www.maraylya-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Term 1 Week 5 27th February 2015

Principal’s Message

What does Democracy look like at Maraylya PS?

District Swimming Carnival

Fri 27th Feb

CPR HELP! (5/6, Yr 1, K on Mon) (Yr 2, Yr3, Yr 4 on Tue)

Mon –Tue 2nd – 3rd Mar

SRC Mufti Day – St Patrick’s Day ‘GREEN’

Tue 17th Mar

Disco (Maraylya Hall) Thu 26th Mar

Easter Hat Parade Thu 2nd Apr

Good Friday + Easter Holidays commence

Fri 3rd Apr

School Development Day Mon 20th Apr

Term 2 commences Tue 21st April

ANZAC Centenary Service Fri 24th Apr

ANZAC Holiday Mon 27th Apr

SRC ‘PJ Day’ Wed 6th May

Mother’s Day Stall Thu 7th May

Life Education Mon/ Tue 22nd + 23rd Jun

Presentation Night Thu 3rd Dec

Year 6 Farewell Mon 14th Dec (TBC)

Students, teachers, parents accepting and

promoting the rights of others

Allowing others the right to express their

ideas

Students being good citizens

Value of the Month - Democracy

We continue to have a busy start to the year, planning, organising and implementing routines and programs. Classes have settled well and teachers are reporting a really positive start to their years. We were so pleased that so many people could attend the meet the teacher night last week. Thank you for your interest and support around class programs for your children. Our aim is always to inspire our students, recognise their individual needs and interests and improve their learning outcomes to become the independent and effective citizens of tomorrow. Many of our students were inspired by our NRL program over the last several weeks. Monday’s assembly was a culmination of learning some new skills and identifying ways to be healthy.

Year 1 and NRL coaches Sporting Representatives Congratulations to Ben Rogers, Harrison Kinnish and Charlie White on succeeding in their sporting endeavours.

Ben has been selected for a local representative basketball team outside of school.

Harrison will represent the Hawkesbury district in both basketball and cricket.

Charlie has been selected to represent the Hawkesbury district schools in tennis.

We wish them all the best for their respective trials and competitions ahead.

SRC Our SRC group met this week to bring their ideas for discussion and make some decisions on behalf of the other students across the school. We discussed the SRC role in the school and our responsibilities, including our sponsored student from Ecuador, Lidia. We were keen to find fun ways to further finance our commitment to Lidia and a Mufti Day will be outlined shortly in the newsletter. The students brought with them some excellent ideas for fundraising and ideas to further improve Maraylya Public School.

Start Smart – Financial Literacy Our Years 1 – 6 students were again involved in the Start Smart program offered by the Commonwealth Bank. This was an opportunity to discuss how quickly savings can add up to a large amount and how our saving goals can be achieved.

Catholic Scripture Thank you to Mrs Monica Ponturo who has kindly volunteered to take on the catholic scripture classes while Mrs Weisemes is away. We thank her for her time towards this program during this period.

Meet the Teacher Night + Welcome Barbecue Thanks to everyone who was able to join us for the welcome barbecue last Friday night. It was a successful night, attended by many of our families. Thanks to all of P & C volunteers for their time and organisation of the barbecue and our staff for running their evening information sessions. Easter Hat Parade Our Easter Hat Parade will take place on Thursday 2nd April from 11.15. We envisage our neighbours at MELC joining us as well along with our families. Hopefully we can talk Mrs Mackey into another ‘Bird Dance’. ANZAC CENTENARY SERVICE Mrs Mackenzie and our student leaders will host a small yet important service to mark the centenary of ANZAC. This will take place on Friday 24th April from 10.30am. Our families are welcome to join us. PARKING - NEICH RD Parents are reminded to be aware of residents’ access driveways when parking in Neich Road waiting to collect students. We have had incidents of blocked driveways during our peak times, which is frustrating for our neighbours. Please use the extensive parking further along Neich Road if necessary. Concrete Thanks! Last weekend several of our families provided their time and expertise to lay concrete to extend our assembly area. Mr O’Brien and his workers Troy and Harley, Mr Carpinato, Mr Belamy and ‘Couto’. Further thanks to …..

