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E-mail: dl.0950.info@schools.sa.edu.au Issue 17 22/10/19 Week 2 Term 4

DIARY DATES OCTOBER Tue 22nd Science Magic @ Town Hall (3/4’s) Fri 25th Bandanna Day Whole School Assembly @ 2.30pm Mon 28th—Tues 29th Year 7 Aquatics Wed 30th Yr 5/6 Bike Ed NOVEMBER Fri 1st STUDENT FREE DAY Mon 4th—Thurs 7th Yr 3-6 Swimming Wed 6th Yr 5/6 Bike Ed

NEXT WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY This Friday 25th October 2019

@ 2.30pm in the Gym ALL WELCOME!

Our absence hotline number

for text only is:

0476 857331 OR ring our office number

8532 2155 (you can leave a message after

hours)

If your child is

going to be absent,

please use the school

numbers as above.

Thank you!

There will be a STUDENT FREE DAY

next Friday 1st November 2019

(Week 3)

In Media Arts C7 have been learning about camera angles including over shots, high angles, low angles, eye level shots and

under-shots. They have also drawn their own storyboards depicting the Indigenous story of “The Cocky, the Crow and the Hawk”

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

STUDENT FREE DAY A reminder to families that our 4

th and final Student Free

Day for the Year will be held on Friday 1st

November (week 3). The staff will be involved in the following tasks on that day: Site Review around student performance data, One Plan Development for our students and student class allocations for 2020.

CLASSES FOR 2020 The class structures for 2020 have been finalised and staff will begin the process of allocating students to classes next Friday. If you have any specific requests that you wish the school to consider in relation to student alloca-tions to classes, please put these requests to the prin-cipal via letter or email. All of these requests will be taken into account when we allocate students to classes for 2020. If your children won’t be attending MBSPS in 2020, please contact the school ASAP as this will have an impact on how we establish the student groupings.

SCHOOL COUNCIL The School Council will meet on the Monday night of week 3 and 7 this term. The school budget for 2020 is close to being finalised and so at our Week 7 meeting, we will pre-sent that the proposed student fees for 2020 are $244, an increase of $3 from 2019. This figure is identical to the school card allocation provided by the government in 2020, and is the standard legally recoverable amount for those students not on school card. Should you wish to query this increase, we invite you to attend the School Council meet-ing in week 7.

SITE REVIEW UPDATE In our recent site review in term 3, staff were asked “What are the 3 biggest challenges for you in relation to your daily work at MBSPS?” A number of the responses from staff centred around stu-dent behaviour, a sample of which have been listed below:

Impact of behaviour on the work task completion, respect, dishonesty, disrupting others, walking out of class

Behaviour management in classrooms, yard, assem-bly – consistent whole school behaviour manage-ment.

Refusal from students to participate in their learning.

Learning to defuse angry, older students.

The lack of respect that the children have for the re-lief teachers and the SSOs. The current behaviour model holds no “fear” for the upper primary students – they work the system, can get 3 steps before I get a take home.

General yard cleanliness shows a lack of respect for their school environment.

These types of responses are the very reason we have developed our new behaviour management policy titled “Engagement and Inclusion Policy”. We are very appre-ciative of the support we are receiving from families in rela-tion to modifying student behaviour at school over the past 10 weeks. These processes take time with some students but it is important we maintain our endeavours, as proving a quality learning environment for all students at all times is our ultimate goal.

Kind Regards, STEVE BENNETT

Acting Principal

Making a booking to meet with a School Leader We value the importance of meeting face to face when/if significant concerns arise, but it is im-portant that these meetings are planned, rele-vant information is available and sufficient time is set aside. On this basis our school is trialling a new process. Parents/caregivers are asked to contact the front office (in person or via phone) if you wish to meet with a leader. The front office staff will make the booking, ideally within 24 hours, and will confirm via text/phone call, the time of the scheduled meeting. We would respectfully ask parents/caregivers not to come to the front office expecting to meet with a leader—schools are busy places and so if you wish to speak with a leader, you need to make a booking. Please Note: Classroom teacher should also be the first point of contact in relation to matters that directly affect your child. Thank you for your co-operation.

