William Street, East Maitland 2323 Phone: 4933 7524 Fax: 4934 5012 Email: maitlande-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Respect, Responsibility, Learning, Co-operation and Participation

9 October2013 No. 29 (Week 1 Term 4)

Educating Communities

Premier's Spelling Bee Regional Finals

On Wednesday 18th September last term, our Spelling

Bee finalists, Crystal Whalan, Eamonn Hanna, Kiara

Garvey and Lorcan Atkinson participated at the

regional finals at Telarah Public School. The children

performed at a high level and were great ambassadors

for our school. Congratulations team!

By

Crystal Whalan and Kiara Garvey

Welcome back to all for a busy and exciting Term 4!

Term 4 in all schools contains many traditional

activities and events that children and parents look

forward to with anticipation and excitement. Our highly

regarded Kindergarten Orientation Program for the

2014 intake of children gets into full swing as we

attempt to make the transition to ‘big school’ a lot less

traumatic for the new children and their families. The

second round of reports for all children will be prepared

and sent home later this term and will give parents an

understanding of their child’s abilities and progress at

this point in time. Towards the end of the term we have

our Presentation days where we recognise the

achievements of a great number of children, there’s the

Year 6 Farewell, party days and carols in the school

grounds. We will also be providing our special

‘Volunteers’ Morning Tea’ to recognise and thank all

of those who have managed to donate some time in

supporting the education of the children in any way.

We currently have 577 children enrolled from

Kindergarten to Year 6, including those children in the

Special Unit. Those students come to school from many

different and varying home environments, ethnic

backgrounds and life experiences, yet become a very

cohesive and cooperative group at school. Yes, we have

our issues, our ongoing struggles and some individual

mountains to climb, as is the norm with living in a

vibrant community, but it is a credit to the families of

our children and the dedication of all staff, teaching or

other, that the children behave and participate as they

do.

I look forward to observing the progress of all children

this term.

John Black

Deputy Principal

Library News

STUDENT BEHAVIOUR Towards the end of term 3 we noticed an increase in the

number of students who were required to attend the

Planning Room to discuss behaviour choices they

made. At EMPS we uphold the values of Respect,

Responsibility, Learning, Cooperation and

Participation.

We would like to remind you that students who choose

not to uphold our values may be excluded from extra

curricular activities such as excursions, discos and the

annual class party days.

If your child is at risk of being unable to attend, the

class teacher will contact you to inform you of this. If

you are requiring more information about your child's

behaviour at school, please do not hesitate to contact

their class teacher or the Planning Room co-ordinators

via the school office to make a time to visit or call.

Year 2 Swimming

Year 2 Swimming starts on Monday. Please make sure

you bring all necessary items: swimmers, towel,

sunscreen, rashie, plastic bag etc. Make sure these

items are labelled. Swimmers are not to be worn under

school uniforms as students will have time to change

before their lesson.

Homework Club Homework Club is open to Early Stage 1 and Stage 1

this term. Those students who expressed interest at the

beginning of the year should have received a note with

some information already.

Please remember to bring your homework each

Tuesday and come to the library straight after school

finishes. Homework Club finishes at 3:45pm, students

can be picked up from the library or from the gate in

front of the basketball courts.

Welcome back to Term 4, we hope lots of you had

some wonderful holiday reads. At the end of Term 3,

Early Stage 1 and Year 1 voted for their favourite Book

Week-Short-listed book for 2013. “Lightning Jack”

was a clear favourite with “The Terrible Suitcase”

following close behind. Look out for all these books

this term, as they will be available to borrow.

We also had some lucky winners at the last Thursday

assembly in Term 3. The following students were

drawn from a list of students who had finished their

Premiers Reading Challenge:

Year 3- Harry Hookway

Year 4- Claire Williams

Year 5- Caleb Fean

Year 6- Brooke Wicks

Well done to these students and all the students who

completed their Premiers Reading Challenge.

School News

KB KG

KO KR

KY 1B

1H 1L

1S PRC Participation Winners

Any problems please phone Jacki -

School 4933 7524 or Home 4932 7226

14/10 Georgia Fletcher Robyn Williams

15/10 Adora McDonald

16/10 Chrissy Young Vicki Mendyk Sara Kasteel

17/10 Linda Boardman Judy Drap Billie Morrow

18/10 Michelle Dickson Karen Dodd Melissa Farmer

Petina Bulmer

SICK BAY LINEN ROSTER

Term 4 11/10 Tara Jeans

18/10 Jodi Smith

25/10 Kym Peterson

1/11 Jill Cridland

8/11 Katie Brown

15/11 Petina Bulmer

22/11 Michelle Dickson

29/11 Noelle Green

6/12 Kerry Horner

13/12 Donna Burton

20/12 Joy Edwards

Any problems please contact Joy Edwards on

0422027745.

Principal’s Award Olivia Adams - Awesome Theme Park Project

Canteen Roster

Uniform Shop News Roster Term 4

Week 1

10/10 Kerry McFerran, Kimberley Taylor, Noelle

Green

Week 2

17/10 Fiona Pickard-Ling, Jodi Smith

Week 3

24/10 Kerry McFerran, Kate Brown

Week 4

31/10 Jo Proctor, Alison Morgan

Dress Maker: Kylie Brand 0411067929

P&C Meeting this Thursday 10th Oct 9:30am in staff

room. Please come along and contribute.

Many Hands Make Light Work - A number of

positions will become available on the P&C for 2014.

If you are interested in assisting to make EMPS the

best school in the land come along and join the P&C.

The P&C have achieved great things this year. We are

looking for new ideas and fresh volunteers to assist in

taking EMPS to greater heights in 2014.

If you can assist in anyway we would love to see you

at our meeting

Date for Your Diary

Carols Night Tuesday 10th December 2013 -

KB Jamie Brown

Jai-anna Spedding

KG Hayden Roberts

Jarrod Spinks

KO Royce McDonald

Geny Mackie

KR Isabelle Newall

William Hall

KY Armani Mitchell

Travis Dumbrell

1B

1H Lily Skarin

Rudra Vaidya

1L James Williams

Angel Hoffman

1S Christian Ebrill

Francesco Loduku

2B Joseph Proctor

Letisha O’Brien

2M Eden Gould

Jayden Nicholes

2NJ Arshdeep Kaur

Rebecca Wilson-Roper

6D Sam Morphew

Olivia Robinson

Alex Barnett

6S Daniel Kidd

Lachlan Sandy

Eric Ferguson

P&C News