Dear Parents and Community

Welcome back to Term 3. I trust you all

had a relaxing holiday with family and

friends and enjoyed the wet weather. We have a very busy term ahead of us

but our students have already settled back into the classroom with a positive

attitude and determination to succeed.

WELCOME

All the Miling PS staff and students

would like to extend a very warm welcome to Miller. We are all very

excited to have a new friend join our

school and have all tried very hard to help him settle in.

CROSS COUNTRY

Congratulations to all of our students who competed in the Colin Moore Cross

Country Championships last term. It

was fantastic to see everyone displaying our core values of respect,

perseverance, cooperation and kindness

throughout the day. Congratulations to Keira Latham, Heidi Mincherton, Eliza

Seymour, Jacob Seymour, Summer

Lewis, Riley White, Chloe Latham, Heidi Seymour and Lachlan McCuish, who all

finished in the top ten of their division.

This Friday the North Midlands Cross Country Championships is being held at

Eneabba and I would like to wish all of

our competitors the best of luck.

ATTENDANCE Congratulations to Libby Mateljan, Caitlyn Pratt, Tyler Douglas, Kiara

Bailey, Callum Barnard, Amelia McCuish,

Eliza Seymour, Jacob Seymour, Ethan Georgy, Molly McCuish and Cooper

Seymour for achieving a 100%

attendance rate in Term 2. Fantastic work!

JUMP ROPE Last term our Pre Primary to Year 6 students participated in Jump Rope for

Heart. We had a fun morning ‘jumping

off’ and all put in a great effort to raise much needed funds for the Heart

Foundation. Congratulations to all of our

students on their fundraising efforts, together they raised $1460.90 which is

amazing!

SCIENCE GRANT I am pleased to let you know that our

application to be considered for a grant of $5000 to purchase science resources

has been successful. These resources will allow us to grow our science

program and motivate and engage our

students to excel from Kindergarten right through to Year 6 and beyond.

BRIGHTPATH PL Last Monday, Miss Huggins and myself

travelled to Calingiri to attend a

Brightpath Professional Learning Day. Brightpath is a fantastic tool available to

teachers to assist in assessing and

moderating student work. The software records the results of assessments and

reports a range of information to staff.

This information provides an informed basis for developing teaching programs

targeting the needs of individual

students. It is also a great moderation tool as it is used by schools across

Australia.

KINDY

Our two wonderful Kindy students, Dale

and Mitch, are both very excited to be attending school three days a week this

semester. They now attend Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Continued next page ...

School Report

Miling Primary School AN INDEPENDENT PUBLIC SCHOOL

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Miling Primary School, Nardy St, Miling WA 6575. Telephone 08 9654 1063 www.milingps.wa.edu.au

24 July 2018

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SCHOOL BOARD TRAINING The Department of Education have given schools the opportunity to request additional training for their

School Board members. We have taken up this opportunity and invited School Board members from Moora PS, Kalannie PS and Dowerin DHS to join us in the training which will be held at Miling PS. Due

to this training taking place on Tuesday 7 August, the annual School Board public meeting will

now be held on Tuesday 4 September.

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to Mrs Susan Dennis on her nomination for the WA Premier’s Teacher of the Year. Being nominated for this award is prestigious and although Mrs Dennis has been very humble about it,

we think it is amazing and are proud to tell everyone we see. Mrs Dennis is an exceptional teacher who

provides a supportive classroom where every student is respected and encouraged. She expects every student to achieve their personal best and will go to great lengths to help them achieve this. I’m sure

you’ll all agree that her nomination is very well deserved.

NEWSLETTER DATE

Please note that our next newsletter will be published on Tuesday 7 August, not Wednesday.

Thank you for a great start to Term 3, I’m excited for a fantastic semester!

Kind regards

ASHLYN SIVIOUR

PRINCIPAL

PRIDE - EFFORT - PROGRESS

Well done to Mrs Dennis on her nomination for the WA Premier’s

Teacher of the Year award!

Congratulations Miling and well done staff, especially Susan, for your tremendous efforts with

Jump Rope For Heart. You raised an amazing amount for a school of your size!

Students were excited to begin BUZ Friends in the Junior Room. Last week I completed a pre-BUZ

quiz with most students before the program. Our discussions were centred around liking ourselves

and knowing our strengths. My highlight was getting students to choose a strengths card and tell

the group what they had chosen. If students didn’t elaborate on why they chose that card I

invited the class to say when they had seen them using that strength. I believe these simple skills

of recognising our own strengths and affirming them in others are foundational to building

confidence and students loved it. Each student then made a simple collage about themselves

using stickers and drawings.

In Game Factory with the Senior Room we played Triple Threat Dodge again and discussed team

work, especially the value of not ‘checking out’ when someone else is in the limelight (eg has the

ball or is speaking in class).

The Junior Room played Gift Ball, a game that focuses on manners and self-control. I had to

quickly increase the difficulty as they were so good at it and I’ll use it to introduce a more

complex game which we’ll play for the rest of the term.

