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Tel: 9948 2257 Fax: 9907 0342

WEBSITE: http://www.manlywest-p.schools.nsw.edu.au EMAIL: manlywest-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au P&C www.manlywestpandc.org.au

Wednesday 5th December, 2018 Term 4, Week 8

Respect Responsibility Aspire

Principal’s Report

Diary Dates: Friday 7th December 9:30am 3-6 Presentation Day. Final Payment due for Great Aussie Bush Camp. Tuesday 11th December Year 1 and 2 Presentation Day. Wednesday 12th December 9:30am Kindergarten Graduation.

PSSA Grand Finals Thank you to the Summer PSSA coaches Mr Richards, Mr Byrne, Mr Messent, Mrs McMaster, Mr Turner, Miss Topham, Ms FitzGerald and Mrs Paikea.

Well done to the Junior A & Senior A Eagle Tag Teams and the Newcombe B team who won their Grand Finals

to be crowned champions. Congratulations also to the Junior B Girls’ Eagle Tag who were Runners Up. Kindergarten –Year 1 Parent Transition Workshop. Thank you Mrs Jennifer Coombes (Milburn) for her outstanding presentation for the Kindergarten Parent Workshop held on Tuesday in readiness for parents of Year 1 students in 2019. The full presentation has been placed on the MW website for parents who were unable to attend. https://manlywest-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/

content/dam/doe/sws/schools/m/manlywest-p/news/2018/2019_Year_1_Parent_Information_Session_4.12.18.pdf

Year 5 students Congratulations to our Year 5 students who have displayed wonderful leadership qualities and resilience with the recent Prefect and Sport Elections. All students have utilised their knowledge of the Influential Person project and Leadership talks to choose sensibly and with incredible integrity. We are very proud of the Year 5 students and wish them all a very enjoyable Great Aussie Bush Camp experience. This will be a fabulous bonding opportunity in preparation for Year 6 in 2019. Thank you to the Year 5 teachers, Mrs Johnson, Miss Fitzgerald, Miss Martz and Miss Timmermanis for their preparation and organisation of

this event.

Battle of the Bands Presentation Congratulations to Penny Coucill and the four bands for their outstanding results this year. The Concert Band Captains were presented with a new flute as the prize for winning the Battle of the Bands this year.

Year 1 Science experiments Congratulations to Year 1 teachers and students for the collaborative organisation of the science experiment rotations on Tuesday. The students enjoyed a fabulous introduction to the wonders of science.

Notification to School Please write to the school if your child is leaving at the end of the year as we are organising classes for 2019 and need official documentation. Please write if you are on holidays and will be returning later that 30th January 2019. Reminder: COLA

The COLA foundations will start on Monday 10th Dec on the 3-6 asphalt area so there will be some

disruptions particularly for handball games during this time.

Student News Congratulations to Charlotte Blenkhorn who will appear in the Sydney Summer 2019 production of La Boheme. She has also been cast as Cosette in the Manly Music Society Production of Les Miserables next

April.

Mrs Julie Organ

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From the Deputy’s Desk Congratulations to the following students who received Expectation

Certificates: Leo Kozlinski, Indigo Burrow, Olive Stubbs, Valerie Pickup,

George O'Mahoney, Isla Berry, Maxx Brown, Sol Marks-Carless, Matilda

Nicholls, Orson Guena MacGregor, Raphael Mckay, Javier Catril, Calvin

Macnab, Clementine Jeston, Dan Oerlemans, Carly Neville, Zach Anderhov, Malia McGree,

Rose Hurlow, Louise Hurlow, Imogen Pooley and Eliza Babbington.

Bronze Banners: Calvin Macnab, Remy Snehor, Emilia O'Neill, George O'Mahony, Coco Neve,

Javier Catril and Malia McGree.

Semester Two Progress Reports On Thursday of next week, all students will bring home a sealed envelope with their Semester Two Progress Report. If you require an additional report due to a change in family arrangements, please inform your child’s

class teacher.

Additional Before and After School Care Options Recently we have added possible options for Before and After School Care to our website. Some of these providers also hold vacation care. If interested, please follow the link below. https://manlywest-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/supporting-our-students/before-after-school-care/other-external-

before-and-after-school-care-options.html Safety Alert For Child Protection reasons, we ask that parents and carers use the toilets located outside the front office, with or without toddlers. We also ask that if parents change nappies on school grounds that these are taken offsite for disposal.

