Principal: Mrs Kaelene Neville Senior Administration Manager: Mrs Gina Galvin

Address: 91 Murringo Gap Rd Murringo School’s email: murringo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Principal’s email: kaelene.neville@det.nsw.edu.au Telephone: (02) 6384 6351 Fax: (02) 6384 6322 Web: murringo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Friday 14th October 2016

Welcome Back

How glorious has it been to see the sun shining this week as we

returned to school. Whilst it has been a little cool, the rays of golden

sunshine have been glorious! A reminder that students are now to be

wearing summer uniform (although we understand that this week’s

temperatures brought out the long pants). They also need to wear a hat

each day throughout Term 4. Ice blocks are now available on

Wednesday’s for fifty cents. Students are also asked to wear sunscreen

to school and reapply throughout the day with the school supply.

Once in Upper Division, students are asked to provide their own supplies. This helps

them to learn about looking after their own equipment. Many of the students are

running very low on supplies. Students have been asked to take their pencil cases home

today to see what needs to be replenished. Many are missing glue sticks, rulers and

scissors, rubbers and sharpeners. Students should have some coloured pencils in their

cases as well as lead pencils and blue/black and red pens. The Upper Division students

have also been asked to provide their own headphones for computer work, in keeping with the Lower

Division class.

Please note some changes in dates on the term calendar at the end of the newsletter. School Photo Day

has been moved back a week to ensure that everybody will be here. The Young Cherry Chase has been

postponed until next year. There wasn’t enough interest this year in the School Sleepover, so it has been

postponed as well. Our Presentation Night will also need to be moved to another date, which is yet to be

determined. The TAFE Catering event, which our P&C does every year, is to be held on our old

Presentation Night date. This is a big money spinner for our P&C and we couldn’t knock it back.

Please find attached to this newsletter, a brochure about Learn to Swim. Term

4 is typically when students are busy with the very important swimming lessons.

We will have one week of Swimming Lessons as well, hopefully on the dates

that we have listed. We are still negotiating for a spot in the pool though, so

those dates may change. We will let you know as soon as possible.

There are a few big fundraising events happening this term, which are detailed

on the following page. We would love to see as many people as possible helping out with these events,

as the money raised goes towards assisting all of the students at our school. A big thanks to those who

baked, donated or helped out with the SAMI concert fundraiser during the holidays.

Milo T20 Cricket Day

Some of our students headed into Young on

Wednesday to take part in this annual cricket education

program. The program is run for students in Year 3-6,

however we had a couple of juniors join us as well. The

students were mixed with students from Young North,

Murrumburrah and Monteagle, to play modified games

of soccer. Students from Young High School umpired

the games and fun was had by all. The emphasis is on

participation, so everybody bats for 2 innings and

everybody bowls.

Adding to the festival atmosphere, there was music

playing throughout the day and fielders shaking their tail to the grooves was not uncommon. There was

even a dance competition at the end of the day. There was a high catch competition and free give-aways.

Green Eggs and Ham

The Lower Division class today were reading the classic Dr Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham. They had a

great time reading it together and completing activities relating to the book. They gathered some data

about how many students would eat ‘green eggs and ham’ and then tested that out with an experiment.

Mrs Mitchell produced some ‘green eggs’ and the kids got to peel them and eat them. The data results

were very different after conducting the experiment!

Masters Footy

We would like to wish our Dad’s and neighbours the

best of luck for their big footy weekend coming up

over the next two days. They will be putting their

bodies on the line for Murringo as they take to the

field with all of the other ‘oldies’. Best of luck

Murringo Mongrels and Murringo Dingoes!

Nice Poem Jack!

Earlier in the week, the Lower Division students learnt

about poetry. They wrote some acrostic poems and

we have included one from Jack Dowling here.

Our Place In The World

This term in Upper Division, the students are learning

about Australia’s place and role in the wider world. There

are three main parts to this unit—The United Nations, Our

Asian Neighbourhood, The Refugee Crisis.

To begin the unit, we asked the students to list the biggest

problems that they think are facing our world today.

Their thoughtful contributions and discussion showed that

they have already thought a lot about this topic. Check

out what they thought of below.

We then started looking at the United Nations

and focusing on the 17 Global Goals that have

been set as a ‘to do list’ for the world. Every

member nation is supposed to be taking action

to help achieve these goals.

These goals are supposed to be achieved by

2030. That is only 14 years away and actions

are already being taken.

We are spending time looking at each goal

individually. This week we have looked at Goals

1 through to 5.

We worked out how old we would all be in 2030 and the students were

shocked to realise that they would be in their 20’s. Solving these sorts

of problems is going to be the job of their generation, as well as ours,

and there is so much that they can do, even at their age. Knowing about

the goals and talking about the issues is just one of those things.

The students shared their hopes for the future of our world on our Twitter account. Here are some of

them.

Goal 1—No Poverty

On Monday we learnt about the problem of poverty around the world.

