SCHOOL PHOTO DAY IS THIS THURSDAY
14th APRIL.
Issue 5
CHILDREN BROUGHT HOME AN ENVELOPE
YESTERDAY. IF YOU DID NOT RECEIVE ONE PLEASE
COME AND GET ONE FROM THE OFFICE.
12th April 2016
THERE ARE ALSO FAMILY PHOTO ENVELOPES AVAILABLE.
PLEASE COLLECT THIS FROM THE OFFICE IF YOU WOULD LIKE A
FAMILY PHOTO WITH SIBLINGS AT THE SCHOOL. PLEASE FILL
OUT THE ORDER ENVELOPE AND BRING BACK TO SCHOOL ON
THURSDAY (PHOTO DAY). PLEASE DO NOT RETURN ENVELOPE
PRIOR TO PHOTO DAY.
Staff News:
STOP PRESS
EMAIL: MALVERN.VALLEY.PS@EDUMAIL.VIC.GOV.AU
Congratulations to Mr Josh Sheffield and his wife on the birth of
their son Finn last Saturday. Josh will be absent this week on family
leave.
Miss Lamaro will be away for a month after ANZAC Day and during that
time she will be married. When she returns she will be known as Mrs
Barnewall. Miss Natalie Richardson will replace her while she is away.
Being Active At Malvern Valley PS
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Running Club began this morning and will be held each Tuesday and
Thursday this term at 8.30am beginning at the front gate. Everyone is welcome—parents included.
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Active April, it’s not too late to join. At assembly there were a lot of
students who indicated they had been very active during the holidays. We
need them to join our MVPS Active April team so that we get those hours and
minutes added to our team score.
If you’d like to join please go to the Active April Website to register .
https://app.activeapril.vic.gov.au/register
Our school team is
malvern-valley-ps
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The Lightening Premiership for the grade 5/6s which was postponed last term is
on this Friday and parents are welcome to come along to support our school.
Basketball – Waverley Basketball stadium
Softball – Princes Park
Cricket – Darling Park
All competitions start at 10 and finish at 2.
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The Annual Fun Run is coming up on Thursday 28th April
(see other term dates on page 2)
Special Religious Instruction (SRI) will not be offered at MVPS.
After reviewing the responses to the offering of SRI at Malvern Valley, the decision has
been made that it is not viable to run an SRI program at this time. The number of students wanting the program is small and they are spread over the three time options,
across the school and between Approved and Catholic.
Congratulations to Neveah (1/2K) and her family on the birth of their baby girl yesterday.
Welcome back everyone, have a great term.
Gaylene Fehlberg
Other Key Dates for Term 2
April:
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Sun 17th: Bunnings BBQ—help still required
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Fri 22nd: MVPS ANZAC DAY Ceremony 3pm at the Flag Pole, parents are welcome to join us.
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Mon 18th: School Council meeting
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Mon 25th: ANZAC DAY public holiday
May:
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Sun 1st: Working Bee
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Fri 6th: Mother’s Day Stall
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Mon 9th: Parent Association
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Mon 16th: School Council
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Tues 10-thurs 12: Naplan for grade 3 & 5 students
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Fri 27th: Movie Night
June:
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Fri 3: Parent Contribution—2nd Instalment due
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Fri 10: Pupil Free Day
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Mon 13: Queen’s Birthday Holiday
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Mon 20: School Council
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Thurs 23: School Reports sent home
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Fri 24: End of Term 2
Nude Food:
We will be doing our Nude Food Count on a Tuesday and Thursday.
Nude Food helps the students think of the environment and the impact rubbish has on it.
The class with the least amount of packaging get to have the CARROT mascot for the week.
Mindfulness:
Cherish yesterday
Dream tomorrow
Live today
During Malvern Valley Way this term we are still building our
PERSONAL POWER and we will be doing this through
Mindfulness.
Mindfulness is linked to mental wellbeing which is an important part of Personal Power.
How often do we become anxious about the mistakes we have made or things that have happened in the past?
How often do we worry about things that might happen in the future?
To manage this anxiety and worry an important strategy is to learn to be in the present.
Yes we do need to
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Cherish yesterday as we can learn so much from the past to help with the future.
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Dream tomorrow as that is where we see innovation, creativity, achievement
However Live today is equally important especially in our time when we are bombarded with so much stimulation all
the time. The statistics say that 1 in 24 children are experiencing a mental wellbeing issue—often anxiety so it is important for us to help them develop strategies to use when they are feeling overwhelmed by the past or the future.
Often we read about people having a sea or rural change, even a digital switch off time to help manage this bombardment. (I think that there are families in our community practising something similar when on holidays). We won’t be
going that far but we will be learning other techniques that we can practise where ever we are at any time. A well
known strategies is taking some deep breathes and breathing out sharply.
