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Murrurundi Public School Pride in our Heritage, Confidence in our Future

School Newsletter

Term 1 - Week 6 Tuesday, 6 March 2018

135 Mayne Street Murrurundi NSW 2338 T 6546 6057 F 6546 6596 E [email protected] W www.murrurundi-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Principal’s Message

Newsletter Week 5

This week at Murrurundi Public School, students have

enjoyed activities such as “Lunches Unwrapped” by

EnviroMentors, Smart Art with Ability Links, My House

Rules (a 40 minute Adobe Connect session to help

students to stay safe online by applying digital

information security) fine art (drawing) with Anita and

choir with Denise.

Teachers have attended professional learning in Early

Action for Success, Visible Wellbeing, L3 and Stephanie

Alexander Kitchen Garden implementation.

Fundraising

Remember to save your bottles for the Woolworths

Return and Earn initiative – either drop your bottles into

the school or alternatively, send in your Return and Earn

vouchers. Thank you for supporting the 5/6 Canberra

excursion.

Kitchen Garden

Ms Lloyd-Jones is seeking donations of straw or hay for

our kitchen garden. Please phone the school on 6546

6057 if you are able to assist.

Roof

Due to the work being done on the roof of our main

building, the office is temporarily situated in the art

room and the 2/3/4 class is working in the resource room

behind the 5/6 classroom. Student play areas have been

modified for this time to ensure safe, supervised play.

Thank you for your understanding.

Meet and Greet – Director

Mr Sean Andrews, Director-Educational Leadership,

Upper Hunter visited our school on Monday 4 June for a

“Meet and Greet” with parents and community

members.

Mr Andrews along with Mrs Leanne Avard (P&C

President) and myself proposed a School Community

Consultation Process in order to determine the future

directions for the school. Each family and staff member

has been issued with a survey that focuses on positive

aspects of Murrurundi Public School and what would

make it an even better school. The survey is strictly

confidential and the key themes will be taken from the

findings in order to address and remedy any needs/

issues. These themes will be presented to parents and

community at the next P&C meeting, 9.30am Monday

25th of June.

All families are strongly, but politely asked to complete

the survey in the best interests of the school and its staff

and students. Surveys are due on Friday 8 June and

families who do not return one will be phoned for their

input. Thank you for your support with this.

Attendance – give your child every chance to succeed.

Term 2 — Week 6 Friday 8 June 2018

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Late Arrival to School

Attending school on time, all day, everyday will

give your child the best chance of succeeding at

school and eventually graduating from high

school. Daily attendance and active participation

in each class is a critical part of the learning

process. This helps students learn responsibility

and increase their potential for success.

Students arriving late to school must report

directly to the School Office to be signed in by

Parents/Guardians, on the late arrival register,

before attending class.

Small Schools Athletics Carnival

Save the date for the Small Schools Athletics Carnival to

be held at Belltrees Public School on Friday the 29th of

July. Students will travel to Belltrees via bus and parents

are welcome to drive to the venue.

P&C meeting

The next meeting will be held in the Staffroom on

Monday 25th of June at 9.30am.

Aquis Farm

The Aquis Farm sponsored Pre-Kinder program that will

commence in Term 4 has had a name change. It will be

the Aquis Farm Future is Bright Pre-Kinder Program and

will run every Friday with a qualified teacher. Many

thanks to Aquis Farm for their support of our school.

Rebecca Hopkins - Relieving Principal

Lunches Unwrapped




Week 6 in K/1

Over the past week K/1 have enjoyed listening to some very entertaining stories! We read a story by Mo Willems called, ‘Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!’ which we all thought was very funny. This led to some creative writing, guided drawing and looking at the three types of sentences: statement, question and exclamation. The students loved it so much that we went onto read another Mo Willems story: ‘The Pigeon Needs a Bath!’

In Maths, the Kinders have continued working to be

able to say and order the days of the week and the Year

1s are consolidating their knowledge of the order of the

months of the year.

We also started looking at money as a whole class,

identifying our coins and notes and the idea of

bartering. The students have participated in a number

of activities and games to assist in their understanding

of using a currency and its value.




I know the students are looking forward to more

engaging and entertaining Mo Willems stories and

exploring our use of money further!

Ms Hurst

2/3/4

This week in 2/3/4, we began adjusting to our room. It’s a tight fit, but I think we’re settling in quite nicely! In English, we learned the difference between Infor-mation (factual) texts and Narrative (stories) texts. As informative texts are the next text type we will be focussing on, we began to read some bibliographies from Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. We even started writing our own autobiographies! To support this, next week, we will read The Little Refugee by Ahn Do.

In Mathematics, we focussed on our 5 times tables and 3 times tables. We played lots of games, learned some helpful strategies, and worked with hands-on activities in an effort to remember them! We also discovered the difference between volume and capacity by making our own origami paper cups, filling them, then measuring the cup’s capacity to hold water. It was good fun, and we got to develop our maths and fine motor skills. Next week, we will begin our 10 times tables, 6 times tables, and learn about mass.

