Dear Parents and Friends,

School photos. Next Thursday is school photo day. Each student will bring home a personalised envelope that must be back at school for photo day. If you would like a family photograph you will need to collect a family envelope from the office. We will not be accepting envelopes after photo day, you will need to contact MSP Photography directly. Students MUST be clean and tidy on the day and wearing correct school uniform. Students out of uniform will be provided with spare uniform items for the photo.

Life Ed van visit. A note went home last week regarding the Life Ed van visiting our school next week. Another copy is provided in today’s newsletter and copies are available from the notices near the staffroom. We have the Life Ed van here every second year as the programs they provide compliment the health lessons we teach in our classrooms. All our students are expected to attend their grade’s session. Please make sure the permission slip and payment are returned by Monday 15th. There is a parent session being offered on Monday 22nd at 9am. I encourage you to come along and find out how you can support your child’s health education at home. Tick the box on your child’s permission slip so we know you will be attending.

Walk to School Monday 22nd June and second breakfast! We encourage all our families to find active ways to get to school and regularly organise Ride2School and Walk to School days. On Monday 22nd we want to fill the town with a sea of red Malmsbury PS uniforms as all our students meet teachers in town to walk up to school. Students can meet Rainer at the General Store or Carolyn at the ‘Big Bus Stop’ (Brick Nog building) at 8:30am. When we get to school we will enjoy a second breakfast. Any parents who are available to help prepare and set up breakfast please let Carolyn or Deb know. We will be having fruit, toast and cereal.

Grandparents and special visitor afternoon tea cancelled. We have cancelled the afternoon tea planned for tomorrow as we have a large number of our school community ill with a variety of colds and flu type bugs. We will reschedule it for next term when the weather is warmer.

Warm regards, Carolyn Tavener Principal

Thursday 11 June 2015 - Issue #16

At Malmsbury PS we value: Respect, Honesty, Responsibility and Inclusiveness

Malmsbury Primary School

Newsletter

Learning, Sharing, Growing together.

Term 2 CALENDAR

JUNE

Fri 12 AFTERNOON TEA CANCELLED.

Thurs 18 School Photos today.

Life Ed van visiting our school.

$10 per student.

Fri 19 Fresh produce and cake stall at assembly.

Mon 22 8:30am Walk to School and second breakfast at school. 9am Parent session run by Life Education Van. Tues 23 2:30pm Parents Club meeting.

Thurs 25 JSC fun-raiser. $2 Dress up as a musician.

Fri 26 2:30pm End of Term 2.

Term 3 CALENDAR JULY Mon 13 Term 3 starts. Carolyn starts Long Service Leave. Wed 22 State Spectacular rehearsal for Ensemble, Melbourne. 6:30pm School Council. Fri 24 JSC Beanie Day fundraiser. Wear your favourite beanie and bring along a $2 donation for the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation. Fri 31 Parents Club movie night.

Phone 03 5423 2284 Fax 03 5423 2044 Email malmsbury.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au Web www.malmsburyps.vic.edu.au Twitter @MalmsburyPS

Enrol now for 2016!

Do you have a child starting school next year? Please call in and collect an enrol-ment form from the office. If you know of other parents who are wondering where to enrol their child, please en-courage them to give us a call and come for a visit.

School banking details-

Bankmecu

BSB – 313 140

Acc. No. 12074523

Reference – your surname

Student Absences. Please remember if your child is absent from school, you must inform the school the reason for their ab-sence. You can send a note, tell their teacher, contact the school or send us a message via http://goo.gl/i0dKiJ **Bags of shredded paper are available from the office. It’s great for chook sheds and mulch on gar-den beds.

Grounds Maintenance Roster. Thank you very much to those families who have completed their jobs. You can come up to school to do a job from the roster any time that suits you. The aim of the roster is to reduce the need for working bees or to pay someone to come and do our yard maintenance. I have to say, our yard is looking really neat and tidy because we are all working together to keep it that way.

► If you are working up a ladder e.g. clearing

leaves from gutters, you must have another person there with you to hold the ladder.

► If you can’t do your week, you must arrange a swap with another family and let the school know who you have swapped with and what date you now have on the roster.

► When you have completed one of the jobs, please let the office know so we can cross it off our list.

Thank you for helping our school to look cared for.

Week Beginning-

Families rostered on

Jobs to be done

June 15 Betts Davis Jeffrey

*Clearing out the gutters on the BER building and children’s toilets. *Sweeping up the leaves around the classrooms. *Tidying up the front gar-den bed including pruning the roses. *Weeding the garden ar-ea (where the photinias are planted) in front of the P/1 and 1/2 class-rooms.

