Term 1: Issue 2 15th February 2011

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Congratulations to our choir who sang beautifully on Friday at the opening of Operation Art Exhibition at the Orange Regional Art Gallery. They all looked fantastic and sounded great. Thanks to parents for taking the time to get your children to the venue. It was much appreciated by all.

Well done to our swimmers who competed in the OSSA Swimming Carnival yesterday. You should all be proud of your efforts representing our school.

Welcome back Helen! You were certainly missed here at Mullion Creek. Hope the heat in Wilcannia didn’t affect you too much. Now you can enjoy the beautiful climate and peacefulness here at Mullion Creek!

Our School Leaders for 2011 are Ben Gibson, Lucy Brisbane, Bethany Ostini and Genevieve Gill. We look forward to working with these fine young people and nurturing them through their leadership roles and responsibilities.

OSSA SWIMMING CARNIVAL Congratulations to Sophie Brisbane the 2011 Junior Girls OSSA Swimming Champion. A great effort considering Lucy is only 9 years old and has another year in that division. We are very proud of your achievement Sophie. Congratulations also to Lucy Brisbane also who will with Sophie,

District Carnival next Friday.

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el Gill swam a terrific swim to anchor the

the parents who supported our

12 students from our school who participated in the carnival. I was particularly proud of all the swimmers in the relay events swimming as hard as they could for their school. Just shows the great school spirit and competitiveness we have here at Mullion Creek Public. Special mention to Ben Gibson who wasn’t keen on

swimming and was there to support the team but swam the senior relay as the team was short of a swimmer. Ben you showed great school spirit and leadership.

Our senior girls Beth and Geexceptionally well competing in most events trying their best.

Well done Pa wonderful effort in your individual events and a great improvement to your swimming from last year.

Michasenior relay as did our surprise swimmer Luc Nelson who showed the competitive spirit he has as he raced our ex student Jeremiah in the final leg of the relay, it was a great swim off between the two boys.

Thank you tostudents and kept them in check throughout the day. Your assistance was much appreciated.

Mullion Creek Public School Newsletter “Striving for Success”

45 Long Point Road, Gay Stone, Principal Mullion Creek. 2800 Email: mullionck-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Phone: 6365 8382 Fax: 6365 8295 School Website: www.mullionck-p.school.nsw.edu.au

Coming events for Term 1 2010 • 21st Feb: Life Education Van

• 21st Feb: Stage 1 Art Workshop at Art Gallery

• 22nd Feb. Stage 2 art Workshops at Art Gallery

• 23rd Feb: Stage 3 Art Workshops at Art Gallery

• 22nd Feb: Visit from School Education Director Mr Paul Stirling

• 25th Feb: District Swimming Carnival

• 1st -2nd March Pricipal’s Conference Dubbo – Gay

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ART WORKSHOPS dents will be attending the

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EST START ASSESSMENT g the new kinders

A number of our stuOperation Art Workshops at the Orange Regional Gallery on 21st through to 23rd February. This is a great opportunity for our budding artists to work with artists and develop their skills in this area.

Mrs Sharon Cloete our art teacher has been asketo join the team of teachers who will be running these workshops. Congratulations Sharon

Students who will be attending these wwould have received notes last week. BMrs Mitchell has been assessinin Numeracy and Literacy. These assessments allow her to program relevant work for our new students and also the results are sent off to the DET to be analysed and compared to state and national results.

NO HAT NO PLAY Don’t forget the Mullion Creek Hat on

these hot days! CAPS NOT PERMITTED – ONLY SCHOOL HATS TO BE WORN.

FRUIT BREAK REMINDER

e bring some fruit

ARENT HELPERS rents who volunteered for

Families are asked to pleaseach morning so it can be cut up and shared among the students. PThank you to those pafruit break. Below is the roster and if you are able to help out with reading groups, please let us know as we would love to have you on board.

Monday Kylie Tuesday Belinda Wednesday Nicole Thursday Michelle Friday Colleen SPORTING NEWS

Carnival ebruary

District SwimmingThis will be held on Friday 25th F .

istrict & Regional Swimming Carnivals ch

DRegional Swimming Carnival Friday 11th Mar

SSA Athletics Carnival – Scheduled for Friday, 25th March

O

– Scheduled for 13th May

hursdays. Parents will be invoiced for costs.

The Conservatorium will offer instrument lessons d each

olled at the Conservatorium

The students have home reading sheets to ght and are rewarded for

ongratulations to our new P & C office bearers for

nt: ely,

& Kylie Gibson

ight, planning events for a great year ahead.

ing our school grounds and play spaces.

e would like to welcome back our many xtend a warm welcome to

OSSA Cross Country Tennis Lessons – will continue in Term 1 onT

MUSIC CONSERVATORIUM LESSONS

again in 2011. These lessons have starteWednesday. Thank you to the parents who transport theirs and other children each week to these lessons.

