Melton South Primary School PO Box 2043

Melton South, 3338

Tel: (03) 9743 2922

Fax: (03) 9743 0986

Email: melton.south.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.meltonsouthps.vic.edu.au THURSDAY 24TH OCTOBER 2019

This newsletter is available from our school website www.meltonsouthps.vic.edu.au or

the Melton South Primary School Skoolbag App.

Thursday 24th October After School Sports Program

Friday 25th October Grade 1 Excursion to Sovereign Hill

Monday 28th October School Council Meeting

After School Sports Program

Tuesday 29th October Prep Mini Athletics

Wednesday 30th October Grade 1 & 2 Mini Athletics

Volleyball Tournament

Thursday 31st October Girls Rugby League

After School Sports Program

Friday 1st November Last day for 2020 Requests

Boys Rugby League

Tuesday 5th November Melbourne Cup Day PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Saturday 9th November Djerriwarrh Festival Parade

Tuesday 12th November Grade 3/4 MPSSA Basketball Gala Day

Thursday 14th November Prep 2020 Transition 1.45 to 2.45pm

Uniform Shop open 8.30am to 9.00am and from 2.30pm for Transition

Monday 18th to Friday 22nd November Book Fair in Library

Monday 25th November School Council Meeting

Graduation payments due

Thursday 28th November Whole School Expo

Friday 29th November Grade 3/4 MPSSA Cricket Gala Day

Monday 2nd December Grade 6 Graduation Evening

Monday 2nd to Friday 13th December Grade 4 Swimming Program

Tuesday 10th December Prep 2020 Transition 9.30 to 10.30am

Grade 6 2019 attend their 2020 Secondary College

Wednesday 11th December School Council Meeting

Thursday 19th December Whole School Breakfast

Friday 20th December Last Day of Term 4—Early Dismissal 1.30pm

DATES FOR 2020

Wednesday 22nd January Last day to make payment for 2020 Fees

Wednesday 29th January Grade 1 to 6 students commence school

2020 Prep Information Session 9.30am

Thursday 30th January Prep children commence school today

Wednesday 5th February No school for Prep children (prep interviews)

Melton South Primary School Mission:

Melton South Primary School is a progressive community who lead the way.

Together we create motivated, respectful learners who achieve excellence.

STAFF, STUDENTS, PARENTS AND CARERS ALL HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AT

MELTON SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL.

EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE SAFE EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE RESPECTED

EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO LEARN

PREP 2020 ENROLMENT FORMS: If you have a Prep student starting next year, please ensure you have submitted the Enrolment Form and relevant documents as we are in the process of allocating students to grades. If you have not returned your forms, please do so urgently. If your enrolment is not submitted and complete, your child may not be able to commence school on the first day next year.

We currently have 134 Prep students enrolled for 2020.

GRADES 2020: Teachers devote many hours to the development of new grades, taking many factors into consideration. If you have any specific requests, please put them into writing to the Principal marked Confidential and hand into the office by Friday 1st November. All requests will be given due consideration. Please note that only requests received by this date will be considered.

To assist with this process, we ask any families/students who are moving to another area and not returning to Melton South Primary School in 2020 to notify the school office as soon as possible. This information is critical for class structure and staffing.

PREP TRANSITION: Yesterday we welcomed our 2020 Prep students for their first transition session. The children were very settled and enjoyed their first session working in the classrooms. Parents met our leadership team, our Wellbeing team members, Teaching and Learning Coaches and our First Aid Officer. Thank you to Kylie Collision for organising the kinder to Prep transition program. Our next transition session will be held on 14th November from 1.45pm to 2.45pm.

STAFFING: Mrs Emma Leighton has returned 3 days a week after being on family leave. Mrs Nicole Healy is currently on leave and Ms Debbie Bennett will stay in her grade for the remainder of her year. Mrs Kelly will return in week 4. We also welcome Gary Vella to our staff as our new Facilities Officer.

GRADUATION: Planning is well under way for the Grade 6 Graduation which is held at the Galli Winery. Notes have been sent home advising parents of date, times, dress code etc. Please note, due to the high numbers of students graduating only two guests per student can accompany them to graduation. Unfortunately we cannot make any exceptions. Thank you for your understanding.

