21 October 2021

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

We have had a wonderful week this week welcoming our Kindergarten and year 1 students. Most students seem to be happy to see their friends and teachers again and are busily working on catch up lessons and assessments. It is important that students now attend school as we have a lot to do before the reports go home on Wednesday 15 December.

Next week our Year 2 through to Year 6 students will be returning also. Please ensure that students are dropped and picked up from the correct gates in the mornings and afternoons. We are trying to minimalize the intermingling of grades so as to maintain safe and secure environments if we are to get a case of COVID this term. All teachers are wearing masks fulltime as are office staff. Please follow the guidelines strictly during these next few weeks as most of our students are not vaccinated.

Please endeavour to pickup K-2 students in the afternoon and leave straight away. Older students and siblings will need to leave via their designated gates and times, and if required, meet up with younger siblings at a designated space or travel home separately. Bus students will be segregated outside the school hall and leave via the administration gate.

Laptop Returns

All school laptops must be returned to the office with returning students next week. Please do not send the laptops to classrooms but return to the office in the mornings for cleaning and returning procedures.

School Uniform - Summer

Full summer school uniform is to be worn to school. We understand that there may be some uniform shop orders required and school shoes bought (black only), but please ensure that your child comes with their full school uniform, with their school hat, white ankle socks and plain black shoes.

Uniform orders can be made through the link below and will be delivered to the office or classrooms for collection.

MVPS Uniform Shop (manly-vale-public-school-uniform-shop.myshopify.com)

Selective High School Applications 2023

Selective high school applications for 2023 are now open online. Please make sure you apply by Wednesday 17 November. All enquiries can be made through the school to Mrs Blackband.

OC Test - 2022

The Opportunity Class test will be held at Manly Vale Public school for our Year 4 students. The test will be held onsite on Wednesday 17 November. All parents should have received communication about this test through the mail.

ICAS English and Maths Competitions

Thank you to Mrs Banham who has organised the ICAS sittings for this year. The ICAS competitions will be held at school in the Year 4 classrooms from 3.15pm-4.15pm on the days below. Mrs Banham and Mrs Lee will supervise the students after school and walk them to the main gate for pick up at around 4.15pm.

English - Thursday 18 November
Maths - Wednesday 24 November

If your child will be returning to the after school care these days, please be sure to notify the staff of Sustainable OSHC sustainableoshc.com.au and Mrs Banham of these arrangements.

Congratulations to Kerry, Robyn and Becky - Canteen

Congratulations to the Manly Vale Public School Canteen for achieving the NSW Healthy Canteen Strategy again! The canteen has worked hard to provide you with healthy and delicious food. Thanks to our amazing canteen staff Kerry, Robyn and Becky for helping our students make the healthy choice, the easy choice.

World Teacher’s Day - Friday 29 October

On Friday 29 October we will celebrate World Teacher’s Day. The Class Coordinators have received a little card for the students to complete and a thank you to their class teachers. This activity is optional.

P & C Meeting - Tuesday 26 October at 7.00pm

Next Tuesday we have our P & C zoom meeting. Please make contact with Karen Murgatroyd regarding attendance at this meeting. We are still trying to fill the roles of President, Vice President and Treasurer for 2022. If you are interested in any of these roles please try and attend this meeting.

For the zoom link please contact Karen on manlyvaleprimaryschoolpc@gmail.com

P&C Position Descriptions

President Role: (Currently James Fewtrell - vacant at the end of 2021)

The President chairs all general and executive committee meetings of the association. The role of the President includes providing leadership acting as a spokesperson for the association reporting to P&C meetings about the activities of the P&C exercising some supervision of the functions of other office bearers ensuring adequate and efficient communication exists between the members of the association and the members of the school board encouraging parents to participate.

Specific:

1. Ensuring good communications with the School
2. Responding correspondence email and letter, as required
3. Resolving issues through P&C Executives participation
4. Providing guidance and P&C Exec support to P&C Sub-committees and P&C representatives.

Expected Level of Effort: 10 Hours / month

Vice President Role (vacant – 2 positions)

The role includes presiding as chair at meetings where the President is absent being familiar with the operation of the P&C becoming acquainted with the duties of President having a working understanding of meeting rules and procedure undertaking tasks to reduce the burden of the President.

Specific:

Vice President 1: Overseeing P&C Sub-committees work by selectively attending subcommittee meetings and then assisting the P&C meetings accordingly.
Vice President 2: Overseeing P&C Representative’s work in School Committees by selectively attending School committees and then assisting the P&C meetings accordingly.

Secretary: (currently Karen Murtgatroyd)

• prepare and circulate P&C meeting agendas
• record and circulate minutes from P&C meetings
• maintain contact lists for P&C position holders
• maintain an actions list from meetings

The demands of this position can fluctuate but on average requires a minimum commitment of 10 hours per month.

