Newsletter

Edition 8 Term 2 2021

In this edition

From the Principal

From the Deputy Principal

From the Head of Curriculum

From the P & C

Term 2 2021

  • "A Big Night Out" P&C Social
  • Art Gallery Opening
  • Lunchtime Sport

Certificate III Business 

Maths/Science

Sports Update

School Values

Miles SHS Calendar of Events - WK 7 and WK 8

Miles SHS Date Claimers / Notices

Dance Club

Community Events/Notices

Playgroup

World Science Festival

Along the Garden Path

Murilla Community Centre Bookfest

Mobile Women's Health Service

Dalby Eisteddfod

For Tender - Canoes and Gas Heaters

Download the SkoolBag App

From the Principal

Term 2 at Miles State High School is already is brimming with both curricular and extra curricular activities.  To give you a broad brush stroke, our students have Experienced Sporting Successes- through our Miles SHS Cross Country, organised lunch-time activites along organised by our senior students, numerous students representing our school in Miles and District, South West and State Level school sports, congratulations to our many competitors.  Academic Success- with our first and very successful implementation of online NAPLAN,  Miles SHS Art Showcase at the Dogwood Gallery and a visit by the Wonders of Science Ambassadors. A Safe and Supportive Environment- student, staff and community participation in ANZAC ceremonies both school and community, weekly Kup of Kindness, Year 7 Camp, School Social, Do it for Dolly and Walk to School with Miles State School. Experienced Their Future- Years 9-12 participating in our very own Career Expo with 22 business ,community and industries represented, Year 10 Careers Pathway Program ongoing work experience and school based traineeship set up and signups. 

Community Positive Feedback

As a Principal it is always so special to receive emails and personally voiced accolades for our Miles State High students at both school and public events. Last week I received an email from Kylie Drury on behalf of the Murilla Garden Group. I directly quote “We really appreciated the students’ efforts with serving morning tea to all the people who attended the event. Many compliments were received for the professional and caring way these terrific young people interacted with the crowd and for all the help they gave on the day! Well done Miles State High School!”  Thank you Kylie and congratulations to those students…. This coupled with the many comments from our Miles SHS School Expo exhibitors of praise for all our students respect and maturity at the event.

I truly believe our students actions both in word and deed are the result of our parent/carers and wider communities’ commitment to developing our students’ social skills along with our staff and students enacting our school values. Together we are preparing our youth of today to take on their community citizenship for tomorrow. 

Farewell to Staff

Farewell to Staff

Saying farewell to staff is always hard, this term we say farewell and best wishes to two members of our Miles Student Services Team. Our long-term School Based Nurse Bobbie Moore. Bobbie has been working in our Miles and district cluster of school for many years. Bobbie’s professionalism, knowledge and ongoing care of our students both individually, in class groups and with whole school health and wellbeing events will long be remembered.  Our Youth Pathways Coordinator Renee Cremer has also recently departed. Renee’s tireless work driving and supporting our students to move ahead with their future pathways in the areas work experience, school-based traineeships and our Year 10 vocational program. Renee has worked extensively expanding our community, business and industry partnerships which has provided many choices for our students in career training and placement along with curriculum enhancement in industry currency for our school programs. Bobbie and Renee, we wish you and your family well in your new endeavours.  You both will be missed. Please know our door is always open for you to return have a chat and share with us your new journeys. 

Welcome to new staff

Welcome to our new School Based Nurse Alyssa Mirabito our school community is looking forward to working with you. We have advertised the Youth Pathways position and we look forward to an announcement in the near future.

Take care,

Josette Moffatt

School Based Health Nurse

Hello everyone and thank you all for the warm welcome to Miles State High School. My name is Alyssa Mirabito and I am your new School Based Youth Health Nurse. 

I was born in Miles, later moving to Bowen then back to Miles to study Nursing in Toowoomba. I have been a Registered Nurse for the past five years. I have worked at Tara Health Service for 3 years and am currently working at Miles Health Service where I have been for almost 2 years. 

Since my partner and I started a family I have developed a love for children that I never knew was possible. 

I am so keen to be able to work with everyone at Miles State High School and I hope to make a positive impact on everyone’s lives in some way. I strive to promote positive health outcomes and provide the school community with access to appropriate health professionals. 

Thanks, Alyssa. 

From the Deputy Principal

Hi Everyone,

In the last newsletter I wrote about the importance of student attendance at school.

