17 October 2019

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Welcome back and we hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. It is hard to believe that we are in our last term of 2019. This week we had our last P & C meeting for the year with our AGM now scheduled for Tuesday 12 November at 7.00pm. All positions will be declared vacant at this meeting but only financial members of the P & C will be eligible to vote for new or existing candidates. Membership must have been paid by this last P & C meeting to be eligible to vote in the AGM.

P & C Executive

We would like to thank and acknowledge our P & C executive team for 2019 and thank them for their contributions to 2019. All of the following positions will be declared vacant at the Annual General Meeting but all current position holders are keen to stand again for 2020. Thank you so much to these volunteer parents for assisting our school community. We thank you for the many volunteer hours you dedicate to your position.

P & C President - James Fewtrell (Kate in 4M)
P & C Vice President - Helen Gay (Charles 1P, Thomas 6B)
P & C Treasurer - Tony Sherlock (Isaac 4T)
P & C Secretary - Karen Murgatroyd- (Hannah 5BC, Sam 3C, Niamh KL)
P & C Class Coordinator’s contact - Kristen Te Pania (Pippi 5BC, Reuben 2S)

The positions will all be declared vacant at the Annual General meeting on Tuesday 12 November. Nominations for these positions can be sent to the school email and be passed on to the meeting if required. Voting will take place on the night. Only paid and eligible members will be allowed to vote.

A review of the school uniform policy will also be conducted on the night. Please be in attendance at the meeting if you wish to contribute.

Trivia Night - Saturday 26 October – “School Days Now and Then” – Dress reflecting “M” or “V” Manly Vale

The teachers look forward to taking on the parent community in a trivia challenge on our last fundraiser for the year. Please organise a table and join in the fun for our Annual School Trivia Night. It will be a great way to enjoy our new school hall and meet new people within our parent community. Tickets can be purchased through our P & C fundraising website below:

There will be plenty of prizes on the night and an auction including the main ticket item of bidding for your child to be “Principal for the Day”. This allows your child or children to have the wonderful opportunity to spend a day with Mrs Lee visiting classrooms and having morning tea with the executive team, hosting assembly and giving directions for the school for the future.

There are also “Homework Exemption” passes available for auction which you can bid for allowing your child exemption from routine that you need at this time of year. The staff look forward to joining you all on this wonderful evening. Please be sure to organise your tables and tickets by Friday 18 October.

Congratulations to our Manly Vale Public School athletes

Our champion athletes who achieved results in the Zone Athletics team will now go on to compete at a regional level in the State Athletics Carnival at Homebush this week. Congratulations Pippi Te Pania, Mackenzie Jeffs, Kirsten Evans and Hannah Huisman who have all competed this week at the State carnival. Results will be published in next week’s newsletter.

Opportunity Class Placement 2020

Congratulations to the Year 4 students below who have received offers for the Opportunity Classes for 2020:

Thomas Bradley - Balgowlah Heights OC (offer)
Emily Zhang - Neutral Bay OC (offer)
Lenny Krause – Balgowlah Heights OC (reserve)

We are so proud of these students and wish them every success in their new schools for 2020.

Rocks Walking Tour - Year 4

Next week our Year 4 students will visit the Rocks area of Sydney as part of their history/geography studies and enjoy a day walking around our heritage listed sites. The excursion will take place on Tuesday 22 October. Please make sure you have returned permission notes and payments prior to this excursion.

Kindergarten 2020 Wine & Cheese Night - Wednesday 23 October 6.30pm

As part of our Kindergarten Orientation Program we will host a “Wine & Cheese” evening for parents of our Kindergarten 2020. All parents from our future Kindergarten class are invited to a relaxed drinks evening to hear from our current Kindergarten teachers and enjoy socialising with other parents and friends of Manly Vale Public School.

As a school we look forward to hosting this event every year to invite our new parents into the Manly Vale community and finalise our Kindergarten Orientation Program. Please be sure to be at our school hall for a 6.30pm start.

Construction Update

During the holidays the current builders were replaced with ADCO building company for the completion of the works. We have now 2 new entries to the school:

1. Administration Office
2. Entrance behind the old canteen across the basketball courts.

Please refrain from using the carpark during his time as children will be entering through the carpark to get to school. Traffic around the carpark will be at capacity during this time.

Main entrance will be completed by 8 November.

Oval to be completed by Monday 11 November due to further top soil and levelling procedures.

We are hoping to have Café Owl operational by the end of next week so that our bacon and egg breakfasts can return for Term 4. If you are available to volunteer some assistance with the set-up of Café Owl or are able to help out with cooking on a Friday morning please contact Justine Northcott at Justine@jneditorial.com.au

CAPA Night - Thursday 7 November 6.30pm

This week some families will receive notification regarding our Combined School Creative Arts Evening for 2019. The School Band Committee are hosting this event and all of our Manly Vale Public School community and friends are invited to attend. The evening will be performances from our school bands, dance and drama groups as well as our school choir. There will be opportunity also to listen to performances from our external guitar, ukulele and keyboard groups on this evening. Our Art Shack gifted and talented arts program will also be displaying our major art works for the year. We hope that you are all able to join is on the night. The cost is $5 or $10 per family. All proceeds will go towards the future of our School Band program. Thank you to Ms Stacey for your organisation. Notes and ticket information will be distributed next week.

Good luck to our Year 6 students from 2013

The first Year 6 group that I had when I came to Manly Vale Public School in 2013 will be doing their HSC in a few weeks. Good luck to all our ex-students for this very important exam!

Tina Lee - Principal

Dates for Your Diary

Waste Free Wednesday

Tell Them From Me – Parent Surveys

Our school is taking part in the Tell Them From Me surveys. These surveys will provide us with valuable feedback on what our students, parents and staff think about school life. Schools in Australia and around the world have used the Tell Them From Me survey to help them improve. The survey is completed on-line and is run by an independent research company, The Learning Bar, which specialises in school-based surveys.

The responses you provide will help our school better understand how to improve student wellbeing and engagement. It will help the school identify what works to improve student outcomes. Please use the link below to complete your parent survey below:

You may complete multiple parent surveys if you have more than one child for example, a K-2 and 3-6 student and you would like to give specific feedback. The survey closes on 25 October 2019.

More information about the survey and the research is available on the CESE website below:

Nicole Blackband - Assistant Principal

Trivia Night – Saturday 26 October 2019

We are really looking forward to the Trivia Night coming up on Saturday 26 October. We are MVPS! Dress old school/new school or anything starting with letter M or V. More details and tickets at the link below:

Please do consider donating a prize if you can, let Lee Meredith or Kris Welsh know if you are able to assist with prize donations, prize gathering or volunteer to assist on the night. Please email: Leelondon2005@yahoo.co.uk

Lee Meredith – Trivia Night Coordinator

Canteen News

Volunteer help is needed in the canteen for the following upcoming dates:

If you are able to help out you can either sign up directly following the below link:

or email the canteen manlyvalepscanteen@gmail.com

Kerry, Robyn and Becky - Canteen Supervisors

Canteen Volunteers Roster Term 4, 2019

Community Notices

Northern Beaches Council Library FREE Halloween Events

Halloween at the Library, come hang with us! Don your most Spooktacular outfit and join us for some fun. Bewitching books, ghostly tales, haunting hunts and more. See our link below for details: