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2018 Term Dates: Term 1: 30th January – 29th March Term 2: 16th April—29th June Term 3: 16th July—22nd September Term 4: 8th October– 21st December

Dates to Note:

25th-29th June—Year 5/6 Camp 13th-15th Aug.—Year 3/4 Camp 21st-28th Aug.—MVIMP Camp

Parent’s Association Meetings 7.30pm in SPC 10th May 14th June 9th August

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I would like to thank everybody (students, teachers and parents) for

their hard work across our busy first term. It has again been a great

start to the year. All classes have settled well into their learning

regime and continue to amaze me with their efforts. Students will be

dismissed on Thursday at 2.20pm. Our end of term assembly will be

at 2.10pm. I wish everybody a safe and restful holiday. Students are

due back on Monday 16th April. I will be on Long Service Leave (LSL)

at the start of Term Two for two and half weeks. Rebecca McMahon

will be stepping into the Acting Principal chair while Nicole Macrae

will be the Acting Assistant Principal. Leah Myers will be teaching

Year 3/4A during this short period. Leigh Richardson will also be on

LSL for the first two weeks of the term. Isabel Anderson-Kenny will be

teaching Foundation C during her absence.

Sports Update

Please check out Emma’s report on the sports events that have

been occurring over the last few weeks. This includes Tennis Trials,

Cross Country, District and Regional Swimming carnivals. Congratu-

lations to all that participated, our representatives at district & re-

gional levels and also to our award winners. Thank also to Emma for

her coordination of our term one events. With loads happening and

being new to the school she has handled this beautifully.

Transition to Secondary School

The dates and process for the transition of students from primary to

secondary school have been set up by the Department of Educa-

tion and Training (DET) and all year six students will receive the fol-

lowing information on the first day of term two.

I encourage all families to do research regarding school choices for

your children. Internet searches, visiting open days and tours are also

highly recommended. It is important that each family takes the time

to make their decision based on their child’s individual needs.

The list of local secondary schools includes (in alphabetical order):

NEWSLETTER March 28th, 2018

Principal Report

During first week of term two all year 6 students will receive: a letter from the Regional Director, information sheets (including Frequently Asked Questions) a preference form This documentation will explain the process and timeline for

applying for secondary schools. The preference form will need to be returned to Moonee Ponds

Primary School no later than Friday 11th May.

Brunswick Secondary College Buckley Park College Essendon East Keilor College Maribyrnong Secondary

College

Mt Alexander Secondary

College Pascoe Vale Girls Sec. College Rosehill Secondary College Strathmore Secondary College

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Once all students have been allocated secondary schools, students will attend their confirmed state second-

ary school for an orientation day on the 11th of December.

Further clarification regarding information and the principles of the Year 6 to Year 7 transition process, as de-

tailed in the School Policy and Advisory Guide, are located at:

Transition: www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/spag/participation/pages/transition.aspx

Placement: www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/spag/participation/Pages/placement.aspx

Admission: www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/spag/participation/Pages/admission.aspx

Enrolment: www.education.vic.gov.au/school/principals/spag/participation/Pages/enrolment.aspx

Attitudes to School Survey (Year 4/ 5/ 6)

Our school is conducting a survey to find out what your child thinks of our school. The Attitudes to School sur-

vey is an annual survey for Years 4 to 12 students offered by the Department of Education and Early Child-

hood Development. It is designed to assist schools in gaining an understanding of students' perceptions and

experience of school. Our school will use the survey results to plan programs and activities to improve your

child's experience at school.

Students in Year 4, 5 and 6 will participate in this year’s survey. All responses to the survey are anonymous. This

year the Attitudes to School survey will be conducted at our school over the period 23rd April to 1st June. The

survey only takes 20-30 minutes to complete and occurs during your child's class time.

2019 Foundation enrolment

Our school tours are in full swing and enrolment forms are coming in. I encourage all current families with chil-

dren ready to start Foundation next year to please get a form and hand it in to the office before the end of

April to ensure we can hold a place for your child.

Playgroup at MPPS

The school is looking to implement a playgroup one morning a week at the school and is looking for parent

volunteers to help lead and run the group. If you are interested, please speak to Matt or leave your details at

the office.

Matt Bott

Principal

Hi everyone! Hope you have had a wonderful first term!

I am in need of some helpers to return 2 arts boards to the Diamond Valley Arts so-

ciety in Greensborough that were accidentally left after the Art Show last

year. They are 2.4 X 1.2 m and come with 4 stands. If anyone has a vehicle that is

big enough to return this and could do it then please let Christine or Kaye know

ASAP. Your help is VERY much appreciated.

