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16/05/2016 Chalk Dust Chatter

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[email protected] www.mriverps.wa.edu.au

CHALK DUST CHATTER 16th May 2016 Newsletter issue: 7

Uniform Shop

Tuesday & Thursday

8.30-11.15am

9270 4688

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Our lovely Kindy mums were treated to a morning of indulgence by their children to celebrate Mother’s Day. A beauty bar was set up offering all sorts of treats, including nail polish, leg shaving (with pop sticks of course) and head and neck massage. After their beauty treatments mums and students got to share in a delicious morning tea enjoyed in the sunshine. Thanks mums for all the things that you do and for just being amazing.


Lots of Building at MRPS There has been a lot of construction going on in our school over the course of this term. Room 18 has now been replaced, furniture has been delivered and we are in the final stages of connecting water, power and communication services to the building. We are looking forward to moving students into their new classroom sometime next week once all installations have been completed. Builders have been busy in the western student toilet block with a renovation of both boys and girls toilets. Funding for this has been provided to the school by the Department of Education and we look forward to the renovation being completed by the end of the term.

Parking and Traffic Flow We all know that there are limited parking spaces around our school and with a significant increase in enrolments over the past few years it can be tricky to get in and out of the roads around the school each day. Our grounds committee met two weeks ago and discussed some possible options to ease off the parking pressure. This has been discussed by our School Board and we will be meeting with the Shire in coming weeks to try and develop our ideas further. We appreciate your patience and understanding during this period of rapid growth.

Walk to School Day Make sure that you join in on Walk to School Day this Friday and come along to the assembly when you arrive at school for some watermelon. Walking to school is not only a healthy option but helps reduce traffic congestion in and around the school.

Helping Out After the Fire We have received so many offers of assistance from the community and would like to formally acknowledge our local IGA store who will be contributing $1500 to the school from the Community Chest. Bunnings have been by our side and raised money for us at the sausage sizzle last Saturday morning. We have ordered lots of resources and books to replace those lost in the fire and will let you know when we need help covering them and getting them reading for students to use. Thank you again to the whole community for your generous support.

Thank you;

Aaron Thomas, Principal, MRPS

Room 4 Jennifer Le Cornu

Room 4 Banjo Duffett

Room 5 Thomas Host

Room 5 Tom Debbo

Room 6 Riley Smith

Room 7 Koby Bayliss

Room 7 Zedekai Worrall

Room 8 Ava Callaghan

Room 8 Isla Targett

Room 9 Amber Garrett

Room 9 Kade Guja

Room 10 Oscar Nelson

Room 14 Lewin Barnsley

Room 14 Charlie Campbell

Room 16 Mali Travaglini

Room 16 Bonnie Hastings

Room 17 Joe English

Room 17 India Ashworth

Room 22 Zacharia Rock

Room 22 Tao Healy

Room 23 Thomas Joyce

Room 23 Tilly Edwards

Room T1 Maia Reihana

Room T1 Denham Hancock

Room T2 Remy Sgroi

Room T2 Oliver Vandenbergh

Room T6 Will Teasdale

Room T6 Phoebe Olson

Bee-Bop-A-Lula

Year 2—Room 17

Golden Broom Award

Year 2—Room T6

Year 4—Room T7

Merit Certificates

What’s on in May/June ...

16th May Junior Assembly 20th May Walk to School Day 30th May Combined Assembly 3rd June School Development Day (Pupil free)

6th June WA Day Holiday (Pupil free) 7th June P & C Meeting 6.30pm 10th June Start Smart Program Year 3s 13th June Senior Assembly 20th June Junior Assembly


Bunnings Get Us Growing

Wendy from Bunnings visited PrePrimary on Wednesday 11th May with kind donations of soil and

seedlings for our raised vegetable garden beds. The children helped to prepare the soil and then plant

winter vegetables including; broccoli, cauliflower, kale, chard, carrots, beetroot, cabbage, herbs and

some pretty pansies. There was extra seedlings which were donated to the Kindy. We all had lots of fun

and enjoyed the sunshine.

Learn to make and make to learn!

The Early Years Makerspace is expanding to the

T’s to cater for our innovative Year 4 and 5

students!

A Makerspace is a place for all students, creative

and not creative, to come and explore their ideas

using raw materials, tools, technology,

repurposed items and imagination. It is a space

where students are able to work individually and

collaboratively to make their ideas a reality.

A place to invent, innovate and inspire!

Please bring your collections to Room 10, Room 8,

Room T3 or Room T7.

We need parent and community assistance to form an ongoing collection of reusable materials. If you are able to start collecting any of the following:

What we need:

Lids—milk bottle, detergent, wine bottle, jar

Cardboard rolls—foil, glad wrap, paper towel

Beads, threads and ribbons

Stockings

Fabric and felt scraps

Buttons

Nuts and bolts

Washers

Electrical wire cutoffs

Tape

Plywood

Dowel cut offs

Cotton reels

Foam

Plastic tubing and connectors

PVC cut offs

Retic cut offs and connectors


Student Health and Wellbeing

MRPS Code of Conduct incorporates six core values: Cooperation, Empathy, Enthusiasm, Flexibility, Honesty and Respect

Cooperation At Margaret River Primary School, one of our core values is Cooperation, which is where we work together to achieve success. You show cooperation when you work in a small group to accomplish a task, when you allow each person in a group to have a say, volunteer at home to help out and when you play a team sport and work toward a common goal. Remember, many hands make light work.

