Term 3, Week 2 27th July, 2012

Principal’s Message

We were so pleased to be involved in the Prime Minister‟s Olympic Challenge Day at Vision Valley on Friday. Teachers over the last term have been recording the amount of sporting activity students are completing each week. Students in Years K-3 were involved in archery, orienteering and , while students in Years 4-6 learnt and played beach volleyball, went canoeing and horse riding to simulate some more unusual Olympic sports. Congratulations to all of our brilliant students who participated with safety, respect and responsibility throughout the day. Thanks to teachers for assisting on the day to ensure all students could make the most of this opportunity!

Diary Dates Gymnastics Starts!

Fri 27

th Jul

Spelling Bee! K-6

Tue 31

st Jul

Education Week Science Focus Day

Thu 2

nd Aug

District Athletics Field Carnival

Wed 22

nd Aug

District Athletic Track Carnival

Fri 24

th Aug

Local Gov‟t Election Day

Sat 8

th Sep

Shopping Trip 3rd

Nov

(New date!) Swim School 19

th Nov

Christmas Movie Night

Sat 1

st Dec

Presentation Night

Thu 13th Dec

Year 6 Farewell Mon 17

th Dec

Maraylya Messenger

Value of the Week – Responsibility

Our recent Athletics Carnival was held at Tamplin Field for students in Years 2-6. The day was most successful with all students participating with skill and sportsmanship. Thank you to our outstanding parent group who timed, recorded and collated results throughout the day – your assistance is invaluable. Ribbons will be presented at our next assembly in Week 4 due to the date clash of our regular assembly date and Small Schools Track Carnival on Friday. Parents are welcome to attend this assembly

Congratulations to Dan Freeman who broke the school record for 11yrs Boys High Jump, jumping 1.25m! Dan joined 30 students on Wednesday to represent Maraylya PS at the Small Schools Field Events Carnival at McMahon Park, Kurrajong. Miss Wynn and Mr Gaffey attended this carnival, and Friday‟s track carnival, as team managers and officials. Several students will progress from Wednesday‟s field events and we await confirmation of today‟s results from the track carnival. Thank you to our parents for transporting children on the day, both their own and others‟.

K -1 Athletics Day Congratulations to our Kindergarten and Year 1 students on their Teddy Bears Picnic Race Day, designed to give our younger students a special event whilst 2-6 students are at their carnival. Students were able to share the carnival day with their teddies, representing their house groups with skill and pride. Thanks to Mrs Heinrich for co-ordinating the day in Mrs Mackey‟s absence. SRC Congratulations to our new SRC members for Term 3 who were recently elected by their classmates. K – Kate Sultana and Cooper Ogden 1 – Anneliese Hughes and Jack Mills 2/3 – Jorja Wiesemes and Ben Rogers 4/5 – Hailie Burns and Nick Rogers 6 – Lexi Ham and Dan Freeman Badges were presented at morning assembly on Thursday and families joined us for the short presentation. Our first SRC meeting will take place next Monday at lunchtime in Mr Gaffey‟s classroom. We will be further planning our school vegetable garden and identifying any other initiatives for the term. Education Week 2012 Education Week (30

th July - ) is fast approaching us as a week to

celebrate all that is special about public education. Maraylya Public School has several key events planned for the week to enhance the core business of catering for the needs of our 21

st century learners.

School Spelling Bee K-6 – Tuesday SRC + UWS Alive Vegetable Garden design session - Wednesday Science Focus Day – Thursday AASC Gymnastics Sessions – Friday

Windsor On Stage Our Years 5 and 6 students have been invited to a free matinee concert at Windsor High School on Wednesday 8

th August. A note will be sent home

next week detailing times and our travel arrangements. LAST As you may be aware, Mrs Bennett fulfils the role of Learning Assistance Support Teacher within our school, currently one day per fortnight. With additional funding, we have decided to increase her teaching role in this vital area. She will now work each Monday, within classrooms, to support particular individuals and small groups of students with specific learning needs in literacy and numeracy. Reading Recovery We welcome our Reading Recovery teacher, Mrs Melefonte, to our school this semester. She is currently assessing Year 1 students for inclusion in the Reading Recovery program. She will join us each morning for 2 hours to work with particular students in individual reading lessons. Parents will be contacted by Mr Melefonte if your child qualifies for a place in this effective program. UNSW Computer results Results and certificates will be presented to students who participated in the University Computer Competition last term. It shows our strengths lie in word processing and graphic manipulation, while we need to pay further attention to skills and understandings in emailing. Mathematics and English competitions will take place later in Term 3.

