Maroubra Bay Duncan St, Maroubra 2035 

Ph: 9349 1569 Fax: 9349 5836 h p://www.maroubraba‐p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email:  maroubraba‐p.school@det.nsw.edu.au 

Public School 

Schools have always been a place more than just learning to read and write. They are, in many cases, the central hub of the community. A stable and constant source of support and comfort. Maroubra Bay Public School epitomises these ideals. You just have to be here at 3pm each day to see the community embrace each other, the children playing together, parents talking to staff, to each other—it symbolises this community spirit and shows every day what a wonderful place Maroubra Bay is to be around. 

This was also evident on Tuesday night where over 150 parents came along to listen to staff talk about the year ahead. Parents and carers walked freely around the school, casually cha ng and catching up with friends. A very posi ve atmosphere and hopefully everyone came away with a be er understanding of curriculum and administra on in 2017. 

One of our school core values is that of caring, and I encourage our students, staff and 

parents to look out for each other and reach out to those that may need it. We all have struggles in life, at different  mes and in different situa ons but it is certainly rare to see a family go through life without some need. By keeping the communica on channels open, regular catch ups, informal chats and just being around we as a community help in more ways than you can imagine.  

If you are concerned about any family in our community, please reach out and let’s all work together to support each other. Our school has many avenues of support available, through school counsellors, learning support staff and many contacts for external support services.  As Principal, I am always available to discuss your own needs or concerns for others in a confiden al manner. 

Next  me you hear a teacher be uncharacteris cally loud or short with students, a parent unusually quiet or absent or a child out of character—please stop and think about how we as a community can support them rather than turning a blind eye or cri cising them.  

I hope to see many of our community members and families at our first Parent Welcome night this Friday night. Star ng at 5.30pm across the road at Club M. A wonderful chance to catch up and build on that famous Maroubra bay spirit. 

  

Enjoy your week. 

Ma hew Ackerman 

Principal 

Newsle er T1 W5 Thursday 23 February, 2017  

Week 5 

21/02  5C Assembly 2.20pm 

Parent Informa on  

Sessions 

24/02  Parent Welcome Night 

@ Club M 

Week 6     

27/02  Zone Swimming Carnival 

28/02  4/5J Assembly 2.20pm 

1/03  P&C AGM and March 

Mee ng 

8/03  School Photos 

10/3   15/3 

School Disco 

 

Spor ng Group Photos 

& Photo Make up day  

Week 7    

7/03  3/4D Assembly  2.20pm 

Principal News 

Respec ul 

Caring Responsible 

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Parent Informa on Sessions Thanks to staff for making themselves available on Tuesday night. We had over 150 parents in a endance over the 4 ses‐sions.  

Please take the  me to complete the short survey that was sent out through the school app and on Facebook. Parents can also copy and paste the following link onto their browser. 

h ps://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YTJ7QDB 

The presenta ons from Tuesday night will shortly be available on our school website, keep an eye out if you missed out on the night. 

Indigenous Educa on – Early Stage 1 Our Kindergarteners have been studying the Aboriginal Flag. The Australian Aboriginal flag was designed by aboriginal ar st, Har‐old Thomas, in 1971. Our students have been learning about the significance of each of the colours.  

The black colour represents the Aboriginal people of Australia.  

The yellow circle represents the Sun. 

The red colour represents the earth.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kindergarten is looking forward to learning more about          Australia’s Aboriginal culture. 

