Dear Parents and Community

Welcome back to Term 3. I trust that you all had a relaxing holiday with family and friends. We have a very busy term ahead of us but our students have already settled back into the classroom with a positive attitude and determination to succeed.

WELCOME All the Miling PS staff and students would like to extend a very warm welcome to Haiden and Kohl. We are all very excited to have two new friends join our school and have all tried very hard to help them both settle in. We hope that you both love Miling as much as we do.

CROSS COUNTRY Congratulations to all of our students who competed in the Colin Moore Cross Country Championships last term. It was fantastic to see everyone displaying our core values of respect, perseverance, cooperation and kindness throughout the day. I was very proud to see all of our students trying their best whilst displaying exceptional sportsmanship. Congratulations to Eliza Seymour, Kiara Bailey, Heidi Seymour, Summer Lewis, Tommy McNamara and Riley White, who all finished in the top ten of their division. This Friday the North Midlands Cross Country Championships is being held at Eneabba and I would like to wish all of our competitors the best of luck.

NATURE PLAY OPENING Wow, what a fantastic event our nature play opening was! Thank you to all of our parents and community members who attended and stayed for the sun downer. I am continually blown away by the amount of support our school receives by local community members and parents. The nature play area is a brilliant addition to our beautiful school and will assist in many learning experiences whilst also promoting and encouraging

imaginative play. Thank you to the nature play committee, Olivia Mincherton, Joey Seymour and Helmi Seymour, for their hard work in coordinating such a wonderful community effort to complete the nature play area and organise the grand opening. Thank you to the many parents and family members whom gave up countless hours to attend busy bees in the area, many hands really do make light work! Thank you also to all of our fantastic sponsors and donors who enabled our nature play concept to come to life. Please see the full nature play spread for a list of all of our special sponsors, donors and helpers.

PEAC TESTING Next Tuesday, our Year 4 students will participate in the annual Primary Extension and Challenge (PEAC) testing. The ILN provide a PEAC program that allows selected students the opportunity to develop higher order process skills and in-depth investigation skills, and to work on open-ended activities which encourage choice and negotiation.

NAIDOC Next Thursday, our Kindy to Year 6 students will be heading across to Moora for a NAIDOC Day excursion. Our students will be grouped with students from Moora PS, Dandaragan PS, Watheroo PS and St Joseph’s PS, and will complete a number of activities such as damper making, stone painting and boomerang throwing. In our 2015-2017 Business Plan, we wanted to incorporate Aboriginal Perspectives across the Curriculum as well as focus on Aboriginal Incursions and celebrate NAIDOC Week. Joining the schools within our cluster to celebrate NAIDOC Week will allow our students to interact with peers from the district and gain a better understanding of Aboriginal Culture.

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School Report

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26 July 2017

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT … cont

KINDY Our four wonderful Kindy students, Zoe, Caitlyn, Kohl and Xavier, are all very happy to be attending school three days a week this semester. They now attend Monday, Tuesday and Thursday which has got Mrs Lehmann and Miss Huggins very excited because they have so many fun and educational activities to do.

HOME READERS It is great to see the number of students reading aloud daily to their parents. Reading aloud with children has many benefits such as developing stronger vocabulary, building connections between the spoken and written word, providing enjoyment, increasing attention span, strengthening cognition, providing a safe way of exploring emotions and promoting child/parent bonding. Just a reminder that our Home Reading program encourages students to read aloud to a parent or caregiver, reading the levelled books assigned at school. The books students borrow from the Library are for their pleasure, and whilst they can be read aloud, we don’t record them in our Home Reading log.

POWER OUTAGE On Wednesday 9 August, some of the Miling township will be without power from 7:30am to 6pm. The Administration building of the school will be affected, however, the classrooms are on a different line so will be operating as normal. Please note, our Week 4 Newsletter will be published on Tuesday the 8th.

