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MANLY WEST MINI MATTERS WEEK 7 TERM 2 Wednesday 7th June, 2017

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

Visible Learning –Professional Learning

Last term, our teachers attended a full day on Visible Learning, which uses research-based evidence of student learning by Professor John Hattie and other well-known Educators. This gave teachers an insight into the teaching strategies that have the most impact on student learning. This week, the Executive Leadership Team spent a Professional Learning day on Visible Learning Evidence in Action. The staff analyzed the data, collected recently from staff and students and started to make a plan of action for the coming 2018-2020 Strategic Plan.

Some strategies are displayed on the classroom walls for students to assist their learning. We will continue to

keep you informed.

Parent Volunteers Child Protection procedures

If you are volunteering at Manly West PS, please check that you have provided us with the correct information. Volunteers who work on the school site, work with children during school hours, perform work that relates to the school, is a parent or close relative of a child who attends the school is exempt from having to obtain a WWCC clearance. They should provide the school with a 100-point proof of identity and complete a WWCC declaration (known as Appendix 5). This form is available at the office and the school retains the records. Any volunteer under the age of 18 does not have to obtain a WWCC clearance.

Band Camp Congratulations to all the students who attended Band camp this week. Please see over for details. Thank you to Penny Coucill, Miss Esparaga, Mrs McNicol and all the staff and parents who supported the Band Camp

preparation and the event.

Bushlink Thank you to Bushlink and the many classes who assisted them yesterday to enhance the gardens in our

school.

Learning & Support Years 1 to 4

Mrs Robertson is currently away due to an injury. We are providing regular programs for those students where possible. The MultiLit Program is continuing as normal.

Reminder: Please remember to return the asthma health care plans.

Reminder: Diary Date: Please keep Saturday night 17th June for the P&C Trivia night.

Student News Congratulations to Oscar Wright who is starring in the film Outbreak Generation which will be shown at the Sydney Film Festival on June 13th.

Congratulations to Piper Simons who has been selected to to attend the Sydney

North Trials for the selection of the Touch Sydney North Team on 14th June at Woongarrah. Sydney FC Academy has recently identified a few outstanding players from Manly

United that will train at the Sydney FC Academy this year. Congratulations to Connor Phillips who has been successfully targeted for the club. Congratulations to Livinia Williams who has been selected to compete in the Manly PSSA Softball Girls and Boys Trials next week.

Mrs Julie Organ

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Deputy Principal’s Message

Our 2017 Band Camp has again been a resounding success due to the

organisational skills of Virginia Esparraga, Penny Coucill, Band Coordinator Nicole

McNicol and the team of dedicated and supportive parents. Thank you also to the teachers for supporting the band program. All children spent time working intensively with Penny Coucill, special guest conductor Sarah Shaw and their tutors. There were lots of smiles and laughter in the afternoon as children mastered the high and low ropes courses, clambered up walls and flew down the flying fox. We are fortunate to have such great parents, teachers and music tutors working together to ensure the best possible learning experiences for all

children at Manly West. Thank you to Mr Perks and parents for transporting the instruments and other musical equipment.

2017 Mathematics Olympiad The Maths Olympiad has been operating since 1987 and every year, students from all over

Australia and neighbouring countries take part in five contests. The aim of the program is to encourage students to develop important mathematical problem solving skills in an enjoyable environment. This year identified students in Years 4, 5 & 6 are participating in the Mathematics Olympiad. The students have been working collaboratively in groups to further develop and expand their multi step problem solving strategies. The students completed the first of five Maths

Olympiads last week with the following results:

12 Year 6 students answered all 5 questions correctly and 8 Year 6 students answered 4 out of 5

questions correctly;

5 Year 5 students answered all 5 questions correctly and 5 Year 5 students answered 4 out of 5 questions

correctly and

Year 4 students Rosie Quinn & John Engledew in their first Mathematics Olympiad answered 4 out of 5

questions correctly.

Year 4 Team: Kai Ota, Rosie Quinn, Erin Butcher, Seamus Smart, Charlotte Blenkhorn, Taj Bald, William Hough,

Gus Warner, Alex Johnston, Octavia Williams, Nicky Grimes, Nicholas Kelly, William Hodey, Tyler Gaunt, Gabriel Lucas, Rachel George, Hudson Grell, Hannah Steele, Austin Taylor, John Engledew and Freida Kirkham

Year 5 Team: Harrison Newton, Will Matheson, Chloe Graham-Smith, Alyssa Aulburn, Eleanor Lucas, Tara Smith,

Samuel Ford, Poppy Wrublewski, Austin Holley, Tyson Dagenais, Eve Dowse, Charlie Highnam, Joel Murray,

Truth Nathanael, Jack Beverley, Oliver Ferguson, Ivy Polkinghorne, Soleil Mulqueeny, Aiman Shahriar and Zane Shepherd.

Year 6 Team: Connor Phillips, Ciara Burgess, Emily Grimes, Joshua Wilkinson, Zev Shy-Tielen, Harry Wood, Harry Beverley, Ben Southerden, Oliver Todd, Louis Rounsley, Emily Braines, Zoe Ball, Mikey Munro, Lilla Elwin, Hayden Macfarlane, Daisy Smiles, Lexie Landrak, Jack Havranek, Saxon Macnicol, Jenna O’Reilly, Lachlan Corney, Sebastian Nop, Ally Doyle, Daniella Phillips and Hannah McIlwaine.

University of NSW / ICAS Writing Competitions – Tuesday 13th June. Students need to be at school by 8:00am for an 8:10am start. We will not be able to wait for late arrivals.