Ethics in 2019

Are you interested in volunteering to teach Ethics in 2019? No teaching experience is necessary for this position as the role is more about facilitating discussion. Detailed, age-appropriate lesson plans are provided

by Primary Ethics.

Many parents have indicated that they would like their child to attend Ethics classes, however, we do not have enough volunteers to offer classes to all interested students. We currently provide Ethics to interested students in Years 2 - 6. We would like to continue this in 2019 and extend Ethics to students in younger grades.

Please consider volunteering or perhaps have an encouraging word to a community member who you think may be interested.

Becoming a volunteer Ethics teacher is simple:

View Mike McDonnell, a Manly West parent and Ethics teacher, speaking about teaching Ethics.

https://primaryethics.com.au/volunteer/ethics-teacher/ Classes take place at the following times: Years 5 and 6 9:20 - 9:50 Years 3 and 4 10:00 -10:30 Kindergarten, Year 1 and 2 10:40 -11:10

For more information regarding teaching Ethics, please contact our Ethics Coordinator, Lisa Palmer on palmerlisa@hotmail.co.uk Mrs Wendy Mwanga

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From the Deputy’s Desk

Expectation Certificate: Sophie Kassel, Tess Pepar, Sophia Gee x 2, Austin Holley, Lotus Meddings, Will Davis, Christopher Trimnell-Richard, Audrey Costello, John Engledew, Oliver Smart, Scarlett Hennessy x2, Elliot Taylor, Amalia Mauricio, Ashley Glenton x2, Jack Brown x3, Julia Brown x2, Grace Kirby and Kohia Berry x2.

Bronze Banner: Ciara Moore, Ruby Pepar, Tess Pepar, Jack Brown, Will Farrar, Scarlett Macnicol, Seamus Smart, Jeremy Dunford, Luca Snehor, and Will Farrar.

Silver Banner: Sophia Gee, Cubby Evans, Patrick Day, Ashley Corn, Henry Spence, Victoria Manchee, Catriona Bowring and Ella Cotton. Congratulations to Lyla Collins, Chloe Graham-Smith, Xenia Beck and Alyssa Aulburn for receiving GOLD Banners.

Presentation Day Assembly Friday 7th December 9:30am This Friday our Years 3-6 Presentation Assembly will be held commencing at 9:30am. Students who are receiving an award need to be in their full summer school uniform. Students not receiving an award may wear their sports uniform. Parents are welcome to attend. Please understand that seating will be limited as all 3-6

students attend.

Years 1 and 2 Presentation Day Assembly On Tuesday 11th December commencing at 9:30am, the Years 1 and 2 Presentation Assembly will take place in the hall. Students are required to wear full summer uniform if receiving an award. Other students may wear the uniform they normally wear on a Tuesday.

Year Two (Stage One) Transition to Year Three (Stage Two) 2019 Next week, Year Three teachers and students will host a Transition Meeting for our current Year Two students.

Following the meeting, Year 2 students will take home a note to share with parents.

Kindergarten Graduation Kindergarten Graduation will be held on Wednesday 12th December, commencing at 9:30am. All students are

required to wear full summer school uniform. We encourage all Kindergarten parents to attend

2019 Student Leadership Roles

Congratulations to all of the students in Year 5 who nominated for a leadership role for 2019. All students have demonstrated respect and resilience through this process. Thank you to the Year 5 teachers who have supported and encouraged all of our students.

Candy Canes At this time of year students like to give cards and candy canes or similar confectionery to their friends. As Manly West encourages healthy eating, we would appreciate your help by encouraging your child to place any confectionery they receive in their bag to take home.

Christmas Band Concert Once again, our bands have showcased their amazing talents under the guidance of Penny. All bands shared an array of their musical pieces with the odd Christmas Carol featuring. Congratulations to our band students on a wonderful evening. Our talented Year 6 students were presented with trophies in recognition of their achievements. Thank you especially to all our Year 6 students and parents who will be leaving us at the end of

the year. Your support and energy are part of what makes the Manly West Band Program so amazing. Havana Buckley and Patrick Day spoke beautifully as outgoing Band Captains.

