Muswellbrook Public School What’s On – Term 2 – Week 5

Humanity and Excellence

Roger Street, Muswellbrook NSW 2333 Telephone: (02)6543 2500 Fax: (02) 6543 3378

Email: muswellbro-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Stay up to date with the Skool Bag App – Muswellbrook Public Skoolbag”

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Dear Parents and Carers, How wonderful it has been to have some return to normality this week. Staff and students were so excited and happy to be back reconnecting with each other and sharing stories of their isolation experiences. While this has been a big step forward, please remember that measures are still in place to support the safety and wellbeing of all students and staff. These include increased cleaning and hygiene measures and a restriction on parents, carers and volunteers on school grounds. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank and applaud all of you for the wonderful resilience and engagement you have shown throughout this flexible Learning from Home period. I’m sure balancing parenting, teaching, work and family responsibilities has been challenging at times.

All of us here at MPS look forward to continuing working together with you for the benefit of all students. I encourage you to stay in touch with your child’s teacher and discuss any issues that may arise. Have a great week. Kind regards, Fiona Lewis Relieving Principal

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We kindly ask that all devices borrowed from School are returned as soon as possible. Our Students require the devices to actively participate in computer based activities in the classroom. Your co-operation is greatly appreciated.

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Exciting back to school news for the Canteen and Uniform Shop.

There is a new online ordering system on its way. Stay tuned for more

information as we settle back in.

The Canteen and Uniform Shop will re-open this week. As a School we are very excited to see the return of Meghan, Tarn and Les.

From Wednesday, Students will be able to pre-order both lunch and recess from a specific menu, please see the new menu included in the Newsletter.

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POLICE PATROLS

We have been advised that the Police will be patrolling the School Grounds to ensure all parents are adhering to Social Distancing Guidelines.

We ask that all parents adhere to the Protocols we have put in place. Parents

are permitted to enter the School Grounds through the back oval gate, however you must remain inside the cones.

We thank you for your co-operation.

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Dear Parents and Carers, Can you please ensure students return any overdue library books at your earliest convenience? We thank you for your co-operation. Kind regards, Rose Neal

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Assembly Awards Term 1 2 3 4

Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Class Name Activity

KL Sharni C For her neat and well written recount about the demountable classroom being lifted by a crane and leaving the school.

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KS Jackson L For his brilliant independent writing about the crane.

1/2W Olivia W For her consistently working hard in all activities.

1F Stephanie M For her outstanding effort and attitude towards learning.

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1WT Leeland W For always having a smile and positive attitude to learning.

2H Ivy W For bringing a creative and positive approach into all learning tasks. Miss Hayter has been blown away by her Seesaw posts.

2J Ada W For her enthusiastic commitment to learning at MPS. We will miss you!

3M Matilda M For being super organised and on task completing her work efficiently.

3S Ruby M For working hard to complete all her online learning tasks.

3/4P Levi R For his awesome Harold hand art.

Georgia B For her excellent work in writing groups this week.

Carter W For his enthusiastic singing and dancing each day to ourfavourite Jack Hartmann math songs

Xavier S For his positive attitude towards all areas of his learning

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4C Lachlan J For his incredible macrame egg carrier.

4D Dominic C For his impressive cursive handwriting.

5/6A Lexie M For her persistence and hard work.

5/6B Zali H For her consistent application to her online learning.

5/6H Savannah A For her excellent attitude and high work standard particularly in literacy.

5/6K Saige P For her creativity with vocab choice during her Big Write.

5/6S Ruby H For her fantastic attitude to learning and careful completion of her online work.

5/6W Savannah M For her consistent and amazing effort in google classroom for the home schooling period.

Important Dates in our Aboriginal History

26th May – National Sorry Day

National Sorry Day is held on May 26 acknowledges and recognises people of the Stolen Generations. Today gives an opportunity to come together and take steps towards healing for the Stolen Generations,

their families and communities. (Stolen generations refer to Indigenous Australians, who were forcibly removed from their families and communities.)

Website link https://www.reconciliation.org.au/national-sorry-day-an-important-part-of-healing/

27th May – Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum (Finally Australian citizens!) The main achievement of the 1967 Referendum was to raise the expectations of Aboriginal and non-

Aboriginal people regarding Aboriginal rights and welfare. This referendum saw majority of Australian’s vote to have Aboriginal people counted as Australian citizens.

Website link: https://australianstogether.org.au/discover/australian-history/1967-referendum/

27th May – 3rd June – Reconciliation Week. This years theme “In this Together” (link to website)

Reconciliation is a journey for Australian as a nation – We are all ‘In This Together’ to build positive relationships that value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples culture, beliefs and history.

Website link: https://www.reconciliation.org.au/national-reconciliation-week/