Mrs Vouros  

(Early Stage 1 Classroom Teacher) 

General Informa on   

Healthy school lunch boxes Recipe ideas Chicken balls Ingredients: 1kg chicken mince 2 small brown onions, chopped finely 2 eggs 1 small red capsicum, finely diced 2 small carrots, grated 1 zucchini, grated Place all ingredients in a large bowl and mix. Form into small balls and place on lightly oiled tray. Bake for about half an hour at 180C. Store some in the fridge for this week’s lunch boxes, and freeze the rest for later.  Did you know?... Salt/sodium Most Australians, including children, eat more salt than we should. Some salt (sodium) in our diets is essen al for good health, but the amount we actually need is very small and can be obtained from our fresh vegetables rather than table salt (sodium chloride).  The average Australian adult consumes 1.6 teaspoons (9g) of salt per day but only needs around 1g, with children requiring even less. The sodium in salt is an essen al mineral for controlling water lev‐els in the body. It is also needed for nerve and muscle func on. However, too much salt can contribute to high blood pressure, which is a risk factor for heart disease.  Ea ng salty foods in childhood can produce high blood pressure that progressively worsens with age. What are the biggest contributors to salt intake in kids’ diets? ·         Bread ·         Breakfast cereals ·         Canned/packaged soups ·         Processed meats ·         Seasoned crackers/biscuits ·         Chips ·         Salted nuts  ·         Bo led sauces ·         Meat pies  ·         Sausage rolls  ·         Instant noodles ·         Chicken nuggets  ·         Flavoured popcorn  

Where should we get our sodium from? ·         Chicken and meat 

·         Vegetables ‐ ar chokes, beetroot, broccoli, carrots, turnips, beet greens, celery, chard, sweet potatoes, spinach, kale, cabbage, capsicum, cucumber and collard ·         Seaweed – nori, wakame, arame, kelp – e.g. sushi  ·         Legumes – chickpeas, len ls 

So eat less processed foods and eat more fresh vegetables! References:  h p://healthy‐kids.com.au/food‐nutri on/nutrients‐in‐food/sodiumsalt/ 

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PSSA This Fortnight 

The Summer PSSA compe on commences tomorrow. Good luck to all of our teams, we trust that you will have a successful season. We hope that many parents, carers and friends are able to a end our games and support our teams this year. The results of the matches will be published in the school newsle er. If matches are cancelled due to inclement weather, an alert will be placed on Skoolbag. 

Zone Swimming Carnival The Eastern Suburbs Zone Swimming Carnival will be held at Botany Aqua c Centre this Monday 27th February from 9.00am to 2.45pm. Following their success at our recent School Swim‐ming Carnival, 30 of our students have qualified to represent Maroubra Bay at the Zone Carnival. We wish all of our compe ‐tors con nued success at the zone level. A report will be issued in next fortnight’s newsle er. 

Sydney East Tennis Congratula ons to Kai J, of Year 6, who recently qualified to rep‐resent the Eastern Suburbs Zone at the Sydney East Regional Tennis Carnival, which will be held on Monday 6 March. On be‐half of the community we wish Kai success at the Carnival.  

School Cross Country Carnival The School Cross Country Carnival is one of the most significant events on our school’s calendar. This year’s Carnival will be held on the School Oval and Muraborah Park on Tuesday 28th March from approximately 9.20am to 12.00pm. All students from Kin‐dergarten to Year 6 are expected to par cipate in the Carnival. Students turning 5, 6 or 7 this year race 1km, students turning 8, 9 or 10 this year run 2km, while students turning 11, 12 or 13 run 3km. As students may not be used to running these distanc‐es, students may par cipate in some endurance training sessions at school prior to the Cross Country Carnival in order to help them prepare for their race. We would also encourage parents and carers to assist in training students before or a er school in order to further develop students’ cardio‐vascular fitness prior to the carnival.  

Spor ng Informa on 

Deba ng Trials for Years 5 and 6 students who wish to join the school’s   deba ng team will be held in the 6G classroom at lunch me next Thursday, 2nd March. Trials will be conducted by Mr Gigli and Miss Hatziantoniou. We encourage all senior students who wish to trial to write their name on the sign on sheet outside 6G prior to Wednesday.  

School Award System Following the introduc on of our new core values Respect, Re‐sponsibility and Caring, we are happy to announce our class award system is up and running in 2017. 

Classes have a weekly alloca on of Class awards to hand out to students displaying the appropriate core values. These awards are marked on a class chart. Once a student receives 10 of these awards a Core Value Cer ficate is presented at assembly. 

