23 August 2018

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Congratulations to all our finalists in the K-2 public speaking competition last Friday. I was sorry not to attend the final competitions for the On Your Soap Box public speaking this year as it is such a highlight to see how confident our students do become in their presentations when they compete in the finals. Special mention to Zac Keanly (KB), Olivia Taylor (KM), Abigail Wilson (1/2S), George Morris (2GC) on winning their stage finals.

Good luck to Pipi Te Pania and Bodhi Hanson as they represent our school at the Bear Pit Public Speaking finals at Parliament House next Monday.

New School Build- Commissioning meeting

This week we had our first commissioning meeting for the new school. These meetings are to work through the handover process as we transition from the old school to the new school. The intention is to move all of the contents from the old buildings up into the new classrooms during the Christmas holiday break. The new school is to be handed over to us in January for the start of the 2019 school year.

Last week some of the staff attended a professional training session at Harbord Public School to see how the teachers there were using the new 21st century furniture and technology. All staff came back very excited and are beginning to trial the new teaching methods within their current classrooms.

During the September/October school holidays the current holiday program run by the primaryOSHcare group will be fully operational. The old hall will not be demolished during this break as the new hall will not be quite ready for use, therefore the demolishment of the old hall will not occur until the December holidays. The school site will have limited access for community during both these holiday periods as the holiday program will need all the remaining area during the September/October period. There will be no access for anyone including primaryOSHCare over the Christmas holiday period.

Principal For The Day- Friday 24 August

Tomorrow we will have Pipi and Reuben Te Pania take on the principal role. Pipi and Reuben will address the assembly on Friday morning and visit classrooms, attend executive meetings and spend the day in the front office. I am looking forward to my day of leisure tomorrow.

Book Week- Find Your Treasure

This week Mrs Poole has organised many great activities around the Book Week theme of “Find your Treasure”. Today we had a whole school dress up day where students came dressed as pirates/book characters to celebrate Book Week 2018. We have had visiting authors Bronwyn Vaughan and Mark Greenwood (next week), peer reading and sharing of our favourite stories, treasure hunts and activities in the library and a whole school dress up day. Thank you to Mrs Poole who makes every Book Week so special for all the students of Manly Vale.

Congratulations Mali Lovell- ex-student

Mali Lovell an ex-student of Manly Vale Public School has just returned from the Cerebral Palsy World Games in Barcelona. Her mum Mel and her spent 10 days in Barcelona where Mali won 4 gold medals for the T36 100m, 200m, 400m and the 800m. Mali is one of 17 million people in the world with Cerebral Palsy and a truly amazing champions and role model for all people. We are so proud of Mali and her achievements. Cleo her sister is one of our current school leaders.

Athletics Ribbons- Tomorrow Friday 24 August

Tomorrow we will present the athletics ribbons at the morning assembly. The Zone carnival is next week on Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 August. We wish our school team every success at this event. Thank you to Mrs Birrell and Mr Dylan for accompanying the teams and for all your organisation leading up to the carnival.

Father’s Day Breakfast- Friday 31 August

We look forward to seeing all of our dads on Friday 31 August. A breakfast and open classrooms has been organised to celebrate the day.

Please make sure that you order via the website for the Father’s day breakfast. No Café Owl will be available that morning. Open classroom will begin from 7.30am- 9.00am, followed by an assembly on the back oval.

Want to join the School Band?

Last Tuesday night we had a Band information night. If you weren’t able to come to the night you can still register your interest with the band by completing the attached form and sending it into school. Ben Dickson our Band Director is able to run some additional information sessions next Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon at about 2.30pm. If you are interested please email the school. If there is enough interest we will run another session. Any age child is able to join the band program from Year 2 – Year 6. Just fill in the attached application form and send it into school. Next Monday and Tuesday interested children will be withdrawn from class and will be assessed as to what is the most suitable instrument they should learn. For more information please visit our school website.

Buses

Currently both the 618 and 620 buses are very over crowded. I am currently trying to get an additional bus. Please make sure your child has their opal card and uses it for their journey so as we can register the numbers of children using the school service.