NAPLAN RESULTS: NAPLAN results for students in grades 3 and 5 are now available for parents to collect from the office. Parents are advised we will not be sending home the reports with the children. PARKING AROUND THE SCHOOL: As the school is growing larger every week, we ask all parents and carers to be very cautious when dropping and picking students up. We are aware of the congestion in the streets and in the car parks around the school and ask that everyone obeys the road rules and is patient with others.

Mrs Marilyn Costigan,

Principal

UNIFORM SHOP on ORIENTATION DAY: The Uniform Shop will be open at 2.30pm on Thursday 14th November to coincide with our next prep 2020 Orientation in addition to the usual time of 8.30am to 9.00am Thursday morning.

STEM NEWS: This term in STEM we are working with Western Base and Rails Victoria on an exciting project in conjunction with the launch of the new Atherstone train station. 5B will be part of the launch and participate in weekly activities with a professional engineer, teaching our students about robotics, coding and town planning infrastructure to fit in with our unit of work. All of these benefits will then be filtered through to the other STEM classes who will also have access to a number of resources supplied by Wester Base. Could all 5B please return their photo consent form as soon as possible to either myself or Mr. Redmayne. If you are interested in knowing more please feel free to speak to me. Mrs Zoe Hunter, STEM teacher.

SCHOOL BANKING IS EVERY THURSDAY AT

MELTON SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL

SCHOOL HATS: Melton South Primary School is an accredited member of The Australian Cancer

Foundation and therefore follows the required regulations in regard to SunSmart behaviour.

As part of our school’s SunSmart Policy, all students and staff are required to wear school broad

brimmed sunhats from 1st September through to April 30th next year. Hats are available from the

school office for $12.00 each.

PREP 2020 ENROLMENTS We are now finalising enrolments for 2020. If you have a child turning 5 on or before the 30th

April, 2020, please ensure you have returned your child’s completed enrolment form.

This information allows us to commence planning for the coming year and it is vital that we

establish student numbers for 2020 as early as possible.

PE NEWS: VOLLEYBALL: Congratulations to The Divisional Volleyball team on making it through to the Western Ranges Metropolitan Tournament. We wish you good luck for the tournament this coming Wednesday 30th October.

RUGBY: Congratulations to the Grade 3 and 4 Boys and Girls Ruby teams on a wonderful job at last week at the MPSSA Rugby Union Gala Day. Everyone played fair and played with a lot of heart.

MINI ATHLETICS: Prep Mini Athletics is on Tuesday 29th October. Every student MUST have a hat or they will miss out and don’t forget to wear your house colours to show your support.

Grade 1 and Grade 2 Mini Athletics is on 30th October. Every student MUST have a hat or they will miss out and don’t forget to wear your house colours to show your support.

SCHOOL LEVEL PARENT PAYMENT CHARGES—2020

The Department of Education and Training has issued specific guidelines, which provide details of those materials, activities and services which parents in general can be expected to pay, such as; Stationery Packs—which vary for each level—we have arranged bulk orders to the school to help reduce the costs

to families. These packs will be distributed direct to your child’s classroom in 2019.

Core Items—student diary, ID card & lanyard and other items depending on year level.

Bulk Classroom Supplies—paper, glue sticks, pencils, scissors, pens, markers, independent reading boxes, etc.

Literacy and Numeracy—subscriptions for Mathletics and Reading Eggs which students access at school and

home. Also includes subscriptions to numerous other ICT programs which are only accessible at school.

Classroom Project Materials, cooking and art consumables.

The Education & Training Reform Act provides free instruction in the standard curriculum to all students in government schools. Free instruction is the teaching staff, administration and provision of facilities. The Act also empowers School Councils to charge fees to parents for goods and services provided by the school to a child.

Melton South Primary School Council has set the charges for 2020. Total cost of Essential Learning Items are Grade 1 to 6 $175.00 per student and Prep $185.00 per student, which include:

We strongly encourage families to start paying for these fees now as they must be

paid in full by Tuesday 22nd January, 2020 to ensure your child has the necessary

equipment and resources to start the school year. If you have not paid for fees by the

due date, your child will not have all the items needed to start the year and will have

to wait until payment is received before we can provide these essential learning

items.

Thank you to those families that have paid their fees or have started paying them off.

