Melton Primary School NewsletterP: 9743 5335 E: melton.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au W: http://www.meltonps.vic.edu.au

Monday 21st August, 2017

From the Principal's deskDistrict AthleticsBraving the cold, wind and rain, a number of our students energetically represented MPS at the District Athletics. Two days of track and field events, saw several of our students successfully obtain a position of 1st, 2nd or 3rd for their events. Well done to all of the students who were awarded ribbons for their performance. Congratulations to our students who were the age group champion for their age group. These students were awarded a medallion for their amazing work. Melton Primary won the school shield for being the overall champions. Well done to all of our students, we are extremely proud of your efforts and performance. Thank you to Miss Morrissy, Mrs Partridge, Miss Marriott and Miss Taylor for your organisation and supervision on the days. Good luck to all of our students who will go onto represent our district at the divisional athletics on the 13th September.

Child Safe StandardsEveryone has the right to be safe and protected from abuse. At Melton Primary School we have an embedded organisational culture of child safety. If you suspect something, have questions or concerns in relation to any child, say something. We are able to provide support, assistance and help on what to do next. It is everyone’s responsibility to protect children from abuse.

School ReviewLast week we participated in our first day of a two day school review. On this day an independent reviewer, 2 challenge Principals, Senior Educational Improvement Leader, School Council President and the senior leadership team reviewed the school’s performance over the past few years. Prior to the day the school had completed an extensive self evaluation document highlighting successes, gaps and opportunities for further development. Day 2 of the review will be spent on setting the direction, goals and targets of the next 4 years. Thank you to all of the members of our community who have provided feedback that assisted with the school self evaluation.

From the Principal's deskOnline AssemblyLast week Mr Gallagher and our school captains hosted our updated online assembly. Thank you to those families that tuned in and enjoyed the opportunity to see your child/ren receive their student of the week award. As we delayed assembly a fortnight ago, we will host another assembly online this week.

Family Art ShowTo highlight different areas of our curriculum, this year we are hosting a family art show in term 4. This show will provide families with the opportunity to come together and create artworks whilst also viewing and admiring the wonderful work that has been completed by our students. Stay tuned as more details are published in the next newsletter.

Smoking banned within 4 metres of entry to the school groundsA friendly reminder that smoking is banned within 4 metres of the entry of any school ground. If you are a smoker, please ensure that you are more than 4 metres away from the school fence before you commence smoking.

Parent Opinion Survey 2017A reminder that if you were randomly selected to participate in our parent opinion survey, it needs to be completed by 27th August. For further information, please speak to you child’s teacher or visit: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/management/improvement/Pages/performsurveyparent.aspx

Father’s Day StallA friendly reminder that this Wednesday 23rd August we are hosting our Father’s Day stall. Please remember to send some money along with your child so that they can purchase from the stall.

Vanessa HarrisonActing Principal

Reporting student achievement in semester 2.During semester 2, your child’s learning will be reported to you via two platforms.

Throughout the term, via Class Dojo, you will receive updates about how your child is progressing with their individual learning goals in reading, writing and mathematics. At the

end of the semester you will receive a hard copy of your child’s results in relation to the standards of the Victorian Curriculum, their progress in the classroom with effort and

behaviour and updated learning goals for your child to work towards in 2018.This year we have trialled using Kept me as a platform to communicate student

achievement. Although we were able to provide examples of student learning, our parent community is not engaging in Kept me as we would have hoped. Which is why we have

chosen to use Class Dojo to communicate student progress as a greater percentage of our families access and communicate with us via Class Dojo. If you are yet to set up an account on Class Dojo, please speak to your classroom teacher for some support.

If you would like your child’s Kept me portfolio printed into hard copy format, please contact the office and we will ensure that a copy of your child’s story is sent home.

Key Dates for Term 3August

21st Early Bird Readers 8:15am22nd Breakfast Club 8:20am23rd Early Bird Readers 8:15am

Father’s Day StallAssembly online 2:30pm

24th Early Bird Readers 8:15am Grade 6 Stamp Out Graffiti Incursion25th Grade 1 Melbourne Museum Excursion28th Early Bird Readers 8:15am

Grade 3 & 4 Camp to Phillip Island29th Breakfast Club 8:20am

Grade 3 & 4 Camp to Phillip Island30th Early Bird Readers 8:15am

Grade 3 & 4 Camp to Phillip IslandF-2 Book Week Dress Up Day

31st Early Bird Readers 8:15amSchool Review Day 2

September3rd Father’s Day4th-8th National Literacy & Numeracy Week Early Bird Readers 8:15am5th Breakfast Club 8:20am

