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Newsletter No. 4 ~ March 15, 2019

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Monday 18th March

02:30PM - 03:30PM Whole School Assembly

07:15PM - 08:15PM PFA Meeting

Tuesday 19th March

09:30AM - 10:30AM 2020 Prep Tours

07:00PM - 08:00PM School Council Meeting

Wednesday 20th March

All day Grade 3 Dance

Prep Street Scene Road Safety Incursion

09:00AM - 01:30PM Bowls Victoria: Division Bowls

06:30PM - 07:30PM NAPLAN Information Night - Year 3

07:45PM - 08:45PM NAPLAN Information Night - Year 5

Thursday 21st March

01:45PM - 03:30PM Summer Sport Round 2

02:00PM - 03:00PM Parent Helper Course- Prep and Year 1 parents

Friday 22nd March

09:00AM - 11:30AM Summer Sport Round 6

06:30PM - 09:00PM Movie Night

Sat 23 March

ISSE - MVPS Travelling Delegation - Cancun, Mexico

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Monday 25th March

All day Year 6 Student Leader's Day - Glendal Primary School

Tuesday 26th March


Wednesday 27th March


Year 3 and 4 House Athletics

06:30PM - 07:30PM Art Show Meeting

Thursday 28th march


NAPLAN Practice Year 3

09:00AM - 03:00PM YEAR 5 & 6 HOUSE ATHLETICS DAY

Friday 29th March


Grade 3 Incursion Dance

Earth Hour

09:00AM - 11:30AM Mulgrave District Summer Sport Finals

Sat 30 Mar


Sun 31 Mar


School Leadership Message – Glenn Butler, Christian Holdsworth and Bianca Gatherum

School Council

Congratulations to all of the successful candidates who nominated for the 2019 School Council.

At the close of the call for nominations the following were received:

DET Member Category:

Bianca Gatherum

Libby Russell

Lesley Shipston

Frances Braithwaite

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As there were four vacant positions the listed DET Nominees have been elected to School Council for the

next two years.

Parent Member Category:

Rehani M. Arachchi

Jasmine Bhayani

Rohan Dowd

David Lee

Ya-Ling Lee

As there were five vacant positions the listed Parent Nominees have been elected to School Council for the

next two years. The first meeting of the new 2019 School Council will be in April.

Year 5 Camp

This week 178 Year 5 students attended the Year 5 Camp at Phillip Island along with four parents and sixteen staff

members. All the students were fully engaged in a range of challenge and team building activities including raft

making, giant swing, canoeing, searching for invertebrates in the pond, crate climb, team challenge, archery, beach

games, twin flying fox. These timetabled activities were supplemented by extensive games and sports. Throughout

the camp our students impressed all of the camp staff with their great manners and enthusiasm. The student will

return to school on Friday afternoon ready for rest and recovery over the weekend. A very big thank you to the

parents and school staff who worked tirelessly to ensure that every student had a wonderful experience away from

home and school.

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Staff Professional Learning – Thursday 7th

and Friday 8th

March

MVPS staff had the privilege of working with the exceptional David Hornsby on “Understanding English Orthography – implications for teaching phonics and spelling”. David is an expert in teaching spelling and presents all over the world. He worked with staff on how to diagnose spelling misconceptions, explicitly teach spelling strategies and the importance of inquiry spelling to develop meaning. Staff members felt enlightened by some new and engaging strategies and look forward to implementing the new learning into their teaching.

What did the staff get up to lately? – An inquiry

into S.T.E.A.M

(Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics)

During our recent Curriculum days, Mount View staff members

had the pleasure of workshopping with Adrian Francis from Using Technology

Better. During this time staff members were inquiring into the ‘what’ and

‘why’ of S.T.E.A.M inquiry within the classroom. Teachers engaged with a

range of hands-on activities including a variety of technology. We were able

to make links with their current practices, identify natural links within 2019

Programmes of Inquiry and enrich their understanding of what S.T.E.A.M

looks like at Mount View Primary School.

We look forward to seeing S.T.E.A.M in

action!

