WEEK 9 TERM 4 10 December 2018

Middleton Public School NEWSLETTER Principal Relieving P&C President Mr Paul Gray Mrs Trudy McMaster

Medlyn Street PARKES 2870 Ph: 6862 1999 Fax: 6862 5310 https://middleton-p.schools.nsw.gov.au middleton-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Hughie Orr - 2CR

Hughie is a hard worker

He participates in classroom activities

Is enthusiastic

Has a positive attitude

Excited to try and learn new things

Caring and compassionate

Is responsible

Is respectful

Encourages others

Is confident to think outside the square

Term 4

Personal Best Award

Winner

Positive Behaviour for Learning - Student

on Target

Jordiyn Bond and Nate Strong

PBL Focus for the Week “Appropriate Behaviour in the Toilets ”

PRESENTATION NIGHT starts at 7.00pm

at Parkes Leagues Club

All students must sit with their class, not with their parents (no younger brothers or sisters to sit with the students).

All students must wear full school uniform.

All students must be seated by 6.50pm. Appropriate applause from parents and

family members will be most appreciated.

Children must be collected from their class group at the conclusion of the Presentation Night. It would be appreciated if you could refrain from leaving during the evening.

No alcohol is permitted to be brought into the hall as it is a school function

Donations of Preloved Clothing We are always on the look out for any preloved school uniforms—girls summer dresses for our Second Hand Clothing Pool.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

We are almost at the home stretch! Staff and children have been very busy with some rehearsals held last Thursday and Friday for tonight’s Presentation Evening. I am looking forward to this celebration and acknowledgement of some of our finest students and their efforts throughout 2018. The formalities will commence at 7:00pm, so I would ask that you and your child are seated by 6:50pm. I also remind you that while this celebration is taking place at the Leagues Club, it is still a Department of Education official event and alcohol must not be brought into the auditorium.

Representative Assemblies will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. Infant’s assembly will commence at 2:15pm on Tuesday afternoon, while Primary will take place from 2:15pm on Wednesday afternoon. Parents and friends are most welcome to attend either of these assemblies also.

Teachers have been busy working on End of Semester Student Reports for many weeks now. I have had the privilege of reading over the achievements, and areas for improvement, for all students over the last week and am quite impressed with the teacher’s comments. They show that the teachers at Middleton PS know your students and know them well. Student reports will be sent home on Thursday. If you wish to discuss your child’s report with their teacher, please feel free to request a suitable appointment time before school finishes for the year.

The Parent Helpers afternoon tea will be held on Thursday afternoon, straight after our regular assembly. At 5:00pm the playground should get quite colourful when the P&C commence their Colour Fun Run. The new playground equipment is also being installed this week, and if all goes to plan, you might even be able to try it out!

A reminder that the final date for students and staff this year is Wednesday, 19 December 2018. School will resume for staff and the office will reopen on Tuesday, 29 January 2019. Mr Simes will remain on leave during Term 1 and I look forward to seeing all students in Years 1 to 6 return on Wednesday, 30 January 2019. Our new Kindergarten enrolments will take part in the Best Start Assessment from that date also, with their first full school day being Monday, 4 February 2019.

I don’t think we can squeeze too much more into this week, so have a great one.

Paul Principal (Rlg)

Thought for the week “Your best teacher is your last mistake.” Ralph Nader

PRIMARY SPORT Class sport this week for primary students.

INTENSIVE SWIMMING Intensive swimming will continue everyday for the rest of this week. Please remember students who are participating will need to bring their swimming gear to school everyday.

SCHOOL CHOIR PERFORMANCES Last night we had six very brave children stand on the stage and sing at Carols in the Park. The children sang a song based on Beethoven's 9th symphony, with lyrics written especially for them. They were nervous when they saw how many people were in the audience but I was very proud of them for singing out so well. Of course their behaviour was excellent, they were great ambassadors for our school.

The children have been invited to sing again this week, at Rosedurnate on Thursday. We will need some help with transport. The children will receive a note with the details.