GRADE 6 GRADUATION: will be held on Monday 2nd December at Galli Estate Restaurant. Cost is $50.00 per student which will cover the students meal, DJ and graduation packs for all graduating students. Money is due by Monday 25th November and no late payments can be accepted as we need to advise the restaurant of exact numbers attending. Please note that this is NOT a CSEF approved activity.

Students are asked to arrive at the venue no earlier than 5.30pm for a 6.00pm sharp start.

Parents/carers are invited to view the graduation ceremony starting at 6.00pm—LIMIT 2 guests per student.

After the graduation ceremony parents/carers will then leave whilst the students and staff have dinner followed by a disco.

Children will need to be collected from the restaurant at 9.00pm sharp following the disco.

Dress code—NO DENIM or SHORTS or BOARD SHORTS —shoes appropriate for dancing, no runners please A shirt with a collar and trousers. Age appropriate dresses/skirts.

LIBRARY NEWS: Regular notices for overdue library books go home to parents throughout the year, usually once a term,

this is a normal Library process. I ask all parents for their co-operation in helping their children locate these books, it is very

easy for them to be misplaced. Check their bedroom, under beds, couches, chairs or amongst their own books and toys.

Get your child to check in their classroom library in case they have returned it there in error.

If you cannot find the missing book(s), please return the overdue note with a brief explanation (eg, we misplaced it, ...…) and

sign it. Return the note to Mrs Handley in the Library or to your child’s classroom teacher. Once the notice is processed

through the library computer system, the overdue book will be deleted from your child’s file.

It would be great if you could encourage your children to take care of their library books by reading

with clean hands, no food or drink near books and use their book bags to store and transport the

books to and from school.

Mrs Vicki Handley, Librarian.

The Djerriwarrh Festival is fast approaching! The Parade is on Saturday, 9th November, High Street, Melton and participants need to be there at 10am.

We will be meeting in the Assembly Area on High Street, between Arnolds Creek East Branch and Station Road at 10m. Students need to come in uniform and their props will be handed out at the event. Melton South Primary School is Walking Group #18. The Street Parade will commence at 11am on Station Road travelling east down High Street and concluding on the corner of Smith and McKenzie Streets.

Parents must sign their children in and out on the day. Children will be waiting on the corner of Smith and McKenzie Streets immediately after the Parade to be collected.

We have been making some fabulous props showcasing Melton South Primary’s supportive community and the learning areas that students are involved in.

Please see your classroom teacher for a Permission Form and return it as soon as possible. If you have any questions or would like to help, please contact Ms Cohen (Prep E, Room 19) or Ms Wright (2E, Room 5B). It’s going to be an exciting day, so we hope to see you there!

Teeth on Wheels will be returning to our school for the children’s 6 monthly dental visit’s. To make filling out the consent form easier you can now complete your Child’s consent form online by following the link below. It only takes 5 minutes to complete and by reducing the amount of paper being used, we will be helping the team out by being more environmentally friendly. https://teethonwheels.com.au/consent-eform The date of the children’s dental visit will be starting on Wednesday the 4th of December 2019, so please ensure if you didn’t complete a form at the start of the year to have this completed ASAP! If you have any questions regarding the consent form or your child’s dental appointment please don’t hesitate to contact the Teeth on Wheels team on (03) 9338 1191.

GRADE STUDENT REASON FOR AWARD

PA Cindyla For a big improvement in her writing.

PB Om For showing great improvement in his reading and writing.

PC Mokshdeel For being a wonderful friend to our new student.

PD Cross For confidently adding collections together to find the sum. Great effort!

PE Logan For being a great friend and helping out in the classroom.

PF Ruby For making a great teen number paper chain.

PG Mehak For her dedication to reading regularly and trying her best at school.

1B Felix For his outstanding effort in achieving his reading goal and for working consistently hard to improve his writing. Well done Felix!

1C Taufa For an outstanding effort to improve her writing.

1E Jackson For continuing to improve his reading and working on his reading goal. Well

done!

1G Rebecca For writing her procedural recount in her neatest handwriting.

2A Reet For her excellent effort in writing. Keep up the great work!

2C Isaiah For using declarative statements in his persuasive text.

2D Sammuel For sharing your knowledge with the class during discussions.

2E Anureet For always listening carefully and following the school values.