Treasurer: (Currently Tony Sherlock- vacant at the end of 2021)

Treasurer – Role Outline

The Treasurer’s role is varied supporting events that develop the school community by facilitating fund raising activities of the P&C (Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and trivia night) and dispersing profits to the school and community. The canteen and uniform shop largely run themselves, with the treasurer providing input into purchases of equipment when required.

Activities performed by treasurer but mostly focus:

A) Preparing update on cash at bank for the roughly six P&C meetings each year (20 min per meeting or 2 hours per year)
B) Logging onto Westpac to approve payments to 3-4 uniform shop suppliers, fortnightly staff payroll and reimbursing parents for P&C events. There is also a corresponding entry in accounting software Xero that links to the bank accounts (1 hour per month or 12 hours pa)
C) Submit quarterly Business activity statement (15 min per quarter or 1 hour per year)
D) Arrange and pay the annual P&C insurances (approx. 2 hours per year)
E) Provide bank statement documentation to the school auditor at year end (2-4 hours p.a.)
F) June submission of annual information statement to Australian Charities and Not for Profit Commission (1-2 hours p.a.)
G) Adding/Removing users to the P&C’s bank account (1 hour per year)

Based on above, annual commitments for role are approximately 24 hours per year excluding attending P&C meetings.

Tina Lee – Principal

Dates for your Diary

ICAS English and Maths

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Thank you so much for supporting our students in completing ICAS Writing at home. I certainly did not imagine that I would be supervising this competition from my house.

We have finalised the dates for the last two ICAS competitions: English and Mathematics. Please note that it is not possible to enrol your child now to sit these tests. Only students registered in Term 2 will take part in the session that they are enrolled.

ICAS ENGLISH competition will be held on Thursday, 18 November 2021 (Week 7) at 3:15pm to 4:05pm in the 4B classroom. Upon completion of the test, students will be walked down to the school gates and can be picked up from 4:15pm. If your child attends OOSH on that day, please let the OOSH know that your child will come to OOSH later.

The following students are enrolled to sit ICAS English test:

Year 3

Amelie Armstrong-Jones
Oscar Baleikasavu
Louis Farquhar
Phoebe Gregor
Noah Lougher
Savannah Lowe
Jordan Rourke
Sophie Sollberger
Johnny Tan
Alec Toivonen de Oliveira
Enyu Zhang
Mila Zheng

Year 4

Jamie Andrew
Finn Adelbert
Ellie Briggs
Emma Dixon
Will Dixon
Thea Edgerton
Indiana Fisher
Ronan Jeffcoat
Tasha Markezic
Samuel Li
Nicola Loncar
Liam McGowan
Romy Scott
Ella Singleton
Eesha Somsundaram
Kanda Somsundaram
Aidan Toivonen de Oliveira
Theo Wright
Andrew Yao

Year 5

Dylan Du
George Gregor
Anna Jing
Cameron Kuan
Michael Love
Kalinda Northcott
Hannah Sollberger
Rachel Stevanoski

Year 6

Finn Dixon
Shay Eggeling
Brooke Fisher
Hannah Huisman
Natasha Li

Mrs Agnieszka Banham

Library News

Book Week Celebrations

We are excited to announce that we will be celebrating Book Week during week 6 this term! Book Week is celebrated annually and is a wonderful time to celebrate our love of reading and learn more about Australian authors and illustrators. Students have spent the last term studying the Children’s Book Council of Australia shortlisted books during library lessons. The theme for Book Week this year is Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds.

Virtual Author Visits

This year we are very lucky to have the opportunity to host virtual author visits with popular authors Zanni Louise and Tim Harris. Zanni is the author of the beautiful Human Kind picture book series and Tim is best known for his Exploding Endings and Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables series. Further details about the virtual author visits will be sent home soon.

Book Week Dress Up Day

Book Week Dress up Day will be held on Friday 12 November (Week 6). Students are encouraged to dress up as a character from a book to celebrate our love of reading. Costumes don’t have to be elaborate or expensive – you can use things that you already have at home, including borrowed clothes or recycled materials. We will hold stage-based mini parades on the day and will take plenty of photos of the wonderful costumes to share with families.

Students can also look forward to a variety of book-themed challenges and special activities. These will be released during library lessons next week. We look forward to a special Book Week with MVPS!

Poem – Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds by Mike Lucas

Ali Webster – Teacher Librarian

Community Notices

Back to School Road Safety – Northern Beaches Council Transport Safety Network

Primary School Champs of Getting to School Safely

Northern Beaches Lifeline Book Fair

Our next book fair for 2021 will be running from Thursday to Sunday, 9-12 December at St Augustine’s College, Federal Parade, Brookvale. We will be following all NSW Health COVID-19 and venue protocols required at that time.

School Information