P F Formations at Maroota for their donation of concrete One Steel at McGraths Hill for the steel reinforcement.

Merit Awards - 2015

Countdown Award – 25 Bee Tokens collected – Lucky Dip/ Computer Time/ Canteen Item Blastoff Awards – 50 Bee Tokens collected – Principal’s Morning Tea Orbit Awards – 75 Bee tokens collected - Book Prize Touchdown Awards – 100 Bee Tokens collected – ‘Maraylya Medal’.

Dance News

Congratulations to all the students who have joined the Maraylya Dance Group. We have a range of dancers from Years 2-6 who are giving up Monday and Wednesday lunchtimes so they can quickly learn choreography. The dance group is preparing for our very first video audition at the end of Week 8! Students are very enthusiastic and have shown great excitement as they learn new dance moves and are enjoying contributing ideas to the choreography.

Well done everyone!

Happy Birthday to our students who celebrate

a birthday in early March including;

Jessica Astill, Lachlan Milosh, Amarni Rodham,

Sienna Stanton, Henry Winters

We hope you have a great day!

Congratulations!

As you are aware, we have made some changes to our ‘Bee Award’ system this year. The staff wanted to reward students with some really special prizes as they strive to achieve their personal best by Being Safe, Being Respectful and Being Responsible. Take a look at the new poster up in every classroom and the office.

Well done to all students who are trying hard to reach the ‘Countdown’ Award, by collecting their first 25 tokens.

MPS Assembly Awards

Term 1 Week 2

K – Ruby Evans & Tyler Sams 1 – Jane Bright & Luke Withers

2/3 – Kate Sultana & Hayden Elliott 3/4 – Anne Bellamy & Jonah Beer

5/6 – Lauren Lee & Nicholas Sultana

Person of the Week

K – Zavier Desira 1 – Claudia Hughes

2/3 – Jade Evans 3/4 – Madison Morgan

5/6 – Gabriel Azmi

CLASS NEWS

K Kindy students have made an excellent start to the year. They are learning the routines of the classroom and the school with a little help from their friendly Year 6 buddies! Last week in class, Kindy LOVED reading the book “In a dark, dark wood” – a traditional tale. Our favourite part of the book was the last page… where we got to meet… A GHOST!!! This started Kindy talking about what we are scared of and how our faces and bodies change when we get scared. We decided to draw and paint ourselves looking REALLY scared… big eyes, screaming mouths and wild hair! We used oil pastels, black sharpies and edicol dye to create these amazing masterpieces.

Cody Nicholas Terrance We created the wild hair by dabbing paint on the scalp, then blowing it away from the face using a straw. We love creating art and can’t wait to show you more!

1 In science, Year 1, have enjoyed finding mini beasts in our school playground and we are learning about mini beasts in class. We have learnt factual information such as “only female wasps can sting” and “bees can only sting us once”. We have learnt to sketch with soft lead pencils in art. We used shading on our drawings of snails.

In maths we have been learning our ‘friends of ten’. 2 + 8 = 10, 4 + 6 = 10. We have been talking about clocks and we have been reading the o’clock time on an analogue clock. We wish to thank all the wonderful parents who are coming in to the classroom to help us in reading groups each morning.

2/3 Thank you to all the parents who came to the “Meet the Teacher” night on Friday. The class have enjoyed having AFL for the last few weeks, as well as Ty’s Fitness Program. They enjoyed Startsmart this week and have CPR next week. We have been reading and learning about many different animals in the world that are endangered. Year 2/3 has been using information we have gained from the texts to write reports on the animals. In craft we have been learning origami. Our whales look fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3/4 Welcome back everyone, I hope you have all had a very restful holiday. Our English study for this term is ‘Belonging’, we have read 2 books ‘Belonging’ and ‘My Place’. Both these books illustrate the concept of belonging. For the last 4 weeks we have been learning how to write expositions in preparation for NAPLAN next term. Our science topic for this term is ‘Melting Moments’ and we have already learnt that when heat is added to some objects they change form and state. NRL was great during the last few weeks, they learnt some new ball skills. Maths has been exploring new strategies to add and subtract, a little challenging but I am sure we will get the hang of it.

