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Our Purpose: The Monmia school community is committed to providing innovative programs that
Stimulate and challenge each student to develop lifelong learning skills and strategies.
We provide a safe, nurturing environment where teachers, students and parents work in
an effective partnership. www.monmia.vic.edu.au Phone: 03 9364 1007
MONMIA MESSENGER
Dear Monmia Families, GREAT MOMENTS I NOTICED THIS WEEK
An amazing turn out to the opening of Education Week with many students dressed up in their
future “Career’s”. Thank you to Mrs Bowler and Mrs Belovitch for all their organisation of Education
Week at Monmia. Take a look at Twitter! It was lovely to see so many parents/guardians and grandparents visiting classrooms over the last
few days. I hope you all enjoyed seeing what children are learning every day at Monmia. A big
thank you to all the guest speakers who presented to our students about their careers! Students
have been left INSPIRED! Exceptional singing from all students of the school song and the national anthem at Monday
morning assembly where there was an outstanding turn out of our families.
Teachers building their professional knowledge in mathematics during Curriculum Day with
consultant Marissa Cashmore.
Enthusiastic competitors at the District Cross Country competition. I know they gave their best
performances and did our school very proud. Thank you to Mr Belovitch for preparing and
organizing these students for this event.
Thank you to our neighbouring schools for providing us with experienced teachers so our staff could
attend the funeral of Mr Vorpasso.
Thank you to all of our school community for your overwhelming support during this very emotional
time, sharing your deepest condolences for Mrs Bell and Miss Vorpasso.
Excited year 1.2 students looking forward to attending the MCG excursion tomorrow.
Motivated year 5.6 students training for their interschool sport finals tomorrow.
BIGGEST MORNING TEA There has been a change in date to the biggest morning tea. Please note that it is now scheduled for FRIDAY 31st May. We hope you can still make it so that you can be present to see our partners, Ray White Taylors Lakes and the draw of the raffle at 10.55am. Remember all funds raised are to support the Cancer Council Foundation.
We ask students to come dressed in a touch of yellow and donate a gold coin.
LIBRARY REFURBISHMENT We are all very excited and curious about the grand opening of the new library. Thank you to the Family and Friends who have fundraised for the library over the past year. Much of the funds raised have gone towards purchasing the library furniture and it looks absolutely fabulous. I know everyone will love the new library, a place to read, discover, research, learn, the list goes on! The library windows remain covered as we prepare for the gala launch. Next week we will start the process of processing new and exciting texts that have been purchased especially for the new library and donated by the generous community. Jayne Sutcliffe, our former library technician has been keeping up with the progress of the library and has agreed to help us with the processing of these books. We will also begin moving back all the books back into the library and preparing the shelves with surprises. Stay tuned for the grand launch date!
DATE: Thursday May 23rd 2019 ISSUE 15
ENROLMENTS Over the past few weeks, we have been conducting successful school tours for prospective parents with primary aged children. We love taking families on tours as we get the opportunity to showcase our effective school. We are now taking enrolments for Year Prep 2020 and in other year levels. If you have any relatives or friends who have young children starting school next year, please ask them to make an appointment at the office for a school tour. We are very proud of all our achievements and look forward to extending our Monmia PS family.
