Kindy Picnic Day - Wednesday 16 November Next Wednesday we will complete our Kindy Orientation pro-gram with a casual picnic day at Manly Dam. Ms Panetta and I will meet with new parents down at the dam for a casual get-together and allow our new students to have some playtime to meet their new friends and classmates. We hope you all can join us from 10.00am – 12.00pm. Look for the Manly Vale Public School banner at the dam. If raining, the day will be cancelled. Good Luck Katie Next week Katie Gillings a year 6 student is off to Wagga Wagga in the Arts Alive Combined School Band to perform. Katie is a talented trumpet player and has represented the school on many occasions. Congratulations Katie and enjoy your time away next week. P&C AGM Last Tuesday night we had our Annual General meeting of the P&C. The meeting was well attended by parents and was a great opportunity to thank our outgoing committee and wel-come in the new. A special farewell was given to Kylie Free-man as she leaves the school this year. Kylie has been a vol-unteer for many years in the uniform shop, canteen, Café Owl, and as a carnival official. She has held many offices in the P&C including treasurer and secretary and has been a positive and proactive supporter of all school events and fund-raising activities. She currently collects and organises the Scholastic Book Club and is the chief photographer at school events. Kylie will be a great loss to Manly Vale Public School. We thank her for all her work and wish her sons, Campbell and Tom, all the best in their new schools. Stew Davies also stepped down from the president role after 3 years of service. Stew has a passion for supporting the stu-dents and teachers at Manly Vale Public School. In his role as P&C president he has always been there to volunteer at every fundraiser and is the chief cook at every barbecue, and at Café Owl on Friday mornings. Stew has made an ongoing commitment to attend every PRG meeting to represent the community during the consultation process for the new school development. Stew will remain on the P&C next year in the role as vice president. Thank you to Helen Gay for all her volunteer work in the uni-form shop which can take up to 3 days a week of her time and

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Disco Tonight is the night of our end of year disco and there is a lot of excitement amongst the children as they decide what to wear to the “Heroes and Villains of Christmas” themed even-ing. K-2 discos starts at 5.30pm with a finish of 7.00pm. The 3-6 disco starts at 7.10pm and finishes at 8.40pm. It is al-ways a lot of fun with DJ Andy and dancing with the teach-ers. Please make sure a note accompanies your child if they are travelling home with someone other than their parents. Only students who attend Manly Vale Public School are able to attend this event and parents are asked to drop their child at the hall stairs to alleviate congestion.

Swim School Year 2 are currently enjoying their swimming lessons daily at Manly pool. These free lessons are a great way to learn new skills and improve swimming technique. Thank you to Mrs McDonald for organising the lessons and to the year 2 teach-ers and Pete for attending each day.

Debating - Tuesday 15 November Good luck to our year 6 debating team next week as they compete against Allambie Heights in a friendly debate held in our school hall Tuesday 15 November. Results of these de-bates will be published next week. Thank you to Mrs Fraser for organising the debate and for her preparation and teach-ing of the team with help from Miss Caruso. Good luck to Sesalela Ryan-Ova, Rick Andrews, Zara Halliday, Molly Do-ver and Bella Pickering in the debate.

Remembrance Day - 11/11/2016 - 11.00am This Friday our senior students will walk down to Manly Dam for the Remembrance Day service. Katia Bjorkmann our school captain will make a speech and the children of Manly Vale will pause to remember the tremendous sacrifice men and women made during wartime past and present. Remem-brance Day marks the day in which the guns of the Western Front ceased after 4 years of continuous warfare during World War 1. This year Katia will acknowledge and remem-ber the commitment of the Australian forces during the battle of the Coral Sea where the Japanese decided to attack Port Moresby via the Kokoda Track. This is always a very moving service and all members of the community are invited to at-tend. Our K-4 students will have a special service back at school. If raining, the service will be conducted at Manly Vale Public School’s hall.

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT:

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Watch out for your NEW Bush Telegraph Coming soon!

On 1 December the new look Bush Telegraph will be distributed

fortnightly. All articles/inserts will need to be sent to the school by

Friday 25 November 2016.

