MORGIE NEWS Telephone: 08 8087 5155 Principal: Mr Sco Sanford Fax: 08 8087 3729 Email: [email protected]Webpage: www.morganst-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Monday 24th August Redgum Catalogue closes Thursday 20th August K-6 Cross Country Learning for all at Morgan Street Welcome to Week 5! We now move into the halfway mark of the term. It was wonderful on Friday to be able to have our students go off site to engage in sport. A big thank you to Miss Moldenhauer who completed our COVID-19 Safety Plans for the venues that we went to, no small task at all. Today we welcome two new staff members to our school, Miss Clara Stevenson who commences teaching in a RFF role across the school and Mr Ethan Kimball who commences as a School Learning Support Officer. We know that everyone in our Morgie family will make Clara and Ethan feel very welcome. We are now taking Kindergarten enrolments for 2021. If you have a child or know of a family who reside in our zone then please contact the Morgan Street office for further informaon. To be able to commence Kindergarten in 2021 students must turn five before 31st July 2021. We have received updated guidelines from the NSW Department of Educaon in relaon to ensuring we keep our schools and communies safe during the current pandemic. We will send further informaon home that shows how we as a school will be implemenng the revised guidelines to keep our students and community safe. In the meanme there is enhanced expectaons relang to students who are not well. In accordance with advice from NSW Health, parents and carers are reminded not to send children to school if they are unwell, even if they have the mildest flu-like symptoms. We are required to make arrangements for students who present as unwell or have flu like symptoms to be sent home. NSW Health have requested that schools encourage anyone who is unwell or has even mild flu- like symptoms, to arrange to be tested through their local medical praconer or one of the COVID-19 clinics. Students with flu like symptoms will need to provide a copy of a negave COVID-19 test result before being permied to return to school. Have a wonderful week of learning! Thought for the Week: “Life is about coming to terms with mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.” Sco Sanford Principal Monday 17th August 2020 Term 3 Week 5 Hot Dog with Sauce $3.50 Hot Dog with Sauce & Cheese $4.00 Fun in the sandpit
Welcome to Week 5! We now move into the halfway mark of the term. It was wonderful on Friday to be able to have our students go off site to engage in sport. A big thank you to Miss Moldenhauer who completed our COVID-19 Safety Plans for the venues that we went to, no small task at all.
Today we welcome two new staff members to our school, Miss Clara Stevenson who commences teaching in a RFF role across the school and Mr Ethan Kimball who commences as a School Learning Support Officer. We know that everyone in our Morgie family will make Clara and Ethan feel very welcome.
We are now taking Kindergarten enrolments for 2021. If you have a child or know of a family who reside in our zone then please contact the Morgan Street office for further information. To be able to commence Kindergarten in 2021 students must turn five before 31st July 2021.
We have received updated guidelines from the NSW Department of Education in relation to ensuring we keep our schools and communities safe during the current pandemic. We will send further information home that shows how we as a school will be implementing the revised guidelines to keep our students and community safe. In the meantime there is enhanced expectations relating to students who are not well. In accordance with advice from NSW Health, parents and carers are reminded not to send children to school if they are unwell, even if they have the mildest flu-like symptoms. We are required to make arrangements for students who present as unwell or have flu like symptoms to be sent home. NSW Health have requested that schools encourage anyone who is unwell or has even mild flu-like symptoms, to arrange to be tested through their local medical practitioner or one of the COVID-19 clinics. Students with flu like symptoms will need to provide a copy of a negative COVID-19 test result before being permitted to return to school.
Have a wonderful week of learning!
Thought for the Week: “Life is about coming to terms with mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.”
Scott Sanford Principal
Monday 17th August 2020 Term 3 Week 5
Hot Dog with
Sauce
$3.50
Hot Dog with Sauce &
Cheese $4.00
Fun in the sandpit
What’s been happening in
the Playground?
A group of creative builders were very busy last
week constructing a large castle in the 3-6 sandpit.
It was great to see so many students working
together on this creation. They are keen to
continue with their building this week.
