IMPORTANT DATES
Page 1 Principal: Marina Keegan Assistant Principal: Peta Mundine
AUGUST
Fri 9th Prep 100 Days at school!!
Fri 16th Middles “Off this Planet” Incursion
Mon 19th - Fri 23rd Literacy & Numeracy Week!
Book Fair in the Library from 3:30-4pm!
Mon 19th - Thurs 22nd “Storytelling” - Literacy & Numeracy Week
Weds 21st District Athletic Champs
Fri 23rd District Athletic Champs - Back up day
Weds 28th Bounce Excursion - Senior Students
Fun Farm Incursion - Junior Students
SEPTEMBER
Weds 4th Art Show 5-7pm!!
Fri 6th Kids teaching kids launch (more details to come)
Sat 7th Election Day!
Mon 9th - Fri 13th Planning Week
Mon 16th Prep Transition - Orientation Visit 1!
Weds 18th Prep Excursion to the Fairy Park!
Fri 20th Term 3 Ends!
8th August 2013
Business Manager: Kylie Roskosch Office Manager: Kim Tucker Administration Assistant: Anna Clausen
IMPORTANT: Just a gentle reminder that school supervision does not begin until 8:45am. We do realise that some of you
work quite early and we understand that you may struggle to drop off your child/ren at this time. We would like to remind
you that ‘Camp Australia’ run a wonderful before and after school care program on Mano school grounds. You can contact
them on 5229 7257 or alternatively you can head to their website: www.campaustralia.com.au
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Our new playground is open at last! Already our students (and their younger siblings) have enjoyed our new
play space and the different challenges it presents. Tony, from Buildscape came to school on Tuesday
morning to talk to us about all the rocks, timber, and plants that went into creating our play space. Even
though we own our play space, all materials used and the team who built it, are local. Tony also talked
about the plants to go in at our next working bee, including two beautiful established trees to be planted in
the memory of Ben Newell. We hope to have these in soon. Our School Captains were on hand to cut a ribbon signalling
the opening and gave a lovely speech about how we need to be safe and fair when using the space. There has been a lot
of work gone into planning this area including the work led by Kelly Blake to develop our Master Plan for the whole area.
Let’s not forget the fantastic fundraising efforts of our Carnivale team led by Janina Lear and Bess Pilling last year.
Without them we would not have had a fantastic amount of money to get us started. Thank you Kelly, Janina and Bess
and all their helpers! Photos to come in next weeks newsletter.
We are now focused on the next stage of our play space around the existing sandpit and up to the Gunyah. We hope that
everyone will join us in planning the 2014 Carnivale so that we can be successful again in raising enough money to build
the next new section. I’m sure everyone understands that we cannot achieve these wonderful results without our families
helping us with our major fundraising efforts. Keep an eye on the newsletter for our Carnivale planning meeting.
Talking of fantastic efforts for our school…Congratulations to Cath Johnson and her team who organised and ran the
Bunnings BBQ on the weekend. They raised an incredible $1600 to go into our fundraising budget. Wow!! Our chocolate
drive is also going well and we hope to have a total for you soon. There are lots of things we would love to do around our
school and we appreciate all the help we receive from our student and their families.
There are lots of extra curricular activities being planned across our school at the moment so please take care to read all
notes and keep checking the calendar on the front of the newsletter so that you don’t miss out on anything. Those
students participating in our Active After School Communities (Circus Skills and Dance & Drill) make sure you have your
dates correct on your calendar at home as they are different for each activity. I will send out notes for term 4 activities
(Hip Hop & Cricket) very soon.
Reminder: If you were one of the families randomly selected by the computer to take part in the Parent Opinion survey,
you have until tomorrow morning to return your survey. They need to be posted on Friday morning.
Communication is vital – Keep reading the newsletter!
Be on time, Be at school, that’s the rule!
Let’s keep Unleashing Potential! Marina Keegan, Principal
A huge thank you to everyone who came to Bunning's on the weekend to help us fundraise
for our school! A HUGE thank you to all who helped on the day; Michelle Reed, Anita Elliott,
Shane Driscoll, Ged Sweeney, Michelle Roepke, Amanda Lauder, Glenn Lauder, Phil Currie,
Denise Heathcote, Antony Benson, Bess
Pilling, Graham Castle, and Anna Clausen.
Thank you
Cath Johnston
New Wicking Bed - A huge thanks to the Manifold Heights Community Garden, and Derek Ryan’s expertise and effort in partic-
ular, for the magnificent new wicking bed built to the north of the Library. Designed to save water, it’s all ready to be planted up!
Have you got some seedlings (eg lettuce) you could assist the students in planting?
As with the Food Forest, anyone who is willing to plant, weed, and generally maintain the garden is also welcome to share the
produce.
Nude Food @ Mano At Manifold Heights PS we promote Sustainability in all areas.
A big focus this year is on reducing rubbish –in particular plastic. We have researched the effects of plastic on the environment
and seen the damage done to marine and other creatures and decided we can do something to help.
Nude Food Monday was introduced whereby rubbish free playlunches and lunches are encouraged – initially on at least one day
of the week. An incentive system to reinforce this focus (with a view to creating a rubbish free food habit all the time) has seen a
number of students winning their choice of a washable, reusable container as acknowledgement of their efforts.
Keep up the good work – save money while you save the environment!
(One of our fabulous
customers on the day!
A sausage dog eating a
sausage!)