for her support of fundraising this year. Thank you to Lee Mer-edith for her work with fundraising this year and Mel Corner for her role as secretary. The P&C committee for 2017 will be: President - Jenny Atkinson Vice President - Stewart Davies and Philip Daffy Treasurer - Tony Sherlock Secretary - Mel Corner We look forward to working with the new committee in 2017. Maths Challenge Camp Year 5 We sent four year 5 boys to the Northern Beaches & Pen-ninsula Beaches Schools Maths Challenge Camp this week. The boys were selected after achieving the highest scores in their maths problem solving enrich-e-matics tests. All four boys had a fabulous time at camp and enjoyed the challenge of working with like-minded mathematicians. Selective High Applications The Selective High School Applications close Monday 14 No-vember 2016. If you have not notified the school of your inten-tion to apply, please do so by Friday 11 November and apply online by Monday. Canteen Coordinator Wanted! We still require a canteen coordinator for 2017. Sarah will still be in the canteen and leading the operations but we do re-quire someone to take over the rostering, run the meetings and ensure the canteen continues to comply with government regulations. Although there is much debate about sugar and items for sale at the canteen we still struggle to find someone to lead this committee. Sarah does an amazing job as do our volunteers to open 4 days a week. We have been without a coordinator the whole year and policies need to be updated and regulated. This role is an administrative role and can be done at night or mornings. If you are interested please contact Sarah in the canteen or myself through the school office. Demountable arrives This Friday 11 November we will receive a new demountable at Manly Vale Public School. This is the first of 2 demounta-bles to come in preparation for next year. The second de-mountable will go where the 2 sheds are currently located. Tina Lee Principal

EAGLE TAG Last Thursday our 4 eagle tag teams competed in the Pittwater PSSA Gala day at Lionel Watts Re-serve. Our junior boys and senior boys were ac-companied by Mrs Ward and Ms Cash took the jun-ior and senior girls. The NRL did an efficient job organising the day. Plenty of parents were support-ing along the sidelines and assisted with transport on the day. All teams gave it their all and gained valuable game experience. The junior boys were successful in making the grand final and eventually came run-ners up. They have progressed through to the next level of gala day competition. Congratulations! Well done to all teams—it was rewarding and com-petitive football and lots of fun was had! Lisa Cash and Mel Ward

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Last Student DISCO of 2016!

TONIGHT

Thursday 10 November

K-2 children: 5.30-7.00pm 3-6 children 7.10-8.40pm

Cost: $12.00/child—includes admission, chips & drink

Tickets available at the door

Theme: Heroes and Villains of Christmas

LOTS OF PRIZES!

Supervision will be provided by school staff

No child will be allowed to go home unaccompanied by an adult

SWIM SCHOOL Year 2 have begun their annual swim scheme program. Students are learning how to stay safe in and around water as well as practise their swimming skills and stroke correction. Year 2 have been wonderful in and out of the pool exemplifying Manly Vale’s motto of Caring and Sharing. The program runs for 2 weeks. Well done boys and girls and keep up the great work! Mrs McDonald, Miss Kemp, Mrs McManus and Pete

MATHS OLYMPIAD Students in Stage 3 have com-pleted their contest rounds for the 2017 Australasian Problem Solving Mathematical Olympi-ad. Throughout terms 2 & 3

students engaged in weekly maths problem solving lessons and practiced specific problem solving strategies. This was the first year Manly Vale stu-dents have competed in this competition and we are extremely proud of their efforts. The following students were placed in the top 50% of over 30,000 participants: Tom Freeman, Sam Davies, Elliot Rowe, Sam Collins, Ben Crowe, Elijah Goh, Logan Sengchanh, Alexander Ulitzka, Zara Halliday, Sesalela Ryan-Ova, Isabelle Gay, Olivia Inkster and Somerset Hanna. In addition the school entered into the next tier of the problem solving competition known as Maths Games. We are very proud of the following stu-dents who also placed in the top 50%: Barnaby Hancock, Brandan Shapter, Owen Guard, Kevin Wang, Kurt Fry, Ryan Hills, Joel Telfer, Molly Do-ver, Katie Gillings, Bella Pickering and Lara Dean. Please join us at lines assembly on Friday 18 No-vember as we present these students with their certificates.

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CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 4, 2016

MON 14 Nov Mady Ho

TUES 1-1.30pm 15 Nov Justine Northcott

WED 16 Nov Diana Parnell

THURS 17 Nov Michelle Radymere, Emma Crowe

FRI 18 Nov Andrea Diletti, Nga Nyugen

MON 21 Nov Louise Stedman

TUES 1-1.30pm 22 Nov Heidi Earl

WED 23 Nov Talofa Pouli

THURS 24 Nov Fiona Telfer, Kirsten Watson

FRI 25 Nov Nicole Franzen, Angela Wang

Please note: The canteen is only open from 1.00-1.30pm on Tuesdays for snacks. It is really important to find a

replacement if you can’t do your rostered day! If you can help in the canteen please call Lisa on 0416 884 231.

