The information evening have nearly drawn to a close. Next week is the first of the Parent/Carer/Teacher Meet the Teacher ‘Getting to know you’ meetings. For further details please contact your classroom teacher.
As part of our School Self Evaluation, next week throughout the time of Parent/carer teacher interviews you will find a number of question sheets and response boxes located around the school. Your feedback and comments in response to the questions would be very much appreciated.
Further opportunities for consultation and feedback from community members,staff and students will take place throughout the remainder of Term 1.
Last Friday evening the community came together to celebrate the start of the 2018 school year. We enjoyed the balmy weather, bbq and the band who provided some cool jazz tunes for all to enjoy. Thank you to all who helped make the evening so enjoyable for all.
Last week a number of parents and carers attended an information session on additional needs, reasonable adjustments and the Program for Students with Disabilities (PSD). For parents and carers who were unable to attend the information session the presentation will be posted on our school website next week.
If you have any further questions in relation to additional needs, reasonable adjustments and the PSD and/or the presentation please contact Barb Springfield.
Today a Parent/Carers Payment Information Booklet has been sent home to all families. The booklet contains an explanatory letter, a Parent and Carer Payment Policy and Implementation document, details about Student Accident Insurance and a form outlining payments and levies.
The annual School Council elections cycle commences today. In 2018 we have 3 parent/community member vacancies and 2 DET vacancies. Below is the process and timetable for the elections. Nomination forms are available from the Office.
Friday 16th February 2018
Friday 2nd March 2018
On or before Wednesday 7th March 2018 (if required)
Thursday 15th March 2018
Friday 16th March 2018
Tuesday 20th March 2018
Monday 26th March 2018
Please be reminded that parent helpers and volunteers require a valid Working with Children Check. A register of all Working with Children Check is held in the office. As part of our obligations to ensure Working with Children Checks are valid, spot checks will be conducted over the coming weeks.
An induction for all parent helpers and volunteers will be conducted early in term 2.
The annual Secondary School Expo will be held in the school gym on March 21st. Further details will be available in the coming weeks.
Afterschool care will be in the performance space and the library on this day.
On Friday 23rd March we will be holding our annual movie night. This is a wonderful opportunity for community to come together and enjoy a family evening under the stars - weather permitting. Please see the flyer within our Fundraising Events page within this newsletter.
The Fundraising Group are looking for new community to members to join the group and volunteers to help out at upcoming events. Please leave your details at the Office.
In response to our recent communications survey to receive your child's activities information via electronic channels, such as by email or through an app, we have commenced a 30 day trial of the Skoolbag App . The trial is available to community members who have IPhones or Ipads. The App would become available to Android users if we continue with Skoolbag as our provider. The App will allow us to update the community with simple push notifications via a secure login. Families are able to download the SkoolBag App to their phone or tablet or access it via the website plugin. This app will perform a different function to the internal DET SMS alert system. Please see the reminder re SMS permission forms below.
A reminder to please send back your SMS forms to enable the school to send parents and carers SMS communication, for example, in emergency situations and for student non-attendance at school. By sending back the form with up-to-date mobile and email details parents and carers authorise the inclusion of these details in the sms functionality of the Department of Education’s CASES21 system.
If you have any further questions regarding this could you please contact the office.
Enjoy the weekend,
Jeff
Tuesday 13th February
Monday 12th-19th February
Parent Information sessions
Tuesday 13th February
Resource Committee - 19:00
Wednesday 14th February
Foundation Students - no school
Friday 16th February
Summer Sport Grade 5/6
Monday 19th-23rd February
Parent/teacher/student "Getting to know you interviews"
Wednesday 21st February
Foundation Students - no school
Friday 23rd February
Summer Sport Grade 5/6
Monday 26th February
School Council 19:00
Wednesday 28th February
Foundation Students - no school
Friday 2nd March
District Swimming
Monday 5th March
Foundation (Prep) begin full time
Education Committee 19:00
Friday 9th March
Curriculum Day - no school
Monday 12th March
Labour Day - no school
Tuesday 13th March
Resource Committee - 19:00
Friday 16th March
Summer Sport Grade 5/6
Tuesday 20th March
Division Swimming
Wednesday 21st March
Secondary School Expo
Friday March 23rd
Summer Sport Grade 5/6
Hockey clinics
Movie Night
Monday 26th March
School Council 19:00
Tuesday 27th March
Regional Swimming
Wednesday 28th March
School Photo Day
Thursday 29th March
End of Term 1 - early dismissal 13:30
Monday 16th April
Term 2 commences
Wednesday 25th April
Anzac Day - no school
Thursday 26th April
Curriculum Day - no school
Friday 29th June
End of Term 2 - early dismissal 13:30
Dan the Flying Man
As a whole class literature session, we read Dan the Flying Man. We read it a few times discussing all the places that Dan flew over and where he went. We also spoke about other words that end in |an|. We brainstormed a list of words ending with |an| and made a class list. Students then drew pictures of four things that Dan flew over.
Birthday Graph
We have been looking at the birthdays. In the classroom we developed a class graph with all the birthdays in Room 5. Students then created an individual graph, showing how many birthdays are in each month.
The work samples show the student’s writing, as well as the ‘published” piece of work. You can see that these writers have a good grasp of initial sounds and in many instances; the strong consonant sounds are evident.
The students have demonstrated left to right orientation when writing and are able to read back their work.
How exciting that our Foundation students see themselves as writers.
Our summer sport season will continue this week for students in Gr 5/6 competing in Soccer, Handball and Hot Shots Tennis competitions against schools in the Ascot Vale District.
We are also excited to be having specialist Hockey Coaches from Essendon Hockey Club running clinics at school as part of the Sport Education program.
