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Manifold Heights 3218

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Manifold Heights Primary School Newsletter Principal: Barry Rowland Assistant Principal: Peta Mundine Business Manager: Jessie Burney Administration: Jacquie Clancy

Date: 22nd November 2018

Important Dates NOVEMBER

Monday 19th - Friday 30th Nov Prep - 2 Swimming Program

Friday 23rd November Division Badminton Championships North Geelong

Saturday 24th November Election Day BBQ

Monday 26th November School Council Meeting

DECEMBER

Saturday 1st December Mano Community Garden

Monday 3rd December Pupil Free Day - Curriculum Day - NO SCHOOL

Wednesday 5th December Parent Helpers’ Morning Tea, 11am, Staff Room

Thursday 6th December Prep BBQ

Monday 7th December School Council Christmas Dinner

Tuesday 11th December Prep Transition Visit 4, 9:00am - 1:30pm

Thursday 13th Dec Prep - 4 Movie Day

Thursday 13th - 14th Dec Queenscliff Bike Ride

Monday 17th December Whole School Step Up Day

Wednesday 19th December Grade 6 Graduation

Thursday 20th December Christmas Concert, 10am, Middle Terrace

Friday 21st December Term 4 Ends

No School Banking

Student Absences

Please remember to telephone the office and speak to either Jacquie or Jessie when your child is absent from school

or if you are aware of a prior engagement. Alternatively you can log it on Compass.

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P-2 Swimming Program Our two week swimming program has made a great start! Students have been most enthusiastic, remembering their gear and maximising learning time in the water. Reports commenting on the quality of the instructors has been most encouraging, as we’ve come to expect from Geelong College Pool employees. Thank you to parents for your support of this program, as we collectively help to build water safety competencies and swimming skills. Some schools offer swimming sessions during the school year for students in Grades 3-6; what do you think of this? Please feel welcome to share your thoughts with classroom teachers, other staff or myself. Such programs could be over a week, earlier in the year and perhaps at other venues.

Planning for 2019 Staffing appointments are being confirmed and grades finalised, as the end of the 2018 school year fast approaches. Details will be published when workforce plans for 2019 are costed and communicated to individuals. This week we have been conducting interviews for two new classroom teachers. We are pleased to have been successful with Primary Maths Specialist funding, which will support part time roles for two teachers for the following two years. These staff will lead enhancements to our P-6 Numeracy teaching, curriculum planning and assessment. As a result of these funded positions, we may have a class or two with shared teachers. Specialist subjects in 2019 will be – for our P-2s: PE, Art/Indonesian, Library and Music/Performing Arts . And for our 3-6s: PE, Art/Indonesian, Science and Music/Performing Arts. In 2019 our ‘Music’ specialist program is likely to include a greater component of dance and drama (a more comprehensive performing arts curriculum).

Pupil Free Day – MONDAY 3rd DECEMBER Teachers will be engaged in a range of activities on this day, including 2019 curriculum planning and ICT related professional development. There will not be a weekly Assembly held in this week. Regular classes will resume Tuesday 4th December. At 9am on this day we invite helpers to spread new softfall mulch on to the Junior playground – corner of Manifold St and Strachan Ave. All tools will be on site and we anticipate an hour or so can see this work completed.

Confirmed Start of 2019 School Year Arrangements at Mano Teachers resume TUESDAY 29th JANUARY Students in Grades 1-6 resume WEDNESDAY 30th JANUARY Preps commence THURSDAY 31st JANUARY (Preps do not attend classes on Wednesdays in Term 1).

End of year Student Reports – Due to be Issued Wednesday 12th December Teachers are currently creating these and they are due to be issued in approximately three weeks. Students across all year levels have been completing quite a number of formal assessments recently and these are collectively designed to add greater clarity to the accuracy of teacher

judgments, as will be reported to parents via the upcoming Reports. Teachers within teams also moderate their judgments with colleagues, ensuring enhanced consistency and integrity of student gradings.