PSSA Finals

Congratulations to our Rugby League teams, our Junior Netball and Junior Girls’ Soccer for making the finals last Friday. It was a very successful afternoon with our Junior Girl’s Netball, our Junior Girl’s A Soccer and our Senior Rugby League teams all winning their respective grand finals. Congratulations to all our PSSA players and coaches on an outstanding season. Mrs Blackband, Mrs Ward and Mrs Humphreys praised all their teams on their sportsmanship and teamwork last Friday.

Ethics team

Congratulations to our Manly Vale Public School Ethics teachers who have been nominated for a volunteer award on Friday 24 August at Dee Why RSL. If you wish to volunteer to be an ethics teacher an information stall will be at next week’s Father’s Day breakfast.

Tina Lee

Waste Free Wednesday

2018 ‘On Your Soapbox’ Public Speaking Competition

On Monday 13 and Friday 17 August, Manly Vale Public School held its 2018 ‘On Your Soapbox’ public speaking competition. It was a highly successful event where students, parents and teachers were able to watch two representatives from each K-6 class present their speeches at the ‘On Your Soapbox’ assembly.

It was clear to see that the standard of public speaking has taken a giant step forward at Manly Vale due the fantastic display of public speaking talent presented by the speakers. They were all so passionate, enthusiastic and confident about their topics and I congratulate all of them for the amount of effort and dedication each and every one of them put in to prepare, practice and deliver their speeches. Well done especially to the Kindergarten students who showed great bravery and courage by speaking in front of a large audience perhaps for the very first time.

One student from Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4) and one student from Stage 3 (Years 5 and 6) have been selected to represent our school at the Bear Pit Public Speaking Competition hosted by the Member for Manly, James Griffin, at Parliament House on Monday 27 August. I would like to congratulate Pipi Te Pania from 4K who delivered a speech on the topic ‘Everyone needs a dream’ and Bodhi Hanson from 6OL who presented a speech on the topic ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover’ for being our selected speakers. We wish the students all the best and know that they will do Manly Vale proud no matter the result.

Once again, congratulations to all the finalists who represented their class at the competition - we are all very proud of you.

Sarah Humphreys - Public Speaking Coordinator

2018 Premier’s Spelling Bee

On Tuesday 11 September, four of our wonderful spellers will be representing Manly Vale Public School at the regional finals of the 2018 Premier’s Spelling Challenge. The Spelling Bee Competition will take place at Castle Cove Public School where students will compete against students from other schools. The Manly Vale representatives are:

We wish them all the best of luck and happy spelling!

Sarah Humphreys - Spelling Bee Coordinator

Science excursion reflections

Last week over 140 students went to the Australian Museum to celebrate Science Week. Each class attended workshops and fully engaged with interactive activities there.

Here are some of the students’ reflections.

We went into a room and took our shoes off ready to go into a planetarium. The wonders that we saw were incredible! Who knew that a little blow-up dome would be so wonderful! After that, we went to a show where we could touch the clouds and watch amazing experiments and we were on the edge of our seats! After that, we learnt how to make an elephant toothpaste learnt about gems and even made slime.
Pipi 4K

It was amazing to make slime. It was dripping all over me, but I was ok with it.
Isaac 4K

I have lots of fun when we made slime and played with fake snow! I liked using a microscope to look at things really closely. I had lots of fun at the museum with all of my friends!
Cammi 4K

My favourite memory from the excursion was extracting a strawberry DNA and watching experiments with liquid nitrogen.
Adler 3C

It was so much fun! We went to the Aboriginal Medicine and Food workshop and we saw a Giant Short-Nosed Kangaroo.
Cleo 3B

My favourite part of the Australian Museum was when we used all different acids to make a reaction and we used cabbage juice to add onto it which made it change colour.
Iona 3B

My favourite part was seeing three different types of crabs - one of them was orange.
Luca 3C

On Thursday the whole stage 2 went on the best science excursion ever! We mixed chemicals and they turned purple, pink, green and blue. Then we mixed them all together and it turned really dark purple!
Sophia 3B

I really liked the optical illusion and the Aboriginal medicine and food workshop. I liked getting the strawberry DNA and watch liquid nitrogen. The best part of the excursion was EVERYTHING!
Belinda 3B

Library News

Welcome to Book Week 2018

“Find Your Treasure! “

A week filled with wonderful books, pirates and treasures!

