non-school fields; however, these achievements are not part of the accumulation of points towards the CSDE Sportsperson of the year.
* You should list the highest level that your student has represented in that sport, noting that the points are only entered if the student represented, and not if they were selected and did not attend.
* Unfortunately, camp-drafting, is not a recognised school sport and so would not apply for Sportsperson of the year.
Community Announcements and Opportunities...
Young Engineers - Robotics Camps
Cloncurry Prize Poetry Competition
G’day!
Inspired by the iconic Dame Mary Gilmore, the Junior Cloncurry Prize Poetry Competition is now accepting entries from across the state.
This year’s theme, appropriately, is Outback Heroes, with all styles of poetry accepted.
Cloncurry Shire Council Mayor Greg Campbell said the annual Poetry Prize shone the light on the Outback and it’s stunning natural beauty, it’s larger-than-life characters and their incredible stories.
“There is no shortage of heroes in the Outback. They may not wear capes – they’re probably in boots that have covered more miles than there are stars in our sky, hats that could tell their own cracking yarns, and look like they’ve just come off a six-month cattle drove - but that doesn’t diminish their incredible stories.”
Entries for the competition are now open and will close on 1 May 2023. The winner will be announced at a ceremony held in Cloncurry on 23 June 2023.
For information about the competition and to enter, visit our website www.cloncurry.qld.gov.au/cloncurryprize.
In the meantime, here’s a stirring poem we prepared earlier: artist, poet, businessman and Cloncurry Prize judge Allan Cooney was born in Queensland’s Outback. He’s been a jackeroo, barman, roustabout, labourer, ringer, salesman, footballer, station manager, pastoralist, classer, studmaster, activist, pilot, consultant, business executive, trainer, mentor, share trader and CEO. He penned The Spirit of the Outback and has voiced it to this incredible vision of the Cloncurry region. Watch and listen here www.facebook.com/cloncurryshire.council/videos/968513430223439
Free Driving Workshop
CQMA is running a free driving workshop, with access to a qualified driving instructor however the initial flyer had the wrong days Please see the flyer below.
Contact: P: 0422 851 560 E: sue.rice@cqma.org.au for more information
School to Adult Life Transition
Supporting young people with disability transition from school to adult life
Carers Queensland is working with families and carers of young people aged 14 to 17 years old to identify potential barriers and challenges for young people transitioning from school to adult life, as well as the positive impacts that have supported students during this important life transition.
The Family Connect Forums will help you to:
• connect and learn from other families and carers;
• increase your knowledge about successful transitions from school to adult life; and
• feel empowered to set and achieve transition-related goals with your young person.