Grade 2 excursion to Werribee Zoo6th Early Bird Readers 8:15am

Assembly online7th Early Bird Readers 8:15am8th Grade 1 Disco11th Early Bird Readers 8:15am12th Breakfast Club 8:20am13th Early Bird Readers 8:15am

Divisional Athletics - selected students only14th Early Bird Readers 8:15am

Grade 4 Project Rockit Incursion15th Grade 2 Sleepover

Key Dates for Term 3

September18th Early Bird Readers 8:15am19th Breakfast Club 8:20am

Footy Colours Day20th Early Bird Readers 8:15am

Cultural Diversity AfternoonAssembly onlineSchool Council

21st Early Bird Readers 8:15amF-2 Athletics CarnivalGrade 5 Arts Excursion

22nd 3-6 Swimming CarnivalLast Day of term 3, school finishes at 2:30pm

October9th Term 4 Commences

Early Bird Readers 8:15am10th Breakfast Club 8:20am11th Early Bird Readers 8:15am12th Early Bird Readers 8:15am16th Early Bird Readers 8:15am17th Breakfast Club 8:20am18th Early Bird Readers 8:15am19th Early Bird Readers 8:15am23rd Early Bird Readers 8:15am24th Breakfast Club 8:20am25th Early Bird Readers 8:15am26th Early Bird Readers 8:15am30th Early Bird Readers 8:15am31st Breakfast Club 8:20am

Key Dates for Term 4

F- 2 Book

Week 2017To celebrate Book Week we are hosting a dress up

book parade for the junior students.

The 2017 theme of book week is to Escape to Everywhere!

F-2 Book Week Dress Up Parade will be held on Wednesday 30th August at

2:05pm on the tennis court (weather permitting, otherwise it will be in the gym).

Start organising your costume today. Prizes will be awarded at each year level. Parents are

welcome to attend.

3- 6 Book

Week 201719th - 26th August

To celebrate Book Week we are hosting a dress up day for the senior students on

Friday 1st September. The 2017 theme of book week is to Escape to

Everywhere!

Due to the grade 3&4 camp senior students are able to dress up on Friday 1st

September.

Start organising your costume today. Prizes will be awarded at each year level.

National Literacy and Numeracy Week 2017

4th - 10th September

Build our Galaxy Help us to build our galaxy in the library by writing the title of each book that you read this week onto a star. Prizes will be awarded to the senior and junior classes that read the most books in the week.

Create your own funky bookmark!

At lunchtime in room 25, come and create your own bookmark:

Monday - Grade 5 & 6 Wednesday - Foundation, Grade 1 & Grade 2 Friday - Grade 3 & 4

Book TriviaCome along to the BER building to compete against other teams in book trivia. Book prizes will be awarded.

F-2 - Tuesday lunchtime3-6 - Thursday lunchtime

Annual LLI Play Extravaganza

Students in LLI will perform short familiar plays that they have practised during LLI to their parents. Grade 2 - sessions 1 & 2 on Friday 10th & Grade 1 - sessions 3 & 4 on Friday 10th September.

Guess your teacher's favourite picture story book.Each student will have the opportunity to guess their teacher’s favourite picture story book from a selection of 5 books. Students who guess correctly will go in a draw to win a prize.

Year 1What’s been happening in

Grade 1?Big WritesWe have completed some extraordinary Big Writes this term. During the first half of the term we have focussed on narratives. We have worked on uplevelling our vocabulary, punctuation and have begun learning about modifying sentence openers. ReadingIn reading, we have been focussing on developing our fluency and expression when reading aloud. We have also been learning to infer character’s actions and feelings. MoneyOur week 4 and 5 maths workshop groups focussed on the area of money. We have been learning to identify, order and even count amounts of money. HistoryIn history we have been learning about how lifestyles have changed from the times of our parents and grandparents to life today. We have looked at how everyday household objects and items have changed. We have even began to create some of our own designs for the future.

Other Reminders:- A payment of $10 for the Grade 1 disco is due on

Thursday 31st August. The actual disco will be held on Friday 8th September, from 5pm-7:30pm in the school gym. Parents will need to sign their child in at the sign in table and sign their child out when they come to collect them.

- Please complete the talk homework with your child and return the forms to school by the due date.

- Spelling homework is due each Friday.- Take home readers, home reading log books and

M100W folders should be brought back to school every day. Students taking part in the LLI program should read their LLI books as part of their home reading. These books should be recorded in students home reading diaries.

