This week is Education Week. It is a time to celebrate public education. The theme for this year’s Education Week is ‘Shared stories, better learning, stronger communities’. I invite you to join in with our celebrations and see some of the great things that happen here at Morgan Street Public School.

Tuesday 2nd August ICAS English Competition

Wednesday 3rd August Barrier Schools Choral Festival Broken Hill Musicians Club Morgan Street choirs will be singing in the morning session commencing at 11.00 am

Tickets: Adults $5 Children/Concession $2

Thursday 4th August Open Classrooms 10.00 - 11.00 am Visit your child’s classroom and join in with the planned activities.

Morning Tea 11.00 am. Enjoy recess with your child. Tea and coffee will be available in the 3-6 underfloor.

Dance-a-thon 11.30 am in the K-2 playground. Feel free to join in with all the dances.

Broken Hill Athletics Carnival Field Events Picton Oval 3.30 pm

Friday 5th August Broken Hill Athletics Carnival Track Events Picton Oval 9.30 pm

Assembly - School Hall 11.20 am.

Monday 1st August 2016 Term 3 Week 3

MORGIE NEWS Telephone: 08 8087 5155 Relieving Principal: Ms Carol Muir Fax: 08 8087 3729 Email: morganst-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage: www.morganst-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Important Dates

Tuesday 9th August MSPS Senior Public

Speaking Competition

Wednesday 10th August

MSPS Junior Public Speaking Competition

Year 6 Transition to

Willyama High School 11.15 - 1 pm

Book Week

Parade Tuesday

23rd August

What book character will

you come dressed as?

Excursions

School Excursions commence in Week 8.

Regular contributions are

welcomed by cash, cheque or eftpos.

Due dates for final payments are as follows:

Yr 3 Kinchega - 26th August Yr 4 Victor Harbor - 26th August Yr 5 Narrabeen - 5th September

Yr 6 Canberra - 29th August

Voluntary Contributions

Voluntary contr ibution

statements were posted last

week. Your contribution

helps to provide valuable

resources for our school.

Contributions may be paid

by cash, cheque or eftpos.

Thank you

This week’s assembly will be hosted by 1K

Assembly starts

at 11.20am on Friday

“Proud Morgies learning together”

Last week the K-2 students had a visit from

the EnviroMentors program sponsored by

the Broken Hill City Council. They learnt

about litter and how it damages our

environment and what they should do with

their rubbish.

KS students knew all the

right answers and enjoyed

the ‘picking up rubbish’

relay.

Keep up the great work Morgies!

HEARING TESTS

Australian Hearing, in partnership with the Broken

Hill Department of Rural Health, will be providing

targeted hearing screening for students aged 5 to 7

years at Morgan Street Public School in Term

3. This screening is aimed at children whose care-

givers or teachers hold concerns for their hearing.

You might be concerned for your child’s hearing if

they often don’t respond to sound or if they are

often asking for you to repeat things. If you would

like to have your child’s hearing tested, complete a

consent form from the K-2 office and return the

form by the Tuesday 2nd August 2016.

KK Indy Philpott KS Shelby Weinert

Brayden Lingard Ashton Bishop

1K Damon Gollagher 1L Jahayla Knott

Lilly-Rose O’Neill Raphael Connor

2D Abinav Murugappa 2H Macey Howse

Imogen Hammond-Jelbert Thomas McInnes

3C Seb Miani 3G Cheyenne Lugg

Demi Chrisakis Jobe Lihou

4F Charlie Tassel 4M Finley Adams

Drew Degoumois Taylor Nejaim

5S Jay Cannard 5W Jorja McHenry

Baylee Weinert Angel Lewis

6E Coen Berryman 6M Grace Cranby

Ebonee Adams Edan Groves

3C 5S 6E

KK 1K

Mrs Jones: Mackenzie Leecroft, Eloise

Sulicich

Mrs Nicholls: Ben Storey

Peer Awards: Cheyenne Lugg, Oscar

Sulicich, Jorja McHenry, Emma Cranby,

Conrad Coombes, Ray Hunter, Isabella

Sprigg, Jacob Johnson, Evelyn Mann,

Harper Pettitt, Austin Singleton, Isobelle

Gogler

6MEGASTARS

6M have been working hard learning new things. At times

learning become hard and sometimes we want to give up. When

that happens it means we are in the ‘Learning Pit’ and that is a

good place to be because we are acquiring new skills. Our

teachers, Ms Muir, Mrs Dougherty and

Mr Jordan, help us to climb out of the pit

by teaching us different strategies.

These strategies include asking questions,

trying things different ways and working

collaboratively.

We will always be in

and out of the

learning pit which is

OK!

6M welcomes Mr

Jordan who will

be teaching us

some of the time

while Ms Muir is

Relieving

Principal

We love doing art with Ms

Muir and have been

learning how to paint

landscapes. We think

they look awesome.

We are getting excited about a number of things coming our way

soon. Our coming attractions include:

High school transition visits - Our first one is next week!

Public Speaking competition - many of us have worked hard on

writing our speeches last term

Canberra excursion—our last excursion in primary school!!

6M have been studying Global

Connections in HSIE. We have

learnt about ways in which

Australia is connected to the

rest of the world. One way is

through importing and exporting

goods and services. We did a

project on an Australian export

product. There were many

different topics researched and

presented in different ways.

Kiara did an awesome job with

her topic ‘Vegemite’.

Community News

Redgum Book Club term 3

Catalogues have been sent home and every order earns rewards for our school! All orders include a free gift for your child

and will be delivered to the school by 2nd

September.

Please order online by Tuesday 16th

August. The website contains thousands of books from previous

catalogues, so please use their search field to browse by author, series, or keyword.

Alternatively, view the term 3 catalogue at:

https://issuu.com/redgumbookclub/docs/7067_rg_catalogue_term_3_2016_web

and visit www.redgumbookclub.com.au to order. Redgum Book Club accepts Paypal, and credit card.

If you have any queries or questions about Redgum Book Club orders, please contact Caroline Thomas at primary@redgumbookclub.com.au or call 1800 753 875.

Redgum Book Club supports Australian authors, illustrators and publishers to provide books specifically relevant to our

Southern Hemisphere and keep our Australian children’s book industry strong.

NOTES SENT HOME RECENTLY

If you did not receive any notes relevant to your child, please see the office staff.

NOTE WHO? ACTION

Year 6 - 7 Transition Program Year 6 Return permission note as soon as possible

Dance-A-Thon information and sponsor form K-6 Sponsor money due in by Friday 12th August 2016

Sport Notes 3-6 Return by Friday 29th July 2016

Broken Hill League Tag for

Children Aged 6-14 Lamb Oval

Sunday mornings 10am - 12 noon

Commencing Sunday 31st July for 5 weeks

Further Registrations will be taken this

Sunday 7th August

Registration for 2016 - $25

Each child will receive a T-shirt and

participation trophy