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Melton South Primary School PO Box 2043
Melton South, 3338
Tel: (03) 9743 2922
Fax: (03) 9743 0986
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.meltonsouthps.vic.edu.au THURSDAY 10TH OCTOBER 2019
This newsletter is available from our school website www.meltonsouthps.vic.edu.au or
the Melton South Primary School Skoolbag App.
Friday 11th October Grade 3 Melbourne Zoo Excursion
Grade 2 Local Excursion
Tuesday 15th October Grade 1—Grandparents Day 2.15pm to 3.00pm
Friday 18th October Payment due for Grade 1 Excursion to Sovereign Hill
Payment due for Grade 4 Swimming Program
Monday 21st October After School Sports Program
Tuesday 22nd October Last day for Book Club orders
Wednesday 23rd October Prep 2020 Transition 9.30 to 10.30am
Thursday 24th October After School Sports Program
Friday 25th October Grade 1 Excursion to Sovereign Hill
Monday 28th October School Council Meeting
Friday 1st November Last day for 2020 Requests
Tuesday 5th November Melbourne Cup Day PUBLIC HOLIDAY
Saturday 9th November Djerriwarrh Festival Parade
Thursday 14th November Prep 2020 Transition 1.45 to 2.45pm
Monday 18th to Friday 22nd November Book Fair in Library
Monday 25th November School Council Meeting
Thursday 28th November Whole School Expo
Monday 2nd December Grade 6 Graduation Evening
Monday 2nd to Friday 13th December Grade 4 Swimming Program
Tuesday 10th December Prep 2020 Transition 9.30 to 10.30am
Grade 6 2019 attend their 2020 Secondary College
Wednesday 17th December Whole School Breakfast
Friday 20th December Last Day of Term 4—Early Dismissal 1.30pm
DATES FOR 2020 Wednesday 29th January Grade 1 to 6 students commence school
2020 Prep Information Session 9.30am
Thursday 30th January Prep children commence school today
Wednesday 5th February No school for Prep children (prep interviews)
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.
BOOK CLUB: Book club orders forms have been sent home this week. Please return all or-ders with payment by Tuesday 22nd October. For your information, parents can order and pay for their book club orders online. Refer to your book club order form for more details.
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
GRADES 2020: Teachers devote many hours to the development of new grades, taking many factors into consideration. If you have any specific requests, please put them into writing to the Principal marked Confidential and hand into the office by Friday 1st November. All requests will be given due consideration. Please note that only requests received by this date will be considered.
To assist with this process, we ask any families/students who are moving to another area and not returning to Melton South Primary School in 2020 to notify the school office as soon as possible. This information is critical for class structure and staffing.
CURRICULUM DAY: On Monday 80 of our staff participated in professional learning with 11 other schools in Werribee. The presenter was Misty Adoniou, the focus was “Using quality children’s literature to teach complexity and wonder in writing”. We all came away with many strategies that we can use in our everyday teaching, a very successful day.
STATEMENTS: Account statements were sent home with students this week. Please note that the statement contains your personalised BPAY details should you wish to make any payments online instead of having to come into the school office.
NAPLAN RESULTS: NAPLAN results for students in grades 3 and 5 are now available for parents to collect from the office. Parents are advised we will not be sending home the reports with the children.
GARDEN AREA: Thanks to Kate Rozsa, Collette Freund and Angela Lanza who gave up some of their holidays to continue working on the native garden near the basketball court. It looks amazing already and will soon be able to be used as an outdoor classroom. We were able to establish this garden as Kate Rozsa applied and was successful in gaining $5000 grant.
SEDA: SEDA students started their project on Tuesday. They are upgrading the bike shed and establishing new garden beds. We are very pleased to work in partnership with them.
DOGS POLICY: Melton South Primary School has a dog policy. Dogs are not permitted on school grounds at all with the exception of specially trained dogs to enhance mobility or disability. We do promote Responsible Pet Ownership to educate students in the knowledge and understanding needs for responsible pet ownership and animal care. This applies to all school events, including discos and Let It Shine Expo.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: Is often brought to school by students, staff and visitors. This can include mobile phones, bicylces, scooters, electronic games, calculators, toys, musical instruments, sporting equipment and cars parked on school premises. The department does not hold insurance for personal property brought to school and it has no capacity to pay for any loss or damage to such property. We advise that should your child bring their bike or scooter to school it is advisable to also send a lock with them as we have unfortunately had things stolen from the bike shed.
