Monday 21st March 2016 Term 1 Week 9

MORGIE NEWS Telephone: 08 8087 5155 Principal: Mr Chisholm Bloch Fax: 08 8087 3729 Email: morganst-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage: www.morganst-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Important Dates

Thursday 24th March

K-6 Easter Hat

Parade/Assembly

11.30am

Friday 8th April

Last Day of Term 1

Tuesday 26th April

Staff Development Day

Wednesday 27th April

Students return

First Day of Term 2

EASTER RAFFLE

From the Principal

Easter raffle tickets are on

sale every morning in

both playgrounds before

school.

Raffles will be drawn at

the Easter hat assembly

on Thursday.

Also please remember all

students will need an

Easter hat for the parade

on Thursday 24th March

2016.

Remember, it is not a

mufti day. Students

wear their school

uniform.

Classes will resume as

normal after the picnic

lunch on the oval

Thank you to all our

wonderful families

that have donated our

raffle prizes.

Some of our Year 2, 3 & 4 boys have been spending some time with Mr Fennessy working on some hands on activities to keep them busy at lunchtime. The boys enjoy the opportunity to be included in this group and are working hard in their classroom’s in order to be able to participate. They are learning some practical skills as well as cooperating with others. Well done, boys!

Hopefully the Easter break brings all sorts of pleasures for our families. If you are

travelling away please make it a safe journey, if staying - have a restful break. The

excitement is building at MSPS as we get close to our annual Easter Hat Parade. It

does make me wonder who started this tradition across NSW Schools so many

years ago. Every school seems to continue the tradition along with the Easter egg

raffle. I know from last year Morgie students love it too. Hope to see parents here

for the parade and assembly on Thursday at 11.30am

Our Annual School Reporting period has come again and as such I ask that

parents and community members please take a look at and complete a Community

Satisfaction Survey which can be found at:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FR6XG6S

(Cut and Paste into browser or type it directly in)

As it is the first electronic survey I have attempted to build I hope it all works - it

seemed to for me. The survey will remain open until 5 pm on April 1 so there is

plenty of time to complete it. There will be paper copies of the survey available at

our offices for those who wish to complete one that way. The electronic ones I

hope will suit many families and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.

KIDSMATTERS - the Australian Primary School Mental Health Initiative will be

launched this afternoon as a training to assist children and families who may have

need for support from time to time. The first module “Positive School Community”

will be delivered to staff by an in school team who have been preparing the

presentation for staff.

Chisholm Bloch

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NOTE WHO? ACTION

Pink/Blue Information Cards K-6 Return cards to class teacher

Canteen Helper Notes K-6 Return to office/canteen ASAP

Easter Hat Parade Information K-6 Please come to our Parade and Assembly at 11.30am

NOTES SENT HOME RECENTLY

If you did not receive any notes relevant to your child, please see the office staff.

Mrs Nicholls: Jayden Beavan-Gilby,

Grace Molloy

Mrs Jones: Annabella Harrison,

Thomas Gogler

Peer Awards: Archie King, Emma

Neumayr, Isabella Sprigg, Madison

Stuchbery, Anton Camilleri, Addison

James, Blake Sultana, Jolie Groves,

Kaycha Fazulla, Amber Elliott, Starley

Knott, Grace Cranby, Cohan West,

Emily Marks

1L KS 3C 4F

4M 5S 6M

KK Audrey Mann KS Maddison Jeffcoat

Nate Stanley Rhys Sullivan

1K Honey McLeod-Hewitson 1L Lewis Brain

Chace Glover Ellie Beavan-Gilby

2E Summa Howse 2H Reuben Hunt

Belladonna Quin Kate Stacey

3C Ella Andrew 3G Elke Turley

Luke Merton Kaden Taplin

4F Ned Davies 4M Cooper Milnes

Zaiden Blows Cooper Pettitt

5S Jay Cannard 5W Piper Murray

Cody Pettitt Lauren Slattery

6E Luke Petersen 6M Lily Mackay

Isabella Williams Jorgeanne Alfiler

Assembly starts after the Easter Hat Parade

on the oval at 11.30am

We have been seeing some great examples of fair

play and cooperation in our playgrounds so far

this year. Year 6 Playground Monitors are helping

our younger students at lunchtime by organising

fun activities for them to be involved in.

Keep up the good work Year 6.

There is a bit of a concern about a number of playground

incidents being recorded under the area of “Playing safely and

sensibly - hands and feet to self”. Teachers will be reminding

students of appropriate games to play and how to

deal with conflict in game situations. Please talk

with your child about how they are playing in our

playgrounds. Are they being safe and sensible and

respecting others?

“Proud Morgies learning Together”

We are getting very excited for

Easter. We have been able to create

some wonderful artworks and are

very excited for the Easter Hat

Parade coming up this Thursday.

Here we are colouring in for the

school art competition.

2E Class

News We have had a fabulous start to the

school year here in 2E! On

Wednesday’s we get to participate

in Born To Move sessions as part of

our PE program-we love it! We have

lots of fun moving to the music and

being so active. We have even been

taught some special yoga poses and

relaxation techniques.

We have been reading the story

‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ in class and have

been doing some really fun and

creative writing activities based

around the book. In art lessons, we

created our own Mr Fox puppets.

COMMUNITY NEWS

MSPS Reading Challenge

Fundraiser 2016

Starts Monday 29th February ends Thursday 24th March

Today begins week 4 of the MSPS Leap into Reading Challenge! How many books/blocks have you read so far?

Have you reached your GOLD target yet?

Our Reading Challenge finishes on Thursday, so it will then be time to start collecting the money from your sponsors.

Money and sponsor forms are to be handed into

your class teacher by Tuesday 5th April.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish Broken

Hill

Sacrament of confirmation

Enrolments are now being accepted for the

Sacrament of Confirmation for 2016. Children in

Year 3 and upwards who have been baptised

Catholic are eligible to receive the Sacrament of

Confirmation in 2016.

To enrol your child/children, please contact the

Parish office on 8087 3198 for more information.

School Contributions

Thank you to the families that have already paid

their annual contributions.

REMINDER Orchestra excursion notes are due in tomorrow Tuesday 22nd March, 2016

On Friday, Lead Ted visited our Kindergarten classes and spoke to

them about being “Lead Safe”.