Parents Association News
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED BUNNINGS BBQ THIS SUNDAY 17 APRIL
The PA is running a Bunnings BBQ this Sunday 17th April at Bunnings, Notting Hill. We will be
running the BBQ from 8am to about 4pm, or when we sell out, and we still require 12 volunteers
to help.
Please visit this link to sign up: http://vols.pt/Kd4N7M
For further enquiries please contact Brendyn Flood on 0433 063 612 or Chris Gibson on 0412
267 053 or email or mvps_pa@outlook.com.
MVPS Fun Run/Walk
The Fun Run/Walk will be held on Thursday 28th April. The PA needs volunteers to help on the
day to setup the Fun Run course, assist teachers to walk classes over to the oval, record children's laps and help pack up equipment.
Please visit this link to sign up: http://vols.pt/qEuJEw
If you can't help on the day, perhaps you have contacts (family, company or sporting club) who
can donate prizes. Parents/Guardians are welcome to come and cheer on the children.
All money raised this year will be put towards updating our library resources that connect to our
school values and Malvern Valley Way curriculum.
Sponsorship forms were sent home in the last week of Term 1. For further enquiries please contact, Claire Burzacott on 0409 705 955 or email mvps_pa@outlook.com.
End of Term 1 BBQ – Thank you
Thank you to the Grade 3/4 parents who organised last term’s BBQ for the students – Dave Ralston, Suzy Barber, Leanne Kao, Erin Peterson & Jacqui de Boer.
Term 2 Dates
Bunnings BBQ – Sunday April 17
Fun Run/Walk – Thursday April 28
Mother’s Day Stall – Friday May 6
Movie Night – Friday May 27
The next PA meeting is Monday 9th May at 7.30pm.
CANTEEN NEWS
Thank you to all those volunteers who helped out last term. Please go to the volunteers link on the website
under the Canteen tab, in order to sign up to help.
This term sees the addition of MINESTRONE SOUP ($4.00) to the menu. It’s homemade and super
yummy!
Should you have any queries regarding canteen, please don’t hesitate to contact me on 0425 782 697 or at
stephaniegatehouse@yahoo.com.
Looking forward to feeding you this week. Cheers, Steph
Skoolbag App
Have you got it installed on your phone?
It is a great way to receive last minute information.
It allows you to download dates into your phone calendar.
Dads Drinks.
Abbotsford Avenue
Malvern East , 3145
Phone: 9569 5820
Fax: 9568 4663
Email: malvern.valley.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
Creating confident children with choices
for their future
www.mvps.vic.edu.au
This Friday (15th April) is the next scheduled date for
the Dads to get together for a drink, pizza or fish and
chips at the Chadstone Bowls Club on Chadstone Rd.
It is a very informal atmosphere and a good laugh is
had by all so come along on Friday after 6.00pm. We
will also have the footy (West Coast vs Richmond) on
the big screen.
Please note next month we will be reverting back to
the second Friday (13th May).
If you have any questions please give me a call - Rich
Davey 0418726906
MVPS AFL Tipping Comp 2016 - Round 2 Report
We now have 63 tippers in the comp with 2 new tippers joining the comp this week in “A & A” & Cozzo. With all home teams
winning in Round 1, these 2 tippers are starting 1 round down having collected zero points each in Round 1.
The top tippers in what was an unbelievably difficult round were Neva, Mitchell Loeding (a grade 1 boy) & “s team” who all tipped
6 winners for the round.
“Merlin Shmenkle” leads the comp on 13 tips & s – team came from nowhere with 6 tips to now occupy 2nd place on the ladder.
s team, Team Sproul (a school family) & Meow (a big Cats supporter & Mum at the school) occupy 3rd & 4th place respectively
In a heavilly bunched group from position three to sixteen on the ladder are 14 tippers all on 12 tips. Anthony Tsesmelis a dad of
a prepper & grade 2 girl hung onto a position in the top 12 in seventh place after two rounds.
Adam (a parent of 3 kids at the school) features in 11th spot
Our leaderboard after the conclusion of Round 2 :
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7.
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10.
11.
12.
13 – Merlin Shmenkle
13 – s team
12 - Team Sproul
12 – Meow
12 – Cookie
12 – Mitchell Loeding
12 – Anthony Tsesmelis
12 – Rob Gould
12 – Buckets
12 – Out we come to play
12 – Adam
12 – Adam Cole
The 10: round two's best moments: http://www.afl.com.au/video/2016-04-03/the-10-round-twos-best-moments
Jonathan
jonathan.rado@iinet.net.au