Term 4, Week 9 9th December, 2011

Principal’s Message What a fantastic year at Maraylya PS! While it feels like it has flown, so much has occurred both inside and outside the rooms. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the school community for your help in making this year so successful for the students of Maraylya Public School. Presentation Night Our recent presentation night highlighted the amazing achievement of the boys and girls throughout 2011. Congratulations to all those who were recognised during the night with one or perhaps more of those wonderful awards. Our thanks go to Windsor High School for allowing us to use their hall at such short notice and to Mrs Cam for joining us on the night. Movie Night Our Maraylya Movie Night was a great success. The screen was huge! While the movie was long, we had a brilliant time, being very fortunate with the weather. Thanks especially to our P&C group and their families for their time and energy to ensure the night ran smoothly and that we were all fed and watered. Thanks also to Mrs Bennett and Mrs Sadler for running stalls and conducting the choir.

Diary Dates

Year 6 Mini-Fete MUFTI DAY

12th

Dec

Whole school scripture service + Reports Home

14th Dec

Party Day 15th Dec

Staff Development Days (No students)

19th – 20

th

Dec

2012

Staff Development

Fri 27

th Jan

Students Return Mon 30

th Jan

Best Start Kinder

Mon 30th

Tue 31st

Kindergarten Begin School

Wed 1

st Feb

Swimming Carnival

Thurs 2

nd Feb

School Photos Tues 21

st Feb

Maraylya Messenger

Thank you to ‘Santa’ for joining us and the Morgan family for helping him get there! (Mr Gaffey was a bit jealous of Santa’s mode of transport!) Congratulations to the Carabetta Family on their ‘Scratchy Tree’ win! There were 20 other prize winners during the night, not to mention the Luzar and Sultana family who had won the ‘Gold Class’ tickets. Thanks to our generous families for donating the scratchies. The Pizza Party will now take place on Tuesday 13

th for the winning classes who are 3/4 and

5/6. Kindergarten Graduation Last week also saw our Kindergarten students ‘graduate’ in a small ceremony at the end of our assembly. Thanks to Mrs Mackey for her organisation and communication to families. Outstanding Accounts With the end of the year approaching, we are keen to complete the collection of all monies owed to the school. We understand that families are busy, however, Mrs Carrington is keen to finalise these payments so we may then project into next year. Could you please give this your immediate attention and contact the office if there are difficulties with payments so we can discuss options. Year 6 Mini-Fete Mini/ Fun Fete will take place on Monday 12

th December.

It will run between recess and lunch time. It is a MUFTI Day. Activities/ stalls that will be run by Year 6 students are: Sponge throw X-Box 360 Wii – Just Dance Beauty salon (Hair, Nails, Facepainting) Snow-cones Lolly guessing competition Baseball target / soccer shots at goal Obstacle course Great prizes too!

Party Day ‘Party Day’ is scheduled for 15

th December, 2011. K-2

students will be travelling to the Richmond Cinema and 3-6 students will be going to Windsor Ten Pin Bowling. Please return notes and money to school as soon as possible on Monday. COLA Area Resurfaced P&C have directed funds to resurface the COLA area where the students eat lunch. Thanks to the Beard family for managing this initiative which will make an enormous difference to recess and lunchtimes. We have removed several seats to create a useful open area undercover.

Year 6 Farewell

What a fantastic evening at Pitt Town Sporting Club last Tuesday! Our students arrived looking wonderful and the entire evening was a great success. Students were so well behaved throughout the proceedings, allowing them to have a really fun night – lots of dancing (parents and teachers too!) and a lovely meal in a beautifully decorated room, thanks to some of our Year 6 mums. Apart from our school staff, we also saw Mr McGee on the night and Mrs Buchanan wrote a wonderful poem about the Year 6 students which all helped to make the night so special. Well done kids! It was a pleasure to spend that special time with you.

Happy Birthday to….

Antonia Beard, Kia Burns, Tyler Daniels,

Daniel Dorian, Jayden Snowden, Anna Tadrosse

Who celebrate their birthdays in December. Congratulations and hope you have a great birthday!

UNIFORM SHOP

Skorts (shorts with a skirt front) now available for girls sports at a cost of $15.00

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Congratulations BEE Award Winners!

These students have achieved 10 tokens through the schools BEE Awards recognition system. Count Down Awards

Joshua Smith Mark Eller-Turner These students have achieved 20 tokens through the schools BEE Awards recognition system. Blast Off Awards

Ava Lyon Orlando Hopkins Emily Schaffarczyk Alexandra Beard Mark Eller-Turner Therese Tadrosse Daniel Kinnaird These students have achieved 50 tokens through the schools BEE Awards recognition system. Orbit Awards

Ben Stanton Hayley Madadghar Ryan Colgan Anneliese Hughes Sarah Eller-Turner Brianna Giblett

Assembly Awards

Term 4 Week 8

K – Alyaan Sia-Stone & Jack Mills

1/2 – Luke Fox & Ben Rogers

3/4 – Aaron Carr & Jack Rose

5/6 – Alexis Ham – Anna Tadrosse -

Daniel Dorian

Person of the Week

K – Madison Morgan

1/2 – Ezra Freeman

3/4 – Sean Dorian

5/6- Jake Giudice

Canteen As we near the end of the year, the canteen is keen to sell its current stock to avoid making large orders just before the Christmas break.

While the canteen will remain open until year’s end, below is a list of limited stock available for the rest of the year.

Party Pies Potato Gems Chicken Wings Pizza -Ham/pineapple Canteen Roster – please organise your own swap or replacement if unable to fulfil your timeslot. Thank you.

CANTEEN ROSTER DEC 2011

MONDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY

14TH

ANGELA LEE

SYLVIA HOPKINS

16TH

GLENDA

CARPENTER

Class News K What a fantastic night on Monday! Kindergarten were so excited about their first ever Presentation Night. Do not forget we are going to the movies next Thursday. The children need to bring two drinks and some food to eat while watching the movie. Could I please have all home reading books back, as Mrs B needs to do a stocktake. Home reading will finish today (Friday). 1/2 Congratulations to all the children in 1/2 for a wonderful performance on Monday night. You did really well! I would like to thank all the parents for their help and support throughout the year. Do not forget Thursday 15th is Party Day and we are going to the movies. Have a safe, relaxing and enjoyable Christmas with your families. See you next year! REMINDER - If your child has any home readers at home could you

please return them by next Thursday. 3/4 Our last newsletter for the year! Mrs Bennett and I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope you all have a relaxing and restful holiday. Do not forget Party Day next Thursday.

5/6 We are getting ready for our Fun Fete on Monday. We are making sure all stalls are ready and that there are prizes at each activity for our winning students. Congratulations also to our 5/6 students who attended the Year 6 Farewell on Tuesday. I was so proud of every student there. Your behaviour was outstanding! Thank you to the students and families of 5/6 for making my first year at Maraylya an enjoyable one. Best wishes to our Year 6 students who are ready for the challenge ahead. Make the most of every opportunity kids! Best wishes and farewell to the following families: The Paces, Smiths, Bradshaws, Kinnairds and Stockman-Collins Families. Your contributions to the school community are greatly valued. Year 5 students are also ready for the challenge of nest year and I am confident that they will make a very positive impact on our school, as student leaders, in 2012.

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STUDENT BANKING

Student banking has ended for the year. No monies will be taken on Tuesday 13 December.

‘DO NOT FOrGET - ‘PARTY DAY’

15 DECEMBER 2011

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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HAPPY NEW YEAR