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Tel: 9948 2257 Fax: 9907 0342

Principal’s Report

Diary Dates: Sports Assembly Thursday 8th December 2.10pm Reports: School reports will be sent home on Thursday 8th December. Stop Work

A number of our staff members will attend this meeting on Thursday 8th December from 8.45-10.30am. Supervision will be provided until 10:30am and classes will formally commence at 10:30am.

Thank you Thank you to all the parents, caregivers and volunteers for your wonderful contributions to Manly West PS. We understand that not everyone can attend the Thank You Morning Tea with work and family commitments, but please know that you are all valued so much in our community and we are very appreciative. ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ (African Proverb).

Presentation Ceremonies All the Presentation Ceremonies have been very successful thanks to Mrs Bruce, Mrs Mwanga, Mrs McLean, Mrs Fuller, Mrs Daddo and all the staff and students for their preparation and performances. Thank you to Mrs Coucill, Miss Esparraga and all the Band, Choir and Percussion ensembles for their performances as well. We look forward to the Sports Assembly on Thursday.

Congratulations –Captains and Vice Captains 2017 Congratulations to Zoe Ball and Zev Shy-Tielen as the 2017 Captains of MW. Congratulations to Ciara Burgess and Matthew Johnston as the 2017 Vice Captains of MW. Thank you to Soraya, Jono, Rachel, Jordan, the Prefect Team and all Year 6 Leaders for their outstanding contributions to our school in 2016. The Sports House Captains and House Vice Captains will be announced and presented with badges on Thursday at the Sports Assembly.

Year 6 Farewell There are some photos later in the newsletter of the fabulous Year 6 Farewell held at the Manly Golf Club recently. Thank you to the Manly Golf Club, Cath Williams, Kerrie King leading the Year 6 Parent Committee and all the Year 6 teachers led by Mrs McLean for a wonderful night. The Year 6 students had an absolute ball! See photos on page 5 of the newsletter.

Reminder: Outstanding Payments We request all accounts to be finalized as soon as possible. If you are experiencing difficulties please make an appointment with the Principal. Reminder: Students leaving or travelling overseas We request that parents/caregivers write a letter to let us know if your child is leaving our school. We also ask that parents/caregivers who are travelling

overseas in the last week, please let us know in writing that you are returning to Manly West PS. Student News Congratulations to our Year 4 MW Weapons Team who won their Grand Final 26-11. Congratulations to the students who recently completed their Trinity Piano Exams — see over for results.

Mrs Julie Organ

WEBSITE: http://www.manlywest-p.schools.nsw.edu.au EMAIL: manlywest-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au P&C www.manlywestpandc.org.au

Wednesday 7th December, 2016 Term 4 Week 9

Respect Responsibility Aspire

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From the Deputys’ Desk.......

Congratulations to Lacie FitzGerald, Chloe Abbott, Lia Koster, Baxter Nicolson,

Zander Highland, Matyas Tuma, Gus King, Xavier Kirby, Patrick Furlong,

Orla Beacham, Sam Glas, Greta Vanover, Sabastian Dodds Daniel Deacon,

Lola Simkiss, Willow Conway, Jayden Sharma and Kahu Slater. Semester Two Student Reports Semester Two reports will be sent home with students on Thursday 8th December. If your family circumstances have changed and you require an additional copy of the report, please inform your child’s class teacher. Kindergarten reports include an update on where students are currently performing on the Literacy and Numeracy Learning Continuums.

In Grades 1-6, students receive an assessment scale for effort and achievement. Please note that if a student receives the same grade for two consecutive reports they have made progress. For example, if a student receives a ‘sound’ in the middle of the year and again at the end of the year they will be making progress.

Between the two reporting periods, the student will have learned new knowledge and skills of a more advanced nature. In order to receive a ‘sound’ on the second occasion, the student has a sound knowledge and understanding of the main areas of content and has achieved an adequate level of competence in the processes and skills in relation to this new and more challenging material.