5/6 Students have commenced units of work with a great sense of purpose. Students will be working on an English and HSIE unit focussing on ANZAC. This topic has been really well received and the students are enjoying learning about this important time in Australia’s history. The centenary of this event is a perfect time to explore how this event and other similar events have affected the Australian identity. Our current text “1915”, by Sally Murphy, is a story of a school teacher who signs up to fight in WW1.

Students have been collecting photographs of life in Australia in 1915. They will be commencing their assignment work next week about particular soldiers who were part of the ANZAC campaign.

Fundraising

Maraylya P&C have registered our school with a new fundraising website called SCHOOLBUY It is fundraising for the ‘internet age’! By shopping through SCHOOLBUY you can help raise money for our school without spending any extra $$ ! Please visit the website www.schoolbuy.com.au when shopping online. It’s a simple, easy and very effective way to contribute to our school. HAPPY SHOPPING!

One of our families has booked their holiday via this site, earning serious funds for our school for no extra cost.

Thanks, Maryayla P&C.

It’s Easy! There are millions of items that can be bought through SchoolBuy to support your school – and every

purchase helps. Just remember to visit SchoolBuy first before shopping online with any of our partners.

Simply by clicking the link on the SchoolBuy site, the online store you are visiting will know that

SchoolBuy sent you and which school you want to support. Plus you still get all their best online deals

and can take advantage of any special offers or sales on the retailer’s website.

www.schoolbuy.com.au

P & C NEWS maraylyapandc@gmail.com President – Angela Rodham

Vice President – Kylie Hall Treasurer – Joanne Stocker

Secretary – Melissa Beer Uniform Manager – Emma Bright

Fundraising – Group Responsibility Canteen – Belinda Astill / Linda Constantine

Uniform Shop

The uniform shop will now be run by

Emma Bright.

We thank her for the offer of her time to

help provide this vital service.

The Uniform Shop will be open the same hours,

Mondays 2:15 – 3.00 pm

Please continue to drop any orders and correct money at the office. These orders

will then be filled and sent home with your child or collected from the office.

Orders may also be sent to

maraylyapandcuniforms@gmail.com

Thank you.

School Canteen The menu has changed slightly so please take a look and get your lunch bag ready for Wednesday. - For the new Kindy mums make sure your child’s name and class is clearly marked on your bag. - If any child has any specific food allergies please contact Belinda or leave your details with the office so we can contact you. Our aim is for every child to experience the canteen. Canteen is open Wednesday and Friday only and is staffed by volunteers. If you would like to become a volunteer in the canteen please contact Belinda Astill (Year 3 Mum) on 0418 467 006 or the Office Our new menu has commenced with last year’s pricing which may have to be revised when new stock at 2015 prices is ordered.

Next P & C Meeting Tuesday 10th March 7.30pm – 9.30pm

Canteen Roster March 2015 Wednesday 4th Linda Constantine Sharon Waugh

Friday 6th Jenny Born Julia Kinnish

Wednesday 11th Vanessa Needs Rachel Smith

Friday13th Tammy Ible Connie Latter

Wednesday 18th Sylvia Hopkins Sharon Azmi

Friday 2oth Charmaine Swift Belinda Astill

Wednesday 25th Tracey McDermott Rachel Stanton

Friday 27th Sue Sultana Catherine Sultana

Thanks so much everyone for your support of the Pancake Tuesday specialty day last week. Students really enjoyed the day and their manners were perfect! We are hoping to have several more of these types of days in the future.

Election Day Fundraiser

Our first fundraiser for the year will be a BBQ & Cake Stall on State Election Day, Saturday March 28, as our school is a local election booth. We will be sending out BBQ rosters and asking for cake stall donations closer to the date.