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22 May 201922 May 2019

Principals Report – Week 4, Term 2

Premier’s Debating Challenge

On Monday, May 20th, Mullaway Primary School hostedGrafton Public School in the Premier's Debating Challenge.Mullaway were the affirmative side for the topic: 'We should banall homework in primary school'.

Both teams debated very well, however; Grafton Public Schoolhad slightly stronger arguments and rebuttals and weredeclared the winners of the debate.

Thank you again to Mr. Skinner our debating coordinator.

PSSA Netball

On Monday, May 20th, Mullaway Primary School played theirfirst round of the PSSA Netball competition against WoolgoolgaPublic School. The team showed great sportsmanship and

improved throughout the match, however; the final score was19 to 9 to Woolgoolga.

Well done girls! Thank you to Mrs. Dibb, the team manager, andto Mrs. Swift, who also assisted on the day.

NAPLAN

The National Assessment Program Literacy and NumeracyNAPLAN was held across the nation in Week 3 for all studentsin Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.

Schools had the option of completing the assessment eitheronline, or by the more traditional method; pencil and paper.

Mullaway Primary School opted for the pencil and papermethod. I am pleased to report that the fifteenth centurytechnology was very reliable on the day and the assessmentwas completed without any issues!

Kindergarten Sensory Learning

Our Kindergarten Sensory Learning started on Thursday, May16th, with Lorikeets having a fantastic time in the hall. Thankyou to all of our terrific parent volunteers, without your support

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our students would not be able to experience this wonderfullearning experience.

Northern Beaches Community of SchoolsDebating

On Thursday, May 16th, two debating teams from Mullawayparticipated in the Northern Beaches Community of SchoolsDebating initiative.

This week our school debated students from WoolgoolgaPublic School, with our affirmative (away) team: Eva, Leo,Carolyn and Yasmin travelling to Woolgoolga Public School andour negative (home) team: Billy, Tahli, Lily and Tristen hostingthe Woolgoolga away team.

The topic was "Sport is all about winning".

This is a non-competitive initiative, so there are no winners orlosers, just a great opportunity for our students to fine-tune theirdebating skills.

Well done to our two debating teams, they both did very well fortheir first debate! Thank you also to our debating coordinator,Mr. Skinner.

Peer Support

Our 2019 Peer Support started in Week 2 of this term and willcontinue each Tuesday from 12:40pm - 1:20pm, culminatingon Tuesday, July 2nd, the day of our NAIDOC celebrations.

Each week a different teacher takes responsibility for designingthe lesson, which is delivered by the Stage 3 students. PeerSupport is a proven, preventative, evidenced-informed initiative,which centres on peer-led interaction. The program benefitsa whole-school culture and promotes leadership, wellbeing,positive relationships, resilience and mental and social health.

Mid North Coast Cross Country

Three of our students have qualified for the Mid-North CoastCross Country Championships as a result of their excellentperformances at Woolgoolga beach on Friday, May 10th.Gracie finished 4th in the 10 Years Girls, Jax finished 6th in the11 Years Boys and Kalani finished 8th in the 8/9 Years Girls.

We wish our trio all the best at Nana Glen on Friday, May 24th.

Mothers’ Day Afternoon Tea

On Thursday, May 9th, Mullaway P&C held an afternoon teato celebrate Mothers' Day. We had fabulous attendance withmany of our mums, nanas, and grandmas enjoying a deliciousand social afternoon tea with their children, grandchildren andfriends.

Thank you to our hardworking and dedicated team of P&Cmums who organised and catered for the event. The feedbackwas fantastic!

Hopefully this was just a start to a wonderful Mothers' Dayweekend for our Mullaway Mums!

James Deagan – Principal

Coming Events

23rdMay

Thursday Inter School Debating

24thMay

Friday MNC Cross Country – Nana Glen

27thMay

Monday NRL Gala Day

31stMay

Friday Drought Disco (during schoolhours)

3rd -7thJune

All week Dental Medical Service visit

10thJune

Monday Public Holiday

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21stJune

Friday Winter Sports Carnival – helpneeded on canteen at Netball

24th-28thJune

All week Kids in the Kitchen

2nd July Tuesday NAIDOC Day Celebration

4th July Thursday School Photos

NEXT NEWSLETTER: Wednesday 5th June

Chicken HelpersWe are in urgent need of Chicken helpers for the followingweekends:

May 25th & 26thJune 1st & 2ndJune 8th & 9thJune 15th & 16thJune 22nd & 23rd

On Saturday and Sunday afternoon sometime come out andcheck their water and seed. If you have any food scraps theywould love that too. You can take any eggs they have laid.Please make sure the gate is closed each time you leave. Theseed is under the kindergarten classroom and there should bea hose attached to the kindergarten classroom to use.

