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Maroubra Junction Public School

CALENDAR

Week 7

Thurs 15 March

Selective HS test

Friday 16 March

Year 6 Fundraiser Cake Stall

Week 8

Tues 20 March

Harmony Day Celebrations

Wed 21 March

Harmony Day Celebrations

Week 9

Thurs 29 March

Easter Hat Parade

Cross Country Carnival Yrs 3-6

Week 10

Tues 3 April & Wed 4 April

School Photos

Thurs 5 April

P&C meeting @ 7pm

Week 11

Thursday 12 April

Mufti Day

Kiss & Go Reminder—Loch Maree St Morning—stay in your car, kiss your child goodbye, go—DO NOT park and walk your child into school Afternoon—stay in your car, move toward the pick up area, pick up your child—DO NOT park or leave

Newsletter T1W7

Thursday 15th March, 2018 Principal’s Report .

Thank you A huge thank you to the P&C for their generous gift of almost $25 000 which will continue to support our children’s learning and development. The money will be spent on literacy and numeracy re-sources, sport equipment and Lego kits. Outdoor equipment will be purchased and placed just out-side the library in the Landscape area. This will allow children to relax with a book during lunch times if they feel like a quiet break. $7 000 of the money will go toward the employment of a Student Wellbeing Support Officer, 2 days per week. The officer will support the social and emotional wellbeing of our students, work closely with teachers to support students in the classroom and facilitate commu-nity programs. This is a three year program supported and partly funded by the NSW Department of Education.

Discovery Learning As part of our Discovery Learning, our year 6 students have had the opportunity to work closely with an expert in Design & Tech. Each class spent a day working on projects that align to their current History unit. Students were required to follow the design process—ask, think, design, build, test and

improve, as they learnt about the Tjanpi Desert Weavers. These incredible weavers represent more

than 400 Aboriginal women artists who harvest and weave local grasses and earn an income by pro-ducing beautiful handmade works. With this as inspiration, our students designed and created their

own beauti- ful pieces.

Yesterday 6W designed Aboriginal inspired patterns to paint on leaves from our local trees, which look like giant peas. Our Design & Tech instructor organised all the resources, walked us through the design process and shared her knowledge and skill. We had lots of fun using different materials to develop our skills as we helped each other complete our goals. While drafting our designs and painting the leaves, we faced many challenges, such as trying to paint technical designs, not having a flat surface to paint on and using different shades and colours that didn’t stand out. It wasn’t as easy as we thought but we showed resilience and kept trying our hardest to perfect our artwork/s. Jade and Georgie, 6W

Skoolbag App Don’t miss out on important school information.

We strongly encourage all families to download this app onto a device as it is used for

regular alerts and notifications.

Simply search for Skoolbag Maroubra Junction in the app store. The school app

features notifications, calendar and newsletters to keep parents up to date with what’s

happening. Along with information from the uniform shop and P&C.

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Harmony Day Multicultural Lunch Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

Harmony Day is a celebration of our multicultural community. A lunch is being coordinated by our class parents and we are asking for families to contribute food and join us for this event. Please NO NUT PRODUCTS and label the ingredients.

Children can wear something orange on this day or dress in traditional dress. We hope to see you there!

The Harmony Day Committee

Harmony Day—Multicultural Lunch

MAROUBRA JUNCTION PUBLIC SCHOOL

School Photography Date: 3-4/04/2018

Click on link below to go direct to advancedlife website to order photos

ONLINE ORDER CODE

CGN BKB AC4

Dear Parents,

School photography day is coming up very soon. Group and portrait photographs can be purchased by following the link above.

Important Information:

School photos purchased online

Don’t forget to order your sibling photos now

Late fees/additional charges will be applied for purchases after photo day

Photos will be returned to your school for distribution approximately six weeks after photos are

taken

Past years’ photographs including sports, co-curricular and representative groups available at

school’s advancedlife & your advancedyou photo sites (follow the link above) *Sibling photographs must be ordered online. A photograph will not be taken without an order. Sibling photographs only apply to children enrolled at the school.

advancedlife would like to express our appreciation to MAROUBRA JUNCTION PUBLIC SCHOOL for placing your trust in us. Please remember we offer a 100% money back guarantee on our products to ensure your peace of mind. We would also love to receive your feedback or resolve any issues you may experience as fast as possible, to ensure your satisfaction. If you have any questions, comments or feedback relating to your advancedlife experience please contact us at-

enquiries@advancedlife.com.au

School Photo Day— 3rd & 4th April 2018—Online Ordering Only

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Statement of Accounts—Term 1 fees are due

Thanks to the families that have made payment of their accounts.

If you have not received or have misplaced your statement please call the office and a new one can

be issued.

Payments can be made via the Parent online payment system through the school website, or by

cash or cheque (only one cheque per family) to the class teacher or drop into the office to make a

credit card payment over the counter.

We do not accept credit cards on the Money Envelopes anymore.

Thank you to all those families that have contributed to the school library fund so far. Whilst this is

a voluntary payment, the Voluntary Library Contribution assists the school to purchase the latest

books and technology that secures the best future for our students.

