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www.maraylya-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Term 4 Week 5 6th November 2015

Principal’s Message A brilliant Maraylya ‘Monster Fest’. Well done Maraylyans!

Coming Events

P&C Meeting 7.30pm Tue 10th Nov

Kindergarten Orientation Information Evening

Wed 11th Nov 6.00pm

Captain Speeches Fri 13th Nov 1.30pm

Kindergarten transition Session 1 Session 2 Session 3

9am – 10.30am Fri 13th Wed 18th Fri 27th

Swim School Mon 16th Nov – Fri 27th Nov

Concert Rehearsal Mon 16th Nov 9am – 12pm

Concert Windsor High School Tue 17th Nov 6.30pm

Cool Kids Recital Tue 1st Dec

Scripture Christmas Service Wed 2nd Dec

Presentation Night 6pm Thurs 3rd Dec

Responsible Pet Ownership Talk Mon 7th Dec

K+Y1 water Safety Talk Tue 8th Dec

Longneck Lagoon Celebration Day Y3-6

Tue 8th Dec

Year 6 Farewell Mon 14th Dec

Term 4 ends Wed 16th Dec

2016 Dates

Best Start Assessments

28th /29th Jan/ 1st Feb

Yrs 1 -6 commence Term 1

Thu 28th Feb

Kindergarten commence s

Tue 2nd Feb

2-6 Swimming Carnival

Fri 29th Jan

School Photos Thu 18th Feb

Notes Home Wheel-a-thon

Kinder Graduation

Sausage Sizzle

Maraylya Messenger

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Maraylya Monster Fest

A wonderful community event!

Thanks to everyone involved in making this such a special

day!

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Maraylya Monster Fest’ Prize winners: Colouring Competition Winners

Kinder – Ruby Evans Year 1 – Dalton Swift Year 2 – Ray Bortolussi Year 3 – Scarlett Burns

Year 4 – Hayley Madadghar

Year 5 – Jason Dorian Year 6 – Jorja Wiesemes

Pumpkin Carving Best Dressed Boy – Joel O’Rourke Best Dressed Girl – Charlotte Ward 1st – Cody 2nd – Tyler Sams 3rd – Ty Malouf

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Maraylya School Concert Maraylya students and teachers are very excited about our upcoming ‘Heroes’ concert.

The concert will be held on Tuesday, 17th November at Windsor High School.

Each class has been working on their creativity skills and polishing up their dancing skills… and

we are ready to showcase some SERIOUS TALENT!

Tickets are now available to pre-purchase from the office. The cost is $20 per family –

mums, dads, grandparents, siblings… the more the merrier! Pay at the office or send $20 in

an envelope labelled with your family name.

Concert Rehearsal Our dress rehearsal at Windsor High School is scheduled for Monday 16th November from 9am – 12pm. This should have no impact on departure for swim school. Selective High School Applications If you wish to apply for a selective high school placement for 2017 (Current Year 5 students) please contact Mr Gaffey. Applications close on November 16th2015. Additional School Zone Flashing Lights Our school will apply for an additional set of lights, one of 400 sets on offer, based on priority. We will be advised early in 2016 if successful.

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MPS - Assembly Awards

Term 4 Week 4 K – Kyalla Carr & Erin Ible

1 – Pippa Shaw & Molly Burns 2/3 – Sarah McNally & Kate Sultana

3/4 – Jonah Beer & Jack Douglas 5/6 – Olivia McDermott & Charlie White

Person of the Week

K – Tyler Sams 1 – Victoria Hopkins 2/3 – Austin Foxall

3/4 – Sean Ible 5/6 – Ben Rogers

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Being Safe, Being Respectful and Being Responsible.

Countdown Awards Term 4 – Week 4

Blast Off Awards Term 4 – Week 4

Jack Astill Riley Mills Charlotte McDermott Ray Bortolussi Charlotte Ward

Isaac Freeman Ryan Withers Jack Douglas Ben Stanton Amaya Edwards

Orbit Awards Term 4- Week 4

Erin Ible Nicholas Constantine Cody Hudson Gabrielle Daniels Mackenzie Edwards Jack Mills

Touchdown Awards Term 4- Week 4 Gemma Carpinato

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CLASS NEWS

K Kindergarten had a great time at the Monster Fest! Students wrote recounts about their favourite parts of the evening.

My favourite part of the Monster Fest was going in the spooky tunnel. I liked the skeleton hanging up on the roof. Erin

My favourite part of the Monster Fest was going into the spooky tunnel. I scared everyone and they got scared. I had the best night. Elly

My favourite part of the Monster Fest was cleaning up the milk bottles. It was fun. After that I went in to the spooky tunnel. After that I played with my friends. Ryan

My favourite part of the Monster Fest was throwing the zombie arm. Hamish My favourite part of the Monster Fest was going in the spooky tunnel. There was a

man that said “Boo.” Gabriella My favourite part of the Monster Fest was I saw my friend Caleb and he was a cowboy.

Nicholas 1 In Mathematics we have been learning about place value. We have been adding larger two digit numbers together and finding the total. In HSIE we have been talking about groups we belong to and why those groups are important to us. In English we have been reading books about friendship. We have discussed the characters in the books. In writing we have described what they look like, how they are the same and how they are different. We have also written about their personalities and how they are the same and how they can be different but they are still friends.

