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Principal’s Message

By Stewart Gaffey

Coming Events… Return to face to face learning

Mon 15th Jun

Ty Fitness returns – all hygiene protocols observed as per DoE guidelines

Fri 19th Jun

School X-Country carnival to be rescheduled as a closed event

Wed 1st July

School Athletics Carnival - now moved to Term 3

Wed 22nd Jul

Stage 2 Camp –Planning continues TBC

Thu 3rd – Fri 4th Sep

Stage 3 Camp – Planning continues TBC

Wed 2nd Sep – Fri 4th Sep

Book Week Book Fair + Parade Wed 21st Oct

Presentation Evening @ WHS Tue 8th Dec

Year 6 Farewell Mon 14th Dec

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19th June 2020 Term 2 Week 8

STEM kits have been a big hit so far this term. www.maraylya-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

We have seen further restrictions lifted this week which is allowing some expansion of school programs. Ty’s fitness program has been able to resume with strict adherence to hygiene protocols and we hope to have several other programs resume in music and counselling in the coming weeks. As is outlined further in the newsletter, Term 3 may see further restrictions eased to hopefully allow for excursions and assemblies with community involvement. Thank you all for your patience in this. We have also been able to commence our STEM program this term, after a disjointed start, with students furthering their skills and understandings in computational processes. We have plans to continue this particular program until the end of Term 3 and investigate purchasing further resources in this area to enhance STEM programs across the school beyond the T4L share program. Kindergarten, Years 1 and 2 are currently using the Blue Bots to program using simple directions. We have some challenges planned for them with their programming. Years 3 – 6 are working on Lego WeDo kits that allow them to construct and program working models with linked applications to real world problems. Congratulations to our seriously clever students!

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Year 2 Measuring Mathematics

STEM lessons have been run out of the library this week,

continuing until the end of Term 3 using the Tablet Robotics Kit as part of the STEM Share program. We have a school full of potential scientists, engineers and mathematicians – the results are amazing so far!

Ty Fitness is back!

These clever young ladies are this fortnight’s coding champs!

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Merit award winners Congratulations to our merit award recipients for the fortnight. We will catch up next week with those students who were not at school on Friday. Our Latest Maraylyans of the Moment.

Keepers of the Keys ! Congratulations to our Friday Maraylyan Draw Winners (and Mackenkie K)

Recorder karate belt achievers – hi-yah!

Principal’s Workers of the Week. Sports Awards

Busways – School Bus Update With the recent announcement of social distancing on bus services, Busways wants to clarify that school services are not affected and will not have limited capacity.

School services will continue to operate as normal, with no student to be left behind.

school students will be given priority over other passengers

All services will continue to operate to a normal timetable until advised otherwise. Please remind students that they are still required tap on and off with their Opal card

Where possible, students should maintain social distance from each other. Students should always maintain a safe distance from their bus driver, where practically possible.

Busways employees have been issued with hand sanitiser, requiring employees to wash their hands every time they enter and leave a worksite, employees staying home if they’re unwell, and minimising the handling of cash.

For any further questions, please contact Busways’ Customer Experience team at infoline@busways.com.au.

Library update…. Our library is currently in a state of transition as we await the arrival of new shelving and furniture. We anticipate this area of our school becoming an even more exciting and useful resource for our students. Each week, students are encouraged to borrow from the library. We have already committed to over $1000.00 worth of books, many requested by students. Students must bring a library bag to school to borrow books. This can be one of the bags given to them in 2018 at the 150th Celebrations or a bag received as part of Kindergarten orientation. Even a reusable shopping bag will be fine – just so long as they develop an interest in books and the worlds they open up to them. Book Week 2020 We have moved Book Week into Week 2 Term 4, including a visiting show, parade and book fair, subject to restrictions being lifted in time. Further information to come as necessary.

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ABSENCES FROM SCHOOL

During this period, the DoE requires each school to report daily on the level of student and staff attendance. Some observations from this process have been the excessive amount of students arriving late, some mornings numbering up to ten students. Please help support your child’s learning by ensuring they are at school on time wherever possible. School starts at 8.45am. We are still at lines until around 8.50am most mornings. After this time, it is the parents’ responsibility to sign the student into school. Staff will then direct or accompany the child to the classroom.

