Tuesday 26 June - Parent/Teacher/Student Conference

Thursday, 14th June, 2018 TERM 2 WEEK 9

KEY DATES

JUNE

Tue 12-15 Dental Van

Thu 21 School Tour 9.15am

Tue 19 Dandenong Market - Prep’s

Fri 22 School Disco

Tue 26 Parent/Teacher/Student

Conference

Fri 29 End of Term - 2.30pm Dismissal

JULY

Mon 16 Term 3 Commences

Wed 25 Step into prep 9.15-10.15

AUGUST

Fri 10 Hoop time

Wed 22 Step into prep 9.15-10.15

Thu 30 District Athletics

SEPTEMBER

Sunday 2 Father’s Day

Fri 21 End of Term 3 - 2.30pm Dismis-

sal

Fri 28 Grand Final Public Holiday

OCTOBER

Monday 9 Term 4 Commences

Wed 10 Step into prep - 9.15-10.15

Thu 11 Division Athletics

CURRICULUM DAYS

Term 3: Date to be Confirmed

Term 4: November Monday 5th

TERM DATES 2018

Term 1: 30 January to 29 March

Term 2: 16 April to 29 June

Term 3: 16 July to 21 September

Term 4: 9 October to 21 December

TIMETABLE

Commences 9.00am

Recess 11.00 - 11.30pm

Lunch 1.40 - 2.30pm

School Finishes 3.30pm

Gladeswood Drive, Mulgrave, 3170 p 9795 2477, f 9795 4884 , e mulgrave.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au w www.mulgraveps.vic.edu.au

Principal’s message continues pg 2:

From The Principal

Staffing Appointment

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Miss Stephanie

Illing to Mulgrave Primary School in Term 3. Stephanie will be

replacing Mrs Di Iorio who will begin her family leave at the

beginning of next term. After a global search for Mrs Di Iorio’s

replacement, with candidates from Europe and the USA,

Miss Illing was the stand out candidate and comes to us via

Wisconsin, USA, where she has spent the last couple of years

teaching a Year 4 class. Prior to this she worked locally in

Monash for several years, demonstrating her expertise in a

range of roles. Miss Illing’s experience and knowledge of

the teaching and learning strategies implemented at MPS set

her apart from the rest of the field and I am confident that

she will hit the ground running. Over the next few weeks Mrs

Di Iorio will ensure a smooth hand over occurs and the Year 3

& 4 team will be sure to support Miss Illing as we welcome

her to our school.

Unleashing Greatness Together – Leading Excellence in

Teaching and Learning

Last week Stuart, Tom and I attended the DET North Eastern

Victoria Regional Conference. This was a great opportunity

to celebrate the individual success of our school and take

some time to look at how we can continue to improve. The

conference was a gathering of extraordinary expertise,

sharing knowledge with other principals, with opportunities to

engage with local and global leaders in education. The

conference aimed to build the strength of instructional

leaders whose charge it is to lead excellence in teaching

and learning, something that the leadership team will

develop further now and into the future.

Along with workshop presentations, keynote speakers

Professors Viviane Robinson and Michael Fullan posed

provocations such as ‘What is the instructional leader’s role in

leading excellence in teaching and learning?’ and ‘How do

leaders cultivate collaborative cultures?’ This led to

discussions around how we create successful learners who

are confident and creative individuals, so we will continue to

ask ‘What works well in teaching and what do quality

teachers do?’ as we develop active and informed citizens.

Principal’s message continues: Teachers at MPS know every student as a learner and a person. We acknowledge that children

want a teacher that is fair and cares and we are focussed on developing teacher-student

relationships, empowering students and building school pride.

Our goal is to develop leadership and teacher capacity so that we can provide the students in our

care with the best possible education. Mulgrave continues to invest heavily in staff professional

learning, as we need to be role models as lifelong learners and this in turn improves the quality of our

practice.

Along with revisiting elements of the FISO (the Framework for Improving Student Outcomes) model,

the conference also saw the release of the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy Phase 2, with the latest

update maintaining the implementation focus on improving primary literacy, while also providing

resources and professional learning to support the teaching and learning of primary numeracy, and

secondary numeracy and literacy.

