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1 KARARA STATE SCHOOL Biggest Morning Te Term 1 Dates March 1 Will in Toowoomba March 8 Will in Warwick March 19 Will in Toowoomba at Lyn Sharratt Conference March 22 Pink Stumps Day at KARARA March 22 Athlete Visit to KARARA March 23 Warwick Show Holiday (no SCHOOL ) P and C for 2018 Last week we met for our AGM and first P and C meeting for the year. A big thank-you to everyone who turned up and an even bigger thank you to the following ladies for taking on an executive position for this year: Sandy Frith ( President ) Lyle Batterham ( Vice President ) Natasha Hilton ( Treasurer ) Sharlene Cherry ( Secretary ) Pink Stumps Day A menu has been attached to today s newsletter for our Pink Stumps Day. All orders must be returned by Wednesday March 14. If you are able to help out with any home baking such as cupcakes or muffins, please let the SCHOOL know. We will also be having a raffle which will be drawn on the day, so if anyone is able to donate anything towards our raffle, please let the SCHOOL know.

2 Most importantly, don t forget to wear pink! Expression of Interest groundsman We are now in a position to advertise for a groundsman . The successful applicant will work on a casual basis. Duties include (but not limited to) mowing, whipper snipping, gardening and maintenance work. Experience with gardening is preferred. A Blue Card will need to be arranged and paid for by the successful applicant. Applicants are required to send their resume to: and in the subject line type groundsman Application. Applications close Friday March 9 at 9am. Interviews will take place on Monday March 12. The successful applicant would start immediately. Tuckshop Thank-you to all the Mums who have helped with tuckshop so far this term, it certainly has been a great treat. Just a reminder that before you leave, the money must be counted and given to me to be put away for banking. This is not something that can be left until pick up. Attendance February 28 NEWSLETTER ISSUE 6 Improvement Agenda for 2018 Writing.

3 Our goal is to improve the types of sentences that we are writing; Simple, Compound and Complex, as well as our sentence punctuation. We have made a terrific start to Term 1 with our attendance. 78% of our students have not missed a day this term. Let s keep this up for the rest of the term! This Friday Sandy Please refer to your menu. Tuckshop Roster for Term 1: 9/3 Sarah 16/3 Sharlene 22/3 Pink Stumps Day 23/3 Warwick Show Holiday Camp Draft The KARARA Camp Draft has been postponed until the weekend of June 2 and 3. More information will be provided in the coming weeks. KARARA Rural Fire Brigade KARARA Tavern is hosting the KARARA Rural Fire Brigade's monthly fundraiser raffle this Friday (2 March) starting at a later timeslot of 6pm. We have had a busy couple of weeks with support to a police incident, turnout to a local fire, turnout to support a fire near Millmerran and refresher training on incident management. Notable thanks should be recognised to our volunteer fire fighters Geoff Cullen, Terry Reynolds, Luke Clark & Michael Welsh for their time to assist in these incidents.

4 Follow us on Facebook - KARARA Rural Fire Service. Ian Clark Around the SCHOOL Last week the boys learnt about the R sound and made robots; Darcy and Cooper with their patterns in Maths; Our technology challenge last week was to make a tower out of spaghetti and didn t it prove challenging! Darcy, Cooper and Brody have been learning about 2D shapes and made some shape pizzas last week which we added to our class shop. Kohan and Alfie busy making their dinosaurs in technology we can t wait to see them!