Murwillumbah East Primary School

Newsletter Term 2, Week 9

21st June, 2016

Working Bee

We had a very wet day on Sunday, thank you to

our parents Laura, Deb, Jerome, and Col who

braved the elements. Thanks also go to Basil

Heatherill, our relieving General Assistant for his

awesome job on revitalising our bicentennial sign.

Hopefully all this work will go down well with the

Gardening Competition judges next term!

Netball Gala Day

Well done to Mrs Robinson and our netball team

on their fantastic effort last Wednesday. A more

detailed rundown of the day follows later in this

newsletter.

Mobile Phones at School

A reminder that if students bring mobile phones or

any other electronic devices to school that they

need to be brought to our office in the morning

and collected again in the afternoon. These items

shouldn’t be in students’ pockets or bags

throughout the day.

Student Reports

Student reports will come home today. If you have

any concerns about these please contact your

child’s teacher in the first instance. This can be

done by contacting our school office who will

pass on the message to them.

Kindergarten Ear Lessons

Tomorrow, Kaye Cooper, the Itinerant Support

Teacher for Conductive Hearing Loss employed by

the Department of Education will be visiting our

Kindergarten classes to help students understand

how the ear works and what happens during an

ear infection or glue ear.

Kaye helps the students to self manage their nose

hygiene, promote better ear health and to

recognise when they are not hearing as well as

usual. Her visit also assists teachers in implementing

strategies to help the child understand and cope

in the classroom until they are hearing well again.

Murwillumbah Festival of Performing Arts

We have a large number of students performing in

the Murwillumbah Festival of Performing Arts over

the next couple of weeks. Students, under the

expertise and guidance of Mrs Beth Brooks and

Sonia Lopez will perform in a variety of choirs and

instrumental categories. We wish them all the best

of luck.

Be Safe Be Respectful Be A Learner

Charles Street, Murwillumbah 6672 6781 www.murwillume-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

“Students of the Week”

Learning Ladder

Our transition to 2017 Kindergarten program

(Learning Ladder) will begin next term. We already

have a large number of students enrolled and

ready to start this exciting journey with Mrs Shirley

Wells and Elise Kachel (SLSO) next term.

If you know of any children that will be starting

school next year who haven’t yet contacted our

school, please encourage them to do so. We want

all our students to have access to this fabulous

program.

Have a great week!

Sam Rowsell

P&C Blackboard

Our school is a Polling Venue for the elections on

Saturday 2nd July. Our P&C will be holding a

sausage sizzle fundraiser on the day. We will also

have cakes/slices for sale on the day. We would

appreciate donations for our stall, please drop

them into our school on Friday 1st July.

5c Fundraiser - throughout Term 3 our P&C will be

holding a 5c fundraiser. Each classroom will have

a jar which can be filled with 5c coins. Every week

a classroom tally will be displayed. At the end of

the term the class who has raised the most money

will win a prize. So start looking for 5c coins, under

the couch, in the car and bring them in for Term 3.

Thank you

P&C Committee

Be Safe Be Respectful Be A Learner

Charles Street, Murwillumbah 6672 6781 www.murwillume-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Class Awards

KH Ekam Mrs Hawthorne

KD Ruby Ms Davison

KW Lincoln Mrs Watts

K-1B Delilah (not in photo)

Ms Harris & Ms Chapman

1T Seth Mrs Turner

1-2C Zoe Mrs Chaffey

2-3W Rory Mr Wills

3-4H Ms O’Keefe

3-4O’L Jonah Ms O’Loughlin

4-5R Mya Mrs Robinson

5-6N Rhyley Ms Noble

6T Maddison Mr Tunaley

K-6H Isla Mrs Harper

K-6V Hayden & Kristin Mr Vella

“Happy Birthday” to these students

Toby C, Jonah, Randeep, and Lucas.

This Week’s Bee Rule

Portable devices are not to be brought to

school without permission.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The Premier’s Reading Challenge closes on the

19th August, 2016. The school holidays are

approaching and this would be a perfect time for

children to immerse themselves in reading!

The Log On for the Challenge is the same Log On

name and password the children use at school.

The Premier’s Reading Challenge can be found at

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html

The book lists and rules can also be found on this

site.

Students who complete the challenge receive a

beautiful certificate at the end of the year.

Some students have completed the Challenge!!!

Congratulations to the following children:

Zoe J, William D, Noah S, Stephanie C, Matilda G,

Dylan H, Lolo L, Gretel LeL, Toby S, Orla P, Diya S,

Morgan E, Micah P, Maddison W, Alice C and

Niamh P.

