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Principal: Rhonda HAWTHORNE Email: [email protected]
Ph : 4777 2709 Web site: [email protected]
Newsletter Issue 11 – 13th June 2018
Dear Parents/Carers
From the Principal
Due to some staffing issues that have affected the
ability to have all teaching staff available for
parent/teacher interviews prior to the end of this term,
parent/teacher interviews are postponed until week
one next term. Reports will be issued in Week 11 of
term, which is the final week of school.
A number of students have become ill over the past
few weeks with a range of different conditions. If
your child is on medication, please remember to
come to the office to sign paperwork giving us
permission to administer it.
The installation of the new septic system is almost
complete. It is expected that site clean-up will
commence this week followed by construction of a
permanent fencing structure.
Students have started thinking about the types of
objects our current student cohort could add to the
time capsule to replace its current contents. I asked
students to write a letter to themselves 25 years from
now, stating a little piece of general information and
what they might be when they finish school. Some of
the letters are hilarious so I am certain that for
current students who come back to the 150 Year
Anniversary of Macknade State School, will be tickled
pink when they read what their plans for the future
entailed, 25 years in the past.
From the Yr 3 to Yr 6 Classroom (Ms Jensen) In recent weeks the 3/4/5/6 class have been busy conducting science experiments involving the freezing, melting, condensation and evaporation of substances. They have also been observing reversible and irreversible change.
The students as always, have been very keen to be involved in science investigations and will complete their Chemical Science unit assessment this week.
125 Year Celebrations Committee News Hello Everyone,
Just a short note from the 125 Year Celebrations
Committee. At our last meeting, the Committee
decided to call for sponsors for the Book we are
compiling on the last 25 years of the Macknade
School, including some short snippets from the first
book. The way it will work is that if there is any
present or past student or family of the school who
would like to buy a page/s in the book, it will cost $35
per black and white page and $50 per colour page.
This will entitle you to have your name on a page/s
and also at the back of the book and a free copy of
the book. The books will also be available for
purchase at a cost of $20 each on the day. What a
bargain! If there is anyone who would like to
sponsor, please contact me on 47772715 or email
me at [email protected]
Also, there will be food stalls, tea, coffee and cake
stall, memorabilia, bar, kids’ rides, raffles and
displays as well as the digging up of the time
capsule. If there is anyone wanting to contribute
something to be included in the time capsule which
will be buried again, you can bring that along on the
night. I will let you know any further details as they
are decided upon.
The P&C Committee will be running the bar and the
cent sale so if you could possibly supply a prize for
the cent sale and/or donate an hour or so of your
time to help staff the bar and the ticket selling, it
would be greatly appreciated. You can contact Kim
Burnell (P&C President) or Keyla Byrne (Secretary) if
you can help in any way.
Gloria Buffa
The winner of the 125 Year Celebrations 100 Club
- Patti Whittaker
SENIORS’ SHIRTS
Our year 6 students have now received their senior’s
shirts. The shirts look wonderful and the students are
all very excited to be wearing them.
A huge ‘Thank You’ to Mrs Narelle Hampton, for the
great choice of shirts and for ordering them for our
students.
BOOK FAIR
Our Book fair this year has been a huge success.
Our commission of $217.00 was used on a great
selection of books for our Library. Firstly, I must
thank Leonie Geaney for setting up the glorious
display in the multi-purpose centre and also Alan and
Gloria Buffa for delivering the many boxes of books
from the Post Office. Thank you for your support
everyone.
COLES FOR SPORTS
Thank you everyone for your support with our Coles
for Sports Program. This year we collected 8,853
vouchers.
The senior class had to look at what was available for
selection online. As part of their maths enquiry, they
calculated our 2018 order to within 20 vouchers. We
now await the delivery of our sports gear with great
excitement.
Dates to Remember in June
15 June – International Cleaners’ Day 19 June – Mrs Zullo – STLaN 27 June – Report Cards issued 29 June - Last day of School for Term 2 16 July - First day of School Term 3