Book Fair

Thank you to all the families who so generously bought from our book fair. We were able to take a healthy commission which will be used to purchase new non-fiction books for the library. A special thank you to the families who donated selected books to the library. They are being processed with a dedication nameplate on the first page. Your child is welcome to be the first to borrow their donated book.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The Premier’s Reading challenge is nearly over. Final date for entries is Friday 31 August, week 6.

Please make sure your child’s reading record is complete, K-2 30 titles, and 3-6 20 titles. If you have any questions please contact Mrs Poole.

Performance by Bronwyn Vaughan

K-2 children enjoyed a wonderful performance by storyteller Bronwyn Vaughan. She brought to life three traditional tales, from Germany, India and Turkey. The children were enchanted by the costumes, puppetry and music.

Happy Reading
Glynis Poole - Teacher Librarian

iPLAY

The importance of getting active!

Regular physical activity is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Making physical activity a priority and encouraging good habits in children from an early age is important and can help them to develop the skills they need to be active throughout their lives.

Why is being active important?

Children benefit greatly from being active as it can:

• Promote healthy growth and development
• Build strong bones and muscles
• Improve movement skills
• Improve cardiovascular fitness
• Help achieve and maintain a healthy weight
• Improve academic achievement
• Help relaxation
• Provide opportunities to make friends
• Improve self-esteem and self-confidence

Children who are not physically active enough will not have the opportunity to gain these benefits and are at an increased risk of becoming overweight or obese. Being overweight or obese long term can contribute to conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol, and heart disease.

iPLAY on Father’s Day

Father's Day is September 2. There are plenty of physical activities kids can do with their dad whilst spending quality time together. Here are a few suggestions:

• Build a fort together
• Pretend to be explorers and go on a bush walk
• Be an active artist: Break out the coloured chalk and play hopscotch and then beautify your driveway or put your stamp on the footpath.
• Be a tourist: Take the kids on a walking/cycling tour of your own childhood. Visit your childhood house, the local park and your favourite places to hang out.

Nicole Blackband

2018 Student Representative Council photo

Advanced Life Photography has informed us that this photo is now available for purchase online. If your child is in the SRC and you would like a photo, please follow the following instructions:

Paying online

1. To order go to advancedlife.com.au and enter the 9 digit online code P2B 27Y HEW.
2. Select “Browse Group Photos” from the menu. Make a selection from the list.
3. Once you have chosen groups to order, select the ‘view shopping cart’ option and follow the prompts.

NOTE: Envelopes are available for collection from the front office should you prefer to pay cash, cheque or money order. Envelope orders need to be returned to the school within 7 days.

Dates for Your Diary

NAIDOC & Education Week Art Project

Thank you to everyone who participated in our whole school art project. We hope you have had a chance to look at the different contributions made by the students.

Students combined the practical art of weaving with the environmental issues of recycling and sustainability. Our aim was to create an art installation that demonstrated the collaborative effort that weaving can be, with the environmental aspect of encouraging students to consider rubbish and what happens to it when it no longer has a purpose.

Each class or grade was permitted to interpret the task and guide their own process, so for this reason you will notice that the artworks are all very different. Please take a walk by the library. We hope it promotes some discussion in your family regarding how we can avoid using these non-recyclable items.

The Aboriginal Education Committee

Father’s Day 2018 – Breakfast and Raffle - it’s on next week!

The Manly Vale Public School Events team invite you and your family to celebrate Father’s Day 2018 with us. Let’s say a huge thank you to our dads, parents, carers, uncles, grandads on this special day. This is a fundraising event for new equipment for our new school hall and a great community event.

Date: Friday 31 August 2018
Breakfast: 7.15am – 9am

Breakfast orders online:

Online orders now open!
Order here! OR CLICK THIS LINK - http://www.manlyvalepcevents.org.au
Limited rolls available across the 3 time slots. (7.15-7.45 / 7.45-8.15 / 8.15-8.45)

Coffee cart: cash only on site

Hamper raffle: Cash sale of tickets on the day.
Be in it to win it – Bunnings voucher, wine, Sushi Waka voucher and other goodies!

What you need to do now:

1. Pop the date in your diary
2. Volunteer to assist if you can – JUST CLICK ON THIS LINK - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FDB18
3. Join us on the morning for open classrooms, fresh coffee and choir performance

P & C Committee

Canteen Volunteers Roster Term 3, 2018