1 December 2022

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

It is that emotional time of year where our Year 6 students are preparing for high school and our Year 5 students are readying themselves to take on the leadership of the school. It was an absolute pleasure to work with the 16 Year 5 nominees for school leadership positions this week as they prepared and rehearsed their speeches that they delivered to the school. The following students can be congratulated on the great job they did, in putting themselves forward for the school leader and prefect positions. Thank you to all the parents who came to watch the speeches, and congratulations to all the following students on their nominations:

2023 Reconciliation Awards

Congratulations to Freddie Hancock, Alice Larbey and Isla Williams on receiving awards for their artworks as part of the 2023 Reconciliation Challenge. These talented artists proudly represented the school last Monday. Congratulations on receiving such a prestigious award.

Celebration of Learning- Wednesday 7 December

This week invitations will be sent home via email to parents of students who are receiving an award at the Celebration of Learning Assemblies below. Please respond to the invitation as to whether you can attend only 2 parents per family are able to attend theses ceremonies. The Senior Band will be playing at the Stage 3 Celebration of learning ceremony so students in the band will need to remember to bring their instrument for this performance.

Stage 3 Celebration of learning – 9.15am- 11.00am
Stage 2 Celebration of learning – 11.30am- 12.50pm
Stage 1 Celebration of learning – 2.15pm-3.00pm
Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony- Thursday 15 December – 9.30am-10.30am

All Kindergarten parents are invited to attend the Kindergarten graduation ceremony on Thursday 15 December at 9.30am in the school hall. Separate invitations will not be sent home to parents as all parents are invited to attend this event. Only 2 parents per family.

Junior Band Performance at Manly Vale Community Kindergarten

Last Thursday our Junior Band performed at the Manly Vale Kindergarten. The young students thoroughly enjoyed watching the students play. A few of our performers also enjoyed visiting their old Kindergarten and seeing Ms Fiona and the staff again. Thank you to Christine our relieving conductor and Mrs Johnstone for accompanying our band and to Mr Witherby, Ms Li and other parents for transporting instruments to and from the venue. It was a great way to finish our year.

Junior Band- Last Rehearsal

Today a was the last rehearsal for Junior Band. Their next performance will be on Monday 12 December at the Band Christmas Party. The Senior Band will have their last rehearsal on Monday 5 December, and will perform at the celebration of Learning and at the Band Christmas party.

Banner Assembly- Friday 9 December

Congratulations to the following students who will be receiving a School Banner at the final assembly for the year. The Banner is a most prestigious award at Manly Vale and students needed to have received 3 Principal awards to receive a Banner. Parents have been invited to attend this assembly on Friday 9 December at 9.00am under the K-2 COLA

Principal Awards Final Day- Thursday 1 December

Today was the last day that students can hand in principal awards. All awards will be presented at tomorrow’s assemblies. Any awards received after today are to be kept at home and handed in next year.

Assemblies:

Principal for the Day- Mr Benji Yung-1P

Tomorrow the school will meet their new principal as Mrs Lee has a day off! Mr Benji Yung from class 1P will be Manly Vale Public School Principal for the day. This was one of the auction prizes at the school’s Trivia night. The staff and students are looking forward to Mr Yung’s leadership.

Activities will include: Addressing the assemblies, handing out principal awards, visiting classrooms.

Morning tea with the executive teachers, Café Owl breakfast with the parents and community

Classes Next Year- Leaving the School

We are starting to prepare for next year and it is important that we have correct numbers when forming classes. Please email the school if you are leaving next year. Classes are based on professional decisions made by the classroom teachers and the executive team. Friendship groupings are one of the criteria for forming classes but not the only one. Students do need to get used to being in classes without their friends. Remember that recess and lunchtimes and across grade activities e.g. excursions, do allow students to mix and mingle with others in their cohort.

School Fees now due

Please finalise all school fees for the year as soon as possible. There are still a lot of outstanding fees, and we would appreciate you finalising payments as soon as possible.

Lost Property

Please ensure you label all children’s belongings as we currently have a lot of un-named lost property. In the office we are holding some miscellaneous items ie watches, sport collector cards, sporting medal, keys if these are not claimed this term we will dispose them.

Early Collection of Students

Please avoid collecting students during morning tea 11.00am-11.20am and lunch 12.50pm-1.40pm as students are in the playground and very hard to locate.

Tina Lee - Principal

Dates for your Diary

Morning Tea with Mrs Blackband & Mrs Gibson

Trivia night winners enjoying morning tea with their teachers

Library Stocktake

As we come to the end of the year, the library is required to do a stocktake. Therefore, there will be no more borrowing this term.

This gives the librarians time to recover all books, including overdue and missing books in preparation for stocktake.

It would be most appreciated if you could have children search their rooms and the house for any books with a Manly Vale Public School barcode attached. Children can drop the returned books in the library’s return tray on any day.

Thank you for your help.

Sue Yardley and Lisa Morrison

Maths Problem Solving Challenge

Week 7 Solutions & Successful Mathematicians

Week 8 Questions

Canteen News

Volunteers

The canteen needs your help! Please sign up below if you can help for an hour or so on Friday morning (this week or next) to make sandwiches and toasties.

End of Term

The canteen will be closing for the year on 9 December. Please keep this in mind for the last week of school and plan for any frozen birthday treats you might need to order before this date.

Orders for Birthday treats will be closing on 2nd December at 1.00pm. Please make sure you place your orders before this date.

Order cut off times

Please ensure you place your order prior to 9.00am. Ordering ends at 9.00am to allow us time to prepare all the food and order the sushi for the day. If you have missed the cut off, please use the late lunch option rather than calling the canteen.

Birthday orders need to be placed by 1pm the day before (or Friday for Monday orders). This allows us to make sure we have the required stock to fulfil these orders.

Friday PSSA Lunch Orders

Don't forget, students must order through the 'PSSA Early Lunch' option on Flexischools, Not 'Friday Lunch'

Select YES to the PSSA alert so we can find your order easily.

**Remember no sushi or toasties** Your early lunch will be ready at 11.00am (recess)

Emergency Lunch Payments

The end of the year is fast approaching, please pay any outstanding amounts as soon as possible to help us finalise our accounts for the year. You can make payment via Flexischools using the IOU option.

Becky McGowan - Canteen Manager

Community Notices

Northern Beaches Council runs a not-for-profit Vacation Care service at three locations including Cromer, Manly Vale and North Harbour (Balgowlah). We have attached a brief advertisement for our Summer school holiday program

Here is the link to our vacation care website with more details:

School Information