“We Grow and Learn Together” Email: mayfielde-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.mayfielde-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

32 Crebert Street

Mayfield NSW 2304

T: 4968 1495

F: 4968 3236

What’s happening

at MEPS Wednesday 14th August

2.30pm Veggie Stall outside Break-fast Club

Year 6 Farewell meeting in Mrs Thompson room @ 3pm

Friday 16th August

KH excursion to Newcastle Beach

Saturday 17th August

Working Bee—2.30pm to 4.30pm

Tuesday 20th August

Book Week Parade 1.45pm

Book Fair in the library—new and pre-loved books for sale

P&C meeting 6.30pm all welcome

Wednesday 21st August

Book Fair in the library Veggie stall—2.30pm outside

Breakfast Club

Thursday 22nd August

Book Fair in Library

Friday 23rd August

Book Fair in Library (AM only)

Saturday 7th September

Election Day Cake Stall

Working Bee This weekend we have our term working bee rom 2.30pm to 4.30pm. We have a list of twelve jobs that need doing. We really value your assistance in keeping our school looking fantastic. Equipment needed on the day to assist with these jobs include: wire cutters, gar-dening forks, shovels, gardening gloves, pruning snips. Bring your energy and enthusiasm and help make our school look great!

School Visit Last Friday we had a group of teachers, students and community members visit from Grahamstown Public School. They were looking at ways to improve their own gardens and canteen. We also have Redhead Pub-lic School visiting next Tuesday, with a view to imple-menting a similar program at their school.

Nightly Reading We have seen a big improvement in the number of chil-dren engaging in nightly reading this term. Please con-tinue to encourage your children as reading increases fluency, expressions, word knowledge and comprehen-sion.

School Times Please ensure that children are not at school unsuper-vised before 8.25am. If you need to drop your children off at school prior to this time, please contact the OOSH on 49672223 to have them registered.

Head Lice We have had several cases of head lice in the school over the past week. Please take the time to carefully check your child’s hair. If you are uncertain of how to treat head lice, please visit the Department of Educa-tion’s site at; www.dec.nsw.gov.au and search for “head lice”.

Yours in Education

Alan Watt

Principal

The schedule for next week is as follows: Tuesday 20th August: 8:30am to 3:30pm Book Fair in the Li-

brary—new and preloved books and sta-tionery items for sale. Books range in price from just $1 up to $15. All classes will come to the library during the morn-ing to look at book display and books for purchase.

1:45pm Book Week Costume Parade for classes KB, KH, K/1S, 1P, 1/2B, 2W and 3A in school hall. Parents can come at the start of recess (1.25pm) to dress their child.

Wednesday 21st August: Book Fair continues in the Library. Par-

ents can purchase books 8:30am to 9am and 2:50pm to 3:30pm. Students may al-so purchase books at recess and lunch.

Thursday 22nd August: Book Fair continues in the Library. Par-

ents can purchase books 8:30am to 9am and 2:50pm to 3:30pm. Students may al-so purchase books at recess and lunch.

Friday 23rd August: Book Fair finishes today. Parents can pur-

chase books 8:30am to 9am only. Stu-dents may purchase books at lunch time only.

If you have any questions please talk to Mrs Bayl in the library, between 8.30am and 8.55am in the morning or 2.50 to 3pm in the afternoon from Wednesday to Friday.

Roster:

Please Note: Fruit at ‘fruit break’ time is 80c per piece and watermelon tubs

are $1.50 each. ‘Slinkys’ are only avail-able during lunch and recess (sorry due

to time constraints, we cannot do ‘slinkys’ at fruit break)

Canteen NewsCanteen NewsCanteen News

Skill 5 :

REWARDING YOURSELF

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Book Fair is Coming!Book Fair is Coming!Book Fair is Coming!

Wed 14th Aug: Sharon Fogarty Recess: Kylie

Thurs 15th Aug: Steph L, Donna Z,

& Sharon F

Fri 16th Aug: Kirsty Jennings

Mon 19th Aug: Donna Zarkovich

Tues 20th Aug: **

Recess: Alethea P

Principal’s AwardsPrincipal’s AwardsPrincipal’s Awards

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Zac Priest Oliver Rahman Jack Squire

Steele Hicks Shianne Gillin

Yr 6 Farewell MeetingYr 6 Farewell MeetingYr 6 Farewell Meeting

Don’t forget the Year 6 Farewell meeting for interested parents in Mrs Thompson’s room at 3pm this Wednesday 14th August.

You may remember we had a cake stall for the election last year and we were blown away by the range of fantastic cakes and goodies made by the students and families in our school community. We are planning to hold another one on election day (7th September) and also one for the school fete (11th October) and will be asking for contributions again.

You might choose to make a cake for one of the events and not the other which would be great, however if you can make something for both that would be amazing! We will be giving out cake boxes for families to put the cake in which can be brought to school the day be-fore, or even better, delivered to the stall on the day.

We will also be looking for volunteers to help out staffing the stall, so if you can spare an hour or two please let me know.

Kate Connor—0400047263 or

Kateh@ferntree.com.

We are having our term working bee this Satur-day 17th August from 2.30pm to 4.30pm. Please bring your energy and friends to help out in the gardens. We will be mulching and pre-paring beds for planting, cleaning up some dis-used garden beds and doing some harvesting. Erica

Galloway-Johnson

Tia

Stolzenburg

P&C Election Day Cake StallP&C Election Day Cake StallP&C Election Day Cake Stall

MEPS Working BeeMEPS Working BeeMEPS Working Bee

School Band SurveySchool Band SurveySchool Band Survey

The P&C would like to know the level of parent and student interest in establishing a school band.

School bands require a significant commitment of time and money for school families. The short parent survey (8 questions) will give the P&C and indication of whether or not estab-lishing a band program is a viable option at Mayfield East Public School. Thank you to Donna Manning who volunteered her time to draft the survey.

Please go to the school website and click the link to complete the survey or copy the follow-ing into your internet browser bar;

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D58SFKK

Thank you for your time,

Ben Blyth, Assistant Principal K-2

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Last Week in Our Stephanie Alexan-der Kitchen Last week we learnt about weeds and pests in our garden and created ‘Wanted’ posters for these pests. We also planted seeds in trays in the kitchen, so we can watch these grow into seedlings. We plant-ed carrots, peas and cress seeds in old egg cartons. Thank you to all our students and families who have brought in jars and con-tainers for the kitchen.

Tropfest Jnr ‘Roughcuts’ Work-shop

I had the wonderful opportunity to take 10 students from Years 3-5 to a very special Tropfest Jnr workshop called ‘Roughcuts’. This was held in Sydney and we had to leave extremely early, 6am at the train sta-tion! It was so interesting meeting the film makers who have made different Tropfest movies. It was worth getting up really early to go to such a special workshop. Also a big thank you Chris Solowiej for getting up at the crack of dawn to help me on the excur-sion.

Tropfest Jnr by Ella 4/5T

“We will be making a movie to submit into the competition and it will be boys vs. girls. My favourite part of the day was watching all the Tropfest films. We learnt about film-ing using pocket cameras and we watched

a movie called ‘Mankind is No Island’. You could watch it on Youtube or look it up on Instagram #tropfestjnr.”

Tropfest Jnr by Daniel 4/5T

“Last Thursday all the kids who went to Tropfest really enjoyed it and learnt a lot about movie making. We got ideas from Toby Morris, Jason van Generen, Eddie White and Guy Gross. We learnt that you can copy a bit from all your favourite films and put them into one. You can also make a movie with just a phone or ipod. We watched lots of Tropfest movies such as ‘My Constellation’, ‘The Last Sundown’ and ‘Baby Opera’. “