Melton South Primary School PO Box 2043

Melton South, 3338

Tel: (03) 9743 2922

Fax: (03) 9743 0986

Email: melton.south.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.meltonsouthps.vic.edu.au THURSDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER 2019

This newsletter is available from our school website www.meltonsouthps.vic.edu.au or

the Melton South Primary School Skoolbag App.

Friday 20th September Payment due for Grade 2 Local Excursion

Footy Colours Day

Early Lunch 12.15 (due to early dismissal)

FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER—LAST DAY OF TERM 3—

EARLY DISMISSAL 2.15PM MONDAY 7TH OCTOBER—CURRICULUM DAY—STUDENTS NOT TO ATTEND SCHOOL

TUESDAY 8TH OCTOBER FIRST DAY OF TERM 4—SCHOOL COMMENCES AT 9.00AM

Tuesday 8th October Payment due for Grade 3 Excursion to Melbourne Zoo

Friday 11th October Grade 3 Melbourne Zoo Excursion

Grade 2 Local Excursion

Tuesday 15th October Grade 1—Grandparents Day 2.15pm to 3.00pm

Friday 18th October Payment due for Grade 1 Excursion to Sovereign Hill

Payment due for Grade 4 Swimming Program

Wednesday 23rd October Prep 2020 Transition 9.30 to 10.30am

Friday 25th October Grade 1 Excursion to Sovereign Hill

Saturday 9th November Djerriwarrh Festival Parade

Thursday 14th November Prep 2020 Transition 1.45 to 2.45pm

Monday 18th to Friday 22nd November Book Fair in Library

Monday 2nd December Grade 6 Graduation Evening

Wednesday 4th December Whole School Expo

Monday 2nd to Friday 13th December Grade 4 Swimming Program

Tuesday 10th December Prep 2020 Transition 9.30 to 10.30am

Grade 6 2019 attend their 2020 Secondary College

Wednesday 17th December Whole School Breakfast

Friday 20th December Last Day of Term 4—Early Dismissal 1.30pm

DATES FOR 2020 Wednesday 29th January Grade 1 to 6 students commence school

2020 Prep Information Session 9.30am

Thursday 30th January Prep children commence school today

Wednesday 5th February No school for Prep children (prep interviews)

Melton South Primary School Mission:

Melton South Primary School is a progressive community who lead the way.

Together we create motivated, respectful learners who achieve excellence.

STAFF, STUDENTS, PARENTS AND CARERS ALL HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AT

MELTON SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL.

EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE SAFE EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE RESPECTED

EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO LEARN

END OF TERM: I am looking forward to our footy colours day tomorrow starting with the parade in the morning ,

pies for lunch and lots of fun activities to end term 3. We have had a very busy term with many sporting

achievements, Doxa Camp, excursions, school discos, Literacy and Numeracy Week activities amongst many other

things. I hope all staff and students have a well deserved break and come back refreshed ready for term 4 on

Tuesday 8th October.

NAPLAN RESULTS: NAPLAN results for students in grades 3 and 5 are now available for parents to collect from

the office. Parents are advised we will not be sending home the reports with the children.

DOGS POLICY: Melton South Primary School has a dog policy. Dogs are not permitted on school grounds at all

with the exception of specially trained dogs to enhance mobility or disability. We do promote Responsible Pet

Ownership to educate students in the knowledge and understanding needs for responsible pet ownership and

animal care. This applies to all school events, including discos and Let It Shine Expo.

PERSONAL PROPERTY: Is often brought to school by students, staff and visitors. This can include mobile phones,

bicylces, scooters, electronic games, calculators, toys, musical instruments, sporting equipment and cars parked on

school premises. The department does not hold insurance for personal property brought to school and it has no

capacity to pay for any loss or damage to such property. We advise that should your child bring their bike or

scooter to school it is advisable to also send a lock with them as we have unfortunately had things stolen from the

bike shed.

