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Maroubra Junction Public School

CALENDAR

Week 6

Fri 17 Nov KG assembly 2pm

Fri 17 Nov School Disco

K-2 from 5:30-6:45pm

3-6 from 7-8:30pm

Week 7

Swim school all week

Tues 21 Nov Y4 Randwick Boys &

Girls HS visit

Wed 22 Nov Band Performance @

6:30pm

Week 8

Swim school all week

Thurs 30 Nov Mufti Day - gold

coin donation

Fri 1 Dec Year 6 mini fete

assembly 2pm

Fri 1 Dec Last round of PSSA

Principal’s Report

Newsletter T4 W6

Thursday 16 November 2017

Remembrance Day

I had the honour of attending the Remembrance Day Service at Maroubra Junction RSL last Saturday

morning. I was joined by 9 of our school leaders and their families. Our leaders lay a wreath on be-

half of MJPS and once again were wonderful ambassadors for our school. A huge thank you to our

leaders and their families for attending.

Safety

In light of the tragedy that occurred at Banksia Rd PS last week we now have concrete barriers in

the car park alongside the demountable and outside Care Centre. We have also installed a remote

control gate. Staff from the school and Care Centre will be the only people with the code to access

the car park.

2018 Enrolments

I am currently in the process of finalising our staffing and classes for 2018. At this stage we are

waiting on some new families to confirm that their children will be attending MJPS and as a result I

am unable to finalise our class structures and staffing entitlements. Families can assist me in this

process by:

Informing us if you are moving out of the area and your child will not be returning to MJPS in 2018.

Ensuring we have notification in writing if your child will be returning late at the beginning of the

2018 school year so that we can hold a place for them. Most families have provided this infor-

mation. If your circumstances change, please inform the school office.

School Development Days

Parents will be aware that schools have school development days on the first day of Terms 1, 2

and 3 and the last two days of Term 4. These days are non-teaching days and focus on teacher

professional learning and school planning.

The school development days scheduled for Monday 18 -19 December were re-scheduled this

year with teachers completing their professional learning workshops during evening sessions.

Accordingly, there will be no staff present on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 December this year and

the school will be deemed ‘non-operational’. Care Centre vacation care will operate on these days.

The last day of attendance for students is Friday 15 December

At the beginning of 2018 staff will return on 29 January to participate in professional learning

related to curriculum development and wellbeing. We will also be engaged in whole school strate-

gic planning and look forward to sharing this with you early next year.

The New Kindergarten students will complete their Best Start Assessments on Tuesday 30 January

– Thursday 1 February. Their first day of school will be Friday 2 February.

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School Council

The days are rapidly going by and there are a number of great events to be enjoyed before the end of term. As

many of our wonderful volunteers will be leaving us because their children are going onto high school, I want to

take this opportunity to thank one small group, The School Council. Our Council has been chaired by Terri Flynn

for the past year and as Terri’s eldest son will be moving onto high school and Terri’s two years as a parent mem-

ber of Council ends this year there is a vacancy for a parent member of the Council commencing in 2018. If you

are interested in volunteering as a parent member in 2018, please complete the nomination form below.

The Council is comprised of parents, teachers and the president of the P&C and meets approximately twice each

term. The responsibilities of Council include but are not limited to:

Contributing to the development of the school strategic plan; and

Developing, monitoring, reviewing and updating policies/guidelines, being the guiding principles designed to

influence decisions and actions that the school makes.

The position of parent member is open to all parents with children at the school. Potential representatives will

need to be nominated and have a seconded by a parent from the school.

Maroubra Junction Public School

SCHOOL COUNCIL

PARENT REPRESENTATIVE NOMINATION FORM

Please return this form to the school office by Wednesday 22 November, 2017.

I wish to nominate ____________________________________________(print name) to be a parent representa-

tive on the school council.

Nominated by _____________________________________________________(print name)

Signed (Nominator) _________________________________________ Date ____________

Seconded by _____________________________________________ _________(print name)

Signed (Seconder) _________________________________________ Date ____________

Signed (Nominee) _________________________________________ Date ____________

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Please note this week is the last week for all

classes to borrow. We will collecting all school

library books from next week to prepare for

stocktake. Please bring all library books back to

school next week.

Overdue notices will be sent home in Week 7. If

you have any questions or concerns please

come and see us in the library.

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MJPS – P&C Executive 2018

Following last week’s AGM, we announce the office bearers:

President: Lisa Kee

Vice President (2): Charmaine Tsia and Deborah Flamm

Treasurer: Susana Mu

Secretary: Justine Jennings

AGM and General Meeting – last Thursday 9 Nov

The existing Executive are back for another year and I thank them for their dedication. We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting – 8 February 2018!

CAKE STALL – last Friday 10 Nov

Thank you for your support - $1122 has been donated to School’s Library Fund. We could see some Year 3 children certainly had a great time baking and decorating their donations. The leftover 2.5 boxes from after school sales were donated to the Care Centre. We also thank the following helpers: Tami, Sally, Vicky, Lana, Terri, Maria and Irina.

DISCO – this Friday 17 Nov

The school disco will be held in the MJPS Hall tomorrow night! Entry is $5 per child or $7 per family.

K-2 session runs from 5.30 - 6.45pm

Years 3 to 6 session from 7.00 - 8.30pm

Food will be available: sausage on slice of bread ($2), water/juice ($2), chips/popcorn ($1) and glow in the dark items ($2 - $4).

There will be 2 lucky door prizes for each session - $20 Smiggle voucher.

Hope to catch you at the disco!

