Manilla Central School

Newsletter K-12 Newsletter No. 35

Monday, 23rd November, 2015

Secondary – Phone: 67 851 184, Fax: 67 852 138 Primary – Phone: 67 851 599, Fax: 67 851 705

Born to Read – Reading Day

Last Tuesday the annual Reading Day organised by Manilla Born to Read was held at Manilla Central School and St Michael’s school. The theme this year was “Unlock the secrets to reading” and the visiting Author was Frances Watts.

Students and children from Manilla Community Preschool, Manilla Long Day Care Centre, and Attunga Public School joined Manilla Central School and St Michael’s Students for a presentation by Frances including a question and answer session, as well as group activities based on her books, which included literature activities, drama and art and craft.

Winners of the creative writing competition and colouring competition were announced. Congratulations to everyone who received a prize.

Winners of the book

hunt competition will be announced

next week. The day

concluded with the signing of the wall which has become a

tradition of the Born to Read Reading Day. On Wednesday, Frances returned to run a writing workshop with students in 3/4B. Frances spoke about the book, Sword Girl, which they had been learning about. She also shared photos that inspired her writing and the class took part in different writing activities that included conjuring up medieval medicines, just like the story had. It was a fantastic experience and one that was thoroughly enjoyed by all students and Frances.

Photos: Frances Watts signing the wall and Manilla Central School students enjoying various reading day activities.

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Photos: More Reading Day fun. Captains Speeches

Last Thursday, sixteen year 5 students presented speeches to the school, parents, family and friends, as to why they should be elected for school captain in 2016. All

sixteen candidates should be commended for their fantastic effort. They delivered their speeches with great confidence, articulation and persuasion. The announcement of the successful candidates will be made at the school’s presentation day on Friday, 11th December. Good luck everyone.

Photo: Yr 5 students Holly Wagstaff, Taine Mackay, Jacob Faulks, Emma Scott, Jasmine Collier, Angela McCubbin, Emily McBride, Trudie Ison, Flynn Handsaker, Billy Scanlon-Lewis, Brock Russell, Cayden Jones, Alex Gregson, Reuben Nunn, Phoebe Riley and Shayia Davy-Darlington.

Uniform Awards

Congratulations to the winners of the uniform award in weeks 6 and 7 – Meaghan Hawley and Danni Roberts.

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Community Mutual Donation

Last Friday, Mrs Lynne Cooke from the Manilla Branch of the Community Mutual Group, presented a cheque to our school to purchase new musical instruments for our infants students. We would like to thank Community Mutual for your support. Our students will definitely benefit from this kind generosity.

3/4 F Assembly 3/4F hosted the school assembly last week. It was the last assembly for the year. They entertained us with a skit called “School in real life – kids’ style” which used song lyrics to help tell the story. It was very clever and entertaining, well done 3/4 F.

Gold, Gold, Gold!!

Last week, the final Gold Award recipients were presented with their certificates. Congratulations to everyone who has achieved Gold this year. Our school is very proud of this high achievement. All Gold students will have the pleasure of attending a Gold Party excursion next week.

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Premier’s Reading Challenge Awards

The Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2015 finished in August. Congratulations to the 74 students from our school that completed the challenge. Certificates were handed out at last week’s assembly. The benefits for students participating in the Challenge include: improved literacy, increased self-esteem, goal setting, and encouragement of independent learning and fostering of connections between students, families and schools. Your support of the school community throughout the Challenge is invaluable. We hope to see everyone participate again next year.

2015 Challenge statistics

Students who completed the Challenge - 272,440 Total books read - 7,492,209 Most popular book by Challenge level: K-2 ‘Pig the Pug’ by Aaron Blabey 3-4 ‘The Very Cranky Bear’ by Nick Bland 5-6 ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl 7-9 ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins

Homework Centre

Homework Centre has now finished for the year. We hope those students who took advantage of this opportunity benefited greatly.

Miss Country Australia Success

Graduated student, Reece Hawkins, and current student, Sophie Kemp, made their way to Port Macquarie for the Miss Country Australia Event. The girls attended a FREE confidence building Photoshoot. The girls all came together in the afternoon for the Runway/Catwalk class where the Country Girl coordinators focused on anti-bullying, self-esteem, team work, and confidence building. The girls were all asked to come together for a GHOST anti bullying campaign that many famous Australians have been involved in. The girls loved and enjoyed the event on the night with a few nerves and lots of excitement, the girls both qualified for the National Finals at the Gold Coast in June next year! The girls came out with amazing experience & so much more self-confidence.

Gold Party

We have over 70 students heading to Tamworth this Friday. This is our way of saying thank you for attaining gold level. This incentive is a part of our Positive Behaviour Learning Citizenship Program. Notes will be sent home today with gold students that will explain the itinerary and travel arrangements.