GRADES 2020: Teachers devote many hours to the development of new grades, taking many factors into

consideration. If you have any specific requests, please put them into writing to the Principal marked Confidential

and hand into the office by Friday 1st November. All requests will be given due consideration. Please note that

only requests received by this date will be considered.

To assist with this process, we ask any families/students who are moving to another area and not returning to

Melton South Primary School in 2020 to notify the school office as soon as possible. This information is critical for

class structure and staffing.

Mrs Marilyn Costigan, Principal

FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER

LAST DAY OF TERM 3

SCHOOL FINISHES AT 2.15PM

FOOTY DAY PARADE - FRIDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER

The last day of term 3, Friday 20th September is our Footy Colours and Pie Day. Students are asked to come to

school dressed in their favourite team colours. There will be activities running throughout the day for students to

participate in. We will be having a parade in the gym in the morning at 9.10am.

PREP 2020 ENROLMENTS We are now finalising enrolments for 2020. If you have a child turning 5 on or before the

30th April, 2020, please ensure you have returned your child’s completed enrolment form.

This information allows us to commence planning for the coming year and it is vital that we

establish student numbers for 2020 as early as possible.

WHAT TO ASK YOUR CHILDREN INSTEAD OF “HOW WAS YOUR DAY”?

What made you smile today?

Can you tell me an example of kindness you saw/showed?

What did you do that was creative?

Who did you sit with at lunch?

Was anyone in your class gone today?

Tell me something you know today that you didn’t know yesterday?

Did you like your lunch?

What was the hardest role to follow today?

If you could change one thing about your day, what would it be?

What made your teacher smile?

What made your teacher frown?

What kind of person were you today?

SCHOOL HATS: Melton South Primary School is an accredited member of The Australian

Cancer Foundation and therefore follows the required regulations in regard to SunSmart

behaviour. As part of our school’s SunSmart Policy, all students and staff are required to wear

school broad brimmed sunhats from 1st September through to April 30th next year. Hats are

available from the school office for $12.00 each.

SCHOOL BANKING IS EVERY THURSDAY AT

MELTON SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL

Attending school every day is vital for students of all ages to fully achieve. As a parent/guardian: Commit to sending children to school every day. Make sure children arrive at school on time. Inform the school when they are away, sending medical

certificates and other evidence of genuine absence. Consider catching-up on missed work.

Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

This years' Djerriwarrh Festival will be bigger and better than the previous years! The theme this year is:

"Melton City, Much More than meets the Eye. Show us what you are made of." We are going to take this opportunity to showcase just how great Melton South Primary School is!

The Parade is on Saturday, 9th November, High Street, Melton with an 11am start. Walking groups like our school, are asked to be there between 10.00 and 10.15. The Outstanding School Award will be given to the most imaginative, colourful and innovative. We need to know numbers fairly soon, so please see your classroom teacher for a Permission Form and return it as soon as possible. Parents/Carers and Students that are interested, are invited to attend some Workshops in the Art Room on the 12th and 19th of September at 3:30pm to create props and costumes for the parade. If you have any ideas, questions or would like to help, please contact Ms Cohen (Prep E, Room 19) or Ms Wright (2E, Room 5B). It’s going to be an exciting day, so we hope to see you there!

Grandparents Day!

Tuesday October 15th 2019 - 2.15-3.00pm

Our Grade 1 students are working on a unit

called Past and Present. To ask our

Grandparents what life was like when they were

younger, we invite grandparents for a special

afternoon in the Grade 1 classrooms.

More information will follow soon!

Art News The Art team would appreciate anyone who could donate some small gift size boxes to us as next term as

the children are making sculptures of robots.

Connor has already created one with mobile! Having fun in Planning Week!

Western Volcanic Plains Garden. Last year the school received a Victorian Junior Landcare and Biodiversity grant to establish a garden and reintroduce plants of the Western Volcanic Plains area. We are very grateful for their generosity to our school.

As part of the project, Grade 6 students have already been to Toolern Creek to assist in a revegetation project led by Lyn Holdsworth (Order of Australia recipient).

