MORGIE NEWS Telephone: 08 8087 5155 Principal: Mr Scott Sanford Fax: 08 8087 3729 Email: morganst-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage: www.morganst-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Important Dates

Monday 5th August - Friday 9th August

Education Week

Wednesday 7th August

Choral Festival

Both choirs will be performing in the morning session commencing

at 11am

Thursday 8th August Education Week Assembly

10.15 School Hall

Dance-A-Thon 11.30am

Broken Hill Carnival Field

Events 3.30pm

Friday 9th August Broken Hill Athletics Carnival

Track Events 9.30am

Learning for all at Morgan Street

Welcome to Education Week! Education Week is all about acknowledging and

celebrating the richness and diversity of our school – our students, our staff and our

community. This year the theme for Education Week is a celebration of student

empowerment and how we as a school build and develop the skills our students

need in order to have and express a voice during their educational journey and as an

engaged global citizen. Having a voice opens up a conversation for clarity, enquiry

and also explores possibility. We look forward to our events this week to allow for

connections, collaborations and celebrations.

We are currently taking Kindergarten enrolments for 2020. Please contact our office

for further information and to commence the process. Please do not hesitate to pass

this information onto families who will have children starting school next year.

I would like to wish our students all the best this week in their various opportunities

to represent our school at the Choral Festival and also the Broken Hill Athletics

carnival. If the past is anything to go by, then we can feel very confident that our

students will do themselves, their families and our school proud.

Have a wonderful week of learning!

Thought for the week: “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not

see.” – John F Kennedy

Scott Sanford Principal

Monday 5th August, 2019 Term 3 Week 3

Order online by Monday

12th August

Excursions

Payments may be paid online,

or by cash, cheque or eftpos

at the main office - thank you.

Dance-A-Thon

Don’t forget to ask your family and friends to sponsor you for

our Dance-a-thon on Thursday.

KH Nate Norris Ruby Dempster

KN Jett Slater Jesse Ball

1A Taj Wolstenholme Caleb Beavan-Gilby

1D Tahlia Millard Nate Milne

2K Macie Reavill Madden Ford

2S Venya Mandyam Adelaide Roderick

3M Braxden Jeffrey Isobelle Gogler

3/4S Chace Glover Silas Torney

4W Jacob Johnson Amber Alzaim

4/5B Zeiarah Kennewell Macy Bottrell

5W Lachie Glasson Emilie Black

6M Elkie Turley Shiloh Kennewell

6P Jobe Lihou Natalie Macharia

Miss Keenan: Cooper Johnson, Charlotte Campbell

Classes of the Week

KH KN 1D 5W

Education Week Assembly will

be held on Thursday at 10.15am

in the hall

Peer Awards Lincoln Coombes, Annie Burke, Veda

Spasojevic, Connor Quinn, Kaitlin Glasson,

Jensen Mitchell, Kaydence Beavan-Kemp,

Oscar Shoobridge, Daisy Sheehan, Brooke

Jordan, Kyra Petersen, Zahlia Delbridge,

Rhianna Jerrett

Morgie Awards

Zahra Cawley

On Thursday the 1st of August, 18 students participated in the Morgan Street Public Speaking Competition. All students put in an outstanding amount of effort to their speeches and should be extremely proud of themselves.

Results - Seniors 1st place: Elke Turley

2nd place: Esther Wenham Highly commended: Lily Jinks

Honourable mention: Cheyanne Lugg Encouragement award: Nevaeh Bates

Results - Juniors 1st place: Nate Shepherd

2nd place: Lane Darley Highly commended: Lucas Sultana

Honourable mention: Airlie Camilleri Encouragement award: Eloise Sulcich

6M In 6M we are travelling the world and learning about various countries

culture and landmarks as part of our geography unit. The race began in

Sydney last term and the first destination was Japan. We have been

visiting the hot beaches of the Greek Islands to the cold mountain air of

Russia.

We arrange our flights to a city of our choice in each country. We then

decide on a place of interest to visit and record important facts. We are

required to purchase a souvenir from each country and keep a travel blog.

We have been issued a passport that we must get stamped before we can

travel to the next country. If we lose our passport we have to re-apply for

it by visiting the Australian embassy in the country we are in. So far only

one passport has been lost!

Along the way we are given road blocks to complete.

We are learning lost of interesting things and are very keen to see who is

the winner of the race.

Countries to visit include: Japan

Russia Italy

Greece Austria USA

Australia

Community News

NOTE WHO? ACTION

Dance-A-Thon Each Student Please return sponsor form and money to classroom

teacher as soon as possible

NOTES SENT HOME RECENTLY

If you did not receive any notes relevant to your child, please see the office staff.

STAFF SPOTLIGHT

Mrs Sonia Evitts

What is your role at MSPS? My role at MSPS is to support students in our school (School Learning Support Officer) This year I have been assisting Mrs Nicholls in KN. How long have you worked at MSPS? This is my fifth year at Morgan Street. What’s your favourite thing about working at MSPS? My favourite thing about working at Morgan Street is watching the students development in their own individual ways and putting a smile on their little faces. What is something about you that not many people know? I love anything to do with water! What would you do (for a career) if you weren’t doing this? A lifeguard on a beautiful beach. What food is like a guilty pleasure to you? Chocolate

This week kindergarten classes celebrated being at school for 100 days!

We dressed up like we were 100 years

old! We also did some really fun

activities to do with the number 100. We wrote about all of the things that we

have learned to do since beginning

kindergarten.

We thought of ways that we could spend

$100 if we were lucky enough to have

that much money!

We counted all the way up to 100—do

you know how long it takes to count

that high!

Our teachers turned into grandmas! We

spent the day with Nanny Nicholls and

Grandma Halpin! It was such a fun day!

Now we are ready to learn for another

100

days!

Book Week Parade

Wednesday 28th August 2019 Time to start thinking about

your Book Week costume.

This years theme is:

“Reading is my secret power”