Dear Parents and Friends,

Whole school excursion has been decided!! Well the votes are in and Funfields is the winner– by an overwhelming number of votes. Hardly surprising as it does look like it will be a great day out. A permission note will go home next week with a medical form that must also be completed. The cost for the excursion for each student is $10. Our students have raised $476.00 towards the excursion which is a great effort. The school is contributing a significant amount towards the excursion also. We will have space on the buses for some parent helpers, no babies or toddlers allowed sorry. If you are interested in coming with us, please leave your name at the office. I expect that there will be quite a few parents keen to go so we will draw the ‘winning’ names out of a hat. Parents attending will be required to pay $22.00. This is a significant reduction from the normal price of $38.00.

2015 staffing and grade structure. I am pleased to be in a position to let you know about grade structures and staffing for 2015. Well, most of it! P/1 = Darren Baker (4 days) and the teacher for the fifth day is yet to be confirmed. 1/2= We have advertised this position. You will certainly know who the teacher will be before the end of the year. 3/4= Siobhan Moody (3 days) Carolyn Tavener (2 days). 5/6= Tara McCormick. Cameron Frost will be enjoying 12 months leave. Kayleen Gloury will return to her previous school as Siobhan is returning from Family Leave. Reading Recovery= Alison Kitching. Business Manager= Deb Henderson. Visual arts= Paul Allen. Performing Arts= Joseph Bromley. French= this has been advertised. We will know who the teacher will be before the end of the year. We have also advertised an Integration aide position as Lyn and Lee-Anne’s contracts finish at the end of this year. Siobhan is returning from Family Leave at the start of March so we will have 5 weeks (28 Jan—28 Feb) where we will employ a teacher to fill that position. When I have confirmed who that will be I will let you know.

Warm regards, Carolyn Tavener Principal tavener.carolyn.c@edumail.vic.gov.au

Thursday 13 November 2014 - Issue #33

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

Malmsbury Primary School

Newsletter

Learning, Sharing, Growing together.

Term 4 CALENDAR

NOVEMBER

Fri 14 6:30pm School

Performance@Malmsbury PS.

Thurs 27 3pm—6pm Bushdance and

BBQ supporting Malmsbury CFA.

Fri 28 2:15-3:15pm Prep transition.

DECEMBER

Fri 5 2:00-3:30pm Prep transition.

Mon 8 Whole school excursion to

Funfields, Whittlesea.

Tues 9 Year 6 student transition day

to Secondary school.

9-11am Prep transition.

Fri 12 1:15-3:30pm Prep transition.

Thurs 18 Whole school end of year

celebration and Year 6 Graduation.

Fri 19 1:30pm End of Term 4.

Time to enrol for 2015!!

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

Grounds Maintenance Roster. Thank you, thank you to our parents who are doing an awesome job of keeping our grounds neat and tidy. As the bushfire season approaches we rely on our parents to keep our school grounds neat and tidy. If you don’t have a whipper snipper and would like another job to do, please contact Carolyn. There are always jobs waiting to be done! ► 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.

Our 2014 School Performance– A Journey through time.

Friday November 14 6:30pm Our performance will be at school.

Please help your child get their costumes ready! Grade Prep - 1930's. Boys in black pants and white shirts, girls in lovely dresses. Grade 1/2 - 1920's. This one's simple, all black. Students need only wear the darkest clothes they can (with no prints or text on). Grade 3/4 - 1960's. Pool party, surfing, beach fun. Appropriate swimming costumes would be fab. Grade 5/6 - 1950's. Think rockabilly or early rock and roll styles, dark pants, short sleeve shirts, slick back hair (for the boys). Full skirts and lots of colour for the girls.

Of course, a time travel performance needs daleks

and a tardis! (and an Ethan!)

Week Beginning-

Families rostered on

Jobs to be done

November 3 Coutts Gamble Davies

*Sweeping path at front of school. *Mowing grass in vegie garden area. *Check trees in tree guards, weed and re-move guards.

November 17 Davis Timcke-Wallwork Donald

*trimming bushes and trees along path at front of school. *Washing the drink troughs. *Stick pick up around yard.

December 1 Turvey Doyle Dunn

*cleaning out the drains near the student toilets and BER build-ing. (If you’re not sure, check with Carolyn) *Whippersnipping weeds on slope leading down to soccer picth. *sweeping under cover area. *Cob web clean up on buildings.

Malmsbury Village Fayre is this Sunday!

All Malmsbury PS students, parents and

staff are invited to come along and play

marimbas in the Gardens with Andy and

Joseph, this Sunday, 11am and 12 noon.

LEARNING, SHARING, GROWING TOGETHER

Jump Rope for Heart.

Final amount

raised:

$787!

Come along and enjoy the wonderful

Malmsbury Primary School

2014Performance

A journey through time.

6:30pm at Malmsbury Primary School . (assembly space)

We know Friday nights can be busy but we have to have our performance when Joseph is available . Please do your very best to be there .

Students need to be at school by 6:15pm

COMMUNITY NEWS

Malmsbury Village Fayre

Come along to the Malmsbury Botanical

Gardens on the 16th of November to ex-

perience a great day of food, fun and

wine at the Malmsbury Village Fayre.

With over 60 food, wine and craft

stalls, in the picturesque gardens and

inside the hall, there is surely some-

thing for everyone! The Zingaro Music

Festival will be providing live music,

dancing and entertainment all day.

Children’s entertainment includes

jumping castles, face painting, plaster

painting and roving entertainers. Bring

along a picnic rug and enjoy the atmos-

phere.

Entry by gold coin donation and we

look forward to seeing you all there!

Kyneton Secondary College Year 7 2015 Uniform fitting & ordering dates

Uniform shop is open every Tuesday from 2.30 – 5.00 if

you can’t make the above time.

Information was mailed out to families: please contact the

college for any queries.

Some spaces left for 2015 enrolments.

Tuesday Nov. 11th 3.30 – 5.30 pm

Hesket Primary Kyneton Primary Lancefield Primary Langley Primary Redesdale/Mia Mia Primary

Wednesday Nov 12th 3.30 – 5.30 pm

Kyneton Primary Romsey Primary Our Lady of the Rosary Woodend Primary

Thursday Nov 13th 3.30 – 5.30 pm

Malmsbury Primary Romsey Primary Tylden Primary Trentham Primary Other schools

Tuesday 9th December: Orientation Day 2nd hand book sale at college

Uniform shop open

Return booklist unless ordering online

COMMUNITY NEWS

It is time to prepare for the coming fire

season.

Visit

http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/plan-prepare/

for more information and resources.

Download the FireReady app which is available for

iPhones and Android.

http://www.firereadyfaq.emergency.vic.gov.au/

All donations on the night will go to

Malmsbury CFA.

Andy Rigby and associates will be providing the music

and calling the dances.

Spread the word amongst your friends and family. It

will be a fun afternoon in support of an incredible

group of volunteers.

We would love lots of students to stay after school to

participate and for lots of our families to come along

too.

This event is supported by a Bushfire Recovery grant received from the Macedon Ranges Shire Council.