As always, if a student’s pattern of attendance becomes a concern or a parent continues to ignore school requests to explain absences, the matter will be referred to the Home School Liaison Officer who will make direct contact with the family to work together to improve student attendance.

If there are issues or obstacles for your child in the mornings that you would like to discuss, please make a time to sit down and talk with the teacher or principal to resolve these obstacles. We are more than happy to help support you and your child.

Every day counts at school.

Patterns of attendance and participation in society are developed in the early years of a person’s life, impacting the way they as adults may take part in future study, employment and life opportunities. Developing a strong work ethic in the earlier years will go a long way to ensuring a more productive and fulfilling life.

Of course, if a child is unwell, please follow the Health Department advice. That is the priority as always.

For more information on absences please use the link below:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/main-education/student-wellbeing/attendance-behaviour-and-engagement/media/documents/attendance/com_english.pdf

School Payments

Please ensure that payments are made into the correct accounts i.e. School Account or MPS P&C Account. School events are usually associated with excursions, incursions or course payments, Cash, cheque or POP payments made online through the school website can be used for school payments. P&C events like Meal Deals, Monster Fest, Easter Raffle, Disco etc–must be paid separate to school accounts. They can be made through cash, cheque or online direct debit payments via the P&C account. No POP payments can be accepted for P&C events. SRC event payments are also kept separate from the school’s account. These payments need to be cash only. The school then banks the money at the appropriate time and spends funds from school accounts on the initiatives. . Please check payment details carefully on the note for which account needs the money deposited.

School Accounts The last two months have been very disruptive to families and we recognise that there may be ongoing financial pressures. This is just a reminder that we have some outstanding accounts for programs towards which the school has made a commitment. Mathletics, Reading Eggs, Kindergarten texts and School Magazine, depending on your child’s class. If you are able to settle part or all of these accounts it would be much appreciated. If you are experiencing difficulty in this, please contact Mr Gaffey for a confidential chat. Ty’s Friday fitness program cost will be re-calculated to reflect the amount of lessons he is able to deliver this year. If you have paid the full amount at the start of the year, you will receive the deducted amount as ‘fees in advance’ against your account to use towards future school events (approximately $20.00 for Term 2). We anticipate Ty’s return in Term 3. We also anticipate sufficient ukulele lessons to be delivered this year to justify the $30.00 payment made by 5/6 families towards this program.

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Wellbeing and PBL (Positive Behaviour for Learning) Our students have continued to maintain a positive atmosphere in the playground by reflecting on our three school rules/ key words. Our current PBL Focus will be undertaken in a more flexible, needs based, format. Staff will continue to analyse behaviour data to ascertain areas of need across the school.

Staff are continuing to follow-up on explicit lessons, involving students thinking about what safety, respect and responsibility looks like in particular areas of the school, particularly as they return to school after being away.

Students crossing the road…. hold a hand! Please remember to hold your child’s hand to cross the road, particularly with younger students. Neich Road, whilst relatively quiet, can be a dangerous crossing in the morning and afternoon, with some motorists ignoring our warning signs. A student was recently observed exiting the family car from the road side door. Please remind children to leave the car from the kerb side door. A student pedestrian accident would be a devastating way to learn these lessons.

We recognise that there will always be small issues amongst students. Please encourage your child to talk to their teacher or principal if they have any concerns in regards to social interactions in the school. If this is not appropriate, please make contact with the school as soon as possible so smaller issues can be attended to before becoming bigger. Staff take great time and care in working to ensure that students feel happy, secure and supported at school. BRONZE AWARDS Congratulations to our most recent recipients of the Maraylya Bronze Award, Tyler and Abbey.

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Learning Dispositions This year you will hear the staff and students talking about ‘learning dispositions’. These dispositions can be described as frequent and voluntary habits of thinking and doing. They are different to a skill or knowledge- they are ways of responding to an experience in a certain way. Aside from staff and students, it is our intention that you will also be able to use this language too as a way to further support your child throughout their schooling. One of our goals is that these will become a regular part of what we all do at Maraylya PS and what our learners do for life. Through our extensive and ongoing training in Visible Learning practice, the school aims to explicitly teach and foster these dispositions to and for our learners. Our colour-coded ‘Mar-aliens’ on posters in classrooms will help to reinforce these worthwhile approaches to learning. Our next disposition is…….

