At Melrose Park Public School we are Respectful Responsible Learners

Melrose Park Public School ‘Learning and Growing Together’ 110 Wharf Road, WEST RYDE 2114 Phone: 9874 4669 Email: melrosepk-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Web: www.melrosepk-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 3, Week 5 21st August, 2018

Coming Events

MPPS: Leader In Robotics

Principal’s Report

Last week, I attended a principal conference with colleagues from a variety of schools across New South Wales. The focus of the conference centred on the Department of Education’s Strategic Plan 2018-2022 and our role as leaders, teachers, learners and community members. The wider Department of Education goals include: All children make a strong start in life and learning and make a successful transition to school.

Every student is known, valued and cared for in our schools.

Every student, every teacher, every leader and every school improves every year.

Every student is engaged and challenged to continue to learn.

All young people have a strong foundation in literacy and numeracy; deep content knowledge; and confidence in their ability to learn, adapt and be responsible citizens.

All young people finish school well prepared for higher education, training and work.

Education is a great place to work and our workforce is of the highest calibre.

Our school infrastructure meets the needs of a growing population and enables future-focused learning and teaching.

Community confidence in public education is high.

Our education system reduces the impact of disadvantage.

These goals have been used to inform our school plan and strategic directions for 2018-2020.

Term 3 Week 5

Tuesday 21/8 Zone Athletics

Thursday 23/8 Tucker Time – Funds for a Farmer

Seed Harvest Spoon

Friday 24/8 Sport Photos

PSSA Finals

Disco

Term 3 Week 6 – Kindness Week

Monday 27/8 Musica Viva

Parent Teacher interviews

Thursday 30/8 Fathers’ Day Gift Stall

Friday 31/8 Fathers’ Day Breakfast

Save the Date!

Thursday 13/9 Book Parade & Open Classrooms

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Successful Students

Wellbeing – The Bounce Back Program All students across the school are continuing their journey of positive wellbeing through Bounce Back. The Bounce Back program provides student with opportunities to explore social-emotional competencies and develop self-management strategies to bounce back. Our Wellbeing Support Officers will be delivering the program in K-6 classes alongside class teachers.

Spotlight on Robotics Melrose Park PS was officially recognised as a Leader in Robotics and Mrs Grover accepted the Technology For Learning Award at a ceremony last week. We are very proud of this recognition as it represents the engagement of our students in robotics and their developing skills in programming, collaborating and problem solving. Our students attended the RoboCup yesterday and enjoyed the challenge of competitions against other schools.

Effective Practices Visible Learning The Learner Quality of the week is: I am Optimistic. To be optimistic, students need to think positively. They need to come up with solutions to problems and develop a growth mindset to make academic and personal improvements.

A Focus on Differentiation Differentiation is the way in which teachers meet the needs of the diversity of students in their class. Teachers may differentiate the content, processes, product and environment to support all learners in the classroom. They pose different questions and provide point in time feedback to ensure all students can engage in all learning activities in a personalised way. Our teachers are continually researching and developing their skills in differentiated practice.

Connected Communities

Tucker Time - Funds for A Farmer As we know, Australian farmers are in the middle of a drought. To support our Aussie Farmers, all proceeds from this week’s Tucker Time will be donated to https://afiverforafarmer.com.au/. For Tucker Time this week, Dairy Farmer’s Chocolate Milkshakes or Australian Grown Orange Juice will be on sale for a gold coin donation.

Website Thank you for your patience while our website is being updated. We are hoping all areas will be finalised soon.

Parent Teacher Interviews Parent Teacher interviews will be held next week. This provides you with an opportunity to discuss the social, emotional and academic progress of your child with the classroom teacher. In addition you will develop further understanding of your child’s achievements and next steps in learning.

Questions to ask your child about their day at school

What learning situation did you need to feel optimistic in?

What was something that made your brain hurt?

In what way/s were you kind to someone else today?

Ms Jen Riley R/Principal

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Tales from the Library

The 2018 Premiers Reading Challenge is almost finished. With 2 weeks to go, all students

need to ensure books have been registered so I can validate results. Registrations close

Friday 31st August 2018.

The Great Book Swap was a tremendous success! Students were so enthusiastic we

extended the swap for a second week and raised $254.60 for the

Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Many thanks to all students,

families and friends who contributed to this

wonderful cause!

