Mayfield East Public School 32 Crebert Street

MAYFIELD NSW 2304

P: 02 4968 1495 E: mayfielde-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Principal’s Message

Welcome to Week 5!

I have some exciting breaking news about

our school to announce. I am very thrilled to

let you all know that today I was able to offer

our amazing Mrs Sophie Bailey a permanent

classroom teacher position at MEPS starting

from Day 1, Term 1, 2019 – and she has

accepted! I am sure you will join me in

congratulating Mrs Bailey. It is very well-

deserved and I am so happy that we can

keep her as part of our MEPS community. As

for classes for 2019, I am still waiting on some

further staffing and funding answers and

looking to finalising student numbers. So

while we will have 11 classes in 2019 based

on our numbers, I can’t share what these will

look like yet or who the teachers will be. I

really appreciate your patience and

understanding with this. I will let everyone

know as soon as I can.

This Thursday, we have some lovely

Japanese university exchange students

visiting our school. They will be visiting each

Tuesday 13th November Week 5—Term 4

MAYFIELD MESSENGER CALENDAR

Friday 16th Nov:

Big School for Little Kids

Monday 19th Nov:

Healthy Harold Excursion

Tuesday 20th Nov:

Healthy Harold Excursion

Thursday 22nd Nov:

Year 6 Mini Fete

Friday 23rd Nov:

Stg 3 T20 Cricket Blast Cup

Tuesday 27th Nov:

P&C AGM and meeting 6pm

Thursday 29th Nov:

Callaghan College Digital Media Festival 4:30pm to 9pm

Tickets at the office:- $5/person OR $15/family

class and doing activities including origami, songs and games. Keep an

eye out for photos about that event in next week’s newsletter.

Events coming up include our Mini-Fete next Thursday 22nd November.

This is our major Year 6 fundraiser of the year. Our wonderful Year 6

students have a wide range of stalls, with something to appeal to

everyone. Students will need to bring their money on the day to buy

tickets to use at each stall – there is a flyer with more information further

on in the newsletter. Healthy Harold visits will take place next Monday

19th November. All notes and money should be in by now. The

Callaghan Education Pathways Digital Media Festival will be held at

Callaghan College Waratah Campus on Thursday 29th November in the

evening. You can get your tickets from the office - $5 for a single ticket

and $10 for a family. Our school will be submitting a film. The P&C will be

supporting us with a yummy food stall and our Junior and Senior Tap

Troupes will also be performing. In fact, our Senior Tap Troupe will be the

opening entertainment act! The P&C Rainbow Run will then be on Friday

30th November after lunch. So lots of great things happening here at

Mayfield East in the coming weeks.

Thank you to the parents and carers who completed the Tell Them From

Me survey recently. We received some very constructive feedback on

programs and processes happening in our school. Thank you for taking

the time to let us know how we are doing.

Finally, there has been a mix-up about the date of the Yarn Evening with

our Aboriginal students and their families which I must apologise for. As

assessments are still currently taking place and we’re still determining

staffing and classes for 2019, the Yarn Evening will now be taking place in

Week 8, on Thursday 6th December from 5pm. Please save that date in

your calendar. It will be much more effective having the meetings at that

point as classes and teachers should be close to being finalised for next

year. Thank you for your understanding.

Have a fantastic week!

Mrs Christie

Our school is participating in Hunter New England

Health’s Good for Kids. Good for Life program which

has been working with schools in our region for

more than a decade to implement healthy eating

and physical activity programs.

As part of the program Good for Kids are returning

in term 4, 2018, to measure the activity levels of

students. Students who participated in the initial

data collection will again be wearing an

accelerometer each day while at school for one

school week. An accelerometer is worn on the wrist

and looks like a watch but captures activity levels.

This data is collected to assist in providing support

in schools with the scheduling of physical activity.

This includes the provision of professional

development for our staff as well as the provision of

resources and on-going support from the Good for

Kids team.

Our students have been working on this 500 piece jigsaw puzzle of the Solar System for the past few weeks during lunchtime in the library. Great work everyone!! Mrs Bayl, LIbrarian

THE 2018 DIGITAL MEDIA

FESTIVAL—CCWTC

Students in the digital media group and students in 4/5R have been hard at work creating an interesting short film. They have been involved in participating in drama activities and creating short films using iMovie and incorporating green screen activities. The short film will be presented at the 2018 Digital Media Festival (DMF) at Callaghan College, Waratah Campus. It will take place on Thursday 29th November from 4:30pm and concludes at 9pm. Tickets are available from the front office. They cost $5 a person or $15 a family. This is a great experience for your child and also helps to raise money for the school. Amanda Rake Co-ordinator

CANTEEN UPDATE Unfortunately due to the lack of orders we will no longer be offering SUSHI as a lunch option.

We will look at adding it to the menu next year. Kallie Newman Canteen Supervisor

Mayfield East P&C

NEXT MEETING Annual General Meeting and Committee Elections

Tuesday 27th

November 2018 All positions are vacant and we seek interested folks to be part of our growing and vibrant P and C. The main work of the P and C is fundraising and providing volunteer support for school events. The committee would benefit from new members who have: Passion for meeting other parents and helping our amazing school Want to meet other families within the school Energy and interest in working to put on fundraising events Want to lend a hand to help at events Marketing or event management experience A knack for getting people together to help our school community

Anyone is welcome – we are all busy with our families and work. P & C members come from all kinds of families, and we all just help with what we can, when we can. The more people that get

involved, the more effective we are as a school community! J We will be electing:

President Secretary Vice President Treasurer Fund raising coordinator

We will also be making final plans for the upcoming Fun Run on 30

th November. Let us know if

you would like to help with this fun event – it is being coordinated by one of our terrific kindy mums, Magda. We’d love some new faces to come along! Babysitting provided. If you have any questions, just ask us on the Facebook page, or email us at mayfield-eastpandc@gmail.com

P&C Facebook page

New parents, join the Facebook page. Handy reminders about

things happening at school, information about school matters,

contact with other parents. Follow us at: https://

www.facebook.com/MayfieldEastPandC/

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