STEVE BENNETT Acting Principal

Wed 23rd October—Friday 1st November

PIZZA SINGLE + OAK MILK $4.50

Save 50c

$1.00 Specials

Wed 23rd Sausages on a stick

Mon 28th Hash Browns

Tues 29th Cheese + Crackers and Jelly Cups

Wed 30th Pikelets

Sorry, NO CREDIT is available so please

don’t ask!

Don’t forget to supply your own lunch bags.

ANNETTE THOMSON (Canteen Manager)

OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS Please pay all money owing for school fees and musical instru-ment hire as soon as possible before the end of term. Thank you to those who have already

done so. Jude

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Shadow (U4) 22/10/19 Jasmine (C2) 22/10/19 Jinxin (C11) 22/10/19 Jordyn (U1) 25/10/19 Naite (C1) 25/10/19

Courtney (U4) 27/10/19 Tyson (U3) 28/10/19 Amin (U4) 28/10/19

Sachin (U2) 31/10/19 Valentina (U4) 1/11/19

Angel (C2) 1/11/19

Book Club

due

tomorrow!

23rd October

SECOND HAND CLOTHES

Are you leaving our school? Do you have any MBSPS uni-

forms that you would like to donate for our second hand

cupboard? If so, please drop them into the front office. Any

donations will be gratefully appreciated.

LOST PROPERTY

Please check the box outside A1 for lost items of clothing.

Any unclaimed items will be washed and given to charity at

the end of term.

Bandannas will be available to purchase for $5.00 from

the front office

SPECIAL GROUP SCHOOL PHOTOS Online Special Group ordering forms have been

packed within students packs whom appear in special photos. Once ordering has closed on 24/10/19 student packs will then be ordered and sent to the school for

distribution.

ATTENTION ATSI PARENTS/CAREGIVERS

Moorundi Health Service will be conducting free health checks for ATSI students on Monday 28th October at the school. Consent forms have been sent home with students. Please return these forms by tomorrow!

Thank you. Verlaine ACEO

Term 4—Week 2-4

W

K Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat Sun

2

October 21st October 22nd Science Magic—

Town Hall (3/4’s)

October 23rd October 24th October 25th Bandanna Day

Whole School

Assembly @ 2.30pm

Oct

26th

Oct

27th

3

October 28th

School Council

7pm

ATSI Health

Checks

YEAR 7

AQUATICS

October 29th October 30th BIKE ED (5/6’s)

October 31st November 1st

STUDENT FREE

DAY

Nov

2nd

Nov

3rd

4

November 4th

November 5th November 6th Yr 3-6 Swimming

BIKE ED (5/6’s)

November 7th November 8th

Just2Deadly

Awards Night Whole School

Assembly @ 2.30pm

Nov

9th

Nov

10th

INGRID COOPER MALIYAH

The Reception students from C5, C6 and C11 used

descriptive language to talk about the pigeon.

Have you read any of the books by Mo Willems

about the Pigeon?

Pastoral Care Worker News: How do we have more joy?

Hi All,

I hope you all had a good break. I don’t know about you but coming back to school can bring mixed emotions. It can be great to see friends again; you can feel

excited about learning new things and about getting some time away from siblings…but it can also be frustrating, tiring and scary if you are worried about your

learning or navigating friendships. Like all situations there are often good aspects and hard aspects, but it is so so so easy for us to focus on the bad ones.

Take a look at the image below, what first springs to mind? “That the car looks tired”, “its’ straining up hill”, “the kids are screaming in the back”, or maybe “they

seem like their struggling a lot”. Are all of these real? For sure! When I was a kid I definitely fought with my sister about the fact she was looking out of MY

window on car trips…but is this all we can see? I did this exercise with classes, most of the groups agreed that finding the negatives in the picture were easy,

but finding things to be grateful for was much harder, but possible when they put their minds to it. One group said “they could be grateful for being on a holi-

day”, “the family being together” or even “that they have a car and a caravan”. The positives are there but they are hard to see when we’re trained to look for

negatives.