We are celebrating Book Week during Week 8. We look forward

to having everyone dress up as their favourite book character to

the theme

Find Your Treasure!

More information will be posted in the coming weeks relating to

activities to be held during our Book Week celebration.

The CBCA Book of the Year Award was announced last week. A Walk

in the Bush by Gwyn Perkins was awarded Picture Book of the Year.

Our students are enjoying exploring some of the shortlisted CBCA

books and really enjoy reading A Walk in the Bush.

Happy reading!

Mrs Piper

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Classroom News

6M’s Perfect Pizza Friday!

Every few weeks, Mrs Wahan surprises us with a fun cooking session where we cook lots of delicious treats

as a class. We have made lots of treats so far and last week, we decided to make pizza…

On Friday we had a great experience making our own pizzas with any toping of our choice. Students could

either choose from savory or sweet and of course most people chose sweet. We all had an amazing time

creating our pizzas and can’t wait for our next cooking session!

We then wrote Super sentences describing our pizzas -

“This mouth-watering pizza will blow your mind as you bite into piles of

delicious warm milk chocolate, chewy caramel M&Ms and white mini

marshmallows.” - Kamryn

“A mountain of glory full of mouth-watering smart smarties, milky

smooth chocolate, and mini colorful marshmallows.” - Marium

“My jaw dropping chocolate pizza is so sweet and delicious that when

you take a bite your family three generations back can taste it.” -

Tommy

“My pizza is overloaded with lollies, marshmallows and chocolate and is filled with

tons of sugar.” - Reece

“My mouth watering pizza overloaded with Maltasers, Freckle and chocolate will blow your taste buds with

explosions of flavours.” - Matthew

“My pizza is stacked with cheese and ham when you bite into it your whole mouth is full of

cheese.” - Josh E

“My pizza is mouth-watering as it has smooth melted chocolate with a

delicious Oreo crunch that makes your

mouth drop.” - Jack

“My mouth-watering delicious pizza has

smooth yummy chocolate sauce with flakes,

juicy fresh strawberries and colourful

marshmallows and an Oreo to top it off… my

pizza is amazing.” - Riley

“The best melted cheese pizza, topped with delicious warm ham and some

tomato paste to finish it off.” - Lachlan

“My scrumptious invention of white chocolate pizza topped with an amazing

smiley face will bow your mind when you try it.” - Zakariah

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“My pizza is very sugary and it has lollies and chocolate and after eating you will be running for hours.” -

Saxon

“You would never find a unique pizza like mine because of it’s topped with perfectly sprinkled basil, mouth-

watering banana and fiery hot capsicum.” - Armen A

“My delicious topping’s will crunch in your mouth and sizzle on your tongue like popping candy, it will taste

like fresh juice out of a unicorn’s horn.” - Declan

“My savoury unique pizza made from delicious peperoni, melted cheese and freshly picked basil will make

your mouth water from the first bite to your last bite.” - Oliver

“My mouth watering pizza is perfectly decorated with sweets such as, chocolate sauce, marshmallows,

strawberries and much more!”- Beau

“My one quarter pizza is the most scrumptious thing you’ll eat, it will

make your mouth make mouth-watering sounds, make your heart drop

and feeling calm making you say…That is next level!’ - James

“My extremely unhealthy but yet so delicious pizza, has so much

chocolate, marshmallows and Maoam joysticks which made it the best

thing ever.” - Ani

“My delicious mouth-watering savoury pizza had ham, cheese, and

tomato pizza sauce on it. If you eat you fall into pizza heaven.” -

Emma

YUMM!

Writer – Armen and Lachlan

Editor – Mrs Wahan & Reece

NSW Robocup Junior 2018 at UNSW

On the 20th of August a number of students went to the UNSW for the Junior Robocup tournament. The students competed in the different types of competitions such as dance, soccer, Simple Simon soccer, rescue and line following. The students did many fun activities like showing off there robots, playing soccer with their robots, programming there robots and designing costumes and as well as having lots of fun and laughs along the way. My group, Star Wars Realm did very well with our dance project, and all the other teams who were doing either simple Simon soccer or line following. Everyone had lots of fun going to the robocup and competing against the various schools and we really enjoyed our friends being with us too. On behalf of the school I would like to thank Mrs Grover and all the other teachers and parent helpers for helping us with our projects and robots. We enjoyed the day and we would love to do it next year as well. Ewan (6M)

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News from 2S

2S have enjoyed an interesting start to the term with a variety of activities. It was such a delight to practise and perform for our families at the concert in week 2. We have enjoyed getting to know other students in the school during peer support, Education Week activities and Friday sport rotations. In class, we are learning a variety of strategies to assist us with spelling new words and we have enjoy playing with words after being introduced to the idea in our class novel! We are learning to write different types of poems and continuing to learn more complex strategies to add, subtract, multiply and divide.