We will check in on them throughout the week to
see what develops!
KD Archie Cox Reef Lewis Kai Reavill Harvey McDonald
KH Me’yah Hebbard Luka Maiden Henry Files Ruby Lake
1B Owen Cook Ava Weathersbee Sienna Hiscock Aastha Rejeesh
1/2S Jesse Ball Eli Johnson Danny Ling Willow Victory
2D Kayleigh Edwards Brooke Trenerry Preston Gillespie Pat Pinnuck
2K Zoey Pompeo Charlie Files Amity Trinder Connor Quinn
3W Pippa Howse Kaeden Bugmy-Judd Zahra Cawley Charlie Glasson
4B Keanu Johnson Braxden Jeffrey Addison James Brayden Lingard
4M Victoria Hanson Sage Edwards Shelby Weinert Bethany Jones
5A Scarlett Molloy Jacob Johnson Lee-Min Sheehan Lani Wolstenholme
5/6J Jake Smith Nala Rawlins Maddie Phillips Blayde Cain
6M Macy Bottrell Belladonna Quin Summa Howse Emmersen Lihou
Peer Recognition Awards:
Chloe Smith
Olivia Cowdrey
Walker Beavan-Kemp
Veda Spasojevic
Harry Johnson
Ruby Cvirn
Braydenc Kennewell
Macey Latham
Vera Boatswain
Kaitlin Glasson
Kye Roberts
Jobe Johnson
Dom Farrar
Jessie West
Lily Jinks
Jace Robertson
Cooper Johnson
Charli Fowler
Lewis Brain
Urmi Patel
Charlotte Campbell
Lane Darley
Patiharn Vine
Zahlia Delbridge
Molly Sultana
Honey McLeod-Hewitson
Giordi Passlow Classes of the Week
1B 1/2S 2D 2K 5/6J 6M
Lead Ted Visit
Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2
had a very special visitor last
week – Lead Ted! We learned lots
of important things about how
we can keep ourselves safe from
lead, and we got to have a very
soft cuddle too with Lead Ted!
NOTES SENT HOME RECENTLY
If you did not receive any notes relevant to your child, please see the office staff.
NOTE WHO? ACTION
Absence Letters 20/07/20 - 31/07/20 Please return slip with reason for absence to classroom
teacher
Focus Area: focus
Fully Connected Focus is a complete positive connection with an experience, learning opportunity,
performance, action, or interaction.
A Positive Focus is the driving force for positive living and directly influences the quality of people’s
learning, performing and overall living.
Student definition: To focus is to put my full attention to something, to concentrate only on it.
Being able to fully connect with a task or to a moment in time is a key driver of success in any area of life,
and building the skill to actively direct our focus in positive ways from moment to moment allows us to
move toward and to appreciate positive experiences and ultimately live our lives in positive ways as we
move toward our potential.
When students learn how to direct their focus to the present moment, learning is enhanced along with self-awareness and self-management. When children learn to develop the skills to direct their focus in positive ways, they experience more fulfilment, higher quality relationships and ultimately more enjoyment at home and at School.
Focusing is a skill that can be learned, trained, practiced, improved, coached and refined just like any skill.
When we learn that we have the capacity and the power, and ultimately the responsibility, to choose a
positive focus, our level of fulfilment within our life experience improves dramatically.
How can you support your children with this concept? As students build their focus skills they will also build confidence and self-esteem, and also improve
their communication and social skills, improving relationships at home
Assist children to remove as many distractions as possible when participating in activities at home by modelling focusing on one task at a time when possible.
Learning to direct their focus in positive ways teaches children to reframe mistakes into learning experiences, enhancing their potential, and building skills to see the opportunities in situations
With the implementation of focus skills, the classroom culture and energy will be more focused on applying the learning and on a positive learning experience, which can then flow into a child’s learning at home and in life
Improving focus skills and the ability of students to focus through distractions will improve the learning outcomes of all students, particularly those diagnosed with ADD/ADHD
For more information about the Positive Living Skills program visit www.positivelivingskills.com
