Melton South Primary School PO Box 2043

Melton South, 3338

Tel: (03) 9743 2922

Fax: (03) 9743 0986

Email: melton.south.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.meltonsouthps.vic.edu.au THURSDAY 25TH JULY 2019

This newsletter is available from our school website www.meltonsouthps.vic.edu.au or

the Melton South Primary School Skoolbag App.

Monday 29th July Active After School Sports Program Commences

Wednesday 31st July Last day to pay for Grade 1 Living Things Incursion

Second Hand Uniform Stall 2.30—3.15pm, in the Gym Foyer

Thursday 1st August Grade 1 incursion—Living Things

Active After School Sports Program

Friday 2nd August Last day to return Book Club orders

Monday 12th August 3-6 MPSSA Athletics Day—Track

Tuesday 13th August 3-6 MPSSA Athletics Day—Field

Wednesday 14th August Grade 4 excursion to IMAX Museum

Monday 26th August School Council Meeting 3.30pm

Thursday 29th August Father’s Day Stall P-2

Friday 30th August Father’s Day Stall 3-6

Monday 2nd September DOXA Camp

Tuesday 3rd September DOXA Camp

Wednesday 4th September DOXA Camp

MPSSA 5/6 Basketball

School Disco Prep—Grade 2

Thursday 5th September School Disco Grade 3—6

Friday 13th September Prep excursion to Werribee Zoo

Friday 20th September Footy Colours Day

Last Day of Term 3—Early dismissal 2.15pm

Melton South Primary School Mission:

Melton South Primary School is a progressive community who lead the way.

Together we create motivated, respectful learners who achieve excellence.

STAFF, STUDENTS, PARENTS AND CARERS ALL HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AT MELTON SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL.

EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE SAFE

EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE RESPECTED

EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO LEARN

NEW PLAYGROUND AND SANDPIT: Our new playground, sandpit and shade sails are now completed and are ready for use. Grades will be allocated certain days for use.

WE WANT OUR PARENTS TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK!

Our school is conducting a survey to find out what parents think of our school. The Parent Opinion Survey is an

annual survey offered by the Department of Education and Training that is conducted amongst a sample of

randomly selected parents. It is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of parents’ perceptions of

school climate, student behaviour and student engagement. Our school will use the survey results to help inform

and direct future school planning and improvement strategies.

Approximately 30 per cent of parents will be invited to participate in this year’s survey. All responses to the

survey are anonymous. This year the Parent Opinion Survey will be conducted from Monday 22rd July to Sunday

11th August.

The survey will be conducted online, only takes 10-15 minutes to complete, and can be accessed at any

convenient time within the fieldwork period on desktop computers, laptops, tablets or smartphones. The online

survey will be available in a range of languages other than English. These include: Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin,

Chin (hakha), Hindi, Japanese, Somali, Turkish, Punjabi and Greek.

The survey results will be reported back to the school at the end of September. The survey results will be

communicated to parents through the newsletter. Last year we used the survey results to plan for further

improvement.

If your family was selected as part of the random sample the details for completing the survey was sent by mail on Wednesday 25th of July.

CURRICULUM DAY: All teaching staff and educational support staff worked with external consultant Di Siemen on Numeracy.

PRINCIPAL’S AWARDS: The part of my job I really enjoy is celebrating students achievements. This week I have given out 3 Principal’s awards to students achieving a standard of work they were not capable of producing before. As part of the award they receive a lunch order.

PYJAMA DAY: It was great to see so many staff and children dressed in pyjamas and dressing gowns last Friday. We raised just under $900 for students in Foster Care. The contractors completing the playground construction were quite surprised to be at a meeting with the Principal and Assistant Principals in their pyjamas.