Craft Group Supplies Our Year 1 & 2 Craft Group starts today. If you find you are able to help out with any of the supplies below feel free to drop them into the school office.

Wool

Embroidery thread

Buttons

Cardboard tubes (from kitchen towels/clingwrap)

Lisa Wellbeing Support Officer

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Community News

Meadowbank Outdoor Youth and Family Recreation Space

For many years the people of Ryde have been trying to implement a skatepark and youth space in Meadowbank Park which would attract many young people and their families.

In 2017, my friends and family, had the opportunity to be part of various council meetings and design sessions to put through the idea of a skatepark to the Meadowbank Park area, and now in August 2018 construction started for the youth space. It will include: skate bowls, parkour areas rock climbing, a sitting area, lights, and security camera. It will be located on the stretch of the park on Constitution Road, next to the soccer fields. Jonny 6M

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P & C Report Term 3 Week 5

Come and join us for a fun night at the

Melrose Park Public School

WINTER WONDERLAND DISCO PARTY!

Friday 24th August 2018

Winter wonderland is coming to Melrose Park! We REALLY need your help on the night to make it a success! Please sign-up here https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090c4ca4ab2da4fb6-melrose

Father Day at Melrose Park – Save the Dates Raffle Tickets Raffle tickets have been distributed. Please return them by 29 August. Fathers' Day Gift Stall – Thursday, 30th of August This year the P&C will once again hold a gift stall for students to purchase gifts for their Dads. Gifts will be between $1 to $8 each and will be wrapped on the day. This year the stall will be held on Thursday 30 August. Please send cash with your children on the day. Volunteers will be required on the day between 9.00 and 11.30am We REALLY need your help to make it a success! Your sign-up link is https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090c4ca4ab2da4fb6-fathers Fathers' Day Breakfast – Friday, 31st of August

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LADIES PRE-LOVED FASHION AND ACCESSORIES MARKET – Saturday 8

th September 3 – 5pm

Did you know?

The fashion industry is the world's second-largest polluter

The world now consumes a staggering 80 billion pieces of clothing each year - up 400% from two decades ago.

Clothes can take up to 40 years to decompose What has all this got to do with you? The Melrose Park PS pre-loved ladies clothing and accessories market is debuting on Saturday 8 September from 3 - 5pm.

To be involved: - Donate your clothes, shoes, hats, scarves, jewelry, sunglasses, handbags and unopened cosmetics

– please remember, if you wouldn’t buy it, please don’t donate it.

Drop off dates: before and after school (8:30-9:10am, 2:45-3:15pm) on 28-31 August.

Come along for a shopping spree with a heart. Invite your girlfriends too!

Entry fee of $10 which includes a glass of bubbly on entry, all clothes $5 each

Come along shop while you socialise (child-free!) and relax

Additional drinks available for purchase

Please bring your own bag as there will be no plastic bags on the day Any clothing not purchased will be donated to two charities in the local area:

Fitted for Work Fitted for Work believes women are a catalyst for creating a more socially cohesive and prosperous society. They help women to develop their confidence and achieve economic security. Fitted for Work are committed to becoming financially self-sustainable through establishing innovative and profitable social enterprises such as The Conscious Closet, their retail initiative. All proceeds from sales at The Conscious Closet go directly to supporting our Fitted for Work programs and services.

Dressed for Success The mission of Dress for Success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.

LADIES PRE-LOVED FASHION

& accessories market

SAT 8 September 1, 3-5pm

MELROSE PARK PS HALL Entry $10 with a glass of bubbles on entry

All items $5 each – grab a bargain and catch up with friends while you browse.

CLOTHING DONATIONS: DROP OFF 8.45 – 9.15 & 2.45 – 3.15

28 AUGUST AT THE MELROSE PARK PS KITCHEN

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