Year 1 Rugby This Friday morning is the final of five sessions provided by Rugby NSW for Year 1 students. On Friday afternoon, 9th November from 4pm -6:30pm, there is a Rugby Gala Day at Keirle Park for Year 1 students, both boys and girls. This is an optional event. It would be great to field teams representing Manly West. Please

consider attending this free family event. Your child can show you their skills, have fun with their classmates

and enjoy a free sausage sizzle. Please see the flyer on page 12 if you are interested in attending.

Scripture and Ethics in 2017

Scripture and Ethics classes at Manly West have now finished for 2016. We thank our volunteer teachers for their effort, commitment and contribution to our school. Last week we said farewell to Sharon Marshall and Caroline Hadley, two of our Protestant teachers. We also farewelled 5 of our Ethics teachers – Gerri Keogh, Nina Rey, Helen Yardley, Fiona Galea and Carolyn Cooper-Larson. Thank you so much for teaching our students. We will not be able to place all students who have attended Ethics this year in a class for next year. We are

seeking volunteer teachers. If you or someone you know may be interested in becoming an Ethics teacher,

please contact our Ethics Coordinator and parent, Louise Fletcher - our_oyster@hotmail.com

To become a volunteer teacher you need to: • contact Louise Fletcher to find out more, show you how to apply and arrange an interview.

• obtain a police check and complete various paperwork

attend a 2 day training course through Primary Ethics (www.primaryethics.com.au)

• teach a 30 minute class each Thursday morning.

Classes take place at the following times: Years 5 and 6 – 9:20 - 9:50 Years 3 and 4 – 10:00 -10:30 Kindergarten, Year 1 and 2 - 10:40 -11:10

Kindergarten Graduates Kindergarten wore their graduation mortars with their class coloured tassel at the Graduation Ceremony. We are so very proud of you all.

Mrs Wendy Mwanga

The PBEL for this week is Responsibility

—When going on messages, going to the toilets or moving around the school make sure you have someone else with you.

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From the Deputys’ Desk....... Expectation Cards: Sorraya Gerritsen, Ayden Zoszak, Sophia Zrevas,

Sebastian Nop, Winona Wrigley, Skyler Foster, Amelia Abbott,

Grace Thompson, Iris Watt, Emma Kha, Kirsty Rey, Jasmine Ferguson,

Kiera Burke, Hugo Isherwood, Rachel Ainsworth x2, Finn Beachley &

Jasmine Parkes

Bronze Banner: Ruby Davey, Matthew Johnston, Emma Kha, Ollie Nicol, Jasmine Ferguson,

Kiera Burke, Hugo Isherwood & Jasmine Parker

Silver Banner: Rachel Ainsworth

End of Year Picnic Dates

The 3-5 picnic day will be held on Tuesday 13 December at

Davidson Park, Davidson.

Students will be departing school at 9.30am and will be travelling

by bus to Davidson Park. Students will return to school at

approximately 2:30pm. Students may wear mufti, ensuring they

have sunscreen, a hat, covered shoulders and sports shoes. A

bottle of water, recess and lunch and any small games to play

during the day need to be packed in a bag.

No spending money is necessary as there is no access to shops.

The K-2 picnic day will be held on Wednesday 14 December at Passmore Reserve.

Buses will take students to and from Passmore Reserve. Students are to be at school by

9.20am as buses will be departing at 9.30am and students will return to school by 12.45pm.

Students need to bring their own recess and at least two drinks. Full sports uniform is to be

worn, including school hat and sunscreen.

Year 6 Surf Education Program

Year 6 students will be participating in the Surf Education Program from Monday 12 to Thursday 15 December. They will cover surf awareness and first aid at school on the Monday and participate in practical surf lifesaving sessions at Manly Surf Lifesaving Club at 12.30 – 2.30pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Students will need to bring sunscreen, a hat, rash vest or T-shirt. They will also need a towel, water bottle and their lunch. On Tuesday 13 December, Yr 6 will walk to Manly in the morning and have their grade picnic before their Surf Lifesaving program starts.