Over the holi-days.

Benning-ton Timcke-Wallwork Perry Shoo

*Tidying up around the rain tanks and clearing leaves out of the scoop drain along the side fence. *Trimming the bushes along the front path. *Tidying up the garden area along the street side of the French/music room. *Mowing oval and large grassed areas.

Junior School Council fun-raiser.

Thursday 25th

June.

Dress up as your

favourite musician,

pop star or just as a

musician!

Bring a $2 donation.

Funds raised will support our

Ensemble to participate in the

State School’s Spectacular. Some pictures of musicians to get your ideas going!

Parents Club. Fresh Produce Market and Cake stall. Back by popular demand, our Term 2 Fresh Produce Market and Cake stall will be held before and after assembly on Friday 19th June. Our last stall was a roaring success with home baked goodies selling out very fast so come early and be prepared to buy, buy, buy! Further information will be sent home on Tuesday along with a paper plate for baked good donations. All money raised goes to supporting our students and our wonderful school. Life Ed Van visit. Try and get along to the Parent session at the Life Ed van on Monday 22nd June at 9am. You will find it very helpful when it comes to supporting your child’s health education at home. Walk to School and second breakfast. On Monday 22nd the school is holding a Walk to School morning with students getting a second breakfast when they arrive at school. If you can help prepare and set up breakfast please let Deb or Car-olyn know. Family Fun Fair. Don’t forget to let us know how you can support our Family Fun Fair to be held on October 31st. Thank you so much to those families who have offered their support. If you are interested in helping plan the Family Fun Day or have a talent/ skill you would like to contribute, contact Kathryn on 0433006219 or Olivia on 0409372881 or email couttsy1@bigpond.com.

LEARNING, SHARING, GROWING TOGETHER

Grade 3/4 camp to Sovereign Hill.

LEARNING, SHARING, GROWING TOGETHER

Grade 5/6 camp to Anglesea.

Community Garden. We have some old garden bed bases available to go to a new home. If you would like to purchase one, or two, or all of them! Let us know. We also have the old tyres that could be used around trees on a farm or for a swing in your backyard maybe. Any funds raised from the sale of these items will go back in to the garden fund. There are some bricks still to be lifted in the area. If you have some time to come along and lift some or all of them up that would be very helpful. We will reuse the bricks in the area. If you have a wood fire at home can you start stock-piling ash and coal from your fire as we are going to use it in a magic soil improver Dean is going to help us make. If you would like to be involved, or you know someone in our community who would love to be part of this project, please let us know.

Outside of School Hours Care. Our OSHC service runs from Monday to Friday from 3:30pm to 6:00pm. All students are welcome to attend. There will be some snacks provided along with some different hands on activities, ranging from arts and crafts to board games, along with a quiet corner for those who would like to read, outside ac-tivities (if the weather is nice) with Friday's being a movie and pop corn. For any enquiries please do not hesitate to contact the school. If you would like to use the service you must- 1. Complete an enrolment form asap. We recom-

mend you complete an enrolment form now so if you do need to use the service unexpectedly your child/ren is/are already enrolled.

2. Let us know what days your child will be using the service.

3. For casual bookings you must let us know by 11:00am on the day if you want your child booked in.

Library assistance needed. Do you have some time each week to help us keep our library organised? Please let Carolyn know if you can help.

How much school is your child missing?

If your child misses……… That equals…… Which is…… Over 13 years of schooling

that's………..

1 day a fortnight 20 days a year 4 weeks a year 1.5 years

1 day a week 40 days a year 8 weeks a year Over 2.5 years

2 days a week 80 days a year 16 weeks a year Over 5 years

3 days a week 120 days a year 24 weeks a year Nearly 8 years

COMMUNITY NEWS

Life Education Victoria

Parent Information Session

Dear Parents

As part of our drug and health education this

term we are offering you the opportunity to visit our Life Education

mobile classroom, while it’s here at our school.

Have you ever considered the following?

What is my child learning in Life Education?

Have you seen inside the Life Education mobile classroom, or

know of Harold?

What drug education is appropriate for primary school students?

Why do we have health and drug education?

How is health and drug education integrated into your school’s

curriculum?

Want to know more?

NOW IS YOUR CHANCE. The Life Education mobile classroom will be running a Parent Information session at our school on Monday 22nd June at 9am. Please come along and find out more about health and drug education.

P-2 Crafternoons!

Can you help P/1 and

Grade 1/2 have some

crafty afternoons?

Monday or Wednesdays

after lunch.

We need your help with

ideas and running

sessions.

Please let Rainer or Sarah

know if you can help.