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Born To Read

We are conducting a quick Born to Read assembly tomorrow morning in order to present our book hunt winners with their book prizes. Over the past two weeks our students have been searching the town’s shop fronts and finding small pictures of books. They were to find fifteen in total.

PREP Class Celebration

Last Monday we held a celebration of the Manilla Prep (Kindergarten transition) program and shared the importance of running such a school readiness program with our parents. The students sang songs for their parents and received a certificate and Kindy pack, before devouring a lovely morning tea.

Mentoring Morning Tea

Today we said thank you to our volunteer mentors who worked with our Stage 5 students throughout 2016. Each Monday our volunteer mentors give up their time in order to give our students options and encourage pathways into further study and employment. Words cannot describe the appreciation we have for our community volunteers and the inspiration they give to our students. We look forward to continuing this program in 2016.

Pacific Games

We have two of our Manilla Central family participating in the Pacific games this week. Taylor Skelton is co-captain of the NSW All Schools Basketball team who will be playing against other state teams plus teams from across the Pacific nations. Mr Willis is managing the NSW Primary schools’ boys team. Both are currently in Adelaide preparing for the games.

Year 6 to 7 Orientation

We are conducting our last orientation afternoon this Wednesday. Once again our students will be involved in lots of hands on activities at the Secondary school.

P & C

The next P & C meeting will be held in the High School Library tomorrow night, Tuesday, 24th November at 6.00pm. All welcome.

Intensive Swimming

Intensive swimming commences for Year 2 this week. This will run daily for the next 2 weeks. Each day students need to bring their swimmers, sun safe swim shirt, $3.00 or season ticket number, towel, sunscreen, separate plastic bag for wet swimmers and thongs for walking to the pool.

New Student We would like to welcome a new 3/4F student, Stuart Moodie, to the Primary. Welcome Stuart.

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Primary Girls Captains’ Speeches Shayia Davy-Darlington Good morning, Mr Windred, teachers, students and visitors. My name is Shayia Davy-Darlington. I would like to talk today about being elected as your school captain in Manilla Central School 2016. An important part of being a school captain, a role model, is to be helpful and care for other students in the school and show respect to all teachers. I will do my best to assist and answer in any way possible, problems, questions any of the student body may have. It’s a big responsibility to promise to show respect and help others. And this is a promise I will keep if elected as one of your school captains. It would be nice to have more mufti days in this school. Thank you. Vote 1: Shayia Davy-Darlington. I will always try to show respect in this school. Holly Wagstaff Hello teachers, visitors, school students, Mr Windred and fellow candidates behind. If you don’t know me, my name is Holly Wagstaff. I would like to be one of your school captains for 2016. Why, because I have been at this amazing school for 6 years, I have represented this school in heaps of things like running, swimming, CAPERS, netball, basketball, cricket, touch, tag football and many more. If I become one of the captains, I would try to play more sports on the back oval and let everyone join in. I would try to stop the bullying going around and make this school more fun and a happier school. I would like to tell you guys about myself. I have lived in Manilla all my life. I live with my brother, Bailey, and my mum, Nioami. I go to my dad, Tony, and my step-mum, Maria, when I can. I love making and meeting new friends. I like talking to people and helping. I am nice, smart, funny, caring and very sporty, responsible, lovely, fun and good at listening and good to talk to and if you want to play a game, just ask me, and we might be able to play it one day at school. Well, before I finish, I would like to tell you guys about six years at this school. I loved coming to school when I was little. I loved the teachers, my friends and meeting new friends, school is fun, even though it’s hard. I enjoy school and the people at this school and I believe this school is number one for education and making great relationships. Thank you for listening. Good luck to all my fellow classmates and remember: Vote 1 – Holly Wagstaff. Thanks Jasmine Collier Good morning students, teachers and visitors. I now would like to tell you why I will be a great school captain for 2016. But first let me tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Jasmine Collier and I have been at Manilla Central School for six years. I have represented the school in various activities and some include netball, cricket, cross country and many more. But why do I want to go for school captain? Because I think I will do the school proud. I wear my uniform with pride, I help people in the playground and I always try my best at everything I’m asked to do. And remember, I’m always here for all my fellow students and the most important thing I can offer is FRIENDSHIP. Thank you for your time. Vote 1 – Jasmine Collier.