In Art Engagement, students have designed nesting boxes for the possums that reside down there and others have made flowered tiles to go around our playground area.

Our Green Team has spent a sunny afternoon hauling loads of soil to the front corner, next to the basketball courts to prepare the garden for planting but we still have a lots more to transport.

The garden will be finished next term.

A big thank you to them all for doing such a great job so far. Mrs Rozsa

Djerriwarrh Workshop: Any teacher, parent or student who would like to help us design costumes and

props for the Djerriwarrh parade, we will be having a workshop in the Art room today at 3.30pm.

WHOLE SCHOOL LEARNING INTENTIONS Week: 10

LI—Learning Intention SC—Success Criteria

Year Reading Writing Maths

Prep

LI: Good readers use strategies when they read. SC: I can work out unfamiliar words using the pictures and the first letter of the word.

LI: Good writers can write an introduction. SC: I can write an introduction about Zebras. I can explain what a Zebra is.

LI: Good Mathematicians know how to count to find the total of a collection SC: I can group my counters into groups of 10.

Year 1

LI: Good readers use strategies to understand the text. SC: I can summarise by identifying Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then.

LI: Good writers understand how to write a procedural recount. SC: I can write a procedural recount about our morning routine.

LI: Good mathematicians use efficient strategies for subtraction. SC: I can count backwards. I can show my working out with a picture material,

or a number sentence.

Year 2 LI: Good readers are able to critique a text. SC: I can identify good word choices in a text.

LI: Good writers understand how to use graphic organizer to plan an information text. SC: I can use an information text planner. I can use the structure of the planner to record my ideas. I can use dot points to record facts on a type of transport.

LI: Good mathematicians identify the time on an analogue clock. SC: I can identify different times on an analogue clock.

Year 3

LI: Good readers visualise what they are reading. SC: I can use descriptive language to visualise the story.

LI: Good writers are able to compete a post assessment. SC: I can complete the assessment to the best of my ability.

Revision / Fractions of a whole

Year 4

LI: Good readers identify and explain Author’s purpose. SC: I can explain why CS Lewis wrote The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

LI: Good writers can write a procedural recount. SC: I can use my knowledge of our year 4 excursion to the Melbourne museum to write a procedural recount.

LI: Good mathematicians can show their knowledge in a post test. SC: I can show my understanding of place value.

Year 5

LI: Good readers analyse the author’s craft - voice, word choice, descriptive language SC: I can; Watch ‘voices in the park’, analyse a character using the text and illustrations as evidence.

LI: Good writers revise their work. SC: I can; read through a piece of work use the ARMS acronym to make changes to my work and check my thinking with a partner.

LI: Good mathematicians can show their knowledge in a post test. SC: I can show my understanding of place value.

Year 6

LI: Good readers explore two or more texts by Margaret Wild, drawing out the similarities in subject or theme. SC: I can complete the analysis table to identify the characterization, plot development and tone in a Margaret Wild text.

LI: Good writers understand how to write a procedural recount. SC: I can write a procedural recount about our morning routine.

LI: Good mathematicians use efficient strategies for subtraction. SC: I can count backwards. I can show my working out with a picture material, or a number sentence.

HEAD LICE: We have had quite a few reported cases of head lice in the school over the past few weeks. Head lice do not

transmit infectious diseases—they are transmitted by having head to head contact with someone who has head lice. Head lice

are common in school aged children and are the most adaptable of creatures.

What can you do? We seek your co-operation in checking your child’s hair and in those instances where head lice or eggs are

found, treating your child’s hair.

If head lice or eggs are found on your child’s hair you need to inform the school and advise when the treatment has started.

Health regulations require that where a child has head lice, the child should not return to school until the day after appropriate

treatment has started. Please note this refers only to those children who have live head lice and does not refer to head lice

eggs.

Melton South Primary School is aware that head lice can be a sensitive issue and is committed to maintaining your

confidentiality.