MISSION
Morang South Primary School is a committed and unified partnership of teachers, parents and children. We value diversity and strive for excellence.
We are committed to providing a high quality education in a cooperative, caring and safe environment. Children are encouraged and challenged to
reach their full potential.
Important Dates
12th November 2015
Fri
13 Nov
Gr 1/2 IMAX & Museum Excursion
Fri
13 Nov
Vision Portraits
Mon
16 Nov
Mon
16 Nov
Gr 5/6 Boys Regional Cricket
Tournament
Tues
17 Nov
Foundation Excursion to Kew
Traffic School
Tues
17 Nov
Grade 6 Rotation Day
Wed
18 Nov
Foundation Swimming
Wed
18 Nov
2016 Kindergarten to Foundation
Transition Program. Session 3
Wed
18 Nov
P.F.A Meeting
Fri
20 Nov
Foundation Breakfast
Fri
20 Nov
Walkathon
Mon
23 Nov
Assembly– Hosted by HG 03
Tues
24 Nov
Gr 3/4 Scienceworks Excursion
HG’s 13,14,15,16
Wed
25 Nov
Gr 3/4 Scienceworks Excursion
HG 09
Wed
25 Nov
Foundation Swimming
Wed
25 Nov
School Council Meeting
Thus
26 Nov
2016 Foundation Parent
Information 7:30-9:00pm
Fri
27 Nov
2016 Kindergarten to Foundation
Transition Program. Session 4
Mon
30 Nov
JSC Collection for Christmas
Hamper
Fri
4 Dec
Grade 2 Sleepover
Fri
11 Dec
Whole School Disco
Mon
14 Dec
School Picnic and Carols
From the Principal
Hello Everyone,
Thurs 17 Dec
Prep-Responsible Pet Ownership
Firstly our apologies for missing a Newsletter, the
technical gremlins had their way! Any urgent information
was sent home via note and posted on our website and/
or our Facebook Group.
I hope you were able to have some
fun ‘family’ times between Friday
October
30th
and
Thursday
th
November 5 when the children returned to school. I
have certainly heard some stories about fun family
holidays and visits to relatives, the movies and the Zoo,
among other places.
What a wonderful ‘family’ story
about Michelle Payne was on
Cup day.
There has been a lot on our plate since I last
wrote.
Grade 6 Fun Fields Excursion and
Graduation
The teachers have been
working hard on the student
reports during this time and we
had a very successful day of
Professional Learning on
Maths taken by Professor Di
Siemon from RMIT on Wednesday November 4th. We all
learned more about the teaching of Maths, how
students learn and the misconceptions they can have.
Research, which is current and evidence based, is
building our capacity as teachers continually. As a
staff we are and have to be life-long learners!
We have successfully completed our School Peer
Review. There is much to celebrate and of course much
to focus on in the future! As Principal, I am incredibly
proud of all our staff, students and parents and carers
VISION
Our vision for Morang South Primary is to become a vibrant learning community where all members are challenged and empowered to strive for and celebrate personal excellence and
continuous growth. The children will become positive, compassionate, able, creative, confident thinkers, and life long,
socially responsible learners equipped to thrive in and shape the future of our evolving global society.
for the focus on improving our school and student
outcomes during the last Strategic Plan period. At
MSPS it is truly a team effort! Thank you all.
I’d like to particularly thank our School Improvement
Team (SIT), whom I thoroughly enjoy working with and
learning from not only each fortnight when we meet but
on numerous other occasions, consisting of Sandi
Young, Jess Barden, Kaye McLaren, Mel Tollit, Stef
Tigani and Vanesa Trpcevski who worked tirelessly on
our self-assessment so that it truly reflected our
school and gave us a wonderful framework for our
discussion on the Review day. Sandi’s outstanding
presentation of our data also contributed enormously
to the day. Thank you, Sandi. Thank you also, to
Hayden Wardrop and Chantelle Armet and the SIT
team who joined the school reviewer and peer
reviewers and our School Council President, Emma on
the day.