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Kaisercraft are kindly
sponsoring a weekly Art
Award this term. Each week one student will receive a $20
Kaisercraft voucher. This week’s Art Award goes to:
Liam Fletcher - For helping other students as well as creating his
own wonderful work!
Congratulations to the following students who have been rewarded for their efforts towards
“RESILIENCE” and making ‘Mano’ a better place.
PB RAIDAN MEGEE - For some super efforts with his writing this week! Keep up the good work, Raidan!
PH BRADLEY TYE - For his fabulous attitude to work tasks and terrific writing about the Grandparents visit! Well done, Brad!
PS BEN DIMOVSKI - For his fantastic, detailed recount of our Prep Grandparents Day on Wednesday! Well done, Ben! Great work!
JB NOAH LENOBLE - For displaying fantastic new reading skills within his reading group! Well done, Noah!
JF SARAH ENGLISH - For listening carefully during our Inquiry discussion and for making valuable contributions about the features
of a City! Great work, Sarah!
JMB INDIGO ETHELL - For detailed, descriptive writing and terrific effort and concentration in classroom activities! Well done, Indigo!
JO JAYMEE RHODES - For her wonderful ideas about the City in our Inquiry Learning session! Well done, Jaymee!
MB ASHLEY WILSON - For his fantastic ‘retell’ of events during our writing session and excellent use of correct writing conventions!
Great work, Ashley!
MC CHARLI MEEHAN - For her brilliant attitude to all her learning and her kind, caring manner with others!
MH RINTJE LONA - For her excellent retell of events during our writing sessions and contributing to class discussion! Amazing work!
MS GRACE MATHIESON - For refusing to let injuries and distractions interfere with her learning and terrific work!
You’re a champion, Grace!
SB SAM SMITH - For being a cheerful positive class member and being a great role model for his peers by always working hard!
Well done, Sam!
SN JACOB WILSON-CHURCH - For helping with organising the “Hawks” choir for their fantastic performance at Senior Assembly!
You all sounded amazing!
SS SARAH MAPLESON - For always accepting advice cheerfully and working hard towards the completion of her goals!
SW ZOE HOTCHIN - For making excellent learning choices during iTime and staying on task! Super, Zoe!
The Book Fair will be held in
the Library from August 19th
to 23rd between 3.30pm
and 4.00pm. Take this
great opportunity to
purchase some excellent
books and stationery at
affordable prices. Remember every purchase you make will help
our school raise funds to purchase books for our wonderful
library.
Look forward to seeing you there!
The Geelong West District Athletic Sports will be held at
Goldsworthy Reserve, Corio on Wednesday 21st August.
If any parents of children competing could act as an official on the
day could you please fill out and return the form below. Thanking
you.
________________________________________________________
Geelong West District Athletic Sports
Wednesday 21st August
Name:____________________________________________
Phone Number:_____________________________________
Childs Name:_______________________________________
Grade:____________
I am able to act as an official at the Geelong West District Athletic
Sports on Wednesday 21st August.
Signed:________________________
CHOCOLATE
FUNDRAISING NEWS!
A Bench seat is being donated by
Tea Rose Giftware for the family
who sells the most boxes of
CHOCOLATES. If you would like to
win this wonderful prize valued at $150 come and collect
some more boxes from the office. Be quick as there are
only a few boxes left!
ART SHOW - "Artists of the World"
Students have started preparing for our spectacular Art Show
which will take place at our school on Wednesday 4th September
from 5 -7 pm. Watch this space for more information as the date
approaches. Mrs Mundine has worked very hard to prepare a
blog all about the artists we are studying. She has
done a marvellous job.
The web address:
http://manifoldheightsartshow.wordpress.com
Julie Walker
Like Tennis? Want to learn how to play tennis?
Come and try after school on Thursdays 4-5pm.
We will have senior tennis players there to help,
teach and play with you. Learn how to cover the
court like Lleyton Hewitt, serve like Rafael Nadal or
volley like Sam Stosur.
New Junior and Senior members welcome.
If you are interested please come along or give Denise Airey a
call on 0417504548. Western Heights Uniting Tennis Club, 31
Douglass St, Herne Hill.
Wow – the launch for this national program at Manifold Heights
PS is getting close now and the excitement level is rising!
Following a whole school assembly at 10am, we have two Mano
teams and four visiting schools presenting workshops to each
other at the launch of the 2013 Kids Teaching Kids Program on
6th September. They are:
Treading Lightly – Alysha, Giorgia, Ti, Arielle, Grace, Ava, Rushil,
Keirha, Ally, Ella, Max, Milli, Kayla, Charlotte, Jacob, Tayla, Ellexis,
Emily, Oscar, Sophie, Rintje, Nicky
What a Load of Rubbish! – Riley, Jed, Jake, Ben, Jemma, Elke, James, Emily, Ebony, Lachlan, Tom, Charli, Mia, Jayde, Sara-Lou,
Mitchell, Josh, Olivia, Shayla
We would love it if you could support us by sending example of items you have up-cycled (or photos of them) to display the many
ways we can reuse resources to make them into useful/beautiful objects. (Some recently upcycled products viewed at Geelong
Better Blocks were – jewellery and windchimes made from cutlery; new clothing made from preloved clothes, tablecloths, blan-
kets, etc; packing crates used to create vertical gardens....) If you would be available to support these two teams as they prepare
for the event or believe you can help in any other way, please contact Mrs Hines through the office or drop in to see her on Mon-
day or Tuesday.