PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

YEAR 3,5,7 TESTING: This coming Tuesday and Wednesday are the days designated for this years State Wide Testing Program for Year 3, 5, 7.

With high degrees of illness prevalent at the moment it is possible some students may be ill on these days. If this is the case the test may be administered later in the week, however all testing must be completed by next Friday.

THANKS VOLUNTEERS: Once again this week we have many volunteers to thank for assisting us. These include those who worked at the P & C footy bars, the mums who sorted and distributed the pie drive orders, those who supervised and provided transport to the Mackay District Sports Carnival and the on going efforts of everyone in the costuming, props and dancing “department” of the Rock Pop Mime. Thank you for sharing your valuable time for the benefit of our children.

Howard Frost

Principal.

SCHOOL OPINION SURVEY: A reminder that these are due back at school next week.

Please assist us to meet our deadline for the return of these surveys.

NEW ENROLMENT: A very warm Hampden welcome to Year 5 student Tiffaney Bartlett who enrolled this week.

DATE CLAIMER: A reminder that Monday 3^rd September is the ministerial student free day for the Calen Cluster of schools, including Hampden.

SENIORS WEEK: As part of Seniors Week the year 4 and 6 students have the opportunity to attend a special day this Tuesday arranged by the Department of Communities. There are still 5 places remaining for this free outing.

P & C MEETING: A reminder that the monthly P & C meeting will be held this Monday at 7.30pm.

MACKAY DISTRICT SPORTS: Congratulations to all our selected athletes who participated in the Mackay District Carnival last Friday. All performed very well with several achieving personal bests.

A special mention for Michael Ormonde who came 2^nd in the 800m and 3^rd in the 200m. Michael will now participate in the Capricornia Trials in a fortnight.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the axe.

Abraham Lincoln

Hello Everyone

We have been very busy ‘online’ this week. We googled ‘Wombats’ and found out all about them. We also began our PowerPoint ‘Doubles’ presentation with our 6/7 Computer Buddies and prepared for our Book Rap points 1 and 2. We have to choose our favourite Australian animal and explain why. Indications are our favourite Australian animal is the dingo – because it howls!

We have been investigating procedural texts – recipes, experiments, and instructions and next week we begin our presentations to the class.

ROCK POP MIME

Our timetable is filling up quickly for the last weeks of preparation. Next week we hope to visit the Caneland Sound Shell for an onstage practice. On Sunday we will have a Sausage Sizzle luncheon as a culmination to all our hard work. On Monday 27^th August and Friday 31^st we will present our performance on Parade. Then it’s the real thing!

WEEKLY CLASS AWARDS

Year 6/7: Home Reading Award – Tamara Patchett. Helping Hand Award: Ben Wales. Improved Behaviour Award: Luke Kippen. Student of the Week: Ellise Burston. Sports Award: Michael Ormonde.

Year 4/5: Excellent results in Year 5 Preparation Test – Damian Volker, James Medway, Emily Chidgey, Jett Jones, Nick Perna, Andrea Perna, Kristen Mackenzie, Lachlan Thompson, Demi Cruickshanks. Spelling Award – Winston Dwyer. Consistent Worker Award – Sean Gee.

Year 2/3: Class Award for using their imagination.

Prep/Year One: Handwriting Award – Shelby Mackelvie. Reading 60 Books – Andrew DePoali, Nakita Daniels, Cate Cahill, Kyle Insch. Reading 20 Books – Jake Lisle. For Working Together – The Rock Stars (Shelby Mackelvie, Jack McLeod, Ricky Jones, Nakita Daniels.

We are gradually overcoming the gremlins in our computer system following the recent upgrade, and hope to tackle the backlog of Milestone Award certificates next week.

Congratulations to our latest Milestone Achievers James and Abbey Medway who are now both STAR STUDENTS.

FOR SALE: 9 ½ acres, Kuttabul area, 3 bedroom house, 1 shed, 3 water tanks, fully fenced, bore, round yard, 5 minutes to school. $420,000 o.n.o. Contact Brett Kippen 0417634757

MARIAN MARKETS

Church Grounds Marian

Sunday 19 August 8.00am – 12 noon

Plenty of great stalls.

Sausage sizzle & refreshments available.