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Class News…

Kindergarten In Kindy, we have been reading “The Gruffalo” and ‘The Gruffalo’s Child.” We wrote some questions to the Gruffalo asking him things we were wondering about… What do you like to eat? What games do you like to play? Kindy have been working on halving groups and objects. Miss Ly brought in triangles of watermelon for us to cut in half, and we also made fairy bread and cut that in half too. We discovered you can make 2 rectangles or 2 triangles, depending which way you cut the bread. Miss Ly has been engaging Kindy the Aboriginal culture. Jordan brought in his boomerang and digeridoo for News.

Year 1 Year 1 have been working very hard on their narratives over the past fortnight. Students are in the middle of writing the orientation of their own narrative which starts with a starting sentence that captures the reader’s attention. Students have exploring fractions and how the fraction notation for a half can be written. They are understanding that there are many ways to write a half as a fraction.

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Year 2 have had a wonderful fortnight engaging in many hands on learning experiences. We have loved creating Sizzling Starts in our narrative writing lessons. In measurement, we have enjoyed learning about time. We have created our own 2020 calendars.

3/4 3/4 have had a busy but fun week of learning. In Science we have been exploring animals and have used a dichotomous key to identify, sort and classify them according to their physical features.

In Maths we have been identifying fractions and representing them as numerals, in diagrams and on number lines. Year 4 have been finding equivalent fractions and representing them in the same ways.

In English we have been studying information reports and using our knowledge of structure and language features to write facts and reports about cars and elephants. The animal theme continued in art as we explored spiders and their webs, creating our own version of Charlotte's web with some interesting adjectives to describe Wilbur carefully suspended in them.

Well done on a great fortnight 3/4!

5/6 5/6 have completed many activities on our class novel, 'The Night They Stormed Eureka' . We have looked more closely at events that occurred during the Eureka Rebellion and created a timeline summarising the main events. In History, we are looking at how and why the town of Bathurst came into fruition and who were the explorers who discovered Bathurst. This part of history fits perfectly into our gold unit as Bathurst was the first place gold was claimed to be found in Australia. In Science, we are enjoying our unit called 'Desert Survivors'. Through our hands on experiments, we have been looking some of the physical and behavioural features of desert plants and animals, and comparing them with plants and animals that live in other environments. In Mathematics, the class has also been working hard on fractions, perfecting their skills with converting improper fractions to mixed numerals. Thanks for being determined learners 5/6!

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K George F Thomas U

Evelyn L

1 Levi N Amelia F

Thomas W

2 Noah B

Cooper B

Max V

Liam A

3/4 Hayley H

Matilda S

Natalia D

Annabelle D

Juliette V

Kara H

5/6 Sienna S

Ruby E

Jack TR

Amarni

Jake A

Lachlan S

Keira L

Happy Birthday JUNE

Jayden A Eli M

Bay B Brodey S

Cooper B Imogen T

Natalia D Hamish H

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R.E.D. Reading In K-2, our R.E.D reading folders are used. All students have been provided with a red folder – which is separate to a homework folder.

Students can bring in their folder as many days a week as they choose… it’s up to you – how much do you want to read?

Teachers will then ask students to read the book they have been practising, and decide if this book needs a little more practice or can be swapped.

Students have a ‘punch’ card and will earn a Star Award once their card has been filled.

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Are you Konnected yet? To join our information feeds families simply connect themselves …… 1-.Download the app, register and then login. 2.-Then search for ‘Maraylya Public School’ within the app and request to be added to the ‘Feeds’ that are relevant to your child.

We have 118 current members receiving this service.

Every family should be Konnected. In the event of an emergency, we will use this service to inform families of any urgent information if necessary.

Official School Facebook Page This page is maintained by the school. Please use this page as an addition to the Konnective App to enhance the information received. Find us at….. https://www.facebook.com/Maraylya-Public-School-261811334681758/?modal=admin_todo_tour

2nd March – 28th August

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Family Business Directory We are keen to re-establish this service. We will be asking if any school families with their own business would like to supply their logos and contact details so as a school family we can all support each other. Projects we are looking to raise funds for this year include:

Bag Hooks outside rooms (Completed in lower classrooms)

Defibrillator

Library cabinets (Ordered – due for completion at end of Term 2)

Flashing above bubblers to keep bags dry in a downpour

Long term enclosure of lower classroom verandahs.