Please keep your receipts, as library contributions are fully tax deduction.

TERM 1 TERM 2 TERM 3 TERM 4

Week

6

1S & 1P Week

3

4S Week

3

K-2 Master

Certificate

Week

2

K-2 Master

Certificate

Week

7

5H & 5T Week

4

2P & 2D Week

6

K-2 Master

Certificate

Week

3

5C

Week 8

2C & 2F Week

5

3/4M

CONCERT

Week

4

KA / KG /

Week

9

GOOD FRIDAY Week

6

4G & 4J Week

5

3Z

Week

10

6W Week

7

Languages Week

6

KK

Week

11

1V & 1Z Week

8

3DM & 3S Week

8

Year 6 Mini fete promo

Week

9

KN & KP Week

9

K-2 Master

Certificate

Week

10

6N & 6B

Our class assemblies for 2018 are as follows.

Terms 1 & 4: 2.00pm – 2.45 pm in the Hall

Terms 2: 9.15am – 10.00am in the Hall

Term 3: No class assemblies due to school concert.

Assembly Roster 2018

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Sports News Week Sport Fees Due

We still have some outstanding sports fees that need to be paid urgently. If payment is not received by

Friday, your child will be unable to attend sport for Term 1 and 4 as we have a waiting list of students

wanting to do Friday Sports.

PSSA Sports

Below is the draw for the next two weeks showing the venue and schools we are playing against.

Week 7

16.03.2018

Sport Opponent Venue

AFL Rainbow St Heffron AFL Field 3

Softball Maroubra Bay Coral Sea

Cricket Malabar Pioneer Park

Beach Volleyball Sth Maroubra Beach

Week 8

23.03.2018

Sport Opponent Venue

AFL Malabar Heffron AFL Field 2

Softball Gardeners Road Heffron Park 2

Cricket Heffron Park 2

Beach Volleyball Sth Maroubra Beach

We currently have a member of one of our families

undergoing chemotherapy. It is imperative tat MJPS

families report any symptoms or diagnosis of contagious

diseases that may be contracted over the next two terms.

These may include but are not exclusive to mumps,

measles and chicken pox. If the patient was exposed to

any contagious disease/infection, it would severely impact

on their treatment.

Please let the school know as soon as possible if any family

members contract any infectious diseases, so we can in-

form the family.

Thank you for your cooperation with this series matter.

Student Illness Coles have launched the

Sports for Schools

program. Every time you

spend $10 at Coles

during the program, you

will earn a Coles Sports

for Schools voucher. The more vouchers

you collect, the more sporting equipment

our school will receive.

There is a box in the school office and there

is a box at the Coles stores in Randwick,

Eastgardens, Maroubra and Bondi Junction

where you can leave your vouchers.

So please remember to ask for your

vouchers at the checkout!

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MJPS P&C Newsletter

P&C Meeting – last Thursday 8 March

Following members support of the School’s “Wish list” items, a cheque was

provided to the School for $24,170,58. The “Wish list” included literacy and

numeracy resources, flexible indoor and outdoor furniture to be used by

classes when they attend the Library, and a contribution to the resourcing

of a Student Wellbeing Support Officer. A further motion was also moved

to provide the 2nd year of funding (2019) for the Student Wellbeing Officer

– therefore the P&C’s total commitment this year is $31,170.58. We also

thank Mr Tait for his presentation on the Lego EV3 robots which the P&C

funded last year.

Easter Raffle drawn 29 March – donations sought and tickets ON

SALE NOW!

Chocolates will of course be part of the 30 Easter Raffle prizes and $1

tickets will be sold before and after school as we are not able to send

tickets home with children. If you would like a booklet of 10 tickets,

please pick one up from the School Office, uniform shop (when open) or

when tickets are sold near the School Office on Mon and Fri mornings

from 8.30am or Tues and Thurs afternoons at 3pm. As assembly is also

on these next two weeks, you can buy tickets on Friday afternoons from 2.45pm near the Hall.

The donations are coming in and THANK YOU! We are still seeking donations as suggested below and

these can be left in the School Office:

Kindy – egg-sized (hollow) easter eggs Year 1 – chocolate eggs/bunny Year 2/3 – chocolate or something for children Year 4/5 – chocolate or something for mums Year 6 – chocolate or something for dads

The P&C thanks the school community in advance for their generosity with donations.

Lisa Kee, President

mjpspandc@gmail.com

Upcoming events for your diary:

Friday 23 March, donations due for Easter Raffle

Monday 26 March, raffle tickets due back at School if you have picked up a booklet of 10

Thursday 29 March, Easter Raffle drawn after Easter Hat Parade

Discovery Learning Project—Yarn required

This term the school will be working on a Discovery Learning

Project, could we ask for families to bring in any yarn (wool, string

etc) that they have at home that isn’t being used, please drop it

into the office.

Any donations will be greatly appreciated.

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The NSW Premiers Reading Challenge is now open!

The challenge will run until Friday 31 August 2018.

