MANLY WEST MINI MATTERS WEEK 6 TERM 2 Wednesday 1st …

MANLY WEST MINI MATTERS WEEK 6 TERM 2 Wednesday 1st June 2016

Principal’s Message:

MW Musical Production -Term 3 We will be holding a K-6 school musical this year in Week 9 of Term 3. This has become a wonderful tradition at Manly West PS, held every second year and gives all our students an opportunity to perform in front of a large audience. One of our teachers, Mrs Christy McMaster, has already written the script. Mrs McMaster and Mrs Tinsley have started drama workshops with Years 5 and 6 students for the lead drama roles. The other classes will be involved with dance items that support the narrative. Lots more information will follow in the coming term.

Musica Viva Thank you to Mrs Heather Menzies for organising Musica Viva at Manly West PS. The K-2 and Years 5 and 6

students all participated in the Chambermaids concert on Tuesday. Sydney North Cross Country Well done to all the students who participated in the Sydney North Cross Country today, representing Manly

West PS.

Reminder: Band Camp Band Camp will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday 7th and 8th June. Please make sure all payments including Semester One fees are finalized before the camp.

Thank you to the P&C Thank you to our P&C school community for helping our school in so many ways. We have an army of parents who help with Reading and Maths groups, excursions, library, sport, BASC, uniform, canteen and garden to name just a few support groups. Thank you to the Enrichment Committee led by Anita Timkiw for the organization of the Creative Writing competition and the outstanding enrichment workshops held over the last two weekends.

Thank you to Mrs Kate Grant for organizing the Interrelate parent workshops which will be held on 14th June.

Thank you to the Band Committee for their organization of the Band camp coming up next week.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden (SAKG) Year 3 and some Year 4 students were involved in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen

garden program by preparing food from the garden. The four principles of SAKG are growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing. Mrs Dowdle and Mrs Docker are linking the work that the students do in the garden with the Science syllabus. The students made Turkish Gozleme and packaging for their food products. Please check all the photographs in next week’s newsletter.

Annual Commemorative Service The School Prefects were invited to the Annual Commemoration Service at the Defence of

Sydney Monument at North Head last Friday with Mrs McMaster. 6C have since completed some History research of this era and produced the first Manly West Daily News edition.

See later in the newsletter.

Student News Congratulations to Connor Phillips Year 5, who has just returned from representing Australia in the ‘Aussie Juniors’ debut into European Football Tournament’ in Germany. Well done Connor on a wonderful international experience, playing in the

Under 11 event against other teams from the UK and across Europe.

Congratulations to Sebastian Bush, Year 6, who has now been selected officially into the NSWPSSA Rugby Union State Carnival in August at Mudgee. Good luck!

Mrs Julie Organ

Principal

Deputy Principals Report

Expectation Certificates: Congratulations to the following students - Alyssa Aulburn,

Aria Eyles, Rachel Fletcher, Jordie Lovegrove, Sam Emmerson, Alex Gee, April Olive, Alicia

King, Ethan Enriquez, Emmanuel Enriquez, Rachel George, Hannah Grant and Rosie Quinn.

Diary Date Reminder – Thursday 9 June, 2016 Parent Reading Eggs Workshop - What parents can do at home to help their child with reading. Reading in our modern world is more important than ever as good reading skills

provide a solid foundation for learning.

Mrs Horne our Learning Support Teacher and Susan Anderson from ABC Reading

Eggs will be conducting a parent workshop on Thursday 9 June at 9.30- 10.30am in the Toone Room focusing on:

using three little words (Pause, Prompt and Praise) to help your child to read

developing practical tips to help children enjoy learning to read.

Please email Mrs Horne by Tuesday 7 June if attending – [email protected]

In the subject line please write Parent Reading Eggs Workshop, and in the body of the email please write your name, child’s name and grade (e.g. Year 1 2016).

