Mac News Friday 16th November

DATES TO REMEMBER

Friday 16th November Prep Dinner & Gr 1&2 Sleepover Tuesday 20th November School Council Meeting 4pm Friday 23rd November Book Dress Up Day Monday 26th November Book Club Orders due Monday 10th December Student Free Day

SCHOOL BANKING- EVERY MONDAY BREAKFAST CLUB - EVERY FRIDAY 8.15-8.45AM

REMINDER Parent Direct Orders - Don’t forget to place your order with Parent Direct by November 30th. The school receives up to 25 cents of each dollar spent which will go directly to the purchase of classroom resources. Please ensure you acknowledge the school when ordering so we receive the commission from your order.

Dear Parents and School Community, Tennis Clinics. This week all students enjoyed the first of four tennis clinics occurring this term. Thomas, the tennis coach, had all students participating enthusiastically on the new Hot Shot tennis courts using newly purchased tennis racquets, nets and tennis balls. The new equipment and access to Thomas came about through a successful submission from Mrs Edwards to the Sports in Schools Program. This additional set of resources follows on from a number of other successful submissions that have realised significant supplementary resources for our sport program in the areas of soccer, basketball and now tennis.

Grade 234O trying out the new tennis gear Olivia lets fly with a forehand stroke

Extracurricular activities such as the tennis coaching enrich and diversify the school’s curriculum. 2018 has once again seen many extracurricular experiences including interschool athletics, netball and cricket, visiting performers/guests such as Questacon and Bravehearts, excursions to the Aquarium, Werribee Zoo and Donegan’s Farm, Coding Club, Cooking Circle, Queenscliff Camp and tonight’s Prep Dinner and Grade 1/2 sleepover. I appreciate the extra work staff embrace that enable these enhancing experiences to occur. Class groupings teacher allocation 2019. Class groupings and teacher allocations for 2019 will be Prep/1 taught by Mrs Seff, 2/3 taught by Mrs Reyntjes & Mrs Edwards, 3/4 taught by Mrs Osman and 5/6 taught by Mr Goodson. The grade three students who will be in Mrs Reyntjes‘s & Mrs Edwards’ room will be: Quin, Wade, Monty, Bailey, Lucas, Olivia, Logan, Ruby, Tyson, Tiarna and Jono. The grade three students who will be in Mrs Osman’s room will be Violet, Eleanor, Josefine, Oscar, Jefferson, Avril, Zenon and Savvy. We anticipate the enrolment in 2019 to be 94 students.

With kind regards,

Andy Backwell ~ Principal.

T20 CRICKET On Tuesday eleven students from the 5/6 class participated in the Woolworths T20 Blast Cricket at Victoria Park. Kira, Fyn, Baily, Blake, Lola, Shanae, Josh, Dan, Pat, Jack and Rylan all displayed some fine skills and teamwork as we went on to win two of our three games. All eleven students should be commended for displaying the school values of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience at all times, including some excellent sportsmanship and exceptional behaviour for the duration of the day. Well done to all students.

Game 1: Mac St def Invermay 156-64 Game 2: Mac St lost to Buninyong 114-126 Game 3: Mac St def St Francis Xavier 124-64

Resilience – we are optimistic - Kayne Hickson, Nathan Skilbeck, Blair Macdonald, Alyssia Bunce

Principals Award — Nadia Kocis

Next Friday 23rd November is Book Dress Up Day!

Join in the fun and come along to school dressed as your favourite book character to receive a small prize.

No cost involved.