Moama Public School

Simms Street, Moama NSW 2731 Ph 03 5482 1564 Fax 03 5480 6460 Email moama-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website https://moama-p.schools.nsw.gov.au Principal : Mr Scott McKenzie

REMEMBER NO NUTS OR PRODUCTS CONTAINING NUTS ARE

PERMITTED AT SCHOOL DUE TO SOME CHILDREN BEING HIGHLY

ALLERGIC. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE.

Newsletter Tuesday

19th November 2019

Week 7 UPCOMING CALENDAR DATES—TERM 4

Wednesday 20th November

Kindergarten Orientation 9am-11.35am

Monday 25th November

Kinder Orientation 9am—2.05pm

Tuesday 26th November

Preschool Orientation 12:15pm—2:15pm

Tuesday 3rd December

Preschool Orientation 12:15pm—2:15pm

Thursday 5th December

School Concert night—6pm at the Moama

Kerrabee Soundshell

Monday 9th December

Presentation Day—12 noon

Year 6 Graduation Dinner—evening

Tuesday 10th December

Kinder Orientation 9am—2.05pm and parent

information session in the library at 9:15am

Preschool Orientation 12:15pm—2:15pm

Wednesday 11th—Friday 13th December

Lady Northcote Camp—Years 5-6

Wednesday 18th December

End of term for all students including

preschoolers

EVERY STUDENT MATTERS! EVERY MOMENT COUNTS!

2020 DATES

Staff return to school— Thursday 30th January

Year 1-6 students return to school—Friday 31st January

Kinder and Preschoolers start school—Monday 3rd

February

Well done to all the Moama PS students who

entered artwork into the Echuca Moama show

recently. Congratulations to the above students who

received awards for their work.

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

NEWSLETTER TERM 4 WEEK 7

Every Student Matters! Every Moment Counts!

Throughout the past week I have been in Sydney participating in professional learning for new principals appointed in the past 12

months from all over the State. The key message of the conference was to get to know your school and community well. After you

have a clear understanding of these facets the message was to focus on one thing that you need to do to achieve improved student

outcomes. You need to narrow that focus and concentrate on it for a prolonged period of time. Slowly and softly was the message.

This message resonates perfectly with me as I have a strong belief that we need to focus on the teaching of English, in particular

Reading.

To do this we are implementing the Readers Workshop in 2020. This is a researched, evidence based program that works. As part of

the program I am asking for my teachers to change and I am also asking for the students and families to embrace this change. The

first thing you will notice is that the routines and the norms of the school will be different. We will have an uninterrupted literacy

session from 9.05—11.10am. To do this assembly will be run from 2.30pm on Fridays as of week 1 next year. As an instructional

leader I will be in classrooms every morning so unless there is an emergency I will be unavailable during this time.

We have already started to experiment with this program and have purchased resources to assist with its implementation. Students

do appear to be embracing the change and the older students especially are demonstrating that they like set routines for the

morning. Our staff have been conducting instructional rounds at Cobram Primary School. Our focus during these visits was a

program entitled the Readers Workshop. This program is designed to give both teachers and students a specific focus and goal

whilst reading. Reading stamina is integral to this as well as students being given a time at least once a week to discuss their reading

goals.

As part of the implementation of this program we are going to try as much as possible to designate from 9.05am—10.10am to

uninterrupted learning time.

Lyn Sharratt Professional Learning—Tuesday, November 19

As part of the professional learning suite being rolled out by the Department Ms Campbell, Ms Catlow and I travelled to and from

Albury today. Lyn Sharratt is a renowned educational expert who concentrates her work on what the students are learning in the

classroom. She has 5 key questions that we ask the students whilst they are learning that help us understand how they are going.

As a leader I have used Lyn’s model in schools before and have already started to use her 5 questions in our classrooms.

The questions are:

1. What are you learning

2. How are you going?

3. How do you know?

4. How can you improve?

5. Where can you go for help?

These questions are all directly linked to the learning intentions and success criteria teachers use in their lessons. Ask your child if

they have been interviewed by me. They are demonstrating their understanding with some very well thought out answers which is a

great reflection of their learning progress.

Continued …..

Student Behaviour

It has been noticeable over the past few weeks that the students behaviour in Senior classes especially is becoming very poor.