This week (16/02/18) 9:30 – 10:45am:
MPW Blue v North Melbourne AWAY (All matches at North Melbourne Primary School, Errol St, North Melbourne)
MPW Gold v Ascot Vale West HOME (Soccer at Maribyrnong Park)
Next Week (23/02/16) 9:30 – 10:45am:
MPW Blue v Flemington HOME (Soccer at Maribyrnong Park)
MPW Gold v North Melbourne AWAY (All matches at North Melbourne Primary School, Errol St, North Melbourne)
Good luck to all teams
A big congratulations to the 90 Grade 4, 5 & 6 Students who participated in swimming trials on Friday 9th March at Queens Park Pool.
Special thanks to Kim, Maddie, Fiona and Michelle for all their help running the trials and to all the helpers and supporters who attended.
Students chosen in the District Swimming team will receive a note this week. District Swimming will take place on Friday 2nd March
In 2018 the MPW senior choir will once again explore the elements of singing and performance through developing a repertoire of songs for an end of year musical (show TBC). Our goal is to enable the students to participate in and bring together the many facets of the arts such as music, singing, acting and dancing. The process of rehearsing and performing spoken and sung dialogue develops language skills and provides a platform for students to take positive risks and build self-confidence. Everyone will be involved and have an integral role to play (big or small) to present this year’s musical. Every student develops life skills such as responsibility, collaboration, respect, self-confidence & co-operation.
The best part is…A musical is fun!
In addition, 20 members of the senior choir will participate in the 2018 Victorian State Schools Spectacular mass choir. This experience allows the students to be part of a professionally staged production which includes a cast of almost 3000 government school students all working towards a common goal in a collaborative, competition-free environment. The students attending gain an invaluable performing arts opportunity to work under the direction of internationally renowned industry professionals across all disciplines and in doing so experience the dedication, discipline, practice and time needed to produce such an amazing show, not to mention the excitement of performing live in front of thousands of people.
In 2018 the junior choir (grades 1 – 2) will engage in singing and music making activities that will allow the students to explore music concepts and develop a sense of rhythm, pitch, dynamics and expression, form and structure, timbre and texture. The junior choir will prepare various musical items to perform at an assembly each term. The smaller performances are intended to provide a variety of song styles while gradually building the students confidence to perform.
Looking forward to another sensational year.
Kate Ridgeway
Choir Leader
Friday 23rd March we will be holding our first fundraising event of the year.
Rachel, Anna & Danielle - please enquire at the office and your details will be forwarded on to Rachel, Anna and Danielle.
Office: 8:15a.m - 4:45p.m
Telephone: 9370 6875 / 9375 1197
FAX: 9370 1909
Sandra Monaghan Business Manager
Cristina Zelaya Administration Officer
Sharyn Reinke Administration Officer
Email:
moonee.ponds.west.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
Website:
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Mpwps/
Twitter:
Principal:
Jeff Lyon
Assistant Principal - Curriculum
Ashley Spagnol
Student Welfare and Program for Student with Disabilities Co-Ordinator
Barbara Springfield (Acting Assistant Principal)
Business Operations Manager
Sandra Monaghan
Leading Teacher
Michelle Bové
If your child is absent from school (including illness and appointment), it is necessary to inform the school. This can be in the form of a telephone call, email, entering the absence through a link on the front page of our website, in writing or by advising the office or classroom teacher directly.
If your child is sick it is advisable to not send your child to school.
Term 1:
Monday 29th January to Thursday 29th March
Term 2:
Monday 16th April to Friday 29th June
Term 3:
Monday 16th July to Friday 21st September
Term 4:
Monday 8th October to Friday 21st December
End of term dismissal is at 2.30pm for Terms 1, 2 & 3 and End of Year dismissal is at 1.30pm.
Term 1:
Monday 29th January and Friday 9th March
Term 2:
Thursday 26th April
Term 3:
Wednesday 25th July
At MPW before and after school care is provided by Camp Australia. The service operates 7.15 - 8.45 am in the morning and 3.30 to 6.15 pm afternoons.
To enrol your child please go to www.campaustralia.com.au
Lunch Orders at MPW are supplied by Darling St Espresso. The lunch order menu is available from the Office or our website -
School Uniform is available from Lowes at Highpoint Shopping Centre or online at http://www.lowes.com.au/campuscategories.aspx?depid=764. We also have a supply of pre loved uniform available for purchase from the Administration Office.
In 2017 - a significant amount of unnamed clothing and unnamed plastic containers were donated to charity each month.
Our lost property is managed by parent volunteers and we need your help to reduce this workload and loss of property.
You can help by:
When is unnamed lost property cleared and donated to charity?
Where is lost property?
In the causeway at the entry to room 7 and 8 (near the toilet block off the little adventure playground).
These sessions will be delivered by the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) staff and partners wanting to start raising awareness and understanding of the scheme for potential participants, family, providers and community members.
Moonee Ponds:
When: Wednesday, 21st February 2018 (multiple sessions)
Session 1: 9.30am – 11.30am
Session 2: 12.30pm – 2.30pm
Session 3: 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Where: Clock Tower Centre, 750 Mount Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds
To register visit https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/moonee-ponds-ndis-community-information-sessions-tickets-41440896838
East Keilor:
When: Wednesday 28 February
Session 1: 10am – 12pm
Session 2: 3pm - 5pm
Session 3: 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Where: Burley Griffin Neighbourhood Centre, Park Drive, East Keilor
To register visit https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/keilor-east-ndis-community-and-provider-information-sessions-tickets-41438719325
Note:
The same information will be presented at each session, you only need to attend the session time that suits you best.
For a full list of all NDIS information sessions visit https://ndis.gov.au/news/events/vic
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