If students can collect 3 of these Cer ficates then they will cele‐brate with a morning tea with the Principal. This system is designed for one semester or two terms and will reset at the beginning of term 1 and term 3 each year. 

It is an cipated that all students will receive a Core Value Cer fi‐cate each semester, many will receive two cer ficates and a small number of students will reach the three cer ficate level and morn‐ing tea. 

This is a trial for 2017 and will be evaluated at the end of the school year.  

PSSA Friday 24 February  Venue  Opponent 

T‐Ball/ Softball  Nagle Park  Gardeners Road 

AFL  Heffron Park  Bye 

PSSA Friday 3 March  Venue  Opponent 

T‐Ball/ Softball  Nagle Park  Daceyville 

AFL  Heffron Park  South Coogee 1 

General Informa on 

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Welcoming Night for New Parents (repeat)  This year the P&C and Year 1 parents are organising an event to welcome all new parents, carers and kids to the school.   

The Welcoming Night will be held on 24 February 2017 from 5:30pm at the M Club (also known as the Bowlo). 

Please come along for a great night of dinner and drinks while ge ng to know the new members of our school community and suppor ng our local sports club. 

All welcome!  

School Uniform updated (repeat) Please label all items clearly with your child’s name and note that children must wear a hat in order to play outside at recess and lunch. 

Boys 

Yellow short or long sleeved polo shirt 

Dark green shorts or gabardine trousers 

Yellow long sleeved skivvy 

Green zip‐front tracksuit jumper 

Green tracksuit pants 

Green zip‐front fleecy vest 

Baseball cap/Legionnaire cap/so  brimmed hat 

White / grey socks 

Black shoes —preferably not lace‐ups unless they can  e their own shoelaces 

Girls 

Summer tunic 

Yellow short or long sleeved polo shirt 

Dark green skort, shorts or gabardine trousers 

Summer tunic with yellow skivvy 

Green zip‐front tracksuit jumper 

Green tracksuit pants 

Green zip‐front fleecy vest 

Baseball cap/Legionnaire cap/so  brimmed hat 

White socks 

Black shoes – preferably not lace‐ups unless they can  e their own shoelaces 

Note—sports shoes can be worn on Sports day 

Op onal items 

School bag with MBPS crest 

 

 

General Informa on 

Strategic Direc on 2 Purpose: To work together as a learning community to give our stu‐dents the knowledge, skills and experiences to achieve their personal goals and become global ci zens equipped to make meaningful contribu ons to society in the 21st century. 

Key Projects: 21st Century technology Infrastructure Project Strategic financial management is used to maximise re‐sources available to facilitate 21st century learning in an equi‐table manner, including staff and student technology accessi‐bility as well as evalua ng programs with an emphasis on cross curricular knowledge and technology immersion. 

  Posi ve Behaviour for Learning Project An umbrella of student wellbeing prac ces throughout the school. Inves ga on of current prac ces, developing expec‐ta ons and implement into new student wellbeing policy.   Environmental Project Students inves gate their place in our World and make choices to make a difference. Review teaching programs with environmental focus, playground expecta ons, our school culture.   What does this look like in 2017?  Including 21st century thinking skills in all teach‐

ing programs  Upgrading the school technology infrastructure 

including wifi and increased number of laptops  Redesigning our award structure incorpora ng 

our PBL values  Designing visuals in the classroom and playground 

to support our 3 core values  Implemen ng a garden program for al students K‐

6  Designing an aboriginal garden in consulta on 

with local community members  At Maroubra Bay PS we will strive for respec ul, re‐sponsible and caring learners. 

Meaningful,         connected and      engaged 21st       

century learners

Maroubra Bay Duncan St, Maroubra 2035 

Ph: 9349 1569 Fax: 9349 5836 h p://www.maroubraba‐p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email:  maroubraba‐p.school@det.nsw.edu.au 

Public School 

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Our first Garden Bee for 2017 will be on

Saturday 25th Feb starting at 9am.

