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Tiffany Sinton Relieving Principal

twitter: MOPS @MountOusley

NEWSLETTER Term 3 | Week 4 | 2019

AUGUST

Tues 13 Southern Stars rehearsal

Wed 14 Brokers Athletics

Thurs 15 ASPECT visit

Thurs 15 Toy Swap

Mon 19 Book Week Activity Day

Tues 20 Botanic Gardens excursion stage 2

Wed 21 - Thurs 22

Southern Stars rehearsals

Fri 23 - Sat 24

Southern Stars performances

Mon 26 Tech Workshop

Wed 28 Surf Sense

How wonderful it was to see so many families helping us celebrate Education/NAIDOC Week last

Thursday. The students participated in lots of different activities, such as reading books and drinking

lemon myrtle tea in our book cafe, painting portraits and having a yarn, creating some weaving art,

making beautiful musical sounds and playing Indigenous games, just to give a few examples. It was a

lovely morning, highlighting the collaborative, family-orientated school that we are! Thanks to

Miss Fitzpatrick, Mrs Anderson and Mrs Duncan for organising everything.

BOOK WEEK Our Book Week activity day will be held next Monday 19th August. Beginning with a book character parade at 9:15 am, the students will then work in small groups to complete a number of activities based around the shortlisted books for this year. Parents are most welcome to attend the parade. We can’t wait to see what costumes everyone comes up with!

SOUTHERN STARS Students are completing final rehearsals, with the performance now only days away. Students will

rehearse next Wednesday and Thursday, before the performances begin on Friday 23rd and Saturday

24th. Good luck to all our dancers - and to Ms Van Dragt and Mr Dixon too!

TOY SWAP

Thanks to everyone who donated a pre-loved toy and brought along a gold coin donation for our toy

swap. We hope that you all love the new toy you selected. All money that we raised will go towards

purchasing bins for our new recycling system. Thanks to Mrs Anderson for organising!

KINDERGARTEN 2020 We are now taking enrolments for next year’s Kindergarten classes. If you have a child starting school in

2020, now is the time to visit the office to fill in all the details! If you know of families who are

considering joining us at MOPS next year, we’d appreciate you letting them know that a walk through of

the school can be arranged with Miss Sinton. Official orientation sessions will occur in term 4. We will

also be doing a letterbox drop of the local area and would love some parent volunteers to help us

distribute our pamphlets. Please let your child’s teacher know if you can help out.

TECH WORKSHOP Our term 3 tech workshop will be held Monday 26th August at 4pm in the library. We will begin with a

Q&A session focusing on iPad settings, including parental controls. Then, we’ll get creative,

experimenting with some Augmented Reality. Feel free to bring your own Apple device, but we will also

have a bank of iPads available for use. Please come along and join the fun!

PJ DAY!

Thanks to everyone who wore their PJs last Friday and brought in their donation for Mopsy, our bunny.

All money raised is going towards some food and treats to keep Mopsy happy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MOPS! Just a reminder that we will be holding our special “Back to MOPS” day on Thursday 26th September,

where our current students will be involved in activities that showcase our school’s history. The

celebrations will continue later that afternoon and evening, with a social get together between 5 and

8pm in our outdoor learning area. Food and drink will be available and our special “Mops Museum” of

school memorabilia will be open. All families past and present are welcome - so feel free to pass these

details on to anyone who may be interested. We will also be officially launching our downloadable book.

If you still wanted to contribute a memory to this, there is still time! The survey can be found at: https://forms.gle/SkXPzxEtYQ3VHVU38. Alternatively, see Mrs Hamers in the library for a paper copy of the

questions. Thank you to those people who have already responded.

P&C MEETING Thanks to the parents who came along to our meeting at the new time of 4pm. It was great to see some

new faces as we discussed various topics of school interest. There’s still room for many more ideas and

opinions though! Our next meeting has been planned for 3:15pm in the library on Tuesday 3rd

September.

LOST PROPERTY Don’t forget that from now on, any lost property will be checked each Friday. Labelled items will be

returned to students. Unlabelled clothing will be washed and given to the clothing pool, while

unlabelled lunch boxes and drink bottles will be disposed of. Please make sure that your child’s

belongings are clearly labelled, so that they can be returned quickly when they are forgotten! Thanks so

much for your support!

STAGE 2 EXCURSION The rescheduled date for the stage 2 excursion is next Tuesday 20th August. Let’s hope for fine weather this time!

As always, I look forward to building on our relationships, and continuing to grow our amazing school. Tiffany Sinton

Relieving Principal

CANTEEN ROSTER

AUGUST

Important: Please do not allow students to enter the canteen while parents / volunteers are working.

CANTEEN CAMEOS

Extra helpers required on the following dates:-

21st, 22nd, 28th, 29th and 30th August.

4th, 6th and 13th September.If you are able to help on one of these days please email Amanda at amandalawler77@gmail.com

No experience, no worries!

All you need to do is shadow our regular and help out serving.

#mopssquad

Tue 3 Simon G, Kath G

Wed 4 Amanda L

Thurs 5 Amanda P, Jenny V

Fri 6 Danielle M

Tue 20 Simon G, Kath G

Wed 21 Kate H

Thurs 22 Jenny L

Fri 23 Andy L, Greg F

Tue 27 Simon G, Kath G

Wed 28 Amy W

Thurs 29 Anthea G

Fri 30 Anthea G

Tue 10 Simon G, Kath G

Wed 11 Stu M, Sula M

Thurs 12 Tareyn V, Katrina O

Fri 13 Ally H

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AWARDS

K Belong: Isaac W, Serrah G, Isabella C, Pedro S

K Discover: Steo L, Adam A, Ivy S, Imogen E

1/2 Believe: Elias A, Ruairidh M, Joel H, Phoenix B

1/2 Imagine: Isla S, Alizei T, Christian S, Amara S

2/3 Smile: Oliver G, Aliesha F, Marcus R, Sam W

3/4 Create: Leo C, Kate C, Desmond F, Jayke G

3/4 Unite: Liam H, Alana B, Tzeh L, Ethan C

4/5 Dream: Elliott P-K, Shelby B, Hajar H, Ella M

5/6 Marvel: Lavanya C, Tejasvi R, Eli C-R, Christina T

5/6 Together: Zali W, Fatima A, Ari P, Emma F

LIBRARY AWARDS

Johnny B and Ryan M. Congratulations!

GOLD AWARDS Gold awards were awarded to Will T, Soolaf A. Congratulations!

ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS’ AWARDS Congratulations to Jeorgia-Dawn M - caring for our school environment and Tamikah - caring for our

school environment.

This Spring we are proud to present to you, a program designed for the inner superhero in all kids. Built upon the foundations of child and family feedback, our program explores the true purpose of a superhero. We’ve created activities to help kids build their ideal superhero character in Masks & Magic, experience their first mission in Operation: Rescue, bowl away the baddies in Strike Force! and a lot more. Our mission is to give children an experience these holidays that will leave them feeling stronger, more confident and creatively inspired. 

As we approach the Holiday Club season, We'd like to take this opportunity to encourage you to visit our website and find your school’s Holiday Club service. Here you’ll be able to see the updated program and pricing of each of your sessions. We will keep you updated as we build up to the first day and would appreciate knowing if there have been any changes to end of term dates and start dates for TERM 4. 

We look forward to an exciting adventure this season.

Super Regards,The Holiday Club team at Camp Australiawww.campaustralia.com.au/holidayclubs