Mathematics Olympiad The Maths Olympiad has been operating since 1987 and every year, students from all over Australia and neighbouring countries take part in five contests. The aim of the program is to encourage students to develop important mathematical problem solving skills in an enjoyable environment. This year, identified students in Years 4, 5 & 6 are participating in the Mathematics Olympiad. The students have been working

collaboratively in groups to further develop and expand their multi step problem solving strategies. The students completed the first of five Maths Olympiads last week with the following results:

12 Year 6 students answered all 5 questions correctly and 6 Year 6 students answered 4 out of 5

questions correctly;

7 Year 5 students answered all 5 questions correctly and 14 Year 5 students answered 4 out of 5

questions correctly and

Year 4 students Jack Searle & Austin Holley in their first Mathematics Olympiad answered all 5 questions

correctly and 3 Year 4 students answered 4 out of 5 questions correctly. Year 4 Team: Adam Nadler, Casaya Dayeian, Harrison Newton, Will Matheson, Alyssa Aulburn, Gariel Clemmett, Samuel Ford, Jack Searle, Austin Holley, Elle Warn, Millie Rundle, Eve Dowse, Charlie Highnam, Jocelyn Prevett, Joel Murray, Truth Nathanael, Arran Darling, Zebadiah Norris, Jack Beverley,

Oliver Ferguson, Ivy Polkinghorn and Tigri Olofsson.

Year 5 Team: Connor Phillips, Ciara Burgess, Jack Greville, Sam Litchfield, Joshua Wilkinson, Zev Shy-Tielen, Harry Wood, Harry Beverley, Ben Southerden, Oliver Todd, Louis Rounsley, Emily Braines, Zoe Ball, Mikey Munro, Lilla Elwin, Hayden McFarlane, Daisy Smailes, Lexie Landrak, William Faulder, Jack Havranek, Saxon Macnicol, Jenna O’Reilly, Lachlan Corney, Sebastian Nop and Hannah McIlwaine. Year 6 Team: Rose Dowdle, Emma Kha, Ryan Iggo, Sienna Hayles, Flynn Sherry, Elinor Williams, Erik Gerring,

Ruby Michniewicz, Finn Beachley, Jono Ryan, Grace Pearson, Alexey Beale, Jordan Figuiere, Charlotte Yan, Soraya Gerritsen, Ami Barnes, Lucy Matthews, Grace Hyland, Winona Wrigley, Sebastian Bush, Jadrien Guilas, Lucas Cadman, Kiera Burke, Rachel Ainsworth, Poppy Troy, Jack McKittrick, Zalia Dayeian and Scarlett Beaumont. Student Opal Card Reminder

All students are reminded to tap on and tap off at the start and at the end of each trip with their Student Opal Card. This is important to ensure correct patronage data is recorded, which is used to plan school special and regular route bus services. This data helps State Transit ensure adequate capacity is provided, so students can travel to and from school safely.

Mrs Adrienne Bruce

Diary Dates

Thursday 2nd June Year 5 Project Penguin Year 6 Robotics

Friday 3rd June Winter PSSA Round 5 Boys Soccer at Dee Why Girls Soccer John Fisher Park Netball John Fisher Park Curl Curl Boys Rugby Nolan’s Reserve

Monday 6th June 8:45am Year 2L & 2N Field of Mars Excursion

Tuesday 7th June Band Camp No Year 4 coding

Wednesday 8th June Band Camp Project Penguin 9-12pm with mentors Thursday 9th June 9:30am Parent Reading Eggs Workshop

Uniform Shop

Thursday 2nd June 8:45-9:45am Monday 6th June 2:45-3:45pm

Chook Roster

Saturday 4th June

Shapter Family Sunday 5th June McGarva Family

Helping Children Bounce Back Many thanks to the parents who came along to the two recent information sessions called Helping Children Bounce Back. It is wonderful that these sessions have

generated so much interest from our parent community. In the future, we intend to continue with smaller scale parent workshops in this area as we continue to roll out the nine Bounce Back! units in all stages.

In the presentation we discussed what resilience is and watched a video from Mindmatters called ‘What is

Mental Health?’ We also discussed the work of psychologist Carol Dweck on the Growth Mindset and looked at the evidence on which the Bounce Back! program is based. Catherine Wyles and Cliona Mulloy explained the importance of familiarising yourself with

the Bounce Back! acronym statements so that parents can continue to model ways of coping with adversity at home.