Band Christmas Concert

Our Annual Band Christmas Concert was once again a resounding success

with our four bands demonstrating the reasons why they received Gold

awards throughout the year.

The highlights of the evening were the Performance Band’s rendition of

‘Aladdin’ and Penny’s love of Christmas Carols. Performance Band Captains

Rudy Duke-Yonge and Winona Wrigley spoke extremely well about their

musical journey at Manly West.

Thank you to all the parents for supporting the Band Program led by the Band Coordinator,

Rachel McCallum and her team organising all band events. Special thanks to all the tutors and Band

Director Penny Coucill who works tirelessly to buff and polish our students into sparkling diamond

performers. Thank you to Virginia Esparraga and all teachers for actively supporting the program all

year.

Unfortunately, students who have not returned permission notes by the date of their picnic will

be unable to attend. The cost of the picnic was included in your term account. Please ensure this

amount has been paid.

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Diary Dates

Thursday 8th December

2:00pm Primary Sports Assembly

Friday 9th December

1:15pm Band Pizza Lunch

Monday 12th December

Year 6 Surf camp—all day

Tuesday 13th December

Year 6 Surf camp

Year 3-5 Davidson Picnic

Wednesday 14th December

Year 6 Surf camp

K-2 Picnic

From the Deputys’ Desk continued ......

Year 5 Sport House Captain Elections

Congratulations to all Year 5 students who were nominated by their Years 4-6 peers to be Sport

House Captains last week. Many teachers commented on how confidently and sincerely students

spoke about being a positive role model, acting in a responsible manner towards each other,

wanting to help teachers and students and encouraging others to aspire to do their best.

Congratulations to the following students who presented speeches: Ben Johnston, Mikey Munro,

Louis Rounsley, Genevieve Morrison, Ruby Mitford-Burgess, Ally Doyle, Lauren Squires,

Holly Brailey, Alysia Merry, Livinia Williams, Maggie Grant, Annabelle Bolton, Emily Braines,

Gypsie Gardner-Mason, Olivia Cooper-Larson, Ewan Key, Finn O’Brien, Kai Robertson,

Dion Hansson, Alex Godfrey, Finn Harvey, Hayden McFarlane, Matthew Godfrey, Oliver Todd,

Danielle Phillips, Sarah Scott, Katja Randall, Talia Macdonald, Rosie Stevenson, Grace Thompson,

Daisy Smailes, Indi Sanders, Charlotte Shute, Lilla Elwin, Florence Mistry, Charli Faircloth,

Morgan Mackenzie, Emily Grimes, Andie Korgul, Natalie Brown, Neive Demery,

Sylvie Cameron-Bernes, Jemma Brown, Sam Harrington, Ash Fullwood, Tylan Black- Berryman, Ziko Vesely, Alby Haywood, Dash Keane, Max Black, Oscar Rossetto, Tasman Zantiotis and Harper Hinterleitner.

Sport House Captains will be presented with their leadership badges at the 3-6 Sport Assembly

on Thursday 8 December commencing at 2.00pm Boys and girls—Santa wants your letters

Australia Post has requested that we send this advice onto you—

It's time to write to Santa! Santa receives thousands of letters from children all

over Australia with requests for all sorts of things, including toys, pets and even

world peace. Australia Post works with Santa, and his elves, at Christmas to

make sure you receive a reply to your letter. Please click on the following link:

Santa

(http://auspost.com.au/education/santamail/students/write-santa.html)

Mrs Adrienne Bruce

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Year 6 Farewell

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Trinity Piano Exams

Initial Grade

Alice Aboud Credit

Frieda Kirkham Distinction

Gabriel Lucas Distinction

Thomas Mans Distinction

Kirsty Rey Distinction

Olivia Trethewey Distinction

Grade 1

Austin Holley Merit

Harrison Newton Distinction

Grade 2

Millie Rundle Merit

Tara Smith Distinction

Library News

All Manly West Library books must be returned to the school

library. Please check everywhere for all school library books and

return them as soon as possible to help your class win a special prize

by being the first class with all books back! If you have lost a book,

please let us know so we can tell you how much you need to pay to

replace it and mark it as returned out of your name. If you find it

over the holidays, your money can be refunded. May the force be

with you and your class win for having no library books under

you and your classmates’ names!