Thank you for your support,

Wil

Congratulations to these wonderful students who have all received Certificates of Distinction recognising and commending their commitment

towards consistently completing their homework throughout

Back L-R Jacob, Tommy and Molly

Middle L-R Amelia, Callum, Kiara, Eliza and Ashley

Front L-R Zoe, Libby and Tyler

Absent Tom, Heidi and Ryan

The purpose of a school board is to set the long term future direc-

tion of the school, maintain effective

oversight of the implementation of the business plan and provide

additional expertise to help the school achieve the best outcomes

for students. This year, the school board would like to lift their

profile in the community. To assist in this, we will shine a spotlight

on our board members throughout the year.

Intoducing, Mrs Nikki McCuish.

What is your role on the board?

Parent Representative.

How long have you been on the board for? 3 and a bit years.

What made you join the board? I wanted to have a better understanding of how everything

works and be involved.

What three traits define you? Honesty and loyalty (to a fault sometimes).

What’s one thing you can’t live without? Laughter (mostly at myself).

If you could learn anything, what would it be?

How to not fall over!!! I’d love to learn to say no!! But seriously I would love to learn a language.

What is the best advice you have received?

‘You can’t please everyone all of the time’ and ‘not my monkeys not my circus’.

What do you love about Miling PS?

I love the friendships that my kids have made, our dedicated staff who work hard to help our kids

achieve and I love how welcoming our school is to visitors including parents, grandparents,

friends etc.

School Board

Miling Community News

MILING COMMUNITY CHURCH

Services Held:-

2nd Sunday @ 9.30am & 4th Sunday @ 8am

Followed By Morning Tea!

ALL WELCOME !

A huge THANKS to everyone who supported our fundraiser either by donating goods towards and/or buying tickets in our raffle. The lucky winner was Jake McNamara.

BookWeek is a wonderful reason to celebrate books and all they offer, and it will be

happening in Week 6 of this term. We will have our dress up day on Wednesday, 22 August, giving

our students the opportunity to dress up as their favourite book character.

Dressing up does not have to be a massive deal, and there are many homemade costumes that are

creative, inexpensive and do not require any sewing. Below are just a couple that may inspire you.

Please remember, it is not about how expensive or extravagant the costume is. Book week is about

celebrating all books and exploring all the wonderful characters that we are introduced to through

books.

The Paper Bag Princess is a children’s

book written by Robert Munsch and illustrated

by Michael Martchenko. The costume requires

some brown paper, cut and stuck into a dress

shape, a white long sleeve shirt, black tights

and a small crown. You could put some face

paint on to resemble dirt on her face.

Green Eggs and Ham is a

best-selling and critically acclaimed children’s

book by Dr Seuss, first published on August 12,

1960. Sam I Am is a character in this book.

The costume requires a yellow shirt, dark pants, red

hat, cardboard sign that has “Sam I Am” written

on it and a cardboard plate with green eggs and

ham drawn on or stuck on.

It's time to enrol your children in swimming lessons for the October and the

December/January school holidays.

With swimming pools and beaches a part of the Western Australian lifestyle, ensuring

your children can swim competently and safely is a must for all families.

Your children can join in the fun of learning to swim in lessons conducted at pools and

open water venues across the State.

VacSwim lessons are for children of all ages (five to 17 years) and all levels (from be-

ginner through to Bronze Medallion). Lessons are allocated according to ability, not age,

so the skill levels of children in each class are closely matched.

Your children can learn to swim for just:

- $7.00 per child for a five day short program

It's even cheaper if you have three or more children:

- $18.00 a family for a five day short program

- $35.00 a family for all other programs.

VACSWIM 2017/2018

Swimming and Water Safety

T: 9402 6412

vacswim@education.wa.edu.au

http://education.wa.edu.au/swimming

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TERM PLANNER – TERM 3 - 2018

WEEK MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

ONE

July 16

Staff

Development

17

Students resume

18

Early Close 2.30

19 20

TWO

23

SDERA – Yr 6

Resilience Expo

24 25

Newsletter

Early Close 2.30

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100 Days of

School

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Eneabba

X Country

THREE

30 31

August 1

Early Close 2.30

2

3

FOUR

6 7

Newsletter

School Board

Training

8

Early Close 2.30

9

Jnr Room

Assembly

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FIVE

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Early Close 2.30

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Science Afternoon

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PP-6 New Norcia

Excursion

SIX

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Newsletter

OAC Incursion

BookWeek

Dress Up Day

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STEM Showcase

Day (Snr Room)

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SEVEN

27 28 29

Early Close 2.30

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Faction Sports

EIGHT

September 3

Mike Hind

Father’s Day

4

School Board

(Public Meeting)

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Newsletter

Early Close 2.30

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NINE

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Mike Hind

Science Forum

(5/6 students)

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Snr Room

Assembly

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Early Close 2.30

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I/School Sports

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