Term 3 CALENDAR SEPTEMBER Fri 6 9am Fair sub-c’tee meeting. Malmsbury Bakery lunch order. Mon 9 School hats are back!! Wed 11 OSHC afternoon tea for Year 1 children and their families. Thurs 12 State Spectacular rehearsal, Melb. Fri 13 State Spectacular rehearsal, Melb. SATURDAY 14 State Schools Spectacular! SUNDAY 15 12pm Daffodil Parade, Kyneton. Wed 18 OSHC excursion to gardens. Thurs 19 Prep Sleepover– cost $10. Fri 20 2:30pm End of Term 3.

Term 4 OCTOBER Mon 7 Start of Term 4. Tues 8 Water Safety lessons. Wed 9 Water Safety lessons.

Malmsbury Primary School Newsletter

Learning with a view...to the future.

Dear Parents, Carers and Friends,

State Schools Spectacular. It is nearly performance day and our Ensemble students are getting very excited. They have been doing an amazing job of learning the songs and are now learning the ‘choralography’! Thank you to all of you at home who are encouraging them and helping them. Next Thursday and Friday we will be at Melbourne Arena for dress rehearsals and then Saturday is PERFORMANCE DAY!! Our students are very fortunate to be given opportunities to participate in professional productions such as the Spectacular and these opportunities don’t happen without the support of staff members who are willing to give up their own time to support our students. A very big thank you to Siobhan who is not only working on two days when she doesn’t usually work but giving up her Saturday too. Thank you Siobhan!! Grade 5/6 art in the Malmsbury Gardens. Our lucky grade 5/6 students will be heading down to the beautiful Malmsbury gardens to create art works inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. If you would like to get some idea of the sort of art they have been inspired by visit https://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/ Book Week. We had lots of fun over Book Week and I want to thank Pixy for organising the week. I especially loved reading the comics the students had created. We had Jordan’s and Lucy’s winning comics in last week’s newsletter and this week we have Jack T, Spencer and Curtis’ winning comic (they worked on it together) and Charlie H’s winning comic. Hats On! It is that time of the year when the UV rates start to increase and our students must wear their wide brimmed school hats any time they are outside. Please search the house for school hats and make sure they come to school on Monday clean and ready to wear. If your child’s hat needs replacing, please see Jan to purchase a replacement. No newsletter next week as I will be in Melbourne being spectacular with Siobhan and our Ensemble. Warm regards, Carolyn Tavener

Thursday 5 September 2019- Issue #23

Malmsbury Primary School is a

Child Safe School.

We want all children to be safe,

happy and empowered.

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

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Congratulations to the following students for striving to be the best they can be.

Good Sport Award-

Tara for always cheering on and encouraging others.

School Values Award- Liam for using his initiative and returning the river rocks to our dry creek bed area.

Jack T for being a great role model and helping younger students and his peers. Lea and James for being great role models for younger students in our school.

Writer of the Week-

Jack T, Curtis, Spencer, Lucy, Jordan and Charlie H for writing wonderful comics and winning our Book Week comic competition.

200 Club Award-

Elena H for reaching 200 nights of home reading.

Absent: Liam

We are ResourceSmart!! By Sophie Dunn. One usual sunny day in June a group of students, including me, went around the Malmsbury Primary School buildings to check on our energy use. We were looking to see the brightness of the lights, how hot or cold the buildings were, if the lights and appliances get turned off and if there were any air leaks. We discovered that… In the classrooms we need to work on keeping them an appropriate temperature (otherwise we’re all using too much electricity) and to turn off the heaters when they’re not in use. We also need to remember to turn off the lights, interactive whiteboards and robots. We have blinds on the northern and western windows and the southern windows can let natural light in. We don’t have air-conditioning, but our windows can be opened to let organic air flow in or to cross ventilate! There is draught proofing as well! YAY!!! Now to… The office buildings! Oh no! Too bright! The kitchen lights are way too luminous but the library lights are too dull! Brrr- The office building sure is chilly and draughty. We really need to practise turn-ing off everything in the library and turning off the main office’s shredder, heater and printer, also the ginormous water bottles. We are doing better at remembering to turn off the library’s appliances. Good job so far!!! Ok, here’s the fun bit! We’re up to the music, art and OSHC rooms! The lights are not the most effi-cient types but the windows and doors all have draught proofing and we can let natural light and air flow in. Great job Paul, Louise and Joseph! What can be improved is definitely putting noticea-ble signs up to remind everyone which temperature to keep the room to, and to turn the lights and appliances off when not in use. Also, we need to seal air leaks and draughts and replace the old lights with new efficient LED lights. We’re doing great though and will keep up the good work!

DAFFODIL FESTIVAL ROYALTY!!