If you can assist please phone the school office on 6654 0377to book your weekend.

Water Wise VisitOn Wednesday, 8th and Thursday, 9th May, Jo Cunninghamfrom the Cascade Environmental Centre visited Mullaway towork with all classes to deliver Waterwise lessons.

The lessons ranged from learning about our rivers and how tohelp keep them healthy to ways to save water in our schoolsand homes.

Some students from Stage 3 were involved in completing awater audit on our school. The audit will be used to monitorwater usage at our school.

Stage 3 students will complete a whole school water audit eachterm to continue to monitor water usage, to look for water leaksand ways to further conserve water.

Mobile Dental ServiceDental Medical Mobile Service will be visiting our school in theweek beginning Monday 3rd June. Notes were sent home lastweek, please complete these notes and return them to theschool office by Thursday 23rd May if you agree to your childvisiting this service.

Gumboot Throwing CompetitionThe Gumboot Throwing Competition raised $89 for the Adopta Cow Fundraiser. Thank you all who had a go.

Adopt a Cow SRC FundraiserOur SRC are co-ordinating a fundraising event for the month ofMay.

We will be holding four events over four weeks to raise fundsto support our farmers, who are still in drought. We have beenlucky enough to have had rain, however; many places in NSWhave not been so lucky.

A current campaign is the “Adopt a Cow “campaign.

We are asking for gold coin donations for each event and ourgoal is to reach $1000.00 by the end of May.

Our activities are as follows:-

This week's fundraising activity for our“Adopt a Cow” fundraiser is a drawingcompetition.

Students are invited to enter one drawingthat they have done in the competition. Thepicture is to be a cow or herd of cows. It can be a cartoon style,black and white or colour. It can be funny or serious. Studentscan use pencils, paint, water colours, textas or whatever theylike.

Please have your picture ready to hand to your class teacher onFriday morning (24th May) for judging.

There is one prize per class. Happy creating!

Friday, 31st May Day Disco and Dress as a Farmer

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Please get behind this very important and worthwhile fundraiseras we all need our farmers and farm animals.

Thank you.Mullaway SRC

Earn & Learn is backWoolworths have been helping kids across Australia getexciting new equipment for their schools.

So let’s stick together and make this year the biggest one yet!

We have booklets at the front office if your child would like tocollect a booklet to add their stickers to; once the booklet iscompleted they can drop it in the Earn & learn box located inthe front office.

Thank you

Messages from the Office

Student Invoices

Outstanding student Invoices will be sent home today pleasecheck your child’s bag.

We would appreciate payment of these outstanding fees assoon as possible.

Payments can be made in cash at the school office or onlinethrough our school website.

Children Late to School

If your child is late without a Parent or written reason, your childwill come home with a printed late slip (used to be a pale greentyped note). Please add a reason, sign and return to your child’sclass teacher.

Online Payments and Absence notes viaSchoolzine

When making online payments or sending absence notesplease be sure to add your students’ class name or teachername to streamline our processing procedure. With ourgrowing numbers and classes this can be a time consumingtask.

Thank you from the Office Staff.

Returning Notes/Money

Our big red box (for notes in the foyer) is working a treat. Thankyou to all the students for doing the right thing.

Below are some reminders for filling in andreturning notes/payment:

Send note/money in a plastic clip/zip lock bag, cut the top offwith all the details to keep on your fridge.

Cut the top of your note and keep on your fridge and returnnote/money in plastic clip/zip lock bag. We will return the baghome with your child to reuse.

PLEASE don’t forget your child’s name and class.

PLEASE return the note/money by the due date. We cannotensure your child will be able to participate in the event/excursion if permission is not received by the due date.

Please check Facebook/SZApp/Newsletter for UpcomingEvents.