Miss Catherine Wyles

The PBEL for this week is : Responsibility If given a red card from a staff member take the card to the office.

Say excuse me, in a clear voice and say it is an emergency.

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Uniform Shop

Thursday 13th December

8:45-9:45am

Chook Roster

Saturday 8th December

Petrie famiy

Sunday 9th December

Alver family

Diary Dates

Thursday 6th December

K&6 Buddy Lunch in Bicentennial Garden

Friday 7th December Pizza Lunch ALL bands

9:30am Year 3 –6 Presentation Day in Hall 12:30pm K-2 Assembly Final payment due for Aussie Bush Camp

Monday 10th December 7:30am for 8:00am departure Year 5 Great Aussie Bush Camp

Tuesday 11th December

Year 5 Great Aussie Bush Camp 9:30am Year 1 and 2 Presentation Day

Wednesday 12th December

Year 5 return from Great Aussie Bush Camp at approximately 3:45pm

9:30am Kindergarten Graduation

Library News Mrs Burke and I hope you have enjoyed reading lots of different stories,

information and books this year! Borrowing has finished for 2018, so please

return all library books as soon as possible. The first classes in K-2 and

the Primary grades who return ALL their library books will win a

class prize! Paying for lost or damaged books also counts as returning your

books. Please see me if you need to check or pay for a missing book. Go on

a big book hunt around your classrooms and homes then return them to the

library to help your class win! Will it be YOUR class?!?!?!?!?!?

This is the last week that our Year 5 Library Monitors will help in

the library at lunch as they are off to camp next week. They have

been amazing, and we hope they have a brilliant time next week.

Thank you so much and have loads of fun, Emily Alver, Charlotte

Blenkhorn, Sophia Bucknell, Ella Cotton, Bianca Fletcher,

William Hough, Ava Kilpatrick, Alysha Kwangkhiri, Jodie

Lewis, Jenel Safar, Katie Smith and Tim Verwohlt!

Happy camping, reading and returning!

Mrs Ellen Swick

Teacher Librarian

Congratulations to the following students who

were nominated for House Captain positions:

Charlie Campbell, John Engledew, Lucca Davis,

Michael Hector, Ollie Nicol, Levi Mullholland, Henry

Pascal, Henry Lucius, Gus Warner, Kenny Ward, Kodi

Glance, Ryder Hadnam, Tim Verhowlt, Sebastian

Scott, Thomas Mans, Elijah Russell, Gabriel Lucas,

Vance Hammond, Rafael Harvey, Nate Mater, Sam

Haddleton, Alex Mensdorff, Aleyna Bilgic, Erin

Butcher, Fran Ferreyra, Jarra Gooley, Zoe Burke,

Ruby Davies, Jemima Hugman, India Wood, Bella

Carter, Rosa Greville, Ava Kilpatrick, Rachel George,

Anna Gillies, Jade Guichon, Audrey Costello,

Jorja Kearnes, Amelia Carter, Sophia Gee, Gabrielle

Morrel-Schmidt, Matilda Doyle and Freida Kirkham.

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Kitchen Garden News In the Kitchen Garden this week…

Year 4 in the Garden

Year 4 will be unearthing potatoes this week as well as other garden jobs like building

compost, collecting seeds from crops that are finished, fertilising garden beds with compost and planting seeds

and seedlings of summer crops. They will also be printing Christmas gift wrap using fruit.

Year 5 in the Garden

Year 5J have planted corn, cucumber, zucchini, sunflowers and climbing beans in the wicking bed.

Year 2 in the Garden

Year 2 came for their lesson on the water cycle this week and took a terrarium back to the classroom to make

further observations. These are super fun and cheap to make - an excellent school holiday project or gift for

family and friends.

Kindy Planting

The flowers are already starting to bloom in the Kindy garden we

planted last week. Come and have a look! Please encourage your

Kindies to look after the flowers we planted and not pick them. If

you visit the school over the holidays, please water them.

Can you spare a few hours to help this Sunday?

Whole School Working Bee Sunday 9th

December from 2-4 pm .