The report will be presented to School Council at the
November meeting the last Wednesday in November,
then placed on our website to be shared with our
community.
One of our peer reviewers wrote “Thank you ...for the
opportunity to participate as a peer reviewer. It was
great to be part of such stimulating and high level
discussion. I would also like to congratulate the SIT
team for the work undertaken to prepare the selfevaluation which I believe is the foundation of a
meaningful review. The capacity to self-reflect and to
recognise achievements and opportunities for
improvement is a sign of the real maturity of an
organisation…….”
The other Peer Reviewer wrote: “……….listening to all
the wonderful changes MSPS has made over the last
few years to improve both teacher capacity and student
learning outcomes. You have all put so much work into
school improvement and your passion to continue to do
so is also noticeable. Reading the report highlighted
the wonderful things currently in place at MSPS that
were shared by the SIT team on the day. The report
also reflects the detailed discussions of the day with
several suggestions as to how MSPS can continue to
move forward. Well done to you both, your lovely staff
and the school community, who all work together to
make MSPS the wonderful place it is. Good luck on the
journey ahead and I look forward to hearing more
about your future plans for MSPS and your
achievements along the way.
about
the
‘Curiosity
and
Powerful Learning’ sessions we
have been having for the past two
Friday afternoons. If not, I would
encourage you to ask them about
the sessions. These sessions are
giving
our
children
further
opportunities to focus on and research their interests.
This is a trial with a view to us implementing a more
comprehensive program in 2016. Watch out for the next
instalments on our progress! We have two more
sessions to go; next week and the week after. There is
none this week as the 1/2s are having an excursion to
IMAX and the Museum. A day which I am sure will inspire
their curiosity!
To foster and support smooth transitions between
grades, we run an intra-school transition as well as our
pre-school to school transition and year 6 to 7. These
programs have commenced already this term. They
prepare our students for the next phase of their
educational journey.
The grade 6 students are working on their graduation
preparation while the rest of the school are working in
their Curiosity and Powerful Learning groups. These
‘Curiosity’ groups have been organised to help support our
extensive intra-school transition program (grades 1 to
2; 2 to 3; 3 to 4 and 5 to 6). The Preps and 1s are working
together as our prospective grade 1/2s; the 2s and 3s are
working together as our prospective 3/4s; and the 4s and
5s are working together as our prospective 5/6s. Diana
Gevaux and Tamara Walters our two Science teachers,
Sandi and I are all involved. This enables us to have
smaller groups.
Consequently the groups do not
represent the actual grades the children will be in for
2016 just their year level.
Foundation (Prep) Transition
Our Foundation students for 2016 have had at least one
session, with the mainstream students having had two.
They appear to be enjoying themselves, getting to know
their school and each other while participating in a variety
of activities with our teachers.
We hope no one has missed out on transition but we are
Emma Dickens who, as School Council President,
was the parent representative on the Panel for our
review thoroughly enjoyed the experience and was
thrilled with the way our staff conducted themselves
and talked about our achievements as a school
community and our future direction. We thank Emma
very much for giving up her day to join us and for the
valuable contributions she made.
I am sure many of your children have been telling you
still taking enrolments for our 2016 Foundation (Prep)
classes. Please inform family, friends and neighbours
that if they have a child starting school next year and
would like them to come to our school to enrol them
now so they can participate in the remaining
transition sessions.
We have a number of enquiries about places in our
school for 2016 along with over 80 Preps. It is
important for us to have accurate enrolment
numbers for children attending our school in 2016
so that the best possible class structures and
class sizes can be organised. As always, our
children, their learning and development, will
remain our top priorities. Please contact us to let
us know if your child/children will not be
attending MSPS in 2016. Thank you to those
families who have done so already. There are
some wonderful stories of new employment,
new houses and schools now in closer
proximity. We will miss you but wish you all
well in your new ventures.
