Murri School Newsletter Aboriginal & Islander Independent Community School

“Education In Harmony”

1277 Beaudesert Rd, P.O. Box 256, Acacia Ridge Brisbane Qld 4110 Ph: (07) 3255 6133 Fax: (07) 3255 6562 Email:- info@murrischool.qld.edu.au

WELCOME one and all to a new year and to Term 1 at the Murri School. We’ve hit the ground running, getting settled into school rou-tines. We’re into our 5th week with 5 more to go

before Easter. This term ends on Thursday, 29 March. It is great to see the new students and their families. Wel-come back to all our regular students and staff. NEW STAFF : A big welcome to Sydney who is a speech therapist. Caitlyn Moriarty will return one day a week on Wednesdays to conduct drama clas-ses.

News from the Family Support room:

Centrelink Indigenous Officers will be coming out on February the 28th and the 14th of March to help students and parents who need assistance with any Centrelink enquiries.

Morning Tea: friendly reminder to parents/caregivers that we have a morning tea every Wednesday from 10.30 a.m. to 1 pm in the Family Support Room. Please visit us.

Murri School Mums’ Beginners’ Yoga Class:

10 a.m. Thursdays Transport and Morning tea provided.

Contact the Murri School office on

3255 6133 for more information . Don’t be shame, be game!! Come Along.

Easter Raffle: Aunty Fran in the Tuckshop is planning to have an Easter Raffle to raise funds for our tuckshop. If anyone would like to donate appropriate items to go in the raffle, that would be greatly appreciated.

ALLIED HEALTH SUPPORT:

Uncle Cheg Egert liaises with the Allied Health profes-sionals who support our students. Stu-dents can access occupational therapy, speech therapy, optometry, and a paedi-atric clinic which is co-ordinated by Mar-got Duncan.

Volume 16, Issue 1

21 February, 2018.

Incorporates Prep., Primary , Secondary & Kulkathil Training Centre

Swimming Classes Weekly Roster: Prep:- Wednesday - 11.45 -12.45 Yr 1 :- Thursday - 11.45 -12.45 Yr 2 :- Monday - 11.45 -12.45 . Yr 3 :- Thursday - 1.45 - 2.30 p.m. Yr 4 :- Wednesday - 1.45 2.30 p.m. Yr 5 :- Tuesday - 1.45 - 2.30 p.m. Yr 6 :- Wednesday - 1.05 - 1.45 p.m. Yr 7 :- Tuesday - 11.45 - 12.45 Yr 8 :- Monday - 1.45 - 2.30 p.m. Yr 9 :- Friday - 11.45 - 12.45 Yr 10/11/12:- Thurs/ Friday - 1.05 - 1.45 p.m. Multiclass :- Thursday - 11.45 - 12.45

Daily Break Times:

The students’ school day finishes at 2.30 p.m.

Primary Classes and High School Form Teachers Teachers

1st Break: 10.15—10.30 a.m Munch and Crunch

- brain break - tuckshop provides fruit or healthy dips & chopped carrots/celery/cucumber/cheese for each class daily

2nd Break: 11.30– 11.45 a.m

Morning Tea

Families to pro-vide morning tea for their children

3rd Break: 12.45—1.05 p.m.

Big Lunch

Families to pro-vide lunch for their children

Prep — Kathy Hudson Yr 7: Tanya Saltner

Year 1 — Tracy Hopkins Yr 8: Daniel Dalby / Patrick McHugh

Year 2 — Perri-Ann Kelly Yr 9: Sini Jaise

Year 3 — Paula Power Yr 10: Bryn Devaney

Year 4 — Kate Cou- lahan /Sandy Kahura

Yr 11/12: Kim Peyton-Smith

Year 5 — Dee Heath Multi: Tracy Pearce

Year 6 — Toni Hill

Science News: Space Explorers!

Year 5 and Year 7 went on an excellent trip to the Brisbane Planetarium this week. We learnt about how massive our solar system is, and we have learnt heaps of interesting facts. Everyone was excellent during the excursion, and we proudly represented the Murri School. From Bronwyn

Murri School Library: Teacher Librarian: Bob Cobb Library Assistant: Gail Locke The Murri School has a good base stock of books and non-book resources. We intend to increase those stocks with at-tractive and interesting resources. All of our students are encouraged to borrow regularly. Stu-dents may borrow a set number of fiction and non-fiction books according to their year level. Items may be borrowed

for a maximum of two weeks. Under the current reading scheme used in every class, students are encouraged to borrow from the library.

The ability to read fluently is an important factor in success in most studies. As well, recreational reading can bring much joy to many children once the habit is established. Encourage your child to use the school library, to have a book out at any given time and to treat books with respect. Find time to listen to your child read or talk about the book they are reading. Your co-operation in seeing that books are re-turned in good time would be greatly appreciated. Library books that are lost or damaged are ex-pected to be replaced or else re-imbursed. Culled books: Occasionally, our library sets aside books and magazines that have been culled from our collection for various reasons. We put these in a FREE BOOK section for children (& anyone else) to pick & choose from and take home to keep. So, parents, from time to time your

child may bring home a free book/s from our library. These books usually have a red texta mark on them to show that they’ve been culled from the collection.

