YUMI College News TAGAI STATE COLLEGE

Literacy

Work on the Tagai State College Literacy System started in Term 3 of 2021 and has been ongoing. There are several compelling cases for this work to continue to develop as we progress. At the top of the list is the need to develop our own capability in the College to teach English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD) for students to fluently speak, read, write and spell English.

Our primary Literacy System Design strategy includes, Waybeni Buway Ngurpay Mudh being our Flagship campus. The campus has been resourced with additional literacy specialists to help develop capability; of our Heads of Campus, teachers and our teacher aides to be highly competent to do this work with students. There have been some great news stories to come out of Term 1’s spelling data at Waybeni Buway Ngurpay Mudh and all campuses.

We have also developed interventions that are targeted at students who are not progressing at the same speed as their peers so that their learning continues to improve.

Literacy is taught in the morning. Ensure children are at school before the first bell.

This new way of teaching is already showing great results that you can see in the graph. These results are the culmination of the quality of the teaching demonstrated daily by the teachers and the high quality of the professional learning developed by our dedicated support staff.

All Primary Students - Spelling Progress

Waybeni Buway

Ngurpay Mudth

Head of Campus

Rick Cass

Colour Fun Run

Staff, students and parents were all excited to particpate and cheer on students at the Colour Fun Run on Friday 19 May.

This event was an afternoon of joy for our students celebrating whole school attendance. Our target for this term is 90% and currently we are at 84%.

Their colour-filled smiling faces showed how much everyone

Positive Culture for Learning

We achieved a major milestone this year with five campuses, Poruma Ngurpay Lag, Masig Muysaw Ngurpay Lag, Badhulgaw Ngurpay Lag, Ugar Eruer Lag, Erub Erwer Uteb achieving 100% in their Schoolwide Evaluation Tool (SET) audit and four campuses, Kadhego Ngurpay Lag, Mer Eruer Uteb, Malu Kiyay Ngurpay Lag and Dauan Ngurpay Lag campus that achieved our 95% target or above this year. A huge shout out to all the staff and students involved for this achievement.

The Purpose of the SET is to assess and evaluate the critical features of schoolwide effective behaviour support across each academic school year, which provides a snapshot of our Tier 1 performance.

enjoyed the afternoon as they made their way home to start the weekend. Well done students!

Classroom 3A

Waybeni Koey Ngurpay Mudth

Head of Campus

Matthew Tully

The next piece of work is to engage with Dr Tim Lewis, Director of Positive Behaviour Interventions and Support (PBIS) from the United Stated to support us to engage authentically, culturally appropriately and sensitively with all students and their families. This is such exciting work to see our progress towards We Are One and We Are Many!

The graph shows our campus improvement from 2020 –2023 in each of the 7 Essential Features of Positive Culture for Learning. Our aim is for all campuses to reach 95% or above.

Youth in Control Leadership Camp

Over forty Year 11 students enjoyed an eventful stay at Irrki (Bamfield, Prince of Wales) for the Youth in Control Leadership Camp on Tuesday 16 May.

Students from Classroom 3A are using their new laptops for 21st century learning across all curriculm areas.

‘I love using laptops for our school work because it makes it fun’Ryu

Students and Staff were Welcomed to Country by Traditional Owner Kusa Wasaga (a former Tagai State College Student) and followed by engaging learning exercises/experiences across the four days.

Activities were led by staff and special guests, including Queensland Police; delivering the Elevate program.

Queensland Mental Health, Lena Passi Womens Shelter and Thursday Island Community Justice presented “The Will of Respect”.

By far the highlight for students was Mr Saliman Binjuda (Kaurareg Ranger), guiding group hikes, and leading and helping the students prepare the kupmari for their dinner.

This camp was funded through the Local Thriving Communities Grant from DATSIP.Their ongoing support is truly valued by our campus.

Special thanks to camp coordinators Ms LJ Shibasaki and Mr Damien Broderick, teaching staff and all the special guests for making this camp happen!

Mina big eso, it was so much fun!

Poruma

Ngurpay Lag Head

of Campus

Tim McKee

Term 1 Attendance - 27 Students Enrolled

Literacy

Every morning our students take part in our Promoting Literacy Development program.