The 3/4 TBall team was looking forward to their
Gala Day. Unfortunately it had to be cancelled due
to the stormy weather. In her diligent and resilient
fashion Sandi is looking for some alternative
options. She is unable to find a whole day at the
moment but she is hoping we can get together
with some of the local schools for some hour
sessions! Thank you, Sandi.
Once again we are having our
annual Carols and Picnic. These
will take place on Monday
December 14th. The picnic will
commence at 6.30pm with carols to follow at
7pm. The classes have chosen their songs. We
hope all families will join us. It is another
opportunity for us to get together as a
community. Please put this date in your diaries
and on your calendars.
Our Newsletter arrives via email.
If you would like a hard copy of the Gorge
News, there will be a limited number available in
the foyer for collection by you or your child.
Please remember that we love to have parents
helping in the classrooms and if you have any
worries or concerns, please let us know straight
away.
Education
Matters,
Teachers
Difference & Every Day Counts!
Keep up that lifelong learning!
Julie Jones
Principal
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My name is Michelle A and I am
currently in 6th grade. I recently
received a Musical Scholarship
from Mill Park Secondary
College for 2016 and 2017.
I was presented with the
scholarship at assembly by a
teacher from the school and
two ex –students of Morang
South Primary School, Christian
and Alex. To receive the award I
played a piece on the piano and
sang a song. The effort I put
into applying for the
Scholarship really paid off, and
I am very proud of that!
Grades Prep – 6
Term 4 week 4
Home Group 1
Maheen and Emma
Home Group 2
Home Group 02
Home Group 3
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3 Grade 1’s
Home Group 4
Maddison and Giorgio
Home Group 5
Caley and Lachlan
Home Group 7
Eric H
Home Group 09
Tezai and Takara
Home Group 10
Olivia and Oscar
Home Group 11
Alexis and HG 11
Home Group 13
Peter Q and Merissa
Home Group 14
Ryan and Gadura
Home Group 15
Anthony and Tiernan
Home Group 16
Hayley & Fadi
Home Group 17
James and Indiana
Home Group 21
Tommy and Sharon
Home Group 22
Ailin and Kalepo
Home Group 23
Emily and Diesel
Home Group 24
Alexander and Valentina
Science
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Scientist of Week
Braden F
Good Sport Award Jordan HG04
P.E Prep
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HG01
Prep Artist Week
Olivia H HG03
The Arts–
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Home Group 24
Prep Science
HG03 & Rhylee HG01
Artist of Week
Nasrudin HG15
Grades Prep – 6
Term 4 week 6
Home Group 1
Parham and Sienna
Home Group 2
Teresa and Bailey
Home Group 3
Jordan Jones
Home Group 4
Osama and Jordan
Home Group 5
Mohammad HG05
Home Group 7
Braden and Miracle
Home Group 09
Ruby and Max
Home Group 10
Nathan and Syed
Home Group 11
Chloe, Kaniesha and
Chelsea
Home Group 13
Tobey and Jack
Home Group 14
Rimmas and Harrison
Home Group 15
Mia and Ava
Home Group 16
Adriel and Jenine
Home Group 17
Harrison, James and
Shaun
Home Group 21
Home Group21
Home Group 22
Shae and Jacob
Home Group 23
Emily
Home Group 24
Charlie and Angeleen
Science
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Scientist of Week
Jacqueline D
P.E. 11-6
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Over the past 4 weeks the grade 5/6 students have been
participating in our ’Earn and Learn’ program. Each Friday
the students set up their market stalls and commence
trading. Students have essential items they must buy
such as groceries, a car, petrol and a phone. They can
then spend the rest of their income on non essential
items, however they need to ensure they have enough
money to pay their business, personal taxes, rent and bills
each week! This economics unit has given students the
opportunity to learn about business income and taxation
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fun learning about simple machines. On Tuesday
we put on our detective hats and searched
around the school looking for six simple
machines. We were searching for levers, wheels
and axels, incline planes, wedges, pullies and
screws. We have also used LEGO to create
different simple machines to see
how they work.
