Manilla Central SchoolNewsletter

K-12 Newsletter No 20Monday, 29th June, 2020

Secondary – Phone: 67 851 184, Fax: 67 852 138 Primary – Phone: 67 851 599, Fax: 67 851 705

We have also made model neurons to follow the nervous pathway connecting the brain to the body

Stage 6 BiologyStudents have been studying open and closed systems in organisms. As part of their studies, Ms Sutton had them perform a dissection of some toads.

Focus on…

Since returning back to normal schooling, students have been engaging in a range of hands on learning experiences in Science.

Stage 4:Students have been studying mixtures and how they can be separated. Ms Sutton’s classes used chromatography to separate the dye in the pen used to write a ransom note.

Stage 5Students have completed a research project on Automatic Responses in the body, and have been studying how the brain controls bodily functions. Mrs Lawrence’s class have conducted multiple dissections, including a sheep’s brain and a pig’s eye

Coding & Programming with S2BIn Mathematics, S2B have been working on coding programs for our ‘Beebots’ to follow. This involves anticipating turns and, moving forwards and backwards to a required distance. It also is important to have the commands in the right order, or all havoc can break loose.This week we used our coding and programming skills to support our PBL program. The mission was to code a path from the S2B door to the front gate, the bus lines and the side gate for parent pickups after school.The students constructed an enlarged, scale map of the sector between the Arthur Street gates, our Access Lane inside the school gates and the front gate. We created a grid reference to assist our programming. The exciting part was programming our ‘Beebots’ and testing them to see if our coding worked. This week S2B will continue to undertake coding and programing different routes and pathways in other areas of our school.

Beanies for Brain CancerThank you to everyone who wore a beanie last Friday to support the Mark Hughes Foundation for Beanies for Brain Cancer.Don’t forget you can make a donation at: https://donate.markhughesfoundation.com.au/donate/

School Reports

Our education department has given schools across the state an extension to have their Semester One class academic reports finished and handed out in Term 3 Week 6 due to the remote learning period of COVID-19.

Our teaching staff have been monitoring students progress during Term One and Two and have chosen to remain with our annual cycle of reporting to parents and send out our reports this week.

Primary: Reports will go home on Wednesday ... Parent / Teacher interviews will be scheduled for early next term (Week 1 and Week 2).

Year 11: Reports will go home on Wednesday ... Parent / Teacher interviews will be scheduled for the beginning of next term.

Years 7 - 10: Reports will be mailed to you at the end of this week ... Parent / Teacher interviews will be scheduled for the beginning of next term.

At this stage, we cannot hold face to face interviews due to social distancing restrictions. These may be lifted by the end of July, but at this stage we will not be holding face to face interviews.

We are working on a suitable alternative either through telephone calls or by a ZOOM type meeting via the internet.

We will have this sorted for you by the commencement of Term 3.

End of Term PBL Assembly

We will be conducting an assembly in the Primary this Friday in order to present our students with their well earned rewards. We will post or award recipients on our Facebook page for all to see.

Secondary Awards

Last Friday we commenced rewarding our secondary students who received an award that week with a hot chocolate as a way of saying thank you for being such a great person.

We will continue these deliveries over the cold winter season.

A Kind Way to Celebrate!!

Happy birthday to Ely Ison who

turned 13 this week… A special

mention and thank you to our

wonderful volunteer Mr Ridgewell,

who baked Ely a cake to make his

day extra special! The boys loved

it!

Pictured Below: Senior students painting the Seniors’ Room

Primary Breakfast Club This Wednesday (1st July) only

8.30—9.00am

Cereal, Toast, Fruit & Yoghurt

Positive Behaviour for Learning Term 2, Week 9 & 10, 2020

We are learning to correctly use lines when

leaving school at the end of the day.

Student Challenge Term 2 - Week 10 - Colouring

Nextwave Regional Youth Film Competition Open for Entries

The Coffs Coast’s Screenwave International Film Festival is again hosting the NEXTWAVE short film competition for young regional Australians this year – and would like some short film entries from our school! All films need to be under five minutes and include the phrase “What’s Next”. Creativity is highly encouraged. The best films will screen at SWIFF next January during the Nextwave Youth Film Awards, and tens of thousands of dollars in prizes are up for grabs to students (and our school!).

Competition closes 21st September, 2020. All competition details are available at: www.nextwavefilmfest.com.au.

Register for free Nextwave Online filmmaking course

If your child isn’t sure how to make their short film, the Screenwave International Film Festival has made a step-by-step 10 episode video guide on beginner filmmaking, with episodes starting to roll out next week on the new Nextwave Online learning portal. To secure your child’s FREE access (thanks to Southern Cross University), register here before 21st July: https://nextwavefilmfest.com.au/workshop/