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2/3 2/3 had a fantastic day at the Wheel-a-thon. Great to see everyone in red! I will be sending home a note about the concert rehearsal next week. Hopefully everyone should have their 2 costumes finalised. If you do not please let me know and I can organise a costume for your child. 2/3 have been fascinated by th e author Anthony Browne who wrote the book we were studying called “Little Beauty”. All the children are borrowing his other books from the school library. In Mathematics, we have been looking at problem solving using multiplication and division. 3/4 We have been having a great two weeks, I think they did actually miss me while I was on leave. We have been busy during the last two weeks, polishing up our dancing moves! We do look great! During maths we have been focusing on volume and capacity, looking at how much space objects take up. Drawing a shape we have made from different views and getting our partners to remake the shape without our help, to check we have drawn it correctly. Everyone was able to remake all the shapes, so well done 3/4. Discussion during Science has been about weathering and how weather effects rocks and forms different shapes for example river stones. They all seemed very interested in this process, luckily we had some photos from Jenolan Caves to discuss how they are formed from the rain and the limestone dissolving.

5/6 5/6 have continued to work in their literacy units of work. While Year 5 continue to work on ‘No Gun for Asmir’, Year 6 have changed texts to begin reading ‘Once’ by Morris Gleitzman. This follows the story of Felix, a young Jewish boy who is growing up in Nazi occupied Poland in 1940. We have explored some of the reasons the war has began. Students are exploring theories around Adolf Hitler’s motivations for war. We have also been working hard to consolidate our understandings in addition, subtraction and multiplication of fractions. Most of us are now experts! Our weekly assessment tasks are helping to get us ready for next year. Concert preparations are coming along well and we are looking forward to our performance night in Week 7. We just have to collect all of our costume items for next week. Year 5 are getting ready to give their captains’ speeches. We invite our families to assembly on Friday 13th November where we will talk to the school and cast our votes for captains 2016.

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We are currently collecting the saddle cloths, ties and sashes used this year.

Please return these items to Mrs Carrington at the office.

Thanks to Saddleworld Dural for their continuing support of our equestrian team!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday to our students who celebrate

a birthday in November including;

Jack Douglas, Parker Edwards, Isaac Freeman,

Thomas Horne, Lauren Lee, Austyn Stanton,

Benjamyn Stanton, Caitlin Waugh, Luke Withers

We hope you have a great day!

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IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM

HILLS BUS

This is an amended bus timetable for Route 3172@ 8.11am which will commence on Monday 9 November 2015. MORNING Route 3172 8.11 Effective 9 Nov 2015 Ex Ward Place shops via L>Kenthurst, R>Hills Grammar, R>Kenthurst, L> Pitt Town, R>Boundary to school. L> Bus turns left R> Bus turns right AFTERNOON Route 355 3.00 Ex school to Kenthurst Public School via Pitt Town, (Pitt Town & Blue Gum 3.20) R>Kenthurst, L>Nelson, R>Lukes, R>Dural to Kenthurst Public School

L> Bus turns left R> Bus turns right

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Konnective – Come on everyone – lets have all families on by December!!!!!

At this stage, we now have 65 members receiving this service.

Families connect themselves - users download the app, register and then login. Then search for Maraylya Public School within the app and request to be added to the ‘Feeds’ that are relevant to you.

It’s Easy! There are millions of items that can be bought through SchoolBuy to support your school – and every

purchase helps. Just remember to visit SchoolBuy first before shopping online with any of our partners.

Simply by clicking the link on the SchoolBuy site, the online store you are visiting will know that

SchoolBuy sent you and which school you want to support. Plus you still get all their best online deals

and can take advantage of any special offers or sales on the retailer’s website.

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Next P & C Meeting Tuesday 10th November

7.30pm – 9.30pm

Canteen News!

CHANGE IS COMING!!

WHAT’S HAPPENING?

Due to unexpected changes in our work situations both

Belinda and I are unable to carry on managing the

Canteen in 2016.

Each year we lose a few 5/6 parents from the roster.,

next year is no different.

It is time for some new faces to step up and commit to

working in canteen. Your commitment would only need to

be once a month or even once a term. At this time we are

struggling to meet the number of volunteers required to

open on both Wednesday and Friday for 2016. Whilst a

few people have put their hand up for a days next year we

need more.

WHAT WE NEED

- more volunteers

- new managers for the canteen

Other Alternatives

Our only other alternative is to tender out the Canteen.

The positive to this is that our canteen will be open more

days.

If you would like to volunteer or to take on the managing

role please speak to Mr Gaffey or myself.

Many Thanks

Linda Constantine

P & C NEWS

secretary.maraylyapandc@gmail.com President – Angela Rodham

Vice President – Kylie Hall Treasurer – Joanne Stocker

Secretary – Melissa Beer Uniform Manager – Emma Bright

Fundraising – Group Responsibility Canteen – Belinda Astill / Linda Constantine

Uniform Shop

The Uniform Shop will be open the same hours, Mondays 2:15 – 3.00 pm

Please continue to drop any orders and correct money at the office. These orders will then be filled and sent home with your child or collected from the office. Orders may also be sent to maraylyapandcuniforms@gmail.com

Thank you.

Canteen Roster November 2015

4th Nov Rachel Stanton Rachel Smith

6th Nov Jenny Born Julia Kinnish

11th Nov Vanessa Needs Linda Constantine

13th Nov Connie Latter Emma Bright

18 Nov Sharon Azmi Rachel Smith

20th Nov Nicole Foxall Tammy Ible

25th Nov Sharon Waugh Linda Constantine

27th Nov Sue Sultana Leanne Rogers

Canteen Roster December 2015

2nd Dec Rachel Stanton Vanessa Needs

4th Dec Jenny Born Julia Kinnish

9th Dec Sharon Azmi Rachel Smith

11th Dec Connie Latter Tammy Ible

16th Nov Linda Constantine Sharon Waugh

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