Literacy and numeracy skills lay the foundations for success in learning and success in life. Our aim is

to make best practice common practice and to continue to upscale teachers to reduce any

variation of practice. In short, a quality teacher in every classroom delivering a consistent program.

Asset Management Plan 1

Last week, the school council approved the Asset Management Plan, which is the first stage of the

process of building our new stadium. Over the next 5 weeks, the Victorian School Building Authority

(VSBA) and Regional staff will assess the plan and put in place a project team to lead the planning

and delivery of the project. The team will include representatives from the VSBA, the region and the

school. Mr Hattwell, our School Council President Mr. Ed Meszaros and I will then begin working with

the architects to fine tune the proposal and set out clear timelines for the planning and construction

phases.

Staff Car Park

Please ensure parents do not use the staff car park at school-time drop off and pick-up times. Could

parents also be mindful not to block the surrounding driveways, children’s crossing and to observe

the street parking signs.

Charles Spicer - Principal

Parent-Teacher-Student conversations will be held on Tuesday June 26th between 12:30pm and 7.30pm.

Each meeting has an allocation of 15 minutes. If a longer meeting is required, alternative arrangements

will need to be made. The afternoon session will run from 12.30pm to 5.15pm and the evening session will

be from 6.00pm to 7.30pm.

We have arranged the conference times in this way so that we can have true 3-way conversations with

parents, students and teachers. As such, it is an attendance requirement for each child to be present

during the appointment.

There will not be classes running on the day and the school will only be open for the appointments.

Outside school hours care will be available on the day, subject to a minimum of 12 bookings. Please

contact Extend direct if you wish to make a booking. You can contact Extend directly at hello@lookedafter.com or 9427 7311

Please use the following link to book your interview time.

https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code?code=gjy5p

You can return to www.schoolinterviews.com.au at any time, and change your meetings - until the

bookings close on Monday 25th June at 4.00pm.

Week Date Name Week 9 15th June Jenny Moolenaar PL & 2H

Week 10 22nd June Anne McNee 2L

Week 11 29th June Melanie Collard 2H

Keep up dated with the latest news and

important information, & payment method

from Mulgrave Primary School phone App’s.

We had a great turn-out to our recent

working bee with around 20 families helping

to get through a large number of jobs.

I would like to extend my gratitude and

thanks to the following families who worked

very hard to get the school looking great.

Piening

Collard

Corcoran

Clifton

Koziol

Rep

Georgios

Tivendale

Samarasinghe

Neeladanuvongs

Gibbs

Meszaros

Midson

Konstantinou

Cain

Kovari

Chamberlain

Diamautis

McNee

And Staff

Parents of MPS you are very fortunate to be

given the opportunity to hear from:

The Nationally acclaimed speaker, Author

and Psychologist – Andrew Fuller.

Through our partnership with Pinewood

Primary School, parents are invited to

attend this free evening where Andrew will

be talking about building resilience and

how you can help develop resilience in

your child.

This is sure to be a great evening with lots of

valuable information for all parents. Thursday July 26th 7pm at Pinewood PS.

See flyer on previous page.

Friday June 22nd in the main hall. Tickets can be purchased from Tuesday June

12th via Qkr! or at the office, before and after

school on Wednesdays only.

Tickets $5 includes entry, drink and packet of

chips

The disco will start at 5.30 pm (for Prep – G2)

and 6.00pm (Grade 3-Grade 6) and will finish at

8.00pm. Please ensure your child is collected

promptly at this time.

Freddo Frogs will also be available to

purchase during the night for $1.00

Have you ever stopped to think about what a

blessing it is to be a good thinker? Now I’m not

necessarily talking about

being a genius or intellectually gifted. I’m mostly

referring to being able to use good

problem-solving skills and good old-fashioned

common sense.

As this world becomes ever more complex and temptation-laden, it becomes more and

more important that we teach our kids how to build their mental muscles. Listed below are

some quick tips:

When your kids ask you for help with something, encourage them to try a bit longer before you jump in to help them. The only way to really learn good thinking skills is by

having to figure out some things on your own.

Ask them as many questions as possible. Examples include, “What else might you try?

