MEADOW HEIGHTS

PRIMARY SCHOOL

At Meadow Heights

Primary School

our relationships

and behaviours are guided

by the values of

Pride, Respect,

Responsibility

and Excellence

PRINCIPAL: MARGARET LEACH

Phone: 9305 2033

meadow.heights.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

www.meadowheightsps.vic.edu.au

NEWSLETTER

21 June 2019

UNLOCKING THE

POTENTIAL

OF ALL

LEARNERS

Dear Parents and Carers

On Sunday the 16th of June, I attended the 18th International

Children’s Festival with Mrs Hasimoglu, our cultural dance group

students and their parents at the Collingwood Town Hall.

It was a spectacular event with dance performances from children

representing many cultures. I had the privilege of being

entertained by Slovak, Punjabi, Polynesian, Indonesian,

Macedonian, Bosnian, Ukrainian and other cultural dance groups.

Our Meadow Heights Primary School students performed with enthusiasm and

enjoyment which gave us much joy.

I would like to thank Mrs Hasimoglu for working with the students to prepare their

performance during lunchtime. We would like any students who know a cultural

dance to share this with the cultural dance group. This would expand the range of

cultural dances the student will be able to perform while acknowledging the wealth

of different cultures we have at the school. Mrs Hasimoglu would love to hear

from any student who can share their cultural dance.

Have a wonderful week.

Mrs Margaret LEACH

School Principal

Monday 24 School Assembly 9.00-9.30am

Monday 24 Grade 5/6 Team Melbourne City FC and UBTech—

City Robots Programme

Mon-Thu 24-27 Final week PE-Gymnastics

Thursday 27 SCHOOL OF ROCK CONCERT – MHPS GLEE CLUB AND

BAND and TURKISH SINGING GROUP PERFORMING

Friday 28 End of Term 2—Finish time 2.30pm

Monday 15 Start of Term 3—Start time 8.50am

Monday 22 School Assembly 9.00-9.30am

JUNE

JULY

EAL Number Fluency Award, congratulations

Anh Thu Ho!

Grade 12C Clean School Award. Well done Grade 12C!

Iman from Grade 12C, holding the

Clean School Award

Grades 5/6 have had 10 weeks experience with the Melbourne City Soccer Club where they came in for two

hours a week. One session is to work on their soccer skills, the next session is to build robots. The students

worked in groups of three to build robots using coding to make it move and/or talk. Great work Grades 5/6!

On Monday Prep C and Prep D performed their current favourite brain break the ‘Tooty Ta’. Brain breaks are quick, whole-class activities that give our students opportunities to pause, and take a break from learning. This helps the students re-energize and increase their on-task behaviour.

Year 5/6 How to make Turkish Tea Activity in

Turkish Class

Year 5/6 students involved in some Turkish cultural

awareness activities during this term such as getting

familiarise with Turkish symbols, icons, folk tale story

characters, national and religious celebrations etc.

The students watched a video clip with English subti-

tles about the steps of how to make Turkish Tea. They

took notes as they were watching the video clip and

learnt some key words to be able to produce a simple

procedural text in Turkish with the teacher’s assis-

tance.

After Ramadan (Eid) Festival, they involved in a role-

play activity based on Bayram (Eid) visit comparing to

other customs and religious festivals such as Easter.

The students practised some proverbs and gestures

related to Bayram (Eid) Visit.

This week the students involved in making tea activity.

The students explained the step as the tea was being

prepared.

WIN PIZZA LUNCH FOR YOUR CLASS! You only need to come to school every day to win a PIZZA LUNCH for your class each term! TERM 2 MEADOW HEIGHTS ATTENDANCE AWARDS!

At our last assembly on Monday next week, individual students and classes

with highest attendance for Term 2 will be awarded MHPS Attendance

Awards. The main attendance award is Pizza Lunch for the class with highest

attendance for this term.

Yashar Duyal

Assistant Principal

This is the last week for borrowing Library books this term. Prep 1/2 and 3/4 students must return all Library books next week before the end of term holiday break.

On Sunday, 16th

June, 2019 Turkish Class Dance group

from Meadow Heights Primary School performed at the 18th

International Children’s Festival at the Collingwood Town

Hall (140 Hoddle Street, Abbotsford).

The students danced to a patriotic song called ‘March of Izmir’. This march is Anonymous and written for the Turkish Independence. Some part of the lyrics are as following: Yaşa Mustafa Kemal Paşa Yaşa! - Long live Mustafa Kemal Pasha (Atatürk) long live! Adın yazılacak mücevher taşa. - Your name will be written on the gem stone (of history) I’d like to take the opportunity to extend my regard to MHPS principal Mrs Margaret Leach and our parents for their valuable support. Figen Hasimoglu Languages -Turkish Teacher

ATTENDANCE AWARDS

Woolworths Earn & Learn ENDS on 25 June

Shop at any Woolworths supermarket and get Earn & Learn stickers for your shopping, then get your children to bring them to school and place them into the box in our office. With your help, we will receive new sporting and/or classroom learning equipment that

will help all our students. Thank you for your help.

JSC Visit School Council

Members of Junior School Council (JSC) attended School

Council on Tuesday night and spoke to parents about

their goals for 2019. It was wonderful to hear their ideas

and see several parents at the meeting.

The JSC students had many ideas for improving the ap-

pearance of MHPS. They have already started this

through the Clean School Initiative to ensure there is less

rubbish in the yard. Each week the team choose a grade,

which has kept the area near their classroom clean and

they are then presented with a trophy at assembly.

