Murwillumbah East Newsletter...Murwillumbah East Newsletter Primary School Term 3, Week 9 13th September, 2016 “Partners in Learning” Parent Feedback Survey A quick reminder for

Murwillumbah East Primary School

Newsletter Term 3, Week 9

13th September, 2016

“Partners in Learning”

Parent Feedback Survey

A quick reminder for all parents who have yet to

take this online survey. It is extremely important

that we hear from as many of you as we can. If

you don’t have access to the internet, please feel

free to take the survey at school on one of our

laptops we have specifically set aside for this

purpose.

The survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to

complete and is completely confidential. The

parent survey will be open until Friday 25th

September 2016. Your responses are very much

appreciated. To take the survey, please go to the

following website.

https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/vqyr3

Far North Coast Public Speaking

Last Wednesday, Brita, Toby and Amon all

represented our school at the Far North Coast

Public Speaking competition at Murwillumbah PS.

All three students should be extremely proud of

their achievements and their ability to speak in

front of such large crowds. Toby progressed

through to the semi-finals and Brita excelled herself

by placing 3rd in the Stage 1 Division. Well done to

all three.

Bronze Award Morning Tea

Congratulations to our first group of students to

attend our Bronze Award Principal’s Morning Tea.

These students have all received 40 Bee awards. A

major achievement and one they should be very

proud of. We all had a great time doing what you

do at morning teas...eat and chat!

(For students that missed out due to the Gala

Cricket Day, we will catch them up in Term 4.)

Maths Olympiad

Last week we sent 4 teams of Year 5&6 students

off to Wollumbin HS to compete in a Maths

Olympiad. These events require a high level of

mathematical ability but more importantly a vast

range of problem solving skills.

I am very pleased to note that one of our teams

placed 1st! A monumental achievement.

Congratulations to Nick Sneesby, Jack Evans, Ben

Kingston and Lily Robinson.

Another one of our teams placed 4th. Students in

that team were Daniel Le Dan, Orla Power,

Cooper Wolf and Jacob Davidson.

Bronze Bee Award

Congratulations to the following students on

reaching their bronze award.

Dylan Conroy, Indigo Kennedy, Matilda Golds,

Joseph Lawson and Zach Simpson.

Be Safe Be Respectful Be A Learner

Charles Street, Murwillumbah 6672 6781 www.murwillume-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

“Students of the Week”

Canteen Supervisor

Please find attached to this newsletter an

advertisement for ‘Canteen Supervisor’.

Applications close this Friday 16th September.

Have a great week!

Sam Rowsell

Principal (R)

Foyer Bee Hives

Students who reach the Bronze, Silver and Gold

Bee awards have they photo placed on the bee

hives in our foyer. Our bronze hive is buzzing with

lots of bees. Have you spotted your photo?



Class Awards

KH Eloise Mrs Hawthorne

KD Charlie Ms Davison

KW Sasha Mrs Watts

K-1B Lilly Ms Harris & Ms Chapman

1R Isabell Mrs D Robinson

1-2C Isaac Mrs Chaffey

2-3W Bella Mr Wills

3-4H Joseph Ms O’Keefe

3-4O’L Zoni Ms O’Loughlin

4-5R Summer Mrs S Robinson

5-6N Jiye Ms Noble

6T Morgan Mr Tunaley

K-6H Brooklyn Mrs Harper

K-6V Mr Vella

“Happy Birthday” to these students

Melita, Tom, Jai, Isabell, Gypsy, Cody, and Hanna.

This Week’s Bee Rule

Do not argue the decision of a teacher.

North Coast Athletics

On Friday the 2nd of September 6 of our students

travelled to Coffs Harbour to compete in the North

Coast PSSA Athletics Championships. To make it to

this level is a fantastic achievement. It is a

showcase of the best athletes from the Tweed

border all the way down to Kempsey, which

incorporates hundreds of schools.

Our students had a very successful day.

Jordan Scott competed in the Jnr Boys Discus.

Tabitha Ford finished 11th in the 100m and 12th in

the 200m.

Our Jnr Boys Relay (Toby Shapland, Randeep

Atwal, Dempsey Van Egdom and Xane Bowen)

finished 4th. There was a technical issue that may

allow our relay team to compete at the State

Championships, a decision is still pending, fingers

crossed.

Imogen Scott Placed 2nd in the 11 years discus.

Toby Shapland finished 1st in the Junior Discus and

9th in the 200m.

Congratulation to all our students who were

successful in competing at this carnival. And a big

congratulations to Toby and Imogen who are off

to the State Championships in Sydney next term.

Well done and good luck!

District Finals Public Speaking

Congratulations to Britta on her fabulous

achievement at the District Final of Public

Speaking with being awarded 3rd place. We are

immensely proud of you and your efforts. Toby

was a stand out in his semi -final with a confident

delivery and represented East in the final 8.

Amon’s delivery in the semi - final was strong but

unfortunately did not make it to the next round. A

wonderful year of public speaking, well done

everyone!

Ms Noble

Home Reading - Stage 2 & 3

Congratulations to the following students:

25 nights - Jacqui in 3-4O’L.

50 nights - Ruby, Chilli, Eva, and Jacqui in 3-4O’L.

Zach in 5-6N.

75 nights - Jacqui in 3-4O’L.

100 nights - Kwinn in 2-3W, and Mairah in 3-4O’L.

125 nights - Lacey in 2-3W, Mikaela in 3-4O’L, and

Lianna in 5-6N.

150 nights - Tyson in 3-4O’L, and Lianna in 5-6N.

175 nights - Tyson in 3-4O’L, and Lianna in 5-6N.

200 nights - Noah and Stephanie in 3-4O’L, and

Lianna in 5-6N.