Mrs Marilyn Costigan,
Principal
PREP 2020 ENROLMENTS We are now finalising enrolments for 2020. If you have a child turning 5 on or before the 30th
April, 2020, please ensure you have returned your child’s completed enrolment form.
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.
GRADE STUDENT REASON FOR AWARD
PA Savannah For the incredible improvement in her writing! Well done!
PB Kayne For using great strategies in his writing. Well done!
PC Lucky For his dedication to improving his writing. Great effort Lucky!
PD Delara For using expression while reading her independent texts—great effort!
PF Deng For always showing whole body listening in class.
PG Jack For working with his teacher and doing a great job in writing.
1A Lui For working super hard on his reading goal and showing great
improvements.
1C Jeshwin For working collaboratively in reading groups.
1D Saym For working hard to improve his writing! Keep it up!
1G Renata For showing growth mindset while completing his mathematics
2B Clarisse For continuously modelling our school value of ‘Respect’ in the classroom
and school yard.
2C Iulia For identifying the different parts of a persuasive text.
2D Nidish For identifying and explaining different features of 3D solids.
2E Pison For being able to recognise quarter to and past on an analogue clock.
2F Caleb For the fantastic use of his spelling strategies during our writing sessions.
3A Meltoriyah For creating and outstanding array city using her multiplication knowledge.
3B Taylah-Jade For working hard to improve her attendance. Well done!
3D Brianna For writing an outstanding introduction for her science-fiction narrative.
3E Hansica For writing an information text that included sub-headings and bolded
words.
4C Irae For producing some excellent writing.
5A Francis For completing his reading goal to a high standard.
6A Talank For his excellent attitude and attention towards his home reading—225
nights!
6B Dehvon For applying his best effort to his reading goal evidence.
6D Nakau For making excellent progress in reading and writing.
Art Jasper For an enthusiastic learner who shows an outstanding attitude in Art.
French Ella For leading her class in singing the French song they learnt.
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 14th
October at 2.30pm in the school gymnasium.
P.E. NEWS
AFTER SCHOOL SPORTS: Applications for the After School Sports Program are open and the program will be commencing in
Week 3, Monday 21st and Thursday 24th October. The sports this term will be Field Hockey and Touch Rugby.
MIXED VOLLEYBALL: Good Luck to our Divisional Mixed Volleyball team who have a chance at making
the Regional Finals if they win next Fridays game against Arnolds Creek.
Good luck to both Teams.
WALK TO SCHOOL: Walk to School is on so get those walking shoes out or riding helmets on.
The more you walk, ride or scoot the more opportunities you give yourself to be entered into win a prize.
REGIONAL ATHLETICS: Good luck to our two students who are going to the Regional Athletics. We wish you
all the best of luck and remember to give it your all.
Attending school every day is vital for students of all ages to fully achieve. As a parent/guardian: Commit to sending children to school every day. Make sure children arrive at school on time. Inform the school when they are away, sending medical
certificates and other evidence of genuine absence. Consider catching-up on missed work.
Dear Parents/ Caregivers,
This years' Djerriwarrh Festival will be bigger and better than the previous years! The theme this year is:
"Melton City, Much More than meets the Eye. Show us what you are made of." We are going to take this opportunity to showcase just how great Melton South Primary School is!
The Parade is on Saturday, 9th November, High Street, Melton with an 11am start. Walking groups like our school, are asked to be there between 10.00 and 10.15. The Outstanding School Award will be given to the most imaginative, colourful and innovative. We need to know numbers fairly soon, so please see your classroom teacher for a Permission Form and return it as soon as possible. Parents/Carers and Students that are interested, are invited to attend some Workshops in the Art Room on the 12 th and 19th of September at 3:30pm to create props and costumes for the parade. If you have any ideas, questions or would like to help, please contact Ms Cohen (Prep E, Room 19) or Ms Wright (2E, Room 5B). It’s going to be an exciting day, so we hope to see you there!
Grandparents Day!
Tuesday October 15th 2019 - 2.15-3.00pm
Our Grade 1 students are working on a unit called Past and
Present. To ask our Grandparents what life was like when they
were younger, we invite grandparents for a special afternoon in
the Grade 1 classrooms.
SCHOOL BANKING IS EVERY THURSDAY AT MELTON SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL
SCHOOL HATS: Melton South Primary School is an accredited member of The Australian Cancer
Foundation and therefore follows the required regulations in regard to SunSmart behaviour.