A. Petch

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Movie Night

The Parents Association will be holding a Movie Night for all students and their families on Friday, 22nd

of March. Tickets sales and further information for the event will be announced shortly.

‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ has been chosen as a movie that the whole family can enjoy.

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Cultural Diversity Day

你好！N ĭ Hăo!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to all students who participated in cultural activities for

Diversity Day. They enjoyed dressing up and going to various classes to learn about different countries. A

very special thanks to the following parents who greatly supported us on the day: Rebecca Sun, Hedy Luo,

Yvonne Ye, Michelle Yang, Danfeng Chen, Jinfeng Wu, Linda Lin, Vai Jananthan, Sumathy Thaveesan, Nithiya

Suresh, Nishaanie Kajendran, Jenny Zhang, Kevin Zhang, Yayi Fu, Yunqin Lin, Sherry Wang, Yunyun Zheng and

Meifen Phua.

Here are some reflections from the students:

“I think the language captains did a good job of hosting the assembly. I also enjoyed the ribbon dance. The language captains made the breaks parts funny. I think the language teachers did a great job for planning it.”

Shayen – 6ND

“My favorite part of the assembly was the Indian cultural dance because it is part of my culture and my religion. I also enjoyed the lion and dragon dance because the lion dance expressed the Chinese culture and was extremely amazing to see. It was wonderful to see every one dressed in their traditional clothing. The school was so colorful on the cultural diversity day.” Sid – 6AL

“The whole school dance was one of the best as it made everyone energetic for the rest of the day. It showed the teachers and parents the extensive amount of pratise the whole school did. However the Gong Xi dance song was the best. It got all the students together and more close. Overall Diversity Day was for students and teachers to show what country they are from. It does not matter whether you are from Asia, Europe, Africa or Australia.” Rohan – 6AL

“我很喜欢多元文化日的活动。我喜欢小品表演。我还喜欢看新疆舞和彩带舞，因为他们的服装很漂

亮。我也很喜欢中国书法，因为我觉得很有意思。我们画了猪，还看了中国的画家的画。”

Melissa - 6MR

“多元文化日是一个非常好的机会让学生们学习各个国家文化。我非常喜欢这个节日。在这些活动中

我最喜华中国的毛笔画，因为它能代表中国文化。老师画的像真的一样。” Reiko & Arianna - 6

“Cultural Diversity Day was the most exhilarating thing I have ever experienced. There was so much awesome activities that our language teachers, parent helpers and teachers made possible. There were also a very amazing assembly that just blew me away.” Anoushka Sharma - 5CC

“My favourite part of the assembly was the Kung-fu kids because it was really cool and funny. I also liked the ribbon dance because it was pretty. My favourite activity was making the rice rolls because it was fun and yummy!” Sue – 5JK

“The assembly was really fun and everyone was energetic. I enjoyed making the rice paper rolls because it really yummy and I had 3. I also liked playing the Irish games because we got to run around.” Caitlin – 5JK

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“I liked all of the activities the fan dancing because we got to learn a dance and we also learnt how to open the fans with on hand. Overall I think that Diversity is a fun and entertaining way to learn about other countries and their traditions.” Yvette – 4LR

“My favouite performance was the Chinese boy dance because of the great music land costumes and dance moves.” Raya

“I enjoyed the Indian dance and the ribbon dance because they had very beautiful music.” Priya – 3SK

“My favorite part of the cultural Diversity day was the dragon dance and the ribbon dance because they were really elegant on synchronized. I also liked the year of the pig act. It was hilarious!” Ethan – 3FB

From Language team

Yan Ping Xue & Zi Qing Liu

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DIVISION SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Mount View represented the District beautifully at the Division swimming

carnival on Tuesday. It was an exciting day with all of our competitors showing

great team spirit. Congratulations to the following students for their outstanding

achievement in placing 1st or 2nd in their event and will now compete at the EMR

Regional Swimming Carnival next Friday. We wish them all the best!!

