Contact Us Manifold Heights Primary School Strachan Avenue Manifold Heights 3218 P: 03 5229 9643 F: 03 5229 2997 www.manifold.vic.edu.au [email protected]Please also find us on Facebook and the Skoolbag App Manifold Heights Primary School Newsletter Principal: Barry Rowland Assistant Principal: Peta Mundine Business Manager: Jessie Burney Administration: Jacquie Clancy Date: 21st December 2017 Important Dates DECEMBER Fri 22nd Last Day of Term 4 Final Day Assembly - 9:15am 2018 Sun 28th Jan Working Bee 9am - 11am - ALL WELCOME Mon 29th Jan Staff Commence & General Office Open Tues 30th Jan First Day of Term 1 (Juniors, Middles & Seniors) Thurs 1st Feb First Day for Prep Fri 2nd Feb Seniors Cyber Safety Session Thurs 15th Feb House Swimming Grade 3 - 6 Thurs 22nd Feb Family BBQ Tues 27th Feb Prep & Staff Photos Fri 2nd Mar Grade 1 & 2 Big Day Out Fri 2nd Mar VSSS - Northern Bay College DO YOU VOLUNTEER AT MANO? If you volunteer at the school, whether it be helping in the classroom, with Bike Ed, at the Carnivale, processing books in the Library, attending excursions or activities such as the Walkathon, it is a Department of Education & Training requirement that you MUST have a valid Volunteer Working with Children Check and have supplied a copy of your card to the Office.
Manifold Heights Primary School Newsletter Principal: Barry Rowland Assistant Principal: Peta Mundine Business Manager: Jessie Burney Administration: Jacquie Clancy
Date: 21st December 2017
Important Dates DECEMBER
Fri 22nd Last Day of Term 4
Final Day Assembly - 9:15am
2018
Sun 28th Jan Working Bee 9am - 11am - ALL WELCOME
Mon 29th Jan Staff Commence & General Office Open
Tues 30th Jan First Day of Term 1 (Juniors, Middles & Seniors)
Thurs 1st Feb First Day for Prep
Fri 2nd Feb Seniors Cyber Safety Session
Thurs 15th Feb House Swimming Grade 3 - 6
Thurs 22nd Feb Family BBQ
Tues 27th Feb Prep & Staff Photos
Fri 2nd Mar Grade 1 & 2 Big Day Out
Fri 2nd Mar VSSS - Northern Bay College
DO YOU VOLUNTEER AT MANO?
If you volunteer at the school, whether it be helping in the classroom, with Bike Ed, at the Carnivale, processing books in the
Library, attending excursions or activities such as the Walkathon, it is a Department of Education & Training requirement that
you MUST have a valid Volunteer Working with Children Check and have supplied a copy of your card to the Office.
2
Wishing all the Mano Community a Happy Christmas and a Safe Holiday The 2017 school year has come to an end and the holiday period is upon us. Some comments from students who recently were the ‘Principal for the hour’ at Mano – SWPBS 150 token achievers. Wishing all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Have a great holiday break and care for your family and friends. We hope your children loved ‘step up’ day. – Aaliyah Dargue JO Today is the last newsletter for 2017. Have a fabulous Christmas and holiday everyone. Just remember, have fun and be safe. – Poppy Carmichael ML Have a nice holiday. Have fun with your family and friends. Hope Santa comes to your house. – Siddarth Sivanesan PB I recently have supported eleven students across a range of year levels, each who have achieved 150 tokens and acted as the Mano Principal for an hour – they have performed many roles such as: made announcements, rung the bell, visited classes, taste tested canteen items, supported assembly, visited the newly refurbished classrooms, delivered Christmas presents and sought student opinions on matters such as fundraising expenditure.
Some Farewells to Announce At the end of each school year there will always be some community members who are leaving – obviously our Grade 6 students are graduating and heading off to a range of local secondary schools. We wish them all the best and are confident they will continue to ‘Unleash their Potential’. Some families will also be ending their connection with our school, some after quite a few years of continuous enrolment for their children – we hope you take away many positive memories of your family’s time at Mano.