Upcoming Melbourne Museum Excursion

This Friday, 25th August, the Grade 1 students are off on an amazing excursion to the Melbourne Museum. Please ensure students bring along their snack and lunch in two separate clearly labelled plastic bags. Please also ensure your child has a drink for the day. Full school uniform is required. Please ensure that students arrive on time as the bus will be leaving at 9am sharp.

Year 3 Project Rockit IncursionOn Wednesday the 16th August, the grade 3 students and 3/4 A participated in a workshop focusing on ‘Friendship and Social Skills’.

The students explored the content and messages (empowerment, self-awareness and celebrating diversity) within the workshop by participating in a variety of role plays, activities and interactive discussion.

Important Reminders:

- 28th to 30th Aug - Camp to Phillip Island- Luggage will be loaded onto the buses at 8.30- Buses will depart school at 9am

Year 5Look what we’ve been doing in Inquiry:

The grade 5 students believe

keeping fit and healthy is very

important for kids and adults.

The students decided to

promote the importance of

this through various sport

clinics during their lunch

times and preparing

informative booklets about

healthy eating and how to

cope with stress. Check out

our amazing students running

their clinics:

We had lots of fun running our netball clinic. We practiced passing, shooting and defending with the students and we finished with a mini game. All the participants trained well and the two students who received a nike drink bottle for showing the most support and effort were Izale from 4C and Sarah from 4C. Jelena, Nomeneta, Emily and Mia.

Our basketball clinic went really well. All the participants listened and followed all the instructions we gave. We hope the students had fun and learnt some new skills for basketball. Kade, Zac and Jake.

Our obstacle course ran really well. The students had fun and everyone was jumping up and down with joy on their faces. Kiera and Abuk.

Please donate

your old mobile

phones at the office.

Some Year 5 students

are raising support

for gorillas as a part of their inquiry project. Please help.

Djerriwarrh Festival Update

Dear Parents and Families,

The Djerriwarrh Festival, which will be held on Saturday 18th November, is drawing closer. The festival committee have decided that this year’s theme will be: ‘I Belong. A Celebration of our Community’. Melton Primary School will be representing this theme by celebrating the different cultures which make up our school community. We will be sending out permission forms to take part in Melton Primary School’s entry for the Street Parade very shortly so please keep an eye out for this form in the coming weeks. If you would like to help out with the preparations for the day please contact Mrs Collins or Mr Roberts.We are particularly looking for students who have national costume and would be prepared to wear it in the parade. If you would be able to help out with this it would be much appreciated.

Chaplaincy

ProgramHello, my name is Marina Dyson and I’ve been the chaplain at MPS

since September 2015 and in that time have had the chance to meet and work with a number of our families and their children.

Chaplains pastorally care for the members of school and wider communities. They respond to issues and critical incidents as they

arise, as well as facilitating relationship building, small group delivery and programs to ensure improved wellbeing outcomes for

young people and their communities.

The kinds of issues that a chaplain deals with can include: social/ relationship issues, peer relationships, loneliness and bullying;

family relationship issues;the development of the self - sense of purpose, self-esteem, and

mental health; dealing with grief and loss and managing emotions.

Fun facts: I have experience working as a teacher and counsellor.

I’m married with a 21 year old son.

I enjoy exercising, eating out, spending time with family and friends and relaxing.

What I enjoy most about my role is being able to get to know our school community and making myself available when support is needed. If we haven’t yet met or even if we have, please drop in for a cuppa and a chat. I’m available on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment. Please contact the office or drop by the Welfare Office located in the BER building.

I look forward to meeting you!

Regards

Marina Dyson

Melton Primary School is participating in Woolworths’ Earn and Learn program for 2017.

Please drop off your completed sticker sheets by the end of Term 3.Spare empty sheets can be collected at the office.

Thank you for supporting Melton Primary School

Student Banking Congratulations to the following students who received student

banking prizes. If you would like to become a Melton Primary School banker, please come and see the office.

Phoenix 3/4ALevi 2BCharlotte 2B

As of the 28th of August all students are required to wear a school hat while outside. School hats are on sale now and can be

purchased from the office. Thank you for being sun smart at

Melton Primary School.

Wide Brim Hat - $6 Bucket Hat - $5

News from the Attendance Desk

If your child is going to be away you can enter an absence via the Skoolbag App or on the Absence Hotline on 9743 5335 then press 1 to report an absence.

Attendance Awards 2B, 6A, 6B

Well done to the following classes for making

the greatest improvement to their overall

classroom attendance. Keep up the great

work!!

FA & 1E For continued whole class excellent

attendance!! WAY TO GO YOU ROCK!