Dear Parents and Friends,

Acting Principal. Jo Emond will be Acting Principal while I am enjoying my leave. Jo is Assistant Principal at Romsey PS and is looking forward to meeting you all and spending time at our lovely school. Jo came for a visit today and met our students and staff. She is very friendly and approachable so do please introduce yourself and I know you will all make her feel very welcome.

Dress up as a musician. What a creative bunch we are! There were some fabulous dress-up ideas on show today. We had a range of musicians and pop stars and 3 Josephs!! Junior School Council’s first fun-raiser raised $75 which will help fund our Ensemble being part of this year’s State School’s Spectacular.

Family Movie Night. Parents Club are running a Family Movie night next term on Friday 31st July. The film showing will be “Paper Planes.” It will be a gold coin entry donation and you will be able to buy snacks and drinks there. Keep the date free!

OSHC. The numbers are slowly building at our OSHC service. Zoe and the students have a lovely time. This week the Tuesday group made pinwheels for their after school snack. Yum!

Have a safe Term 2 break everyone. Hopefully a bit of extra rest and relaxation will mean all our students will return to school fit and well and all those awful winter bugs will be gone. I will see you all on Monday 3 August.

Warm regards, Carolyn Tavener Principal

Thursday 25 June 2015 - Issue #18

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

Malmsbury Primary School

Newsletter

Learning, Sharing, Growing together.

Term 2 CALENDAR

JUNE

Fri 26 2:15pm Assembly.

2:30pm End of Term 2.

Term 3 CALENDAR JULY Mon 13 Term 3 starts. Welcome to Jo Emond our Acting Principal. Welcome to Emily Taylor (P/1 teacher) and Angelica Davies (5/6 teacher). Tues 21 2:30pm Parents Club meeting. 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 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start. Parents Club Family movie night. AUGUST Wed 5 6:30pm School Council. Mon 17 Science Week. Wed 19 Ensemble at State School’s Spectacular rehearsal, Melbourne. Fri 28 Curriculum day. No students at school.

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 enrolment form from the office. If you know of other parents who are wondering where to enrol their child, please encourage them to give us a call and come for a visit.

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.

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

AWARDS

Congratulations to the following students for striving to be the best

they can be.

Writer of the Week Award- Cole and Beth for being creative by

having a mystery ending. Kaleb for knowing the difference be-tween proper nouns and nouns and using capital letters in the correct

place.

You Can Do It award- Josh for working hard to improve his

reading and persisting with tricky words.

Mathematician of the Week- Isabel for persisting with new

challenges. Angus for using Maths knowledge to solve questions and explain how he

checked his answer.

Double Zero Hero Awards- Congratulations on reaching 100

nights of reading! Angus, Oliver, Murphy, Rebecca, Kay-la, Jordan, Natalie, Eliza, Dom, Tahlia,

Tess, Molly, Alyssa and Sylvie.

Artist of the Week- Jaxen for his beautiful dot painting. Brodie for his wonderfully expressive

self-portrait. Taylah for being a ‘painting machine’!

School Values Award- Sam for being a positive member of

our school learning community.

Élève de la Semaine- Freya for terrific writing about her

family.

LEARNING, SHARING, GROWING TOGETHER

Second breakfast after Walk to School. Well done to all our walkers and thank you breakfast helpers.

LEARNING, SHARING, GROWING TOGETHER

Grade 3/4 Genius Hour. Check out Conor’s Genius Hour project– writing a report for the Grade 3/4 blog.

http://contact.global2.vic.edu.au/

Junior School Council fun-raiser.

COMMUNITY NEWS

COMMUNITY NEWS

Victorian State Schools Spectacular – Get your tickets!

We are proud and excited to have some of our students participating in the 2015 Victorian

State Schools Spectacular: What’s Your Story?

This year’s Spectacular will be held at Hisense Arena on Saturday 12 September, with two

shows at 1pm and 6:30pm. Channel 7 will film the three-hour Spectacular for broadcast.

For a fun, family entertainment experience, and to cheer on our students from the audience,

be quick to secure discounted tickets.

Talented young circus performers, skaters, musicians, dancers and singers will feature on

stage, while many other students will work behind the scenes, gaining unique, on-the-job,

professional experience.

This program, run by the Department of Education and Training, helps to develop each stu-

dent’s performance skills, discipline, perseverance, cooperation and confidence under the

training of industry professionals.

Early Bird tickets – available for one week only from 10am on Monday 13 July Adult – $38

Child Under 15 – $20

Concession – $33

General Admission tickets – available from 9am on Monday 20 July

Adult – $44

Concession – $33

Malmsbury students will be seated to the Western side of the stadium.

To purchase tickets visit www.ticketek.com.au/spectacular or phone

Ticketek on 132 849.

For more information about the event and program, go to the Spectacular Facebook and

website page:

https://www.facebook.com/performingartsunit

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/Pages/spectacular.aspx

Discount Early Bird tickets for the Spectacular will be available for one week only from 10am on

Monday 13 July. Standard ticket prices will apply after then.

Child Under 15 – $22

COMMUNITY NEWS