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THIS WEEK AT M.P.S.
Tuesday 12th May
NAPLAN Gr 3 and 5
Wednesday 13th May
NAPLAN Gr 3 and 5
Sport meeting
9.15am
School Council
6.30pm
Thursday 14th May
NAPLAN Gr 3 and 5
Friday 15th May
Friday FUNdraiser
Assembly - Star
class is 5/6B
Monday 18th May
Grade 5/6 Netball
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wednesday 20th May
Open Day for prospective families
9.45am
Wednesday 20th May
1st Parent Forum with Lyn Watts,
6.30-8.00pm
Thursday 21st May
Pupil Free Day
Friday 22nd May
Open classrooms Maths
9-10am
Wed 3rd-Fri 5th June
Grade 5/6 Camp
Monday 22nd June
Parent/Teacher interviews
Sunday August 2nd
Working Bee
Thursday 13th August
2nd Parent Forum with Lyn Watts,
6.30pm
Friday 14th August
Pupil Free Day
Newsletter No 13
May 11h, 2015
Principal’s Chat
Today marks the beginning of week 5 of a very long eleven week term.
This week our students in Grade 3 and 5 will sit the NAPLAN tests.
NAPLAN is a National Assessment Program used to measure whether or
not young Australians are meeting important educational outcomes in
literacy and numeracy. NAPLAN is one aspect of our school assessment
and reporting process and results are read in conjunction with our
ongoing assessments throughout the year. All students will participate in
tests in reading, writing, language conventions (spelling, grammar and
punctuations) and numeracy.
This week we welcome two student teachers from LaTrobe University.
Laura will be working in Helen’s room and Cameron is in with Brett. Kylie,
from Swinburne University, has also been working in the grade Prep room
with Bernadette.
Last week we celebrated Mother’s Day
with a very special afternoon tea. We
had chocolate cake, cookies, rocky road,
vanilla slice and brownies amongst other
things, all lovingly prepared by the
students. Mums and other special
friends
were
waited
on and served the delicious treats by the
children and also received lovely pot
plants that the children had made in Art.
A fun afternoon was had by all.
Congratulations to the 5 lucky mums
who won a lovely plant in the classroom
raffles.
Grade Prep – Ethan’s mum, Naomi
Grade 1/2 – Maggies mum, Megan
Grade 2/3 – Abby and Holly’s mum, Katrina
Grade 4 – Erem’s mum, Jo
Grade 5/6 - Daniel, Sophie and Emily’s mum, Priscilla
Next week is Education Week and we have a range of activities
happening including netball for grades 3-6, an Open Day for prospective
families on Wednesday 20th, Open Maths classrooms for all interested
parents on Friday 22nd
and also a parent information forum with Lyn Watts
on Wednesday 20th. Lyn is an educational consultant who is now is her
second year of working at Maldon Primary school. I strongly encourage
all of our parents to come along to the forum with Lyn to learn about what
is happening in classrooms and how you can assist your child at home.
The forum begins at 6.30pm.
Kind regards Jodie
Excellence, Integrity, Resilience, Respect
What’s happening this week?
Helen is attending a Professional Development day on Friday and will be replaced by Alisa.
Jodie will be attending a Principal Forum next Monday morning.
What’s happening in the classroom?
Cooking for Mother’s Day: All classes cooked up a storm last week in preparation for the Mother’s
Day afternoon tea. Brett’s class made chocolate caramel brownie and white chocolate with cranberries,
Danica’s class prepared vanilla slice, Helen’s class whipped up chocolate chip cookies and apple
cinnamon tea cake, John’s class produced rocky road and savoury nibbles and Bernadette’s class
made chocolate cake with whipped cream. Lots of work went into ensuring classrooms looked fantastic
and mum’s were pampered and spoilt!
Young leaders:
National Family Reading Month: Don’t forget to read every day and record the number of minutes you read
for in the reading log sent home last week!
Office Info
Grade 5/6 camp: The third camp instalment of $75 is due this Friday. Camp permission and medical forms
accompany the newsletter and are due back next Monday 18th May.
Permission notes to be returned:
Grade 3/4 and Grade 5/6 District Netball permission slip
Prep/1B Discovery Science and Technology Centre permission slip
Division cross country permission slip (selected students) Copies of the permission slips can be found on the website www.maldonps.vic.edu.au
Request for further information to complete student files
Thank you to the families who have provided the documentation required to complete their
child’s file. We still have approximately 25 incomplete files so if you received a note requesting
further documentation PLEASE provide the missing documentation to the office by next
Monday or let Debra know when she can expect the information. Copies of documents can be
made at the office.
Young Leaders Friday FUNdraiser
Please leave orders with your classroom teacher.
Available each Friday are: Homemade Sausage rolls $2.50,
Juice Box $1.50, Popcorn $1.00
Extra curricular catch up
Mother’s Day celebration:
School Community
Host families for Japanese visit: Several families from Maldon P.S. have expressed interest in hosting
Japanese students in August. If you would like to host students please return your completed Host Family Profile
form to the office as soon as possible to enable organisers to start matching students to families.
Fresh Fruit Friday:
This week’s volunteers are: Bec Hamilton and Allison Crilly
Next week’s volunteers are: Anita Mason and Nicole Funston
Student achievements……
Congratulations to Darius who completed the 8km Mother’s Day Classic run yesterday with his Dad. He was aiming for a time under one hour and managed an amazing time of 58 minutes! Well done Darius on setting and achieving your goal!
A reminder that if you have any news about student achievements outside of
school hours we would love to hear about it. Please email details, photos etc. to
Thank you… To Wayne Zantuck for donating the soil for the Mother’s Day gifts To Anita Mason for her help in sourcing plants for the Mother’s Day gifts
Wanted….. Size 5 to 8 track pants (preferably navy blue but any colour is ok) to go into our spare cupboard
in case of accidents!
Size 5 to 8 boys and girls underwear for the cupboard too!
Community
Orphfund donations
Thank you all for all donations so far for
the Sierra Leone Orphfund.org shipping
container.
It is nearly full with clothes, desks, chairs,
filing cabinets, some bikes and more. All
this is for children who have lost their
mums and dads to ebola; we are setting
up their new home.
There is a little bit of room left. We DO
still need DONATIONS of especially
BOYS clothes but also GIRLS in sizes 7 -
14 KIDS sizes!! NO MORE adult clothes
thank you! You can drop off your bundles
into the carport at 19 Lemon Street,
Campbells Creek or in front of the gate at
11 McEwan Street, Castlemaine . NO
stuffed toys - ONLY educational games,
wooden puzzles, stationery, toothpaste,
toothbrushes, soaps. THANK YOU!
