1 Tel: 9948 2257 Fax: 9907 0342 WEBSITE: hp://www.manlywest-p.schools.nsw.edu.au EMAIL: [email protected]P&C www.manlywestpandc.org.au Wednesday 21st March, 2018 Term 1 Week 8 Respect Responsibility Aspire Principal’s Report Diary Dates: Interview Bookings are open for parents to organize meeting times until 5:00pm on Thursday 22nd March. P&C AGM 27 th March 7pm; P&C meeting 7.30pm. Harmony Day and Anti Bullying/ Multi Cultural Officers Manly West acknowledges both these very significant events, however to honour these days appropriately, we incorporate them in our calendar so that it allows time for the SRC to initiate and communicate the activities as well as organise a date that allows for maximum participation. Harmony Day will be celebrated on the 6 th April and the National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence will be incorporated into our Wellbeing Bounce Back and PBEL programs next term. The SRC met today to discuss some of these actions. This week our Multicultural Officers were elected by their peers to lead Harmony Day. Congratulations to Aiden Morton, Eleanor Lucas and Ava Nicolson. District Swimming Congratulations and good luck to all the students representing Manly West PS who are competing today in the District Swimming Carnival. Thank you to Mrs Christy McMaster, Miss Martz and Mrs Gaynor for their preparation and organization in readiness for this carnival. Semester Accounts This week, Semester Accounts were emailed to parents. Please note, when making a payment you can go to the option ‘Other’, write ‘Fees’ in the ‘Payment Description’ and put in the amount you wish to pay. This amount can cover all family members in one transaction. Poetry Wall One of our students wanted to create a Poetry Wall to encourage students in our school to write creatively and share with peers. Summer Lockwood 6L initiated this concept and we now encourage our students to contribute to the wall in the foyer. Student News Congratulations to Cooper Fenn and Elijah Russell for their selection into the Sydney North Opens and 11 years Rugby League Trials. Congratulations and good luck to Ruby Pepar, Frida Koehler, Jarra Gooley, Jade Guichon and Chase Perrett for their selection in the Girls Hockey Trials yesterday. Congratulations and good luck to Jade Guichon, Chase Perrett, Octavia Willilams and Jessica Johnston who have been selected for the Sydney North Hockey Trials on 27th March at Wyong. Mrs Julie Organ Talia Black-Berryman, Jade Guichon, Grace Kirby & Octavia Williams at District Swimming. They came 4th in the relay.
Expectation Certificates: Tess Hutton, Daisy Willemse, Lucas Silver, Edward
Grant, Hugo Lawrence, William Atkinson, Charlie Wright, George Worley, Goldie
Conway, Willow Conway and Finn Veiga-Clark.
Bronze Banner: Lucas Silver.
Bushlink
Thank you to 4G, 4W, 2M, 1T and 6C for their efforts yesterday in
improving our school grounds. This involved mulching, removing litter
from the garden area and planting some new trees. Miss Topham
titled this photo, ‘Teamwork at Play’.
1T in Action 1T are learning to estimate and check length using informal units of
measurement.
Easter Hat Parade - Tuesday 27th March
Students in Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 6 will be participat-
ing in the Easter Hat Parade next Tuesday 27th March.
Parents are invited to a Welcome Morning Tea from 9:20am in the hall
hosted by the P & C. Raffle tickets and Manly West tea towels will be
on sale. The morning tea will flow into the start of the Easter Hat Parade at 9:45am. Please join us to watch the parade and bring a hat for sun protection. Please note, the event will take place in the hall if wet weather. There are feathers everywhere as students in Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 create their Easter bonnets with their buddies.
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Deputy Principal continued: Geologists at work 4G, 4M, 4J and 4W are studying the Science unit ‘Beneath Our Feet’.
They combined to analyse the rock and soil samples from their home environment.
Coles Sport for Schools Vouchers Thank you to all families who shop at Coles for placing your Coles Sport for School Vouchers in the collection box either at the store or outside the front office at school. A special thanks to the Yardley family for taking on the mighty job of collecting the vouchers from Coles. Alice is pictured with one week’s collection! We are busy creating our wish list.