Deputy Principals Report

Bushlink Update Due to the weather, filming for the Bushlink promotional video involving students in 3JL, 4B, 4W and 5P has been postponed until next week. When arrangements have been confirmed, we will inform parents of participating students in the abovementioned classes. Bushlink members will be at school on Thursday 2nd June to film with

Jamie Durie and one of our talented Year 6 students, Jordan Lovegrove.

Year 3 Numeracy Group with Parents On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons a group of Year 3 students are practising their number skills with parent support. The students are involved in Short Focused Frequent (SFF) activities to improve their confidence with mental computation. I would like to acknowledge the students for their efforts and enthusiasm, parents for their help, Mona Johnson for establishing and organising the program and Catherine Wyles for running the parent training workshop. In the short time I have been working with the students, I have seen a growth in confidence and competence. It is a joy to witness.

Mrs Wendy Mwanga

Year 6 students are currently studying the Geography Unit, ‘Factors That Shape Places’, where they are investigating and researching:

How do people and environments influence one another and

How do people influence places and the management of spaces within them?

6C students Sohpie Darton, Mia Cronje and Grace Pearson have published the first edition of the Year Six Manly West News when Sydney Harbour was attacked June 1, 1942.

Manly West Before & After School Care

INCURSIONS/ENRICHMENT Program

Starting this term, BASC has been bringing in specialist external providers to give the

children skills/activities to extend their experiences. The programs generally run between 4:00pm and 5:30pm one day per week in each of the three rooms. The aim is for every child to have this opportunity to participate at least once in the year. If at all possible, we would ask parents to collect their children after 5:30pm on the relevant day.

On Tuesday, 3/4 Club will be doing a Cartoon Kingdom workshop. K-2 is having a Heidi Hoops Show incursion on Thursday. 3D Design continues on a Wednesday in the 5/6 Club. On Monday next week, 5/6 will be also be doing Cartooning.

Some other activities this week:

K-2 will be working on 3 new art walls – under the ocean, forest and African savannah. Outside the

children will be having races incorporating the bean bags they have made.

The children in 3/4 Club will be creating obstacle courses at the coloured equipment and challenging

each other to see who is fastest!

The 3D printing workshop finishes this week with the children to receive their self-designated noughts

and crosses games. Those that attend on Friday have been planning for an end of term party called Winter Wonderland, and will start practicing their stalls this week. There is also a special treat of

popcorn and a soccer challenge planned.

TERM ACCOUNTS

LATE PAYMENT CHARGES are being applied to accounts not paid by the due dates. The third and final instalment is due by Friday 10 June. If you have not received your account (from HUBWORKS), please contact us.

Registering With Us

To register your child with us, please visit our centre’s site https://manlywestbasc.hubworks.com.au and click on ‘ENROL’. Enter your child’s details and then click ‘SUBMIT’

The PBEL for this week is Responsibility Wear your school hat. No hat, under the school shade

shelter only.

Canteen News

Canteen Roster for week 7, Group 1 Monday 6th June Tuesday 7th June Wednesday 8th June Emma King AM Marie-Claire Johnston Sarah Bickford AM Jane Cameron AM Jody Phillips AM Helen Yardley AM Tanya Fenn PM Lucy Lopez PM VACANCY PM

Jane Barnes PM Louise Merry PM Meagan Packer PM Sue Smart PM Cassie Mathieson PM Thursday 9th June Friday 10th June Tiane Olive AM Maggie Faulder AM Rebecca Taudien AM Carly Forrester AM

Sue O’Brien PM VACANCY AM

Nicki Brown PM Jodi Stacker PM Natalie Mitchell PM Jacqui Liddicoat PM If you’d like to help in the canteen for a couple of hours (9.20am-12pm or 12-2pm), we’d love to see you. Contact us by email [email protected], call us on 9948 2257 or come and see us.

Thanks, Rachel