Issue No. 4 Term 1 2018 Week 6

SCHOOL TIMES

Start of day

8.45am

End of day

3.05pm

Term 1

March 12th Adelaide cup Day – Public Holiday 13th PUPIL FREE DAY 21ST Assembly Harmony Day 22nd SAPSASA Swimming Carnival 26th – 29th Parent/Teacher interviews 30th Good Friday

April 2nd Easter Monday 3rd – 6th Year 3-5 swimming

Dear families and carers, Our Annual General Meeting was held last Tuesday and reinforced the strong commitment our school has with its community. What a pleasure to have an overwhelming response for nominations on Governing council! Our Chair is Grant Pelton, Deputy Chair Michael Ayliffe, Treasurer Amanda Newman and Secretary Kylie Rathjen. Members are: Alexandra Nash, Melanie Sanders, Kerri Monteiro, Trudy Seidel, Smita Khode, Amanda Whelan, Meg Warrington and Ruth Lenton. We acknowledge and thank retiring members Laura Tambe and Bridy Baney. Council will establish several committees based on the needs of our school this year and these report directly to the Governing Council. Other members of our school community are welcome to be involved in these groups and so meeting times will be advertised after the next Council meeting on Tuesday 20th March. Our partnership of local schools will hold their first pupil free day on Tuesday 13th March. Our OSHC is open for families requiring care. Staff will be working on transforming tasks in Numeracy and using this process to develop challenging learning opportunities for our students. Classes have determined their student representatives. These students will meet together next week as part of an ongoing process to ensure student voice as a driver for improvement. We value the opinions and knowledge our students bring to their learning, as well as the management of our school.

Our STEM building has now been handed over to the school! Staff have begun discussions about the possibilities in each learning space and how we can make this happen. It is the beginning of the next part of the journey and one we are eager to begin. Please remember to contact your class teacher through diaries or the front office to discuss issues that affect your child. Communication is vital to a strong working relationship with families and all families are encouraged to attend student, parent and teacher interviews in week 9. Contact the school if you have any concerns. Kind regards, Sue Wirth Principal

WOOLWORTHS EARN & LEARN Thank you to all the families that supported Woolies Earn & Learn last year by bringing their stickers to school. The picture below shows what the school got from the campaign, we got 2 robotic kits for our Science program.

PUPIL FREE DAY TUESDAY 13TH MARCH.

OSHC will be taking bookings for families who

already use the service from 26th February.

At our Assembly the following students received “Recognition Award”. Congratulations to each of these students.

U6 Kayne H for showing great self motivation in his

learning. Chelsea W for being willing and not afraid to give new things a go!

U7 Patrick A for showing great strength to be Sensible. Quinn G for being brave to progress her learning.

Victoria G for being so helpful by assisting a Junior Primary student. Alyssa C for being so helpful by assisting a Junior Primary student. Oshima R for respecting our school environment and picking up litter. Quinn G for respecting our school environment and picking up litter. Nate W for helping another student in the yard. Boe S for helping another student in the yard.

SPORTS NEWS

At our Assembly the following students received “Recognition Award”. Congratulations to each of these students.

M10 Nidal M for consistently challenging himself to achieve his best in all areas. Ava H for pursuing her personal best in attempting more challenging maths activities.

M11 Alex D for following the golden rule and valuing challenges in his learning. Amaya P for treating others with respect and working with focus and effort.

M12 Charli J for showing respect to classmates and teachers, often helping in class without being asked. Emily T for treating others with respect at all times and being a positive role model in class.

M14 Jacob D for being brave – always willing to have a go even when feeling unsure. Jade W for making strong decisions-always has reasons for the things she says and does.

M15 Fatimah E for following the golden rule by being a kind classmate. Daniel F for being brave to participate in class discussions.

M16 William H for showing great strength to be sensible. Demonstrating this in Maths and raping the benefits of great learning. Hayley W for being brave. Participating to progress. Always listening, getting on with learning to the best of her ability.

M18 Ezra M for pursuing his personal best, staying on task and completing all work on time. Lucy N for being brave in representing the school at the swimming competition.

M19 Ryan M for pursuing his personal best, asking consolidating questions when required. Shruti D for participating to progress, asking questions and contributing to class discussions.

U1 Jamal M for pursuing his personal best with all learning tasks. Mahli P for persisting with learning tasks that challenge her.

U2 Callan T for being brave with new learning. Olivia D for being brave with new learning.

U3 Vincent S for showing his classmates respect and kindness at all times. Skylah G for asking questions to stretch her learning in literacy.

U4 Milla J for being brave in her reading and spelling. Toby H for helping others and being kind to classmates.

U5 Grace D for doing her personal best no matter who she works with. Oliver F for using a growth mindset to build stamina in word work.

M16 BASE 10 CONSTRUCTION Place value and what a number could physically look like.

In week two M16 began learning about; number, place value and how those numbers were represented using base 10 blocks. We looked at ones, tens and hundreds. (Cube, long, flats) In the beginning, we did not quite see the relevance of the base 10 blocks however, we soon realised the pattern of the numbers and the shape they made; cube, long, flat repeated over and over again. With this in mind, the class, were given the task to construct the next three numbers in the base 10 sequence using only newspaper, a metre ruler and masking tape.

