MORNINGTON SPECIAL DEVELOPMENTAL SCHOOL

Newsletter No 5 August 2019 PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Independence Through Learning

From the Principal’s Desk

Dear Parents/Carers,

Term 2 Holidays The term 2 holidays were busy for contractors at the school, if not for staff. Over the holidays we had plumbers in undertaking a number of tasks through-out the school. They were trying to find and fix the sewerage smell near Room 2. It looks like (smells like?) They succeeded! We also had Steve and a friend re-building sandpits in the jun-ior and senior yards and removing Agapanthus (Agapanthus are an OHS issue as they are poisonous if consumed). Lions Club – Mornington. Steff, as school representative, attended the Mornington Lions club AGM held at Hastings on Tuesday the 9th of July. Mornington Lions very generously donated $500.00 to the school. Thank you to the Mornington Lions, they are great supporters of our school, and thank you Steff who attend on my behalf.

Term 3 Term 3 is a big term for us. This is the term where a lot of work for the upcoming Term 4 Review needs to be car-ried out. To this end, I have asked Angela (Teacher in Room 7) to work on policy compliance. This means she is ensuring all of our policies and procedures are up to date and that we conform to the Child Safe Standards. I have asked Stuart – the teacher in room 3, to develop a data base of all of our students (the students’ names will be removed to ensure privacy) that I can use to explain to the reviewers the nature and character of our school. The data will be aggregate data that describes the school’s profile, how many male students versus female students for example.

2019 Mornington Secondary School Drum Corps Band The students had a big surprise on Wednesday the 7th of August with a visit from the 2019 Mornington Secondary

School Drum Corps Band. The band were terrific and our students loved listening and happily joined in with the drumming. The young students from the secondary college were very skilled and really entertaining. Much thanks to Mornington Secondary teacher: Paul Papeettas who organised the visit.

Our Commitment to Child Safety Mornington SDS is committed to providing a Child Safe environment where children and young people in our care are safe and feel safe and their voices are heard about decisions that affect their lives. We promote and protect the best interests of students involved in our programs at all times.

Cold, flu & other sicknesses. The department issued, in part, the following advice for parents and schools. If your school or service has a sick child, you must: ensure that unwell children do not attend your school. isolate children who became unwell during the day from other children and send the unwell child home as soon as possible. Based on this advice it is very important that parents keep their children home if they are sick. Colds and flu are easily transmitted in schools so I ask that parents keep their child at home until they are better and not likely to pass on any colds. Please note, that if your child falls sick during the day I will contact you to come and pick up your child. David Newport Principal

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School Concert Ticket Order Form

MORNINGTON SPECIAL DEVELOPMENTAL SCHOOL In Partnership with

Woodleigh School

Presents our 2019

Friday the 6th of September

Starting at 7.00 pm at

Woodleigh School Senior campus

485 Golf Links Road , 3911

Mornington Special Developmental School

Concert Ticket Order Form

I would like to purchase tickets for the 2019 School Concert

Name of Student………………………………………………………………………

Single Tickets are $10.00……………………………………………………………

(Admits 1 person)

Family Tickets are $20.00………………………………………………………….

(Two Adults & Three Children)

FULL PAYMENT MUST BE ENCLOSED WITH YOUR ORDER

Please Note if you have wheelchair, pram or mobility issues please let the office know

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Room 6 discovering what Bunnings has to

offer on a community access visit .

Dates to Remember

Curriculum Day—9th August

National Science week—10th—18th August

Dental Van Visit—12th August

School Council Meeting—15th August

Music Festival—15th August

Dress up Day fav Book Character—22 August

Fathers Day Stall—Friday 30th August

School Concert—6th September

School Council Meeting—12th September

Footy Day Parade—19th September

Camp Manyung —21st to 23rd October

School Council Meeting—24th October

Curriculum Day—4th November

Melbourne Cup Day—5th November

Remembrance Day Assembly—11th November

Bunnings BBQ—Sunday 17th November

School Council Meeting—21st November

Senior Graduation—Friday 6th December

Helpers/Volunteers Thank you Morning tea—10th December

Family Christmas BBQ—Friday 13th December

End of Term 4—20th December—1.30 dismissal

Merry Christmas

Term Dates 2019

Term 1

31st January to 5th April

Term 2

23rd April to 28th June

Term 3

15th July to 20th September

Term 4

7th October to 20th December

July—Jordan S

Hayden R

ABSENCES Student absences should be reported to the school before 9:00am.

Please email the Attendance Officer Karen Binks—mornington.sds@edumail.vic.gov.au or telephone 03 59756 111 on the day of the absence by 9:00am.

A note on the day of return to the General Office is required for absences where no parent contact has been possible.

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The ‘Woolworths Earn and Learn’!

On behalf of the staff and students at Mornington Special Devel-opmental School, we would like to sincerely thank the local com-munity for all of their hard work collecting stickers for this year’s Woolworths Earn & Learn program.

All of the stickers were counted during the holidays and we were very proud to announce that we have collected 38,680 Earn & Learn stickers, which is an AMAZING effort! This year we are re-deeming our Woolworths Earn & Learn points towards our Art program. Stay tune for our next post on Earn and learn when we receive our delivery in term 4.

Thank you once again for all your support!

Did you know Book Week is almost here? No…. Well Book week is

happening from August 17th - 23rd. Students will participate in a

number of activities including; reading the short listed books, clas-

ses will visit each other rooms to participate in a story and listen-

ing to reading with a buddy grade. We will be concluding our cele-

brations on Friday with a dress up day. We would love to see all

students come dressed as a favourite book character. We look for-

ward to seeing everyone’s fantastic costumes on our Dress-Up Day

at assembly. When: Thursday 22nd August at 10.00am. Parents be

sure to come along and see all the great costumes, feel free to get

involved and come dressed up too! Remember awesome costumes

can be created from clothes and other items you have at home.

They don’t need to be specially brought costumes.