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Angela McCubbin Good Morning Mr Windred, school staff, fellow pupils and guests. For those who don’t know me, my name is Angela McCubbin; I have three sisters and one brother. Mr hobbies include basketball, athletics, reading, socialising with my friends and having fun. I have attended Manilla Central School since kindergarten. During my time, here, I have represented the school in many areas such as: cross country, cricket, swimming, chess, basketball, athletics, CAPERS, choir and have good sportsmanship. I believe that being a school captain requires: good leadership, being able to listen to all, good attendance, polite manners and helping out when it’s needed and knowing when it’s not. Being a school captain is not about being popular or cool, it’s about who can represent our school with leadership and honour in all areas. I believe I will make a good captain for our school, because I am polite, caring, understanding, east to approach and I always try my hardest at whatever I do. I can’t promise you fizzy drink in the bubblers or a room made of chocolate, but I can promise you that I will lead this school with great pride and show respect to all in our community. Thank you for your time and good luck to my fellow candidates. Trudie Ison Good morning guests, teachers, Mr Windred, students and my fellow candidates. For those who don’t know me, my name is Trudie Ison. I’m the 3rd generation on my mum’s side to attend this great school. I am the oldest of three. I have a brother, Ely, and a sister, Dominic, which also attend this school. Since I started school back in 2010, I’ve represented the school in a number of ways, such as swimming, netball, athletics, chess, CAPERS and running events and a number of awards, like being able to attend every gold party, receiving pupil of the year 3 years in a row. But my most proudest award was for Excellent Knowledge in my Aboriginal Heritage award which was out of the New England Area in 2012. I’ve been chosen to be a buddy two years in a row which is also a great achievement in my eyes as I get to welcome, guide and lead our youngest peers in their first and most important month of their schooling. I find myself to be honest, releiable, respectful and also hard working. I always have the willingness to help in any way or anybody, no matter what it is, nothing will be too big or too small because every one of my peers are important. So there are some of the reasons I would like to be a school captain. So, on that note, I thank each and every one for listening and remember – Vote 1 – Trudie Ison. Phoebe Riley Good morning Mr Windred and my fellow students. My name is Phoebe Riley and I’m here to talk to you and hope you will consider me for school captain for 2016. At Manilla Central School we begin, we achieve and we strive to always do our best. My older brother, Lachlan, and sister, Chelsie, both represented our lovely school as school captain when they both attended primary. I have been at Manilla Central School from the very first day of kindergarten till now. It’s been a happy journey for me since then and I can’t believe I’m now standing here talking in front of you. I hope to finish my schooling at Manilla Central. Today, I will be standing before you hoping that you pick me to become one of your leaders for 2016. If you consider picking me for your school captain, I will promise to be always there whenever anyone needs to talk or just to have a friend. I consider myself to be a caring and understanding person. I have represented our school in a number of events. I can’t promise you days off or no uniforms, but I can promise you to always try my best. Remember at Manilla Central we begin, we achieve and we strive to always do our best. Just remember – vote 1 – Phoebe Riley

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Emily McBride Good morning Mr Windred, teachers, students and visitors. My name is Emily McBride and I’m here to tell you why I’d like to be your Prime Minister, but since I’m too young, I’ll just go for the next best thing, your school captain. But first I’ll tell you a bit about myself. I was born in Gosford, which is a 5 hour drive from here. I moved to Manilla when I was 3 and I am an only child. In 2010 I started school here at Manilla Central and I’ve made a lot of friends. Being school captain is an exciting but huge responsibility. You have to run assemblies and represent the school at public ceremonies. So you need to know how to represent the school, which I have, in Zone Cross Country, Zone Swimming, CAPERS and Chess. I am a responsible and respectful person and I’m ready to help at all times. I have lots of ideas for the school, like more mufti days and fundraisers. If I am elected your school captain, I will always be ready to listen to your ideas. Our school has two mottos, “Respect Grows and Flows” and “I Begin, I Strive, I Achieve”. I believe in both mottos but I have another motto, “Ask not what your school can do for you, but what you can do for your school”. If anyone doesn’t know what that means, come and ask me afterwards. And remember, Vote 1, Emily McBride.

Emma Scott Hello and welcome, students, teachers, visitors and Mr Windred. For those who don’t know me, I’m Emma Scott and have attended Manilla Central School since kindergarten. As you would know, I’m nominating for school captain. Why? Because I believe I will be a brilliant leader. I’m an attentive student who always shows respect. I’m a nice, polite person who cares for fellow students. I have achieved gold level every year and have received several respect awards and a medallion. I have represented the school in netball, CAPERS, band, cricket, zone for athletics carnival and cross country. I love team sports and I regularly play netball with the Manilla Club. I also do swimming with the Manilla Swimming Club. If I were to be elected, I would continue the great tradition of past captains and ensure the morals and values of this great school would continue. And don’t forget vote me, Emma Scott, No. 1 for primary school captain. Thank you.

COMING EVENTS - Week 8

Mon, 23rd Nov Mentor Morning Tea - 10.20am 2G Intensive Swimming

Tue, 24th Nov 2G Intensive Swimming Born to Read Assembly 9.30am P & C Meeting – 6.00pm – Secondary Library

Wed, 25th Nov 2G Intensive Swimming Year 6 Orientation

Thu, 26th Nov 2G Intensive Swimming

Fri, 27th Nov 2G Intensive Swimming Gold Day

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