Well done Noah, Stephanie and Lianna keep up

the wonderful reading.



1R Special Visitor - Mr Kaszo

Year 1 and 2 have been reading lots of books

about sea creatures. To compliment our sea

theme, we were fortunate to have Mr Kaszo come

and speak to Stage 1 about his amazing career as

an underwater photographer/video producer.

This is Sebastian Jordon’s recount of Mr Kaszo’s visit

to our school:

On Wednesday the 7th of September, 2016, Isabelle

and Jack Peter’s grandfather, Mr Attila Kaszo came

and spoke to us in the morning. He answered

questions all about sea creatures and the ocean.

He is a photojournalist and video producer. He uses

an underwater camera to take all the photos that

he has taken.

They all are really cool, but my favourite picture is

the Great White Shark picture. The Great White

Shark pictures were the coolest out of all the other

photos, but he has taken a lot of photos. All togeth-

er there were photos of fish, sharks, turtles, jellyfish,

sea dragons, squid, octopus, whales and coral, and

even turtles gliding through the ocean. The sea tur-

tles are really cute as they have

beautiful patterns on their shells that they are born

with. Mr Kaszo has seen lots of stingrays and has

photos of stingrays. Did you know that clown fish

live in really big anemones?

All sea creatures are really important animals.

By Sebastian Jordon 1R

Maths Olympiad Champions

Last Thursday, 3 teams of 4 competitors from Years

5 and 6 represented our school at the Wollumbin

High School Maths Olympiad. The Olympiad is a

fun day of maths related challenges involving

problem solving and hands on maths activities.

Our school had won this competition in previous

years and we were keen to regain the title.

And WE DID!!!

Congratulations to our 2016 Maths Olympiad

Champions… Nick, Ben, Lily and Jack. It was a nail

biting finish and we took the title by one point. We

also managed a 4th place, a fantastic

achievement Cooper, Jacob, Daniel and Orla. All

students that participated should be commended

on their efforts, they represented our school with

distinction.

Ms Noble

SRC Cake Stall - Thankyou

A massive thank you to all students who supported

our SRC Cake Stall last Thursday. The fantastic

classes of 4-5R, 6T and K-6 H baked up a storm.

A tremendous effort from our whole school

community! Thank you to the cooks, cleaners,

sellers and buyers, we raised $182.40.

SRC

P&C Fundraiser

Our P&C have been counting 5c pieces this term

thanks to all our parents who have searched high

and low and sent them into your childs class. So

far we have raised $477.70.

Keep sending them in as this fundraiser continues

till the end of the this term.

Thank you for your support.

P&C Committee



Canteen Roster

Friday 16th September - Purple

Bianca Luxford, and Shannon Wells.

Monday 19th September - Pink

Greg Miller, Volunteer Needed Please.

Friday 23rd September - Light Blue

No volunteers on our roster, last day of term please

let me know if you can help on this day.

Thankyou

Cindy Secomb

Band News

Hello to the MEPS school community! I have

sincerely enjoyed my time teaching the students

here and involving them playing as a band. I will

be finishing up at the end of this term to take

another position at a school in Ballina. I will

remember this school dearly as the first school

where I taught everything - flute, clarinet, sax,

trumpet, trombone and drums! Thanks to Mrs

Brooks for her invitation, and now I hand the baton

over to Mr Keogh – please make him feel welcome!

I believe the band will soar to new heights under his

leadership and musical gifting. I hope to be able to

come and watch the band perform sometime in

the future. All the best for the future, with love.

From Sonya Lopes.

MEPS Garden Group

We will be having our final plant sale for 2016 on

Tuesday 20th September from 8.30am in our MEPS

Patch. Save the date!

Community Notices

Murwillumbah East Primary School

Term 3 Calendar

9 12th September

School Swimming

Scheme

NRL Coaching Clinic

(postponed till T4)

Cricket Gala Day

13th September

School Swimming

Scheme

14th September

School Swimming

Scheme

15th September

School Swimming

Scheme

16th September

School Swimming

Scheme

17/18th

10 19th September

School Swimming

Scheme

NRL Coaching Clinic

(postponed till T4)

Kindergarten

Responsible Pet

Program

20th September

School Swimming

Scheme

21st September

School Swimming

Scheme

22nd September

School Swimming

Scheme

23rd September

School Swimming

Scheme

24/25

Term 4 Calendar

1 10th October

Staff & students

Return

11th October 12th October 13th October 14th October 15/16

2 17th October

MHS Visit Yr 6

2.30pm

18th October

7:00pm P&C

Meeting

19th October 20th October 21st October 22/23

3 24th October 25th October 26th October

Stage 2 Camp

27th October

Stage 2 Camp

28th October

Stage 2 Camp

29/30

4 31st October 1st November 2nd November 3rd November 4th November 5/6

5 7th November 8th November 9th November 10th November 11th November 12/13

6 14th November 15th November

7:00pm P&C

Meeting

16th November

Stage 3 Camp

17th November

Stage 3 Camp

18th November

Stage 3 Camp

19/20

7 21st November 22nd November 23rd November 24th November 25th November 26/27

8 28th November 29th November 30th November

MHS 2017 Yr 7

Orientation Day

Last Day for

Wednesday

Learning Ladder

1st December

MHS 2017 Yr 7

Orientation Day

Last Day for

Thursday Learning

Ladder

2nd December 3/4

9 5th December

Year 6 Presentation

Assembly

Year 6 Farewell

6th December 7th December

Presentation

Assembly

Whole School

8th December 9th December 10/11

10 12th December 13th December 14th December

Stage 1 - Oasis Pools

Stage 2-3 - Pool Day

15th December 16th December

Last Day of 2016

Ring the Bell

17/18



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