Lake Munmorah Public School Term 3 Week 7

Carters Road, Lake Munmorah 2259

Principal- Narelle Baldwin

Upcoming Events Term 3

Thursday 12th September K - 6 ATSI @ MPPS

Friday 13th September Kindergarten Oakvale Wildlife Park

Excursion

Principal’s Report

Excursions

Big thank you to all of the staff who have attended excursions over the past few

weeks. The experiences offered to students on these excursions are invaluable and

we appreciate all of the organisation and time away from your families that you

devote to providing offsite experiences to the students of LMPS.

Zone Athletics Carnival

Due to the Zone Athletics Carnival being a wash out, it has been rescheduled to 23/9/19. As this date clashes with the Special Photos Day, we are endeavouring to reschedule the photos. A new date will be advised as soon as it has been secured.

Smart Watches

Smart watches at school fall under the same policy and rules as electronic devices. If

they are required for after school communication, they need to be dropped in to the

office each morning, like a mobile phone, unless your child has been granted special

permission. Whilst the watches can be a lot of fun, they are a distraction during

lessons and safer in the office during school time.

Riding to school

If students wish to ride their bike or scooter to school, they must wear a helmet.

Wearing a helmet reduces the risks of injury if they are involved in a collision.

Students who are not wearing a helmet, will be required to walk their bike or scooter

due to safety concerns. Skateboards are not permitted.

Spelling Bee Regional

A huge congratulations to Carissa, Layla and Ravi who represented LMPS at the

Regional Spelling Bee on Thursday. The students all worked through the easier

words, successfully progressing to the very tricky and difficult words. In the junior

completion, Ravi triumphed, achieving an impressive second place. In the senior

division, Carissa came 6th out of 35 students with the word ‘stupefied’ posing as a

challenge. Layla was faced with the word ‘algebraic’, successfully spelling it to be

awarded FIRST PLACE. We are

very proud of their achievements.

Thank you,

Kristie Weekes

Relieving Principal

Year 5 Bathurst Excursion Cars pulled up with children. The bus was waiting to drive us to Bathurst. The roll was marked, everyone

was here! IT WAS TIME TO LEAVE! We were so excited! We waved to our parents, we had a long drive

ahead of us!

At Echo Point the first thing we saw was the Three Sisters. When you first see them, they take your breath

away, they are part of the most beautiful view. When we got out of the bus Ava puked but that didn’t stop

us. We had so much fun. We had lunch, a toilet break then off we went to the next stop.

Only one word that came to mind when we got out of the bus at Scenic

World...wondrous! Everyone couldn’t wait to explore this amazing place! First,

we went on the steepest railroad in the world. Lots of people nearly fell off their

seats but we still have fun. Once we were down, there was only one way back up

and how was that you may ask (and Mr Rowe and Will did)? Well it was a cable

car. It went across the mountains and waterfalls. What an amazing time we had

at Scenic World!

“SHH, I NEED TO FOCUS!’’ cried Tony our bus driver. The squeeze through the

Jenolan Arch was as tight as a small pair of skinny jeans. It was like we had to

squeeze our tummies in just to fit through! We went into the Lucas cave and

watched a light show. As we walked through the caves, we saw all the amazing

crystal formations (that we weren’t allowed to touch).

Off the bus at last and into our accommodation. The Ebenzer cabins, with six rooms were for the girls. The

teachers got two of the rooms. There was a bathroom with a shower in the girl’s cabins. Eureka cabins

were the boy cabins, they had to share a bathroom. There were four cabins including Mr Rowe's room. We

were allocated our rooms and chose our beds for the rest of the stay.

Loud was the only word we could think of when we entered the dining room. We had meat pies and hot

chips for our first dinner. The hot food was refreshing after a long and cold day. It was a great time to

catch up and talk about the amazing first day. The teachers were spoiled and were served chicken. For

dessert the teachers got pavlova and we just got ice cream sticks.

Once we were full, we headed to the campfire for some singing, dancing and campfire stories. Jason told

us all about shearers, told us many really lame sheep jokes (that were baaa’d) and taught us a song or two.

It was then time to grab a partner and kick up some dust and do some bush

dancing.

We weren’t allowed to have any lollies after dinner because we wouldn’t get to

sleep. We brushed our teeth and got ready for bed. Something tickled Carissa’s

foot and she giggled and screamed; it was amusing. In cabin 2, Alyssa slid on a

bathroom tile and hurt her arm and it was extremely funny we couldn’t stop

laughing. So, we “laughed, clapped and went back to sleep!’’