I would like to acknowledge the efforts that parents and carers make to ensure that their children attend school. We also acknowledge that parents and carers do their best to inform us when their child isn’t attending for a particular reason. Over the past few weeks, we have welcomed a number of new families to our school community so I thought it would be timely to provide a flowchart that shares the process for parents and carers when their child is absent from school or late to school. 

Student Absences Procedures Flowchart

Road Safety

Reminder for students about Road Safety – to and from school. 

Getting to and From School Safely 

Parent and carers are encouraged to remind their children about the expected behaviours in terms of road safety and students getting to and from school. 

·         Students are expected to walk on the footpath – not the road.

·         Students are expected to cross at designated crossing areas.

·         Students who scooter to school need to give way or make way for pedestrians if they are on the footpath.

·         Helmets are to be worn by students who ride bikes.

·         Students are strongly advised to wear a helmet when riding their scooter. 

Thank you for reinforcing the general safety expectations with your children. 

Cheers Kath Wenban 

 

From the Head of Curriculum

Alternate Program Year 12 Term 4

From Monday 25th October to Friday 19 November, Yr 12 students will have an alternate program. The Program will be made up of External exams for students who study General subjects, study groups, certificate catchups, Graduation rehearsal and presentations. This program will be available early in Term 3.

Raelene Bates

QCAA External Assessment Timetable

Uniform Policy

Effective Communication - Term 2

Effective Communication is important and we encourage all partners to take an active role in communicating with Miles State High School. To assist in this process we have attached our Miles State High School Parent/Carers Communication Flowchart for Term 2. Please follow the steps below to contact your child's Curriculum Teacher or Care Class Teacher.

If unsuccessful in attempts to contact teachers of staff, please contact the office on 4628 5111.

Enrolment Information; Parent/Carer Communication Flowchart

Enrolment Agreement
Experience your future today!

Allow others to teach and learn

As of Week 6 Term 2, our new banner can be found in each classroom displaying the expectation of our students in allowing others to teach and learn.  As part of Positive Behaviour, we illustrate the benefits of following our school expectations and the logical consequences when we don't.

From the P&C

What’s happening in Miles State High P&C ?????

BIG Thank you

I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the parent volunteers who assisted at the Big Night Out school social last Friday evening. Christina and Brett Sinnamon for their chef and culinary skills preparing and cooking the pizza’s. Madonna Moore, Katrina Gaze, Charmaine Teece and Paula Derksen for keeping the food and drinks up to the kids at the canteen. Thank you for giving up your Friday night it is greatly appreciated. 

P & C School Social

Thank you to the students who attended the Big Night Out school social and thank you parents for allowing your children to attend and enjoy some down time with their friends outside of school hours. The P & C raise valuable funds throughout the year, by volunteer fundraising so we can then assist with operational costs and in kind support to host events like the Big Night Out social for the MSHS student cohort. When you get a great response to admission numbers it makes our association proud to be able to help bring rare opportunities like this to our school. 

Until next fortnight, get those extra blankets out and rug up as winter is on its way!! 

Cheers Polly – President 

P & C Executive Contact numbers:

Polly Leahy 0427 276483 Rowena Price

Paula Derksen 0427 271920 Toni Brown 0427 272059

BIG THANK YOU! Shout out to Scott Mullaly, Regional Engagement Manager for Telstra Regional Australia. Telstra kindly donated a mobile phone as the door prize for the Big Night Out Social. We thank you for being a partner with Miles State High School. 

Application Form to join the P and C

Download

P&Cs Qld Parent Talk Magazine

Link to Parent Talk Magazine:

 https://pandcsqld.com.au/members/publications/parent‐talk/

It is a static link so that it doesn’t have to be changed at all and will link automatically to the latest issue of the magazine each time it is published.

Term 2 2021

A Big Night Out - P and C Social

Last Friday, the P&C and the school-based events committee put on a “Big Night Out” social. The “Big Night Out” was a huge success with over seventy students from year 7 to year 12 in attendance. A lot of dancing and fun was had throughout the night, with homemade pizzas cooked using the school’s pizza trailer, and a full canteen run by the P&C volunteers. On behalf of the School based events chair I would like to thank Telstra for donating the phone for the lucky door prize, Foodworks Miles for donating many prizes for the games played throughout the night and to the P&C for hiring the DJ. Finally, a special thanks to the volunteering members of the community who gave up their time to put on such a great night for the students of Miles State High School. 