Learning Potential Resources Website If you are looking for things you can do to help your primary school child with their Literacy and Numeracy skills, you’re in luck! Learning Potential Resources is packed full of great ideas and activities. What is Learning Potential Resources? Check out https://www.learningpotential.gov.au/new-learning-potential-resources-website-now-available

Learning Potential Resources is a website for primary school parents that shows you how to help your child practise literacy and numeracy skills at home. The website focuses on the literacy and numeracy skills in the Australian Curriculum, so you can target your child’s specific learning needs. All the activities on Learning Potential Resources are free to use, and complement the tips and ideas you find on Learning Potential. What’s available on Learning Potential Resources? Learning Potential Resources has three main sections: Everyday ideas – easy ways to build in some Literacy and Numeracy practise when you are with your child – whether you’re watching TV, watering the garden or walking the dog

Practise together – things you can do together to work on specific literacy or numeracy skills in the Australian Curriculum

Practise online – games and videos that reinforce these skills.

There’s plenty of content for Foundation, Years 1-2, Years 3-4 and Years 5-6, with links to the Australian Curriculum parent guides for more information. Here are just a few examples of what you’ll find:

Alphabet and shape fun has great ideas for using magazines to practise letters, shapes and numbers (target: Foundation)

Sowing Seeds shows you how to plant some Literacy and Numeracy skills while you’re in the garden with your child (target: Years 1-2)

Wonderful words and silly sentences shows how to have fun with language using interesting words (target: Years 3-4)

Extreme Numbers gives ways to help your child master numbers of more than five digits (target: Years 5-6).

There are lots more ideas for each year level, so check out Learning Potential Resources today!

Learning Potential Resources was developed by Education Services Australia on behalf of the Australian Government. Principal Barry Rowland

Library News During this semester the Library Program from Prep to Grade 2 has focused on comprehension. Students have been involved in whole class discussions about the main ideas, character feelings, story settings, use of descriptive language and illustrations when exploring the purpose of texts. Students have worked with their peers asking questions and presenting individual opinions in order to gain a greater understanding of all the class texts covered in Library lessons. Students have listened to stories such as, ‘I’m Australian Too’, ‘Koala’, ‘The Great Rabbit Chase’ and a variety of wonderful stories by popular authors, Julia Donaldson and Michael Stephen King. Developing a love for reading and books in general is the most important goal in the Library Program.

During the coming weeks students will be required to return all library books in preparation for retrieving and shelving all texts ready for next year. All borrowing for this year will come to a close at the end of week 8, Friday 30th November. The Library program has greatly appreciated all parent helpers during the Book Fairs and the big job of covering all the new books for our lovely Library.

Thank you for your cooperation. Mrs Bencic

PA For taking initiative in learning and social situations by using a range of strategies to support others

and solve problems. You are a wonderful rode model Alfie!

Alfie Oliver

PH Quinn approaches each day with a calm and logical manner, using a variety of strategies and

materials to deal with any learning or social problems that come her way. You are a legend Quinn!

Quinn Manning

PT Zed uses his excellent problem solving skills daily to help him work out everyday problems efficiently.

You are a star Zed!

Zed Ruseler

1A Harry uses excellent problem solving strategies to tackle tricky problems in Maths. What a superstar learner you are Harry!

Harry Watson

1C For excellent fact family work this week, thinking about addition and subtraction and 3 numbers!

Persistent Piper!

Piper Rickard

1H Oakleigh has begun this term independently using strategies to solve a variety of problems. Her

confidence is rising each week. Great job Oakleigh!

Oakleigh Power

2B Ellie has developed her bank of strategies when reading and independently works out new words

confidently and successfully. Keep up the excellent work Ellie!

Ellie Beckley

2O Amelie is terrific at suggesting several ideas to solve a problem. Wonderful problem solving skills,

Amelie!

Amelie Bock

2S Amber has proved over the year that she uses excellent problem solving skills in the classroom and

out in the yard. Awesome Amber!!

Amber McMullan

MB Charlie makes the most of resources available to him in MB. He is always looking around the room to

see what strategy can help him to achieve his best. Top Job Charlie!

Charlie Adkins

MC Oliver is able to use a range of materials and problem solving strategies to help him with his work in

Numeracy. Outstanding, Oliver!

Oliver Wilcock

MF For encouraging the use of problem solving strategies to solve issues within the classroom, helping others to think of helpful and useful strategies.

Cara Fletcher

MT For taking a greater responsibility for her learning by using problem solving strategies to solve

problems in Literacy and Numeracy on her own. Marvellous Mikayla!