Last term HG 23 and 24 made paper mache masks and
used them as costumes for our Tiddalick the Frog
iMovies. Here are photos of our finished products.
On the 27th October, the grade 5/6’s had
their Billy Cart Incursion. Our instructor Brent
taught us the parts of the billy cart and
explained to us how they work and how to use
certain things on the billy cart.
He set up 4 activities for us to do!
The activities were racing around the outside,
a building challenge, design your own billy cart and make your
own invention. We separated off into house colours and rotated
around the 4 activities.
At the end we had a race with the 2 best racers of
the day. Each racer picked three people to be in
their pit crew. All the grade 5/6’s had a fun and
educational experience, we learnt a lot from Brent
and are ready to build our billy carts and race!
Last newsletter’s staff member was ...
Jodi Walsh
Guess the MSPS staff member
The following three clues have been provided by a mystery staff member. Can you work
out who they are?
•
I have 2 dogs that look like lions
•
I love donuts
•
I go to Portarlington at Christmas time
Do you know who it is? All will be revealed next newsletter.
We are requiring all parents/carers volunteering to work in classrooms to have a Working
with Children Check. All parents who aend excursions need to obtain a volunteer working
with children check.
The Working With Children Check is a mandatory screening requirement for any Victorian
who undertakes child-related work described in the Working with Children Act 2005.Under
the Act, people who engage in paid or voluntary child-related work need a WWC Check.
The check involves
Considera)on of;
•
criminal history records in all states and territories across your life)me disciplinary
findings of Victorian professional bodies such as the Victorian Ins)tute of Teaching (VIT)
and the out of home care Suitability Panel.
•
relevant determina)ons by the Victorian Civil and Administra)ve Tribunal (VCAT) under the
Health Professions Registraon Act 2005.
•
a rigorous assessment of relevant offences and disciplinary findings revealed by the
criminal history check. For the assessment the department gathers informa)on from a
range of sources such as:
- court records including the children’s court.
- other departments such as Human Services, health professionals employers and
Correc)ons Victoria.
- any material provided by the applicant.
You need to:
Fill in an applica)on on line hp://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/home/
• Obtain a passport size photo of yourself
• Gather your proof of iden)ty documents to the value of 100 points and
lodge your applica)on at a par)cipa)ng Australia Post retail outlet
• Volunteer applicaons are free.
• Keep the applica)on receipt, which is an important document.
• Please bring your receipt to the office for us to copy so you can volunteer in the interim
•
When you receive your card, please bring it to the office for us to copy and make a make
a record.
EVERY DAY COUNTS @ MSPS
Student Attendance Report 26/10/15 –09/11/15
As part of the Everyday Counts initiative, the DET is reporting attendance in percentages.
Some children have 100% attendance.
The percentages in the following table indicate the average attendance for each grade during the
fortnight.
Foundation
Grades 3/4
Home Group 1
92%
Home Group 9
94%
Home Group 2
94%
Home Group 13
88%
Home Group 3
90%
Home Group 14
86%
Home Group 4
83%
Home Group 15
89%
Home Group 18
97%
Home Group 16
87%
Grades 1/2
Grades 5/6
Home Group 10
90%
Home Group 5
95%
Home Group 21
88%
Home Group 7
90%
Home Group 22
89%
Home Group 11
90%
Home Group 23
86%
Home Group 17
86%
Home Group 24
90%
Shaded Area
Indicates Highest Grades
Remember that every day counts and arriving at school on time, every day, can improve student learning! Please make sure
you send a note if your child is going to be absent from school or on their return to school after an absence.
Well done to all of the students who were able to raise some money for the Heart Foundation
during our Jump Rope For Heart program last term. As well as work on our own heart health, we
were able to raise the grand sum of $2746.50 which goes to the Heart Foundation for research
into heart disease. This is a big increase on the fundraising total that we made last year—well
done everyone! Congratulations also to the students who were able to reach “fundraising
targets” and are eligible for a prize. The prizes have been delivered to our school and will be
distributed over the next week. A big THANKTHANK-YOU to all of the students and families who
supported the program this year—
year—it was a fantastic result!!