We began by making the long shape, which would contain 10,000 ones, then the flat shape that would be equivalent to 100,000 ones and finally the cube that was equivalent to 1,000,000 ones. The class worked as a team to construct the shapes. We have worked out that the next shape in the sequence would be 10 metres long, the flat would be half the size of the assembly here today and the cube would extend nearly to the roof. We thought about building them however; we did not have enough newspaper…maybe next term. Lessons we learnt during this activity… co-operation, teamwork, resilience, persistence and FUN

COMMUNITY EVENTS COMMITTEE (CEC)

Kyton's Bakery Easter selection. For those families who receive the Newsletter via email you can pick up your hardcopy from the front office, OSHC or the Canteen. Please don't forget your orders are due back to school on or before Wednesday the 14-03-18 Thank you to those families who have already returned their orders. Your orders will be available for Pick up on Friday 23-03-18 from the Canteen between 2.45pm and 3.15pm Easter Raffle. Easter raffle tickets will be sent home with students this week. We have an Easter donation bag in the front office if you wish to contribute something Easter themed that could be used in the raffle prize. Please return Sold and unsold tickets to the office by Thursday 22-03-18. Prizes will be drawn on Friday 23-03-18 at 2.30pm. Harmony Day. Wednesday 21st March All children are invited to wear ORANGE clothes for a gold coin donation. All money raised from this collection will be put back into the wider community in Term 3 when we will be supporting Share the Dignity. CEC will be providing each student with an Orange ribbon badge to wear on the day. Mother's Day Stall. Feedback from our survey last year was that the school community would like to see a Mother's Day stall and we are very excited to inform you that we will be having a Mother's day Stall Friday Week 2 Term 2. More information will come out in the next newsletter. Watch This Space!!! Student create an emblem Competition. The CEC is offering all students the opportunity to enter our competition. Information will be heading home this week. If you are interested helping out with events please contact kmonteiro@outlook.com.au

CALLING FOR VOLUNTEERS – WE NEED YOUR HELP! Our students really enjoy participating in the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program and to keep this program running we need your help. The program requires a volunteer School Banking Co-ordinator to facilitate the banking and distribution of School Banking rewards. This only takes a small amount of your time one day a week and the Commonwealth Bank will provide support in how to run the program. Your help with the program will greatly benefit students as they develop vital saving skills and also help our school with fundraising. Currently, School Banking day is Tuesday.

If you are interested in volunteering for this great program, please fill in the tear off section below and return it to the

Front office. Yes, I would like to help with School Banking! Name: _____________________________________ Phone: _____________________________________ Email: ______________________________________ Availability: __________________________________

A DCSI clearance is needed for this role. If you are interested and don’t have the clearance please see the front office.

GET INVOLVED IN THE CBA SCHOOL BANKING PROGRAM.

Modbury West Primary School is excited to offer the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program to all students.

School Banking is a fun, interactive and engaging way for young Australians to learn about money and develop good savings habits. Children who deposit money into their Youthsaver account through School Banking earn Dollarmites tokens, which they can save up and redeem for exciting rewards. Once your child has made 10 deposits at the school then they can claim for a reward. This can be done with the reward Coupons.

The rewards available during 2018 are: Term 1

1. Twister Power Handball 2. Secret Scratch Pad

Term 2 3. Sparkle Glitter Pens 4. Glow Light

Term 3 5. Mighty Boom Handball 6. Heat Reactor Pencils

Term 4 7. Slushie Maker Cup 8. Zoom Flying Disc

Getting involved in School Banking is easy! All you need to get involved in the School Banking program is a Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account. You can open an account for your child in one of two ways:

1. Online Visit commbank.com.au/schoolbanking and click on the link to open a Youthsaver account.

2. In branch Visit a Commonwealth Bank branch with identification for yourself and your child, like a driver’s licence and birth certificate.

If your child has an existing Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account they can start banking straight away. They just need to bring their deposit in every week on School Banking day using their Dollarmites deposit wallet. Also if you have a younger sibling that has not started school yet or older child at high school they can also bank with us, as long as they open an account, they just need to put their deposit book in the class grey satchel of the child currently at Modbury West Primary School. School Banking day is Tuesday, if you are wanting to bank then you can place your deposit folder into the class grey satchel, then this is brought to the office.

If you would like to know more about School Banking, please leave a note at the front office or visit commbank.com.au/schoolbanking

Amanda Newman

COMMUNITY EVENTS COMMITTEE (CEC)

We would like to THANK ALL our Committee Members and Volunteers for an amazing Term 4,

2017. We would also like to Thank the School Community for all your support. With that being said

we look forward to our first full year of CEC Events. The Committee has chosen the following

events for this term; Kyton's Bakery Easter selection. Please find attached your order form. We

encourage you, your family, friends and Neighbours to order. For those families who receive the

Newsletter via email you can pick up your hardcopy from the front office, OSHC or the Canteen.

Harmony Day 21st March, all children are invited to wear ORANGE for a gold coin donation. All

money raised from this collection will be put back into the wider community in Term 3 when we will

be supporting Share the Dignity. We look forward to a fun filled year and of course we welcome

anyone who would like to help and support the CEC. If you are interested please contact

kmonteiro@outlook.com.au