Coles Sport and Woolies Earn and Learn Keep collecting the „Coles Sports for Schools‟ vouchers and stickers for the Woolworths Earn and Learn program. Please return them to school, we will again select some excellent resources for our students. The collection boxes are located in the office foyer.

Cool Kids Music Company 23 of our students were involved in the „Cool Kids‟ music lessons taught at lunchtime on Tuesdays. These lessons are externally run and in addition to our school‟s own music programs. Students and their families have chosen from drum, keyboard and guitar tuition and the first two sessions were a great success for students. Further information is available from the office. Maraylya Christmas Movie Night At our last meeting on Monday night, several key decisions were made regarding our movie night on Saturday 1

st December.

A brief outline of the event is as follows

Our evening will commence at 4:30pm

Selection of food stalls (BBQ, cakes, slushies, coffee van etc )

Santa will again visit the children and will be available for Santa Photos.

Jumping castles

Face painting

Airbrush Tattoos

Silent auction (Great prizes!)

Christmas themed movie (decided by Maraylya students) will be shown $30 family ticket / $5 extra family member / $7.50 individual tickets

Raffle – “Scratchy Tree” We know our local community highly values this unique annual event but we do need further help to organise and run stalls throughout the evening. Even if you can be available for 30mins to help, it would make such a difference to the night.

Class News

K Kindergarten had a very enjoyable start to Term 3.They had lots of fun at the Athletics Carnival and Teddy Bears Picnic. It was perfect weather on the day. Vision Valley was also a very successful day and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We are looking forward to a very busy term.

1 Welcome back! First of all I would like to say a big thank you to all the wonderful parents and grandparents that helped out at the sports carnival, you are invaluable. Congratulations to all the children, you did so well with your cheering for your team mates. Well Done! In Term 3 from Weeks 2- 5 Year 1 will be looking at the HSIE Unit „The Need for Shelter’. The children will be exploring the need for people and other living things to have shelter. We will be looking at how shelters are built and how the natural environment can provide them. In science Weeks 5 – 10 „Growing Plants’, the children will need a few resources from home. Please see list below:- Empty butter container Cotton wool Ice-cream tubs Spelling and homework Week 2 spelling sound for Group 1 is “ing “and Group 2 is “ew” and “ue” Home work is handed out Thursday afternoons and is not due back until the following week. If your child loses his or her homework sheet there are spare copies in the box just inside the door.

2/3 Welcome back and what a fun week we had. The Athletics Carnival was great fun, all of 2/3 participated and had terrific time. What can we say about Vision Valley? We are so lucky to be offered such an opportunity, great activities, fantastic place and for free with a free mufti day included! 2/3 are going to be doing a novel study on “The Secret Zoo” this term, where we are going to practise our „Super 6‟ reading strategies. We also thought this would be a nice link to our camp this term at Taronga Zoo. Science this term will be on „Growing Plants‟ and HSIE is all about the „Need for Shelter‟. Home reading has changed slightly for this half of the year, Mrs Bennett and I are trying to encourage 2/3 to become more engaged with books. So, 2/3 needs to read a home reader and complete a very easy book report to share with their peers. Their new books, home reading register, book report worksheet and a covering letter went home on Tuesday, if you have any concerns or queries please do not hesitate to come and see us. A plastic folder for their home reading would be appreciated.

4/5 4/5 have begun Term 3 with a blast! We have started reading „Matilda‟ by Roald Dahl and will be focusing on the novel over the next several weeks. In HSIE, we are learning about British colonisation and have been focusing on Aboriginal lifestyles prior to settlement and will be researching Captain James Cook over the next 2 weeks. Also, the OLYMPICS are about to start and we have been learning about the different countries participating around the world.

Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!