2016 SCHOOL CALENDAR—Term 4

Week 6 Mon 14 Nov– Fri 18 Nov

Swim School

Wed 16 Nov Kindergarten Orientation Pic-nic @ Manly Dam 10.00am

Week 7 Thurs 24 Nov Taste of Mackellar Yr 5 girls

Week 8 Wed 30 Nov Scripture Xmas Service Volunteer’s Thank You morn-ing tea

Thurs 1 Dec Junior Band 2017 rehearsal Band Xmas Concert

Fri 2 Dec SRC Handover to new leaders (2017)

Week 9 Mon 5 Dec Stage 1 End of Year excursion

Thurs 8 Dec Celebration of Learning

Fri 9 Dec MiniFest Reports home

Week 10 Mon 12 Dec Year 6 Farewell Assembly & Graduation dinner

Tues 13 Dec Yrs 5 & 6 Jamberoo Kindergarten Graduation 9.30am & Picnic Day

Thurs 15 Dec Talent Quest

Fri 16 Dec Year 6 Clap out Last day of Term 4

2017 Mon 30 Jan First day of Term 1 (Yrs 1-6)

Fri 3 Feb First day for Kindergarten

School Terms 2016

Term 4 Monday 10 October to Friday 16 December

Stewart House Bounce Balls Fundraising

As an SRC initiative we are supporting Stewart House by selling bounce balls for $3.00 each. Please send $3.00 to school with your child so they can purchase a ball and support this wor-thy charity.

CHOIR NEWS Our school choir has been very busy this year. With a great mix of Year 3 to 6 students, both boys and girls, students have been learning a range of two part har-mony songs in a range of musical genres. We can’t wait to perform some of our new songs at the Cele-bration of Learning assembly in December.

Elaine McManus

MANLY VALE OSHC CENTRE M: 0430 369 288 E: mvoshc@primaryoshcare.com.au Over the past two weeks we have been getting the children involved with our Try for 5 challenge as part National Nutrition Week. We had a cook off challenge and got the children making some fruit and vegetable costumes. It has been a fun two weeks of encouraging healthy eating creative thinking which has lead us into Australian Food Safety Week and talking about how to prepare and eat food in a safe and healthy way. This term we have bounced straight back into our Health and Wellbeing sports programs with Basketball on Wednesday and Soccer on Tuesday. It’s great to see the children being active and enjoying the out-doors as we head into warmer weather.

Making our own food pyramid! Ready for a cook off! Ready for some soccer!

From the Manly Vale OSHC Team.

PSSA INFORMATION

Date Team/Time Pitch/Field

Fri 11 Nov Girls Eagle Tag David Thomas

Boys Eagle Tag Millers

Boys Cricket Nolans Reserve

Volleyball & Newcomball Freshwater Campus

OWLETS

Owlets meet on Mondays from 9.15-11.00am in the school hall. Feel free to join in! For further information contact Kyrralyn

0422 404 273.

MANLY VALE OSHC CENTRE Before and After School Care

0430 369 288 Website: primaryoshcare.com.au

P&C MEETINGS

Every 2nd Tuesday @7.30pm in the Administration Block unless otherwise advised.

Scholastic Book Club

Any enquiries regarding orders please email Kylie Freeman on paulandkylief@gmail.com

UNIFORM SHOP Opening times: Tuesday 8.40 to 9.00am Friday 8.40 to 9.00am

Any enquiries email manlyvaleuniformshop@outlook.com

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COMMUNITY NOTICES

REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE Friday 11 November 2016, 10.45am,

Manly Dam Memorial Park, King Street, Manly Vale and The Manly War Memo-rial, Cnr The Corso & Belgrave Street,

Manly.

WEBERS CIRCUS 18 Nov—4 Dec, Boodah Reserve, Pittwater Rd, Narrabeen. Online bookings www.weberscircus.com or more info 0448 247 287. Lifeline Northern Beaches Giant Book Fair 18-20 November 2016, St Augustine’s College, Federal Pa-rade, Brookvale. Friday 18 Nov, 4-9pm; Saturday 19 Nov, 9am-5pm; Sunday 20 Nov, 9am-2pm. Entry by gold coin donation appreciated.

ROAD SAFETY TIPS

Safety on wheels—When riding a bicycle or scooter, the rider should always dismount from their bike or scooter before crossing the road and must always give way to other pedestrians when riding along a footpath.

2016 SCHOOL OPAL CARD

Application forms are available online. For more information please visit:

transportnsw.info/school-students

PARENT ONLINE PAYMENTS

(P.O.P) It is now possible for parents to make online

payments to the school via a secure payment

page hosted by Westpac.

Log onto the school’s website

www.manlyvale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Click on “Make a Payment” and follow the

prompts to make a payment via Visa or

Mastercard.

We still accept cash, cheque & Eftpos at

the school office.

ABSENT FROM SCHOOL

All school absences must be in writing. Either an email or a note sent in with your child.