Term 2 Week 6 Tuesday 30th May 2017 Recognising Our Great Students Congratulations to the following students who received merit awards at yesterday’s K-6 assembly. Bronze: Mitchell, Jett Silver: Jayden, Jamie Gold: Chloe, Freya, Chloe, Lilly Eisteddfod Brilliance! Wow! Last week our 1/2 Choir and our 3-6 Choir travelled to Nowra to perform at the Entertainment Centre at the annual Shoalhaven Eisteddfod. What extraordinary results! The 1/2 Choir, first, and the 3-6 Choir, second. Well done Mrs Hicks, Ms Elenius, Mr Rutherford and Mrs Fair. Also, thanks to the entire Milton Public School community for your support of this prestigious competition. We would also like to acknowledge our school community for making sure the kids looked great and for making sure they were at school on time. Also, thank you to all those parents, family and friends who travelled to Nowra to be part of the audience. As George Windsor, the President of the Shoalhaven Eisteddfod Society always says, "The best crowd support is always from Milton Public School." Piano Brilliance! Well done Lucas McDonald! Winner of the “Edna Walker Trophy”. You were selected as the most promising Shoalhaven Pianist under the age of 14". MILTON PUBLIC SCHOOL THOMAS STREET (PO BOX 111) MILTON NSW 2538 PHONE: (02) 44551504 (02) 44551433 FAX: (02) 44540456 www.milton-p.schools.nsw.edu.au WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK WEDNESDAY Premiers Debating Challenge THURSDAY Year 2 Lake Tabourie Excursion Boys and Girls Soccer Knockout FRIDAY Regional Cross Country MONDAY K-6 Assembly TUESDAY School Banking—Bendigo Bank Year 1 visit to IGA MPS Multicultural Public Speaking Competition COMING EVENTS Verse Speaking Eisteddfod Wednesday 7th June Year 6 Shore Birds Thursday 8th June Eisteddfod Duologues Friday 9th June Queens Birthday Weekend Monday 12th June Food Allergy Please be aware that we do have children in our school that have severe allergies to peanuts and other nuts that could result in a life-threatening situation. This means that any contact with even a small trace of nuts, tasting, touching or smelling, could be potentially life-threatening. We do ask that you do not send any products containing nuts to school. This means: NO Nutella NO Peanut Butter NO Nuts of any type.
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Term 2 Week 6 Tuesday 30th May 2017
Recognising Our Great Students
Congratulations to the following students who received merit awards at yesterday’s K-6 assembly. Bronze: Mitchell, Jett Silver: Jayden, Jamie Gold: Chloe, Freya, Chloe, Lilly
Eisteddfod Brilliance!
Wow! Last week our 1/2 Choir and our 3-6 Choir travelled to Nowra to perform at the Entertainment Centre at the annual Shoalhaven Eisteddfod. What extraordinary results! The 1/2 Choir, first, and the 3-6 Choir, second. Well done Mrs Hicks, Ms Elenius, Mr Rutherford and Mrs Fair. Also, thanks to the entire Milton Public School community for your support of this prestigious competition. We would also like to acknowledge our school community for making sure the kids looked great and for making sure they were at school on time. Also, thank you to all those parents, family and friends who travelled to Nowra to be part of the audience. As George Windsor, the President of the Shoalhaven Eisteddfod Society always says, "The best crowd support is always from Milton Public School."
Piano Brilliance!
Well done Lucas McDonald! Winner of the “Edna Walker Trophy”. You were selected as the most promising Shoalhaven Pianist under the age of 14".
