IMPORTANT DATES

Page 1 Principal: Marina Keegan Assistant Principal: Peta Mundine

AUGUST

Fri 9th Prep 100 Days at school!!

Fri 16th Middles “Off this Planet” Incursion

Mon 19th - Fri 23rd Literacy & Numeracy Week!

Book Fair in the Library from 3:30-4pm!

Mon 19th - Thurs 22nd “Storytelling” - Literacy & Numeracy Week

Weds 21st District Athletic Champs

Fri 23rd District Athletic Champs - Back up day

Weds 28th Bounce Excursion - Senior Students

Fun Farm Incursion - Junior Students

SEPTEMBER

Weds 4th Art Show 5-7pm!!

Fri 6th Kids teaching kids launch (more details to come)

Sat 7th Election Day!

Mon 9th - Fri 13th Planning Week

Mon 16th Prep Transition - Orientation Visit 1!

Weds 18th Prep Excursion to the Fairy Park!

Fri 20th Term 3 Ends!

8th August 2013

Business Manager: Kylie Roskosch Office Manager: Kim Tucker Administration Assistant: Anna Clausen

IMPORTANT: Just a gentle reminder that school supervision does not begin until 8:45am. We do realise that some of you

work quite early and we understand that you may struggle to drop off your child/ren at this time. We would like to remind

you that ‘Camp Australia’ run a wonderful before and after school care program on Mano school grounds. You can contact

them on 5229 7257 or alternatively you can head to their website: www.campaustralia.com.au

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Our new playground is open at last! Already our students (and their younger siblings) have enjoyed our new

play space and the different challenges it presents. Tony, from Buildscape came to school on Tuesday

morning to talk to us about all the rocks, timber, and plants that went into creating our play space. Even

though we own our play space, all materials used and the team who built it, are local. Tony also talked

about the plants to go in at our next working bee, including two beautiful established trees to be planted in

the memory of Ben Newell. We hope to have these in soon. Our School Captains were on hand to cut a ribbon signalling

the opening and gave a lovely speech about how we need to be safe and fair when using the space. There has been a lot

of work gone into planning this area including the work led by Kelly Blake to develop our Master Plan for the whole area.

Let’s not forget the fantastic fundraising efforts of our Carnivale team led by Janina Lear and Bess Pilling last year.

Without them we would not have had a fantastic amount of money to get us started. Thank you Kelly, Janina and Bess

and all their helpers! Photos to come in next weeks newsletter.

We are now focused on the next stage of our play space around the existing sandpit and up to the Gunyah. We hope that

everyone will join us in planning the 2014 Carnivale so that we can be successful again in raising enough money to build

the next new section. I’m sure everyone understands that we cannot achieve these wonderful results without our families

helping us with our major fundraising efforts. Keep an eye on the newsletter for our Carnivale planning meeting.

Talking of fantastic efforts for our school…Congratulations to Cath Johnson and her team who organised and ran the

Bunnings BBQ on the weekend. They raised an incredible $1600 to go into our fundraising budget. Wow!! Our chocolate

drive is also going well and we hope to have a total for you soon. There are lots of things we would love to do around our

school and we appreciate all the help we receive from our student and their families.

There are lots of extra curricular activities being planned across our school at the moment so please take care to read all

notes and keep checking the calendar on the front of the newsletter so that you don’t miss out on anything. Those

students participating in our Active After School Communities (Circus Skills and Dance & Drill) make sure you have your

dates correct on your calendar at home as they are different for each activity. I will send out notes for term 4 activities

(Hip Hop & Cricket) very soon.

Reminder: If you were one of the families randomly selected by the computer to take part in the Parent Opinion survey,

you have until tomorrow morning to return your survey. They need to be posted on Friday morning.

Communication is vital – Keep reading the newsletter!

Be on time, Be at school, that’s the rule!

Let’s keep Unleashing Potential! Marina Keegan, Principal

A huge thank you to everyone who came to Bunning's on the weekend to help us fundraise

for our school! A HUGE thank you to all who helped on the day; Michelle Reed, Anita Elliott,

Shane Driscoll, Ged Sweeney, Michelle Roepke, Amanda Lauder, Glenn Lauder, Phil Currie,

Denise Heathcote, Antony Benson, Bess

Pilling, Graham Castle, and Anna Clausen.

Thank you

Cath Johnston

New Wicking Bed - A huge thanks to the Manifold Heights Community Garden, and Derek Ryan’s expertise and effort in partic-

ular, for the magnificent new wicking bed built to the north of the Library. Designed to save water, it’s all ready to be planted up!

Have you got some seedlings (eg lettuce) you could assist the students in planting?

As with the Food Forest, anyone who is willing to plant, weed, and generally maintain the garden is also welcome to share the

produce.

Nude Food @ Mano At Manifold Heights PS we promote Sustainability in all areas.

A big focus this year is on reducing rubbish –in particular plastic. We have researched the effects of plastic on the environment

and seen the damage done to marine and other creatures and decided we can do something to help.

Nude Food Monday was introduced whereby rubbish free playlunches and lunches are encouraged – initially on at least one day

of the week. An incentive system to reinforce this focus (with a view to creating a rubbish free food habit all the time) has seen a

number of students winning their choice of a washable, reusable container as acknowledgement of their efforts.

Keep up the good work – save money while you save the environment!

(One of our fabulous

customers on the day!

A sausage dog eating a

sausage!)