6 Year 6 have begun the term learning about the discovery of gold within Australia during the 1850s and how this impacted on our country. We aim for our science work to focus on this precious metal also, as well as simple machines, many of which were used on the goldfields long ago. We hope to see you at our Science Focus Day next Thursday to show you what we are learning about. We have revised the addition and subtraction of fractions within mathematics lessons and have begun working on long multiplication. We have also begun „seat lotto‟ where students are drawn out of a hat to see where they will sit for the week. It is hoped this will help us to better transition for high school.

MPS

Person of the Week

K – Charlotte Ward 1 – Jack Mills

2/3 – Jason Dorian 4/5 – Jack Rose

6 – Kia Burns

Merit Awards These students have achieved 10 tokens through the schools BEE Awards recognition system.

Count Down Awards Christine Mossman

These students have achieved 20 tokens through the schools BEE Awards recognition system.

Blast Off Awards Jessica Astill Alexander Adrichem Henry Winters Luke Fox Brayden Carabetta Jaden Giudice Kimberly Carpenter Hailie Burns Tyler Daniels Aaron Brown Aaron Carr Sarah Eller-Turner Sean Dorian Jayden Snowden Nicholas Rogers Alex Petersen Daniel Dorian

These students have achieved 50 tokens through the schools BEE Awards recognition system.

Orbit Awards Harrison Kinnish

Happy Birthday to….

Aaron Brown, Jason Dorian, Dan Freeman, Jamie Lee, Christine Mossman, Jack Rose,

Joshua Smith, Kate Sultana, Cohen Weissel, Jorja Wiesemes

Who celebrate their birthdays in July. Congratulations and hope you have a great birthday!

P&C News New P & C email address! An email address has been established as an avenue of communication for our community. This email is to be used for P&C matters only. All school matters should go through the other appropriate channels. You can offer ideas and suggestions via this address but you will not receive a reply. We hope you utilise this service as a way of having greater input into our school. maraylyapandc@gmail.com

Your dedicated P&C Committee are:-

President: Helen Beard

Vice President: Jackie Carr

Treasurer: Leanne Luzur

Secretary: Terese Horne

Canteen Managers: Catherine Sultana / Danielle Cramer

Uniform Co-ordinator: Leticha Clancy

Fundraising Co-ordinator:Yvette Vicary

Disco Y1 & 2/3 helpers Thank you so much to our P&C group for organising and the Year 1 and 2/3 helpers for supervising the very successful „Red‟ disco in Term 2. Election Day Stalls Local government elections will take place at our school on Saturday 8

th

September, we are hoping to run several fund raising stalls on the day. If you able to assist why not let us know via the new email address above.

EQUESTRIAN NEWS

Some exciting equestrian news, there are two interschool shows coming up in the next couple of months. Here is the information:-

Camden Interschools - Saturday 8th September (Entries close 24th August) Arndell Interschools - Saturday 24th September (Entries close 16th September) There will be more information in the next newsletter, so book those dates in you diary and let’s compete as a school. Any student who would like to compete in these competitions please register your name with Colleen in the front office. Kylie Equestrian Co ordinator

CANTEEN ROSTER AUG 2012

MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY

1ST

CATHERINE SULTANA

VANESSA NEEDS

3RD

JULIA KINNISH

ANGELA LEE

8TH

SYLVIA HOPKINS

TRACY Mc DERMOTT

10TH

JENNY BORN

LETICHA CLANCY

15TH

ASMA TADROSSE

LUNCH TIME ONLY FOR

GLENDA CARPENTER

17TH

GINA FRANKS

GLENDA CARPENYER

22ND

BROWYN SNOWDEN

24TH

LEANNE LUZAR

SUE SULTANA

29TH

DANIELLE CRAMER

CATHERINE SULTANA

31ST

TANIA HAM

MICHELLE MORGAN

THANKYOU

EVERYONE

FOR YOUR

TIME

CANTEEN ROSTER SEPT 2012

MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY

5TH

ASMA TADROSSE

LEAHN ROGERS

7TH

GINA FRANKS

ANGELA LEE

12TH

SYLVIA HOPKINS

VANESSA NEEDS

14TH

JENNY BORN

LETICHA CLANCY

19TH

CLOSED

DUE TO CAMPS

21ST

SUE SULTANA

LEANNE LUZAR

26TH

CLOSED

28TH

CLOSED

THANKYOU

EVERYONE

FOR YOUR

TIME