Dear Parents and Friends,

Not long to go and our Ensemble members, plus Angelica, Joseph and myself will be performing in the State School’s Spectacular. We have two days of rehearsals coming up which are very long days but also exciting as we finally get to see all the other performers ‘do their thing’. I hope lots of you have bought tickets to come along and enjoy the show. The state school spectacular shows really are wonderful and very entertaining.

Winter bugs and illnesses. There are very few of our students, staff and parents who have managed to escape the many bugs, colds and flu versions that are around this winter. Whilst we don’t want our students missing school we also don’t want ill children at school. If your child is unwell please keep them home where they can rest, keep warm and get well. If you child is going to be

away please call us or send us a message via http://goo.gl/i0dKiJ .

Hats on! Our Sunsmart policy reminds us that from Sept 1st our students must wear their wide brimmed school hats. Our students have this week to find their hats, make sure they are in good repair or purchase a replacement. From Monday any student without a school wide brimmed hat will be asked to play in the undercover area. Help your child to find their hat and make sure it is clean and tidy. Our School Uniform Policy states that all students’ hats must be a school wide brimmed hat, not a plain red hat purchased elsewhere. Please support our uniform policy and purchase a new hat if your child doesn’t have a school hat.

Last week’s curriculum day. Last Friday, when our students were recovering from our busy Science/Book Week, our teaching staff were working on documenting our beliefs about teaching reading, why we teach reading the way we do and what we expect each lesson to include. Pulling all this information together in to the one document means we will have something that not only supports our current teachers when they are teaching reading but any teachers new to the school can be given the documentation so strategies, terminology and lesson structure will continue in a consistent way. In Monday’s Age there was an article about the importance of teaching comprehension strategies to students. At Malmsbury PS we teach the five comprehension strategies mentioned in the article to all our students. It is great to have that consistency of language and strategies across our school and to see our students using the strategies to become better readers. No newsletter next week as I will be at the Spectacular rehearsals.

Warm regards, Carolyn Tavener.

Principal

Thursday 3 September 2015 - Issue #26

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

Malmsbury Primary School

Newsletter

Learning, Sharing, Growing together.

Term 3 CALENDAR SEPTEMBER Fri 4 Footy colours day. Erin’s magic show at lunchtime. 20c entry donation to help with Ensemble costs. Jump Rope for Heart Day. Thurs 10 Beat Concert Grades 1/2 Ensemble at State School’s Spectacular rehearsal, Melbourne. Fri 11 Ensemble at State School’s Spectacular rehearsal, Melbourne. Sat 12 State School’s Spectacular!! Wed 16 Mt Alexander Chess Tournament Thurs 17 Sushi Lunch Prep Sleepover. Fri 18 2:30pm End of Term 3. Term 4 CALENDAR OCTOBER Mon 5 Term 4 starts Tues 6 12:30-2:00pm Swimming. Wed 7 12:30-2:00pm Swimming. Thurs 8 12:30-2:00pm Swimming.

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 encourage them to give us a call and come for a visit.

School banking details-

Bank Australia

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, con-tact the school or send us a message via http://goo.gl/i0dKiJ

Community Garden update. We need your help to bring some pine logs down from the school plantation land. These logs will be used to build hugel kultur garden beds. Arianne has made one already down below the basketball court if you are interested in having a look. Can you meet Arianne and Dean on Saturday Septem-ber 12 at 10.00am in Urquhart street, Malmsbury to help bring some logs over to our school? Wear your work clothes/boots/gloves and bring your ute and/or trailer and shovels and chainsaws.

Malmsbury PS OSHC. Lori Schooling is running our OSHC service for the rest of this term. Lori is thoroughly enjoying getting to know our OSHC students and planning fun activities with them. Grounds Maintenance Roster. 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 re-duce the need for working bees or to pay someone to come and do our yard maintenance. Working togeth-er we can keep our yard safe and looking neat. ► 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.

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

AWARDS

Congratulations to the following student for striving to be the best

they can be.

Artist of the of the Week-

Velvet for her excellent mould making that demonstrates her learning from

her first casting.

Week Beginning-

Families rostered on

Jobs to be done

August 31st Forrester Brentnall Kuyateh

*Tidying along inside the front fence near the French/Music room . *Whippersnipping along the front of the school past the recycling bin. *Clearing leaves and weeds from the gutters along the front of the school.

Victorian State Schools Spectacular –

Get your tickets!

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

an 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 broad-

cast.

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

ence, 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

student’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

Child Under 15 – $22

Don’t forget to collect your

Earn and Learn stickers from

Woolworths and help our

school earn some fantastic re-

sources!

Finishes September 8

COMMUNITY NEWS

a plot in common.

Little Plotters Workshop.

As a part of our project A Common Place, we would like to invite

some Little Plotters to share our farm.

The school holiday adventure is about experiencing what life is like on

a farm and the different ways we grow our food.

We will start the day with morning tea in our 1800's barn. We provide

our Little Plotters with some delicious farm snacks and cloud juice.

As Little Plotters you will need to get your hands dirty in the garden

plots! We will do some digging and planting and prepare a little plant

for you to take home and grow.

We will visit the farm animals and give them their morning tea and

cuddles. The chickens love their treats from the veggie garden, the

pigs love ANYTHING to eat and a belly scratch, and Pattie (our cow)

and her little calf love a big pile of hay.

We will talk about the different food we grow and share some stories

and activities along the way.

Our Little Plotters workshops will be held on Sept 21, 22 and 23 2015.

Visit- http://www.aplotincommon.com.au/a-common-place-

workshops/2015/9/23/little-plotters-workshop to read more.

From Tash x

JUMP ROPE FOR HEART

@ Malmsbury Primary

We will be participating in Jump

Rope for Heart on

Friday September 4th!

That means you’ve got lots of

time to get those

skipping ropes out and get prac-

ticing some tricky moves!

By being part of this program,

we can contribute to

minimising the incidents of heart

disease in Australia.

Sponsorship forms went home

on Friday 23rd July

There may even be some

mystery prizes involved!

Join us to celebrate Threatened Species Month and hear from

expert zoologists about the threatened wildlife of Macedon

Ranges.

Speakers

Peter Menkhorst (Arthur Rylah Institute)

Dan Harley (Zoos Victoria)

Saturday 19 September

2pm-4.30pm

Newham Mechanics Institute

Bookings are essential by email to William Terry or call 5421

9674

Threatened Wildlife Forum

Sushi Lunch order

Thursday 17 September Sushi choices are:

►Vegetarian

►Tuna

►Teriyaki chicken

$3.00 per roll Orders MUST be in on time so that the order can be placed with

the shop. Late orders will not be accepted.

Orders and payment to be returned by Tuesday 15 September.

—————————————————- Sushi Lunch order Student name:____________________________

Please indicate which flavour roll and how many.

Vegetarian

Tuna

Teriyaki chicken

Payment enclosed of $___________ .($3.00 per roll)

No late orders will be accepted!