3A Indiana For writing an outstanding topic sentence about her endangered animal.

3B Bailey For an outstanding improvement in reading by practicing his goal and

reading at home.

3D Jai For using learning time to learn. Well done.

3E Pascal For using a range of efficient strategies to solve multi-step worded

problems.

4A Lona For being able to determine importance within a text during reading.

4C Vianne For using descriptive language in her writing.

4D Andy For contributing to class discussions in Reading and our Inquiry Unit on

Democracy.

5A Conty For his willingness to persist when attempting something new.

5C Darcy

Eva

For showing positive leadership and rising to challenges.

For displaying a very conscientious attitude towards learning and good

leadership

5D Sariah For working well and caring for people aroung her.

5E Reannon For displaying a positive attitude in all aspects of her learning.

6A Clarence For being a great reporter when representing his group in Numeracy.

6B Lillian For consistent effort in all learning areas. Well done!

6C Micah For her quiet dedication and determination toward learning.

French Prince For continuously modelling our school value of ‘respect’ in the classroom

and in the yard.

Art Areeba For a great attitude and fabulous painting of a robot.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS

Congratulations to the following students who have received awards

this week. These awards are made to students in recognition of

achievement and will be presented at school assembly on Monday 28th

October at 2.30pm in the school gymnasium.

Whole School learning intentions. Week: 3

LI—Learning Intention SC—Success Criteria

Year Reading Writing Maths

Prep

LI: Good readers are able to identify the characters and events in a text. SC: I can explain who the characters are. I can explain what happened in the story.

LI: Good Writers use the word wall to write high frequency words in a summary sentence. SC: I can reread to check high frequency words.

LI: Good mathematicians can make the number 5. SC: I can add numbers together to make 5 in different ways.

Year 1

LI: Good readers use comprehension strategies. SC: I can retell a text. I can explain the who, where and when in a recount text.

LI: Good writers understand the text structure of a recount. SC: I can write an orientation (who, what, when, where). I can write events in order. I can write in the past tense.

LI: Good mathematicians understand time duration. SC: I can tell the time to half past.

Year 2

LI: Good readers make predictions as they read. SC: I can confirm or discard my prediction. I can explain my thinking, (how they are making their prediction, what are you using to make a prediction?)

LI: Good writers create persuasive texts with multiple arguments and supporting evidence. SC: I can create a spider plan to list my ideas. I can use dot points on my plan. I can use modal verbs, (must/should).

LI: Good mathematicians model numbers to at least 100. SC: I can make numbers using materials in groups of hundreds, tens and ones. I can write numbers to 100. I can order numbers from smallest to largest.

Year 3

LI: Good readers ask questions while reading. SC: I can ask questions to further my understanding about what I have just read.

LI: Good writers draft an explanation text. SC: I understand the features of good writing. I can write an identifying statement that captures the audience's interest.

LI: Good mathematicians use arrays to multiply. SC: I can use arrays to calculate double doubles.

Year 4

LI: Good readers can identify and understand key vocabulary within a text. SC: I can find interesting vocabulary in a text and explain how it adds interest to a text.

LI: Good writers select subordinate conjunctions carefully. SC: I can identify which one is the dependent and independent clause in my sentences.

LI: Good mathematicians suggest questions that can be answered by a given data display and using the display to answer questions. SC: I can create questions to collect data. I can create and analyse a graph.

Year 5

LI: Good readers analyse techniques of persuasive texts including advertisements. SC: I can: Read and identify the persuasive devices used in an advertisement. Explain the impact a persuasive device has on the reader.

LI: Good writers establish the purpose and audience for a text, SC:I can identify the purpose for my invention and the audience.

LI: Good mathematicians recognise the equivalence of decimal place value SC: I can; play get me to one to investigate the size of decimals, compare the size of different decimal place values, use place knowledge to determine whether a decimal is larger or smaller in value.

Year 6

LI: Good readers focus on the key words and phrases of an text. They decide what is worth noting and remembering. SC: I can summarise a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for more concise understanding.

LI: Good writers summarise a text or part of a text while researching. SC: I can read and identify key information I can use in my explanation text. I can take notes to use in my explanation text.

LI: Good mathematicians can identify the relationship between multiplication and division. SC: I can show my knowledge of the relationship between multiplication and division by dividing by multiples of 10.