MITCHELLS ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOL

Newsletter—Term 1, Week 6 2019

Canteen:

Canteen is on this week. Thank you Amy for running

the canteen tomorrow.

Regional Swimming:

Congratulations to Denver, Jaydon, Gracie & Toby who

represented our school at the Regional Swimming

Carnival in Newcastle yesterday. They all put in a

fantastic effort in the relay, shaving 10sec from their

zone time and qualifying for the State Swimming

Carnival at Homebush. Well done team!

Children’s University:

Attached to the newsletter is another Children’s Univer-

sity form. This is free for the first twelve months and

we encourage all parents to complete the form so that

we can begin the children’s journey to education out-

side of the classroom. Forms need to be returned by

Friday.

Vintage Motor Cycle Club Visit:

On Friday, we hosted 90 riders from the Vintage Motor-

cycle Club and from all accounts, they thoroughly en-

joyed visiting our school.

Thank you to everyone who supported us from cooking

cakes, cooking the BBQ, selling raffle tickets, serving

food and cleaning up after.

Thank you to DW Quality Meats and the Purdons for

donating the raffle prizes.

P&C AGM:

Thank you to everyone that attended the P&C Annual

General Meeting on Monday. Our 2019 P&C Com-

mittee consists of:

President: Margaret Hilder

Vice Presidents: Jess Booth & Kayleen Seach

Treasurer: Sarah Ray

Secretary: vacant

Canteen Manager: Milo Jones.

At this stage, the Secretary role is vacant, if you would

like to consider this position, please speak to Mrs

Wilson or Margaret Hilder.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

Thank you for the great response to this excursion. All

tickets have now been sold. It will be a great experi-

ence but a very LONG day. We will leave school at

6:30am, stopping for morning tea at Wyong. Lunch will

be at The Capitol Theatre. The performance is at 1pm.

We will stop for dinner at Wyong. The school will cover

the cost of dinner for the students. I anticipate arriving

back at school by about 7:30pm.

The children will need to bring their recess and lunch.

It is preferable that the children bring throw away pack-

aging. They will be given two plastic bags that will be

clearly labelled, allowing us to separate recess and

lunch as they will be in 2 different locations.

Children can bring a backpack but it will be left on the

bus to avoid anything being left behind. I encourage

everyone to bring a pillow for sleeping on the bus trip.

1222 Manning Point Road, Mitchells Island 2430

Telephone: 02 6553 2623 Fax: 02 6553 2600

Email: mitchellsi-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Web: www.mitchellsi-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Principal: Michelle Wilson

‘A proud member of the Taree Learning Community

7/3/19 Canteen

8/3/19 Assembly 2:30pm

27/3/19 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

11/4/19 Circus Challenge Education Visit

11-12/4/19 State Swimming Carnival

12/4/19 Last day of Term 1

Ruby: This week we have been drawing Parliament House.

We drew it off a video and it was hard at first but then it got

easier as we went on.

Bethany: First we drew a semi-circle at the bottom of the

page then we drew two lines on top of the semi-circle. After

that we drew a big box on the right hand side.

Ruby: Then we drew a tiny bit bigger box in the middle and

we drew the same sized box on the left hand side and we

put windows and a flag. We shaded the windows in pale

lead pencil.

Bethany: We used green for the grass. Blue, red and white

for the flag. That’s how we drew Parliament House.

Vintage Bikes

Hamish: Last Friday 95 vintage bikes came to our school. The

kids got to walk around and check out the bikes. There were

different bikes ranging in ages from 20 years to 100. The old-

est one was used in the First World War. There was a cake

stall up in the library run by Mrs Stephen.

Dinal: There was a sausage sizzle where you could buy a sau-

sage sandwich or a drink. There were fantas, coke, diet coke,

Schweppes lemonade, solo and water. There was a raffle.

The prizes were a big meat tray with many different types of

meat donated by DW Quality Meats and there also was a big

favourites chocolate box.

Hamish: The school captains picked one bike each that was

their favourite. The school leaders got a Taree Vintage

Motorcycle Club cap and to say thank you for the sausage

sizzle they gave all the kids a drink and two packets of chips.

Bunnings BBQ:

The P&C are running a Bunnings BBQ on the 23rd

March 2019. A roster sheet is attached. Please

help where you can. This is a case of “many

hands make light work” and we need volunteers.

All of the fundraising work of our P&C goes back

into helping the students with many of our excur-

sions being heavily subsidised.

‘A proud member of the Taree Learning Community

Zone Swimming Report

Yesterday we went to the Regional Swimming Carnival.

It was very busy because there was a lot of schools

there. It was in Newcastle. We had to wait until forty-

four races were done, then it was our turn to race in

the PP5 relay. In our team was Gracie, Toby, Denver

and Jaydon. We had to touch a yellow rectangle at the

end of the pool when we swam to signal the next per-

son in our team to swim. We won our relay and made it

to state. We got a ribbon and a free drink bottle and

we had notes for state. They had a diving pool that

was 4.9 metres deep, that you could warm up in.

By Denver, Jaydon, Toby & Gracie.

The first race I went in was the junior 200 metre individ-

ual medley but I came fifth so I did not qualify as only

first, second and third place qualified. My time in that

race was 3 minutes and 22 seconds. My next race was

50m backstroke and I came fifth in that race as well

with a time of 42 seconds. I then went in the 50m

breaststroke and came 8th with a time of 51 seconds.

My last race was 50m freestyle and I came fifth with a

time of 36 seconds.

By Toby.