Ryder MH Archie L Elissa P

Harley V Thomas D Emily W

Brandon C Matthew D Jennifer L

A special mention to our 9/10 boys’ freestyle relay team who had a convincing

25m win in their event. Also congratulations to Jennifer Lee, our girl swimming

captain, who will progress in two events.

Congratulations!

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CHESS TOURNAMENT

Congratulations to the team of students who participated in Wednesday’s Chess Tournament at Burwood East

Primary School. In a very exciting competition with students from eleven schools, after seven rounds of chess Mount

View emerged as the winning school on 24 points. They were followed by Glendal on 20, PLC on 17 and Highvale PS

on 16.5.

In addition to winning the competition and becoming eligible for state finals, the individual award for the day’s best

player went to Rohan P. In equal second place came Yuxiang P and Yanxiang H.

A special well done to the entire team who supported each other throughout the competition, win, lose or draw. As

ambassadors for the school, the students were first class.

Yanxiang H Aparna M Rohan P Yuxiang P Jessica P Raymond Q

Prisha R Leo T Melody T Matthew Y Hao Ming Y

Thank you also to parent Kamala Powell for assisting with the team.

John Kennedy (Chess Coordinator)

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Instrumental Music Lessons

I am excited to announce that we have a few spots left for trumpet lessons at Mount View PS with

our amazing brass teacher, Mr Alex Lammers. If you are interested in lessons for your child please

contact Alex directly at [email protected]

I look forward to hearing some new trumpets around the school!

Mrs Caroline Barron – Performing Arts Teacher

What happening in the classroom…… Performing Arts

During term one in Performing Arts, the year two’s have been learning about beat and rhythm. They have sung songs, played games and learned the difference between a steady beat and a changing rhythm. This week they have learnt how to derive the rhythm from a song using paddle pop sticks while marking the beat with counters:


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NAPLAN – Parent Information Evening

When: Wednesday 20th March

Where: Mount View P.S Staffroom

Time: Year 3 6:30pm – 7:30pm

Year 5 7:45pm – 8:45pm

We are holding an Information Night for both Year 3 & 5 parents to explain the 2019 NAPLAN

testing process and requirements. This year we are moving to ONLINE testing for all students who

are completing NAPLAN.

We will outline the following details:

NAPLAN test dates

Online requirements

Students with disabilities and other learning needs

Absent for the tests

Practice requirements

Online Assessment Platform

Adaptive testing

Device requirements

Exemption/Withdrawal students process

To book for this information night, please click on the link.

https://www.trybooking.com/BBAPB

**We need to know numbers for seating and space purposes.

Any further queries, please contact Bianca Gatherum (Assistant Principal)

[email protected]

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For 2019, UNSW has implemented some changes to their Global assessment tools, designed to meet the needs of the changing education landscape and to accelerate student’s growth to higher levels of achievement.

Mount View will continue to give students the opportunity to participate in the ICAS assessments (Reimagined for 2019). These will recognise academic excellence and reward student success through the achievement of medals and certificates.

There are a couple of noteworthy changes to these tests, one being that they will move online in 2019. All students in Year 3 – 6 will be using school or owned devices to complete these assessments. Please note: Year 3& 4 Writing – paper based. Another development is student results will be received within 4- 6 days (Year 3 & 4 writing 4-5 weeks).

More information visit www.unsw.global/icas

All students in Years 3 – 6 are strongly encouraged to participate in the four core areas of English, Mathematics, Spelling and Writing, with Digital Technologies and Science being optional competitions. Please note these dates in your calendars. A compass payment for ICAS will be sent to parents over the next few weeks.

ICAS Competition ICAS Competition

Sitting Date

Digital Technologies 3rd September, 2019

Science 5th September, 2019

Spelling 12th September, 2019

Writing 10th September, 2019

English 17th September, 2019

Mathematics 19th September, 2019

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The Department of Education and Training (DET) or Mount View Primary School does not endorse the products or services of any private advertiser.

No responsibility is accepted by the DET or Mount View Primary School Council for accuracy of information contained in advertisements or claims made by them.

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