Term 4 Week 7 Tuesday 21st November 2017 · Term 4 Week 7 Tuesday 21st November 2017 Recognising our Great Students Congratulations to the following students who received merit awards

Term 4 Week 7 Tuesday 21st November 2017

Recognising our Great Students

Congratulations to the following students who received merit awards at yesterday’s K-6 assembly. Bronze: Lucas, Chayce, Lilly, Waineisha, Charlotte,

Charlie, Alana, Annie-Maree Silver: Riley, Matt, Harley, Dane Gold: Josh, Georgia, Rebecca, Raith Gold Bar 1: Madilyn, Lewis Gold Bar 2: Mackenzie Gold Bar 3: Ruby, Nazar, Darcie, Sienna

Gold Bar 3 Recipients Congratulations

Hall Curtains

The curtains have been installed in the hall and look absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much to our wonderful P&C for providing us with this amazing addition to our school.

3-6 Swimming Sessions

The Term 4 Swimming Sessions for 3-6 have begun. Students are reminded to bring a hat, rash vest or t-shirt, towel and sunscreen. A plastic bag to put wet swimmers in makes the transportation of wet items much easier. The cost of these sessions are $2.60, brought to school on the child’s designated swimming day (Milton Pool passes are accepted).

Early School Arrivals

We are noticing that some children are arriving at school as early as 8am. It is a concern for us that students are arriving this early as no supervision in any form is available at this time. The earliest children should be arriving at school is from 8:30am where they are loosely supervised in the top quad area. Supervision duty commences from 8:55am.

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WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

WEDNESDAY

Swimming Sessions: 3/4J, 4A, 4C, 4MC, 4TS, 4W

Surf Lifesaving Talks (K-2 and 3-6) THURSDAY

Swimming Sessions: 3C, 3D, 3H, 3MC, 3TS FRIDAY

Kids In2Uni—Year 6 Excursion MONDAY

K-6 Assembly

Swimming Session: 6D, 6R, 6T, 6TS TUESDAY

School Banking—Bendigo Bank

Swimming Session: 5M, 5R, 5S, 5T, 5TS

Last week of Scripture

COMING EVENTS

Swimming Sessions Years 3-6 Continue: Monday 6th November—Thursday 7th December

K-2 Christmas Concert Wednesday 6th December

Last day of Year 3-6 Swimming

Thursday 7th December

3—6 Presentation Day Friday 8th December

Senior Social

Tuesday 12th December

Mini Fete

Congratulations to the Year 6 students for running a wonderful Mini Fete. You did a fantastic job organising the stalls and displayed incredible maturity and responsibility. A big ‘Thank you’ also goes to Mr Taplin, Mrs Dale and Mrs Rafidi for the great coordination of the day.

Nazar

Nazar, after all of your accomplishments you have made at school this stands next to being captain of the school for 2017. Nazar, I have known you for years on end, and I knew from the start you are going to achieve great things in the future, and you have. Kind, caring, responsible, honourable and awesome - these are just some of the words that can be used to describe Nazar. No wonder he was voted School Captain and he’s done a pretty darn good job of it. Nazar deserves his Gold Bar 3 because he has nearly a perfect attendance record, never does the wrong thing, will help you during hard times and makes you laugh when you’re sad. By Darcie, Zach and Daniel

Darcie

Funny, enthusiastic, energetic, kind and fantastic - these are just some of the many words to describe Darcie. Darcie is an outstanding and exuberant student; she has been at MPS since Kindy. In this time she has participated in Shrek, public peaking, the shore birds project, choir and many other things. She is passionate about musical theatre and always sees the bright things in life. She is not afraid to be her own and wonderful person, and is always there when you need her. But besides all of that she has got a beautiful and genuinely caring heart and is definitely deserving of her Gold Bar 3. By Nazar and Cooper.

Sienna

Sweet Intelligent Exciting Nifty Nice Adventurous Chirpy Optimistic Noticeable Delightful Imaginative Elegant These are all words that you can use to describe Sienna! She has always

been a great friend, will be there for you whenever, and has the best sense of humour. She will

complete every task or challenge thrown at her without hesitation. If times are tough, Sienna will be there to care and give you support. She is amazing on stage and can sing beautifully. Sienna definitely

deserves to receive her Gold Bar 3.

Ruby

Ruby is one of the kindest, most caring and

unique people I know. She excels in school

academically and as a school leader. She is

most deserving of her Gold Bar 3. She is an

amazing school captain and friend. She

contributes to class every day and even puts

a smile on your face. She is always helping

around the school, running errands and putting up and down the flags.

She even has the nickname 'wanted woman' because she is always participating in

extracurricular activities and everyone always needs her help. She is out of this world!

By Phoebe and Ella

Livvie’s Place Excursion

Stage One children enjoy playing in the new Livvi's Place Park at Mollymook Beach.

