Our Purpose: The Monmia school community is committed to providing innovative programs that

Stimulate and challenge each student to develop lifelong learning skills and strategies.

We provide a safe, nurturing environment where teachers, students and parents work in

an effective partnership. www.monmia.vic.edu.au Phone: 03 9364 1007

MONMIA MESSENGER

Dear Monmia Families, GREAT MOMENTS I NOTICED THIS WEEK

An amazing turn out to the opening of Education Week with many students dressed up in their

future “Career’s”. Thank you to Mrs Bowler and Mrs Belovitch for all their organisation of Education

Week at Monmia. Take a look at Twitter! It was lovely to see so many parents/guardians and grandparents visiting classrooms over the last

few days. I hope you all enjoyed seeing what children are learning every day at Monmia. A big

thank you to all the guest speakers who presented to our students about their careers! Students

have been left INSPIRED! Exceptional singing from all students of the school song and the national anthem at Monday

morning assembly where there was an outstanding turn out of our families.

Teachers building their professional knowledge in mathematics during Curriculum Day with

consultant Marissa Cashmore.

Enthusiastic competitors at the District Cross Country competition. I know they gave their best

performances and did our school very proud. Thank you to Mr Belovitch for preparing and

organizing these students for this event.

Thank you to our neighbouring schools for providing us with experienced teachers so our staff could

attend the funeral of Mr Vorpasso.

Thank you to all of our school community for your overwhelming support during this very emotional

time, sharing your deepest condolences for Mrs Bell and Miss Vorpasso.

Excited year 1.2 students looking forward to attending the MCG excursion tomorrow.

Motivated year 5.6 students training for their interschool sport finals tomorrow.

BIGGEST MORNING TEA There has been a change in date to the biggest morning tea. Please note that it is now scheduled for FRIDAY 31st May. We hope you can still make it so that you can be present to see our partners, Ray White Taylors Lakes and the draw of the raffle at 10.55am. Remember all funds raised are to support the Cancer Council Foundation.

We ask students to come dressed in a touch of yellow and donate a gold coin.

LIBRARY REFURBISHMENT We are all very excited and curious about the grand opening of the new library. Thank you to the Family and Friends who have fundraised for the library over the past year. Much of the funds raised have gone towards purchasing the library furniture and it looks absolutely fabulous. I know everyone will love the new library, a place to read, discover, research, learn, the list goes on! The library windows remain covered as we prepare for the gala launch. Next week we will start the process of processing new and exciting texts that have been purchased especially for the new library and donated by the generous community. Jayne Sutcliffe, our former library technician has been keeping up with the progress of the library and has agreed to help us with the processing of these books. We will also begin moving back all the books back into the library and preparing the shelves with surprises. Stay tuned for the grand launch date!

DATE: Thursday May 23rd 2019 ISSUE 15

ENROLMENTS Over the past few weeks, we have been conducting successful school tours for prospective parents with primary aged children. We love taking families on tours as we get the opportunity to showcase our effective school. We are now taking enrolments for Year Prep 2020 and in other year levels. If you have any relatives or friends who have young children starting school next year, please ask them to make an appointment at the office for a school tour. We are very proud of all our achievements and look forward to extending our Monmia PS family.

Kind Regards,

Vineta Mitrevski

Assistant Principal

IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE DIARY TERM 2, 2019 TERM 3, 2019

MONDAY, MAY 20 - FRIDAY MAY 24

EDUCATION WEEK

FRIDAY, May 31

Biggest Morning Tea 10.55am

MONDAY, JUNE 10

Queen’s Birthday Holiday – No School

TUESDAY, JUNE 18

School Council Meeting 6pm

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19

ANNUAL ART SHOW

FRIDAY, JUNE 28

Last day of term 2. Dismissal at 2.30pm

MONDAY, JULY 15TH

Term 3 Commences

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20

School Council Meeting 6pm

MONDAY, AUGUST 19

Curriculum Day – No School for Students

MONDAY, AUGUST 26

Monmia Concert

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

School Council Meeting 6pm

FRIDAY, SEPTMEBER 20

Last day of term 3. Dismissal at 2.30pm

TERM 4, 2019 TERM 1, 2020

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7

Term 4 commences

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22

School Council Meeting 6pm

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31

Prep Information Evening 6.30pm-7.30pm

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Curriculum Day – No School for Students

