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MANLY WEST MINI MATTERS WEEK 5 TERM 3 Wednesday 22nd August, 2018

WEBSITE: http://www.manlywest-p.schools.nsw.edu.au EMAIL: manlywest-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au P&C www.manlywestpandc.org.au

Principal Message

Diary Dates: Thursday 23rd August, Fiver for a Farmer Mufti Day –wear a touch of country!

Thursday 30th August, 9:00am-Trybooking open for tickets for the ‘Manly West on Broadway’ production. Please see the schedule in the newsletter today on Page 7 so that you book the correct performance. Education Open Day Thank you to our parents and caregivers for visiting classrooms, displays, performances and taking the time to participate in activities with the students. This week, as part of Education Week, the

students have also enjoyed the author and illustrator Michael Salmon and the Manly Selective Band performance enhancing their Creative

Arts general knowledge. The theme is ‘Today’s schools creating tomorrow’s world.’ Our students are certainly being challenged and highly engaged with their

curriculum knowledge, skills and capabilities in preparation for tomorrow’s world. Our students are also being well supported by their teachers through visible learning techniques and growth mindset strategies. Enviro Group and Project Penguin Displays The Enviro student group meets each Monday and works on environmental issues with Mrs Wilson and Miss Topham. They completed beautiful art work

about Australian wildlife which are on display in the foyer. As part of the Project Penguin Program, the Year 4 art work was sent to Hobart for the Antarctic Festival. Further details are on Page 4. Winter PSSA Coaches The 2018 Winter PSSA has now finished and all the teams enjoyed a great season with two teams (Junior A

Rugby League & Senior C Netball Team) competing in the Semi Finals. Thank you to all the coaches: Karen

Gaynor, Jimmy Richards, Tracey Byrd, Steve Byrne, Grant Turner, Bonnie Cleary, Ella Grattan, Kathy Topham, Sasha Worsnop, Charlotte Ekas, Christy Dullard, Alicia Timmermanis and Natasha Mold. ‘Manly West on Broadway’ Production K-6 17-20th September-check schedule this week! Please read the schedule on Page 7 for the ‘Manly West on Broadway’ production. This will include at least one night and one matinee performance for each class. Please check these dates as Trybooking will be available

from 9:00am Thursday 30th August for ticket sales. Bear Pit Speaking Finals and Premier’s Spelling Bee Congratulations and good luck to Eve Dowse and Connor Singleton for the Bear Pit Speaking Finals on Monday at Parliament House. Good luck to Tom Clarke, Grace Kirby, Truth Nathanael and Alyssa Aulburn for the Premier’s Spelling Bee Finals at Castle Cove on 11th September.

Athletics Carnival Congratulations and good luck to all the students who are competing at the District Athletics Carnival on Wednesday and Thursday next week at the NSW Academy of Sport at Narrabeen.

P&C Fundraiser Congratulations to Tracey Martin and her team for the very successful Blue Light Disco P&C fundraiser held at the Manly Golf Club last Saturday night. Please see photos on Page 8.

Student News Congratulations to Jemma Brown currently at Mackellar Girls HS and one of our MW ex-students who raised over $900 for World Vision. Go Jemma!

Mrs Julie Organ

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Deputy Principal

Parent Survey re K-2 Athletics Carnival We thank parents for their feedback regarding our K-2 Athletics Carnival.

The survey closes this Friday 24th August. Your feedback is much appreciated and will assist with planning for 2019. The survey link is below.

https://goo.gl/forms/cfO0wHxb5mDLG8eI2

Kindergarten Enrolments for 2019 If you have a child starting school next year and have not yet completed an enrolment form, please do so before the end of term. We need enrolment details to organise orientation classes. The dates for the 2019 Kindergarten Transition to School program follow.

2018 Thursday 1st November 6pm – 7pm Kindergarten Information Evening (for parents)

Wednesday 7th November 9:45am – 11:00am Orientation One

Tuesday 13th November 9:45am -11am Orientation Two (students attend both orientations)

2019 Tuesday 29th January-Fri 1st February Best Start Assessments (30 min session with teacher)

Thursday 31st January 9:45am -12pm Transition Morning

Monday 4th February 9:45am start, 2:30 finish First Day of the First Week of School for Kindergarten

Tuesday 5th February -Friday 15th February Start the School Day on Regular School Bell 9:20 start, 2:30 finish

from Monday 18th February 9:20 start, 3:20pm finish Regular School Hours Mrs Wendy Mwanga

Deputy Principal

Bounce Back Parent Workshop—’What is Bullying?’

Date: Monday 3rd September 2018 Time: 6pm Venue: School Hall Please email the school if you would like to attend indicating your name and your child’s class.

