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Dear Parents and Friends,
End of year celebration and Year 6 graduation. Next Monday we have our end of year BBQ and Year 6 graduation. The evening is always a lovely way to acknowledge the time our Year 6 students have been here and the contributions they have made to our school. Please make sure you have completed the note in the newsletter so we know how many people to expect and do try to come along. As a school community it is important that we all wish our Year 6 students the very best and help them to celebrate this milestone.
How do you teach a Grade 2/3/4? Thank you to those parents who have let us know that they are happy with the grade splits for 2016 and thank you to those parents who came and asked us questions about how we will teach across 3 year levels like in a Grade 2/3/4. Let me start by saying that teaching and learning has certainly changed since I was at school and probably even since many of you were at school. When I was at school you did the work for the year level you were in whether that work was too easy, too hard or just right. If you were in Grade 4 you worked your way through the Grade 4 workbooks and that was that. Now when we plan for our students we look at the assessment data for that child, we think about what else we know of that child such as special interests and talents, we look at the curriculum for the child’s year level and what they are expected to learn. It might be that for a particular Year 3 child they are working ‘well above level’ in reading but are working ‘at level’ in writing. This means that they will be working towards Year 4 or 5 outcomes for reading but Year 3 outcomes for writing. We already work this way in our classrooms which means we might have students working across 3 or 4 years levels, sometimes more! At Malmsbury Primary School we work hard to ensure we are teaching what your child needs to learn next to keep them achieving their best. In 2016 the Grade 2/3/4 classrooms will be where the current Grade 3/4 and 5/6 grades are. Our Grade 5/6 will be in the current Grade 1/2 classroom.
OSHC position. This week and next we will be advertising for an OSHC co-ordinator for 2016. The ad will be in the Macedon Ranges Guardian and Castlemaine Mail this Friday and next weeks Midland Express. If you know someone who might be interested please ask them to contact us for a copy of the job description.
Warm regards, Carolyn Tavener.
Thursday 10 December 2015 - Issue #37
At Malmsbury PS we value: Respect, Honesty, Responsibility and Inclusiveness
Malmsbury Primary School
Newsletter
Learning, Sharing, Growing together.
Term 4 CALENDAR DECEMBER Fri 11 Second hand uniform stall at the front of the school. 9am Parents Club social meeting at Moto-Bean. Grade 5/6 Bike Ed excursion to Castlemaine. Mon 14 6pm Whole school end of year celebration BBQ and Year 6 graduation. Wed 16 Year 6 day out. Skating at The Zone and then swimming at Bendigo Aquatic Centre. Fri 18 1:30pm End of Term 4.
8:45am Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Breakfast Club in the assembly area for our students who walk, ride or scoot to school!
2016
Our 2016 curriculum days are– January 27th, March 8th, June 14th and October 12th.
Term 1 CALENDAR
JANUARY Wed 27 First day back for teachers. Thurs 28 All our students start.
Phone 03 5423 2284 Fax 03 5423 2044 Email [email protected] Web www.malmsburyps.vic.edu.au Twitter @MalmsburyPS
2016 Curriculum Days. Last week School Council approved our curriculum days for next year. The dates are 27th January (all state schools have this as their first curriculum day), 8th March, 14th June and 12th October. On these dates we will be attending a Bastow course entitled “Creating a high performance learning cul-ture”. Please take note of these dates and put them in your 2016 calendar or diary.
It’s time to search under beds, couches, chairs and on your bookshelves at home so all school books, includ-ing home reading and library books, can be returned to school next week!
Parents Club. Thanks to everyone who helped out at the Woolworths BBQ on Saturday and thanks to Mark from IGA who donated some extra sausages when we sold out! It was a hot day and a difficult time of year to find volunteers, but we did and we raised $730 for the school! We also spoke to lots of people about our wonderful school and many people signed our petition to Save our Music/ French Room. This brings our total raised this year to just over $6000!! A fantastic effort everyone! The end of year celebration and graduation BBQ is on next Monday 14th. Don’t forget to get your reply slips in to let us know whether you can come and whether you can make a salad. We will also need a couple of volun-teers to man the BBQ on the night. Please let Deb, Olivia or Kathryn know if you can help. Our final meeting will be this Friday at Motobean at 9am - but it will be more of a social catchup and thank you. All are welcome!
Thanks, Parents Club. Second Hand Uniform stall. Often we have school uniforms donated back to the school when students move on. These uniforms are used for when our students need a replacement uni-form for the day and are given to families who require uniform support. As part of our recent uniform policy review School Council has decided that when we have an excess of these second hand uniforms we will have a second hand uniform stall so all our parents can pick up some extra items for their child/ren. Tomorrow we will have our first second hand uniform stall at the front of the school with a donation tin. Please feel free to take items your child/ren can use and, if you can, pop a donation in the tin. School sunsmart hats. Our students should be wearing a school sunsmart hat with the school logo and it needs to be in good repair with no writing on it. Please make sure you check your child’s school hat to see if you need to purchase a new one or if it needs a wash over the holidays. There are some very ragged looking hats on some of our student’s heads!
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Congratulations to the following students for striving to be the best
they can be.