I feel honoured to be one of the Princes and I feel nervous about the Daffodil Parade. On Thursday, today, we are doing the Royal opening of the Art prize, Art Photography prize and Rotary Youth Art Awards at the Mechanics Institute Kyneton, 7:30pm. On Saturday we are going to visit the streets of Mollison, High and Piper with the King and Queen. We will be at the Ferret races at 10:30am to hand out daffodils to shoppers and greet shop owners. There is a Prince and Princess from Tylden PS too. I feel excited to be one of the Princesses. On Friday 13th Of September we are getting pulled out of school to do royal business. We are going to Lady brooks kinder at 9:30am then we are going to Mair st daycare and then Bupa Kyneton Community Aged Care.

Daffodil parade Sunday 15th. Meet at the Kyneton Showgrounds at 12pm.

Our message is celebrating the sparkle of

spring time– the blossoms on the trees and the wonderful daffodils.

So dress sparkly, green & yellow, wear flowery head dresses and carry blossoms.

Malmsbury PS OSHC!

Hi Everyone,

Spring has sprung and we spent the entire day outside on Tuesday. We even had our fruit snack outside watching the kids against dads impromptu footy game. Trees were climbed, bubbles were blown and we all enjoyed the sunshine well into the afternoon. The OSHC kids have been tired this week (it’s that time in the term) and have enjoyed mak-ing beds and relaxing on the couch with some quiet activities. Next Wednesday (11th Sep-tember) we invite Year 1 students and families to join us in OSHC from 3:30-4:00 for a fruit snack and a play.

From Louise

Malmsbury PS OSHC!

Maths in Grade 1/2. In Numeracy we have been making 2D and 3D shapes with Claire! This week we have been hunting for shapes in our environment, taking pictures and noting down different shapes around us. We made 3D shapes using playdough and match sticks as well as monster 3D monsters. We will be labelling the edges, vertices and faces of these shapes next week. Can you search for shapes at home? Do you cut your toast into triangles or rectangles?

Reading in Grade P/1. This week in Prep/ones, we have been working on

identifying character traits of characters in our stories,

this will lead into ‘compare and contrast’ next week.

We read ‘The Very Brave Bear’ by Nick Bland and

brainstormed the different character traits the Bear

and Boris Buffalo. Students then had to come up with

character traits about themselves and came up with

some fantastic examples like honest, brave, strong,

smart, funny, resilient, angelic and helpful.

Identifying character traits paired beautifully with our

new powerful writing strategy, ‘show not tell’. This

strategy uses words or phrases that describe a topic

instead of stating what it is. We use descriptive words

to ‘show’ instead of telling what it is. We came up with

our own ‘show not tell’ which we have displayed up on

our ‘powerful writing strategy’ wall.

By Charlie H

By Jack T, Curtis and Spencer

MALMSBURY PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIVACY INFORMATION for parents, guardians and carers

During the ordinary course of your child’s attendance at our school, school staff will collect your child’s personal and health information when necessary to educate your child, or to support your child’s social and emotional wellbeing or health in the school context. Such information will also be collected when required to fulfil a legal obligation, including duty of care, anti-discrimination law and occupational health and safety law. If that information is not collected, the school may be unable to provide optimal education or support to your child, or fulfil those legal obligations.

For example, health information may be collected through the school nurse, primary welfare officer or wellbeing staff member. If your child is referred to a specific health service at school, such as a Student Support Services officer, the required consent will be obtained. Our school also collects information provided by parents, guardians and carers through the School Entrance Health Questionnaire (SEHQ) and the Early Childhood Intervention Service (ECIS) Transi-tion Form.

Our school may use online tools, such as apps and other software, to effectively collect and manage information about your child for teaching and learning purposes, parent communication and engagement; student administration; and school management purposes. When our school uses these online tools, we take steps to ensure that your child’s in-formation is secure. If you have any concerns about the use of these online tools, please contact us. School staff will only share your child’s personal or health information with other staff who need to know to enable the school to educate or support your child, or fulfil a legal obligation.

When our students transfer to another Victorian government school, personal and health information about that stu-dent will be transferred to that next school. Transferring this information is in the best interests of our students and assists that next school to provide optimal education and support to students.

In some limited circumstances, information may be disclosed outside of the school (and outside of the Department of Education and Training). The school will seek your consent for such disclosures unless the disclosure is allowed or mandated by law.

Our school values the privacy of every person. When collecting and managing personal and health information, all school staff must comply with Victorian privacy law. For more information about privacy including about how to ac-cess personal and health information held by the school about you or your child, see our school’s privacy policy: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Pages/schoolsprivacypolicy.aspx

Throughout this notice, ‘staff’ includes principals, teachers, Student Support Service officers, youth workers, social workers, nurses and any other allied health practitioners and all other staff at our school. This includes employees, agents and service providers (contractors) of the Department

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