We would like as many parents and

students as possible to come and help clear the gardens of rubbish and tidy up the garden

beds around the school. There will also be jobs to do in the Kitchen Garden.

Please bring gloves and long-handled rubbish grabbers if you have them for getting rubbish

from those hard to reach places. RSVP if you can come angie.penn@unswalumni.com.

All help is greatly appreciated.

Summer Holidays Watering Help

Can you help over the holidays with watering the garden? Summer is especially harsh on the Kitchen Garden.

Can you sign up to help water the garden over the holidays? If you will be bringing kitchen food scraps from

home to the school compost bins over the holidays we also ask that you sign up to help turn the compost bins.

Go to SignUpGenius search under my email address for ‘Kitchen Garden Helpers’ and sign yourself up for a day

that suits you.

Angie Penn and Beth Dowdle

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Canteen News Canteen roster for Term 4 2018, week commencing 10 December Monday 10 December Tuesday 11 December Wednesday 12 December Moya Land AM Tiane Olive AM VACANCY AM

Em Pepar AM Jess Kirkham AM VACANCY AM Jodie Adams AM VACANCY AM Bob Cairns AM Simone Massey PM Michelle Fighera PM Kate Thomas PM VACANCY PM Leah Ritchard PM Jo-ann Plowman PM Thursday 13 December Friday 14 December Vicky Stokes AM Sarah Hadnam AM Friday PSSA and after school

VACANCY AM VACANCY AM Sandra Shepherd AM VACANCY AM VACANCY Jess Bald PM VACANCY PM VACANCY Carolyn Miles PM Karina Davies PM Caoimhe Hokins PM VACANCY PM

The AM shift runs from 9.30am-12pm, and the PM shift from 12-2pm. You can sign up for shifts using SignUp. Just go to the new address https://www.manlywestpandc.org.au/volunteer and click on the Volunteer button. SignUp will send you reminders for your chosen day You can also contact us by email mwcanteen1@gmail.com, call Shona or Yvette on 9948 2257 or come and see us.

HELP NEEDED. Monday 10 th PM, Wednesday 12 th AM and Friday 14 th AM and PM We look forward to seeing you soon!

Shona and Yvette

Band News Congratulations to Penny and all of our bands for their wonderful performances at our End of Year Concert on Monday night. Penny would like to thank the students, tutors, parents and carers for their commitment to band over

the last year and for her beautiful gift. She was very touched by all of your

wonderful messages.

A very special thank you and farewell to Sarah Dowse who has been instrumental in the band committee over the past 13 years.

Sarah – thanks for all of your contributions, from band camp, to pizza lunches, wrangling parents and students to help and providing much needed support to Penny and the committee.

Last Thursday at Assembly the Band program was presented a new flute by Wayne Blackley from Blackley’s Estate Agents as the prize for winning Battle of the Bands. Congratulations again to the Concert Band and thank you to Blackley’s for sponsoring this great competition. There are only a few more dates left until we are finished for the year.

Performance Band - Final Rehearsal and 3-6 Presentation Day: A reminder that Performance Band has their final rehearsal on Thursday 6th December at 8.00am and that their final performance will be at the 3-6

Presentation Day on Friday 7th December at 9:30am.

Instrument Return - Friday 7th December: Could all students hiring instruments (EXCEPT FOR TRAINING

BAND) please return them to Nicole in the hall on Friday immediately after the assembly has finished.

Pizza Lunch Friday - 7th December at Lunch: All bands are invited to join Penny in the garden outside the Year 6 classrooms for our annual Pizza Lunch.

Training Band Final Rehearsal and 1-2 Presentation Day: A reminder that Training Band have their final rehearsal on Mon 10 Dec at 3.30pm and that they will perform at the Years1-2 Assembly on Tuesday at 9:30am.

Instrument Return - Tuesday 11th December: Could all Training Band students please return their instruments and ‘Accent on Achievement Books’ to the hall immediately after the assembly on Tuesday.

Band Lists 2019: Congratulations to all students. The band lists for 2019 have been posted on the notice board outside the office. Re-enrolments for band will commence from the 14th December.

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Manly West Before & After School Care CENTRE NEWS

Our incursion program continues this week. Reminder: If possible, we would ask parents to collect their children after 5:30pm on the relevant day.