SCHOOL WIDE POSITIVE BEHAVIOURS: This Friday our SWPB team will attend our third training for the year with other schools in the region. It is our third year of undertaking training in this area. This year we have representatives from Grade 1 –6 that meet our SWPB coordinators fortnightly to have input into acknowledgement system etc. They also present at assembly each week to promote the focus for the week. This week two students used their tokens to request morning tea with the Principal and Assistant Principals.

Mrs Marilyn Costigan,

Principal

PREP 2020 ENROLMENTS

Enrolments for 2020 have

commenced. If you have a child

turning 5 on or before the 30th April,

2020, please drop by the office to

collect an enrolment pack.

This information allows us to

commence planning for the coming

year and it is vital that we establish

student numbers for 2020 as early as

possible.

ACTIVE AFTER SCHOOL SPORTS PROGRAM: will begin on Monday 29th July and

Thursday 1st August and will run for the next 7 weeks every Monday and Thursday

after school and will finish on Thursday 12th September. Sports for this term will be

Lacrosse and Badminton. This is a free program funded by Sporting Schools and

students MUST attend both Monday and Thursday sessions from 3.30pm to 4.30pm.

All places have now been filled.

COUNTDOWN TO PREP: DO YOU HAVE A CHILD STARTING SCHOOL IN 2020? Come along to Melton South Primary School’s weekly Countdown to Prep sessions and get involved to help your child get ready for school in 2020. Engaging and fun activities led by our Early Years teachers, giving children a head start to school life. Receive tips for helping your child’s learning at home each week. Younger siblings are welcome to come along. Children are encouraged to bring along their water bottle and fruit will be supplied. You may wish to bring a small snack for children who do not eat fruit.

EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING 9.10am to 10.10am

AT MELTON SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL IN THE STEM ROOM

PLEASE COLLECT A FORM FROM THE SCHOOL OFFICE TO REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT THE SCHOOL ON 9743 2922

BOOK CLUB: Book Club issue 4 is due back on Friday the 2nd August.

Please return payment with your order.

Parents can also order and pay for their book club orders online, refer to your book club order

form for more details.

SECOND HAND UNIFORM SHOP:

Will be open on Wednesday 31st July from 2.30pm to 3.15pm in the gymnasium foyer. Any donations of unwanted uniform items that your children have outgrown would be greatly appreciated.

GRADE 6 POLO SHIRTS:

We have 2 spare grade 6 polos available to purchase if anyone is interested. They are $35 each.

1 x size 12

1 x size 14

Please contact the office if you are interested.

GRADE STUDENT REASON FOR AWARD

PA Nathan For being able to discuss the who, where, when and what in our stories.

PB Immanuel For using his knowledge of sounds to write words he knows.

PC Loyal For working hard on his reading goal and making great progress in reading.

PD Jasnoor For writing a great summary on a text from our Author Study on Pamela Allen.

PE Hope For using a capital letter and full stop when writing a summary of Alexander’s Outing.

PG Rachel

Malakai

For demonstrating our school values during class time and at outside time.

For showing whole body listening and putting his hand up in class.

1A Rose For her fantastic efforts in writing about butterflies.

1B Noah For an amazing start at Melton South Primary.

1C Filipe For working hard to share collections. Well done Filipe!

1D Thyrone For working really hard on his reading goal and improving his reading level.

1E Alyssah For working hard on her reading goal and making great progress in reading.

1G Albatoul For following the structure of an information text.

2B Aiden For thinking about your audience when planning your narrative.

2C Ariam For her effort when planning an interesting narrative.

2D Kyan For improving your reading comprehension.

2F Chester For his creativity when painting a background for his narrative front cover.

3A Nadia For working hard on her reading goals and making great progress.

3C Cole For an amazing effort when writing his narrative text this week.

3D Anifa For being able to explain in detail her narrative for writing.

4A Jayda For avtively contributing to class discussions and respectfully listening to the contributions of others.

4C Omisha For using compound and complex sentences in her writing.

5B Alex For working hard to improve the structure of his writing, well done.

5C Daniel For his excellent effort summarising during reading!!