We have been busy in both Visual and Performing arts this term learning about

drama, singing, collage and printmaking! Please be sure to check out the arts blog

for all the latest updates and photos on what is happening in the Arts at MPPS.

http://mppsarts.global2.vic.edu.au

Happy Easter and have a wonderful break,

Christine

PRINCIPAL REPORT (CONT.)

ART NEWS

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Our four new Green Team Captains are settling into their roles for 2018 and we are current-

ly planning activities for the rest of the year to improve our sustainability focus at MPPS.

Aaliyah Malik is looking after composting, Lucy Brockman nude food, Sofia Martinez

Scidone energy saving initiatives and Flynn Alphey water conservation. Matt Burke will be

working on the Resourcesmart Accreditation and we will be supporting the schools

endeavours towards our 5 star rating.

CHICKENS

Our recent arrivals, Clucky and Basil are adapting to their new environment and seem to

be a little less timid. We have been lucky enough to allow them free range of the vegeta-

ble garden area for 11 hours each day thanks to the support of the team members at

OSHC who have been involved in their daily care. They have also very generously agreed

to make sure they are cared for during the upcoming term break which we are very grate-

ful for. We are also indebted to the Gulam family who have been the weekend carers

since we first got the chickens in 2015. A big shout out to them!

GREEN TEAM PARENT HELPERS

Matt Burke and I have been talking about different projects we would like to have happen

at the school which would require the support of the parent community. Schools who have

active sustainability programs have active involvement from the whole school community

and we are keen to extend this offer to parents at MPPS. It would largely involve communi-

cation via email, a couple of meetings either before or after school during terms 2,3 and 4

and possibly some work around the grounds.

If this is something you and or your family would be interested or if you feel you have some

particular expertise to offer please email me at Richardson.leigh.m@edumail.vic.gov.au

Thanks

Leigh

Green Team Coordinator

GREEN TEAM NEWS

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EDPSSA Swimming Carnival 2018

Wednesday 14th March saw 29 students represent Moonee Ponds Primary School in the Essendon

District Primary School Sports Association swimming carnival at the Fawkner Leisure Centre. The

students swam tremendously well with some picking up ribbons. Well done to our all our competi-

tors and thankyou to Caitlyn Barclay and Lee Pregnell for assisting our students on the day. Also

thankyou to the wonderful support shown by the parents.

Western Metropolitan Region Swimming Carnival 2018

Congratulations to James Barnard, Josh Holtz and Hamish Keenan for moving onto the combined

divisional championships, which took place on Tuesday 20th March. The boys represented both

Moonee Ponds Primary School and the EDPSSA with pride! It was a fantastic achievement to

qualify. A big congratulations to Hamish Keenan who has now qualified for the State Champion-

ships!! Well done and goodluck!

EDPSSA Tennis Trials 2018

Thursday 8th March saw two students represent Moonee Ponds Primary School in the Essendon Dis-

trict Primary School Sports Association Tennis Trails at the PEGS. Toby Griggs and Bridget Mihulka rep-

resented our school. Both students played some fantastic tennis and showed great sportsmanship.

Congratulations to Bridget who has earnt selection in the EDPSSA team and moves onto the next

competition.

MPPS Cross Country

On Thursday 22th March all MPPS students took part in the annual Cross Country event along the Moonee Ponds bike track. Students in grades Prep-2 ran 1km, 8, 9 and 10 year olds ran 2kms and

11 and 12/13 year olds completed 3kms. Congratulation to ALL students who participated.. A big

thankyou to the teachers and parents who supported this event in particular Melissa Darlington for

her leadership and organisation.

The top 5 placing students in each age group (9/10 year olds, 11 years and 12/13 year olds) quali-

fied for the District Cross Country Competition which will take place on Tuesday 22nd May.

House Champions

Banks: TOBY GRIGGS & BRIDGET MIHULKA

Lawson: BYRON MAIOTTI & ELOISE JOHNSTONE

Macarthur: ETHAN HAIGH & LUCY BROCKMAN

Chisholm: JOSH KROGER & SOPHIE ALDRIDGE

Overall Cross Country Champion Girl: BRIDGET MIHULKA

Overall Cross Country Champion Boy: JOSH KROGER

Overall House Winners

1st BANKS 2nd LAWSON 3rd CHISOLM 4th MACARTHUR

Prep-2 8/9/10 11/12/13

LAWSON BANKS LAWSON

SPORTS UPDATE—EMMA GRANT

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CROSS COUNTRY PHOTOS

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This is the first in a series of newsletter articles exploring Science at Home.