We also have some staff to farewell – Ms Clutterbuck, Ms Roach, Ms Glenny, Ms Watts and Ms Lorensini. All will be working as teachers in 2018 in other schools and how lucky those schools are to have them. We thank all five valued staff members for their fabulous contributions to our programs over recent years.
Collection for GAWS – Geelong Animal Welfare Society Kayla Mackay initiated a collection for GAWS, which resulted in quite a large donation of cat and dog food. All donors received a ‘raffle ticket’ for their various contributions and the winner has been drawn and announced – congratulations and thank you to Sadie Hurst PB (a gift to be presented at assembly Friday). Thank you to all who supported this community cause and especially to Kayla for her thoughtfulness in assisting GAWS to manage their needs over the summer holidays.
Last Day Arrangements – Friday 22nd December Students will attend regular classes for roll marking and final reminders and duties. Assembly on the oval will commence around 9:15am and is expected to conclude at around 10:15am. Various presentations, announcements, farewells and musical items will be on the agenda for this assembly. Parents are welcome to sign their children out at the conclusion of this, with students who remain being dismissed at 2:30pm on this final day of the 2017 school year. A reminder that 2018 begins for staff on Monday 29th January, for Grades 1-6 Tuesday 30th January and classes for Preps Thursday 1st February.
Grade 6 Graduation Last night the Senior team put on a wonderful and memorable event, as we wished our Graduating Grade 6 students all the best for their futures – as they head off to a range of local secondary schools for Year 7, 2018. I’d like to acknowledge Clonard College for their generous support – use of their ‘Tullow Hall’. Some very special awards were presented last night and congratulations to these very deserving winners * Rotary Club Of Geelong West ‘Others before self’ award: Alaska Dowie * Christine Couzens ‘Leadership’ award: Mara Ellis * School Council ‘Resilience’ award: Jaymee Rhodes * Geelong HS ‘School Spirit’ award: Joshua Jovanovski & Makayla Laney * Richard Marles ‘Leadership and Community’ award: Matthew Jones * Thornton Engineering ‘Outstanding Academic Achievement’ award: Mason McKenzie * School Sport Victoria ‘Academic and Sporing’ award: Zac McInnes * Ben Newell ‘A big life’ Art award: Darcy O’Neill
Thank you for the toys! One of our very community minded and caring students (Sarah Ivey) recently promoted a toy collection appeal for the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal. Your donations have been boxed up and sent off to I’m sure some very grateful local families – giving children a big smile for Christmas!
Term 4 Unleashing Potential award winners Following on from the release of end of year Student Reports last week, on Monday at our assembly we presented these special awards. Nominated by the teams of teachers and for outstanding effort and commitment, we congratulate these students on their achievements: Prep: Sadie Hurst PB Juniors: Evan Foot JH and Nicholaas Spanninga JO Middles: Astrid Watters-Sansom MW Seniors: Miranda Exell-Bruce SV
New Student Leaders have been announced for Term 1 2018!School Captains: Chelsea Sears and Jack Greco House Captains: Manifold: Noah Woods. Strachan: Maliha Blake. Purrumbete: Slade Dingley. Narmbool: Sienna McInnes School Leaders: Luca Pilling and Jessica Burrows.
We can look forward to the new year with great confidence with these terrific young leaders in place.
Working Bee to Help get 2018 Started! SUNDAY 28TH JANUARY 9-11am is the next scheduled Working Bee. Please consider joining us to help ensure our grounds are ready for students to return for a new school year. Morning tea will be provided, children are welcome and please bring a friend!
Junior Building Refurbishment Project Works Update By the start of Term 1 next year we will have taken possession of three ‘new’ rooms for our Grade 1 classes. The Junior building toilets will be refurbished during January and should be completed for students to return. We will not have to conduct any Junior classes in the Multi in Term 1.
The General Office will be temporarily located in the current literacy storeroom – mid way along the Junior corridor, as builders will refurbish the Admin end of the Junior building in Term 1.