Year 5/6

This week has seen 5/6 very busy completing their posters for the CWA International day poster competition. We are looking forward to going to the CWA morning tea next Tuesday 12th June to see our posters displayed and receive our results.

This Friday 8th June will see Year 6 enjoy their second orientation day at Scone High School. I know the students are excited to participate in this day.

This week we have also had the opportunity to view two interesting and educational presentations. One from Abbey from 'Enviornmentors' where we discussed cutting down our lunchbox rubbish which can help the environment in a myriad of ways. The second presentation was via Adobe Connect Classroom about keeping ourselves and our tech secure. We were able to discuss e-safety with Greg and other schools around the country lots of ways we can keep ourselves safe.

5/6 are also thoroughly enjoying the directed drawing and choir lessons on Wednesday afternoons.




Year 5/6 have been spending time each morning doing

mindfulness activities. Our goal is to learn to understand

and manage our powerful emotions. We have also

commenced a new math based STEM challenge. The

students have been tasked with designing a new toy

robot using 3D objects. It must be less than 30cm and

use both pyramids and prisms. They have been hard

at work on these designs and we are very excited to see

what they come up with .

Mrs Foley and Miss Callaghan

Write 4 Fun - Congratulations Xena

Xena ‘s entry progressed to round 2 and she was

recognised with a certificate. Please enjoy !

The adventures of a tiny unicorn

Micro is the tiniest unicorn in the world. He is bigger

than a match stick and lives in a magical place called

uniworld. He has everything a unicorn could need

except for a friend.

One night when Micro was asleep a magical portal

opened in his bedroom. I was so tiny that only Micro

saw it. He was terrified but strangely curious to see

what was on the other side. So Micro leapt into the

portal hoping for adventure on the other side. He

quickly found himself in a strange world where

everything towered over him. It was a scary place full of

giants.

He was terrified to be is such a strange place. “What is

this strange land, “he thought” Why is that grass so

long?” he mused as he munched on a blade of grass

twice his size. Then he saw it. It was magnificent and he

knew it was a message. A message telling him to go

home. It was a unicorn so beautiful that it belonged in

uniworld but it was strangely rubbery and smelled of

strawberries. What Micro didn’t know was that a little

girl from the nearby primary school was franticly looking

for her new unicorn rubber.

Micro remembered the magic of the wise old unicorns

from home. He tried to recreate their spells but nothing

worked. He looked up when he heard the sound of

laughter. He saw these weird creatures that he had

never seen before. Fear filled his tiny body, coursing

through his veins. Slowly his confidence grew and he

squeaked out some tiny words.

“Help!”

But nothing happened. He tried again a little louder.

“Help!”

But nobody paid attention to the tiny unicorn. Suddenly

a hand picked him up and lifted him into the sky.

“Found it!” yelled the creature. “Here’s my new rubber”

Micro stayed still. Trying not to tremble. Using all of the

bravery he possessed he said in his loudest voice.

“Where am I?”

The girl froze and looked at Micro. She almost dropped

the tiny unicorn but then she realised what she was

holding. A real talking unicorn and not the strawberry

scented rubber she was looking for. She quickly put him

in her pencil case. Knowing that if she didn’t keep him

secret somebody would take him away. This she knew

was her new best friend. Micro the unicorn lived

happily in his new world with his new friend. But

sometimes a magical portal would open up and he

would visit his old home.

By Xena Delta –Whitby




Thumbs Up for Woolworths

Scone for the delicious fruit

provided each week for all of

Murrurundi Public School

students!

“Crunch & Sip”


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2-6 have been joining together to work on mindfulness.


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Monday Tuesday Wednesday WEEK 7

Thursday Friday

P/H

Student Banking

5/6 CWA Morning Tea

Fun Fitness For Littlies Religious Instruction

Assembly

5/6 Science Day Muswellbrook

No Library for 6 weeks Due to renovations

Drawing Classes Sport

School Fees 2018

Each year we ask each family to make a voluntary

contribution to the school. The contribution for 2018

is:

1 Child $45.00

2 Children $70.00

3 or more children $90.00

School fees assist in providing extra resources and

student extras on trips and excursions.

Payment can be made by cash or cheque to the school

office or online through the school Web page:

www.murrurundi-p.school.nsw.edu.au

Payments can be made at any time and in small

amounts e.g.: $10.00 per term.

Thank you for your contributions!

Classroom Awards

Week 5 - Handwriting

K/1 - Tarquin

2/3/4 - Olivia

5/6 - Hamish

Principals Award

Xena Whitby

Thumbs Up Award

Wil Howard

Notes to be Returned

®CWA Morning Tea—Years 5/6

®School Survey - Future School Direction

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