Kind Regards,
Vineta Mitrevski
Assistant Principal
IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE DIARY TERM 2, 2019 TERM 3, 2019
MONDAY, MAY 20 - FRIDAY MAY 24
EDUCATION WEEK
FRIDAY, May 31
Biggest Morning Tea 10.55am
MONDAY, JUNE 10
Queen’s Birthday Holiday – No School
TUESDAY, JUNE 18
School Council Meeting 6pm
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
ANNUAL ART SHOW
FRIDAY, JUNE 28
Last day of term 2. Dismissal at 2.30pm
MONDAY, JULY 15TH
Term 3 Commences
TUESDAY, AUGUST 20
School Council Meeting 6pm
MONDAY, AUGUST 19
Curriculum Day – No School for Students
MONDAY, AUGUST 26
Monmia Concert
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
School Council Meeting 6pm
FRIDAY, SEPTMEBER 20
Last day of term 3. Dismissal at 2.30pm
TERM 4, 2019 TERM 1, 2020
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7
Term 4 commences
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22
School Council Meeting 6pm
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31
Prep Information Evening 6.30pm-7.30pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Curriculum Day – No School for Students
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Melbourne Cup Holiday – No School
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Prep Orientation session 1 9.30am-11.00am
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Prep Orientation session 1 9.30am-11.00am
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19
School Council Meeting 6pm
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Prep Orientation session 1 9.30am-11.00am
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 - Last day of term 4
and school year. Dismissal at 1.30pm
TUESDAY, JANUARY 28
Term 1 commences – Curriculum Day
No school for Students
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29
Term 1 Commences for students
Year 1 – 6 8.45 start
Prep 10am start in the gym
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18
School Council Meeting 6pm
TUESDAY, MARCH 17
School Council Elections & Meeting 6pm
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
Last day of term 1. Dismissal at 2.30pm
PRA- Sarah N For an awesome dress up as nurse and doing some fantastic writing.
PRB- Aurora P For looking after your things and helping others to pack up.
1/2A- Levi L For working co-operatively during maths and great addition skills.
1/2B- Saad R For choosing just-right books and reading with confidence during
independent reading time!
1/2C- Aarna S For sharing her strategies for addition. You are a great mathematician
Aarna!!
3/4A- FJ A For separating your reasons/evidence into paragraphs when writing
your persuasive text.
3/4B- Lana S For writing a detailed reflective student comment. A super effort!
3/4C- Freya K For completing over 100 nights of reading. Congratulations and keep
up the fantastic effort.
5/6A- Mohamed A For his wonderful narrative – it was so well written. I’m impressed!
5/6B- James M For contributing during maths discussion on division strategies.
5/6C- Madeline C For her wonderful home reading achievement. Congratulations on
“100 nights of reading”.
PE- Jayden K 5/6A For trying your best during the volleyball match.
Performing Arts-
Katahlaya C
For her confident singing voice when learning new songs. Well done!
Student Engagement and Wellbeing
Introducing…
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Monmia is a Bucket Filling School! We fill buckets and we don’t dip!
We use our lid to keep our bucket full and keep the drops in! I love how the Bucket Fillers Philosophy has been embraced by our school community this year. I know that we can keep filling other people’s buckets and make Monmia Primary School a warm, positive and caring place to be. When we all fill other people’s buckets then all community members benefit from these acts of kindness. There is so much to acknowledge at Monmia Primary School! Here are some ‘drops’ for you to read.
Remember that when you fill someone else’s bucket, you fill yours as well so keep filling buckets Monmia! Happy Bucket Filling!
Kind Regards,
Lucia Vorpasso
Assistant Principal - Student Engagement and Wellbeing
EVERY DAY COUNTS:
Routines are essential!
Are you having problems getting your child to school?
Perhaps he/she:
• will not get out of bed in the morning and will not go to bed at night
• cannot find their uniform, books or school bag.
• eats their breakfast too slowly
• has not completed their homework
• spends too much time watching TV in the morning.
If so, speak about school positively and set home and school routines
to help
• have a set time to go to bed and to get out of bed
• have the uniform and school bag ready the night before
• have a set time for starting and finishing breakfast
• set a time for daily homework tasks
• be firm and send your child to school every school day.
