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EARLY EDUCATION PROGRAM

Term 2 has been an amazing time in EEPS! We have had lots of fun learning times particularly enjoying Education Week, Open Day and especially Pirate Day rrrrrrr! Ahoy there me hearty’s!

Early Education has eight amazing students altogether including Aryana, Erica, Fletcher, Ja-ga, Jordon, Logan, Sianna, Wyatt with Gale and Suzanne. Just thought we’d give you a little snapshot into our daily program.

Each morning students practice name and photo recognition and pre-writing activities. As you can see we are making great progress! We do lots of matching, at the ta-ble top, in the playground and especially at morning circle.

Sensory experimentation is high on our list of

favourite activities including switching, cause

and effect and tactile appreciation. Outside play can take many forms including the birds nest swing, climbing, the shop, the cubby, bike riding and ball skills all designed to teach a variety of skills including hand eye coordination, gross motor skills, shared play experience and imagination.

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Our students are very musical playing quite a range of instruments, picking up the rhythm, acting out the movements of our favourite action songs, dance and us-ing the parachute for relaxation adding balloons to it for even more fun and to teach concept development.

Each day we work towards achieving the learning outcomes set for each student in their Personal Learning Plan. We practice in a variety of ways adding to our skill set, expanding our knowledge and enriching our lives.

As you can see Early Education is all about learning including which includes daily living skills, social skills, turn taking, sharing, following instructions and having lots of fun while we learn.

This term we had a huge achievement to celebrate - At the beginning of Term 2 Sianna began to walk independently and just look at her now!!!! Sensational Sianna!

And to celebrate our 30 years of Education at Mornington SDS here is a brief history of our school emblem. In February 1987 Mornington Special Developmental School commenced in the new but ‘temporary’ location in Roberston Drive and began to build it’s own entity. I held a competition to design a school insignia. The

The whole school community was invited to submit a design and then was instrumental in selecting a winner. Our school council president Martin Booth’s submission won the competition and the emblem has remained the same all this time. It was red and white in the beginning with the whole staff and students proudly wearing a windcheater, jacket or cap.

This is an aerial view of 3 people in a ‘ring- a -rosy’ position. They all have their hands joined. The white figures on the black background represent the community at large. The black figure repre-sents the child (and their families). This child is outside the mainstream but wishing to be included gradually. The difference in the colour of the symbols recognizes the obvious differences, but they

play ‘ring-a-rosy’ undeterred. In fact, the game is incomplete without all the players.

Shame we have to stop for holidays but lots more to come in Term 3 – see you then.

Regards,

The mighty EEPS with Suzanne and Gale.

June—Matthew

Harley

Mornington SDS

Now has a

facebook page

Check it out !

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As a fundraiser Mornington SDS are selling the Event Entertainment Books. these books are jammed packed full of discount vouchers.

Virtually all of the valuable offers in the Entertainment Books can be used throughout the year and are restriction-free.

Order your 2017 | 2018 Entertainment™ Books today! A percentage of every copy sold goes to our school.

This means that as well as saving you money with up to 50% off or 2-for-1 vouchers, you are also helping to support MSDS in providing the highest quality education, for our stu-dents.

Available now, the NEW 2017 | 2018 Melbourne Entertainment book sells for just $70 and you’ll receive over $20,000 in valuable offers you can use until 1 June, 2018.

To purchase a book, please contact the school on 03 59756 111

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Moonlit Sanctuary Keeper Club

Kids enjoy environmental activities, animal encounters and native animal care. Day includes: interactions with dingo, python, off-limits animals, feeding animals & food prep, animal enrichment activities. Learn about our animals, their conservation and the environment. For ages 7-14 years.

July 2017 school holiday dates: Week 1: Monday 3th Tuesday 4th Wednesday 5th Thursday 6th Friday 7th

Week 2: Monday 10th Tuesday 11th Wednesday 12th Thursday 13th Friday 14th

10am –4pm

Cost: $70.00 per day, or $189 for 3 days (pro rata for additional days). Maximum 16 children per day.

Bookings essential as spaces are limited Dress for the weather and wear closed-toe shoes, long pants and remember your hat or raincoat. BYO lunch or purchase at the café.

Moonlit Sanctuary 550 Tyabb-Tooradin Rd, Pearcedale Phone 5978 7935 Web: www.moonlitsanctuary.com.au Open daily between 10am and 5pm

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ABSENCES Student absences should be reported to the school before 9:00am. Please email the Attend-ance Officer Karen Binks Mornington.sds@edumail.vic.gov.au or telephone 03 59756 111 on the day of the ab-sence by 9:00am. A note on the day of return to the General Office is required for absences where no parent contact has been possible.

Dates to Remember

21st June—Open Day

Celebrating our 30th Year

30th June—End Term 2

17th July—Start Term 3

28th August—Curriculum

Day

1st September—Fathers

Day Stall

14th September—School

Concert

24th November—Family

Xmas BBQ

1st December—Senior

Graduation

22nd December—End of

Term 4 2017