The test location for each grade is as follows: Year 3 – 3G Classroom with Mrs Greco. Year 4 – 4G Classroom with Mrs Gaynor.

Year 5 – 5F Classroom with Mrs Johnson.

Year 6 – 6P Classroom with Mrs McLean.

**Please note, at times we need to reschedule the competitions due to

the many activities the school provides. It is not permissible for individuals or a group of students within a grade to sit a test at a different time to the grade cohort.

Mrs Adrienne Bruce

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Manly West Before & After School Care Reminder: SON KY CHILDRENSTAR ORPHANAGE Dolly Too, one of our staff members, returns to Vietnam every year to volunteer at this orphanage. She has been telling the children at BASC about the children in the orphanage and how even a small donation of money can make a big difference to their lives. We have

a flyer in the main BASC room and Anne Quattroville in BASC will be collecting donations up until 19 June when Dolly returns to Vietnam. CENTRE NEWS Our Incursion/Enrichment Program continues this week. As a reminder, if at all possible, we would ask parents to collect their children after 5:30pm on the relevant day.

W/C 5/6 (Week 7) W/C 12/6 (Week 8) K-2 Wednesday – Circus Skills Friday – Soccer Skills

Club 3/4 Monday – Bubble Soccer Wednesday - Rockets Tuesday – FitKids

5/6 Club Monday – Bubble Soccer Tuesday- Fitkids

Just a few of our other activities this week –

Inside, K-2 will be involved in 10 pen drawing, making hama bead windchimes, vivid inspired craft and

rainbow mosaics. Stuck in the Mud, kick tennis, touch footy, bull rush and on Friday a rotation of Indoor/Outdoor activities will be on offer.

Felix’s Report: This week in the 3/4 room we are lucky to have 2 incursions (as above). We will also be

having a few Kids Vs Staff themed games and various team sports such as netball, soccer and touch footy. Creating a photo booth, BASC comic strip books and clay modelling creations are also programmed.

Annette’s Report for 5/6: This week we will use the airdry clay to mould amazing creations, colour our

nails and use some face paint. Outside, we’ll work on our AFL kicking and handball skills and practice

taking catches for cricket. As it’s now winter and darker in the evenings, we will give glow in the dark bowling a go.

You can look at the full list of programed activities and our menus displayed in each room! Registering With Us

To register your child with us, please visit our centre’s site https://manlywestbasc.hubworks.com.au and click on ‘ENROL’. Enter your child’s details (please click the ‘Before and After School Care’ box if you require both sessions) and then click ‘SUBMIT’.

Canteen News

Canteen Roster for Term 2 2017, week 8 Monday 12th June Tuesday 13th June Wednesday 14th June Public holiday Emma Campbell AM Heidi Heming AM

Sara Hellmrich AM Rebecca McLeod AM Morwenna Farwagi PM Genie Graham-Smith PM

Tanith Carroll PM Laura Newton PM Thursday 15th June Friday 16th June Martin Strizler AM Sandra Shepherd AM Aaron Dunford AM Audrey Watson AM

Kate Mooney PM VACANCY AM Jan Rowland PM Amanda Moss-Morris PM

Kimberley Howe PM

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

If you’d like to fill a vacancy, please contact us by email mwcanteen1@gmail.com, call Rachel or Shona on 9948 2257 or come and see us.

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Diary Dates

Thursday 8th June

8:00am Chess Club in Library 10:00-1:00pm Project Penguin Day 3 Friday 9th June Sydney North Cross Country Year 5 Mulitcultural Public Speaking Final 12:00pm Round 6 Winter PSSA

12:30pm K-6 Assembly 4:00-4:45pm Chess League at MW Tuesday 13th June 8:00am ICAS Writing Kitchen Garden—Gozleme

Wednesday 14th June Sydney North Touch Trials

Uniform Shop

Thursday 15th June 8:45-9:45am Monday 19th June 2:45-3:45pm

Chook Roster

Saturday 10th

Harris family Sunday 11th Baird family Monday 12th Fighera family

Found

A scooter and a number of Fidget Spinners.

Please see Mrs Simpson in the

office.

The PBEL for this week is RESPECT:

Walk quietly through the office area and other corridors in the school.

Australian Girls Choir

Come along and try a free class at your local rehearsal venue!

Annandale, Beecroft, Dee Why, Kellyville, Mosman, North Parramatta, North Ryde, St

Ives, Strathfield and Waverley.

Join us at our June Open Classes

Call 1800 338 142

Forms can be found in school foyer.

Band News

THANK YOU to everyone for a highly successful band camp. All of the children had 4 hours of intensive musical tuition with Penny and the tutors on each day, followed by some

fun activities such as canoeing, doing archery, flying fox, rock climbing and ropes courses. All musical pieces were greatly improved and some new ones learnt, and with the Pittwater Musical Festival just around the corner you will all be able to enjoy their hard

work. Band Camp would not run smoothly without the help of many people. I would firstly like to thank the children who behaved beautifully and listened carefully to instructions whilst still having a great time. Thanks to parents for getting your children to camp with everything they needed. To all of

our wonderful Band Camp volunteers - to those behind the scenes, people transporting instruments, moving chairs, helping with activities and at school, thank you so much - the event would not run without all of you. Also to the wonderful teachers who come to Band Camp - thanks for looking after the children and having such enthusiasm for the music program. Thanks to all of the Office Staff at Manly

West for their help and to Phil for transporting the music

stands to and from the venue. And finally to Penny and the tutors - our Music Program is outstanding because of all of the effort you put into our children.

THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE. Kind regards Nicole Macnicol Manly West Bands Coordinator