Musicians of the Week-
Conor for beautiful singing and dancing.
Kobi for incredible drumming.
Week Beginning-
Families rostered on
Jobs to be done
December 14
Edwards Kolanowski Turvey Dunn
Whippersnipping along the front of the school. Mow the school oval and the grounds near the art building and below the basketball court. Mowing the old vegie garden area.
January 4 Gamble Sundblom Kuyateh Mehmet-Ali
Whippersnipping along the school fences. Whippersnipping the steep side of the basketball court. Whippersnipping up around the big recycling bin and up along the front of the school up there.
January 18 Bennington Melling James Harrod-Speight Brentnall
Whippersnipping around and near the soccer pitch. Whippersnipping at the front of the school. Mow the school oval. Mow the old vegie garden area. Mow the grounds near the art building and below the soccer pitch.
Grounds maintenance roster. We rely on our parents to help keep our school grounds looking neat and tidy and that includes over the school holidays. Please check the roster below to see when it will be your turn to come and do some jobs. We need our school grounds to be kept neat and tidy so they are ready for the start of the 2016 school year. Please make sure you find time to help otherwise the school will have to pay someone to do the jobs and we would rather have that money going to resources for our students to use. If anyone has time to leaf blow the undercover area Monday morning that would be very helpful! We will also need some areas of the garden watered as well as our Gallipoli pine tree. Please let Carolyn know if you will be around over the holidays to do some water-ing. Thank you.
OSHC. The children and I have been busy making decorations for our OSHC Christmas tree and It looks wonderful. Next week is a big week at our OSHC as we will have heaps of extra activities we haven't done before includ-ing a pinata on Thursday! If you're thinking of being a part of OSHC next year come in and check it out next week. From Zoe.
https://hourofcode.com/au
LEARNING, SHARING, GROWING TOGETHER
Some of our Grade 2/3/4 students enjoying an Hour of Code.
Thank you Kirsty and John for making time to work with our students and for
introducing them to the joys of coding.
COMMUNITY NEWS
MACEDON RANGES TOY SHOPThe Combined Churches of Macedon Ranges are working together to
distribute Christmas gifts to struggling families in our community
Help us to make sure every child opens a gift this Christmas
We Need You To Donate!
Gifts are to be $20 in value for boys and girls aged 0-18
Please donate at:
Cobaw Community Health (Kyneton & Woodend)
Or Contact: Georgina Harvey 0404 442 891
Monday 21st December 2016 4pm to 6pm @ KSAC
(Kyneton Sports & Aquatic Centre) Junior Netball
Ages: 5-15
2016 Session starting soon
http://kynetonna.vic.netball.com.au or Visit our Facebook Page
Contact – Samantha at
[email protected] or 0425203505
COMMUNITY NEWS
Facebook Cybersafety Event.
Monday 14th December 2015 at Ray Bradfield Rooms with two sessions:
10am - 12noon and 7.00pm - 9.00pm.
The event is being presented by Janita Docherty, a sought after Facebook Specialist and who has been travel-
ling consistently overseas and within Australia to deliver Facebook presentations and to gain further research
for ongoing trends in the digital space.
Janita is a former Victoria Police officer, recently retired after 21 years service. She now manages her Cyber-
Active Services business full time and delivers internet safety presentations of which she is recognised for her
work with schools, Corporations and Law Enforcement, for both cyber crime prevention and cyber safety in-
struction.
Janita holds a unique blend of knowledge which is unrivalled regarding internet safety instruction. Janita
understands the multitude of digital responsibilities, from electronic abuse, to social media investigation and
internet teen use. Her social media and Facebook investigation presentations, have been conducted for special-
ist Law Enforcement units both within Australia and the United States.
This has included a core group of special agents from the United States Department of Homeland Security and
Detectives from the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Taskforce.
As a leading expert in Facebook, Janita has provided precise and relevant information to Queensland Police,
Northern Territory Police, Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police units, in the dedicated fields of E-
Crime, Sex Offences, Serious Crime and Tactical Intelligence units.
Tickets available at Eventbrite.
http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/facebook-event-castlemaine-tickets-19770358675
For further information or to book for an individual 'Facebook Audit' Session - please contact Janita:
End of year celebration and
Year 6 Graduation
Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends,
To celebrate another wonderful year of learning at Malmsbury Primary
School and to farewell our Year 6 students we are holding an end of
year celebration at school on Monday 14th December, 6:00pm.
We will have a BBQ dinner and then we will hold our Year 6
graduation inside where we have assembly.
To help Parents Club plan for the BBQ please complete the slip below
and return it to school by Thursday 10th.
We hope that lots of you can come along. It is a lovely way to catch up
with other school families and wish them happy holidays.
It is also an important occasion for our Year 6 students as they move
on from primary school and it is great to have our school community
acknowledge their time at Malmsbury PS, celebrate their achievements
and wish them all the very best for the future.
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End of year celebration/Year 6 Graduation. Monday 14th December, 6:00pm
YES, we will be attending.
Yes, we can provide a salad to share.
Family name:________________________________________________
Number of: adults______________ children__________________
Return this slip to school by Thursday 10th December.