They also wanted to stop students from writing on walls and generally take care of the school. Any damage on path-

ways should be repaired, and the back oval improved. They hoped to encourage students to be kinder and thought of a

friendship tree, so if someone felt lonely they could stand near the tree and be collected by other students who would

play with them. To help students return to class on time they felt we needed to install speakers on the back oval.

JSC collected data from students throughout the school to gain ideas for the play space near the science room. Their

findings included quiet spaces for children, places to sit and read, a nice garden and even a flying fox! To help fund

some of their projects they hoped to fundraise with a sausage sizzle or a Glee Club band performance, which students

would pay money to watch.

They hoped for lunchtime activities, which would include activities such as board or computer games, embroidery and

woodwork, and to look at providing healthy food options for students.

The group wish to let kids have a say and let teachers know what they like. They are planning future surveys to allow

this to happen. At the same time they plan to promote School Wide Positive Behaviour in our school and are develop-

ing some comic displays to do so.

We hope to see some of their suggestions take shape throughout the year. They are a wonderful team of representa-

tives for the students in our school. Keep up the great work JSC!

Muhammad Zeeshan

Mahmoud Khodr

Bilan Mohamed

Lara Ali Ali

Kelise Nicholson

Yusuf Tonbil

Usman Ali

Sahej Sandhu

Ahmad Albikai

Enes Can

Dilan Deniz

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ROAD SAFETY AROUND OUR SCHOOL

STAFF CAR PARK IS A NO-GO ZONE FOR PARENTS

AND CHILDREN TO PARK AND/OR WALK THROUGH.

SAFETY FIRST ALWAYS!

PLEASE KEEP CLEAR OF THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

AND NEVER DOUBLE-PARK OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL.

SOME USEFUL TIPS FOR DEVELOPING A LOVE OF READING AT HOME

Establish a home reading routine. Read aloud with your children every day. Ten minutes for each child

around a book of his/her choice. If English is your second language, read in your home language. If you lack

confidence in reading aloud, the fact that you are reading with your child is what matters. Talk about the il-

lustrations and contribute where you can. Share your excitement for reading and this will be the model your

child will adopt.

During reading time, turn off electronic devices and give each child ten minutes of your undivided attention.

Make reading a special time that you share together!

At the end of the book ask questions that encourage discussion, for example: What was your favourite part?

Tell me about the characters. What do you think will happen next? What did you think about that setting?

What do like/ dislike about this book?

Provide your child with positive feedback.

Visit the local library — make it a family ritual on a set day every week. Let your children select their books

while you select books you are interested in reading. Not every book has to be read cover to cover. Your

child might select books based on illustrations or factual information about a topic of interest.

Model what it means to be an enthusiastic reader. Create a home of readers where everyone reads – It is

just what we do in this house! Talk about what you have read. Read aloud what makes you laugh and share

it with your child.

Adapted from the PETTA (Primary English Teaching Association Australia) Parents Guide to Helping Children with

Reading and Writing at Home

ARABIC

الشهر السادس\ حزيران

9300-93:0اجتماع المدرسة 42 االثنين

فريق مدينة ملبورن أف 5/6الصف 42 االثنين

سي وبرنامج الروبوتات يوبي تك سيتي

االثنين-الخميس األسبوع -2242

الجمباز أللعاباألخير

مدرسي الحفل الروك 22 الخميس

23:0الساعه 2نهاية الفصل الدراسي 22 الجمعه

\ تموزبعالشهر السا

الساعه :بداية الفصل الدراسي 15 االثنين

2350

24 االثنين 9300-93:0اجتماع المدرسة

TURKISH

TAKVİM

HAZİRAN

24 Haziran Pazartesi Okul Bayrak Töreni 9:00 – 9:30

24 Haziran Pazartesi 5 ve 6. Sınıflar Team Melbourne Cıty FC and UB Tech – City Robot Programı Gezisi

Pazartesi – Perşembe arası Jimnastik Programı Final haftası

27 Haziran Perşembe OKULLAR ARASI ROCK KONSERİ – MHPS GLEE KLUBÜ VE ORKESTRASI VE

TÜRKÇE ŞARKI GRUBU gösteri sunuyorlar

22 Haziran Cuma 2.Dönem Sonu – Bitiş Saati 23:0

TEMMUZ

15 Temmuz Pazartesi :. Dönem Başı – Ders Saati Başlangıcı Saat 2350

Sayın Veli,

16 Haziran Pazar günü, Collingwood Belediye Salonu’nda 18.

Uluslararası Çocuk Festivali’ne Mrs Haşimoğlu, kültürel dans

grubu öğrencileri ve velileri ile katıldım.

Pek çok kültürün dans gösterileri ile temsil edildiği olağanüstü bir

etkinlikti. Slovakya, Pencap, Polinezya ve Endonezya, Makedonya,

Bosna, Ukrayna ve diğer kültürel danslarla hoşça vakit geçirme

ayrıcalığına sahip oldum.

Öğle molalarında öğrencileri gösterilerine hazırlama içink çalışan

Mrs Haşiooğlu’na teşekkür etmek isterim. Herhangi bir kültürel

dans bilen öğrencileri bilmek isteriz. Geniş yelpazede kültürel

danslarla öğrencilerimiz, okulumuzdaki farklı kültürlerden oluşan

kültürel zenginliğimizi sergileyerek tanıtma imkanını elde etmiş

olacaklar.

Sizlere harika bir hafta sonu diliyorum.

Mrs Margaret LEACH

Okul Müdürü