All K-2 students will have their challenge completed by the

librarian this year.

Year 3-6 students will be given time to complete the challenge

during their library lessons.

Click on the link to

access the PRC

website

https://

online.det.nsw.ed

u.au/prc/

home.html

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To help schools keep the school zone safer for all pedestrians and drivers there are seven new traffic in-

fringements with new fines.

None of the seven offences attract demerit points when committed elsewhere on the road but in a school

zone they each come with two points.

The changes are:

1. Stopping in intersection - Under the changes if a driver commits this offence in a school zone they will

receive a penalty of $439 and 2 demerit points.

2. Stop within 20m of intersection (traffic lights) - Under the changes if a driver commits this offence in a

school zone they will receive a penalty of $439 and 2 demerit points.

3. Stop within 10m of intersection (no traffic lights) - Under the changes if a driver commits this offence in

a school zone they will receive a penalty of $439 and 2 demerit points.

4. Stop near bicycle crossing lights - Under the changes if a driver commits this offence in a school zone

they will receive a penalty of $439 and 2 demerit points.

5. Obstruct access to ramp/path/passageway - Under the changes if a driver commits this offence in a

school zone they will receive a penalty of $330 and 2 demerit points.

6. Not parallel park in the direction of travel - Under the changes if a driver commits this offence in a

school zone they will receive a $330 fine and 2 demerit points.

7. Parallel park close to dividing line - Under the changes if a driver commits this offence in a school zone

they will receive a $330 fine and 2 demerit points.

All updated school zone offences can be located through Roads and Maritime:

http://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/documents/roads/ safety-rules/demerits-school.pdf

We have approximately 20 Student Tables

that are no longer needed,

which we are giving away.

If you are interested and would like

to take a look at these tables.

Please see the office Staff.

7 New “School Zone” Traffic Offences

Free Student Tables

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Year 6 students have received an Expression of Interest form for placement in Year 7, 2019 for Govern-ment High Schools.

These forms are due back at school by Friday 16 March 2018. We ask that you complete the forms as early as possible so that we are able to contact you if there are any omissions or errors. Each form will indicate your designated local high school based on your address. Please do not change this information. If the address on your form is not correct, you will need to bring documentation as proof of your new home address to our MJPS school office.

You will have the option to apply for your local high school, apply for a non-local placement or indicate that you do not require a placement for your child in a NSW government school in 2018. A form needs to be returned for every child regardless of the option you select and whether your child is attending a Government High School or not.

If you would like some advice or help filling out the form, Miss Noble will be in 6B’s classroom before school at 8.15am to 9.00am and from 3.15pm-4pm on Thursday 8th and Thursday 15th. Please come along if needed as we are happy to assist and advise. The form can also be downloaded in other languages, please let your class teacher know if this is needed.

Many Thanks Year 6 teachers

Government High School Information—Year 6 only

Newtown High School of Performing Arts

Auditions for Year 7 2019

Dance, Drama and Music Selection

Students currently in Year 6 enrolled in public or non government schools who are seeking

entrance into Year 7 in 2019 in Dance, Drama or Music at Newington High School of

Performing Arts, must participate in audition workshops.

Auditions will be held between Monday 25th June to Friday 6th July 2018.

Please note: To be eligible to apply, candidates must be Australian citizens or holders of a

visa granting permanent resident status in Australia on the day of their audition.

Initial registration for an audition is required online via our website

www.nhspa.nsw.edu.au

Closing date for registration is 1st May 2018

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Volunteers needed for 2018 K-2 Ethics classes

If you’re free and willing to teach K-2 Ethics classes in 2018 please contact Ms Karas on 9349 8333 or nickie.karas @det .nsw.edu.au

Training and lesson resources will be available to support you in your role.

We would like to start ASAP

Classes will be held on Thursday 1:45-2:15 (K-2).

Looking forward to hearing from you.

If your child is doing Ethics classes, please look at the website for Primary Ethics

for information about Ethics classes and what your children may be doing in them,

https://primaryethics.com.au/

Kind Regards,

Andrew Tate, Ethics Coordinator

From Tuesday 6 March School Banking at Maroubra Junction Public School will take place outside the hall from 8.30am.

Books will no longer be collected or distributed in class.

Each Tuesday you need to take your book, deposit and completed deposit slip to the School Banking Volunteers outside the hall, before the bell, for processing. Books will then be given back directly to the child.

To ensure there is no interruption to learning time, no deposits will be taken after the bell.

Thank you for supporting the School Banking program at Maroubra Junction Public School. We would also like to thank the wonderful parents who volunteer as our School Banking Co-ordinators and process our banking every week.

School Banking is changing at MJPS

Volunteering at MJPS

Any Parent or Relative wishing to help in class or at the school E.g Reading or Maths groups, excursions or

sport MUST complete the Department Appendix 5 Document: available from the office AND supply 100

points of ID.

This must be completed at the beginning of each school year.

Please note a WWCC (Working with Children Check) is not valid for volunteer work.

You are unable to volunteer at MJPS without this information