What have you seen other people do to solve this problem? What would happen if you

tried_________? Where might you learn how to do that? Is that something you could

learn about in a book, by asking someone, or by looking on the internet?”

Allow them to mess up. Too frequently, we step in and tell kids exactly what to do when

we worry that they might make a mistake. When the consequences are small, allow

them to blow it and learn. By: Dr. Charles Fay

‘Crazy Hair Day’ We had a lot of fun last Friday with Crazy Hair Day.

It was fantastic to see how everyone got into the

spirit of the day.

A Big Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun with

Crazy Hair and who donated.

We raised $409.75 for Cystic Fibrosis.

MPS-PFA

Mulgrave Primary School Parents and Families Association

I would like to send a massive THANK YOU to all the families that attended the working bee and spent a

couple of hours tidying, painting, sweeping, pruning and more to smarten up the school. Who knew the

school had so many white posts!! Thank you for donating your time and labour it was very much

appreciated, and the school is the better for it. It was also nice to meet more families too. Girls Winter Uniform

Just a quick update to let you know that Lowes are in process of making up a sample for the uniform,

however this may take 4 weeks. They are also reviewing the track pant that they have in stock for girls. As

soon as we hear back from Lowes we will let you know.

Inaugural Craft-er-noon Session: Sunday 24 June 10am - 2pm

Come along to our first MPS craft-er-noon session. An opportunity to start, make progress or complete your

crafty project, with like-minded people. Whether you are a scrap-booker, card maker, knitter, sewer, quilter

or any of the many crafting possibilities- you are most welcome.

Meeting in the BER building between 10am -2pm on Sunday 24 June. BYO lunch and your crafting gear.

Please RSVP via link below so we can set up enough tables for the day and start getting excited. We can’t

wait to see you there! http://signup.com/go/hZZmDYO

Whole School Fun Night – Crazy Climb

Lollipops Centre Friday 13th July 6pm- 8.45pm

On last Friday of the school holidays 13th July, Mulgrave Parents and Friends will

be hosting a whole school fun night. An opportunity for parents to come along

and meet other parents in their child’s year, while the kids are entertained on the play

equipment or crazy climb areas.

Please note –Your child cannot attend this social night without a supervising adult.

Teachers will not be in attendance. The purpose is for families to meet other families.

In addition to the general play area, we will have two 40-minute Crazy Climb sessions (places for this are limited).

Ticket Costs: Will be on sale via QKR and at the Door on night.

Early bird (purchased via QKR by 20.06.18):

General entry $15 per family (ie adult/s and child/children) for general play area.

Crazy Climb sessions are an additional $5 per person (must be purchased via QKR)

At the door on Friday 13th July

Entry $20 per family (adult/s and child/children) for general play area

Crazy Climb $8 per person (if there are spaces left)

TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE VIA QKR THURSDAY 14th JUNE

OUR NEXT MEETING – All Welcome.

7.30pm THURSDAY 21st June in BER BUILDING

Upcoming events Term 2 - Dates for your calendar

21 June – PFA meeting 7pm BER

22 June - School Disco

24 June (Sunday)– Craft-er-noon session

13 July School fun night @ Crazy Climb/ Lollipops

Student of the Week Awards

Class Name Reason

PB Erin L For her been brilliant in writing this week.

PM Elena K For trying so hard to write all your letters and for being a good

listener

PS Bronwyn P For trying hard to sound out words in her writing.

1B Heath W For his enthusiastic participation in the Billy Cart incursion this

week.

1T Aras O For participating cooperatively during our Billy Cart incursion.

1W Grace H For her excellent persuasive writing. Well done!

2H Nathan M For his excellent questioning skills and curious nature.

2L Thasisth D For working really hard to improve his handwriting.

3B Ruben R For being an outstanding student across all subject areas.

3T Tyler T For working really hard to get his pen licence. Well done!

4D James R For trying hard to make his handwriting neater.

4F Sienna H For consistently working hard in reading to improve and

expand her vocabulary.

5P Zac M For improving his home reading and finishing tasks efficiently.

6L Molly D For an amazing effort delivering her debate topic with great

gusto and rigour!