Payton Leahy

A BIG NIGHT OUT - P and C Social

Miles SHS Art Students Showcase

Curved Wall Dogwood Crossing Art Gallery and Community Centre

This year selected art works from our Senior and Junior Art Classes are being displayed at the Miles SHS Art Showcase on the Curved Wall adjacent to at the main gallery display of - JOHN MULLINS MEMORIAL ART GALLERY STENCIL ART PRIZE, Director Jacinta Fintan. Miles SHS Art Class students and their families were invited to the official opening and/or to view students art works at the gallery from May 21 to 10 July 2021.

Lunchtime Sport

​​Lunch time sport continued this week with Oz Tag. 

Keep an eye on the student notices as there will be a new sport every week. This is your chance to earn points for the spirit cup. Each person that comes and participates will get one point for their house. 

Week 7 - Volleyball

Year 8 - Touch Football 

Year 7, 8, 9 will play on Tuesdays and Year 10, 11, 12 will play on Thursdays. A huge THANK YOU to Amity, Payton and Marty for organising this event. 

Certificate III in Business

The year eleven and twelve Certificate III in Business class has begun transforming our classroom into a simulated business environment. This term students are working as a Workplace Health and Safety Office at a simulated mine, Global Mining where they learn all about WHS in the mining industry. The students who also have workshop classes have kindly made our role name plates. 

Sue Pinkney 

Maths/Science

Year 8 Maths - Miss Turner

This term the students in Year 8 are studying Algebra, Index Laws and Linear Equations with Rates.  The students have just completed their Algebra and Index Laws Exam and are not moving on to learning about Linear Equations.  During this unit, the students will be investigating how rates are calculated for common modes of public transport.  They will investigate Flag Fall, Peak/Off Peak times and how rates can be graphed on a Cartesian Plane. This unit will help the students to understand the ways in which fares are calculated and how fares can be influenced by time of day and/or the suburb they are taking place in.

Miss Turner

Year 12 General Maths

Students are studying for their unit 3 exam. They are reviewing all the concepts that they have learnt and developing a study list of skills that they need to revisit. Well done year 12.

Mr Kuhl

Science - Miss Jenko

In Year 8 Science this term, students are focusing on rocks and minerals. So far, the students have learnt about the rock cycle and different types of rocks. The assessment for this unit is an exam, which students will sit in week 9.

 

In Year 10 Science this term, students are completing two units. Students have just finished learning about global systems and the carbon cycle. In week 5, the students sat their exam for the unit. For the rest of the term students will be learning about the Universe, and will sit an exam in week 9. 

Year 11/12 Chemistry

Students are hard at work collecting data for their student experiment. For this assessment students created a testable question and modified a method to develop an answer supported by data.

Mr Kuhl

 

Experiencing Sporting Excellence

Sports Update

M&D Tennis

Thomas Crook

M&D Orienteering

Ingrid Young, Macy Gaze, Charlie Young, Christopher Donaldson, Brayden Teece, Connor Derksen, Benjamin Moore, Max Gaze

M&D Touch Football

Gareth Treadwell

QSS Championships Rugby League

Martyn Steel, Jaykob Lankowski

Miles SHS Calendar of Events

WEEK 7

Tuesday 1st June - Kup of Kindness, 7:00am

Tuesday 1st June - SW Football Boys & Girls (10-12 Years)

Friday 4th June - M&D Softball Girls (10-12 Years)

Saturday 5th June - Tuesday 8th June - QSS Touch Football (13-18 Years)

WEEK 8

Tuesday 8th June - Kup of Kindness, 7:00am

Tuesday 8th June - Essential English Exam 

Wednesday 9th June - Parade, 9:00am, MPA

Friday 11th June - SW Tennis Boys & Girls (10-12 Years)

Friday 11th June - NEWSLETTER DUE

Sunday 13th June - SW Orienteering (11-19 Years)

Miles SHS Date Claimers / Notices

Dance Club

Community Events / Notices

Playgroup

World Science Festival

Along the Garden Path

Along the Garden Path

Murilla Community Bookfest

Mobile Women's Health Service

Dalby Eisteddfod

FOR TENDER - Canoes & Gas Heaters

Columboola Environmental Education Centre (15kM east of Miles, 25 Boort Koi Road just off Warrego Highway) has eleven two seater fibreglass canoes and one outdoor gas heater available for purchase by tender only.  Goods are offered on an “as is” basis and will be available for viewing 1 day only, Friday 4th June 2021 strictly between 8am and 3pm at the Columboola centre.  Please contact Columboola EEC for more information and tender documentation. 

Phone:  46658166

Email:  admin@columboolaeec.eq.edu.au

Reminder: Animals are not permitted on school property

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