Blog 2.0

Hi all,

Sorry the Blog has sat idle for a while... it will now be updated every Wednesday to link to the newsletter. 

Keep an eye out for what's happening at Healy State School each week!

In the mean time, here is a clever little bookmark that might help with Home Reading.

Mother Day!

Mothers Day Stall

Friday the 11^th of May

Healy SS Library.

Items from $1 to $5

Stall open for students with parents at 8:00am

Each class will visit the stall for a buying session too!

Cold Mornings, Warm Days

How to Reduce Lost Property

As the mornings can now be a bit crisp, most students are now arriving in jumpers and tracksuits, but if it is anything like today, 12'C in the morning and 31'C by lunch, the jumpers come off.  As a school we will always return labelled clothing as soon as possible to the owner, but unnamed property... that is a bit more tricky.
We are establishing a place for lost property that is easy to access and maintain.  At the end of each term we will place all the items out on display and ask students to check if they own the items one last time.  After this we will dontate the collection to charity. 

What can you do to help?

• Make sure your child clothes are labelled.
• Come to the school to check through the collection if youa re missing an item.
• Encourage your child to take off their jumper and place it immediately in their bag for safe keeping.
• Come to school on the last day of each term to check over things for yourself.
• Let the classroom teacher know what is missing so they might be able to keep an eye out as well as the above methods.

Have a great week!

Samantha Moore
Principal

ANZAC Remembrance Ceremony

ANZAC Remembrance Ceremony

On Tuesday the 24th of April the Healy SS community will gather on the front lawns to recognise the men and women who stood proudly for our nation, many giving their lives, the ultimate sacrifice, to allow us to continue to enjoy the Australian way of life. 
Please come and join us at 9am as we lower the flags, speak about the bravery of the ANZAC's and reflect on the honour and valour of these brave men and women.

A week of congratulations!

New Student Leaders:
Congratulations to the 20 Student Leaders who were inducted on Monday the 19th.  It was a great morning for all of the students, and a delight to see so many supportive families and friends there to celebrate too.  We will publish some special photos in this weeks newsletter to share with everyone!

Swimming news!
The other congratulations are for the swimming carnival! 

Firstly I need to thank Ms Ferris and all of the staff who helped out on the day, but it would have not been such a pleasure to be at the pool if it had not been for the fabulous students.  Once again our students represented themselves with pride, showing sportsmanship, team work and a whole lot of effort!  

More importantly will be the congratulations to Healy for winning the overall points on the day and to Moondarra: best house on the day!  Great work to every single swimmer on the day!

Go Teams!

Friday the 23rd of March is the 2012 Swimming Carnival.  On this day our 3 Houses, Corella, Julius and Moondarra, all named after Lakes in the region, vie for the Championship Points.  The students from Mt Isa Central will also be there, so it will be a good test of sportsmanship and swimming skills.

Students in year 4-7 are all invited to participate and demonstrate their increasing swimming skills.  There are events for beginners, novice and advanced students, so there is always a way you can participate and earn points for you house.  Also stay tuned for the war cries!  They should raise the roof.

Students should arrive at the pool for an 8:30 start, and will come back to school by bus.  Of course, swimmers, hat, towel, water bottle, sunscreen etc are all essential.

On return to school it is a Red Food Day and there will be drinks on sale by the year 6/7 students to fund raise for camp, as well as treats at the tuckshop.  There is no tuckshop first break.

Looking forward to a fabulous day with our amazing Healy swimmers!

Yours in Education

Samantha Moore
Principal

P and C AGM Results

Firstly I would like to thank the committee of 2011 who worked together so well to support our students.  It was due to their diligence and support that many of the significant plans of the school have been established and developed, including grounds improvement plans, developing an annual operational plan, continuing the fund raising and resource contributions for the school.

So thank you to Julie, Mary Ann, Tracy, Mike, John and Kerri!

I always like to think of the P and C as the 'icing and sprinkles' on the cake, adding all those special things to school that are important to parents and students.

Last night the 2012 committee was voted in and they are:
President: Kerrie Melamed
Vice President: Wayne Hobbs
Treasurer: Tracy Tweedie
Secretary: Theona Parsons
QCPCA Rep: Mike Jones

I look forward to working with you all this year and continuing to build Healy SS to bigger and better things.

thanks

Sam Moore
Principal