Enviro Club Art Work Display Congratulations to the Enviro Club who have created wonderful artworks. These are on display in the foyer for viewing. Thank you to Mrs Wilson and Miss Topham who work with the students in this group during lunchtimes.

Year 6 Canberra Excursion

Year 6 Manly West students have recently undertaken an education tour of the national capital, Canberra. Students were given the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational programs with a focus on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy.

The Australian Government recognises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit the national capital as part of their Civics and Citizenship education. To assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion the Australian Government contributes $20 per student

under the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate program towards those costs. The rebate is paid directly to the school upon completion of the excursion.

Miss Catherine Wyles & Mrs Sue McLean

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Education Open Day

Years K—6

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Kitchen Garden

In the Kitchen Garden this week…

Year 4 in the Garden

This week and next, Year 4 classes are learning about the properties of packaging, with a particular emphasis on recyclable and reusable packaging. They'll be designing a package to take home their terrariums later this term. Over the coming weeks, each student is going to make their own beeswax wrap to take home and use. Beeswax wraps are extremely versatile and replace the need for cling wrap and other single-use plastic. Any donations of colourful cotton fabric would be greatly appreciated. Please drop it in to the office.

War on Waste If you haven't caught the latest episode of War on Waste, watch it as a family on ABC iView.

Year 2 in the Garden

Spring is almost here and Year 2 will be coming for some lessons in the garden soon!

B & B Hotels 5F are busy collecting suitable items to make our B & B Hotels in the next week. We will be building the ‘beds'

and the kitchen garden will be their 'breakfast'.

The Garden Library

5M have done a wonderful job creating the Garden Library area under the tree next to the chook run. It is now open at lunchtimes, come and have a look! The books are for reading in that area, and the motto is "Read a book, Return the book". We'd love donations of garden-related books, fiction or non-fiction. If you think you have a suitable book to donate, please cover it with contact and drop it in to me at the garden shed on Wednesdays or

Thursdays.

Watering and Compost turning

Are you bringing your kitchen scraps from home to add to the school compost bins? Please sign up to help turn the compost bins, we ask that you sign up

at least once per term. Go to SignUpGenius and search under my email address angie.penn@unswalumni.com for "Kitchen Garden Helpers". Please do not add any cooked food or plastic bags to our bins.

Small-scale Edible Gardening Course This is a beginner's course and covers the basics of composting & worm farming. It's on Sept 9th at Manly West Kitchen Garden. Bookings are

essential! http://www.permaculturenorthernbeaches.org.au/events/

Angie Penn and Beth Dowdle

Project Penguin

Recently Year Four participated in the 2nd Australian Antarctic Festival in Hobart. The students in 4W, 4M, 4J,

4G and 3/4B designed and painted a set of 50 wooden penguins, which then 'migrated' to Tasmania.

Our penguins were displayed along with 8000 other penguins from schools across Australia.

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Before and After School Care

CENTRE NEWS

Our Incursion program continues this week. Reminder: If possible, we would ask parents to

collect their children after 5:30pm on the relevant day. W/C 20/8 (Week 5) W/C 27/8 (Week 6) K-2 Thursday – Go Go Play Sports Thursday – Go Go Play Sports Club 3/4 Friday – Skateboarding Yr 3 Friday – Skateboarding Yr 4

Osmo & Ipads Yr 4 Osmo & Ipads Yr 3

5/6 Club Wednesday – Fit Kids Sports Tuesday – Fit Kids Sports Reports from our Room Leaders about some of the other activities this week:

Lauren K-2: This week the K-2 room we will be taking photos of our kindy children to finish our kindy wall,

facts about me sheet and numbered colouring in. Outdoors we are playing 44 Homes, Human Trouble, Kick Tennis, Numbered Soccer and object hide and seek.

Felix & Ben 3/4 Club: This week Years 3 and 4 will be using our TV to live stream iPads, starting with some

drawing tutorials and OSMO and later in the week creating our own BASC-plays World of Goo! We will also be making some awesome colour-scapes using sponges and paint to make name cards the kids can

take home.

Aidan 5/6 Room: We will be continuing on with some of our stick-on paint designs from last week as well

as letting the kids get creative with all our craft resources this week. We will also be trialling a new game ‘card corners’ as well as Fumbles, Connect 4 and Soccer Lava Ball.

You can look at the full list of programmed activities and our menus displayed in each room! REMINDERS

Please log-in to your HubHello account to check all your personal details including emergency contacts and

people authorised to collect your children as your details were transferred as part of the new Child Care Subsidy system.

Please let us know as early as possible if your child is not attending a session at BASC, even on the

morning for before school care, as we generally have parents who require emergency casual sessions.