Lucy Vorpasso
Assistant Principal: Student Engagement and Wellbeing
ATTENDANCE & PUNCTUALITY
SPOTLIGHT ON BOUNCE BACK A WELLBEING AND RESILIENCE PROGRAM
THE FOCUS FOR THIS WEEK IS: WHAT IS BULLYING? Dear Parents and Guardians,
It is important to know what bullying is and what it is not. Monmia has NO TOLERANCE on Bullying. We often hear the term “bullying” being used, but most of the time it is not used correctly. It is very important to understand what bullying is and what it is not. The Department of Education and Training’s definition is:
‘Bullying is when someone, or a group of people, deliberately upset or hurt another person or damage their property, reputation or social acceptance on more than one occasion. There is an imbalance of power in incidents of bullying with the bully or bullies having more power at the time due to age, size, status or other reasons’.
It’s NOT bullying if students just have an argument or if someone says or does just one nasty thing to someone else. Bullying can take many forms:
1. Direct physical bullying
hitting, tripping, pushing or damaging property 2. Direct verbal bullying
name calling, insults, ‘put down’ comments and racist remarks 3. Indirect emotional bullying - This form of bullying is harder to recognise and often carried out behind
the person’s back. It is designed to harm someone’s social reputation and cause humiliation. Indirect bullying includes:
lying and spreading rumours
playing nasty jokes or mimicking to embarrass and humiliate
encouraging others to socially exclude someone
damaging someone’s social reputation and social acceptance 4. Cyber-bullying, which involves the use of technologies such as the use of email, text messages, chat
rooms, Facebook or Twitter to humiliate and distress a person. Family Activity Look up the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) website. Discuss the connection between the RSPCA and bullying of a person.
How would it feel to see animals being mistreated?
How would it feel to see students being bullied?
What would you do if you saw animals being mistreated?
What would you do if you saw another student being bullied?
I hope you find the articles interesting and useful.
Warm Regards,
Lucy Vorpasso Assistant Principal - Student Engagement and Wellbeing
SCHOOL VALUES
Acceptance
Caring
Friendliness
Honesty
Respect
CHANGE OF DATE:
The Biggest Morning Tea will occur on
Friday May 31st
INTERSCHOOL SPORT SEASON 1 2019
All Year 5/6 students will participate in an interschool sport competition on Friday mornings against schools in our local district. The four sports that we compete in during season one are soccer, netball, teeball and Hot Shots tennis. Interschool sport will be conducted differently to the way it has been in previous years. There are two pools of six teams. The two pools were decided by location. Games against teams in pool A will count towards final ladder positions. Games against teams from pool B will be friendly matches and those scores will not count towards the final ladder positions.
POOL A POOL B
Monmia Sydenham
Taylors Lakes Hillside
Keilor Views Overnewton Taylors Lakes
Keilor Mackellar
Mary Mackillop Cana
Overnewton Keilor Emmaus
Please note that this fixture has been updated Friday March 29 – AWAY vs Mary Mackillop Hot Shots, teeball and netball at Mary Mackillop Soccer at Green Gully Friday April 5 – Training round Friday April 26 – HOME vs Emmaus (friendly match) Friday May 3 – HOME vs Keilor Views Friday May 10 – AWAY vs Mackellar (friendly match) All sports at Mackellar Primary School Friday May 17 – Washout/training round Friday May 24 – Final
**CANTEEN NEWS** Available now at the canteen are yummy homemade variety of Muffins for $1.50 each &
Fairy Cookies for $1.00 each. Hurry while stock lasts!!
Education Week 2019 20th-24th May
Thank you for participating in this years’ Education Week Careers’ Dress Up. The winners of the dress up competition are: Navleen – Prep Levi & Saad – Year 1/2’ Brandon & Eve – Year 3/4’ Damien & Elita – Year 5/6’
Congratulations to everyone!
THANK YOU! Thank you to Brenda Charles, Aurora and Lucas P’s Grandmother, who
donated many items to the Prep students to take home for Education Week.
THANK YOU!
Woolworths earn & learn Monmia Primary School is participating in this fantastic promotion to “earn & learn”. The more stickers we collect the more we earn! Students have been given a sticker sheet to make collecting easier. More sticker sheets can be collected from your local Woolworths. Thank you for your support!
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