Milton Public School Scholastic Book

Fair

I would like to thank all the students and parents for their brilliant support of the Scholastic Book Fair once again. The school library has raised a significant amount of money to buy resources for the students in the near future. It has been a pleasure to watch the children purchase books and see their enthusiasm grow towards reading. I would also like to thank the staff at Milton who have assisted over the past week. Their commitment towards Milton Public School and the students is inspirational. We will have another fair the same time next year. Enjoy your books and keep reading!! Stephen Grant Teacher Librarian

Library Stocktake

This week will be the last week of borrowing books from the library for all students. This will allow two weeks for all books to be returned to the school library for a major stocktake. Please look high and low for any books that may have been lost over the last few years. All returns would be greatly appreciated. Notices will be sent out to students with overdue books in the coming weeks. Thank you for your cooperation. Stephen Grant Teacher Librarian

First Lego League Competition –

Ulladulla

On Saturday 18th of November, twelve teams

competed in the First Lego League Regional competition that was held at Ulladulla High School. Milton Public School had two teams represented, Mighty Milton and Robo Magic. The teams participated in three main areas, Robotics, Project and Core Values. Throughout the day the students highlighted the amazing design of their robots and demonstrated their skills in handling their robots when competing, with both teams achieving very high scores. Later in the day Robo Magic achieved the incredible score of 275 points when performing with their robot. This currently stands as the highest score achieved in Australia at this year’s competition! Standing in front of judges, the students articulately presented the water projects they had developed to help Milton Public School save water. They then successfully demonstrated FFL Core Values by working together to problem solve a task set by the judges. The students performed professionally and with great teamwork to impress the judges, with both teams scoring highly. The teams finished the day by winning three of seven trophies available, including the Judges Award for Robot Design, Robot Performance and Core Values. This was an amazing result, especially considering that for most students, this was their first year being involved in FFL. All the students have trained for three terms, practicing before school and giving up their Sunday mornings. The Coaches have been impressed with their fun enthusiasm, spirited intelligence and gracious teamwork. The coaches are immensely proud of the student’s hard work and achievements. Well done to the team leaders Adrian and Alex for their mature leadership. And well done to all other team members, Joe, Sam, Mathew, Elijah, Jonah, Arron, Lucas, Taj, Sarang, Zoe, Zac and Harringtion for participating in a great year of First Lego League. Coaches – Kevin Le, Sarah Davison and Jason

O’Neill

Class Request

Class 3C would like to complete some craft activities using corks. Unfortunately we cannot find a catalogue from which to purchase them. We are hoping that some members of our wonderful school community may have a collection of corks they would be prepared to donate to our class. Please drop off at 3C classroom (near the back door of the hall) anytime between 8:30am and 4:00pm. All donations will be gratefully accepted.

Year 6 mini fete 2017

The year 6 mini fete was a huge success this year. The whole school enjoyed a wonderful variety of stalls run by the students including; talent quest, haunted house, disco, obstacle course, drink stall, soccer shootout, hit the hooligan, basketball shootout, limbo, hair spray / face paint, cake stall, find the golden key, fortune telling and NRL shootout. All of year 6 are to be congratulated on their, organisation, enthusiasm and leadership on the running of the day. Well done year 6. Written by Anika and Maddison.

Talent Quest 2017

The talent quest was really fun, all of the performers were great. Congratulations to all the finalists Jaya, Lucas, Matilda, Eden, Lorelai, Adrian, Will, Evie, Aliyah, Cate, Grace, Claire, Grace, Harrison, Ethan and Sophie. The Year Six team, Brooke, Sara, Ruby, Rose, and Chloe did a brilliant job. We wish we could have let everyone into the finals. Next year’s talent quest hosts are going to be surprised to see how much talent Milton Public School has.

School Hats

The warmer weather is upon us, so it is paramount that students wear a blue school hat at all times when outside. As previously advised the school uniform policy requires a broad brimmed royal blue hat, but we have accepted the bucket style hat also. This policy has been developed in line with the Department of Education’s Sun Safe regulations. Students will not be permitted to play on the oval or open areas without a school hat. The bucket hat with gold piping is available from the front office at a minimal cost of $6.00. We thank you for your support.

COMMUNITY NEWS

The following articles have been submitted for inclusion in our parent newsletter and are not part of Milton Public School curriculum.

Poetry Milton Show

A Junior Poetry Speaking Competition is scheduled for 3

rd March 2018 at 9.30am for the Milton Show. It

is for students K-6 and if you require further information, please contact [email protected]

This week’s special at the canteen

Frozen Moo Cups (frozen milk cups)

$1.20

Available lunch time only

CANTEEN ROSTER

Wednesday 22/11 Cheryl Schultz, Jodi Bredefeldt Thursday 23/11 Lloyd McDonald, Need helper

please Friday 24/11 Ashleigh Mangles, Dale Pryde, Shree

Robins Monday 27/11 Lindy Salter, Jodi Bredefeldt Tuesday 28/11 Ashleigh Mangles Wednesday 29/11 Cheryl Schultz, Josi Refalo, Jodi

Bredefeldt

Milton Show Society Picnic

Milton Show Society Picnic will be 5PM Thursday 30th November 2017 at Milton Showground Dog Ring. Come along and join in the fun. Lots of family friendly games and activities. BYO Picnic Hamper. Santa is likely to drop in. If it raining or stormy the picnic is off.

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