Year 5’s and 7’s Trip to the Planetarium By: Tane Currie

On Tuesday the 13th of February our class, Miss Bronwyn, Miss Dee, Miss Sini, Uncle Morris, Uncle Shane and the year 7 class came with us to the Plane-tarium at Mount Coo-tha. Straight after Munch ‘n’ Crunch break, we got on the bus. I was sitting in a one seat-er across from Jorja and Lurline. They kept being annoying. It felt like it took 2 hours but it really took about half an hour.

When we arrived, we were a bit early so we decided to go to the Tropical dome but we walked straight past the sign that said it was closed. A lady told us she was cleaning it out, so we went to the Botanical gar-dens. We saw a whole heap of different gardens and

plants from all around the world. We had to hurry back to the Planetarium and just made it in time. When we got inside, we had to sit on some black couches and we were watching our planet from the satellite. After we had to do a work sheet about our solar system. On the 2nd sheet Stevie helped me out with it. When we were done, we went in to the cosmic sky dome. We had to wait outside then when we went in, we learnt about what’s up in space and all about the planets like what are the gas giants, what is the biggest planet, what is the furthest planet away and all different things. Before we went back to school, we had lunch. On the bus, we had to sit in the same spots. I enjoyed the trip to the Mount Coo-tha Planetarium. I hope we can go back there again!

The Murri School has registered for Coles Sports for Schools campaign. We have a collection box in the office as well as one in the tuckshop.

We are able to order sports equipment with vouchers we receive at the school (for every $10 spent at Coles, customers receive one voucher).

B U S R U L E S FOR THE BENEFIT AND SAFETY OF ALL ON BOARD

USE YOUR WORDS IN A RESPECTFUL WAY (No need to swear or shout)

USE HANDS & FEET IN A HELPFUL WAY

- No fighting, hitting or kicking passen gers. Respect others’ belongings . - No body parts out of the windows

BE SAFE : - NO MOVING SEAT TO SEAT (UNLESS BUS DRIVER ALLOWS)

- ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEATBELT

TRADITIONAL DANCE:

Our students under the guidance of Un-cle Jeff Locke are regularly asked to perform at various functions around town. Last week alone our Murri School dance group were asked to perform at Jagera Arts hall for Link-Up for the 10 year Anniversary of the Prime Minister’s Apology. The students also performed at the swearing in of the Queensland Parliament.

Students who performed included Sam Gray, Cameron Bundock, Carson Gyemore, Daryl Sulli-van, Jarvelin Fogarty, Denzel Purcel, Brooklyn Eggmolese, Samara Sullivan, Samara Jones-Bohan, Wongara Fogarty, Tiana Patterson, Jor-dan Fulford, Julius Gray and Mitchell Rochford.

Ms Paula and Year 3 stayed a couple of days last week at the Numin-bah Valley Environmen-tal Education Centre with Tiarnie, Jordan ,and Uncle Jeff drove the bus.

The students enjoyed a variety of activities including forest walks, examining soil for animal life under mi-croscopes, team building exercises and games and much more. Poppies says, “ I liked the blindfold game. We got to spray water on everyone and they didn’t see us. I held a (carpet) snake. It felt soft. It was scary.” Malachi says, “ I felt the snake going across my lap. It was awesome”.

. Bus Drivers’ Contact No’s:

Allan Misa………….0430 761 879

Uncle Spike...……...0430 051035

Gail Locke…....……0433 976 424 Aunty Jo……..….….0433 792 198

Morris Kemp……….0413 644 039

Shane Arnold………0401 825 265

The Medical Clinic

is onsite at the Murri School.

Open: 8.30am – 4.30 pm - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Lunch break 1 —1.30 pm daily. Closed on Monday and Friday as well as on school holidays.

For appointments Ph: (07) 3029 6502

www.atsichbrisbane.org.au Reminder to Students: A Permission Slip from your teacher needs to be given to medical staff if you seek medical attention.

Please ring or text your driver or call the office, if your child is not travelling on the bus.

Happy Headstart hair care recipients

A big WELL DONE to Tim-othy for his efforts in picking up rubbish around the grounds.

Elieta’s beautiful birthday cake

From Ms Tracy H. : Some of the activities

that Year 1 students get up to on a Friday after-

noon.

H E A D S T A R T : Hair care The Headstart Program happily continues this year. We remain committed to promoting the hair care, health and well being of our students. Our Headstart team of wonderful volunteers—Margaret, Rosemary and Mary-Lou continue to visit on Friday afternoons to bedazzle the hair and self-esteem of our students in Ms Tracy’s Year 1’s and Ms Kathy’s (Prep) classes. Some of our older students also benefit.