I would like all of this year’s fantastic Year 5 & Year 6 Library

Monitors to come to the library with their morning tea tomorrow

at 11:20 a.m. for a little thank you gift and final get together for

2016. You have worked extremely hard and given up so many

lunch times to help Mrs. Burke, Mrs. Dowdle & I to keep the

library running smoothly for all the Manly West students – thank

you so very much!

Happy reading & returning!

Mrs Ellen Swick

Teacher Librarian

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Canteen News

Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers for helping in the canteen this year.

We have a lot of vacancies in the roster for next year, so if you have ever thought of helping at the canteen, now would be a great time to let us know! Please take a look at the roster attached to see if there’s a regular slot you’d like to join, and let us know by email: mwcanteen1@gmail.com, call 9948 2257 or come and see us.

There will be a number of changes in the canteen next year:

- Black rice sushi will be replaced by a vegetarian rice paper roll ($3.50) on Thursdays - Avocado sushi ($3.50) and tuna sushi baby box ($3.50) will be available on Wednesdays - A 10c bag fee will be introduced for over the counter orders and Flexischools orders

- The cost of pizza subs and chicken sticks at recess will go up to $1.20 - The cut-off time for placing orders on Flexischools will be 9am - New items for morning tea will be trialed over the coming weeks with a view to adding them to the

recess menu in 2017

The canteen will be open as normal on the first day back at school, Monday 30th January 2017. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and happy New Year, and look forward to seeing you next year.

Canteen roster for Term 4, week 10

Monday 12th December Tuesday 13th December Wednesday 14th December

Mel Zeppel AM Jess Kirkham AM Chris Cammack AM Ying Chen AM Courtney Shapter AM Belinda Leatham AM Judith Tielen PM Kristy Barbara PM Caz Thompson PM Laura Jeston PM Natalya Hansson PM VACANCY PM Thursday 15th December Friday 16th December Kate Scott AM Clare Key AM

Jill Gilchrist AM Audrey Watson AM

Mel Zeppel AM Simone Massey AM Michelle Lewis PM Amanda Moss-Morris AM Heather Robertson PM Sarah Hadnam PM

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Manly West Before & After School Care

BASC END OF YEAR CELEBRATION

WEDNESDAY 14 DECEMBER

SAUSAGE SIZZLE 3:30 – 4:00PM

CHRISTMAS SHOW 4:00 – 5:30PM

ALL BASC CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE INVITED. IF YOUR CHILD IS NOT BOOKED IN

TO AFTER SCHOOL CARE ON THAT DAY, THEY MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT.

For catering purposes, please give us a courtesy call, email or message for additional numbers.

CENTRE NEWS

YEAR 6 WILL BE BASED IN THE 3/4 ROOM MONDAY – WEDNESDAY THIS WEEK (5 – 7 DECEMBER) WHILST

YEAR 5 IS AT CAMP. This will also apply to Year 5 children who are attending BASC on Wednesday after

returning from camp. Year 5 parents, please respond to our email regarding whether your child will attend.

Incursion/Enrichment Program

W/C 5/12: K-2 Monday – Fun Sports Club 3/4 Thursday – Shelter Making

If at all possible, we would ask parents to collect their children after 5:30pm on the relevant day.

Other Activities

Christmas craft is the go in all rooms this week! Other indoor activities include Scattergories, using the Wii and

iPads and Hama Bead Christmas designs. Outdoors there will be a scavenger hunt, bin ball, cricket and 4-way

soccer.