The kids were very shocked to hear that the worlds richest 80 people have

the same amount of wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people! We

discussed the problems that poverty brings and why it happens. There are

enough resources on Earth for everybody, they just aren’t evenly shared.

Goal 5—Gender Equality

Tuesday was the International Day of the Girl, so we focused on Goal 5.

The students learnt about some of the issues facing women and girls around the world, as well as

fabulous things that are currently being done to improve the situation. They shared their thoughts and

hopes for the future on our Instagram account.

Each of the students has been

asked to choose one of the

Global Goals to research more,

as part of their homework. We

look forward to seeing what ideas they come up with for activism.

P&C News

There are a lot of events coming up which involve our P&C. We are often few in numbers, so we urge as

many families as possible to get involved with some or all of these events, as there is a wide variety.

Murringo Village Fair

This is going to be a big fundraiser. Our school is hosting a lot of stalls, and many families have already

replied with which stalls they would like to run. If you haven’t already returned that note (or need a new

one), please let us know.

We are looking for donations for our 2nd hand book, toy and clothes stall,

as well as our ‘bric-a-brac’ stall. There are boxes down in the big kitchen,

where you can place your donations throughout the term. Please consider

sending items in for any of these stalls over the coming weeks.

TAFE Breakfast Catering

We have been asked to cater a breakfast at TAFE on Friday 4th November.

We will need to be there by approximately 6.30am and the guests will arrive

at 7.30am and stay for an hour. There will probably be an hour of clean up

afterwards. If you are available to help on that morning, please let Gina in

the office know. There will be a note coming home soon about the event.

TAFE Presentation Night Catering

We cater this event every year, and it makes us a LOT of money. This year it will be held on Wednesday

the 7th of December at the TAFE campus. Please consider keeping this night aside so that we can have

lots of helpers.

New Sports Equipment

Check out this awesome new football goal that

arrived today! It was purchased with the funds

that were raised at previous Year 6 Fun Day fund-

raisers, organised by Jack Grant, Anna Dowling

and Michael Downer. It is already getting a

workout!

We will have a Yr 6 Fun Day again this year, so

look out for an exciting day to come.

Cooking Chaos!

A big thanks to our

wonderful helpers

who came in again

to help with the

cooking program.

Today we made

fresh pasta, a

vegetable pasta

sauce, breadsticks

and mandarade (a lemonade

with mandarins in it)

It was SOOOO delicious!

Please check out the cooking

dates on the calendar and

consider coming along if you

are available to help.

Primary Camp

Not long now until Primary Camp to Canberra. It is going to be a week full of educational tours and fun

with friends.

If you haven’t already paid for camp, please be sure to remember that you can pay it off in instalments or

in one lump sum.

The camp will cost

$300 per student,

after a generous do-

nation of $200 per

student from our

P&C.

We will include the

itinerary and the

packing list in next

week’s newsletter.

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

2 17th Oct 18th Oct 19th Oct 20th Oct 21st Oct

Gardening

22nd Oct 23rd Oct

3 24th Oct

Visit from the

United

Nations

P&C Meeting

25th Oct

26th Oct

27th Oct

Phillip Shield

28th Oct

Gardening

29th Oct

Brown

Thackeray

30th Oct

4 31st Oct

1st Nov

Phillip Shield

Back Up

2nd Nov

3rd Nov

Phillip Shield

Back Up

4th Nov

P&C

Breakfast

Catering Job

Cooking

5th Nov

Bushfire

Brigade

Christmas

Party

6th Nov

Murringo

Markets/

Village Fair

5 7th Nov

8th Nov

School Photos

9th Nov

10th Nov

11th Nov

Cooking

12th Nov 13th Nov

6 14th Nov

Primary

Camp

15th Nov

Primary

Camp

16th Nov

Primary

Camp

17th Nov

Primary

Camp

18th Nov

Primary

Camp

19th Nov

20th Nov

7 21st Nov

Assessment

Week

P&C Meeting

22nd Nov

Assessment

Week

23rd Nov

Assessment

Week

24th Nov

Assessment

Week

25th Nov

Assessment

Week

Gardening

26th Nov

Young Colour

Run

27th Nov

8 28th Nov

Swimming

Lessons

29th Nov

Swimming

Lessons

30th Nov

Swimming

Lessons

1st Dec

Swimming

Lessons

2nd Dec

Swimming

Lessons

3rd Dec

Cherry

Festival

4th Dec

9 5th Dec

6th Dec

Yr 5/6 Dinner

7th Dec

TAFE

Catering Job

8th Dec

9th Dec

Year 6 Fun

Day

10th Dec 11th Dec

10 12th Dec

Orientation

Week

13th Dec

Orientation

Week

14th Dec

Orientation

Week

15th Dec

Orientation

Week

16th Dec

Last day of

term

Santa

Assembly

17th Dec 18th Dec

As always, we will let you know of dates as soon as we are aware of them. Any new events since the

previous week’s newsletter, will be highlighted in red. If you are not sure if your child is involved in an

event, please give us a call and we will let you know.