“The students are tired”, “It is the end of the year/term” and other such excuses are used for this. It is paramount that as a school

we keep on top of poor behaviour.

If students are violent, if they swear or if they harass/intimidate other students it is our duty to protect the other students and our

staff.

Consequently, if students do misbehave they we will be strictly following our school practices and procedures for behaviour

management.

Our school mantra, “Every Student Matters! Every Moment Counts!” will be at the forefront of our mind when making disciplinary

decisions. To do this it may be necessary to suspend students with inappropriate behaviour or violent behaviour to ensure that the

learning environment is safe for the remainder of our students.

Thank You

As I have been away for the past week I would also like to personally thank all of the teachers and support staff in both the

classroom and office for stepping up and ensuring that we have not had too many changes for this period. I would also like to

personally thank Ms Campbell, Ms Catlow and Ms McCartney for their work as executive members during this time.

T20 Cricket

Students in Years 3/4 and 5/6 participated the Woolworths Cricket Blast last Thursday and Friday and you can read all about it on

the following pages. Thank you for staff and parents for their support over the two days and especially Mr Delbridge who

organised all of the teams.

Scott McKenzie

Principal

NEWSLETTER TERM 4 WEEK 7

Every Student Matters! Every Moment Counts!

Every Student Matters! Every Moment Counts!

Cricket— Year

3/4 On Thursday 14th November, four Year 3/4

teams competed in the Woolworths T-20

schools competition. Every team played 3

games, the mixed team was able to win their

final game.

The girls team won 1 game and played well

as a team. Boys team 1, were able to win 2

out 3 games and played off for 3rd place

against 208. Boys team 2, were able to win

all of their games and also played off for 3rd

position narrowly losing.

All teams displayed good sportsmanship and

team work throughout the day.

Cricket—Year 5/6 On Friday the 15th of November some of the

5/6 students attended the Woolworths T20

cricket competition.

There were four teams from our school that

played on the day, there were two boys’ teams

and two girl’s teams. The boys A team played

four games won 2 games and lost 2. The boys

B team played 3 games lost 2 and won 1 and

all of the boys had a great day.

The girls A team played four games they lost 3

games and won 1. The girls B team played four

games and won their four games, and ended

up winning their division. Overall everyone

had a great day.

Erika Glover and Rhys Drennan

We have recently installed some colourful and functional new furniture in our school

buildings including the library, multi-purpose room, staff room and school classrooms.

PBL ACHIEVEMENTS

Respect Responsibility Achievement HOW2Learn

KC Julie Tran Katie Gruner Amahlia Bice Zahli Green

1A Iris Ferres Layne Files Josie McCormick Lucy Hearn

2C Gus Payne Ryley Slade Eden Currie Matilda Rowden

3/4C Dwight Morgan-Atkinson

Harry Sutton Elliot Lewis Kyron Griffiths-Sharma

3/4H Christopher Loria Allira Heriot Indie Edgar Lylani Roberts

5/6D Madeline Williams Harry Dargan Abbi Hope Aaron Dodman

5/6P Pj Colotti Orlando Peterson Travis Morgan-Atkinson

Rhys Drennan

Congratulations to all students for your efforts to support your learning this week

Please note that ‘NPP’ means that parents have not granted permission for these students to

have their name published in the newsletter.

Preschool Hours of Operation

Moama Public Aboriginal Preschool is in the grounds of Moama Public School and is open to all children indigenous and non-indigenous turning 4yrs before

31st July the year before they attend primary school.

We run one group over three sessions during school times:

9:05am to 3:05pm - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

(18 Hours in Total) Enrolment Enquiries: Phone: 03 5482 1564

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

Enrolments are open

for 2020

2020 PRESCHOOL ORIENTATION DATES

Tuesday 26th November 2019

Tuesday 3rd December 2019

Tuesday 10th December 2019

We will meet at the Preschool in the grounds of Moama Public School between 12:15pm to 2:15pm for the

children attending our program in 2020.

These visits will allow you and your child the opportunity to meet new friends, receive information packs and

meet the teacher and educators, whilst experiencing the inside and outside environments.

We look forward to meeting our new families for 2020.

“Every Student Matters, Every Moment Counts”

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