W/C 03/12 (Week 8) W/C 10/12 (Week 9) K-2 Thursday – Slushies & Karaoke Wednesday – Crazy Xmas Show Club 3/4 Monday – Slushies & Karaoke Wednesday – Crazy Xmas Show 5/6 Club Friday – Slushies & Karaoke Wednesday – Crazy Xmas Show

Friday – Rockstar Workshop Reports from our Room Leaders about some of the activities this week –

Lauren: This week we will be creating Haiku’s Appreciation Cards, Finger Painting, summer drawing and

we’ll be starting our Christmas craft. Outdoors we will be playing Golden Child, bowling with the ¾ children, Touch Footy, elimination penalty shootouts, Numbered Soccer and Giant Skipping.

Ben & Felix 3/4 Club: Due to the continual outstanding behaviour of the year 3 & 4 children they are being

rewarded this week with a karaoke machine. Inside we will also be making our own tracing book and

creating some 3D pop up cards. Outside we will be integrating rugby and Snatch as well as playing Kick Tennis.

Annette 5/6 Room: This week we’ll test out the children’s knowledge of the world with a pin the country on

the map game. We’ll use our brand new textas and stickers for craft, play Pictionary and get outside for games on the oval, including Classic Catches, Snatch and Touch Footy.

You can look at the full list of programmed activities and our menus displayed in each room!

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Manly West Moes

Thank you to the Manly West community for your fantastic support with our fundraising

towards Movember. We have raised over $1000

to go towards men's health issues.

It is not too late to donate. Please visit our page

on the link:

https://moteam.co/manly-west-moes

Thanks again.

Steve Byrne

Jimmy Richards

Grant Turner

Manly West Moes

Summer PSSA Grand Finals

Last Friday was the culmination of our Summer PSSA competitions. Manly West had 4 teams qualify for

the Grand Finals.

The Junior Girl B’s Eagle Tag team were Runners Up in the Grand Final. The final score was 3-2 to Beacon Hill.

The Newcombe Ball B’s won their Grand Final against Harbord, winning the first set, losing the second set then winning the tie break 7-5.

The Junior A’s Boys Eagle Tag team played Harbord in the Grand Final. At fulltime the score was 3-3 so extra

time was required. Manly West scored in extra time to be crowned champions 4-3! This is the first time a Junior

boys Eagle Tag team has won a Manly PSSA competition.

The Senior Boys also played Harbord and in a tight game were victorious 3-2. This is only the second time Manly

West has won a Senior Boys Eagletag competition but the 2nd time in 4 years.

Congratulations to all teams and coaches for a great season.

Mr Steve Byrne

Lost

A student from 4M is missing his watch. It is a black G Shock watch. If

anyone has seen the watch could you kindly please return it to 4M’s

class room. Thank you very much.

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Drama at Balgowlah

Since 1983 the Creativity Through Drama

Workshops have been holding after-school

classes at Manly West Public School each term for

ages 5-7 and 7-11 years.

These workshops offer children the opportunity to

express themselves imaginatively and creatively

and build confidence and self-esteem through the

fun and excitement of drama.

Bookings are essential for these highly

popular classes.

Days and times:

Mondays 4-5 pm for 5-7 years

Tuesdays 4-5 pm for 5-7 years

Thursdays 4.15 – 5.15 pm for 7-11 years

For further details and bookings, please

contact Pat Whyman on 9949 3352.

Bilingual Kids @Manly West Public School

Our Spanish class for kids @Manly West Public School

has been a big success with children learning, enjoying

and speaking Español! Due to high demand we are ready

to offer more classes in 2019:

Mondays: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 pm Wednesdays: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 pm

Fridays: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 pm

Lessons will be held in a classroom at Manly West. The exact location will be available in 2019. Our program is designed to be fun, engaging, effective, practical and convenient and, in order to offer a quality learning environment, we only allow up to 8 kids per class.

Term 1-2019 registrations are now open!

Spots fill up quickly! Don’t miss the opportunity to expose your children to a second language.

For enrolments and further info please contact: Alejandra Grillo – 0434403427

info@spanishmi.com.au or visit www.spanishmi.com.au

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