SDERA Resilience and Wellbeing Resilience is the ability to “bounce back from adversity” in order to lead a healthy and fulfilling life.

Self-awareness Skills for recognising and labelling own emotions.

Feeling competent in several areas of one’s life.

Awareness of the link between thoughts, emotions, behaviour and learning.

Awareness of factors that influence successes and mistakes.

Realistic and positive self-knowledge of strengths and challenges.

Skills of reflective practice.

Everyone has bad times and these times don’t last forever, everyone has bad things happen to them that they can’t change, everyone makes mistakes, and everyone feels rejected, lonely or sad at some stage in their life.

Talking to others when you are having a bad time, are worried or unhappy will help you put things into perspective and bounce back. Talking to someone about our problems can sometimes take courage and is a sign of strength not weakness.

Help your child to practise these skills at home; Be able to identify their strengths and challenges.

Be able to know what might influence their successes and mistakes.

Be able to see that the way they think about mistakes and negative situations can affect how they

feel and behave.

Be able to self-reflect on their behaviour and decisions.

Practising helpful and positive thinking.

Thank you for playing a vital role in your child’s resilience and wellbeing education.

School Photos Remember school photos are available to view and

order online up until the 20th May.

Orders placed after this time will incur a late fee.

All enquiries should be directed to

MSP Photography on 9342 3465.

www.msp.com.au

Music Room News Can anyone fix a Djembe? Please see Helen in the Music Room.

At lunchtime on Thursday 19th May the Music Room is having a jumble sale from 1.05pm-2.45pm. Nothing over $15. All proceeds go to the Music Room.

REMINDER: Every child needs a display book please.


The students from T8, Year 1, enjoyed a

lovely Wednesday morning visiting the

High School farm.

They fed chickens and alpacas, looked at

marron, cows and sheep, visited the

shearing shed, looked at the hay shed,

saw how the vegies were grown and had

a sit in the big blue tractor.

Thank you to the High School students

and parent helpers who assisted with our

excursion. The children had a wonderful

time being immersed in their Term 2

inquiry topic “Farm Life.”


2016 PLANNER Term Two Wk Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat Sun

H 18 April 19

20 21 22

23 24

1 25 April Anzac Day

26 Students resume

27 28 ANZAC Ceremony

29 30 1 May

2 2 May Senior Assembly

3

4 School Photos

5 School Photos

6 School Photos

7 8

3 9 May Combined Assembly

10 NAPLAN

11 NAPLAN

12 NAPLAN

13 Catchup NAPLAN Choir Movie 5 -7.15pm

14 15

4 16 May Junior Assembly

17 18

19

Yr 6 visit MRSHS

20 Walk to Schoo Day

21 22

5 23 May 24 25

26

27

28 29

6 30 May Combined Assembly

31

1 June Proposed Year 5 Transition Day

2 3 School Development Day (Pupil Free)

4 5

7 6 June

WA Day Holiday

7 P & C Meeting

8 9 10 Start Smart ProgramYear 3s

11 12

8 13 June Senior Assembly

14 15 16

17 18 19

9 20 June Junior Assembly

2 22 Rockfest @ Settlers (School bands)

2 24 25 26

10 27 June Combined Assembly

28

29

30 1 July Students last day

2 3

H 4 July 5 6 7 8 9 10

H 11 July 12 13 14 15 16 17

Start and End of Term Public Holidays School Holidays (students) School Development Days


The Visual Stories Competition for Youth is

brought to you by Arts Margaret River as part of

the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival

2016.

Children are encouraged to integrate the

Festival theme HOME into their artwork.

What is Home, Is it a place? A state of mind?

A person? Is it where the heart is?

In keeping with the writers festival theme all

artwork must be made from or include

Repurposed books.

Entry Forms and more information available

from:

Arts Margaret River

51 Wallcliffe Road, Margaret River

Phone: (08)9758 7316

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.artsmargaretriver.com

The Canteen is now

offering the new

Winter Menu

Available Everyday

Full menu available

on the school

website or from the

canteen.


Out There - MRPS cannot assume responsibility for students attending non-school activities.

Do you need to update your details? We have noticed that on our school database we have a lot of information that has not been updated.

We would appreciate if you could let us know if you have moved or changed your phone number or

email address, so that in the event that we need to contact you, it can be done as efficiently as possible.

Please complete the tear off slip and drop at the front office or alternatively just email us the details at

[email protected]. Thankyou.

YOUR NAME

STUDENTS NAME YEAR ROOM

STUDENTS NAME YEAR ROOM

ADDRESS

PHONE

EMAIL

NET SET GO - Term 3 at the Recreation Centre

The Margaret River Netball Association would like to invite families with players born in 2009 and 2010 to register for our NET SET GO netball program. This is a skill development program based on developing ball skills, court and body awareness and most of all is lots of fun. Please go to our website for links to registration which will open on 23rd May and close on 24th June.

Margaretriverassociation.wa.netball.com.au.

Places are limited due to available court space. The cost is $95 for the program which includes a Net Set Go pack.

Further enquiries should be directed to: Kara Beecham (MRNA) on 0421 458 552.

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