Thank you for a great start to Term 3, I’m excited for a fantastic semester!

Kind regards

ASHLYN SIVIOUR

PRINCIPAL

Book Week This year, book week is being celebrated from August 19 to 26,

however due to our seniors being on camp, we will be celebrating it

the following week. On Thursday 31 August, our students are invited

to dress up as their favourite book character and will participate in

various activities centred around the theme, ‘Escape to Everywhere’.

Miling Primary School Nature Play Opening

THANK YOU to all of our fabulous sponsors and donors;

Bunnings Warehouse Joondalup - plants and planter boxes

Coerco (previously known as Rapid Plastics in Dally) - water trough

Dallcon - box culverts & a palette of concrete

Dave Watson Treelopping - woodchips & logs

McNamara Logistics - forklift use

Meers IGA, Moora - cash donations to the P&C

Miling Hotel - bobcat use

Shire of Moora - generous grant

Annaleis & Richard Topham - boat & marine rope

This was such a huge community effort and at the risk of forgetting to

mention someone individually, we would like to extend a massive

thank you to the entire Miling Community and anyone who donated

their time, labour, farm machinery, rocks, tyres etc.

Without your support and efforts, our nature play area would not look

as brilliant as it does.

Miling Community News MILING COMMUNITY CHURCH

Services Held:-

2nd Sunday @ 9.30am & 4th Sunday @ 8am

Followed By Morning Tea!

ALL WELCOME !

Newsletter Subs Just a reminder that Newsletter subs are now overdue.

If you receive a hard copy of our newsletter, the annual fee is $25.00.

Payment ASAP would be appreciated.

You can pay by cash or cheque at the school, or via EFT to Miling Primary School,

BSB 016-760, A/C 3900 04567. Thank you.

FOOTY TIPPING

The latest update ...

Round 18 - Susan Dennis 8

Change of lead since last email.

Shilo forgot to draw her tips out of the hat this week!

40 Brady Pearson

39 Vikki H

37 Susan Dennis/Harro/Moni.

A few on 36

Good luck and I mean GOOD LUCK trying to pick winners

Cheers for now,

Vikki

Happy Tipping

MILING MENS GOLF CLUB EVENTS:

Terry Martin Memorial Day

Saturday 29th July

Old Farts Day

Saturday 5th August

Any enquires please contact Tom Sayers

Miling Hockey Club Come down to our last home game the 29th July

C Grade 11:15am Seniors: 3:15pm

After the games we will be holding a

Pizza & Pasta night

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” – Jack Dempsey

“ Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find-alloy called guts .“ - Dan Gable

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve

failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed .“ - Michael Jordan

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” - Vince Lombardi

“Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.” - Jim Valvano

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

TERM PLANNER – TERM 3 - 2017

WEEK MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

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July 17

School

Development

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Students

resume

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Early Close 2:30pm

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Nature Play

Opening

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School Board

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NEWSLETTER

Early Close 2:30pm

27 28

X Country

Eneabba

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31 August 1 2

Early Close 2:30pm

3

NAIDOC Day

Moora PS

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FOUR

7 8

Izzy Incursion

( K-2 )

9

NEWSLETTER

Early Close 2:30pm

10

Assembly

P&C Meeting

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FIVE

14 15

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Rob Adams - 9AM

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Wheatbelt Science

Forum

Yr 5/6 W. Hills

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SIX

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SENIOR CAMP

ALBANY

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NEWSLETTER

Early Close 2:30pm

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SEVEN 28 29 30

Early Close 2:30pm

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Book Week

September 1

Faction Athletics

Miling

EIGHT 4 5

School Board

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NEWSLETTER

Early Close 2:30pm

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NINE

11 12

IPS REVIEW

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IPS REVIEW

Early Close 2:30pm

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Inter School

Athletics - Miling

TEN 18 19

Assembly

P&C Meeting

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NEWSLETTER

Early Close 2:30pm

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