Please come along and help us tidy up the garden so that it is ready for the kids to get stuck into grow-ing some healthy vegetables. There are many jobs to do including pruning, weeding, harvesting, painting tires and cleaning and re-painting the blackboard. BYO garden tools, especially pruning tools, as there is a lot to prune back.

Our watermelons were off to a slow start but, they are now growing like crazy and taking over. Please be careful where you tread as the fruit are hidden under the leaves and are easy to miss.

Keep an eye out for the native BLUE BANDED BEE. You’ll find them buzzing around the borage.

During Garden Classes, students will be learning to propagate their own seeds and will be mak-ing homemade wicking propagators. Please send in small (500mL or 750mL) plastic drink

Garden Club is FREE on Wednesday afternoons (3.15pm-4.30pm). All children must be accompanied by an adult

Life in the School Garden 

Composting Have you got fruit and vegie scraps?

Turn your vegie scraps into plant food and help the school garden

flourish.

Bring your scraps to the garden and place in the first COMPOST bay, lo-

cated closest to the lavender. Please NO bread, pasta, cheese, on-

ion, garlic, chili, ham or bones.

Composting is a great way to re-duce household waste going to

landfill.

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School Student Opal CardHow to apply for a school travel pass Go to : www.transportnsw.info/school-students You will need an email address to complete the form.

Step 1. Parents (or students aged 16 or over) first fill in the online application form.

Step 2. The school endorses the application. You will be advised if you need to do anything further when you have completed your online application.

Step 3. Transport for NSW then processes the application. If the application is approved,

for travel in the Opal network, a School Opal card will be sent to the address given in the application form.

for travel in rural and regional areas (outside the Opal network), a school travel pass (or passes) will be sent to the school or to the home address by the relevant transport operator, if applicable.

For rural/regional students, please contact the operator(s) directly to find out when and where the student's pass(es) will be sent. Note: some operators in rural/regional areas do not issue passes. If you have any questions about timetables or pick up points, please contact the operator.

The application process may take several weeks. You will be informed of the outcome of your application by email.

The previous (blue or green) paper application form is no longer used. However, you can use a new paper application form (pdf 52KB)opens in new window for school travel if you don't have an email address or a computer, or your address isn't being recognised by our systems, or for boarding school students opting for weekend and vacation travel.

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EASTERN BEACHES PHYSICAL CULTURE

(a non-profit, community voluntary organisation)

WEDNESDAYS @ ST BRIGID’S CHURCH HALL

Brook Street, Coogee

CLASSES START FEBRUARY

“WHAT IS PHYSICAL CULTURE?” “Physical Culture or 'Physie' as it is fondly known, is a moderncompetitive sport combining elements of low-impact modern dance,aerobic fitness & rhythmic gymnastics, choreographed into routinestaught as a yearly syllabus. Eastern Beaches will additionally teachIndian Club Swinging.”

GIRLS from 4years to TEENS & LADIES

Beginners to Advanced WELCOME! **FIRST CLASS FREE for new members**

Classes Wednesdays in school Terms -

4-8yrs – 4.15pm 9-12yrs – 5.00pm

13-17yrs – 5.45pm Ladies – 6.30pm Seniors – 7.15pm

Contact: Teacher – JULIE - Mob. 0412 074 869

Email: julie-ellston@hotmail.com

Proudly affiliated with WZ Physical Culture

Website – wzphysicalculture.com.au

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Community News Disclaimer Maroubra Bay Public School as a service to parents will advertise community events which may be of interest. MBPS does not necessarily endorse or sponsor the events and accepts no responsibility to the management or organization of these events.

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Bring out the best in your child with performing arts education!

The Australian Youth Choir helps young boys and girls from 7 years of age upwards, to discover their vocal talent. Students learn to sing, develop their musicianship and performance skills, and make new friends.

Singing in a choir stimulates the mind, imagination and spirit, with research showing it has a profound affect on a child’s general learning of literacy and numeracy. Weekly rehearsals and 2 concerts a year.

Visit our website www.niypaa.com.au or call

1300 761 039