There are still vacancies if anyone is interested in having your child enrfor private/small group lessons.

HOME READING

complete each nicompleting these. Parents please encourage your child/children to read each night. It certainly makes a big difference if this becomes a habit. We see the results here at school.

& C NEWS PC2011.

President: Nicole Gill, Vice Preside Sonia McGinSecretary: Stephanie Nelson,Treasurer: Lisa Brisbane, Publicity Officer: Jo Shearim, Clothing Poo Belinda Fanningl: and Carewest Preschool Liason Officer: Matt Caligia. The P & C got off to a flying start on WednesdaynSome events coming up may include an outdoor movie night, a winter barn dance as well as running an election day cake stall and our usual favourites, the Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day stall.

Fundraising efforts will be targeted towards improv

All and any help is appreciated and we will be requesting yours! If you would like to help with a particular event or have another idea for fundraising, please let us know.

RESCHOOL NEWS PWreturning families and ethe Menzies, Maw & Smith families who are new to our Preschool. Entrolments for this year are nearly at capacity which is fabulous.

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With so many familiar faces the children have quickly settled back into the Prescho

 

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developing our partnership

has been lovely watching the new children being “shown the ropes” by our “big kids”.

We have been busy reconnecting with our friends & exploring some of the new resohave. As a result of our fundraising efforts last year we will soon be watching the children ride new scooters & bikes around the tennis court!

An important topic of discussion has been Sun Safety and what we should be doing to protourselves in the sun and the recent heat. The children are taking the responsibility of putting on sunscreen, wearing a hat and drinking plenty of water very seriously.

We are looking forward to another year of Preschool and furtherwith the school.

STUDENTS AWARDS

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M r t Certificates: Genevieve Gill

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 Nelson & Will Gibson, Cadence McGaw, er Shearim & Charlie Sutton. 

any Ostini, ucy Brisbane, Sophie Brisbane, Ben Gibson & Genevieve Gill. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO .......

SOPHIE BRISBANE 9 FEBRTH UARY LUCY BRISBANE FEBRUARY 18TH

Iceblocks eacher Awards:

K‐2  Water & milk iceblocks are available at lunch time during Term 1 for .50 cents each. 

Olivia Caulfield, SophiaRyan Smith, Christoph Yrs 3 ‐6  Brooke  Shearim,  Luc Nelson, Claire O’Connor, BethL

Waratah Junior Soccer/Football Club

Waratah Junior Soccer Club will hold registration for ms from under 6s to under 16s boys and girls on tea Saturday 26th February and Saturday 5th March between 10.00am – 2.00pm at the Waratah Sports Club.

For further information contact Joanne Sinclair 6362 0804 or joanne.sinclair@bigpond.com

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Hello from Kal ....

To all my friends at Mullion Creek public school,

I just thought I would write and say hello for 2011. I hope you are all are enjoying being back at school and are having a great year so far. I have been really flat out so far this year. I have just finished my collection of portraits for the National Gallery in Canberra competition. It's 11 portraits in total and the collection is titled, "Through the eye's of a child". It looks at different aspects of a child's life and it's also painted from my perspective, so the title of the collection holds a double meaning. Along with the portraits, I write a poem to go with each one, about the relationship I share with that child. It was a lot of work but I am very proud of it. I will send you some photos of my collection soon, if you'd like to see it.

As well as that I am busy with all my other subjects. I am doing trigonometry in Maths this term which is challenging but I am enjoying it. I am also studying Macbeth in English. We are half way through the play already and I am really enjoying it. My assignment for this week is to write and perform a Monologue about how Macbeth felt at the end of Scene 1 Act 7. I will send you down the video to look at on I am done. Hopefully it'll be good.

During the holidays my dad and I went to Melbourne. I won kid of the year again for my Science Squad and the prize was a 5 day trip to Melbourne. They sent us to Werribee Open range Zoo and we got to go on a Safari tour. We were in an open vehicle and the animals, (giraffes, Buffalos, zebras, hippos, etc) were all only a metre or two from the vehicle just roaming around. One giraffe put it's face right up near us. It was really cool. We also went to Melbourne Zoo, Melbourne Museum and a place called Science Works. It was a really fun trip. The last day we were there was the beginning of the Melbourne floods so we were happy to come home.

My Dad told me that you'd like me to write in the newsletter every month. I would really love to do that thanks for asking me. That really means a lot. He also said something about an art competition that I might be able to enter. I'd love to do that too and anything else I can be included in would be really great.

Anyway I hope you are all having fun at school and I am going to come and see you really really soon.

Have to run it's time for my English lesson,

From your friend,

Kal. (Maple)