Lisa Kee

President

For your diary:

Fri 17 Nov - disco

Thurs 30 Nov - mufti day

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Sports news Week 6:

We need your feedback!

Parents and students from Year 3-6, we would

appreciate your feedback about the Friday sports

program in order to continue to improve it for 2018.

Please follow the link to take the 3 minute survey.

Parent survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/36N9N6R

Student survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3PXXV89

Cricket Result Most Valuable Player(s)

Snr LOSS Jack G J

Jnr LOSS Elan

Softball Result Most Valuable Player(s)

Snr DRAW

Jnr WIN Savannah

AFL v Gardeners

RD Result Most Valuable Player(s)

Snr WIN Dylan C

Jnr WIN Zane and Zach

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ICAS Mathematics Results

Congratulations to the following students who received Merits, Credits, Distinc-

tions and High Distinctions in the 2017 Maths test.

High Distinctions

Year 3- Matthew T

Year 4 – Parker W

Year 6 – Vanessa T

Distinctions

Year 3 – Hanying W, Bennett T, Leo T, Lachlan L, Bethany D, Sophie G, Henry H

and Joyce W

Year 4 – Alex H, Tokiya M, Mark P, Jessica S and Max W

Year 5 – Ethan B, Anna S, Laura T, Sophia C, Bada E, Michael H, Miji K and Isa-

bella L

Year 6 – Sacha P, Gabriella G, Timothy A, Aulio C, Marissa C, Gabrielle H, Chris-

topher K and Vy L

Credits

Year 3 – Cynthia H and Chloe P

Year 4 – Alexa A, Ethan B, Fay Arabella DC, Georgina F, Ashley G, Joyce G, Jay-

clynn H, Matthew K, Oliver R, Arielle S, Owen S and Mia S

Year 5 – Dylan C, Sophia G, Kirin H, Cynthia L, Isabella S and Chloe T

Year 6 – Dylan S, Eleanor S, Thomas S, Brianne T, Josephine T, Cameron W,

Jesslyn W and Jade Z

Merits

Year 3 – Temzin C, Lottie J and Grace R

Year 4 – Jeremiah C, Joshua B, Simran G, Saskia M and Matilda S

Year 5 – Lauren L, Adrian S, Vincent S and Xavier W

Year 6 – Ashleigh D and Ethan G

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“On Thursday 9th November kindergarten went to

Calmsley Hill Farm. I milked the cows. I also liked the pigs. I

loved riding on the bus and I looked at a koala. I liked

patting the goats. I didn’t like the noise of the goats. We

also got some wool then we went back to school on the

bus.”

- Sam KG

“On Thursday 9th November kindergarten went to Calmsley Hill

Farm on a bus. It took a long time. First we ate recess at a shed.

We looked at lots of animals. We patted sheep, baby

chicks and rabbits. We watched three shows a dog show, stock-

whip demonstration and sheep shearing show. We saw a very big

beautiful peacock. We saw a very big tractor and milked a cow.

After we got the bus home.”

- Audrey KCV

Kindergarten Excursion

Calmsley Hill City Farm

9th November, 2017

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“On Thursday 9th November kindergarten went

to Calmsley Hill Farm. I went on a bus and I

watched a movie. It took one hour to get there.

First we had recess. The farmer’s name was

Farmer Aaron. After that we went to the whip

show. Then I went to the dog show. We watched

a sheep get shorn.”

- Jack KG

“… We saw rabbits, snakes, a hen, lizard, a donkey, camel, dog

and horses. On the way back home on the bus I went to sleep and

also Sachie. We were tired. “

- Phoebe KCV

“… We milked a cow. It was easy. We had a group photo and saw

a big tractor, it was red. After we had lunch and we got an ice-

block….”

- William KCV

“ When we got there we saw cows, dogs, a donkey, lizard, horses

and an emu… It was a fun day. Almost everybody was asleep on

the bus back. It was a long time. “

- Ollie KCV

“ On Thursday 9th November kin-

dergarten went to Calmsley City

Hill Farm on the bus. First we saw

a peacock and after we ate recess

and then we got into groups. I was

in my teachers group. First we saw

the chickens, the dad is called a

rooster then we patted some ani-

mals. My favourite was the rabbit

because my birthday is the year of

the rabbit….”

- Riku KCV

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Eco mates sample their produce

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Volunteers needed

for 2018 K-2 Ethics

classes

If you’re free and willing to teach K-2 Ethics classes in 2018 please contact

Ms Karas on 9349 8333 or nickie.karas @det .nsw.edu.au

Training and lesson resources will be availa-ble to support you in your role.

We would like to start ASAP

Classes will be held on

Thursday 1:45-2:15 (K-2).

Looking forward to hearing from you.

If your child is doing Ethics classes, please

look at the website for Primary Ethics

for information about Ethics classes and

what your children may be doing in them,

https://primaryethics.com.au/

Kind Regards,

Andrew Tate

Ethics Coordinator

3-6 Scripture

We would like to streamline primary scripture so that Years 3-6 have scripture at the same time every Mon-day from 1.45 - 2.15pm. At the moment we don't have enough scripture teachers to cover all classes. We are looking for volunteers for all denominations.

If you are free each Monday from 1.45 - 2.15pm and are interested in teaching primary scripture in any de-nomination in 2018 please contact Cassie Morrissey on 9349 8333 or cassandra.west@det.nsw.edu.au. Train-

ing and resources are available.

Congratulations

Tyrone A from class 3C has gained selection for the

South’s 9 boys Junior OzTag Representative Team for

2018.

Tyrone will be representing Souths at the 2018 NSW

OzTag Junior State Cup February 2018 held in Coffs

Harbour.

Well done Tyrone.