TERM 2 - WEEK 7 - AWARDS

The Wellbeing awards are given to students who show courage in situations of adversity,

show leadership skills in different ways around the school and show kindness and empathy

towards all members of the Mulgrave Primary School Community.

Wellbeing Awards – Term 2, Week 7

Level Name Reason Junior School Bianca H For being inclusive and a good friend. Well

done!

Senior School Jeriah P For showing great sportsmanship during 3 /4

sports. Well done!

Student of the Week Awards

Class Name Reason

PL Brendan L For working hard and completing his work in a timely manner.

PM Leo K For writing a great persuasive piece about bugs and using

neat well formed letters.

PS Nathaniel M For working hard to practise his Magic words.

1B Anthony S For showing kindness to his classmates.

1T Thomas J For his persuasive text on Crazy Hair Day.

2H Kishala H For an informative and persuasive Big Write. Well done.

2L Hanyue Z For writing a convincing and compelling persuasive piece.

2S Andrew P For his excellent persuasive writing about slippers.

3B Katya O For working hard on her inferencing skills.

3T Rose C For working really hard during writing this week, making her

handwriting beautiful and writing some great poems.

4F Jimmy P For taking ownership of his learning.

5P Mishwa P For consistently producing exceptional home learning tasks.

5R Sanat P For his leadership during Maths games.

6J Delphi M For being a kind and generous friend to all.

6L Vilara K For always trying her hardest to complete all her tasks to an

amazing ability.

TERM 2 - WEEK 8 - AWARDS

The Wellbeing awards are given to students who show courage in situations of adversity,

show leadership skills in different ways around the school and show kindness and empathy

towards all members of the Mulgrave Primary School Community.

Wellbeing Awards – Term 2, Week 8

Level Name Reason Junior School Sienna G For being responsible and caring for our school.

Great work!

Senior School Adam C For leading by example and caring for our

school and environment. Well done!

Extend OSHC at Mulgrave Primary School

Hi Everyone,

I believe the long weekend has given everyone an opportunity to relax and energise themselves!

On the 5th of June we celebrated World Environmental day by involving children in a discussion on how

littering is affecting our world’s Wildlife and Ocean life. Further to our discussion, many children were

inspired and made lovely posters to make everyone aware of the impact of littering issues. We went

outside in a big group to do a big clean-up of the schoolyard. The children showed a keen interest and

did a fantastic job of cleaning all around the yard. In future, the children will be involve in these types of

projects for a continued awareness.

Apart from our big clean-up day, the children explored many interesting activities. In art and craft, they

experimented with variety of art techniques and created lovely pieces of art such as: Leaf Animals, Salt

Jelly Fish, Mini Beast, and Wood Craft Snail. We added Aboriginal art to our programing and loved mak-

ing beautiful Gecko pictures that are now displayed on the board.

In science, we experiment with unbreakable water plastic bags by penetrating a pencil through them.

We learnt how stretchy plastic can get and how the seals around a pencil prevent it from leaking. In

another experiment, we tried to make slime using different ingredients to find out what ingredients work

best. In our kitchen master chef made delicious soft pretzels, mouth-watering Lamingtons, Pizza, Veggie

roles and yummy pancakes for breakfast.

We also enjoyed music with our favourite Gilbert the Gecko last week on Wednesday. Besides these

activities we loved several physical activities such as; Dragon's tale, Guards and Soldiers, Tunnel ball,

Captains ball, Cricket, Silent ball, Parachute games and also many other activities like: Beat the Clock,

Dice games, dramatic play, puzzle solving, Eleventh, building with variety of construction material and

board games.

Next weeks activities are;

Monday 18th June: Abstract portrait / Dodge ball

Tuesday 19th June: Extend got Talent / Hula Hoop games

Wednesday 20th June: Indian and Tepee/ Abstract water colour Geometric

Thursday 21st June: Secret Maze / Zoo Keeper and Cheeky Monkeys

Friday 22nd June: Cooking - Berry Pancakes / Stuffed Parantha (Indian)

Kind regards

Meena

You can take a look at the exciting experiences our children take part in whilst attending the Extend

Squad here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yw3otFZgEs

Our Extend Superstar is

Grace L For being very creative and creating lovely pieces of artwork.

Well done Grace keep up the good work!

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