Students begin as a whole group then they are grouped based on their current spelling and reading ability levels. Our Teachers and Teacher aides deliver the content that is targeted to each specific group.

St Paul

Ngurpay Lag

Head of Campus

Kaltie Tabuai

Term 1 Attendance - 40 Students Enrolled

Current 77.3% (31 students)

Target Goal 90% (36 students daily)

Literacy

After a stuttering start to Term 2, our Promoting Learning Development is clicking into full stride. With the expert guidance of our very own Ms Deb Calder, we are implementing Tier 1 and Tier 2 and venturing to pilot the Tier 3 intervention system.

This has meant we have had to be consistently concise with our delivery routines, to not only reap maximum benefits, but more importantly, tailor to individual student’s needs.

Narupay

Ngurpay Lag

Head of Campus

Rachel Moore

Term 1 Attendance - 60 Students Enrolled

Current 69.1% (42 students)

Target Goal90% (54 students daily)

Literacy

Here at Narupay Ngurpay Mudh our students have been working hard, learning the phonic code through their Promoting Learning Development (PLD)-SSP program.

Students in all classes are working extremely hard this term to improve their spelling and reading results. Many students have shown great progress in their individual data this term.

At Poruma we have eight small groups working across our two classes with targeted interventions for individual students occurring daily.

Positive Culture for Learning

This week our students are focussing on being responsible in our return from the oval at the conclusion of play time.

Bell rings, whistle blows, game over. All students get a drink go to the toilet and then line up for their next class.

Athletics Carnival

Sports houses Ghaiya (The Red Wasps) and Urab (Green Coconuts) are currently in heavy training for the upcoming Athletics Carnival held on Wednesday 21 June.

Teacher aides are taking the students through their paces after school 3-4pm everyday. Ghaiya is training for ball games on Wednesday and Urab are practicing their march and war cry on Thursday.

This will be an eventful day and we invite all parents, caregivers and the community to come support our children on this day!

Our awesome Teacher aides have been specially trained by Ms Deb to implement this Multi-tiered System of Support.

Positive Culture for Learning

I take Responsibility for my actions.

Why: I will be a model student How: I think before I act What: I will make good choices

The focuses are chosen from collaborative staff discussions about observed behaviours in all settings and implemented over a fortnight.

The focus is then explicitly taught around the defining questions of, Why must I take responsibility for my actions, How will I take responsibility for my actions and What does it look like when I take responsibility for my actions?

These questions will be adapted to suit the next focus, whereby we may change the content but adhering the same structure, therefore maximising uptake through familiarity.

To support students who are not improving, we have implemented our Multi-tierd Systems of Support intervention program to bridge the gap.

Attendance is crucial for our PLD program to work and for the interventions to have any impact on student progress. Every day really does count for us to give our students the best chance at success.

Positive Culture for Learning

Our focus for this week is ‘I am Safe.’ I ask permission to leave; my classroom, my learning space, eating area and playground.

Touch Football

Our students love their touch footy! Every lunchbreak they rip into a great game of six on six.The staff here also join in as well.

Recently we played student’s vs teachers to determine who truly are the champs, of course our students were the champs!

I am pleased to say that touch footy was a winner on the day and that no ambulance was required.

Fresh Fruit for kids

On Mondays our tuckshop convenor collects a box of fresh fruit from the IBIS. This has been kindly sponsored by CEQ and provides Poruma students with a welcome fruit break at 10:00am every day. Eso CEQ for your valued contribution.

Mothers Day

The campus has successfully hosted special commemoratory celebrations such as a Mother’s Day Breakfast.

Our elderly mothers were bused in, thanks to the support of our deadly Pathways staff. We also had a fund-raising stall, where community could buy special gifts for our very special mothers.

Mina koey eso to Mrs Helen Saveka and the whole team for organising the beautiful event.

Attendance Rewards

Students who come to school everyday are entered in the draw to win $125 IBIS voucher.

Jackson won the IBIS voucher for Week 5. Johnny and brother Jackson have been coming to school every day and this is the second time their family have won the voucher. Great job Jackson and Johnny !

Upcoming events

We invite all parents and the community to join us with our upcoming events below:

Hockey CarnivalWednesday 24th May

Athletics CarnivalFriday 16th June

Attendance Reward Draw - Week 10