Barry Rowland
Principal
Uniform Donations Required Some of our stock in the Second Hand Uniform Shop is quite low and we would be very grateful if any families are able to donate uniform items in good condition.
Missing a bike? A bike was found on the last day of Term 3 which is yet to be claimed. If it belongs to you, please speak to a Middles staff member. Thanks. Mr Valentine
2018 Essential Student Learning Items & Booklists
Invoices for Essential Student Learning Items and the Parent Payment Letter were sent to families on 1st November 2017. Essential Student Learning Items - $150.00 per student Includes your child’s Student Diary, Mathletics & Reading Eggs Online Subscriptions, Photocopied Resources, Assignment & Project Construction Materials, Life Education, Adolescent Education (Seniors) and selected Sports activities for Middles and Seniors students. Payment of the Essential Student Learning Items can be made directly to Vital Office with the Book Lists online or directly to the school via Qkr, Bpay, Credit Card, Eftpos, Cheque or Cash. We request payment for the Essential Student Learning Items is made by the end of Term 1, Thursday 29th March 2018. Book Lists- Variable Prep - $77.55 Juniors - $69.31 Middles - $66.65 Seniors - $72.46
Vital Office will provide the schools stationary packs again in 2018. All stationary items required by each year level will be listed online, login details have been included in the 2018 Parent Payments letter which was sent out via mail on 1st November 2017. All stationary packs will be delivered directly to the school in 2018. All book list orders received after Friday 15th December 2017 will incur a delivery fee of $10.00 per book list. Orders that are placed late may not be available for delivery the week prior to school commencing in 2018.
2018 Booklists are available at www.vitaloffice.com.au/booklists Username: MANIFOLD Password: MANO2018 Please ensure that you select the correct student year level for 2018.
Jessie Burney Business Manager
Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) 2018 CSEF is provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover to costs of school excursions, camps and
sporting activities. If you hold a valid means-tested concession card or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible for CSEF. A
special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families. The allowance is paid to the school to use towards
expenses relating to camps, excursions or sporting activities for the benefit of your child.
Parents or legal guardians are required to complete a CSEF application form and lodge it with the Office for processing.
Application forms should be completed and lodged with schools by 2nd March 2018, as payments are made from March. However schools
will be able to accept and process applications up until the end of term two each year. Contact the office to obtain a CSEF application
form.
Please ensure a copy of your means-tested concession card is provided with your CSEF application form. If you were
eligible and received CSEF in 2017, your application will rollover to 2018 and a new application form is not required to be
completed.
Jessie Burney
Business Manager
Middles Bike Ed Program
Just a friendly reminder that all Grade 4 students who participated in our Bike Ed Program need to collect their bikes if they are still at school ASAP. Unfortunately there are still quite a few bikes that have not yet been collected. Thanks. Ms Roach
SAVE THE DATE : Manifold Heights Primary School will be holding its ‘Mano Carnivale’ on Saturday
28 April 2018 from 11am to 4pm. This is a community event so please ask your neighbours, family
and friends to pop this date on the calendar as ‘one event not to miss’.
For those families new to Mano, the ‘Mano Carnivale’ is held every two years and is a major
fundraising opportunity for the School, with all funds going towards new play spaces, the
upgrading of school facilities and improving the educational opportunities & experiences for all
Manifold Heights Primary School students.
Planning for next years Carnivale is well underway and is already promising to be a bigger and
better event than our very successful 2016 Mano Carnivale. However, as with organising any
event, it takes a lot of planning, hard work, support and the assistance from the entire school
community for the Carnivale to be a success.
So please, offer your assistance by coming along to a meeting, putting your hand up to be a team
leader or alternatively send us an email, text or call, we would love to hear from you. There are
many ways, big or small in which you can help, every little bit of help will be greatly appreciated.
What will be at the 2018 Mano Carnivale, you ask?
x5 RIDES/ACTIVITIES plus a fun side show alley and the ever popular ‘Dunk-a-Teacher’
ALSO….