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Kaisercraft are kindly

sponsoring a weekly Art

Award this term. Each week one student will receive a $20

Kaisercraft voucher. This week’s Art Award goes to:

Liam Fletcher - For helping other students as well as creating his

own wonderful work!

Congratulations to the following students who have been rewarded for their efforts towards

“RESILIENCE” and making ‘Mano’ a better place.

PB RAIDAN MEGEE - For some super efforts with his writing this week! Keep up the good work, Raidan!

PH BRADLEY TYE - For his fabulous attitude to work tasks and terrific writing about the Grandparents visit! Well done, Brad!

PS BEN DIMOVSKI - For his fantastic, detailed recount of our Prep Grandparents Day on Wednesday! Well done, Ben! Great work!

JB NOAH LENOBLE - For displaying fantastic new reading skills within his reading group! Well done, Noah!

JF SARAH ENGLISH - For listening carefully during our Inquiry discussion and for making valuable contributions about the features

of a City! Great work, Sarah!

JMB INDIGO ETHELL - For detailed, descriptive writing and terrific effort and concentration in classroom activities! Well done, Indigo!

JO JAYMEE RHODES - For her wonderful ideas about the City in our Inquiry Learning session! Well done, Jaymee!

MB ASHLEY WILSON - For his fantastic ‘retell’ of events during our writing session and excellent use of correct writing conventions!

Great work, Ashley!

MC CHARLI MEEHAN - For her brilliant attitude to all her learning and her kind, caring manner with others!

MH RINTJE LONA - For her excellent retell of events during our writing sessions and contributing to class discussion! Amazing work!

MS GRACE MATHIESON - For refusing to let injuries and distractions interfere with her learning and terrific work!

You’re a champion, Grace!

SB SAM SMITH - For being a cheerful positive class member and being a great role model for his peers by always working hard!

Well done, Sam!

SN JACOB WILSON-CHURCH - For helping with organising the “Hawks” choir for their fantastic performance at Senior Assembly!

You all sounded amazing!

SS SARAH MAPLESON - For always accepting advice cheerfully and working hard towards the completion of her goals!

SW ZOE HOTCHIN - For making excellent learning choices during iTime and staying on task! Super, Zoe!

The Book Fair will be held in

the Library from August 19th

to 23rd between 3.30pm

and 4.00pm. Take this

great opportunity to

purchase some excellent

books and stationery at

affordable prices. Remember every purchase you make will help

our school raise funds to purchase books for our wonderful

library.

Look forward to seeing you there!

The Geelong West District Athletic Sports will be held at

Goldsworthy Reserve, Corio on Wednesday 21st August.

If any parents of children competing could act as an official on the

day could you please fill out and return the form below. Thanking

you.

________________________________________________________

Geelong West District Athletic Sports

Wednesday 21st August

Name:____________________________________________

Phone Number:_____________________________________

Childs Name:_______________________________________

Grade:____________

I am able to act as an official at the Geelong West District Athletic

Sports on Wednesday 21st August.

Signed:________________________

CHOCOLATE

FUNDRAISING NEWS!

A Bench seat is being donated by

Tea Rose Giftware for the family

who sells the most boxes of

CHOCOLATES. If you would like to

win this wonderful prize valued at $150 come and collect

some more boxes from the office. Be quick as there are

only a few boxes left!

ART SHOW - "Artists of the World"

Students have started preparing for our spectacular Art Show

which will take place at our school on Wednesday 4th September

from 5 -7 pm. Watch this space for more information as the date

approaches. Mrs Mundine has worked very hard to prepare a

blog all about the artists we are studying. She has

done a marvellous job.

The web address:

http://manifoldheightsartshow.wordpress.com

Julie Walker

Like Tennis? Want to learn how to play tennis?

Come and try after school on Thursdays 4-5pm.

We will have senior tennis players there to help,

teach and play with you. Learn how to cover the

court like Lleyton Hewitt, serve like Rafael Nadal or

volley like Sam Stosur.

New Junior and Senior members welcome.

If you are interested please come along or give Denise Airey a

call on 0417504548. Western Heights Uniting Tennis Club, 31

Douglass St, Herne Hill.

Wow – the launch for this national program at Manifold Heights

PS is getting close now and the excitement level is rising!

Following a whole school assembly at 10am, we have two Mano

teams and four visiting schools presenting workshops to each

other at the launch of the 2013 Kids Teaching Kids Program on

6th September. They are:

Treading Lightly – Alysha, Giorgia, Ti, Arielle, Grace, Ava, Rushil,

Keirha, Ally, Ella, Max, Milli, Kayla, Charlotte, Jacob, Tayla, Ellexis,

Emily, Oscar, Sophie, Rintje, Nicky

What a Load of Rubbish! – Riley, Jed, Jake, Ben, Jemma, Elke, James, Emily, Ebony, Lachlan, Tom, Charli, Mia, Jayde, Sara-Lou,

Mitchell, Josh, Olivia, Shayla

We would love it if you could support us by sending example of items you have up-cycled (or photos of them) to display the many

ways we can reuse resources to make them into useful/beautiful objects. (Some recently upcycled products viewed at Geelong

Better Blocks were – jewellery and windchimes made from cutlery; new clothing made from preloved clothes, tablecloths, blan-

kets, etc; packing crates used to create vertical gardens....) If you would be available to support these two teams as they prepare

for the event or believe you can help in any other way, please contact Mrs Hines through the office or drop in to see her on Mon-

day or Tuesday.