Mikayla Jones

MW Trae has made a significant improvement in his Numeracy skills this Semester and this has been due

to his dedication and his improved ability to use a range of skills and strategies. Terrific Trae!

Trae Beckley

SG For employing some excellent problem solving strategies during our Earn and Learn program. Your

business partners really appreciate your leadership, initiative and creativity.

Patrick Seery

SN Holly demonstrated amazing resilience at the Blue Light Disco this week by getting out onto the

dance floor on her crutches and carving it up all day. Huge effort Holly!

Holly Nankervis

SS Koji has been a creative and collaborative problem solver during our Earn and Learn Program,

showing lots of resilience and maturity as he’s taken on board feedback from students and teachers.

Brilliant Koji!

Koji Stanton-

Lawrence

SV Noah has shown that he is a highly responsible student in the classroom. He is able to solve his own queries by utilising the resources around him. Nice Noah!

Noah Le Noble

MUSIC For having an excellent attitude to all learning tasks. Dean Kennett

Art Award Kaisercraft are kindly sponsoring a weekly Art Award this term.

Each week one student will receive a $10 Kaisercraft voucher.

This week’s Art Award goes to:

SARAH ENGLISH - For her positive attitude and her skilful artwork.

2019 Essential Student Learning Items & Book Lists

Invoices for Essential Student Learning Items and the Parent Payment Letter were sent to families via post earlier this month.

Essential Student Learning Items - $150.00 per student Includes your child’s Student Diary, Mathletics & Reading Eggs Online Subscriptions, Photocopied Resources, Assignment & Project Construction Materials, Adolescent Education (Seniors) and selected Sports activities for Middles and Seniors students.

Payment of the Essential Student Learning Items can be made directly to Vital Office with the Book Lists online or directly to the school via Qkr, Bpay, Credit Card, Eftpos, Cheque or Cash.

We request payment for the Essential Student Learning Items is made by the end of Term 1, Friday 5th

April 2019.

Book Lists - Variable

Prep - $78.92

Grade 1 - $68.21

Grade 2 - $66.53

Middles - $69.44

Seniors - $81.81

Vital Office will provide the schools stationary packs again in 2019. All stationary items required by each year level will be listed online, login details have been included in the 2019 Parent Payments letter which were sent out earlier this month. All stationary packs will be delivered directly to the school the week prior to school commencing in 2019, eliminating home delivery fees.

To ensure your order is delivered to the school the week prior to school commencing in 2019 please ensure your order is placed by Friday 14

th December 2018.

All book list orders received after Friday 14th December 2018 will incur a delivery fee of $5.00 per book list. Orders that are

placed late may not be available for delivery the week prior to school commencing in 2019.

2019 Booklists are available at www.vitaloffice.com.au/booklists

Username: MANIFOLD Password: MANO2019

Sports Report

Geelong West District Ball Games Day Last Friday the Geelong West District Ball Games Day was held at Herne Hill Primary School. Congratulations to all children who participated in the games and many thanks to the students who led teams during the day. RESULTS:

Grade 3/4 Grade 5/6 1st Chilwell 128 points 1st Chilwell 126 points 2nd Manifold Heights 106 points 2nd Newtown 104 points 3rd Newtown 101.5 points 3rd Manifold Heights 96 points 4th Herne Hill 89.5 points 4th Ashby 91 points 5th Ashby 63 points 5th Herne Hill 60 points

Total 1st Chilwell 254 points 2nd Newtown 205.5 points 3rd Manifold Heights 202 points 4th Ashby 154 points 5th Herne Hill 149.5 points

Thanks. Mr Grant

Manifold Heights Community Garden News

Thank you to those wonderful people who are helping us weed, water, plant and mulch the organic edible food forest!

On the first Saturday of each month you are invited to meet other friendly, like-minded people to swap produce and ideas

in the community garden from 9:30-11:30 (enter from Manifold Street) and to join our group if you wish to participate in the

fun of producing and harvesting local, seasonal, organic food.

Pop this dates in your diary: 1st Dec

We look forward to meeting you soon!

Facebook: Manifold Heights Community Garden

Email: manifoldcommunitygarden@gmail.com

Maths in the Middles

This week students have been exploring the concept of Angles and

how they are all around us.