School HatsCould you please make sure your child’s name is on his or herhat.

The best and most economical way is to have the nameembroidered on the back of the hat, preferably first Name andInitial of last name. This would cost approximately $6.00 perhat, considerably less than purchasing a new hat.

Weekly Bee Awards

Monday 13th May

Mrs Gentle Lorikeets Azalea

Miss Hopper Grevillea Rory

Mr Neal Glossy Luke

Miss Canale Casuarina Eddie

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Mrs Lee Pandanus Mya

Ms Broekman Kites Tahlia

Mr Grant Wonga Indiana

Mrs Martin Lilly Pilly Coco

Mrs Dibb Bluegum Audrey

Mr Cheers Kookaburra Fahley

Mrs Sutherland Library La’kya

Mrs Carter / Mrs Swift RFF Sake & Zyla

Miss Hoban LST Halle

Monday 20th May

Mrs Gentle Lorikeets India

Miss Hopper Grevillea Ambrosia

Mr Neal Glossy Chevy

Miss Canale Casuarina Jazz

Mrs Lee Pandanus Lily

Ms Broekman Kites Bridie

Mr Grant Wonga Tully

Mrs Martin Lilly Pilly Max

Mrs Freudenstein Bluegum Raine

Mr Cheers Kookaburra Myilly

Mrs Sutherland Library Shannan

Mrs Carter / Mrs Swift RFF Lily

Miss Hoban LST Cody Woodwell

Canteen

Roster

Term 2

Monday 20th May Renee & Dayrell

Wednesday 22nd May Nicole & Haley

Friday 24th May Alexis & Beck

Monday 27th May Julie & Kristy

Wednesday 29th May Nicole

Friday 31st May Maggie & Amy

Monday 3rd June Renee, Maggie & Kerry

Wednesday 5th June Nicole

Friday 7th June Lisa & Sally

Please contact Amy Hannaford 0402 365 414 on if youcannot do your designated day or if you need a secondperson on your day.

Winter Sports Carnival - Canteen

MPS is required to run a canteen for the PSSA Netball carnivalon Friday 21st June 2019. Jess and Lex are already on schoolcanteen that day, but I was wondering if anyone was in aposition to volunteer for a shift? At this stage I’ve got ScottEnsbey helping out with the BBQ (thanks Scott), and I’ll bethere to help run the canteen. I don’t really know how thisusually works so it’d be great to have some people who havedone it before to show me the ropes.

Amy Hannaford – 0402 365 414

Schoolzine AppJust a reminder to all parents to download the Schoolzine APPto your phone. See instruction on the link below.

This will deliver the school Newsletter to you each fortnight andalso enable you to request meetings with teachers and advisethe school of your students absences.

Parent Helpers and VisitorsAll parent helpers and visitors to the school are reminded toplease come to the office on arrival to sign in and collect aVisitors Badge. This is a Work Health & Safety requirement ofall school grounds.

Online PaymentsA secure Westpac banking facility is available on the MullawayPublic School website to allow parents/carers to make onlineVisa or Mastercard credit or debit card payments for things likevoluntary school contributions, excursions & sporting activities.

Look for the $ Make a Payment button at the top of ourhomepage.

Follow the instructions on this page.

We hope that you will find this payment option convenient.Payments can still be made at the Mullaway Primary SchoolOffice by cash or cheque.

Notes sent home since last Newsletter

NOTE DUE DATE CLASS / STAGE

Election BBQ help needed 17th May Youngest in family

PSSA Netball 17th May Selected students

Mobile Dental Service 23rd May Every student

Kinder 3-Way Conference 19th May Lorikeets & Grevillea

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Community Notices

Sea Turtle Release

Relay For Life

WOOLGOOLGA ROTARY’S MONSTERMONTHLY AUCTION

1st Saturday each month.

The Rotary Club of Woolgoolga holds their monster auction onthe first Saturday of every month (except January). A significantportion of the funds raised goes to supporting programs forlocal school students.

Head down to the Rotary compound and shed behind theWoolgoolga CWA building, beside the Diggers RSL club, andcheck out the bargains available.

Smaller items will be on sale from 10am, with the larger itemsto be auctioned off from 1pm.

A big thank you to each of the members of our community whohave donated goods.

Help with School Costs

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Hosting International Students

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