Mano Carnivale
How can you help? We will be sending home additional information on ways you can help, to all families in the
New Year. Below is a brief summary:
Please LIKE & SHARE our Facebook page manocarnivale
Drop off any unwanted Books & Toys - in great condition (Christmas/New Year school holidays is the perfect time to start clearing out the kids cupboards!);
Donate a new bottle of wine bottle to our Mystery Wine stall (any bottle of wine);
Donate Lucky Jars (any sized jar filled with goodies);
Donate items for the Crazy Hair stall (eg.coloured hair spray);
A BIG thank you to our wonderful 2018 Mano Carnivale Working Group Members for all the hard work you have done already in preparation for the big event!!
Our Team Leaders are:
BBQ Team Leaders ............................................................................................................... Mark & Tania Sears
Cake Stall Team Leader .............................................................................................................. Michelle Reed
Hot Food Team Leader ................................................................................................................. Toby Cooper
Beer & Wine Tent Team Leader .................................................................................................. Andrew Elliott
Mano Café Team Leader .................................................................................................................... Suzi Miller
Dunk a Teacher Team Leader ....................................................................................................... Aaron Blake
2nd Hand Book Stall Team Leader .................................................................................................. Lynne Foot
Plant Stall Team Leader ......................................................................................................... Charmelle Yates
Crazy Hair & Face Painting Team Leaders ................ Fleur Chapman, Linda Chappell & Tracey Coutts
Haunted House Team Leader ........................................................................... Anneli Frisk / Andrea Dingley
Kids Quiet Corner Team Leaders ............................................................... Kate Connor & Hannah Majtara
Lolly Stall (Pick n Mix) / Show Bags ............................................................................ Madhuri Subramaniam
Lucky Jars & Guess the Lollies Comp Team Leader ...................................................................... Rachel Nix
Mystery Wine & Scratchie Tree Team Leader .............................................................................. Kristy Logan
First Aid / Lost Child / Information Tent Team Leader .................................................................. Mano Staff
Maintenance / Ground Crew Team Leaders ....................................................... Phil Currie & Anneli Frisk
Morning Car Parking Attendant ............................................................................................................ Vacant
Silent Auction Team Leader ................................................................................................................... Vacant
Fairy Floss, Sno Cones, Pop Corn Team Leader .................................................................................. Vacant
Preloved Toy Sale Team Leader ........................................................................................................... Vacant
Pop Up Park & Seating Team Leader ................................................................................................... Vacant
SCHOOL BANKING School Banking day is FRIDAY Thank you for a great year of School Banking.
We would like to thank all of our students who have participated in the CommBank School Banking program this year.
Our final School Banking day for 2017 was FRIDAY 15TH DECEMBER 2017. School Banking will resume on Friday 9th February 2018.
Manifold Heights PS Week beginning 18th December 2017
Coordinator: Kamaljit Kaur
Hi Everyone,
It has been a great last week of term. This week we enjoyed playing board games and craft activities. Leah, Amber, Zara, Avery
and Harriet decorated painted pencil bags with reindeer and Christmas trees. Whilst playing outside Jacob initiated dodgeball and
everyone joined him. Luka and Vivian played "Clever Creatures" board game. Hayden and Jack solved the large floor solar system
puzzle. Sai, Koji and Isabel played with sand timers. Ella, Ruby, Isla, Matilda and Zara made Christmas cards. There was a lot of
fun.
I would like to thank all the children and families who attended OSHC in Term 4 and wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year.
If you are looking to register for the OSHC Program just log onto: www.campaustralia.com.au.
Reminder: Camp Australia Cancellation Process
Just reminding parents if your child is not attending the OSHC program on any day they are booked, you must let us know via
phone as we are to follow correct procedures in locating children who have not shown up. This will involve calling
parents, additional contacts then if not located the police. So please ensure you communicate if your child is not attending the
OSHC program.
Thanks. Kamaljit (Kammie)
OSHC ROOM ACTIVITIES
Outdoor Games Christmas Craft Building Blocks Lego Book Making
Community Notice If you have any unused toys or recyclable equipment that you feel would be useful for
any craft or art activities we would really appreciate any donations. Thank you.