NDIS Expo
Council invites residents with disability, their
carers and families to meet organisations that
provide options for their NDIS plan on
Wednesday 11 April, 10.30am-4.30pm at
Dee Why RSL. Special seminars will discuss
planning for young children 11am, students
and adults 1pm, reviews and appeals
3pm. Staff of the NDIS, the
Local Area Coordination and Ability Links will be
available to discuss your personal
situation. School Parking and Kiss and Drop Zones Reminder
Mrs Wendy Mwanga
Please Note
Maximum
Parking Time
2 Minutes
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Diary Dates
Thursday 22nd March
Primary Assembly
Mackellar Extension Class Entrance Test
5:00pm Closing off interview times for parents
Friday 23rd March
PSSA Winter trials
School Sport
Monday 26th March
Parent / teacher Interviews begin
Tuesday 27th March
9:20am P&C Easter Morning Tea
9:30am Year 3E, 3B & 3/4B Girls to Kimbriki
9:45am K-2 Easter Hat Parade
7:00pm P&C Annual General Meeting
7:30pm P&C Meeting in Library
Wednesday 28th March
Year 3G, 3R & 3/4B Boys to Kimbriki
Uniform Shop
Thursday
8:45-9:45am
Monday
2:45-3:45pm
Tour of the School and Open Day for New Families
9:45am Tuesday 3rd April — School Tour
9:45am Tuesday 5th June — Kindergarten 2019 Open Day
Chook Roster Saturday 24th March
Farmer family
Sunday 25th March Alver family
Lost Prodigy Scooter
Purple grips, red deck, front silver wheel, back wheel blue. If found please bring to the office.
Thank you
Kitchen Garden
In the Kitchen Garden this week...
Year 3 has been busy in the garden. This week we’ll be doing art work based
on flowering and fruit formation as well as tasting Baba Ganoush dip made from the
eggplant grown in our garden! Next week we are visiting the Eco-house and
garden at Kimbriki. It's a great excursion and will build on the childrens' knowledge
about composting, upcycling and growing food organically. It is a fantastic place to visit and is open
to the public 7 days a week. We encourage everyone to go and have a look. They also run courses
for adults on composting, worm farming and growing vegies organically.
Check out the website http://www.ecohouseandgarden.com.au/content/about-us
Here at Manly West, we're continuing the War on Waste. Have you had a chance to watch the latest
episode? Episode 4 "Turning the tide" is on ABC iView.
Free - hessian bags. Hanging on the fence at the Boyle Street gate. Useful as a blanket in your
compost bin or cut in half for your worm farm. They can also be used to collect garden clippings to
put out for council collection (if you're in the old Manly council area).
It is your legal responsibility to sign children in to BASC in the mornings to
hand-over duty of care. This also applies to older children.
Please do not bring dogs to BASC when dropping off or picking up your children.
Please let us know as early as possible if your child is not attending a session at BASC, even on
the morning for before school care, as we generally have parents who require emergency casual sessions.
CENTRE NEWS
Incursion/Enrichment Program- If possible, we would ask parents to collect their children after 5:30pm on the
relevant day.
W/C 19/3 (Week 8) W/C 26/3 (Week 9) K-2 Wednesday – Rock Pool Adventures Monday – Scientifix Show
Club 3/4 Monday – Fit Fantastic Boot Camp Tuesday – Gamerz Truck 5/6 Club Monday – Slime Time Tuesday – GoGo Play Gymnastics
Reports from our Room Leaders about some of the other activities this week –
Lauren: This week in K-2 room, indoors we are starting our wooden car track project, creating
personalised money, find-a-words and making emoji books. Outdoors we are playing continuous cricket,
cops and robbers and 44 homes.
Felix 3/4 club: This week for inside activities we will be finishing our ‘How Tall Are You?’ wall, doing
blind-folded drawing, letter/envelope making and creating a big Harmony Day poster with the children’s hand prints. Outside we will be doing group games on the oval, basketball, kids choice and soccer.
Annette 5/6 room: We’ll enjoy lots of hands on craft this week with Hama Beads and new 3D art kits to try.