TERM 4 WEEK 9 Monday, 10 December Tuesday, 11 December Joanne Onley Wednesday, 12 December Jody Swindle Thursday, 13 December Jody Swindle Friday, 14 December Julie Hayward TERM 4 WEEK 10 Monday, 17 December Michelle Skinner Tuesday, 18 December Wednesday, 19 December Jody Swindle

Slush puppies available $2.20 5 flavours to choose from Tropical Forrest Fruits Tangy Berrys Strawberry Vanilla Sour Apple

If you are unable to make your rostered day please text Jodie on 0403 426 205

Jodie Milne - Canteen Manager

P&C School Run 4

Fun Colour

Explosion

this Thursday,

13 December

Raffle tickets

Please return raffle tickets. The raffle will be drawn

Thursday night

LIBRARY Thank you to those who have returned library books but we still have 98 to be returned. It would be really appreciated if they are returned this week. Mrs Dean

Congratulations to the children who were presented with Student of the Week Ribbons for their effort last week:

Indianna Petrie (KH), Eliza Cantrell (KJ), Kiarah Parker (1W), Lacey Ticehurst (1/2N), Xavier Ward (2CR), Seth Bennett (3/4DP), Chelsea McMaster (3/4G), Makayla-May Simpson (3/4O), Ashley Hayward (5/6E), Charlie Hargraves (5/6H), Sierra Holmes (5/6S), Lara Bennett (Mrs Butler), Grace McGirr (Mrs O’Donnell), Lily Anderson (Miss Matthews) and Ashlee Trim (Mrs Dean).

MERIT CERTIFICATES - Teacher’s Choice: Kallara Bradley, Sebastian Butt-Anderson, Rylee Hair, Eli Burt, Bobby Webb, Airlie Strong, Mason Tanks, Lachlan Jennings, Lexi Willis, Billie-Jae Johnson, Rachael Cantrell, Natalia Scherer, Charlie Sole, Amber Roach, Riley Duncan, Caelan Stevenson, Leela Bradley, Lehni Milford, Bridgett Dunn, Hayley Arrow, Riley Jones, Nathan Purtell, Amelia Ah-See, Emily Richards, Hugh MacGregor, Lani Roach, Sally Medlyn, Lily Smith, Noah Webb, Harrison Kennedy, Mackenzie Pabis, Bryce Reynolds, Ashley Plomp, Charlie Skinner, Aleah Fisher, Justis Mallison and Zachary Vaszocs. Well done!

Infants Sport: Sidney Smith Primary Sport: Hope Butt-Anderson Assembly Item: No Item

GOLD PENNANT Congratulations to Myla-Rose Studdert, Amarni Reidy, Lilly Gosper, Josie Jennings, Jessica Larsen, Emma Walton, Sahara Ford, Noah Hansen, Sienna Callaghan, Shyla Logan, Jett Clarke, Maddison Doering, Chelsea Baker, Alice Worthington, Riley McMaster, Isabella Anderson, Ella Jablonskis and Ebbie Parker who were presented with a Gold Pennant at last week’s Assembly for receiving ten certificates/awards this year! Well Done!

IMPORTANT DATES!!!

Monday, 3 December to Friday, 14 December Year 2 Intensive Swimming for two weeks

Monday, 10 December Presentation Night at 7.00pm at Parkes Leagues Club

Thursday, 13 December P&C School Run 4 Fun Colour Explosion Thursday, 13 December Parent Helpers thank you afternoon tea at 3.10pm

MIDDLETON PUBLIC SCHOOL BOOK PACKS

2019 Book packs will be available again next year for all students. The pack contains school equipment such as exercise books, pens, pencils, glue sticks, whiteboard markers etc.

We encourage all parents/caregivers to purchase the bookpack before the end of the year so it will be ready for students, Day 1 next year.

There will be an individual pack for each student depending on what year they will be in next year.

The cost of the packs are: Kindergarten $30.00 Year 1 to Year 6 $40.00 —————————————————————————————————–—————-————————— Student’s Name: _____________________________________________________________

My child in 2019 will be in:

� Kindergarten

� Year 1

� Year 2

� Year 3

� Year 4

� Year 5

� Year 6

I have enclosed $________ for the 2019 Book Pack

I have made an online payment.

Instructions for Online payment -

Go to the Middleton Public School website: https://middleton-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Up the top is a heading called ‘Make a Payment’ click on that tab

Enter details as required. When you get to ‘Payment Items’ - type in other, in description put ‘book pack - child’s name’, enter amount and complete the rest of the details.

Last night Hailie Onley, Andrew Jeffery, Elizabeth Smeaton, Grace McGirr, Meg Skinner and Josie Jennings sang at Carols in the Park.

On Friday Peter Bright from Lions District Drought Relief came and collected a cheque from Middleton Public School for $500 and gifts that were under the Christmas tree to be given to drought affected farmers and their children. Pictured is Mr Gray, Alana Folau, Marty Davies and Peter Bright.

REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLIES – this week

Tuesday, 11 December (tomorrow) - Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 commencing at 2.10pm

Wednesday, 12 December - Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 commencing at 2.10pm.

Representative Certificates for academic, cultural and sport

participation will be presented