As part of our school’s SunSmart Policy, all students and staff are required to wear school broad
brimmed sunhats from 1st September through to April 30th next year. Hats are available from the
school office for $12.00 each.
Whole School Learning Intentions.
Week: 1 LI—Learning Intention SC—Success Criteria
Year Reading Writing Maths
Prep
LI: Good readers make text to self connections. SC: I can understand how the character is feeling.
LI: Good writers can identify and use High frequency words. SC: I can use high frequency words from the word wall to make a sentence.
LI: Good mathematicians are able to sort events based on their likelihood of occurring. SC: I can sort events into likely and unlikely.
Year 1
LI: Good readers understand the purpose and audience of a procedural recount. SC: I can explain why the author has written this text type.
LI: Good writers understand the purpose of the word wall. SC: I can use the word wall to correct my spelling.
LI: Good mathematicians know counting patterns. SC: I can count backwards.
Year 2
LI: Good Readers understand the structure of a persuasive text. SC: I can identify the thesis statement. I can identify the arguments and supporting evidence.
LI: Good Writers understand how sentences work. CO-CONSTRUCTED SC: I can write simple sentences. I can write compound sentences using ‘and’. I can identify the clauses in a compound sentence.
LI: Good mathematicians identify the features of 3D solids. SC: I can identify the number of faces 3D solids have. I can name the shapes of the faces on solid objects.
Year 3
LI: Good readers are able to identify the features of an explanation text. SC: I can identify cause and effect connectives.
LI: Good writers revise their writing as they create their draft. SC: I can draft my text. I can include compound and complex sentences. I can revise as I write.
L.I: Good mathematicians use arrays to multiply . S.C: I can explain the definition of an array. I can explain why using arrays helps me with my mathematical thinking. I can demonstrate an array. I can demonstrate a non-example of an array.
Year 4
LI: Good readers understand the purpose and audience of a procedural recount. SC: I can identify the audience and purpose of a procedural recount.
LI: Good writers use capital letters and punctuation appropriately. SC: I can... (Joint constructed SC).
LI: Good mathematicians create symmetrical patterns, pictures and shapes with and without digital Technologies. SC: I know what symmetry means and can find the symmetry in shapes.
Year 5
LI: Good readers identify the framework and structure of persuasive texts. SC: I can; label the parts of the text that create its framework (thesis statement,, arguments, conclusion) identify the structure used by the author.
LI: Good writers make purposeful decisions about their writing to pro-vide detail. SC: I can: Identify the noun, then Consider my vocabulary choices and how I could add more precise details before & after the noun.
LI: Good mathematicians understand the order of operations. SC: I can read the worded problem Carefully identify the operations need-ed to solve the problem. Write this as a number sentence.
Year 6
LI: Good readers use tables, maps, graphs, diagrams, and icons to enhance their understanding of a text. SC: I can interpret information in a table. I can clarify and explain new vocabulary in a table.
LI: Good writers plan and draft a text type of their choice. SC: I can plan using the structure of the text type I have selected. I can draft my writing based on the plan I have developed.
LI: Good mathematicians predict the probability of events occurring using fractions, decimals and percentages. SC: I can conduct a chance experiment using 2 coins. I can predict the chance outcome of throwing 2 coins as a percentage, decimal and fraction.
Western Volcanic Plains Garden Project Victorian Junior Landcare and Biodiversity Grant.
Our Western Volcanic Plains Garden is looking fabulous. Mrs Lanza has been instrumental in planning and creating the project
supported by the creative Ms Freund. Mrs Lanza has searched for the “right” pieces to recreate an indigenous feel to the gar-
den using a fire pit as a planter for our native grasses and incorporating natural logs sought out on her weekend forages. Path-
ways still need to be laid but it’s getting there! Our Green Team and other volunteers can be congratulated on their strenuous
efforts to shovel the soil into the area!
As part of the project, students have made floral mosaic tiles and painted nesting boxes for birds and possums at Toolern
Creek. Thank you to Daryl Akkers and the Melton Environment Group for making them for us.
A huge thank you to Lyn Holdsworth and the Friends of Toolern Creek who showed our Grade 6 students the environmental
work that her group of volunteers does to keep the creek healthy.
Request from the Art Team.
As we are constructing robots this term we would be grateful if anyone has any small boxes (no larger than a shoebox) they
could donate to the Art room. One litre cardboard milk cartons would be ideal. Other items such as buttons, plastic milk tops
and bottle tops would be really appreciated.