We’ll make mandala style flextangles for Harmony Day too. Outside we’ll play ‘Wall Ball’, ‘Highball Catch’ on the oval and get out the mini nets for a game of tennis.
You can look at the full list of programmed activities and our menus displayed in each room!
WAITING LIST The waiting list continuously moves as families’ circumstances change. Further offers of placement will be going out this week. We understand it can be frustrating waiting for places but please be aware that due to regulation requirements we can only cater for 150 children per session.
Library News Please remember that your book club orders are due this week! If you would like to order from this term’s Scholastic Book Club, please do so online with the LOOP system or by sending in your order form and a cheque made out to ‘Scholastic Australia’ before or by this Friday 23rd March, 2018. This way the books will be delivered to you before the end of the term.
Wow, 65 Manly West readers have already started the Premier’s Reading Challenge by doing the reading then filling in their Student Reading Record online
at https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/logon.html ! These are students aspiring to achieve reading success! Once completed, please print out your reading record and turn it in to Mrs Burke or I in the library to receive your ASPIRE card, bookmark and get your name published in the newsletter. Don’t worry, there is still plenty of time to do the reading and fill
in your reading log. They are due before or by Friday, August 31st, 2018. Will your name appear here soon!?!?!?!
Come to the library at second half lunch for something different! K – 2 are welcome on Mondays and
Wednesdays whilst Years 3 - 6 can visit on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Mrs Burke, Mrs Swick and the Stage 3
Monitors (pictured below), look forward to seeing you in the library.
Canteen News Canteen roster for Term 1 2018, week commencing 26 March
Monday 26 March Tuesday 27 March Wednesday 28 March
Lyn Martin AM Marie Claire Johnston AM Glenys Motler AM Sasha Berwick AM Sunshine Estivo AM Helen Yardley AM VACANCY AM Jess Kirkham AM VACANCY AM Jenny Dean PM Amila Llewell PM Jen Bradley PM Tanya Fenn PM Caz Thompson PM Bob Cairns PM Thursday 29 March Friday 30 March
Lana Squires AM Kate Grant AM GOOD FRIDAY Tiane Olive AM Michael Egan PM Tony Falazarano PM
The AM shift runs from 9.30am-12pm, and the PM shift from 12-2pm.
To allow the canteen to schedule and gather new volunteers to fill vacancies we will be continuing to utilize the Signup page in 2018. If you can fill a recurring spot (once a month) or just fill one spot in Term 1, it all helps. You can also sign up family members (Gran, Papa, Aunt or Uncle) or pass on the information to fellow MW parents that you know would like to become part of the Canteen in 2018. Please visit www.manlywestpandc.org.au/canteen and click on the "Volunteer Button" Not tech savvy? E-mail [email protected]
NEW GREEN POWER SMOOTHIE From Emma and Tom. Vegies and fruit in a tasty drink with no added sugar or artificial ingredients. Only $2.50 PSSA Please remember to use the PSSA button if ordering online or write PSSA on your bag. No hot food can be ordered. TERM 2 MENU AND IN-HOUSE COOKING
There will be some exciting changes in Term 2 as we make more items in-house. Would any parents(2) like to join us for a cooking session on a Sunday afternoon shortly? Just call and register your interest. The 8th of April is the next possible date for this. Thanks for your continuing support. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Shona and Yvette on Tel: 9948 2257
Chess On Monday the 19th of March, 17 Manly West students from Years 2 to 6 travelled to Mona Vale Public School
for the Northern Beaches Primary Schools Chess Challenge. Congratulations to Ben Coghlan, John Engledew,
Cameron Green, Michael Hector, Zander Highland, Austin Holley, Louie Hurlow, Artem Kuchuk, Thomas Lawler, Kasper Lowe, Liam Poutney, Theo Ray, Austin Taylor, Luke Thompson, Alexander Vissarion, Leo Watanangura and Noah Zingsheim-Smith who were excellent ambassadors for our school.
The Manly West ‘A’ team comprised of Artem, Alexander and John were the best
placed Manly West team who finished equal 6th overall. Well done to all of chess players! A big thank you to Michelle, Kim, Belinda and Nicole for your help transporting and