If you have any questions regarding the challenge

please come and ask me.

Carmel Evans

Netball Gala Day

What a wonderful day we had last Wednesday at

the netball knockout gala day. Our girls played

extremely well with each of them holding their

own against older and “taller” players. We made

it into the finals against Kingscliff and after being

one goal up at three quarters time we eventually

lost going down 10-8.

Our girls played 40 minutes of a fast high quality

game and should be very proud of themselves. A

special big thank you must go to Sue O’Connor

who gave up her mornings to help train the team.

Also thank you to Wendy McClymont and Fiona

Simpson for cheering the girls on. Can’t wait until

next year!

Mrs Sarah Robinson

Be Safe Be Respectful Be A Learner

Charles Street, Murwillumbah 6672 6781 www.murwillume-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Festival of Performing Arts

Please wish our solo, duet, and trios the best of luck

competing at the Festival of Performing Arts this

week at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre.

Performing Thursday 23rd June on flute - Matilda,

Emily, and Lianna. On clarinet - Jet and Maddison,

Stephanie on saxophone, Amon on trombone and

Brady on the drums. On Tuesday morning the 28th

June our whole band will be competing. Good luck

everyone!

Sonya Lopes - Band Instructor

Festival of Performing Arts - Timetable

Monday 27th June

9.30am start - “The Easties” to meet Mrs Brooks in

the foyer of the Civic Centre.

Matilda McC, Emily L, Matilda G, Gemma, Lolo,

Maddison, Dylan, Emily S, Morgan O’C, Jacob D,

Grace G, Morgan E, Halle McC, Sophie M, and

Stephanie C.

10.45am - 6T and 5-6N

11.45am - 3-4O’L, 3-4H and 2-3W.

1.30pm - 4-5R

Teachers will walk the above classes to and from

the Civic Centre.

Wednesday 29th June

9.30am - Vocal Solo Piano accompaniment

Maddiosn C, Lolo L, Emily S, and Oliver C.

Vocal Solo Character

Lolo L, Emily S, Oliver C, and Maddison C.

Students will walk to and from the Civic Centre with

Mrs Brooks.

1.30pm - Vocal Solo

Halle McC

Thursday 30th June

9.30am - 3-4O’L, and 3-4H

10.00am - 1-2C and Year 2 from 2-3W

10.45am - 1-2C and 1T

Teachers will walk the above classes to and from

the Civic Centre.

Good Luck everyone!

Mrs Brooks - Music Teacher

Community Notices

Murwillumbah East Primary School

Term 2 Calendar

9 20th June 21st June

Student Reports

sent home

22nd June

Kindergarten

Ear Health Lessons

23rd June

MHS Performing Arts

S2/3 excursion

24th June

K-2 Excursion

Tropical Fruit World

GREAT5 Day - Tweed

River HS (selected

students only)

25/26th

10 27th June

Murwillumbah

Festival of

Performing Arts

(selected students

only)

28th June 29th June 30th June

Murwillumbah

Festival of

Performing Arts

(selected students

only)

1st July 2/3rd

Term 3 Calendar

1

18th July

School

Development Day

(staff only)

19th July 20th July 21st July 22nd July

School Athletics

carnival

23/24th

2 25th July 26th July

Catholic Mass

excursion

7:00pm P&C

Meeting

27th July 28th July 29th July 30/31st

3 1st August

Education Week

2nd August

Education Week

Byron Bay Writer’s

Festival - Civic

Centre

3rd August

Education Week

4th August

Education Week

M’bah District

Athletics Carnival

5th August

Education Week

“Grandparents/

Book Fair/Open

Day”

6/7th

4 8th August 9th August

Touch Football Gala

Day

10th August

School Musical

Matinee

Performance

11th August

Cake Stall (3/4O’L &

3/4H)

School Musical Night

Performance

12th August 13/14th

5 15th August 16th August 17th August

FNC Athletics

Carnival

18th August 19th August 20/21st

6 22nd August 23rd August 24th August 25th August

9.30am Family

Centre Parent

Workshop “Raising

Resilient Children”

26th August 27/28th

7 29th August 30th August 31st August 1st September

North Coast

Athletics - Coffs

Harbour

2nd September 3/4th

8 5th September 6th September 7th September 8th September 9th September 10/11th

9 12th September 13th September 14th September 15th September 16th September 17/18th

Be Safe Be Respectful Be A Learner

Charles Street, Murwillumbah 6672 6781 www.murwillume-p.schools.nsw.edu.au