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Melbourne Cup Holiday – No School

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8

Prep Orientation session 1 9.30am-11.00am

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Prep Orientation session 1 9.30am-11.00am

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19

School Council Meeting 6pm

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22

Prep Orientation session 1 9.30am-11.00am

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 - Last day of term 4

and school year. Dismissal at 1.30pm

TUESDAY, JANUARY 28

Term 1 commences – Curriculum Day

No school for Students

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29

Term 1 Commences for students

Year 1 – 6 8.45 start

Prep 10am start in the gym

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18

School Council Meeting 6pm

TUESDAY, MARCH 17

School Council Elections & Meeting 6pm

FRIDAY, MARCH 27

Last day of term 1. Dismissal at 2.30pm

PRA- Sarah N For an awesome dress up as nurse and doing some fantastic writing.

PRB- Aurora P For looking after your things and helping others to pack up.

1/2A- Levi L For working co-operatively during maths and great addition skills.

1/2B- Saad R For choosing just-right books and reading with confidence during

independent reading time!

1/2C- Aarna S For sharing her strategies for addition. You are a great mathematician

Aarna!!

3/4A- FJ A For separating your reasons/evidence into paragraphs when writing

your persuasive text.

3/4B- Lana S For writing a detailed reflective student comment. A super effort!

3/4C- Freya K For completing over 100 nights of reading. Congratulations and keep

up the fantastic effort.

5/6A- Mohamed A For his wonderful narrative – it was so well written. I’m impressed!

5/6B- James M For contributing during maths discussion on division strategies.

5/6C- Madeline C For her wonderful home reading achievement. Congratulations on

“100 nights of reading”.

PE- Jayden K 5/6A For trying your best during the volleyball match.

Performing Arts-

Katahlaya C

For her confident singing voice when learning new songs. Well done!

Student Engagement and Wellbeing

Introducing…

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Monmia is a Bucket Filling School! We fill buckets and we don’t dip!

We use our lid to keep our bucket full and keep the drops in! I love how the Bucket Fillers Philosophy has been embraced by our school community this year. I know that we can keep filling other people’s buckets and make Monmia Primary School a warm, positive and caring place to be. When we all fill other people’s buckets then all community members benefit from these acts of kindness. There is so much to acknowledge at Monmia Primary School! Here are some ‘drops’ for you to read.

Remember that when you fill someone else’s bucket, you fill yours as well so keep filling buckets Monmia! Happy Bucket Filling!

Kind Regards,

Lucia Vorpasso

Assistant Principal - Student Engagement and Wellbeing

EVERY DAY COUNTS:

Routines are essential!

Are you having problems getting your child to school?

Perhaps he/she:

• will not get out of bed in the morning and will not go to bed at night

• cannot find their uniform, books or school bag.

• eats their breakfast too slowly

• has not completed their homework

• spends too much time watching TV in the morning.

If so, speak about school positively and set home and school routines

to help

• have a set time to go to bed and to get out of bed

• have the uniform and school bag ready the night before

• have a set time for starting and finishing breakfast

• set a time for daily homework tasks

• be firm and send your child to school every school day.