Berne Brown a researcher from the USA states that in over 11,000 interviews she conducted, she found that all people who experienced joy

and happiness daily actively practiced gratitude. Moreover she interviewed people from diverse backgrounds, who were experiencing home-

lessness, had come out of DV situations, had lost loved ones, had come from refugee backgrounds, inmates, abuse survivors, and those who

were living below the poverty line. Regardless of the circumstances there were joyous people and unhappy people in each group, the defining

factor between them was if they practiced gratitude. This is incredibly freeing because it means that we are in control of the amount of joy we

can feel.

This seems simple right? You might be thinking, “I have an attitude of gratitude”, but this is not the same as practice. I have an attitude of Pilates, I have

weights, a balance ball, a Pilates mat and dvds for my chronic back pain and yet it has been over 2 months since I did any Pilates! I need to practice Pilates, to

get up each morning and do it, not think about it, but actually do it. The hard thing is building in practices that encourage us and our families to be grateful. But

I have some simple ideas!

1. Have a gratitude jar where you write things you’re grateful for each day.

2. At the dinner table have each person say one thing they’re grateful for.

3. Write a note to one family member, friend or important person in your life about what you value about them and how they make your world better.

4. List three things before you go to bed that you’re thankful for.

5. Make an alphabet poster, with one thing you’re thankful for with each letter, e.g. I am thankful for: Andy (my husband), Brownies, Cars, Dogs (my dog

Noah) etc…

However you do it, making gratitude a practice for you and your family can be a great way to increase joy in everyday life and help you to see the light in dark

places. Remember that I am available to catch up and chat on Mondays and Wednesdays, just call the front office and I will follow up next time I’m in. I hope

you have a great week.

RACHEL— your PCW

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WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY AWARDS: September 27th 2019

UNIT 1

Tammara for always putting in her best effort

in all curriculum areas.

Cordell for being a reliable member of the

class in all areas.

UNIT 2

Jarred for making a big effort to make strong

choices.

Kiran for always putting in her best effort

across all curriculum areas.

UNIT 3

Thomas for showing wonderful community

spirit in always helping others..

Ethan for being a positive role model for

younger students in morning reading.

UNIT 4

Korreesha for being a positive role model in

the classroom.

Valentina for constantly giving 100% to all

areas of her learning.

C1

Deeshaye for showing great enthusiasm and

trying his best in his writing..

Aiden for always being kind and helping others

when they need help.

C2

Marly for perseverance and asking for help

when he does not understand tasks.

Kiesha for coming to school early and

improving her literacy and maths.

C3

Sarah for making a big effort to make

strong choices.

Eliana for reading every night this year.

What an enormous effort!

C4

Bor for persisting in his maths when up

against a challenge.

Indiana for improving herself in writing.

C5

Malachi for happier school drop offs.

Maliya for making connections with learn-

ing.

C6

Lukas for outstanding progress in his read-

ing and continuing his learning journey

beyond the classroom.

Ajak for improving his reading and hand-

writing and being kind to others.

C7

Yar for successfully reaching level 30 in

reading.

Tyrell for showing kindness to others in the

classroom and the yard.

C8

Kamika for fantastic improvement in her

reading.

Xhai for being organised and ready to

learn.

C9

Sophia for stepping up and helping the

teacher pack up the gym.

Saxon for persisting with his learning and

making improvements throughout the cur-

riculum.

C10

Logan for persistence in his overall learn-

ing.

Storm-Lea for continuing to make improve-

ments in her reading.

C11

Trayvon for sharing his knowledge with the

group in literacy.

Jaxon for being more focussed during

literacy time.

MRS MCKNIGHT

Cooper (U3) for helping the school com-

munity.

COMMUNITY NOTICES

Tinyeri: Term 4 programmes

Please see Community Notice-

board for more information.

2019 Murray Bridge Christ-

mas Hamper Appeal: Support

for the appeal can be made by

donating money directly to the

charity of choice: ac.care, St

Vinnies or the Salvos. For more

information contact ac.care

(8531 4900), St Vinnies (8532

4180) or the Salvos (8531

1133).

Australia Day Awards 2020:

Nominations are now open.

Please contact the Rural City of

Murray Bridge for more infor-

mation.