The menu this week includes tacos, icecream sundaes, gourmet sandwiches, crackers and dips as well as

nectarines and watermelon. Other fresh fruit and cut carrots and cucumbers are available every day.

You can look at the full list of programed activities and our menus displayed in each room!

WAITING LIST

The waiting list continuously moves as families’ circumstances change. We understand it can be

frustrating waiting for places but please be aware that due to regulation requirements we can only cater for 150

children per session.

Registering With Us

To register your child with us, please visit our centre’s site https://manlywestbasc.hubworks.com.au and click

on ‘ENROL’. Enter your child’s details (please click the ‘Before and After School Care’ box if you

require both sessions) and then click ‘SUBMIT’.

Chook Roster

Saturday 10th December

Tymkiw family

Sunday 11th December

Beacham family

Uniform Shop

Monday 12th December

2:45-3:45pm

Wednesday 25th

January (school holidays)

8—10am

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BAND NEWS

Thanks to everyone for a great end of year concert last Wednesday and a whole year of music. Well

done to our two PB captains Winona Wrigley and Rudy Duke-Yonge for such thoughtful and funny speeches. Best of luck to all our year 6 students who are moving on to high school. We hope you

continue to play music with your peers for many years to come.

Congratulations particularly to Penny, Virginia, our many MWPS supportive teachers and school staff,

the young musicians, our brilliant tutors and all the band families on a year of wonderful learning and playing together (and of course GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD).

2017 Training Band – your instrument allocation list has been emailed out to everybody who has

applied to enrol in 2017. If you haven't seen it, please check your junk mail just in case. More I nformation about when your hire instrument will be ready for collection in early Term 1 will be sent in January. In the meantime, please start thinking about lining up a private teacher for your child for the essential weekly lesson.

Current band members – you have also been sent your 2017 band allocations in an email asking you

to complete your online re-enrolment email for 2017 ASAP. Just follow the link in the email to

complete.

Please get in touch if your name is not on the 2017 band lists and we will correct. Everyone who

wants to be in band next year should be there so any missing names are just an oversight.

Many of your questions – for example about rehearsal schedules – can be answered through the band

page of the P & C website.

All band members are invited to celebrate a fantastic year of band with a Pizza Lunch this Friday 9th

December which will be held in the gardens behind the year 6 classrooms at the beginning of lunch time. All children will receive some pizza (Penny has already taken their preferences) and a juice of their choice.

The Band Committee is thrilled that Nicole Macnicol has started work as the new Band

Administration Co-ordinator. This is sure to be of great help to the P & C in managing the band program for the school with a positive impact for all band families. We hope everyone will join us in making Nicole feel welcome in her new position.

Parent/family volunteer help in 2017 will continue to be essential. We will be looking for a Band

Liaison for each of our bands to work with the Band Committee. If you are interested in knowing more please contact manlywestbands@gmail.com . We will also need a Committee convenor. Please do pitch in whenever possible in 2017 and consider nominating for the Committee. All very welcome.

Happy holidays.

Eminent Persons - Year 5

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Kitchen Garden

This afternoon I will be in the garden to show people around if

you would like to help maintain the garden over the summer.

If you have the odd hour, get on the roster, its mostly

watering which is very pleasant if you are down at the school

with your kids anyway. If you cant make it and would like to

be involved please contact me on holly@dockerz.net or

0405 030 700.

Just letting you know that we will be holding our last harvest

stall next Wednesday. The children have done well eating lots of

produce last week as you can see but we will harvest what is left for

sale. This will include a small amount of organic garlic which is hard to

buy. Come early with some coins and help support the garden.

Finally a massive thank you to all those who have helped over the year.

We wouldn't exist without you. A special mention must go Jo Holley and

Angie Penn who are always there supporting in many ways. Also a huge

thanks to P&C and Mrs Organ for supporting the garden again.

Happy Christmas to you all from us in the garden.

Holly and Beth

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