TERM 1 WEEK 6 Tuesday March 6th

COMING UP ON OUR SCHOOL CALENDAR March 7th Girl’s Rugby League Cancelled 9th Rugby League District Trials Bowraville Health Champions 11-12th North Coast Selection Trials Cricket - Coffs Harbour 13th PSSA Cricket - Macksville P.S vs Bellingen P.S 14th Mufti Day and Cake Stall

16th Netball Schools Cup - Macksville 29th Easter Hat Parade and Easter Raffle Year 2 Egg Drop 30th Good Friday April 2nd Easter Monday 6th Cross Country

Hello to our Macksville Public School Community Principals Report

Teacher Planning

This week our teachers have spent some time working together looking at their STEM (Science; Technology;

Engineering and Maths ) learning activities. Our Term 1 theme is ‘Belonging’, with each class have a driving

question to guide their learning. For example; Year 4’s question is, ‘How can we change a space in our

school to create a sense of belonging for all’.

A lot of our classes have school beautification projects as part of their STEM focus. It’ll be

great to see the results of these projects at the end of the term.

Roof update

Thank you to all community members for you cooperation during our roof replacement.

The old hall roof is nearly finished with the next building

to be replaced being the brick building downstairs This

building houses the Year 2/3, Year 3 and Year 4

classrooms. During construction these classes will be

working in other class spaces around the school.

Director Visit

Today our school director Mr John Baker stopped in for a

visit. John was impressed with the work ethic and

behaviour of our classes. Great work Macksville! It’s

always a pleasure having John come to our school.

K-2 Tennis

Our K-2 students have been enjoying playing tennis on

Friday’s. It’s great to see these students trying hard and

improving their hand eye coordination.

MACKSVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL

Enrol Now at the Family School

~ Tanya Bajda - Acting Principal

Let’s Get

Fundraising! Wednesday March 14th will be

our first Mufti Day and Cake Stall

for the Year. Notes will go home

this week with more information.

The Year 6 Excursion

is going ahead... Thank you

to all those families that returned their deposits on time. We do

still have a few spare seats so please contact the office if you

are interested in your child attending the camp. To manage the

payment of the camp we recommend that families begin

making small regular payments promptly. Year 6 Teachers

will inform students of the final cost very soon. Payments of

any amount can be made to the school Office by cash or

cheque, or if you wish to make an online payment you can do

so through our MPS school website. Go to the $ Make a

Payment tab and follow the prompts.

It’s almost that time of year again when our favourite Bunny visits. Our Annual Easter Hat Parade and Easter Raffle are fast

approaching. A reminder to MPS Families to start construction of their fabulous Easter Hats and also a big

thank you to those families who have made donations to our Easter Raffle. Our wonderful P&C are also still looking for any community members who may be able to

help with the making or raffle books or the wrapping of our wonderful prizes.

Principals Report Continued..

Resilient Ralph One of our Macksville Superheroes is Resilient Ralph.

Resilient Ralph helps us to ‘Tough it Out’ by recognising and reducing distractions and by helping us to keep going when learning activities are hard.

Macksville High School Expo Students, parents and community members are invited

to visit the Macksville high school Expo which is being held on Wednesday 21st March from 4.30pm till 6.30pm.

There will be faculty displays and many activities including: drama performances, Indonesian dance,

cattle handling and games and challenges. Light re-

freshment served by hospitality students and a BBQ on the deck.

Bowraville Health Champions

This Friday, 9th March, Bowraville Central School is hosting a ‘Bowraville Health Champions Day’. There will be games and activities as well as information stalls run by local Health services. Mr Mac-

Donald will be taking some of our Year 5 and 6 students to this event. Whole School Assembly Congratulations to all that received Merit Awards at last weeks whole school assembly. It was great to

see our Kinder and K/1 classes perform the chicken dance for us all. School Counsellor

Have you met our school counsellor Ms Kris De Jong? Kris is in our school 5 days a fortnight. If you would like further information about the services Kris provides please see the office for further information.

THIS WEEK’S AWARD WINNERS

Koda Ison

Lola Lane

Kyah Stanford-Joycey

Tynan Forsyth

Cooper Field

Amara Laird

Oliver Hawes

Olivia Flack

Oliver Hawes

Harper Payne

Caitlyn Mackaway

Tiahn Bloomfield

Ella Honnery

Korby Rennie

Jacob Loveday

Olivia Forsyth Jesakiya Clarke-Donovan

Levi Reid

Darius Ringstad

Lachlan Crossingham

Cooper Goodwin

Nate Bloomfield

SCHOOL CANTEEN ROSTER

Wed 7th Glenn Robinson

Thur 8th Glenn Robinson, Dave Flack

Fri 9th Dave Flack, Debbie McDonnell

Mon 12th Therese Laverty, Amie Reid

Tue 13th Dave Flack, Glenn Robinson

NEW CANTEEN HELPERS

WELCOME phone our Canteen

Manager Wendy

on 6568 1800

Library News On Monday, Kindergarten had a trial run of borrowing a practice book to take home! I ask all Kindergarten parents to help their child keep the practice book safe and return it to the school library on their library day (Monday) so that they are able to borrow a real library book on Monday 12th March! Please ensure that your child has a library bag to keep their books safe, with their name clearly marked on it. If your child needs a library bag, the school library sells library bags, kindly made by Colleen, for only $3. Below are just a small collection of the variety of library bags that

you can buy from the library. ~ Sarah Pade - Library Teacher

Schools Cup Netball This carnival for Stage 2 & 3 boys & girls will

be held at Marion Wood Netball Courts in

Willis St, Macksville on Friday 16th March. Our

squads are training hard and final team

members will receive their notes by Friday 9th

to be returned early the following week please.

Thank you. ~Mrs Ronan & Miss Harradine

Sports Report With a wet and soggy start to week six let’s hope it doesn't cause

too much disruption to the sports calendar. We are hoping to start

cross country practice this Thursday. We have changed the time

from Friday so it doesn't clash with the tennis program on Friday.

Good luck to those boys who are attending the Rugby League

District Trials on Friday at Coronation Park. Our cricket side is

through to round two and will play Bellingen next Tuesday here

at Macksville. It is though dependent on weather. Good luck to all

of our sports people.

Girls Rugby League has been Cancelled and will be

rescheduled for Term 2. In the case of further wet

weather, Students will be notified by their Teacher

the day before the event. Also keep a look out for

notifications on our Skoolbag app.

BELONGING & CONNECTING STEM PROJECTS We need to raise some money!

Years 2, 3 and 4 are doing STEM projects based on our theme of ‘Belonging and Connecting’. We are designing our own areas to make them better places and fixing the gardens in our school. To raise money we will have a mufti day and everyone will bring a gold coin. We will also have a cake stall and the cakes will be priced from 50c to $2. These exciting things will both be happening on Wednes-day the 14th of March and the cake stall is at recess. We will also be looking for some ’experts’ to help us carry out our work later in the term. If you think you might be a useful gardener, builder, painter or decorator please let the Stage 2 teachers know! By Lachlan Crossingham and Charlie Perkins ~ 2/3 Aqua

2/3 Aqua in our chosen area - stay tuned to see the ’after’ pics!

Our class is also working on the structure of narratives in our creative writing. These stories all have an orientation, a complication, a resolution and a conclusion!

IAN FLARRETY—MUSIC TEACHER PHONE 6568 3921

Anyone wishing to have Music Lessons please fill in the note below and send into the school office.

PERMISSION NOTE FOR MUSIC LESSONS

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I would like to learn ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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