P & C Positions vacant

Secretary

Fundraising Would love anyone to come and take these positions – no experience necessary. Would love all new families and existing families to come along and join in to see what the P & C do.

Uniform Shop The uniform shop will now open each Monday mornings 8.20 – 8.45am as before. Orders can be filled via the form from the office or this newsletter or by contacting Katie directly (0408 42 44 11). She has decided to open the shop more as we change seasons/ uniforms or if a fitting is required. Let her know and she will be able to accommodate wherever possible. For ease of use, we would like to move towards all uniform payments to be made by via EFT. Please use your child’s name as a reference. ( it’s easier to track and also chase up ) Plus we don’t always have change.

Birthday buckets are now available from the canteen for your child’s special day. Fill out the order form below if you wish to celebrate a birthday at school. Thanks to Rachel for her continued work on this. Please allow a week’s notice for orders to be filled.

Next Meeting… Tue 11th Aug

(Via Zoom TBC)

P&C News President – Tamara Evans

Vice Presidents – Andrea Precians and Kim Withers Treasurer – Karen May Secretary – Vacant Uniform Manager – Katie Littlejohn Fundraising – Vacant Grants Coordinator - Shannon Smith Canteen – Amy Drury (TBA)

maraylyapspnc@gmail.com

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Maraylya P & C are once again providing birthday buckets. A birthday bucket order form and pre-

payment is required and must be submitted to the office the at least 1 week prior to your child’s birthday.

This will give the P & C time to make up the birthday bucket. Payment will be by cash or direct debit

ONLY. Direct Debit details are: BSB: 032 274 Acct Number: 383324.

Please see below pricing per class.

Kindy $17 1 $15 2 $20 3/4 $31 5/6 $33

DATE BIRTHDAY BUCKET REQUIRED

CHILDS NAME

CHILDS CLASS

PAYMENT DETAILS (bank account details above)

AMOUNT ENCLOSED (CASH)

DIRECT DEBIT RECEIPT NUMBER

DATE OF DIRECT DEBIT

Thank you.

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MARAYLYA PUBLIC SCHOOL - P&C UNIFORM ORDER FORM 2020

ABN 39 606 237 045 Payment methods: enclose exact cash, cheque made payable to Maraylya P&C or direct deposit to

Maraylya P&C BSB 032274, A/C 383324, reference: childs surname.

Childs Name: Class: Mobile Number:

UNIFORM ARTICLE COST SIZE QUANTITY TOTAL COST COMMENT

Year Round

Unisex Short Sleeve Polo, Size 4-16 $ 22.00

Unisex Zip Jacket, Size 4-16 $ 30.00

Unisex V-Neck Jumper, Size 4-16 $ 26.00

Unisex Hat, Size 55/57/59 (Sml/Med/Lge) $ 10.00

Summer

Boys Grey Shorts, Size 4-16 $ 18.00

Girls Pleated Grey Skort, Size 4-16 $ 24.00

Girls Summer Dress Size 4-16 $ 50.00

Unisex Microfibre Green Sports Shorts, Size 4-16 $ 16.00

Girls Green Sports Skort, Size 4-16 $ 20.00

Winter

Unisex Long Sleeve Polo, Size 4-12, larger sizes unavailable $ 26.00 L/sleeve optional, s/sleeve polo can be worn

Boys Grey Trousers Double Knee Size 4-16 $ 22.00

Girls Tartan Slacks Size 4-16 $ 40.00

Girls Tartan Pinafore Size 4-16 $ 50.00

Girls Tartan Skirts Size 6-16 (Year 3-6) $ 45.00

Unisex Microfibre Green Sports Pant, Size 4-16 $ 28.00

Girls Bootleg Green Fitted Sports Legging/Pant, Size 4-16 $ 24.00

Unisex Weatherproof Fleece Jacket, Size 4-16 $ 45.00

Other Items

School Backpack $ 44.00

School Library Bag $ 10.00

School Art Smock $ 15.00

Seconds per item $ 5.00

Total:

CASH/CHEQUE/EFT Please circle

If paying via EFT please add the date you paid and your reference here:

Uniform shop opens first Monday of the month 8.20 - 8.45am or by appointment (Katie ph: 0408 42 44 11 or moluccana@gmail.com)

Alternatively, orders can also be left at the office and will be sent home with your child