MILTON PUBLIC SCHOOL THOMAS STREET (PO BOX 111) MILTON NSW 2538 PHONE: (02) 44551504 (02) 44551433 FAX: (02) 44540456 www.milton-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK
WEDNESDAY
Premiers Debating Challenge THURSDAY
Year 2 Lake Tabourie Excursion
Boys and Girls Soccer Knockout FRIDAY
Regional Cross Country MONDAY
K-6 Assembly TUESDAY
School Banking—Bendigo Bank
Year 1 visit to IGA
MPS Multicultural Public Speaking Competition
COMING EVENTS
Verse Speaking Eisteddfod
Wednesday 7th June
Year 6 Shore Birds Thursday 8th June
Eisteddfod Duologues
Friday 9th June
Queens Birthday Weekend Monday 12th June
Food Allergy
Please be aware that we do have children in our school that have severe allergies to peanuts and other nuts that could result in a life-threatening situation. This means that any contact with even a small trace of nuts, tasting, touching or smelling, could be potentially life-threatening. We do ask that you do not send any products containing nuts to school. This means: NO Nutella NO Peanut Butter NO Nuts of any type.
NAPLAN Online
All students in years 3 & 5 across the state will be asked to participate in an online NAPLAN readiness test later this year. This test will not be scored; rather it is a trail run moving towards the 2019 introduction of online assessment. At this stage we have not been informed as to which dates our school will sit the test. We will pass this information on as soon as it is received. Included below is information provided by the Department of Education: Education ministers have agreed that NAPLAN will move online by 2019. All states, including NSW, will be involved in readiness activities this year. The activities are an opportunity for schools to become familiar with the NAPLAN Online test platform and identify any technical issues schools may have. The readiness test is not an assessment of student ability but is an opportunity for students to experience an online testing environment. NSW schools will participate in a school readiness test between 14 August and 22 September. The readiness test is a ‘practice run’ for schools to participate in a trial NAPLAN Online. The readiness test will allow schools to: ■ become familiar with the NAPLAN online test format and process. ■ check whether they have the technical capacity, rooms and devices to administer NAPLAN online. ■ provide students in NAPLAN years 3, 5, 7 & 9 with the opportunity to experience the online test question types and format. It is anticipated that the readiness test will include two assessments: a writing assessment* and a combined numeracy/literacy assessment. The duration of each assessment will be approximately 40 minutes. *Year 3 students will only be expected to complete the combined numeracy/literacy assessment.
Milton Public School Robotics Class
The robotics class started in term 2 this year. We have 18 students ranging from year 3-6. Mr Jason O’Neil and Dr Kevin Le are our mentors. We start very early at 7:30 AM every Monday morning. We bring our own lego robot to the class. We learn computer programming, engineering, science and maths by playing with our lego robots. We play problem solving games in class. Playing with technology is fun. We also buddy up with another student to form a team. We work together to find the solutions to the challenges our mentors give us. It is a great because we are learning by playing with our toys and our friends. We would like to enter the FLL (First Lego League) competition in November this year. This is an international competition where we have to build and program our robot to solve 20 challenges. We will also have to do a project to find simple innovative ways to improve the world we live in. The Robotics Team.
Messages to Students
We understand things change at the last minute sometimes, however there has been an increase in the number of parents phoning the office with arrangements for student pick-ups. Arrangements for pick-up should be organized prior to school starting to reduce class disruption.
Milton Ulladulla Little Athletics
Thank you to the Milton Ulladulla Little Athletics Association for lending us their high jump mats for training and the school athletics carnival and to Lane Williams' Dad, for transporting them to our school.
Kindergarten Enrolments 2018
Milton Public School is now taking enrolments for Kindergarten 2018. If you have a child that will be enrolled for Kindergarten in 2018 or you know of someone who does, please complete the Expression of Interest form available from Pre-schools, the school office or go to [email protected] and follow the links to kindergarten enrolment.
KC Assembly
KC will be running their very first assembly on Friday 2nd June. The K-2 entries for the eisteddfod will also be performing. All parents, friends and family are welcome to attend. The assembly begins at 10:45 and runs for approximately 35 minutes.
Kindergarten Request
Could each Kindergarten child please bring two glue sticks to school and give it to their class teacher. Thank you
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COMMUNITY NEWS
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