Students used a pipe-cleaner to replicate a variety of angles both in

their classrooms and in the yard. They then measured these to deter-

mine whether they were acute (smaller than a right angle), a right an-

gle or obtuse (larger than a right angle). Students were interested to

find that many of the angles they could locate were right angles.

This week, encourage your child to find to some angles around the house. Are they a right angle? Are they bigger than/or smaller

than a right angle?

A quick reference for both students and parents - http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/qr/a/angle.html.

Parent Helpers Morning Tea

The Manifold Heights Primary School Staff would like to invite you to a Special Morning Tea to thank

you for your help in the classroom and/or with various activities throughout the year!

Invitations went home with students last week.

Date: Wednesday 5th December

Time: 11am - 12pm

Venue: Staff Room

45○ Vertex

An angle (distance between two rays) is meas-ured in degrees

Line (ray)

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SCHOOL BANKING School Banking day is FRIDAY!

Remember, Friday is School Banking day and students should bring in their weekly deposit. For every deposit made at school, students will receive a silver Dollarmites token. Once students have individually collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for an exclusive School Banking reward item in recognition of their regular savings habits. End of Year School Banking - 14th December If your child has collected 10 Dollarmites tokens and would like to redeem them for a School Banking reward item this term, please fill in your child’s redemption slip and bring it along to one of our School Banking days before 30 November 2018. This will ensure the reward item will arrive before the school holidays. Our final School Banking day for 2018 is 14th December. Any Dollarmites tokens that are not redeemed this year can be used in 2019.

Manifold Heights PS Week beginning 19th November 2018

Coordinator: Georgie Petrovski

Hi Everyone,

I hope you have all had a great week because we sure have in OSHC. This week’s self-initiated activities include, colouring-

in sheets, paper mache balloons, building blocks, Lego creations, game of life, hungry hippos, chasey, down ball, water

colour paintings, arts and crafts and more! There has been lots of outdoor play making use of the nice weather switching it

up between oval, courts and playground. We have had outdoor play offered every afternoon and on some warmer mornings.

Christmas is just around the corner so educators have worked collaboratively with children to decide on some crafts that we

will make in OSHC. Some children have helped me print off colouring-in sheets that will be used for our Christmas colouring

in completion! Just to remind you again, Term 4 is hats and sunscreen so ensure you bring your hats along to OSHC if you

want to go outside. We provide sunscreen although you are welcome to bring your own. If you want you can leave a spare

hat at OSHC for the days you attend the service.

If you are looking for registration, just log onto www.campaustralia.com.au

Just reminding parents if your child is not attending the OSHC program on any day they are booked, you must let us know

via phone as we are to follow correct procedures in locating children who have not shown up. So please ensure you send us

a text or call via phone on the Manifold Heights OSHC mobile phone service number which is 0405 422 142.

Thank you to all families. Georgie

OSHC ROOM ACTIVITIES

Outdoor Games

Holiday Sharing

Halloween Colouring

Community Notice If you have any unused toys or recyclable equipment that you feel would be useful for

any craft or art activities we would really appreciate any donations. Thank you.

Mano’s before and after school care

program is run by Camp Australia.

More information can be found at

Proud suppliers of the

Manifold Heights

Primary

School uniform Open: Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.30pm

Saturday 9.00am – 1.00pm

Compass School Manager You can download our Compass app for

FREE at the App Store (iPhones) or

Google Play Store (Android). Just search

Manifold Heights Primary. This is a great

method of communication between the school and our parent

community! You can receive notifications about upcoming

events and notify the school of student absences.

Qkr

Have you downloaded Qkr

(Quicker) yet?! You can pay

your excursions and other school payment items right now

using Qkr! To make payments immediately why not download

it today and take a look at our school on Qkr! Just search Qkr

in the App Store or Google Play Store and sign up today! If

you are having issues please contact the Office.

- ‘We make kids smile’

OSHC school number:

5229 7257

Customer Service:

1300 105 343

Lloyd Moulton Sales Consultant Barry Plant 5221 4011 0434 587 881

Barry Plant 59 Gheringhap Street Geelong, 3220

Music Lessons AT school

Piano, keyboard, Guitar, Ukulele, Drum or

Singing Lessons

During &/or After School Hours at School

To enrol in, or to obtain more information

please contact Meagan:

mbmt@bigpond.com

Providing Music Lessons in local schools since 1985.