We hope all our learners and families enjoyed a restful break and are recharged for Term 3. We’re looking forward to a fantastic term filled with engaging learning, exciting excursions, and opportunities for every learner.  

PBL Term 3

PBL is off to a roaring start this term with many of our learners reaching the 100 gotcha mark! We are so impressed with the commitment and effort from all learners in following our expectations of being safe, respectful and responsible.

Just a reminder that Kooka’s shop is open on Thursdays to the recipients of their 50, 100,150 and 200 gotcha awards.

Our PBL focus for the week has been lunch expectations. This includes but is not limited to learners bringing a lunchbox with them to their eating area for both first and second breaks. We are trying to encourage learners to be eating at both breaks. Even if your child has a tuckshop order for first break, it is worth packing an additional snack for second break to keep learners energised and engaged for the remainder of the day.

Time to Celebrate our first ever 200 GOTCHA awardee!

We are excited to announce that Alex C (3Z) is our first ever student to reach 200 Gotchas as part of our Positive Behaviour for Learning journey! This is a remarkable achievement, reflecting Alex’s consistent safe, respectful, and responsible choices at Jamboree Heights State school.

To recognise this milestone, Alex will receive a special Golden Kookaburra iron-on transfer to proudly display on his hat or shirt. We can’t wait to see our first Golden Kookaburra shining in our playground!

Congratulations Alex.

Year 5 STARLAB

During Week One, the Year 5 learners at JHSS thoroughly enjoyed the amazing experience of a visit from Star Lab. We were able to walk into a dark dome where stars and planets were projected onto the sky, helping us travel around the solar system learning about planets and the solar system. This experience helped us grow our understanding of this vast topic.

We learned how many Earth years it takes for different planets to orbit the Sun, along with fascinating facts about each individual planet. One cool fact we discovered was that the universe is enormous, with more stars than grains of sand on Earth. We also learned how massive our Sun is —it could fit about 1.3 million Earths inside!

Students also explored constellations, such as Zeus, the Greek god, and Luna, the Roman goddess. We learned more about the satellites humans have sent into space.

We are all extremely grateful that the school provides us with these exciting experiences, and we are very thankful to Star Lab for visiting us.

Year 6 Science Day

On Wednesday 23rd of July, the year 6 cohort went to Centenary State High School to conduct an experiment on the absorbency of paper towels. Shortly after arriving we went to the science labs to begin the experience. As we arrived at the science lab, we had to ensure safety first. This meant putting on an apron and safety glasses. The experiment was to see if different brands of paper towels affected the absorbency. There were 3 beakers of coloured water, a pipette in each beaker, and finally, 3 test tubes. The cohort had to use the pipet to put 5 ml of coloured water in each test tube. We took a sample of the first brand of paper towel. Obviously, to make it fit into the test tube, we had to fold it up. We kept folding the paper towel, then we twisted it until was long and thin enough to fit in the test tube. The paper towel was placed into a test tube full of water, after 30 seconds the paper towel was taken out of the water and measured vertically. We were measuring the absorbency of each paper towel. We repeated these steps for the next 2 paper towel brands.

This was a wonderful experience and everyone really enjoyed it.