Sue Grad (1-6) P.E.
SECOND HAND UNIFORM SHOP
CLASSIFIEDS
Run by Jodie Poer and Kate Rigoni
Situated in the Parents & Friends Room
The MSPS Classifieds is a PFA ini)a)ve that aims
to provide affordable local adver)sing.
Open Thursday mornings 9:009:00-9:30am
Prices per Month : (as of 25th February 2015)
If you have any items of clothing that
you no longer require ,
Small: $10
Medium: $20
(approx. A5)
Large $35
(approx. A4)
please send them to the shop.
Donations are greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
To advertise, contact the school on 9404 1548 or
email young.sandi.c@edumail.vic.gov.au for
further details.
SCHOOL BANKING
VISION PORTRAITS
Friday 13th November
WALKATHON
Every Tuesday 9.00am
Lots of cool rewards throughout the year along
with certificates at different stages.
New bankers always welcomed.
Friday 20th November
Money and Forms Due back 19th November.
END OF YEAR DISCO
NEXT MEETING:
Friday 11th December
Wednesday 18th November
Notes to follow Shortly.
CHRISTMAS RAFFLE
Please forward all donations to office.
All Welcome
Tickets arriving shortly.
Great news!, We are now set up to use “Our Online Canteen” for lunch ordering.
You can go to the link, sign up and follow the instructions.
https://www.ouronlinecanteen.com.au/Default.aspx
You are still able to use the traditional process for ordering lunches through the classroom lunch order box and
the paper bag.
The MSPS Classifieds will remain an online
feature of our school website:
“Friends of Morang South PS.”
http://www.morangsouthps.vic.edu.au/
A hyperlink to the MSPS Classifieds will now be emailed to everyone at the same time our Gorge News School Newsletter is
emailed each fortnight. That is approximately 330 families and
friends of Morang South Primary School. Previous We had made
our Classifieds more efficient and easier for everyone to click a
‘link’ to view our MSPS Classifieds online.
We will also regularly include a hyperlink on our very successful
MSPS Facebook group to the MSPS Classifieds.
All advertisements in the MSPS Classifieds will be in COLOUR.
Businesses or groups who already hire our facilities (eg. Paringa Complex or our Killara Gym) will receive 10% off each advertisement.
If you choose to advertise for 10 consecutive months you GET 1 month
for FREE!
The MSPS Classifieds aims to provide affordable local advertising.
Prices per Month : (as of 25th February 2015)
Small: $10
Medium: $20
(approximately A5)
Large $35
(approximately A4)
If you would like to advertise in our Classifieds… Email: young.sandi.c@edumail.vic.gov.au
** Morang South Primary School, the School Council and Parents & Friends Association accept no responsibility for services or special offers advertised.
Support our School
Commemorative
Bricks
In 2012 we began the Commemorative Brick fundraiser at MSPS. It might have been ‘that
time of the year’ but we only received minimal orders, we did not have enough special bricks
to create a path! We had planned to lay them across the dry river bed, creating a walk way, in
front of the Paringa Complex as part of our landscaping.
At our Parents & Friends meeting, it was decided to restart the Commemorative Brick fundraiser in 2015. Our aim is to sell more Commemorative Bricks and create our path across
the dry river bed! CAN YOU HELP? Would you like your child or your family to have a very
special memory at MSPS? Talk to your friends… Two families could share one brick. ☺
Morang South Primary School Commemorative Bricks Fundraiser
If you would like to participate in this fundraiser, please return this section below in an envelope with
the correct money and the slip of paper below with your design on the back.
(Please remember to follow the instructions below).
Name: ____________________________________
YES PLEASE! I would like to purchase
HG:_________
brick(s) and I have enclosed $__________.
Print this page to draw on the back of this section below to record your design OR visit our office.
On the back of this section record your design