6:30a.m. Ms Weekes opened the door. “45 minutes to get ready!”. Everyone was

running around trying to get showered, beds made, floor cleaned, bags tidied. 45

minutes was up. Ms Weekes did a room inspection. Then we headed off to

breakfast. We had a choice of just hot food or hot food and cereal. The breakfast

room was super loud. There was one other school in the breakfast room, so we blamed them!

We entered an old-fashioned building that looked to be set in the

1850s.There were lots of cool rocks and crystals. As we left the building at

back, we saw a small replica gold mine. After walking down the hill to see the

mine shafts we saw a steam machine. After watching how the steam engine

worked, we headed off for our sausage sandwich.

As soon as we saw the activities, we knew fun would be had. We were split

up into 4 groups. There was damper making, making mud bricks, tent

constructing & old-fashioned games. For the games we had tug-of-war, cannon ball and horseshoe throwing. To

make the mud bricks we had to use hay and mud. We made damper on a stick and had golden syrup to

complement it. When we made tents, we had mini competitions, like how many people could fit in one tent. It

was such fun.

After a mix up with our souvenir shopping, we went on a tour of the amazing Bathurst. We stopped at a park and

all the kids were very excited as the park looked like so much fun. It started raining just after Tony, the bus driver,

dropped us of at the park with Ms Weekes, Mr Rowe and Mrs Dyson-Smith. We waited under the shelter for Tony

and Mrs Caban to bring the bus back (from the coffee run).

Excited (and hungry) we rushed in for tea, lining up waiting to see what we were

having. Cooper was complaining that he doesn't eat pasta sauce but most of us

were so hungry we would eat anything. When we went back to our cabins it was

downtime (that’s when we got some free time). We had some visitors (aka the

boys). There were some rules for downtime - that were not closing the doors or

hopping on the beds. We played cards and snap which was pretty fun. 9.30pm it

was bedtime.

Next morning, we left our cabins and went to breakfast. Once again it was loud.

We had pancakes, hash browns and toast. We all hopped on the bus went for a

drive around Bathurst. Then we went back to the top Mount

Panorama (and talked about trees).

We stepped inside the Fossil & Mineral Museum and it was full of exciting and

interesting things to look at like dinosaur fossils, dino eggs, gems and creatures

trapped in amber. It was amazing to learn about the rocks and how they were formed. We saw a giant prehistoric

egg from an Elephant Bird and held dinosaur artefacts.

An informing bus trip home with Tony telling us all about Bathurst was next.

We watched some movies and thought about how many fun and exciting

things we did in Bathurst. Sadly, it rained but not too hard and we still had fun

on the bus. We did a couple of toilet runs and a lunch stop. After a couple

hours on the bus and a lot of talking we arrive at school. Our loved ones were

standing there waiting for us to give them a huge hug and kiss.

What a couple of days we had! So many fun and exciting activities. We learnt

SO many interesting facts about Bathurst, the way they lived in the ‘before’

days, how gold was mined and all the different types of gold. Also, how to live

without our parents (we barely survived!)

We would like to give a big thanks to all our parents for allowing us to go on

this fantastic trip, our bus driver, Tony and especially to our wonderful

teachers.

Written by 5C

LMPS Canteen News

“Little Lunch Box Catering”

Week 8

Hash Brown - Breakfast only $1

Lunch 1 & 2

Mac & Cheese $4

Cheese & Vegemite Scrolls 2x50c

Wednesdays

Nachos Day $4

Hot Choccies All Day Everyday $2

P & C Newsletter Report.

Run4Fun is around the corner. The new date is now Tuesday 17th September. We

hope you are all taking advantage of the extra time to round up more sponsors. A

reminder that siblings or parents who would like to join in the fun, you are more than

welcome, please bring in your entry form and fee.

Second hand uniform store will be open next Monday the 9th September. If anyone

has any old uniforms they would like to donate, please drop them in at the office. We

will start Kindy orientation soon and would love to give new parents the opportunity to

purchase them.

Another big thank you to all those who donated to our Fathers Day Raffle. We had so

many great prizes. Hope all the lucky winners are enjoying them. Also thank you to

those who supported the raffle by purchasing tickets.

A big thank you to the wonderful ladies who assisted your children purchase their gifts

for the special men in their lives. With out your help it wouldn’t have ran so smoothly.

P&C Committte