5D Austin For treating everyone with a great deal of respect.

5E Elijah For showing persistence and sharing his thoughts in reading.

6A Shamsudin For responding confidently when questioned about his current text.

6B Janiyah For applying consistent effort to her learning.

6D Yassin For excellent responses during a reading conference.

Art Vianne For an outstanding effort in pattern and design skills.

French Sierra For being the best helper in French this week.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS

Congratulations to the following students who have received awards

this week. These awards are made to students in recognition of

achievement and will be presented at school assembly on Monday

29th July at 2.30pm in the school gymnasium.

WHOLE SCHOOL LEARNING INTENTIONS

Week: 2

LI—Learning Intention SC—Success Criteria

Year Reading Writing Maths

Prep

LI: Good readers know what an author is. SC: I can tell you about Pamela Allen. I know the names of some of the books she has written.

LI: Good writers can write a summary of a story. SC: I can say who and what happened.

LI: Good mathematicians are able to iden-tify 3D objects and their features. SC: I can name 3D objects. I can describe the features of 3D objects.

Year 1

LI: Good readers ask and answer ques-tions to gain an understanding of a text. SC: I can ask questions. I can find the answers to my questions through the reading of the text.

LI: Good writers are able to use a graphic organiser to plan an information text about a living thing. SC: I can include information about a living thing under the correct subheadings on a graphic organiser to write an information piece.

LI: Good mathematicians understand how to divide equally between groups. SC: I can use different materials to solve the worded problems. I can record my findings.

Year 2

LI: Good Readers understand the differ-ence between fiction and nonfiction texts. SC: I can identify if a book is fiction or nonfiction based on its features.

LI: Good writers think about who their audience is and plan a narrative to suit the audience. SC: I can list different story ideas that Grade 2 students would enjoy reading.

LI: Good mathematicians can show their prior understandings of multiplication and division. SC: I can share objects equally. I can write a number sentence to describe what I did.

Year 3

LI: Good readers use organisational fea-tures of information texts to find infor-mation . SC: I can use the contents page and sub-headings to find information about as-pects of the topic. I can use the index page to find very spe-cific information.

LI: Good writers revise their writing. SC: I can revise my writing for meaning.

LI: Good mathematicians can complete multi step equations. SC: I can solve addition equations where there is more than one step.

Year 4

LI: Good readers ask and answer ques-tions when reading to acquire knowledge. SC: I can write down and ask answer ‘right there’ questions beginning with words such as Where….What...When…...Do…..Why/ on a graphic organiser.

LI: Good writers write for a purpose and an audience. SC: I can choose a genre to write about and consider who I am writing it for.

LI: Good mathematicians recall multiplica-tion facts to 10 x 10 and related division facts. SC: I can recall multiplication and division facts and record my answers.

Year 5

LI: Good readers identify and explain how images (like figures, tables, dia-grams, maps and graphs) contribute to our understanding of information in fac-tual texts. SC: I can read the entire page and explain how the feature works and what it ex-plains.

LI: Good writers vary the type of sentences used to engage the reader. SC: I can; -re-read a passage of my work with a part-ner. -check how many different sentence types I have used. -revise a sentence to make my work more engaging.

LI: Good mathematicians Good mathema-ticians can apply place value knowledge to solve problems. SC: I can; -use what I know about ‘base 10’. -explain how I solved a problem using place value. -use POLYA routine to solve a problem.

Year 6

LI: Good readers understand that there are different types of questions e.g. lit-eral, inferential. SC: I can share the questions I have be-fore, during and after reading and discuss them. I can categorise questions asked from reading a text.

LI: Good writers use a graphic organiser to plan an informative text. SC: I can plan the topic of each paragraph in my information report.

LI: Good mathematicians understand that fractions can be related to other fractions. SC: I can give examples of related fractions and show how they are related.

SCHOOL BANKING IS EVERY THURSDAY AT

MELTON SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL