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Phone: 07 54327271 Mobile: 0448520851 Email: admin@mamacreekss.eq.edu.au

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Ma Ma Messages Term 3 Issue 9 14/07/2021

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From the Principal’s Desk

Hello Parents and Caregivers Welcome back to the new semester and to a chilly start to the second half of our school year. Term 3 is shaping up to be another exciting term with plenty happening. Kicking off this weekend with our students being invited to sing the national anthem at the Gatton Show this Saturday. Over the holidays work on the first stage of our new eating area commenced. We will have to do without a flag pole and the rough surface in the area while we wait for the shelter to be erected. I ask people to take care while walking over that area. Here are some of the upcoming events this term:

Gatton Show Ma Ma Creek Exhibition Caffey Small Schools Athletics Carnival Fire Safety visit Mount Cootha Observatory – excursion Science Week Book Week Sporting schools -Touch football Ball games- Tenthill Ekka Show holiday NAIDOC day excursion School Sleepover – Rewards activity

Congratulations to the following winners of the Ma Ma Creek Exhibition Poster compe-tition. Prep - Year 2 1st Michael Muirhead (MMC S.S.) 2nd Zac Andrews (MMC S.S.) Highly commended: Charlie Stirton and Oliver Askew (both from MMC S.S.) Years 3 - 4 1st Colby Edgerton (MMC S.S.) 2nd Eliza Sutton (Mt Whitestone S.S.) Highly commended: Layla Gould and Hannah Sutton (both from Mt Whitestone) Years 5 - 6 1st Alice de Mey (MMC S.S.) 2nd Lilly Gray (MMC S.S.) Highly commended: Jakobi Gear-Brown and Connor Edgerton (both from Ma Ma Creek S.S.)

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Book Club orders are due Friday 23 July. Please ignore the Issue date on your catalogue 2020 is a misprint.

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Dates to Remember

Softball Thursday 15 and Tuesday July 20

Gatton Show Friday - Saturday July 16 - 17

Ma Ma Creek Exhibition Saturday July 24

Caffey Athletics Tuesday July 27 (9yrs - 12yrs)

Wednesday July 28 (whole school)

Fire Ed visit Friday July 30

Ekka Show Holiday Monday August 9

Observatory excursion Monday August 16

Pupil Free Day Friday September 3

School Sleep over Thursday September 9

Naidoc Day Excursion Thursday September 15

Gatton Show Not only will our students be singing at the show this weekend but their work will also be on display. Make sure you pop in and have a loo at their wonderful work while you are there. Staffing We have had a couple of changes in our staffing this semester. Vanessa Thompson (Chappy Ness) is coming in to replace Chappy Bec. Vanessa will be working Thursday’s and Friday’s. Miss Gogas will also be working with us again this semester. Miss Gogas will be working each Thursday. During that time she will be running our Playgroup in the morning and working with the 1’s and 2’s in the middle session. We look forward to having Miss Gogas and Chappy Ness join our school. Playgroup The Ma Ma Creek School’s Community Playgroup will begin this term. Our first session will be on Thursday July the 22nd. It will run each Thursday from 9:00-11:00. Flyers will be sent out in the next few days. The playgroup is open for any child who is not school aged. Sporting Schools We have our catchup sessions for Softball this Thursday and next Tuesday. Sessions will run from 2:30-4:00. We will also be running Touch Football coaching sessions after school this term. These sessions will be funded through the Sporting Schools Grant and will begin around week 3 this term.

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School Opinion Survey

The annual suite of School Opinion Surveys will be conducted in Term 3 and will close on 30 July 2021. All families, school staff and students in target year levels (5, 6, 8 and 11) will be invited to participate. We encourage you to take this opportunity to have your say about what our school does well, and how we can improve.

An invitation to complete the Parent/Caregiver Survey will be emailed to one parent/caregiver per fami-ly in the week beginning 5 July. The invitation will be sent from the Department of Education, not the school, and it will have the subject line School Opinion Survey for parents and caregivers, 2021. Check your junk email folders if you can’t find it. The survey can be completed as soon as the invitation is re-ceived and will take approximately 5 minutes using a computer, tablet or smart phone.

Preparations for Ma Ma Creek Exhibition are in full swing, This year will be the 85th of its kind and hav-ing to have a year of in 2020 made the committee even more dtermine3d to make this one special. We are kicking off with a massive multi-draw raffle to come out later this week to be drawn during the Bush Dance, held on the night of Saturday, 24 July. First prize, kindly donated by Betta Electrical in Gatton, will be a Grundig Bluetooth speaker as well as many other very attractive prizes. Tickets will be $2 or 3 for $5.

Please support our fresh young Bush Dance organising team and come along on the night. Ridgee Didge Bush Band will teach you everything you need to know about a Bush Dance and trusty hall volun-teers will look after you with supper and drinks.

The Exhibition booklet is out and also available online at Ma Ma Creek Community fb page or at the many generous businesses in Gatton. If you would like to be part of our very much valued team of vol-unteers, please get in touch with Ma Ma Creek State School or on 0407122325.

WE had our Community market last Saturday and although it was very windy, we had a great turnout with live music and fresh organic vegies sold for the school Project Club. The local paper turned up to take pictures and interviews. So look out for this during the week.

There will be a social afternoon with Ma Ma Creek Indoor Bowls coming up on a Monday after school in August. Keep your eyes on details to come out soon.

Please keep looking after our beautiful lettuce in the community garden, they are sure to be winners in Junior Produce at the Exhibition. We may even have strawberries enter!!

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