In term two most year levels will be studying an aspect of science, so this is an appropriate time to fos-

ter avenues of conversation at home.

The goal of this, and upcoming newsletters articles, is to allow you to:

[To assist develop these articles I’ll

reference, amongst others, the work of Debbye Vitti and Angie Torres]

To begin with let’s define what is meant by SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS.

One of the most important goals of schooling is to teach students to think. While all areas of the curricu-

lum share in accomplishing this overall goal science contributes its own unique skills, with its emphasis on

hypothesizing, manipulating the physical world and reasoning from data.

Some terms you may be familiar with to describe these science skills include the scientific method, sci-entific thinking and critical thinking. Another term is the scientific process.

It is said the scientific process occurs naturally and spontaneously in our minds. By logically breaking

down the steps in our thinking, we can use this process to find out how to answer ours, and our chil-

dren’s, questions about how the world works. The science process is therefore not just useful in science,

but in any situation that requires critical thinking.

The skills involved include observing qualities, measuring quantities, sorting/classifying, inferring, predict-

ing, experimenting, and communicating.

1. Name the major science process skills

2. Understand how we use science process skills not only in the

“lab” but in everyday life

3. Better understand how to practice key science process skills

with your children

Science at Home

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At home, conversations to foster the development of Basic Science Process Skills could be as follows:

The key to any of these activities is to name them as you do them. This could be as simple as saying, “Ok we need to sort out the shopping before we put it away. Can you suggest what categories we could use to clas-sify, or group, what goes where?”

(Final note: While many parents, particularly those with a science background, may recognise I’ve left out

more complex skills such as Formulating Hypotheses, Experimenting, Controlling Variables, Interpreting Data and Developing Models these are areas that will be covered at school.)

Where To From Here

In upcoming newsletters I will give further examples of guiding questions you may use to foster conversation,

provide a survey to assist in recognising the strongest and weakest science process skills you feel you and your

child possess, and recommend examples of how to practice basic science process skills at home.

Lee Pregnell (Science Coordinator

Observing - using the senses to gath-

er information about an object or

event.

Example: Describing a pencil as yel-low, or watching and smelling what happens to bread as it is toasting.

Inferring - making an "educated

guess" about an object or event

based on previously gathered data

or information.

Example: Saying that the person who used a pencil made a lot of mistakes because the eraser was well worn, or this is someone’s favourite book be-cause the pages are all bent and creased.

Measuring - using either standard

and nonstandard measures, or esti-

mates to describe the dimensions of

an object or event.

Example: Using measuring cups when cooking, or a tape measure to meas-ure someone’s height.

Communicating - using words or graphic symbols to describe an action, object or event

Example: Describing the change in height of a plant, or a new puppy, over time in writing or through a graph.

Classifying - grouping or ordering objects or events into categories based on properties or criteria.

Example: Placing all rocks having a certain grain size or hardness into one group, or simply sort laundry together.

Predicting - stating the outcome of a future event based on a pattern of evidence.

Example: Predicting the height of a plant, or a new puppy, in two weeks time based on a graph of its growth during the previous four weeks.

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Newsletter

The newsletter will be published each week during February and then published fortnightly thereafter.

The newsletter is the main source of communication from the school and I urge everyone to read it! It

will be sent home in hard copy today for all families but will be published on line as of next week; this

will help minimise our paper usage and protect the environment. Families will be able to access it on

the school website, school smart phone application or by signing up to have it emailed to your inbox

when published. Sign up for the newsletter today! http://www.mpp.vic.edu.au/our-school/newsletters/

Limited copies will be available at the office or Out of School Hours Care.

TERM 1, 2018 CALENDAR

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

March 26 March 27 March 28

School Council

AGM

Newsletter

March 29

Last day of Term

Sausage Sizzle

(no lunch orders)

2pm Assembly

2.20 Finish

March 30th

Good Friday

TERM 2, 2018 CALENDAR

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

April 16 April 17 April 18 April 19

Assembly 3pm

April 20

April 23 April 24 April 25

Anzac Day

Holiday

April 26

Newsletter

April 27

5/6 Winter Sport

begins

April 30 May 1 May 2

School Athletics

May 3

Assembly 3pm

May 4

5/6 Winter Sport

May 7 May 8 May 9

Newsletter

May 10 May 11

Mother’s Day

Stall

5/6 Winter Sport

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