If you don’t currently need any session for an extended period, you can place it on our Inactive List. Email

admin@mwbasc.com.au for further details.

Please do not bring dogs to BASC when dropping off or picking up your children.

The PBEL for this week is : Responsibility Play games that are not rough and do not involve tackling or

grabbing

Library News THANK YOU SO MUCH to all the families who kindly donated to our library this morning! It was so wonderful to see the Manly West spirit and love of reading. The students will enjoy reading the books that have generously been donated. Thank you to Mrs. Burke, Mrs Robertson and Mrs Daddo for all the help this busy, but

fun morning on Education Day. Many donated books have already been borrowed today, and the rest will be loaned out to the children at their library lesson time.

Just 9 days to go! All Manly West readers have only until Friday, August 31st, 2018 to enter their books onto their Reading Record online at https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prcstudentExperience.html#/ . This is especially important for those in Year 3 to achieve 4 years in a

row for their GOLD certificate and for Year 6 to achieve 7 years in a

row for their PLATINUM certificate. You’ve already done the reading in class and for homework, so now all you need to do is get your Reading Record into Mrs. Burke or I in the library for all your prizes & reading fame! Happy reading! Mrs Ellen Swick

Teacher Library

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Canteen News

Canteen roster for Term 3 2018, week commencing 27 August Monday 27 August Tuesday 28 August Wednesday 29 August Moya Land AM Nicola Bird AM Bob Cairns AM VACANCY AM Ignacio Martinic AM Glenys Motler AM VACANCY AM Andre Migliari AM Gina Moore AM Sharon Newman PM Danielle Oerlemans PM Caoimhe Hokins PM

VACANCY PM Bernie McGuirk PM VACANCY PM Thursday 30 August Friday 31 August

Lara Dunford AM Larisa Stephenson AM Friday 31 August PSSA and after VACANCY AM Marta Mensdorff AM VACANCY AM VACANCY AM VACANCY

Allison Ballantyne PM VACANCY AM VACANCY Tony Falzarano PM Kate Mooney PM Alison Gracia PM VACANCY PM

The AM shift runs from 9.30am-12pm, and the PM shift from 12-2pm.

You can sign up for shifts using SignUp. Go to the new address https://www.manlywestpandc.org.au/volunteer and click on the Volunteer button. SignUp will send you reminders for your chosen day. You can also contact us by email mwcanteen1@gmail.com, call Shona or Yvette on 9948 2257 or come and see us. COMPOSTABLE PACKAGING AND RECYCLING

We are still investigating compostable packaging and have found some special cups we may be able to use for ice cups next term. The Green Smoothies are going well and the bottle they are in can be put through the recycle deposit machines. Your child could return them to the Canteen or take them home if you are using this system. There is a facility near Coles Manly Vale.

We look forward to seeing you soon!

Diary Dates

Thursday 23rd August

Mufti Day—A Fiver for a Farmer

11:55am Manly Selective Performance Band Friday 24th August 12:30pm K-2 Assembly NO PSSA Monday 27th August

Bear Pit Public Speaking Final at Parliament House Wednesday 29th August District Athletics Field event at NSW Academy of Sport Narrabeen Thursday 30th August

9:00am TryBooking opens for Production District Athletics Track event at NSW Academy of Sport

Narrabeen

Uniform Shop

Thursday 23rd August 8:45-9:45am

Monday 27th August 2:45-3:45pm

Natalya Hansson Manly West Uniform Shop Manager Ph: 0403 806 339

Chook Roster

Saturday 25th August

Roberts family

Sunday 26th August

Corn family

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Production 2018 ‘Manly West on Broadway’

Class Performance Times

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Matinee KR

KS (6L)

1E

1S

2H

2T

3R

4G

4J

5D

6L

KP

KG (6T)

1P

1T

2B

2M

3B

3/4B

4M

5J

6T

KY

KB (6C)

1E

1L

2W

2T

3G

4G

4W

5F

6C

KR

KO (6M)

1P

1T

2B

2M

3E

3/4B

4J

5M

6M

Evening KP

KO (6M)

1P

1L

2W

2M

3G

3/4B

4W

5M

6M

KY

KS (6L)

1E

1S

2H

2T

3E

4G

4J

5F

6L

KR

KG (6T)

1P

1T

2B

2M

3B

3/4B

4M

5D

6T

KP

KB (6C)

1E

1L

2W

2T

3R

4G

4W

5J

6C

Primary Proms Our Primary Proms choir students had a great time rehearsing last week with students from many other schools and are very excited for their concert at the Town Hall in Week 9.

Miss Virginia Esparraga

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