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YUMI College News TAGAI STATE COLLEGE
Waybeni Koey Ngurpay Mudth Head of Campus Matthew Tully
On Wednesday 31 May, our staff and students celebrated their annual Culture Day for 2023. This years theme was ‘For Our Elders’. Across every generation, our Elders have played, and continue to play, an important role and hold a prominent place in our communities and families.
It was a fantastic day of learning, joining cultural activities and focusing on the importance of diversity, tolerance and respect for all.
We thank the community and invited guests for their engagment and showcasing their culture.
Also a huge thank you to Ms Deb, Ms LJ and Mr Sam who prepared, organised and provided activities for the whole school community. The atmosphere was incredible!
Warraber
Ngurpay Lag
Head of Campus
Natalie Van Zyl
Term 1 Attendance - 52 Students Enrolled
Current 83.97% (44 students)
Target Goal90% (47 students daily)
Literacy
Our campus continues to develop, implement and enjoy the success of our literacy program. 2022 saw the introduction of Structured Synthetic Phonics (SSP). Our students have been enjoying their morning literacy block routine and have shown improvements with their spelling, reading and writing.
Our teachers aides are being assisted further with fortnightly professional development sessions. The daily routine has ensured that was tailor to individual students’s needs and meet each child where they
Iama
Ngurpay Lag
Head of Campus
Tessie Portelli
Term 1 Attendance - 64 Students Enrolled
Current 56.9% (37 students)
Target Goal90% (58 students daily)
Literacy
At Iama Ngurpay Lag it is great to see all students engaged and on task in their explicit SSP lessons. All teachers have routines fine tuned and well established in supporting students in their targeted Literacy rotations.
Your child’s best learning time is at the start of a school day. That’s when every minute counts the most. “Every Day Counts” Let’s work together to
Ugar
Ngurpay Lag
A/Head of Campus
Gaia Nobel
Term 1 Attendance - 15 Students Enrolled
Current 73% (11 students)
Target Goal90% (13 students daily)
The students and community of Ugar Eruer Uteb have had a very busy Term 2. We welcomed our Acting Head of Campus, Miss Nobel, and have jumped straight into learning.
Literacy
All students have been working hard with their PLD program during literacy times. Students love our reading groups; we are currently reading the Talisman decodable reader series. We can’t wait to find out what is going to happen next. In our English unit we are learning about characters are. Lessons are engaging and caters to the different learning styles of all our children.
Positive Culture for Learning
Our Positive Culture for Learning team meets weekly to analyse students data on our campus. The team decides what student behaviour needs to be explicitly re-taught to our students.This changes each fortnight.
Data that is analysed includes: attendance, positive behaviours, major and minor negative behaviours and our whole school approach.
This fortnight we are focusing on keeping our school clean. To reinforce this message, the school had an emu parade on Friday 26 May.
Mother’s Day Celebration
On Tuesday 9 May, all students celebrated Mother’s Day. Students showed their appreciation by ensure your child attends school every day and on time!
Positive Culture for Learning
Our Positive Culture for Learning focus for this week is: Expectation: I am Respectful, Behaviour: I listen to the person who is talking and Routine: I can look at the person who is talking
We practice this daily in class and role model our focus during Parade.
Homework Club
Students continue to attend “Homework Club” an initiative funded by the Queensland Government. Sessions are held on Mondays and Thursdays from 3.00pm to 4.30pm. Students from Prep to year six complete their set class homework, participate in activities to consolidate their work and enjoy a health snack during this time. Our groups are currently full with a maximum of 24 students per session. This initiative also supports busy families for students in a range of stories. We read and break down the characters to get a better understanding of their personality. We analyse their actions and thoughts. pampering their mothers with mini make overs.
We are enjoying seeing how characters can be so different across a range of texts.
“It was a beautiful time for parents and community to see their children show appreciation to the achievements and efforts of their mothers and mother figures” - Mrs Van Zyl.
Under Eights DayCelebration to be supported to complete their homework in a supervised learning environment before they go home from school.
Staff, students, family and community members joined the fun as the school celebrated Under Eights Week. This years theme is PLAY - you, me & communities. Play is such a brilliant tool for learning in the early years.
The celebrations and activities this year included outside play, traditional weaving, face painting, arts and crafts and many more.
“The whole school and community came together to spend quality time with our little ones. It was a time of connectedness and celebration”. - Mrs Van Zyl.
Year 4/5/6 Classroom
Our 4/5/6 Dubui class have been doing some great learning this year. We are very proud to compete in Tagai’s Readers Cup Challenge for 2023, our readers are currently tying 2nd place with Saibai. Looking forward to competing in the next few rounds!
Year Kindergarten/Prep/1 Classroom
Our Kindy, Prep, Year one class have been enjoying exciting activities out on our veranda.
We have been getting out as much as possible to use our outdoor equipment and develop our gross motor skills. We have also been learning about our letter sounds and how these can be blended to form words to help us read and write.
This is especially important during assessment times and it helps all students do their very best.
School Garden
Numeracy
During our numeracy lessons we have been building on our knowledge of Number and Place Value. We are remembering that internal zeros still hold a place value – they are equally important to the number!
In fractions, we have been dividing lots of shapes equally. We have discovered you can do the same thing with numbers to convert them into fractions, percentages and decimals too!
Positive Culture for Learning
This week’s focus is: I am a proud learner – I participate in all classroom activities and I try my best in every learning activity.
We have been spending sometime on Friday afternoons in our school garden. With the rich soil and rain, we have been having at Ugar our seedlings are growing fast and strong. Soon we will have watermelon, pumpkin, tomatoes and lots of other healthy vegetables.
The school and community are looking forward to the next weeks of the term as we have many upcoming events to organise and enjoy together.
Big eso to the families and community members who support us with these celebrations.
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