Lucy Vorpasso

Assistant Principal: Student Engagement and Wellbeing

ATTENDANCE & PUNCTUALITY

SPOTLIGHT ON BOUNCE BACK A WELLBEING AND RESILIENCE PROGRAM

THE FOCUS FOR THIS WEEK IS: WHAT IS BULLYING? Dear Parents and Guardians,

It is important to know what bullying is and what it is not. Monmia has NO TOLERANCE on Bullying. We often hear the term “bullying” being used, but most of the time it is not used correctly. It is very important to understand what bullying is and what it is not. The Department of Education and Training’s definition is:

‘Bullying is when someone, or a group of people, deliberately upset or hurt another person or damage their property, reputation or social acceptance on more than one occasion. There is an imbalance of power in incidents of bullying with the bully or bullies having more power at the time due to age, size, status or other reasons’.

It’s NOT bullying if students just have an argument or if someone says or does just one nasty thing to someone else. Bullying can take many forms:

1. Direct physical bullying

hitting, tripping, pushing or damaging property 2. Direct verbal bullying

name calling, insults, ‘put down’ comments and racist remarks 3. Indirect emotional bullying - This form of bullying is harder to recognise and often carried out behind

the person’s back. It is designed to harm someone’s social reputation and cause humiliation. Indirect bullying includes:

lying and spreading rumours

playing nasty jokes or mimicking to embarrass and humiliate

encouraging others to socially exclude someone

damaging someone’s social reputation and social acceptance 4. Cyber-bullying, which involves the use of technologies such as the use of email, text messages, chat

rooms, Facebook or Twitter to humiliate and distress a person. Family Activity Look up the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) website. Discuss the connection between the RSPCA and bullying of a person.

How would it feel to see animals being mistreated?

How would it feel to see students being bullied?

What would you do if you saw animals being mistreated?

What would you do if you saw another student being bullied?

I hope you find the articles interesting and useful.

Warm Regards,

Lucy Vorpasso Assistant Principal - Student Engagement and Wellbeing

SCHOOL VALUES

Acceptance

Caring

Friendliness

Honesty

Respect

CHANGE OF DATE:

The Biggest Morning Tea will occur on

Friday May 31st

INTERSCHOOL SPORT SEASON 1 2019

All Year 5/6 students will participate in an interschool sport competition on Friday mornings against schools in our local district. The four sports that we compete in during season one are soccer, netball, teeball and Hot Shots tennis. Interschool sport will be conducted differently to the way it has been in previous years. There are two pools of six teams. The two pools were decided by location. Games against teams in pool A will count towards final ladder positions. Games against teams from pool B will be friendly matches and those scores will not count towards the final ladder positions.

POOL A POOL B

Monmia Sydenham

Taylors Lakes Hillside

Keilor Views Overnewton Taylors Lakes

Keilor Mackellar

Mary Mackillop Cana

Overnewton Keilor Emmaus

Please note that this fixture has been updated Friday March 29 – AWAY vs Mary Mackillop Hot Shots, teeball and netball at Mary Mackillop Soccer at Green Gully Friday April 5 – Training round Friday April 26 – HOME vs Emmaus (friendly match) Friday May 3 – HOME vs Keilor Views Friday May 10 – AWAY vs Mackellar (friendly match) All sports at Mackellar Primary School Friday May 17 – Washout/training round Friday May 24 – Final

**CANTEEN NEWS** Available now at the canteen are yummy homemade variety of Muffins for $1.50 each &

Fairy Cookies for $1.00 each. Hurry while stock lasts!!

Education Week 2019 20th-24th May

Thank you for participating in this years’ Education Week Careers’ Dress Up. The winners of the dress up competition are: Navleen – Prep Levi & Saad – Year 1/2’ Brandon & Eve – Year 3/4’ Damien & Elita – Year 5/6’

Congratulations to everyone!

THANK YOU! Thank you to Brenda Charles, Aurora and Lucas P’s Grandmother, who

donated many items to the Prep students to take home for Education Week.

THANK YOU!

Woolworths earn & learn Monmia Primary School is participating in this fantastic promotion to “earn & learn”. The more stickers we collect the more we earn! Students have been given a sticker sheet to make collecting easier. More sticker sheets can be collected from your local Woolworths. Thank you for your support!